PUBLIC RECORDS PAYDAY It’s a unique day in the annals of New Times-MCSO relations when Sheriff Joe Arpaio cuts this paper a check. But that’s what our geriatric top gendarme just did, to the tune of $40,000. The check was actually for legal fees expended by New Times in the…
Catherine Figueroa, one of Arpaio’s many victims, is slated to testify at a Congressional hearing Thursday Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva’s office has released a schedule of witnesses for the hearing he’s holding Thursday afternoon in D.C., and it includes several Phoenix residents, some of whom have been victims of Sheriff…
It’s official: Joe Arpaio’s endorsement is worth squat beyond the confines of Sand Land, particularly when we’re talking about California.All of the politicians Arpaio plugged, campaigned for, raised money for, or just had a kind word for went down in flames in California primary and local elections yesterday.Republican gubernatorial candidate…
Arizona has made the cover of the Summer 2010 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report magazine, but for all the wrong reasons, as you might expect.The issue is devoted to the resurgent “patriot” movement, a conspiratorial grab-bag of nutjobs, Obama-loathers, extremist gun rights proponents, and tax resisters.The…
Tucson ABC TV news station KGUN 9 is reporting that Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva will be holding hearings on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-immigration sweeps this Thursday, and, um, no, it doesn’t sound like Sheriff Joe was invited. Apparently, one reason for the hearing is to show what SB 1070 will look like…
Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez has single-handedly emasculated neo-Nazi hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, and in Spanish no less.How she got Pearce to sit down for an interview for CNN en Espanol, I don’t know. But listening to the best known Hispanic-bashing bigot in the state, and perhaps the nation, being…
The cranks are all here in this video of the June 5 Phoenix Rising rally by videographer Dennis Gilman: Russell Pearce, Joe Arpaio, and lesser known wackjobs such as “Chemtrail Chelene” Nightingale, “Loopy Lupe” Moreno, self-loathing, wannabe white-boy Ray Herrera, and black apologist for slavery Ted Hayes. Gilman braved aggro,…
A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That’s what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to the state Capitol. Not everyone was as nasty…
When it comes to campaign contributions from the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, headed by anti-immigrant opportunist Mark Spencer, Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth just barely edges out the Arizona Democratic Party. For the current 2009-2010 election cycle, Hayworth, the Mexican-bashing former radio host has taken $10,000 from the Phoenix…
As many of you have no doubt learned, the anti-immigrant stunt Sheriff Joe Arpaio was planning that I mentioned in a blog post yesterday, ended up being an MCSO “raid” — if you can call it that — on the clothing store Burlington Coat Factory at Arizona Mills Mall in…
Arizona could have one killer rock concert, on par with Coachella, if all the bands who’re cancelling Cactus Country gigs or boycotting the state due to SB 1070 were to participate.The East L.A. Chicano rock band Los Lobos is the latest to kill a concert here in Sand Land over…
(Note: Please see the statement from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network on Obama’s treachery below, as well as an update on Arpaio’s raid.) It was all way too polite, and obviously calculated by the White House in an attempt to protect President’s right flank. I mean Governor Jan Brewer’s…
I’ll never be able to watch reruns of The Incredible Hulk in quite the same way.In this video from Tempe’s recent, pro-SB 1070 “buycott” rally, Lou Ferrigno appears onstage with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, flexing for the crowd before Arpaio addresses the nativist faithful about how the Obama administration’s been pickin’…
GODDARD’S ICE PICK Saturday’s massive anti-SB 1070 march in Phoenix — estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 strong — concluded at the state Capitol, where several speakers and performing acts took the stage to address the faithful. Aside from Mexican-American recording artist Jenni Rivera, the ethnically and racially diverse…
Former minuteman leader and ex, self-described “senior advisor” for J.D. Hayworth’s U.S. Senate campaign Chris Simcox allegedly threatened to kill his wife and family according to a petition for an order of protection filed by his estranged spouse Alena Simcox. A Maricopa County court commissioner granted the petition April 16,…
Nearly two million views and growing, Stevens’ redneck anthem “Come To the U.S.A.”I’m sure everyone under the age of 45 is scratching their heads, going, “Ray, who?” But Ray Stevens was actually popular in the ’70s for a second, crooning silly comedy songs about streaking and one called, believe it…
If you have any doubts about the massiveness of Saturday’s big anti-SB 1070 march to the Arizona state Capitol, this latest YouTube offering by everyone’s fave revolutionary videographer Dennis Gilman should put them to rest. The organizers’ count of 100,000 even seems a tad conservative in hindsight. Though it’s…
[jump] Fortunately, I was spared this grotesque sight as I was blocked by Arpaio henchpersons Lisa Allen, Lt. Brian Lee, and Deputy Chief Brian Sands. No New Times allowed in the room, particularly this New Times employee. Instead, they called out lovingly for Arizona Republic scribe JJ Hensley, and waved other media…
Democratic Diva’s Donna Gratehouse went in search of big companies being represented out at the pro-SB 1070 “buycott” at Tempe’s Diablo Stadium this Saturday. Know how many she found? Zip. Zilch. Zero.Well, Tempe’s Xtreme Bean Coffee was there. (Hardly a biggie.) But otherwise, it was just vendors selling buttons, flags,…
I mentioned in my roundup of Saturday’s big anti-SB 1070 march that local neo-Nazi Harry Hughes attended the pro-SB 1070 “buycott” rally at Tempe’s Diablo Stadium later that same say. Along for the ride was at least one other local neo-Nazi, Scott Hume.I’ve been getting e-mails aplenty about how white…
Despite threats of disruption from extremist elements, Saturday’s anti-SB 1070 demonstration produced a diverse, spirited crowd of anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 that walked some five miles to the Arizona state Capitol without incident.The Phoenix PD made no arrests, and there was no clash between anarchists and cops, as there was…
Arizona Republic opinion writer Robert Robb just got the shellacking of his existence by our own Emil Pulsifer, a frequent commenter on this blog.Robb recently penned a column called, “A proposal for immigration reform light,” to which Pulsifer has written an extensive rebuttal. It’s so good, I’m publishing the entire thing here,…
