See Also: Russell Pearce’s Racism “Discovered” by Arizona’s Media Former Senate President Russell Pearce’s racist e-mails, recently made public by the ACLU, were slammed today by politicians and activists at the Arizona State Capitol. Around 20 members of Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group that made the 2011 recall…
In the past few weeks, we’ve ranked the dumbest moments of two of Arizona’s most trusted elected officials, Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We decided to give the politicians a break this week and rank the dumbest moments of individuals who we’d actually expect to have really stupid…
See also: Naked Man on Bath Salts No. 2: Michael Hurtado Was Making Out With CarsSee also: Tempe Joins the Naked-Man-on-Bath-Salts Train Seriously, Tempe: put down the bath salts, and put on your clothes.For the third time this week, Tempe police have arrested a naked person doing really weird things,…
See also: Congressional Candidate Matt Salmon Says Lobbyist Matt Salmon Never Lobbied for “Obamacare” Republican Congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-congressional candidate Matt Salmon’s explanation of doing lobbying work on “Obamacare” bills — or not doing lobbying work on the bills — isn’t quite satisfying former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams.Adams accused his primary opponent…
See also: ACLU Trying to Stop 20-Week Abortion Ban; Says “No Court Has Ever Upheld” Such a Law Bill Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney, wants a lawyer for the unborn in a lawsuit targeting a state law that bans most late-term abortions. The Republican politician filed a motion in federal court…
See also: Tempe Joins the Naked-Man-on-Bath-Salts Train The Tempe Police Department was probably not messing around Wendesday when it issued a public warning about the chemicals known as “bath salts.”After finding 23-year-old Sean-Paul Branscome slamming himself against walls and jogging around a Tempe neighborhood in the nude on Sunday after…
Don Kenney, a former Arizona lawmaker and the “quarterback” of one of the state’s worst scandals, has been charged with five felonies related to his fraudulent California real estate license. In the infamous AzScam case, Kenney was among several lawmakers in 1990 who sold their votes to a man they…
See also: ACLU Seeks New Injunction on “Papers Please” Portion of SB 1070 See also: Russell Pearce Scores Another Win Against Hispanics See also: Russell Pearce’s Falsehoods, Inaccuracies and Inventions on Channel 12’s Sunday Square-Off See also: Russell Pearce Preaches Hate on Ban Amnesty Now Radio Show Color me bemused by the local…
See also: Shooting at a Midnight Screening of The Dark Knight Rises Leaves 12 Dead, 50 Injured in Colorado Chilling radio traffic by police and fire fighters released on the Web reveals the chaos found by first responders at the scene of the mass shooting at a Colorado theater. At…
A Phoenix man is accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend last week, as police say his story unraveled because he failed to properly light the crime scene on fire.Dwandarrius Robinson, 21, faces murder, arson, and kidnapping charges after the body of his girlfriend, Shaniqua Hall, was found bound in burning…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu declared his office vindicated after the Pima County Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute his director of communications over allegations that he unlawfully deleted public records. It wasn’t exactly a clean-cut victory for Babeu or his office…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his birther brigade — led by chief “investigator” Mike Zullo — held another press conference this week to announce their new “evidence” that President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery.Not surprisingly, the Cold Case Posse’s “evidence” was debunked months before Arpaio and Zullo presented…
Forget everything you learned about the Holocaust, kids, because Congressman Trent Franks is contemplating whether abortion is actually the “greatest genocide in world history.”There’s a reason we have a category of stories called “Trent Franks (Sigh)” and it’s for stuff like this — or when he said black people were…
See also: Joe Arpaio’s Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He’s Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio Racial-Profiling Trial Draws Protestors’ Calls for Justice on Opening Day See also: Joe Arpaio’s Racial Profiling Case Costs County Close To $1 Million, So Far In the law-enforcement experience of Maricopa County…
See also: Tom Liddy was Andrew Kunasek’s Deep Throat; County Supervisor Describes Tip on Arpaio/Thomas Plot to Overthrow Board See also: Maria Brandon, Fired Maricopa Civil Attorney, Says County Retaliated Against Her for Defending Sheriff Joe Arpaio Tom Liddy, the son of notorious Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, stole some…
John Brigham says he’s not guilty of the multiple felonies he’s charged with related to the alleged PCP-fueled naked carjacking spree in Scottsdale a few weeks ago.The former Chandler high school teacher and real estate executive pleaded not guilty today to multiple counts of robbery and endangerment — charges that…
If you really trust your local politicians (again, we’ll pause for laughter), then they’re really serious about hating on strippers.The lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy released more local candidates’ answers to their questionnaires for this year’s elections, including county and city offices, and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery…
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A DNA match led to the July 5 arrest of a man who police say is responsible for at least two sexual assault cases from 2004 and 2006.Phoenix police recently arrested Ramon Manuel Rivera, 50, on several counts of felony sexual assault, sexual abuse, and kidnapping. In May, police were…
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See Also: Death-Penalty Lawyers Are Making a Killing Off Maricopa Taxpayers Jim Logan, the director of the Office of Public Defender Services beat us to the punch–sort of–on Tuesday afternoon, issuing a game-changing memo to the private attorneys who contract with Maricopa County to represent indigent clients in criminal cases…
See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Beat Reds 7-1, Go for Series Win Today See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Blanked By Cincinnati Reds as Trevor Bauer Bites the Big One The Arizona Diamondbacks blew a 6-0 lead in a loss in Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark today. The loss resulted in a split four-game…
