Oh, the delicious irony of it all! Tomorrow morning County Attorney Candy Thomas will be forced to descend from his 8th floor offices in the county building downtown and actually appear in the Honorable Judge Roland Steinle’s court to spill the legumes on why he signed off on emergency wiretaps…
Phil takes on AZ’s #1 bully. Will other high profile pols do likewise? Attorney General Terry Goddard may not want to wield the shillelagh, but “Give ’em hell, Gordon” doesn’t have a problem whacking Nickel Bag Joe upside the head every chance he gets, and rightly so. Today, during Mayor…
C’mon, Terry. Sheriff Joe’s a bad man. You can take him. If there’s one thing you can say about Attorney General Terry Goddard, it’s that he doesn’t readily take the bait offered him. While discussing another issue with him that I’ll be reporting on later, I took a moment to…
MCSO flack Lisa Allen on location in Los Angeles for her big bomb on the reality show Groomer Has It. She’s been grooming the County’s top cop for lo these many years, but she still hasn’t mastered her part-time passion for pooch pampering. I’m talking about Sheriff’s Office PIO Lisa…
How freakin’ retarded is it when ASU makes Andy Thomas sound prescient with its actions? After reading a blurb in the Sunday Arizona Republic about a temporary ban on local wing-nut talk radio station KTAR 92.3FM in ASU buses, I was reminded of something County Attorney Andrew “Candy” Thomas said…
The Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement this afternoon calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to look into accusations of racial profiling by the MCSO as part of Sheriff Joe’s anti-immigrant dragnets. The press release reads: ADL CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF PROFILING SURROUNDING MARICOPA…
Ipso schmucko: Candy never walks alone, even to the loo… Boy, Republican County Attorney Candy Thomas sure is a real, uh, candy-ass. According to a story this morning on the ASU Web Devil — the university’s online news source, Candy showed up to a College Republican meet-up at ASU last…
I’ve never cottoned to the The Arizona Republic ‘s schoolmarmish scribe E.J. Montini, who if offered a butcher knife and the dotted line indicating a corrupt politician’s jugular, would opt for inflicting a pinprick to the pol’s shin. Once every 20 columns or so, Montini hits the mark. Otherwise, he…
In a blistering editorial published today, The New York Times blasts Sheriff Joe’s misuse of his 287g agreement with ICE, and demands Congress hold hearings on the agreements, which are currently under investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress. (That tidbit about the GAO is…
Last week, I wrote about a poll from PHX’s Behavior Research Center, which showed Sheriff Joe’s popularity rating to be 57% excellent or good within Maricopa County. The Scottsdale company American Traffic Solutions commissioned the statistical query from BRC as part of a larger poll about how AZ denizens view…
Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez, who bravely defied Sheriff Joe last night. Last night was a night of high drama as Sheriff Joe brought his illegal immigrant dragnet to the small town of Guadalupe, and the citizens and the mayor of that city demanded Joe leave. Last night around 10:30, Guadalupe…
Seems like everyone wants a piece of Sheriff Joe these days. Mayor Phil’s on his case. Channel 12’s after his hide. The AZ State Auditor is looking into his use of RICO funds. And of course, New Times is suing the Sheriff and County Attorney Andrew Thomas for $15 million…
According to a poll commissioned by American Traffic Solutions, the Scottsdale company that bills itself as “the largest provider of photo traffic enforcement programs to America’s big cities,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s approval rating is at 57% in Maricopa County, plus or minus 3.5%. The poll was reportedly done by Phoenix’s…
New Times founders Mike Lacey (left) and Jim Larkin (right) at the AZ ACLU awards dinner. On Saturday, Village Voice Media Executive Editor Mike Lacey and VVM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Larkin were each honored by the ACLU Foundation of Arizona with the group’s highest accolade, the Civil…
See anything interesting about this MCSO vehicle? Hmmm…maybe them deputies ain’t all bad… The battle of Bell Road ended abruptly last night, around 8:30 p.m., when the MCSO called it quits, bringing to an end the most contentious of the Sheriff’s anti-immigrant sweeps. The Sheriff told other reporters present that…
A small section of the crowd Thursday night. Events have been moving so rapidly since last night that I haven’t had time to report on the eruption of Latino/Hispanic outrage at Bell and Cave Creek Roads where Sheriff Joe has stationed his mobile command center for the weekend. From a…
The late Carol Gotbaum with her children. Just under the wire today, Phoenix attorney Mike Manning served a Notice of Claim to the City of Phoenix in the still-mysterious death of Carol Anne Gotbaum, asking for $8 million on behalf of the Gotbaum family. As you may recall, Gotbaum died…
No doubt about who’s the top, and who’s the bottom in Danny Hellman’s brilliant Bird illo. That Shaq is a shrewd fella. In a March 13 Bird item, I speculated that the Big Aristotle, now also known as the Big Cactus, might be tempted to do biz with Sheriff Joe,…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (right) conversing with prejudiced pal Rusty Childress (left), ex-Kia peddler and leader of the most vicious anti-immigrant hate group in the Valley, United for a Sovereign America. It was a Good Friday for racists last week as our own Pontius Pilate, a.k.a., Sheriff Joe, defiled the day…
Tonight Sheriff Joe Arpaio joined the nativists and unrepentant bigots of Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America, speaking before a group that accepts racists like Buffalo Rick Galeener into its fold, as well as neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready. It’s also an organization that praises old guard neo-Nazis such as…
A pic you’ll never see in the Capitol Times: Russell Pearce (right) and Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready (left), at an anti-immigrant clambake in June of ’07. Does it ever strike you as odd that AZ politicians can pull the most outrageous, reactionary bullcrap? Stuff that in any civilized state in…
See, Buffalo, you’re famous…for allegedly urinating in public. A group of about six “aliens” invaded the nativist demonstration up at the Macehualli Work Center on Saturday — actually a troupe of arty open borders activists dressed as aliens and waving signs like “Save Our White Trash Heritage,” “Buffalo Rick’s Pissed…
