FSRN’s Aura Bogado takes on Maricopa County’s tin-pot tyrant in a new series. Feathered Bastard readers can expect mild to light blogging through the middle of next week, with occasional showers of sarcasm and cynicism in the late afternoons, and winds of discontent blowing at record speeds as long as…
Some of you have noticed the recent light posting on this blog. So I want to let you know that this situation will continue at least till the end of next week as I labor on a larger project, which I can tell you more about when it’s done. Thanks…
This new Gilman video lambastes Sand Land politicos high and low. Dennis Gilman has outdone himself in this new, mini-documentary on the conflict between the town of Guadalupe and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Titled simply Guadalupe vs. Arpaio, it begins with ex-Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez speaking about the importance of standing…
Part one: Nelson rips Candy a new one on his domestic violence record, and his “plead to the lead” policy. I didn’t make the Nelson-Thomas debate Wednesday night, but I’ve watched a lot of it on video thanks to activist Adolfo Maldonado, who got into the debate with a video…
Why can’t Arpaio cross the street without babysitters? Note the bodyguards, and to the right of Joe, little-man MCSO flack Paul Chagolla. So far, there have been anti-Arpaio demos at Wells Fargo offices in San Francisco, El Paso, and Chicago, all in solidarity with the protests going on 11 a.m…
Gerald Richard, exposing MCSO honcho David Hendershott’s role in the sliming of Saban. Fee-fie-foe-fum, I smell the weasel-y paw of Joe Arpaio’s two-ton henchman, Chief Deputy David Hendershott, master of the MCSO’s dirty tricks department. Dan Saban operatives called a press conference at Wesley Bolin Plaza this afternoon to release…
MCSA organizer Parraz, at this morning’s press conference. At a press conference this morning in downtown Phoenix, Randy Parraz, an organizer with Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, described his ordeal of being arrested on bogus trespassing and disorderly conduct charges yesterday after exiting a Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’…
You figure if The New York Times sends a scribbler to Arizona to pen a story about the race between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and challenger Dan Saban, he or she’d get it right, right? After all it’s the frickin’ New York Times we’re talking about. The Gray Lady. The veritable…
MCSA firebrand Randy Parraz, who was arrested today outside the BOS auditorium. In what will surely be viewed as a black day for the Maricopa County Supervisors’ relations with the public, Randy Parraz, an organizer with the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, was arrested outside of the Supervisors’ auditorium…
Why won’t Joe debate Dan Saban? In this video, the Sheriff tells us it’s none of our business. While reporters in this town are busy feeding into the myth of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s invincibility and writing off rival Dan Saban, the anti-Joe activists out there are putting Phoenix’s Fourth Estate…
The now-famous photoshopped image of Palin. For some reason, I never tire of it. I haven’t cracked up like this since the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie was released. I’m talking about these parody blog posts written by the wags at the comedy Web site Something Awful after the manner…
The fun begins about 3:40 in… Well, if this doesn’t knock the shine off Sarah Palin’s star, I don’t know what will. In the latest YouTube video of Palin worshiping at her hometown church Wasilla Assembly of God, Palin is prayed over by a witch-hunting Kenyan pastor by the name…
Did Sarah cheat on Todd? So saith the National Enquirer… During the Clinton years, they used to call them “bimbo eruptions.” Now that the National Enquirer has finally published its tell-all tale of Sarah Palin’s alleged affair with a former business partner of hubby Todd, I guess we’ll have to…
Arpaio has a senior moment in this footage from yesterday’s Wells Fargo protests. C’mon, Joe, you know who The Bird is… Sal Reza and his merry band of anti-Arpaio protesters scored this hi-larious footage yesterday of our corrupt top constable paying a visit to the protests taking place every day…
A photo from the anti-Arpaio protest at Wells Fargo last week. See more from pics of the demo by photographer Bill Carpenter, here. The clang and ring of the trolley in this video informs you that you’re not in Sand Land any more. Indeed, the setting for this demonstration documented…
PUENTE’s Sal Reza and MEChA’s Sandra Castro, outside Wells Fargo on Wednesday. You don’t expect two hour protests in the mid-day heat of a Phoenix September to be energizing and fun, but that’s what I found the anti-Arpaio protest outside the Wells Fargo building downtown to be when I walked…
MCSA’s Randy Parraz and Raquel Teran address reporters after the BOS lockout. It was a Magic Mountain-size roller coaster ride at the Board of Supervisors today, with the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability taking over the meeting from Supervisor and acting Chairman Max Wilson, and walking out when it…
The kids ain’t the only ones who need to lay off the Snickers, Joe. While Democrat and sheriff’s office candidate Dan Saban was laying out a plan today to put more deputies on patrol and reduce response times from the 16 minutes it sometimes takes for the MCSO to get…
The anti-Arpaio protest at the Well Fargo building, that pricey pad Joe’s upper echelon calls home, continues into its third week amid a virtual media blackout. Well, save for in this blog and in the current Bird column. Last week there was reportedly a similar demonstration at a Wells Fargo…
Dan Saban making his case before a Sun City crowd in August. So I’m watching a repeat of Friday’s KAET Horizon roundtable of local journos — mainly because I’d heard that they’d mentioned last week’s Joe Arpaio fake poll controversy (reported in this blog with the help of you the…
The Wing-nut from Wasilla, reporting as unfit for duty. Anyone who hasn’t watched the Sarah Palin interviews by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson should log onto YouTube or the ABC News web site and tremble in fear. That’s what I did after missing the initial broadcasts, as I was out both…
The gang was all there, and then some, to hear Ventura speak in Mesa. You’ll have to await next week’s Bird column for a full accounting of Jesse Ventura’s appearance at the Mesa Convention Center Thursday night. As you can see from the photo above, the Peter Boyle-lookalike packed the…
