A new survey of Arizona voters by Public Policy Polling shows that President Barack Obama stands an even chance of turning Arizona blue in November.The poll shows Obama surging in our redder than red state, tying Republican Mitt Romney at 47 percent. Against GOPer Rick Santorum he does one point…
GOPer and State House Speaker Andy Tobin’s turning into a regular Russell Pearce clone these days.Earlier in the year, there was his support of new restrictions on freedom of speech at the Arizona Capitol, and today, according to Channel 12 reporter Melissa Blasius, Tobin’s officious flack Rey Torres booted her…
Pearce telling his “scrotum” jokeDuring a Lincoln Day Luncheon today in Phoenix televised live by C-Span and featuring a keynote address by GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, recalled state Senator Russell Pearce regaled an audience of fellow Republicans with a weird tale about some fella’s “crushed scrotum.”Talking Points Memo posted…
Above is videographer Dennis Gilman’s take on the state GOP meeting in January, which I covered in a previous post.As you’ll see, a lot of Arizona Republicans, not unlike their national counterparts, define themselves by what they hate: President Barack Obama, minorities, gays, and the undocumented.Which makes Pinal County Sheriff…
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads ex-U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum by a mere three percentage points as they and other Republican candidates speed toward Arizona’s GOP presidential primary, just one week away. This, according to a survey just released by the North Carolina-based firm Public Policy Polling. PPP…
Dennis Gilman’s raw footage of Babeu’s Saturday presserIn addition to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s admission to being a gay man during a Saturday press conference, wherein he denied allegations published in my colleague Monica Alonzo’s expose concerning deportation threats against his ex-lover, Babeu made progressive statements on two issues…
A proposed legislative remedy to the successful recall of ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce is unconstitutional, according to experts in election and constitutional law.Senate Bill 1449, sponsored by state Senator Steve Smith, recently moved through the Senate judiciary committee with a do-pass recommendation. If enacted, it would create both a…
Twelve-point loser, radio lip-flapper and second vice chair of the Arizona GOP Russell Pearce owes his entire political existence, such as it is, to illegal immigrants and the racist lies he spews about them on a regular basis.Former Arizona GOP executive director Sean McCaffrey has given the marble-mouthed Mesa pol…
Xenophobia, self-adulation and delusion are just some of the repulsive dishes offered at ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s radio cafeteria of hate, which airs Tuesdays and Mondays at 7 p.m. on Phoenix’s KFNX 1100 AM.The disgraced Mesa pol, who lost by 12 points to now-state Senator Jerry Lewis in a…
Former Valley reporter turned Gotham journo Nick Martin reports today on the TPMMuckraker blog that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s political action committee Joe PAC has scored only a little over $20,000 since its inception.When Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems of Summit Consulting announced Joe PAC’s formation in September, his press release…
In spite of all of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s bluster, the claims of he and his subordinates that the U.S. Department of Justice’s report on his racial-profiling ways is hogwash, and the use of that report by Arpaio’s re-election campaign to raise money, Arpaio’s office issued a statement yesterday after a…
CBA demands accountability of Arpaio in the latest video by Dennis Gilman A point some local journos missed concerning the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ recent hearing on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s various misdeeds was that the special meeting, which addressed Arpaio’s racial profiling and his bungling of the more than…
The news that former state Senate President Russell Pearce is positioning himself to run again for the state Senate should surprise no one.To be clear, Pearce hasn’t yet announced his intention to seek that office. He’s merely filed paperwork with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office that would allow him…
It will be official shortly, but Andrei Cherny, Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party, is stepping down today, in anticipation of a formal announcement of his candidacy for the Ninth Congressional District seat sometime next week.The former Arizona Assistant Attorney General and policy adviser to the Clinton White House has…
Ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce began slithering back into relevancy this Saturday during the Arizona GOP’s winter meeting, held at Phoenix’s Church for the Nations, where he was elected to the party’s First Vice Chair position.Despite an embarrassing 12-point loss to fellow Republican Jerry Lewis in November’s recall election, Pearce…
Carmona talks immigration, foreign policy and women’s issues with Gilman and IAbove is a video of an interview videographer Dennis Gilman and I did with former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The interview took place at the state Democrats’ winter meeting in Tucson.Carmona’s…
If you need an example of wigged-out, dysfunctional democracy verging on outright insanity, look no further than state Senator Sylvia Allen’s Border Security, Federalism and States’ Sovereignty Committee.Here, Chairwoman Allen and a cadre of right-wing loons hold sway. Rational questions and reasoned arguments are dismissed with a flutter of Allen’s…
The photo above showing seven young men with guns holding what seems to be a bullet-riddled T-shirt depicting President Barack Obama was, until recently, up on the Facebook page for Sergeant Pat Shearer of the Peoria Police Department.The photo is captioned, “Another trip to the ranch,” and features the comments,…
The big-applause lines from former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona’s address at Democrats’ recent winter meeting in Tucson conveyed two important messages: He can beat Republican Congressman Jeff Flake in a general election for exiting U.S. Senator Jon Kyl’s seat and, with him in that race, Arizona could turn blue…
As I anticipated in a blog item late last year, the Arizona version of the Utah Compact, called the “Arizona Accord,” was introduced to the public at the state Capitol yesterday. It argues for a rational, humane approach to immigration reform.The accord’s statement of principles, which you can read, here,…
Unless you frequent right wing blogs such as Sonoran Alliance or SeeingRedAZ, you may have missed the tidbit that disgraced ex-state Senator Russell Pearce has won the endorsement of Arizona GOP Chair Tom Morrissey for the unpaid position Pearce is seeking: First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party.Morrissey’s endorsement…
I’ve been staying up late nights worrying about disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce.I mean, what’s a washed-up nativist hatemonger to do for cash? Sure, he’s been busy running for First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, but that won’t put fatback on the griddle, being that it’s…
