The Capitol Times’ Luigi del Puerto is reporting that the plot to cut a $260,000 check to recalled, disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce remains alive at the state Legislature.I’ve heard the votes are not there in the Senate, but, hell, ya never know. Also, it’s not in the budget,…
Eat your heart out, Russ, if you can stand the taste of coalHere’s an incredibly positive new video from the camp of entrepreneur Bob Worsley, candidate for state Senate in Legislative District 25, who is destined to triumph over Mesa’s hillbilly hatemonger, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce.Love the theme…
Gilman televises the revolution, or part of it…Lordy, I’ve had enough of neo-Nazi hugger, 12-point loser, and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s gorilla mug. No doubt many of you have as well. But until the wingnuts and Tea Party idgits in this state run screaming at the sight of him,…
“The Governor has not proposed any such reimbursement, and it is not currently in the budget that she and legislative leaders have agreed upon.”Of course, that’s not a commitment to oppose it, should an amendment be tacked on.In any case, Pearce clearly believes he deserves the cash. Last night, Pearce was…
Remember when I informed you of the trial balloon being floated by toadies of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, lickspittles who long to give their lord and master more than $260,000 of taxpayer funds because he had to endure a recall election, one he lost by a humiliating 12…
Lots of response to this week’s cover story on Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, including a bunch of e-mails from folks who were appalled that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu failed to “man up” and return a phone call from his then-close colleague, Dever, in late February after the proverbial…
While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch’s dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land was…
UPDATE 4/26: The settlement has been approved, according to the AP.UPDATE: Judge Wake issued an order saying the parties will meet on Monday to discuss moving the trial date to the week after the board of supervisors meeting.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced today that lawyers agreed to a $175,000…
The former head of the Mesa Police Association, Javier Fabian Cota, accuses San Diego police in a federal lawsuit of violating his rights during a June 4 arrest for alleged public drunkenness.Cota’s story of gettomg thrown in a drunk tank that night, which resulted in a demotion and pay cut…
There’s one general conclusion I have after reading and re-reading the transcript of Wednesday’s oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over Senate Bill 1070: Latinos and their allies cannot rely on the federal government or the courts for a long term solution to the overt bigotry that spawned SB…
It’s like 2010 all over again, with the Phoenix-based civil rights group Puente leading an anti-SB 1070 protest with a “march route [that] exposes collaborators in Arpaio’s human rights crisis.”As you can see on the map, the demonstration begins at 3 p.m. at Phoenix’s Civic Space Park, 424 North Central…
Pearce confronts DREAM Act students in 2010I’ll have more to say soon about recalled former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Tuesday appearance at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 1070. There was some good stuff in the nearly two hour donnybrook, especially from U.S. Senator from Illinois…
We almost forgot about when the “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent — known in more recent days simply as a madman — was deputized by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Turns out, Nugent’s still a “Special Deputy” to Arpaio, a sheriff’s office spokesman confirms to New Times…
In case you missed it, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told the Associated Press over the weekend that 500 illegal immigrants were arrested by his office “just for spite” after the civil rights investigation into the sheriff was launched.Of course, Arpaio was just kidding about the statements he made during…
File this one under “outrage du jour”: Dennis Wilenchik, the former special prosecutor whose runaway investigation of New Times resulted in the wrongful arrests of Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey and VVM CEO Jim Larkin, has been appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to sit on Arizona’s Real Estate Advisory…
Political spin is one thing. Politicians do it all the time — the classic distorting the truth beyond recognition so long as there is some nugget of truth that remains. Paul Babeu, who is running for a seat in Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District, isn’t wasting time on that anymore. In…
Of all the trial balloons in the history of politics, this one most deserves to be shot down, stomped, incinerated, and spat on, with the remains dumped in the nearest landfill to rot.Seems there’s a cadre of hardcore Russell Pearce-worshippers in the state legislature that want to give the recalled…
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better than screw-loose GOP state Senator Sylvia Allen suddenly finding the Navajo County Board of Supervisors a more attractive sphere of influence than the lege’s upper house, along comes this beautiful news from a recent edition of the Capitol Times’ Yellow Sheet.Dam…
This week Attorney General Tom Horne paid a visit to recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now radio show, where he regaled Pearce’s tens of listeners with his heroic legal work of late, despite Pearce’s incessant efforts to turn the conversation back to his ridiculous “buy-cott” (read, “boycott”)…
When recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now announced a “buy-cott” of New Times’ advertisers, I quipped that it was like being boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan. An exaggeration, to be sure, but not by as much as you might think.Take for example the comments of BAN…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio put out a press release to say deputies found a lot of weed last night — Steven Seagal not included this time.In fact, the press release says deputies have “arrested more than 20 illegal aliens and seized nearly two tons of marijuana” in the last…
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld — in part — Arizona’s voter-approved 2004 law requiring voters to show proof of citizenship before receiving a ballot.The Appeals Court en banc panel mostly shot down the challenges to the law, which had itself been upheld in Arizona U.S. District…
