Shucks, seems I’m doing my bit to help state Senate President Russell Pearce beat back the recall, too. Albeit, inadvertently.See, the anti-recall committee “Patriots for Pearce,” chaired by Jesse Hernandez, a staffer for Republican Arizona Congressman David Schweikert, has been circulating a new e-mail that pimps an August 17 fundraiser for…
I’m getting pretty annoyed at having to berate Sonoran News’ nutjob newshound Linda Bentley over her myriad stupidities, but I can’t let this one go.As I noted in a recent column, neither Bentley, her publication, nor the crotchety bigot who runs it, Don Sorchych, have corrected their recent slime of…
In this week’s column, I addressed the claims of Arizona Tea Party members, and some Republicans, concerning the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. One of these claims is that the AIRC may have violated Arizona’s open meetings law, as well as state procurement procedures in the pick of the commission’s mapping consultant…
More than anything, the Tea Party movement in Arizona reminds me of the assorted wackjobs who believed that the 9/11 attacks on America were an “inside job” by the administration of President George W. Bush, a moronic contention now thoroughly debunked and discredited. Like the so-called 9/11 “truthers,” Tea Baggers…
As Eddie Albert liked to say in The Longest Yard (the original, not the Adam Sandler remake), “His-to-ry.”That’s what Arizona witnessed this morning in Mesa in the garden room of the Victorian-style Wright House, the quaint, embowered venue where so many marriages have taken place. There, charter school superintendent and former…
Ah, sweet irony.State Senate President Russell Pearce’s supporters love to prevaricate about Citizens for a Better Arizona, the committee that’s collected enough signatures in Legislative District 18 to force a recall of Pearce, alleging that the recall has been organized by unnamed “outside interests.”Which is total bull, as I’ve pointed…
Despite calls from Tea Party activists and some Republicans for the resignation of Colleen Mathis, chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, both Republican commissioner Scott Freeman and Democratic commissioner Jose Herrera expressed support for the embattled Mathis Thursday night.After a nearly-three hour public hearing at Phoenix’s South Mountain Community…
I’m more than a little concerned by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s announcement today of a “probe” into the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, which will be holding a public meeting today at 6 p.m. at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix.That meeting already promises to be a real donnybrook, with…
I understand that lawyers need to make a buck, and usually I wouldn’t worry about one latching onto Republican state Senate President and recall boy Russell Pearce like a lamprey sucking the blood out of an alligator, but even so, Phoenix attorney Lisa Hauser is a joke. And not a…
I have to give a nod to the Arizona Republic’s Mary Jo Pitzl for nabbing a little item I’d been sitting on regarding a fundraising e-mail to fellow lobbyists sent from Mike Williams of the Phoenix firm Williams & Associates. This, on behalf of state Senate President Russell Pearce’s anti-recall…
State Senator Russell Pearce’s lawyer Lisa Hauser filed one of the lamest legal challenges in this history of civil actions today. This, to the so-far successful recall effort against Pearce, which has resulted in Governor Jan Brewer ordering a recall election in Legislative District 18.It’s not only lame, it’s laughable…
Governor Jan Brewer is helping raise money for the man many have called the de facto governor of Arizona: state Senate President Russell Pearce.In an e-mail blast sent out today, Brewer asks recipients to donate to Citizens Who Oppose the Pearce Recall, and links to the organization’s Web site, protectanamericanpatriot.com.Needless…
Andrew Sherwood, the Mesa Democrat who unsuccessfully took on Republican state Senator Russell Pearce in 2010 (before Pearce was Senate president), just called to let me know that he will not be throwing his derby in the ring for the November 8 recall election.Sherwood came in second in a three-way…
Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik has outed a possible challenger to state Senate President Russell Pearce in the November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18: Jerry Lewis, and, no, not the cheesy dude on the telethons.Resnik writes in his blog that,”This would be Lewis’ first run for elected office. He…
If you needed the services of a criminal attorney, would you hire a lawyer with no experience in criminal law, who had been suspended from the State Bar of Arizona for 120 days, had not practiced law in five years, and who was still on probation for her past misdeeds?…
I like Sinema, but she flubbed a couple of facts on OlbermannUPDATE, July 13 5:17PM: Sinema called me about her appearance on Olbermann. She explained that she didn’t call Parraz ahead of time because she didn’t know Olbermann was going to ask her about the recall. She knew it was going…
More bad news for state Senate President Russell Pearce.One day before the historic announcement by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office that the Pearce recall will go before the voters of Legislative District 18, Arizona Solicitor General David Cole informed Pearce that recall committees cannot accept corporate or union contributions.Cole…
I’m cooking up some barbecued black bird for all of my colleagues in the local press who pooh-poohed the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce. First slice goes to lifelong hack Howie Fischer. The rest of the crow flesh is for all of the members of Horizon’s clown table, that circle…
As Sheriff Joe Arpaio plots to humiliate Arizona by deploying a chain gang of illegal immigrants to clean up around Chase Field, where the Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to take place July 12, there’s ample evidence Arpaio should be in stripes right along with them, cleaning the…
It’s not often that I peruse the aisles of Home Depot looking for a weapon that supposedly could kill a man, but I did recently, because I wanted to purchase a Nifty Nabber, manufactured by the Connecticut-based Unger tool company. My intent was not homicidal. Instead, I wanted the 36-inch-long…
A note to Sand Land’s hillbilly gun-huggers: Beer and firearms don’t mix. And they mix especially poorly with bigotry, latent or otherwise. Case in point is Gary Kelley, the South Phoenix man who gunned down his neighbor Juan Varela on May 6, 2010 after screaming at him in a drunken rage,…
Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of “Chinga La Migra” (“Fuck the Border Patrol,” in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops’ personal info.I only say “claiming” because I’m still accessing the torrent. (Hey, I never said I…
