Four hundred clams. That’s what some lobbyists may have paid to attend a fundraiser held for embattled state Senate President Russell Pearce Wednesday night at Alexi’s Grill in Phoenix.By my estimation, there were about 30 or 40 attendees at the height of the action. If they all paid to get…
If the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office ever offers you a “meal of [your] choice,” what it really means is a meal you can get at a drive-thru…
By this time tomorrow, county jail inmate Michael Wunsch won’t just be sitting in Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail — chances are he’ll be shitting his brains out, too.You see, Wunsch is the winner of the first ever Joe Arpaio Inmate Coloring Contest. The grand prize for such a prestigious…
Though he has until September 9 to do so, Mesa Republican Jerry Lewis will file signatures with the Arizona Secretary of State tomorrow to place his name on the November 8 recall ballot in Legislative District 18.To formally square off against state Senate President Russell Pearce, Lewis needs 621 qualified…
If you need a sign of state Senate President Russell Pearce’s desperation, look no further than above: one of the placards sprouting up around Mesa, smearing the recall effort, Citizens for a Better Arizona co-founder Randy Parraz, and Pearce challenger Jerry Lewis.The sign, the product of Citizens Who Oppose the…
There’s been yet another development in the saga of loserdom being perpetuated by state Senate President Russell Pearce’s attorney Lisa Hauser in the legal challenge to the recall.Today the Arizona Supreme Court declined to review Hauser’s appeal of Superior Court Judge Hugh Hegyi’s recent decision dismissing her lawsuit.Hauser was seeking…
Republic Monetary Exchange, a prominent Phoenix gold-selling firm, has been sued by an investor whose role in the firm had originally been kept hidden. The investor, Sherman Unkefer, happens to be an old buddy of Republic Monetary’s ex-con CEO, Jim Clark. The two previously were leaders of North American Coin…
I’ve not known the local Libertarian crowd to be overly fond of state Senate President Russell Pearce, which makes me wonder why one of their tribe appears to be jumping into the recall campaign in Legislative District 18. A move that will inevitably dilute the vote.The guy’s name is Michael…
DeeDee Blase, founder of Somos Republicans and the driving force behind the Tequila Party, takes political flak from both the right and the left. Democrats suspect her, and extremist Republicans loathe her for her calling out the GOP on the immigration issue.Whatever you may think of her, she’s essentially a…
At this point, I’m really beginning to wonder if state Senate President Russell Pearce is a sadomasochist. The sadist part is easy to see. But the masochism becomes more evident with each new legal maneuver by Lisa Hauser, the attorney working on behalf of Pearce and Pearce’s pal Franklin Bruce Ross,…
Superior Court Judge Hugh Hegyi just issued a ruling in state Senate President Russell Pearce’s legal challenge to his recall, dismissing the complaint brought by the legal beagle working on his behalf, Lisa Hauser.Hegyi agreed with the defendants — the Arizona Secretary of State, Maricopa County Elections, and Citizens for…
Tommy Cattey, the Mesa resident who had filed paperwork to campaign against state Senate President Russell Pearce in the upcoming Legislative District 18 recall election, has dropped out of the race and endorsed fellow contender Jerry Lewis.Cattey, who made his announcement at the Wright House in Mesa this morning, told…
Funny thing about the ruling Republican caste here in Sand Land: they like to give themselves meaningless awards that look legitimate to the unskeptical eye, in a bald attempt to trick the electorate into thinking that they’re a bunch of good guys and gals.Case in point, the “Friend of the…
The $102,000 bill for the job of rooting out high-level corruption at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office included $351 for a five-and-a-half-hour meeting in January between an investigator and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But New Times has learned that a transcript of the interview is nowhere to be found among more…
If I didn’t know that his fundraising appeals are written by the usual political hacks, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest e-mail blast would make me doubt the man’s sanity.Not that there isn’t plenty of reason to doubt it otherwise, but an e-mail blast sent out yesterday signed by Joe rails about…
As you may have heard, the son of Dave Hendershott, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s shamed former chief deputy, was stopped over the weekend for his second (alleged) DUI in two weeks.The DUI stop was made about 10 a.m. Sunday.Jeffrey Hendershott, 29, is yet to be charged — charging, Phoenix…
Phoenix police confirm to New Times that for the second time in two weeks, Jeffrey Hendershott, the son of ousted former MCSO Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, was arrested for DUI.The kicker: the DUI happened at 10:30 in the morning.According to the Phoenix Police Department, the younger Hendershott was stopped Sunday…
The product of some right-wing wag or the latest example of dirty pool from the camp of state Senator Russell Pearce? I’ll opt for a little of both, as the phony Twitter account under the name of Legislative District 18 recall candidate Jerry Lewis is just the sort of sophomoric…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Mikey1969, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest. On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo. We picked the five…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio yesterday announced that it was “about time” immigration activist Sal Reza be convicted of a crime for protests held in opposition to SB 1070 last year.He also had the gall to say the whole protest was a publicity stunt.”The protest was staged to receive national…
Most press releases we receive from law enforcement agencies are to alert the media of a crime that was committed, or a case that was solved — ya know, things law enforcement agencies are actually supposed to do.From the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, however, the vast majority of the press…
State Senate President Russell Pearce was a no-show today to the hearing that could, hypothetically, save his hide in the upcoming November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18. Ditto the official plaintiff in the legal challenge to the recall: Mesa resident Franklin Bruce Ross, who also had better sheep to…
