Check out these two segments of a recent interview done by Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik of state Senate hopeful and conservative Republican Jerry Lewis, who is looking to topple state Senate President Russell Pearce in the Legislative District 18 recall election.In them, Lewis takes on the issue of immigration directly,…
The judge plays defense for Pearce loyalist Pat Oldroyd at a recent LD 19 meetingLester Pearce, brother to state Senate President Russell Pearce and longtime Justice of the Peace for the North Mesa Justice Court, allegedly has been campaigning on behalf of his embattled sibling, despite a prohibition on such…
Hot off the presses: A lawsuit brought by elections law attorney Tom Ryan on behalf of Legislative District 18 voter Mary Lou Boettcher, challenging the legitimacy of Olivia Cortes, the so-called “sham” recall candidate put forward by friends, family and supporters of state Senate President Russell Pearce.Ryan was responsible for…
The complaint filed by Democratic precinct committeeman and former candidate for state Senate in Legislative District 18 Robert McDonald in the ever-widening Russell Pearce/Olivia Cortes scandal has just been shot down by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.In a letter from State Election Director Amy Chan (formerly Amy Bjelland, Chan…
As I discuss at length in my column this week, state Senate President Russell Pearce wrestles almost daily with the truth, and so, too, do many of his supporters. So, not surprisingly, Pearce’s main challenger in the Legislative District 18 recall election, Mesa educator and Republican Jerry Lewis, has become the…
Bravo to Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik for tonight’s news segment where he pays a visit to the modest residence of Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes, and stops by the homes of some of state Senate President Russell Pearce’s relatives to ask them why they circulated petitions for Cortes.As…
Politics is an inherently dishonest profession. By contrast, most religions, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints specifically, mandate that adherents be honest in all dealings with their fellow men and women. So perhaps it’s no great revelation that mass schizophrenia has taken hold of the deeply Mormon,…
The most polite way to say it is that state Senate President Russell Pearce, facing a November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18, struggles mightily with the truth. In fact, he seems to struggle with it anytime he’s in front of a camera or a microphone. Most recently, he…
Here is the long awaited second video from my colleague, Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman, culled from the shenanigans that took place at a recent GOP Legislative District 19 meeting in Mesa. For an intro to the players and what’s going on, read my initial blog on this meeting, here, and…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard, facing an ethics complaint and possible expulsion from the Senate for his roadside fracas with his now former girlfriend and his invocation of legislative immunity, has filed an ethics complaint against three members of the state Senate Ethics Committee, which is currently set to hold hearings…
Since my recent column about well-known Phoenix mitigation specialist “Jameson Johnson,” aka, Jimmy Carroll Johnson, and his criminal record for armed robbery, a lot of folks have rushed to Johnson’s defense, arguing that his wrongdoing was all in the past, and since he had been doing good deeds locally, we…
Below is a letter e-mailed today from Democratic precinct committeeman Robert McDonald to Arizona Elections Director Amy Bjelland requesting an investigation into the ongoing scandal surrounding apparent shill candidate Olivia Cortes, who is “running,” if you can call it that, in Legislative District 18 recall of state Senate President Russell…
In a bizarre new stab at courting conspiracy nuts who believe President Barack Obama is a Kenyan, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has empowered a “birther posse” to look into claims by wackadoodles such as World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi that Obama’s birth certificate from Hawaii is a forgery.Yes, I know, it’s…
This is part one of a video report on the shenanigans taking place at a recent Legislative District 19 GOP meeting in Mesa, which I blogged about yesterday. My colleague, videographer Dennis Gilman, will follow up with a part two, containing even juicier clips.Can anyone now doubt that Olivia Cortes…
On Thursday, while state Senate President Russell Pearce was in one part of Mesa, denying that he knows or has ever met Olivia Cortes, the candidate meant to “dilute” the vote in the upcoming Legislative District 18 recall election, I was in another area of Mesa, at a Republican meeting…
If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen media hog Mark Spencer flapping his lips on TV in a while, it’s because Spencer is no longer president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the union that represents rank and file Phoenix cops.His second term expired September 1. That’s when longtime PLEA hack…
I missed ex-Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard’s recent appearance on Horizon, wherein he criticized current AG Tom Horne’s investigation of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, particularly Horne’s grandstanding statements to the media about the probe. Oddly, I caught it as I was checking out the far right Sonoran Alliance Web site,…
It’s worse than I thought regarding Carmen Chenal, confidante of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who followed Horne from the Arizona Department of Education, where she served while Horne was state Superintendent, to the AG’s Office. As I detailed in my July 14 column (“Horne Hired Carmen Chenal ‘Cause . . . She’s His…
What I love about so-called “conservatives” who regularly rail about entitlement programs is that these same limited-government types are often the first ones to turn around and take a handout at taxpayer expense when the need arises.Case in point: disgraced ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his former henchwomen, ex-deputy…
I’m on deadline for my column this week, but I wanted to share this news, fresh from the Arizona Supreme Court.The Supremes just issued the following order, affirming Superior Court Judge Hugh Hegyi’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the petitions that have forced a recall of state Senate President…
Franklin Bruce Ross, the man who is listed as the plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the recall petitions submitted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, a man his attorney Lisa Hauser has described as a longtime pal of state Senate President Russell Pearce, solicited signatures to put the name of…
My compatriot Dennis Gilman put together the video above of our forays in search of the elusive Olivia Cortes, wannabe contender in the upcoming November 8 recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18.Cortes’s nomination signatures were submitted to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on Friday…
