Earth to Joe: You look like you should be in a morgue in this, your worst ad yet Sheriff Joe’s Democratic challenger Paul Penzone is gaining on the aged autocrat, with a new poll by Switchboard Communications (commissioned by the Penzone camp, natch) showing Penzone within 4.7 points of Arpaio…
For the second time, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office put out a press release to complain that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “refused” to take custody of a suspected illegal immigrant.The story from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is that the Human Smuggling Unit pulled over a car, and the driver didn’t have…
Does Sheriff Joe Arpaio really think it’s unnecessary to debate his opponent, Paul Penzone, or is the Sheriff…chicken?According to Randy Parraz and Citizens for Better Arizona members who brought live chickens to Arpaio’s office on the 19th floor of the Wells Fargo Building in Phoenix, the Sheriff’s chicken…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s insatiable desire to stand in the limelight has once again bitten him in the keister. This time, he latched onto the death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie as a way to get center stage and deliver his anti-President Obama sentiments. See also: Babeu Blasted…
Republican-turned-Independent candidate for sheriff Mike Stauffer may have almost no money, little support and may be regarded as a massive joke by nearly everyone with a lick of sense in Maricopa County. Nevertheless, he soon could be getting some indirect assistance from a new independent expenditure committee, one trumpeted by…
A political superstar and one in the making are on the bill this Wednesday, 8 p.m., at ASU’s Sun Devil Performance Lawn. That’s when former President Bill Clinton will be in Tempe to stump for fellow Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate Rich Carmona. See also: -Paul Penzone Can Beat Arpaio,…
More than 100 members of Adios Arpaio, the union-funded movement of Latino high-school students looking to drive Sheriff Joe Arpaio from power, rallied on the lawn of the state House in Phoenix on Thursday afternoon to announce that they’re closing in on surpassing their goal of registering 30,000 new county…
Wednesday’s report from Biscobing… Kudos to ABC 15 and its reporter Dave Biscobing for the yeomanlike work they’ve done in bringing to Phoenix viewers the civil trial in Pinal County over the MCSO jail death of diabetic mom Deborah Braillard. See also: -What’s Mom Worth?: When a Woman Became Deathly…
Joe practically begs viewers to let him keep his job in this new ad Sheriff Joe looks like a worried old man in his new TV commercial, the latest in a series of pricey ads that his re-election campaign has been inundating county boob tubes with. “Despite all the criticism,”…
The media’s been hot for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s head over allegations that during the 2010 campaign he was improperly involved in supporter-turned-staffer Kathleen Winn’s independent expenditure committee Business Leaders for Arizona. See also: -Tom Horne’s Alleged Hit-and-Run at an Address Listed for Carmen Chenal (w/UPDATE) -Bill Montgomery Takes…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s big press conference this morning alleged illegal coordination between Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and an independent expenditure committee during his 2010 campaign. See also: -Attorney General Horne Hired Carmen Chenal to a Highly Paid Top Post — ‘Cause She’s His Goomba -Tom Horne’s Pal…
CBS 5 – KPHO See also: -Joe Arpaio’s Deputy Told to Work Fraud Cases Instead of Child Rape Crime -Joe Arpaio’s Sex Crimes Debacle Eviscerated in New Video by Devin Fleenor -Joe Arpaio’s Replacement, Paul Penzone, Blasts Sheriff’s Handling of Sex Crimes in New Ad -Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems is as shameless as you’d expect a guy to be who’s funneling suckers’ campaign contributions through the bank account of his company, Summit Consulting Group. See also: -Joe Arpaio’s Pink Underwear Torn to Shreds in Hilarious New Video from CPLE -Russell Pearce’s Chad…
Peoria resident Richard Maloney is upset that a California woman told police he’d threatened her and was in the Hells Angels, so he’s suing her for $100,000. Maloney filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday, acting as his own attorney. In it, he states that Lois Kropp of Oceano,…
I’ve rarely read a legal document so delightful. The one I’ve just received from the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct indicates that Lester Pearce, former Justice of the Peace and brother of recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, now faces various charges of ethical violations, in part, because he stumped…
Did anyone else get the question to this answer right on Jeopardy on Tuesday evening?…
CPLE scores with this animated skewering of Sheriff Joe Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement, the bi-partisan group headed by Democratic Arizona state Representative Ruben Gallego and Republican operative Carlos Sierra, have just released the hilarious, blistering animated video above, which takes Sheriff Joe Arpaio to task for his unnatural obsession…
Elias Johnson, a public information officer for the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, was placed on paid administrative leave on Tuesday…
Joe’s latest: he loves dogs, kiddies can go pound sand, though Sorry to ruin your breakfast, your lunch and your day, but this is the most recent commercial from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s re-election campaign that’s guaranteed to induce gastrointestinal distress in anyone with more than half a lick of sense…
When I heard Spawn creator Todd McFarlane was doing some art for sheriff’s candidate Paul Penzone to raffle off as a fundraiser, I didn’t realize he was working on a piece featuring Penzone as a Captain America-esque superhero. But, hey, it works. Penzone may not be quite this ripped, but…
With the kind of spirited cheering and clapping you might hear at a high school basketball game, about 100 mostly Hispanic students from the Adios Arpaio movement declared their endorsement of former Phoenix Police sergeant Paul Penzone for Maricopa County sheriff. See also: -Joe Arpaio’s Doom: “Adios Arpaio” Claims 20,000…
UPDATE: Scottsdale Police Department Has Quite a Shooting Problem, ACLU Alleges The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona will be filing a lawsuit against the City of Scottsdale, related to Scottsdale Police Officer James Peters’ sixth kill on the job.The officer-misconduct lawsuit will be based on the fatal shooting of…
