Delay, delay, delay. Thow up legal obstacles. Thumb your nose. Hold out till what seems like the last minute. Appear to compromise. Start all over again, and never give anything up unless you absolutely have to. Even then, you can always keep the worst stuff back. This is the shell game Sheriff…
Can we finally say sayonara to Sith Lord and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas?Thomas’s unctuous campaign flack, spin-pimp Jason Rose thinks so. Last night, with Thomas’s early lead over state Schools Superintendent Tom Horne in the GOP primary for Attorney General evaporating, Rose tweeted this ice-pick to Thomas’s kidneys:”The jaguar roars:…
Standard practice by the Tucson PD, as captured by Three Sonorans Although activists are normally up in arms about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio separating mothers from their children and otherwise breaking up families during his anti-immigration sweeps, this video by Tucson’s Three Sonorans blog reveals that things may be even worse…
Budweiser, which in 2008 was bought out by a Belgian beer giant to form Anheuser-Busch InBev, has spent millions on advertising to the Latino market. According to a 2009 article in Hispanic Market Weekly, the company spent more than $21 million in the first half of 2008 alone on Spanish…
Dougherty’s campaign spot, running this weekendI like both Randy Parraz and John Dougherty in the Dems’ primary for U.S. Senate. I wish I could vote for both of them, to be honest. Both are very different kinds of candidates. And neither one is a traditional politician. Not by a long…
Staffers for Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman’s campaign are jumping ship so fast it might as well be a reenactment of James Cameron’s Titanic.Since July, three top staffers have bailed on Glassman: Political Director Junelle Cavero left last month; Field Director Kristin Gwinn resigned a couple of weeks ago; Communications Director…
The Romley campaign’s latest YouTube video dissing MontgomeryU.S. Senator John McCain took some time off from horsewhippin’ GOP primary rival J.D. Hayworth to endorse Rick Romley for Maricopa County Attorney over Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boy in that primary race, Bill Montgomery.To call McCain’s endorsement of Romley “glowing” would be an…
A group of diverse individuals including Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Barry Hess, former Republican state Senator Karen Johnson, and voting activist John Brakey are suing Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell, alleging that Maricopa County Elections is involved in various voting shenanigans. Their claim, which you can read in its entirety, here,…
SMACKING KYL Of all the un-American schemes to pop from the cranium of neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, his plot to deprive American-born children of birthright citizenship, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, is clearly the most despicable. Pearce has been pushing to subvert the citizenship clause of the Constitution’s…
What the U.S. Department of Justice needs to grok about Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his upper echelon is that they are consummate prevaricators. Period. They’re sleazy weasels of the worst type. Essentially, the MCSO, as run by Arpaio and minions such as Chief Deputy David Hendershott, is akin to a mafia enterprise. With…
Undoubtedly many of you have seen the latest action by anti-SB 1070 demonstrators urging Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to nix the 2011 All-Star Game scheduled for Phoenix’s Chase Field and hold it at another location. About three dozen protesters demonstrated against the Arizona Diamondbacks during their Sunday game versus the Washington…
Sheriff Joe just keeps racking up the victims. The latest report comes courtesy of reporter Aura Bogado in Mother Jones magazine. In her article Hazing Arizona, Bogado details the death by pneumonia of David de la Fuente, an illegal immigrant held in Joe’s gulags for three weeks before being turned…
Although the United We Stand for Americans Web site announcing its Tea Party rally on the U.S.-Mexico Border this Sunday August 15 includes the address of the event and maps leading there, it carefully omits one piece of interesting information: The rally is being held on a ranch owned by…
So President Barack Obama, who still talks a good game about “comprehensive immigration reform,” has now signed a supplemental border security package worth $600 million to add 1,000 Border Patrol agents, as well as hundreds of new officers for U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border…
I recently interviewed an associate of neo-Nazi J.T. Ready’s, someone privy to details about Ready’s group U.S. Border Guard, who claimed Ready was using donations to his outfit to pay his rent and buy personal items. This source, who asked not to be identified, told me that Ready had received substantial contributions,…
In somewhat of a concession to humanitarians leaving water out in the desert for thirsty migrants, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will allow more water stations on the 118,000-acre Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona.Although Fish and Wildlife has permitted the group Humane…
DUCEY DISASTER You’ve got to wonder what was going through editorial board noggins at the Arizona Republic when they decided to give their endorsement in the Republican primary for state treasurer to Doug Ducey. The former CEO of pricey ice cream peddler Cold Stone Creamery is the favorite to take…
Romley fights back against Arpaio and Montgomery in this new attack videoAlthough a Maricopa County judge today refused to halt Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s attack ads aimed at County Attorney Rick Romley, Romley has an answer for the guy Arpaio’s fronting in those ads: Romley’s GOP primary rival Bill Montgomery.In the…
Sheriff Joe is a little like the alien life force in the classic Star Trek original series episode “Day of the Dove,” wherein the alien feeds off hate and can only be defeated with laughter.Witness Arpaio’s recent excursion to speak at a country club in San Diego. Protesters, of course,…
Despite the fact that District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton ripped out most of SB 1070’s spine on July 28, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s still doing his anti-Hispanic dragnets. And if other law enforcement agencies in Sand Land don’t have the carte blanche they would have had under an un-enjoined 1070, this recent…
You shouldn’t expect subtlety from agitprop, and subtlety is definitely in rare supply at the anti-SB 1070 “FootPrints” show at Bragg’s Pie Factory, which continues through September.But seeing that Arizona’s debate over immigration is about as subtle as a cinder block to the cranium, such explicitness seems justified. Moreover, protest art is…
For anyone interested in immigration, sci-fi or both, director Alex Rivera’s debut feature Sleep Dealer is a must see, a futuristic and at times Blade Runner-ish trek through a world where America’s borders are sealed and all labor is imported electronically from “workers” hooked up via wire in Mexico. I…
