We wrote a cover story back in April 2009 about the crusade of one Harold “Bud” Lee, a onetime Phoenix-area Justice of the Peace and an outspoken advocate of off-Indian reservation poker rooms. “The foggy idea that adults playing poker for money in a card room is so dangerous to…
Ben Quayle, the Republican nominee for Congress in Arizona’s 3rd District, concluded his primary campaign this afternoon with a touch of humor.At the office of his PR firm, Quayle thanked supporters and addressed the media for the first time since becoming the GOP’s nominee. When he took to the mic,…
Election officials tell us that at least 116,000 119,000 ballots remain uncounted in Arizona.That’s more than enough to flip the close race for state Attorney General again – maybe even a couple more times. The nail-biter of a Republican primary had Andrew Thomas in the lead for most of the…
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…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin, who suspended his gubernatorial campaign in early July, is toeing the party line, announcing today that he is officially endorsing his one-time opponent Jan Brewer in the Arizona governor’s race.At one point Martin led in the polls in the gubernatorial primary, but with the flick of…
Any story about someone fondling a sleeping passenger on public transportation is amusing. When it turns out to be a dude-on-dude sexual assault it’s even better. When one of the dudes happens to be a transient train rider, it’s just the icing on the cake.Under said criteria, it appears we’ve…
Earlier this year the Peoria Police Department began noticing a trend in “beer runs” at area convenience stores by underage kids and decided to fight back.For anyone unfamiliar with the term “beer run” in the criminal sense, allow us to explain: someone walks into a convenience store, grabs as much…
Days before North American Coin and Currency collapsed in 1982, Robert Bartemus received a check for about $8,000 for the silver he had stored with the precious-metals company. The check bounced. “I was just devastated at the time,” says Bartemus, an 85-year-old Florida resident. Amazing it sounds, Bartemus might just see that $8,000 again…
In the stop-the-presses department comes the following comment made during last night’s primary election coverage. was attributed to our own local Pinocchio, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in regards the decisive victory of Bill Montgomery over interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. “That’s going to make my job very easy,” Arpaio said…
Attention Arizona Capitol Times, KTAR, ABC 15, The Huffington Post, and all the other media outlets who ran with Cap Times reporter Jeremy Duda’s claim last week that Ben Quayle had fallen from frontrunner status in the District 3 Congressional primary: we hate to say we told ya so, but…
As of early this morning, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne was clinging to a 373-vote lead over former Maricopa County Attorney Tom Horne in the GOP primary for attorney general.The shocking results came late last night after Horne appeared to have lost the race — at one point…
The voters of Maricopa County have spoken and it appears another Joe Arpaio lap-dog will be the next county attorney.Former Assistant County Attorney Bill Montgomery pulled out a win against former, and interim, County Attorney Rick Romley.Montgomery has the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the two appear…
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:…
As of about 30 minutes ago, Ben Quayle holds a 5-point lead over his closest opponent in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary, Steve Moak, with about 80 percent of all precincts reporting.Quayle leads Moak by about 3,000 votes on a day with a surprisingly low voter turnout.Vernon Parker and…
Not even 10 minutes into our time at J.D. Hayworth’s election night festivities — at the posh Marriott Mountain View Hotel in north Scottsdale — did we run into an old friend. We were walking down the stairs into the less-than-packed ballroom when a man passed us. We instantly said…
Rick Romley and Tom Horne seem to be two casualties of the public’s desire to stick it to illegal immigrants, as we’ve reported tonight. (NOTE: As the votes came in, Horne took the lead and later won). David Schweikert, a Republican candidate in Congressional District 5, also made illegal immigration central to…
It’s looking dismal for Romley, an honorable man who won appointment to his former post a few months ago when Andrew Thomas resigned to run for Arizona Attorney General. (Romley served as County Attorney for 16 years until he retired in 2004, sadly paving the way for Mr. Thomas–a demagogue…
Early results in the Democratic primary put Felecia Rotellini well ahead of David Lujan for state Attorney General, while a former New Times reporter pulled in decent numbers for a political novice. With early ballots and 10 percent of the votes recorded, Rotellini was winning with 47 percent of votes to…
Senator John McCain, former deputy county attorney Bill Montgomery and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas are beating their competitors as initial election results come in. The Republican primary election results are disappointing those hoping for end to the political chaos in Maricopa County. But if the leads hold, the election…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
Campaign ads are horrible. Nobody wants to have their living room invaded by local politicos who want nothing more than to talk about how great they are — or how much the other guy sucks.We would argue that all political ads are awful but this primary season has been exceptional…
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…
