While Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne recovers from a four-night hospital visit for what his spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham says was a “minor procedure,” his re-election campaign is dead in the water. According to recently-filed documents with the Arizona Secretary of State, the embattled AG, who is facing active investigations from…
President Barack Obama, whose administration has already deported more than 2 million people since he took office, wants to send back children coming to the U.S. from Central America as soon as earthly possible. Today, the White House made public a letter to Congressional leaders seeing additional funds to deal…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s chief deputy and office hatchet man Eric “Rick” Bistrow has farmed out an internal investigation into allegations made by ex-AG employee Sarah Beattie to two attorneys who have contributed to Horne’s campaign in the past. In a letter dated June 18, Bistrow formally appointed Republican…
A sort of moral sickness has gripped this country in the face of the unprecedented number of minors crossing the border in Texas, one that manifests itself in panic, falsehoods, sheer stupidity, and knee-jerk nativist hatred. In Lawrenceville, Virginia (population 1,300), residents recently pitched a fit when they found out…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who literally may end up in handcuffs this year depending on the outcomes of various criminal probes into his scummy activities, is using a photo of migrant children detained in Texas to raise money for his re-election campaign. In a mass e-mail sent out Tuesday…
What does an aged blowhard like Sheriff Joe Arpaio know about the humanitarian crisis involving thousands of children from Central America crossing the border into the United States? Not a damn thing. Arpaio proved this categorically on the conservative site Newsmax TV in a recent interview with washed-up former Republican…
I officially take back everything bad I’ve said about this state’s Clean Elections laws. Well, almost. Because there’s no way in hell that a loser like disbarred ex-county attorney Andrew Thomas should be awarded three-quarters of a million dollars in public cash, as could happen during this election cycle. Still,…
It turns out that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Cold Case Posse can use the Sheriff’s Office headquarters address in corporate filings, even though the posse’s based somewhere else. Rebecca Wilder, spokeswoman for the Arizona Corporation Commission, checked in with the agency’s staff this morning at the request of New Times…
The ultimate Obama birthers, the members of the county’s Cold Case Posse, listed a bogus address in filings with the state and now may have their corporation dissolved. Arizona Corporation Commission online records show the Cold Case Posse corporation, a nonprofit, is in “delinquent” status. It has 60 days to…
What did Arizona’s political leaders learn from the debacle over Arizona’s ethnic-cleansing legislation, Senate Bill 1070? They learned that hysteria, misinformation, and grandstanding work, as far as garnering attention, and that saying the dumbest thing you can is often surest route to getting your mug on Fox News. But wait,…
Florence officials continue to deny allegations of corruption and abuse of power leveled against the town by two former detectives — Walt Hunter and Jarris Varnrobinson. The two police officers, who worked as detectives with the Florence Police Department until they were fired in December 2012, filed a suit in…
Update: One day after this blog item was published, the Superintendent formally admitted that he is the author of the posts listed below. Arizona Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal has no problemo shilling for private schools in annoying robocalls to unsuspecting citizens, but if you call him at home to ask…
Talk about what Catholics call an “occasion of sin”. . . on Friday, the MCSO announced that it had staged yet another worksite raid, this one supposedly the 83rd since Sheriff Joe Arpaio started wasting taxpayer cash on them instead after going after murderers, child rapists, gang-bangers, and other so-called…
More than a year before his alleged suicide by hanging on May 8, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Detective Charley Armendariz reached out to Phoenix human-rights activist Lydia Guzman, telling her he had information to share, and implicating MCSO supervisors in illegal activity. Guzman says Armendariz approached her on February 28,…
The most revealing part of Phoenix filmmaker Randy Murray’s recent documentary The Joe Show was a strategy meeting during Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 2012 re-election campaign that included Arpaio, his top flack, Lisa Allen, Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, and campaign manager Chad Willems. The group huddled in the back of a…
Standing in the lobby of the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, having just dropped off more than 14,500 signatures to place his name on the ballot for Attorney General, former Arizona gaming director Mark Brnovich exuded the kind of confidence you’d expect from a candidate facing a primary opponent mired…
If there never had been a monitor appointed by Judge G. Murray Snow in the ACLU’s big civil rights case, Melendres v. Arpaio, it’s unlikely that we would know as much as we do about late MCSO Detective Ramon Charley Armendariz. And yet, Armendariz, who the Sheriff’s Office says took…
So what do you do when you have the FBI breathing down your neck (again), you’ve been ordered to give back $400,000 in illegal campaign contributions (again), and allegations of your using the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as your re-election headquarters have been so well documented that both conservative U.S…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and his surrogates have been doing their darnedest to drag former AG staffer Sarah Beattie through the mud, in an obvious attempt to deflect attention from the mountain of evidence provided by Beattie, showing that Horne has been running his re-election campaign from the AG’s…
Guess who’s having the worst week ever? Add to Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s many woes — including dueling scandals, local and federal law enforcement probes, and a $400K ad buy by a conservative group demanding his resignation — a poll of likely GOP voters, showing Horne trailing his primary…
Spare the rod, spoil the Horne-dog. Arizona Public Integrity Alliance, the conservative group Horne unsuccessfully SLAPP-sued for defamation, is giving Attorney General Tom Horne the first of many birchings he’ll no doubt be receiving this year, in this new ad recounting his vehicular hit and run back in 2012, with…
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has rejected the findings of an administrative law judge in the campaign finance case against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, and reinstated her original order, demanding that Horne and AG outreach director Kathleen Winn reimburse donors $400,000. In a decision filed Wednesday afternoon, Polk concluded…
