A federal jury yesterday handed a guilty verdict to Rick Renzi’s accountant, Dwayne Lequire, for embezzling $796,000 from the former Congressman’s company — and conspiring with Renzi to do it. He faces up to 85 years in prison when he’s sentenced on October 18. The disgraced, former Republican Congressman from Tucson still faces…
Change his name to Dunn-zo because Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn is out. Dunn pulled the plug on his campaign for Maricopa County Attorney yesterday claiming that since former County Attorney Andrew Thomas no longer ran the show, the office was back on the right track. Check out part of his announcement after the jump…
Chandler Mayor Boyd Dunn announced this morning that he’s pulling the plug on his campaign to become the next Maricopa County Attorney — news from the county attorney’s race that’s apparently Arizona Republic-worthy.Dunn issued a press release this morning basically saying he was dropping out because he no longer felt…
A recent headline in the right-wing blog Sonoran Alliance that claims the Arizona Republic has a “blackout” of coverage for the 2010 race for Maricopa County Attorney seems to be accurate. An archive search shows the state’s largest newspaper has written almost nothing about the Republican candidates’ competitive race for…
If you drive a Toyota Prius, don’t be too surprised if on your drive to work today a passing driver tells you to go fuck yourself. Today is National “Fuck Prius Day,” when those who don’t drive the fuel-friendly cars of the future — and think those who do need to…
It’s now officially official: the federal government is suing Arizona over SB 1070, the state’s controversial new immigration law. In case you missed it, which seems nearly impossible, the federal government filed a lawsuit yesterday claiming the new statute violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause…
Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo pulled his endorsement of Tom Horne for Arizona Attorney General today, saying he now supports Andrew Thomas. The anti-illegal-immigrant (or just anti-immigrant) Republican hardliner says in a news release by Thomas that he simply didn’t do his research before lending his name to Horne’s campaign. Horne…
If the whole U.S. Senate thing doesn’t work out for former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, he should find some solace in the fact that his work as a TV pitchman — namely his pimping of “horse-love repellent” in a John McCain campaign ad — is getting noticed by some of the…
Today will likely be the day.The Washington Post is claiming this morning that the Justice Department will file a lawsuit to try and stop Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law as early as today…
Since our earlier post about a video of a “man-hug” between Senator John McCain and convicted ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein, McCain’s campaign got back to us and makes a valid point: John McCain does not have ESP.”Senator McCain has many admirable qualities, but unfortunately the power to see into the future…
When you live in a glass house, you shouldn’t throw stones The Hayworth and McCain campaigns should take that to heart. Enter J.D. Hayworth and his new rock to hurl at Senator John McCain: a video of the senator in a man-tastic embrace with a convicted ponzi-schemer.Check out the video after…
Senator John McCain’s latest Web ad’s getting a lot of attention, and some say it went a little over the line.The ad spoofs J.D. Hayworth’s gig as an infomercial pitchman by portraying the Senate hopeful as a spokesman for an array of products that seem to mock every stupid thing…
The fight over SB 1070 is shaping up to be a legal battle for the ages, and today the American Bar Association joined in the melee.The ABA submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. District Court in Arizona recommending a preliminary injunction of SB 1070 until the law’s constitutionality can be…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth is on the verge of achieving infomercial super-stardom after his uber-public pimping of a company promising “free government money” and a new ad from John McCain’s campaign.No, Hayworth didn’t actually make the latest ad — it’s a spoof created by the McCain peeps — but it’s…
Yesterday, federal officials met with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Attorney General Terry Goddard and promised that 524 of the pledged 1,200 National Guard troops would be deployed to the Arizona/ Mexico border by August or September. Senator John McCain, however, isn’t satisfied and claims the federal government is about 1,200…
Federal officials met with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Attorney General Terry Goddard today and promised that 524 of the pledged 1,200 National Guard troops would be deployed to the Arizona/ Mexico border by August or September — but Senator John McCain isn’t satisfied.Following the announcement, McCain issued a statement claiming the…
Conservative crybaby Glenn Beck was at it again today, bashing Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth on his radio program for his appearance as a pitchman for a now-bankrupt company that offered tutorials on how to get your hands on “free government money.””He could sell tiny classified ads out of his one-bedroom…
If you’d told us three months ago that a candidate for any office in any galaxy in the universe would want Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s endorsement, we’d have said that the candidate was trying to lose the election.Things have changed for Jan (who earlier this year was one of the most unpopular…
Big ups to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, who last week sent a map to a member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors who seems to think Arizona isn’t a border state, yet found it within her jurisdiction to bash our new immigration law. Think what you want about SB 1070, but when you discuss it, it’s…
It’s on!Senator John McCain’s campaign announced today that “The Maverick” has agreed to requests made by his opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth, to debate — thus ending the longstanding “debate over debates.”…
Three of Arizona’s four Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate have been busy scheduling a series of debates set to begin June 9. But one, former Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, hasn’t agreed to take part — at least he hasn’t let the other candidates know if he’ll take part…
J.D. Hayworth’s campaign is in trouble. Yesterday, Hayworth was forced to admit that his starring in an infomercial for a now-bankrupt company promising to teach customers how to get their hands on “free government money” was “a mistake.”…
