Ron Barber, a former aide to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was elected yesterday to finish the remainder of Giffords’ term.Giffords resigned from Congress earlier this year to focus on her recovery after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage outside a Tucson grocery store. Barber also was…
It’s been a year since the American Civil Liberties Union demanded immigration officials fix the conditions in which immigrants are detained at the Pinal County Jail, and if you ask the ACLU, it’s no better today.The ACLU’s now asking that Department of Homeland Security officials remove immigrants from the jail, or actually…
State Representative Ben Arredondo’s lawyers say they just got so much information from the government about what the FBI’s been up to that they’re going to need almost two extra months to deal with the stuff.After Arredondo was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, attempted extortion, and making false statements,…
Now that embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu isn’t running for Congress in Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District, the race is down to two Republicans — Congressman Paul Gosar, and state Senator Ron Gould…
Well, right after we tell you about Congressman Ben Quayle not trash-talking President Obama for once, we opened an email from the Congressman’s campaign about his first TV ad for this election cycle.This advertisement features the whole Ben Quayle family, including wife Tiffany any baby Evie. (No, they’re still not…
President Barack Obama signed the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012 into law yesterday, which raises the penalties for constructing tunnels from Mexico into the United States.Congressman Ben Quayle’s been pushing this bill for some time, and equally noteworthy, Quayle avoided talking smack on the president after he signed it.”I’m proud to…
A mostly online-based political-action committee is considering getting involved in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District primary between Republican Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.Test PAC loves the Internet. Quayle, several of the PAC’s members believe, does not.”Quayle co-sponsored [the Stop Online Piracy Act] before he withdrew his co-sponsorship,” Test PAC treasurer…
Former state Representative Richard Miranda is going to prison for a couple years for treating his charity to help out the impoverished as the Richard Miranda Wants More Money Fund.Miranda, a 55-year-old Democrat, won a 27-month trip to prison this morning for stealing from his charity, and then evading the…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett officially has become that kid no one wanted to play with because he just made up the rules to games as he went along.Bennett, as you may recall, decided to play ball with the “birther” crowd, taking the “extra step” to verify President Barack Obama’s…
A federal judge is being asked for a second time to order that records in the criminal case of Arizona Legislator Ben Arredondo that refer to other investigations will be kept secret.This seems to be more proof that while the feds probably were happy to nail Arredondo for his alleged corrupt acts, the…
Yesterday, we told you about Scottsdale gun-law author Alan Korwin, who claims to believe the word “birther” is a derogatory term “equivalent of the ‘N’ word.”This claim somehow made it onto the websites of both the East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic.”‘Birther,’ used by the media with impunity, is a…
Disgraced Democratic-turned-Independent ex-state Representative Daniel Patterson isn’t making an official end to his political career.Patterson took to Twitter to say he’s not running again for his former seat, based in Tucson, but ends with “2014?”That might be a tough one, since Patterson resigned a bit after an ethics committee report…
State Representative Ben Arredondo pleaded not guilty (as expected) yesterday to charges of bribery, fraud, attempted extortion and making false statements.A motion to keep evidence in the case secret — which revealed “other investigations,” which are “both closed and ongoing” — was denied.It’s likely that the protective order on the…
According to a Scottsdale gun-law author, the word “birther” is a derogatory term “equivalent of the ‘N’ word.” Perhaps it’s not surprising to hear something a bit nuts coming from the author of After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?, but Alan Korwin actually got this…
The Kingman Police Department wrapped up a three-month investigation into heroin trafficking last week, leading to the arrests of five people — two of them children of a state legislator.Michael Randolph Goodale, 27, and Stephanie Lynn Goodale, 31 — both of whom call Republican state Representative Doris Goodale “mom” –…
Ogden’s Own Distillery, based in Utah, has been making some big news lately after one of its products — Five Wives Vodka — was banned from being sold in Idaho by the state’s liquor division.In a letter to the company’s distributor in Idaho, the liquor board wrote that its members…
Here’s an odd advertisement from the Barack Obama campaign — why can’t Mitt Romney just be like Arizona’s own Senator John McCain?The video, as you can see above, shows McCain during the 2008 campaign trail, not hitting the meatballs served to him about Obama being the scariest man on the…
Geraldo Rivera reminded us yesterday that he’s still alive, after telling conspiracy-theorist Lord Christopher Monckton that he and the rest of the “birthers” are “all smoking crack together.”Monckton, not surprisingly, was just in Surprise on Monday to talk to the “Surprise Tea Party Patriots,” with donations going to Maricopa County…
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has denied the state of Arizona’s motions to dismiss a legal challenge to SB 1070 by Friendly House, a social-service agency for immigrants.The Friendly House lawsuit is a separate action from the challenge to SB 1070 by the U.S. Justice Department being considered by the…
For anyone still trying to vote in the 2004 election for Tempe mayor, we’d like to inform you that Hugh Hallman is no longer endorsed by “Tempe firefighters and police.”Sure, Hallman was elected mayor in 2004, but why not hit him with a complaint while he’s on his way out…
Congressman Trent Franks — the “self-appointed Mayor” of Washington D.C., as an area advocacy group calls him — had his office protested last week, as his new-found “constituents” aren’t quite happy with the job he’s doing.As you may recall, a group called “DC Vote” isn’t quite pleased Franks — the…
The Center for Arizona Policy has offered a response to the Internal Revenue Service complaint filed against it — claiming the organization doesn’t meet tax-exemption requirements — and that response includes the exact three things we expected: they’re atheists, homosexuals, and wrong.The Secular Coalition for Arizona and No Longer Silent,…
