Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — whose likeness you may have seen on the cover of a recent issue of New Times with the phrase, “To Hell With the Children!” — wants everyone to know his deputies found people who treat kids worse than he does.According to the sheriff’s office,…
Please see update below.Scottsdale Police Lieutenant and candidate for Maricopa County sheriff Mike Stauffer’s Twitter audience recently jumped from around 600 followers to more than 2,600 followers, thanks to a number of questionable accounts.Many of the new accounts seem fake, lack photos, and/or have zero or few Tweets. In some…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the “birther” gang — now including legislators — held a press conference at the capitol today to push state Representative Carl Seel’s “birther” bill.Seel’s bill, as you may recall, is the watered-down, penis-free version of last year’s bill, which forces presidential candidates to sign…
It’s pretty easy for a scribbler in this town to know when you’ve drawn blood from local hypocrites: Those skewered squeal like hogs being boiled alive in Karo syrup.Recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce is no exception, despite his tough-guy pose. Make that double for his mini-me enabler Sean McCaffrey,…
Penzone: Looking to put ol’ man Arpaio out to pastureI’ve been wanting to interview Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s two rivals in this year’s general election for a while now. So recently, Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman and I met separately with former Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Paul Penzone and Scottsdale Police Lieutenant…
More than four years after it was first filed, and more than three years since the American Civil Liberties Union lodged its amended complaint in the case, the big racial profiling lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio — Melendres v. Arpaio — will finally go to trial this summer. That is, if…
Despite Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio scoffing at the idea of President Obama not being “involved” in the protests against him, the conspiracy-theory alert has now been downgraded to “coincidence.”Last night, Arpaio was chatting up KPHO about the protests, and said, “If you don’t think the president is not involved…
People plan on protesting Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his immigration policies again today, and apparently he suspects President Obama might be behind it.Combining the fact that Arpaio headlined the lunacy of a “birther” investigation into Obama, and Arpaio’s trouble with the feds, it doesn’t sound that ridiculous.Except it really…
You’d think a practicing lawyer, former president of the Arizona Board of Regents, and erstwhile GOP gubernatorial candidate would possess a lick of sense. But Tucson attorney John Munger is proof positive that possession of a swell resume is no guarantee of intelligence.Munger is the fella who recently threatened legal…
For once, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he shouldn’t be the center of attention.Six young people — the oldest 23 years old — were arrested by Phoenix police Tuesday during a protest at Trevor Browne High School, rallying against Arpaio’s methods of immigration enforcement.To those six people — and…
The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa’s Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he’s running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him…
Less than 24 hours after we told you about the mailman claiming the “foreign” Barack Obama hinted to him about a “prearranged” presidency while hanging out at the Ayers residence, and just hours after we asked our readers if this whole thing could get any more loony, it happened again.Fresh…
Well, wouldn’t you know it — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation has gotten worse.Mailman Allen Hulton — who was only identified as a “retired government employee” at the “birther” press conference — has taken an oath swearing that Ayers’ mother told him about a “foreign, black” student at…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is featured in an editorial cartoon in the latest edition of GayCalgary, a magazine based Canada. Not long ago, he was the subject of a column in a London newspaper. Babeu is getting a lot of international press, but certainly not the flattering coverage he’d…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” squad continues to add to the absolute embarrassment of an “investigation” that the sheriff has ordered in his name.This time around, Arpaio’s conspiracy-nut buddies have released a signed affidavit from a retired mailman claiming the legitimacy of the Bill Ayers aspect of the “birther”…
A 13-year-old girl whose molestation claims were ignored by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t want to pursue her case, the girl’s mother tells New Times.We’re not disclosing their names. But we mentioned the Chicago-area mother and daughter in our February 16 feature article about how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s misguided…
Though he can’t boast much in the way of contributions, Scottsdale Police Lieutenant and sheriff’s office hopeful Mike Stauffer may have earned his place on the November general election ballot as an Independent.According to a press release issued today by the Stauffer camp, which you can read below, Stauffer has…
Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just encountered his first major obstacle in his revenge campaign for state Senate from Legislative District 25: Republican businessman Robert Worsley.Today, the wealthy Mesa executive has announced that he’ll be Pearce’s rival in the Republican primary for LD 25, effectively upstaging Pearce’s planned announcement…
Tempe’s Luna Fitness can keep its name and logo, thanks to a settlement last week in a federal trademark lawsuit against the small gym by Clif Bar, the maker of Luna Bar energy snacks.The gym’s been fighting the energy-bar giant in court for almost a year. As we reported last…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens will not go gently into that good night, like he should.Rather, Bivens seems hell-bent on an ugly contest in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this year. Already, he’s going negative on former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, the guy President Barack Obama and…
Republicans. I know some of them are sane here in Sand Land, but you wouldn’t know it by their wingnutty hijinks in the state Legislature this year, where they’ve placed a birther-bill, a late-term abortion ban and a state-funded border militia ahead of doing anything to aid the economy, bring…
Right-wing attempts to legitimize nativist border wacko Glenn Spencer persist in the strangest fashion.Today, the conservative website Right Side News reported on a letter from former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Munger to Luis Heredia, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party, demanding that Heredia issue a “letter of retraction” concerning statements…
