The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa’s Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he’s running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him…
Though he can’t boast much in the way of contributions, Scottsdale Police Lieutenant and sheriff’s office hopeful Mike Stauffer may have earned his place on the November general election ballot as an Independent.According to a press release issued today by the Stauffer camp, which you can read below, Stauffer has…
Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just encountered his first major obstacle in his revenge campaign for state Senate from Legislative District 25: Republican businessman Robert Worsley.Today, the wealthy Mesa executive has announced that he’ll be Pearce’s rival in the Republican primary for LD 25, effectively upstaging Pearce’s planned announcement…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens will not go gently into that good night, like he should.Rather, Bivens seems hell-bent on an ugly contest in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this year. Already, he’s going negative on former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, the guy President Barack Obama and…
Republicans. I know some of them are sane here in Sand Land, but you wouldn’t know it by their wingnutty hijinks in the state Legislature this year, where they’ve placed a birther-bill, a late-term abortion ban and a state-funded border militia ahead of doing anything to aid the economy, bring…
Right-wing attempts to legitimize nativist border wacko Glenn Spencer persist in the strangest fashion.Today, the conservative website Right Side News reported on a letter from former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Munger to Luis Heredia, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party, demanding that Heredia issue a “letter of retraction” concerning statements…
Hupp goes all Hannibal on the MAS crowd, 6:34 onWhat I like about Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal is his consistency. You know when he opens his mouth, he’s bound to say something stupid. It’s just a matter of how stupid.His latest round of revelatory idiocies — at…
Joe at the CSPOA. If you don’t want to watch 30 minutes of blather, the highlights are belowThe mutual embrace of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and far right wing extremist groups has been going on for some time now, Arpaio’s ludicrous foray into the conspiranut world of birtherdom being but the…
As unsophisticated, marble-mouthed and ham-fisted former state Senate President Russell Pearce is as a politician, his brother, Justice of the Peace Lester Pearce, makes him look like Jack Kennedy by comparison.You may recall that Judge Pearce was linked to the Tea Party plot to put sham candidate Olivia Cortes on the…
I have just intercepted the e-mail blast below from 12-point loser, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce. According to the communication, Arizona’s biggest bigot intends to make it official on March 19 regarding a run for state Senate in the newly-formed Legislative District 25.There’s no little irony in the fact…
Carrying signs depicting U.S. Representative Trent Franks of Arizona’s Second Congressional District as a hot dog with the slogan, “Congressman Franks, Don’t Be a Wiener,” around 25 protesters rallied on the sidewalk before Franks’ Glendale office this morning to oppose an anti-abortion measure proposed by the West Valley Republican.Franks’ legislation,…
The Phoenix human rights group Puente is planning a press conference and rally for Friday, March 9, to protest the Phoenix Police Department’s current operations order on immigration enforcement, which allows crime victims and witnesses to be questioned about their immigration status.The operations order was last revised in October of…
It’s been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne’s close friend Carmen Chenal’s problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronies…
Tea Party princess Michelle Ugenti has a mouth on her, that’s for sure. The Republican state House Representative and former real-estate peddler was elected to represent District 8 voters in 2010, largely with the assistance of Clean Elections funding and the campaign hackery of Clean Elections-parasite Constantin Querard.And what has Clean…
Tony Diaz, dropping some knowledge with the Libro-Traficante caravanArizona’s ethnic studies ban has resulted in the eradication of the successful and popular Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District, and a backward edict banning certain supposedly “dangerous” books by Latino authors from Tucson classrooms.This peculiar mix of…
As much as the late Andrew Breitbart was reviled by the left, I always found him to be an entertaining, if often inflammatory, media presence. Breitbart died Thursday of natural causes at the way-too-young age of 43, giving liberals everywhere less reason to assault their TV screens in apoplectic rage.Breitbart’s…
Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don’t apply to him. That’s been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last year’s recall…
Nativist extremist and documented anti-Semite Glenn Spencer spoke today at the state Senate Border Security, Federalism, and States’ Rights Committee, a seriously loony legislative panel chaired by crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Democratic state Senators Steve Gallardo and Robert Meza walked out of the committee in protest as soon as…
Despite public pleas for pity, Sheriff Paul Babeu dwells now in a hell entirely of his own making, licked by self-stoked flames of hypocrisy and deceit. To hear him tell it, you’d think Babeu was a martyr for gay liberation, wrongly outed as a homosexual by my colleague Monica Alonzo’s…
With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts…
Sitting in the living room of a modest apartment in a working-class section of North Phoenix, Adolfo recounts in rough English his most moving experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For two years, the now-21-year-old pounded pavement in Las Vegas and other parts…
Cost $6,000 and worth every penny… For years, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has successfully peddled the myth that he’s “America’s toughest sheriff,” but his record of wasting taxpayer money, pursuing his political enemies and, worst of all, bungling the investigations of sex crimes on a massive, unprecedented scale, seems to finally…
