Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell issued a clarifying statement Tuesday regarding an erroneous report on early ballots by CBS 5/KPHO’s Donna Rossi last week. That report misquoted Purcell as saying that having an early ballot in one’s possession is a Class 5 felony. After I wrote a blog item pointing…
The family of U.S. Army veteran Marty Atencio is filing suit today in Maricopa County Superior Court over his brutal death late last year in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail. Atencio, who suffered from mental illness, was off his meds and wandering the streets in a daze on December…
Sadly, confusion still reigns after CBS 5’s recent report on early ballots and the volunteers from different groups picking them up, in which this legal, and very common activity was labeled, wrongly, as illegal. CBS 5 reporter Donna Rossi incorrectly paraphrased the remarks of Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell as…
So why can’t a man be prettier than a woman? Look at Brad Pitt. Leonardo DiCaprio. Johnny Depp. David Beckham. And, um, Congressman Jeff Flake. Not that Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik is in their league. I mean, he’s no Joe Dana. If you ask me, you folks who were outraged…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s financial disclosure forms for his re-election campaign show an ocean of greenbacks flowing into the coffers of Summit Consulting, the firm owned by local Republican consultant Chad Willems. Willems is one of the political geniuses who ran former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s disastrous 2011 recall election…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest “employer sanctions operation”/illegal-immigrant roundup resulted in the arrest of about one-quarter of a Glendale small business’ employees yesterday.Sonoran Concrete was the small business raided in operation number 68, and 18 people were arrested for allegedly using false identifications, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.See also:-Joe…
Elected on pink boxers? This ain’t 2008, Joe. The independent expenditure committee Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement has a couple of killer new anti-Sheriff Joe Arpaio ads running on local cable and broadcast Television. See also: -Penzone Benefits from Arpaio’s Latest Attack Ad -Paul Penzone Can Beat Arpaio, If He…
CBS 5 – KPHO ***Please see update below*** In an odd segment that aired last night on CBS 5/KPHO, reporter Donna Rossi told viewers that Maricopa County’s elections department had received complaints regarding door-knockers representing themselves as county workers, offering to pick up folks’ early ballots. Rossi reported that the…
If, for some reason, anyone needs further evidence of how bogus Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation is, here you go.Orly Taitz, perhaps one of the most well-known challengers to the eligibility of President Obama, is still trying to contest the issue in court, and tells New Times that Arpaio refuses…
ABC 15 and star reporter Dave Biscobing have the scoop again on the civil trial in Pinal County regarding the 2005 wrongful death of diabetic mom Deborah Braillard, who was denied medical treatment while in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s gulags and later died because of that lack of treatment. Earlier this…
Paul Penzone’s secret weapon, one not captured by Republican pollsters: Adios Arpaio Before you review the results of two new GOP polls that have Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the lead against his Democratic challenger Paul Penzone, ask yourself this question: Is Arpaio acting like a front-runner way ahead of his…
What do you do when you’re Sheriff Joe Arpaio and your name is practically a byword for the neglect of sex crime cases involving women and children? You use your political fundraising machine to shill for a national nonprofit that benefits abused kids, sort of like a petroleum company donating…
Sadly, I am away till Monday on a trip planned long ago, and will not be able to blog regularly till I’m back in town. For continuing coverage of Paul Penzone’s bid to replace our octogenarian autocrat, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, please consult my colleague Matt Hendley’s reports on New Times’…
Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu teamed up with state Senator/New Times’ “Best Raving Loon” Sylvia Allen yesterday to announce that armed volunteers now be combating drug-smuggling in the county.Babeu’s unpaid “Anti-Smuggling Posse” will be the junior-varsity squad for PCSO’s SWAT team when it comes to smuggling operations.See also:-Sylvia Allen’s…
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…
