Joe Arpaio Considers Run for Guv According to Phoenix Business Journal, David Hendershott Considers Exile in Honduras

Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be considering a run for Governor of Arizona, according to Phoenix Business Journal reporter Mike Sunnucks. If he does so, Chief Deputy David Hendershott might be considering self-imposed exile in Honduras. Or maybe Shanghai. For Captain Joel Fox, center of the SCA scandal and G. Gordon Liddy-wannabe, there’s always harakiri. This…

SCA Scandal: Elections Department and Recorder’s Office Find “Reasonable Cause” That Campaign Laws Were Broken

The Maricopa County Elections Department and Recorder’s Office announced this morning it had found “reasonable cause to believe that a number of individuals and entities” have violated the state’s campaign finance laws. According to the announcement: The finding was hand delivered to the Office of County Attorney Andrew Thomas this morning…

Judge Unseals Search Warrant on Joel Fox/ SCA Raid

Pinal County Superior Court Judge Robert Carter Olson today unsealed the search warrant and other documents in a criminal investigation into a campaign finance scandal linked to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office — pulling back the curtain, in part, on an investigation that is clearly both active and serious.Olson acted…

New Times Asking Court to Unseal Search Warrant Documents in SCA Case

  What did investigators find after executing a search warrant at the Gilbert home of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Captain Joel Fox? Call it the $315,000 question. Fox has been leading the public on a merry mystery tour for nearly a year, trickling out information about the SCA only under pressure…

Pastor Steven Anderson, Gun Nut Christopher Broughton and This Sunday’s Worship at the Faithful Word Baptist Church

Before I hit you with my account of this Sunday’s evening service at Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church — home to Obama-death-wish preacher Steven Anderson, and his spritual follower, AR-15-toter and Obama-hater Christopher Broughton — I should run down some significant points picked up during my post-service chats with both. First off,…

CNN’s Rick Sanchez Dissects Steven Anderson’s Obama-Hatred; Oh, and The Arizona Republic Discovers the Story

Embedded video from CNN VideoOn Friday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez took on the subject of Tempe pastor Steven Anderson, the kooky, Obama-bashing preacher, now infamous for praying for the president’s demise, and for being the pastor to Christopher Broughton, the AR-15 totin’ anarchist/libertarian who showed up outside President Obama’s address to the…

Joe Arpaio a “Torturer on U.S. Soil,” Says NPR Opinion Piece

An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio’s Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio “a pernicious person,” a macho champion of “denigration and mental abuse,” and a “torturer on U.S. soil.”…

Letter to Obama Urges End to 287(g), Signed by 521 Organizations

A just-released letter to President Barack Obama endorsed by a diverse group of 521 civil rights, legal and cultural organizations — including the ACLU, the ADL, MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Episcopal Church — calls on the president to “immediately terminate the 287(g) program operated by the Department of Homeland…

Sheriff’s Office Training More Mounties on How to Detect Drug Impairment

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office will be training “dozens” of Canadian Royal Mounted Police on drug detection techniques this week in the county jail. A few Mounties came to Phoenix earlier this year for the same thing, apparently funded by the Canadian government. Canada’s legendary police force may be able…