It’s not lookin’ good for Maricopa County’s corrupt top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and that bottomless pit of iniquity known as the MCSO.You’d think things were bad enough with a federal grand jury probing the sheriff’s office on criminal abuse of power allegations, and intertwining investigations by the FBI, the…
In a startling turn of events, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cut ties with the local nativist organization Ban Amnesty Now over a controversial e-mail that many Latino and liberal groups assumed was a voter suppression effort. As I detailed in a blog post yesterday, the e-mail claimed (falsely) that illegal aliens are poised…
Phoenix civil rights activist Salvador Reza filed suit two days ago in federal court against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and several high-ranking Arpaio henchmen over Reza’s false arrest on July 30 by a pack of MCSO thugs. Reza and his lawyer Stephen Montoya held a press conference in Montoya’s offices…
***Please see my update on Arpaio’s breaking ties with BAN, here*** The paranoia has been reaching a fever-pitch both in and over an e-mail recently sent out by the local nativist organization Ban Amnesty Now, which claims that “illegals” are looking to steal the upcoming midterm elections. The e-mail BAN…
The anti-Horne ad causing all the hubbub, currently in heavy rotation On Wednesday, a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge denied Republican state attorney general candidate Tom Horne’s request for a restraining order against a controversial attack ad now running against him. The ad, which is paid for by the DC-based…
To borrow a phrase from that great modern philosopher Flavor Flav, when it comes to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s recent ruling on Prop 200, don’t believe the hype.Because hype, fake outrage and panic is basically what we’re getting from right-wingers and Republican politicos about the court’s striking down…
The man who shot Liberty Valance? Close. The man who’s taking on Pearce in LD18 I’ll have more to say about Democrat Andrew Sherwood later this week, but here’s a preview. Sherwood’s going toe-to-toe with neo-Nazi-hugging, Republican state Senator Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18. That is, he would be…
Tom Horne has an A-bomb dropped on him in this latest TV hit pieceIn the annals of negative campaign advertising, this new anti-Tom Horne ad from the Washington, D.C.-based Committee for Justice and Fairness could win a gold medal in the below-the-belt category.In it, Horne, Republican candidate for Arizona Attorney…
Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was in town briefly on Friday to give the keynote address at a Tea Party rally at the state capitol. That, of course, meant there were news cameras around, which usually means one thing here in the Valley: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is…
If you need an incentive to cast a ballot, here it isArizona Attorney General Terry Goddard may not be the perfect gubernatorial candidate, but compared to his Republican rival Governor Jan Brewer, he’s a freakin’ Nobel Prize laureate. It’s a real sin that the political climate of this state is…
Since the indictment of Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman on a second degree murder charge in the slaying of south Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez, there’s been much speculation about the so-called “Brady list” that he and hundreds of other Valley cops are on. The list is named for the 1963 U.S…
So was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce’s press conference yesterday announcing that he’ll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantee of birthright citizenship?Well, you might have been had you read an October 10, Associated Press piece discussing…
The first thing that sprang to mind when I got the above flier in my e-mail in-box announcing that “Bush’s Brain” Karl Rove will be speaking at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce’s “Phoenix Forum” series, was, um, what, you mean David Duke was unavailable?Sure, that’s a slight to David Duke,…
Andrei Cherny’s ad attacking Doug Ducey has the ex-Cold Stone CEO playing defense My head’s been so buried in statistics for an upcoming feature that I missed a news conference last week for former Clinton advisor and Democratic contender for Arizona State Treasurer Andrei Cherny. In it, the Cherny camp…
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but do you think the mainstream media’s finally beginning to “get it” when it comes to our corrupt top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio? CNN didn’t exactly lead last night with the above piece on the federal grand jury inquiry into Arpaio, his former fellow…
A Guadalupe man run over by a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop last year will receive $600,000 in a settlement of his lawsuit.Armando L. Nido didn’t pull over for deputy James Carey, (see our post about Nido’s notice of claim), so Carey didn’t stop for Nido. He…
Feathered Bastard will go dark for about a week as I work on a larger project that requires my undivided attention.Unless something pops up that I absolutely must blog, there will likely be no new blogs on FB until Monday, October 11. Sources are still free to contact me with info,…
Some of what Sanchez said that sunk his dinghyCNN’s firing of Rick Sanchez over some controversial comments made on a satellite radio show is asinine, short-sighted and hypocritical in the extreme.Yeah, he called The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart a “bigot,” but then he withdrew the comment later during the same…
A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that — aside from the guy being naked — is he was an inmate at the jail who’d just scaled five razor-wire fences and his running naked through the…
The Phoenix Police Department has finally issued a press release in the racially-motivated shooting of Kelly Jaeger, a Caucasian woman who was walking late at night in Phoenix’s Palma Park when she and her African-American friend Jeffery Wellmaker were reportedly accosted by a bald, white tattooed man. The man challenged…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office began a press release about an escaped inmate this afternoon with the comical question “Herculean inmate? Or Darwin award?” Perhaps the questions should have been “how the hell does a guy scale five razor-wire fences without anyone noticing?”Allow us to explain:This morning, around 7:30, a…
I’ve blogged till I’m blue in the face about the endless stream of whoppers concerning illegal immigration flowing from the pie-hole of racist state Senator Russell Pearce, the main sponsor of Arizona’s “breathing while brown law” SB 1070. One of Pearce’s favorite falsehoods, a phony stat he’s sputtered on numerous occasions, like he…
