Former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy Tim Abrahamson is set to plead guilty in North Dakota for his alleged, pre-planned attack on his wife’s ex-lover. Meanwhile, we’re waiting to find out the current duty status of Abrahamson’s buddy, Steve Carpenter, who drove to North Dakota and apparently waited in a…
Months after a drunken brawl outside of a Tempe bar, former Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard “Hank” Mueller is expected to face a judge for a non-jury trial at 1:30 on May 6. Mueller’s attorney has delayed his clients day reckoning at Tempe Municipal Court several times with motions, but…
There is one thing to keep in mind while reading about Administrative Law Judge Tammy Eigenheer’s recommended dismissal of the civil case involving allegations of campaign-finance impropriety by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne: Horne still has his supposed mistress Carmen Chenal on the AG’s payroll to the tune of $108,000…
I like Arizona Republic scribe Laurie Roberts. She’s a smart, classy lady. And I believe she means well. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Still On, Despite Lack of Support from (Some) Deep-Pocket Democrats As a columnist, she has the luxury of tut-tutting the hard work of others, as she did…
In this video by Puente, Ivon’s goodness should be self-evident to all but those with the meanest of spirits Let’s be honest, Anglos in Arizona would starve if there were no undocumented persons here to prepare our food. Or harvest it from the fields. See also: -Steven Seagal a No…
Please see correction below. Respect Arizona, the group spearheading the recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is suspending its paid signature-gathering campaign due to lacks of funds. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Scores 120K Valid Signatures: 85 Days Left, a Little Over 215K More to Go -Birther Lawyer Fighting Joe Arpaio…
Pimps selling child prostitutes and the johns who buy them can rest easy knowing that Republican Eddie Farnsworth is chair of the state House Judiciary Committee. See also: -Why Eddie “Little Lord” Farnsworth and Fellow GOPers Need to Suppress the Latino Vote Despite broad support from both Republicans and Democrats,…
The eyebrow-raising part of the newly-released “Reporter’s Guide to the Goldwater Institute,” isn’t that GI’s executives make lavish six-figure salaries working for a non-profit 501c3, or that the Goldwater Institute is, according to the report, a tool of the Koch bothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council. Read the Center…
OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create(‘ooyalaplayer’, ‘9zampnbjptUn3Xdnba3xrdUHS_Gy73aS’); });Please enable Javascript to watch this video Republican state Representative John Kavanagh and a pig’s intestine share one significant characteristic, and, no, it’s not elasticity. Rather, they’re both full of it. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Scores 120K Valid Signatures: 85 Days Left, a Little Over…
In what appears to be another recall attempt motivated by the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio, some Arpaio supporters say they’re going to try to recall House Minority Leader Chad Campbell.As with the announcement by another set of Arpaio supporters, who claim to be attempting a recall of County…
Note: Please see update at the end of this post. Despite a last-minute smear campaign by her detractors and a surprise endorsement of the incumbent by Congressman Ed Pastor, one-time thorn in the side of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Rebecca Jimenez, was leading a four person pack in the race for…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery took it on the chin Monday, as about 120 demonstrators protesting Monty’s discriminatory policies toward undocumented workers marched more than 3.5 miles from Steele Indian School Park to Montgomery’s offices in the county administration building in downtown Phoenix. See also: -Bill Montgomery Blasted By Hispanic…
Here’s yet another sign worshippers at the font of all things Sheriff Joe know that their boy is doomed by the current recall effort: Their willingness to resort to futile, unconstitutional trickery to keep Arpaio’s career on life support. See also: -Russell Pearce-Inspired Recall Bill Unconstitutional, Say Experts -In the…
The pressure is building on Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to end his apartheid policies when it comes to the over-charging of undocumented workers, resulting in moms and dads being held nonbondable under Prop 100 and ultimately deported. See also: -Bill Montgomery and ICE, Partners in Crime, To Be Protested…
Rebecca Jimenez’s campaign video, produced by Dennis Gilman Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have one foot in the grave (we hope) due to his “broken arm,” but one of his enemies from not too long ago is alive and well and running for mayor of the unique little town of Guadalupe…
The self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America, Joe Arpaio, is now using his wife and his alleged broken arm to raise money to fight the recall effort against him.To sum it up in just a couple of words, this plea for money is completely pathetic…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and his partners at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will feel the heat of Latino and pro-immigrant rage this Monday when the Phoenix human rights group Puente spearheads a march demanding an end to the deportations of individuals whose only real “crime” is working for…
It’s not every day that an elected law enforcement official, who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, confesses that he or she is enforcing an unconstitutional law. See also: -The MCAO Follows ICE’s Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families Yet, that’s just what Maricopa County…
With Sheriff Joe Arpaio still out of commission from his “broken arm,” and with Respect Arizona’s announcement today that they have 120,000 valid signatures demanding his recall, Arpaio’s best career move at this point would be to resign from office for health reasons. See also: -Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is…
Oh, boy, you know things are bad for publicity-hound Sheriff Joe Arpaio when he’s not even well enough to appear on television.The public-relations team for the self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America sent out a memo to media this morning, and it kind of reads like one of those melancholy Christmas…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America, has now been hospitalized for more than 24 hours with a purported broken arm.Between the super-weird videos of the 80-year-old sheriff in his hospital bed and the fact that he stayed in that hospital overnight for a broken arm, it sounds…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is at it again — trying to gin up fear about immigrants running wild and ready to “commit crimes against the citizens in our state.” That’s what he claimed during an appearance on CNN. He’s echoing criticism by Republicans that comes in the wake of…
