In July of 2009, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued a bald-faced lie to the media when he claimed the SCA scandal “has absolutely nothing to do with the Sheriff’s Office.” He knew it did. But even worse, Arpaio still hasn’t explained why he didn’t take action against his top…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio put out a press release today to brag about how many friends he has on the Internet — again.We’re not aware of any 15-year-old girls who run large law-enforcement agencies, but we’re pretty sure this is the exact kind of thing they’d write a press…
For the latest dive into the loony bin from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Birther” posse, they’ve concluded that President Obama — get this — “might be Kenyan.”Arpaio’s pals over at World Net Daily continue to release the latest conspiracy theories from the posse, and it’s not getting any more…
I have just intercepted the e-mail blast below from 12-point loser, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce. According to the communication, Arizona’s biggest bigot intends to make it official on March 19 regarding a run for state Senate in the newly-formed Legislative District 25.There’s no little irony in the fact…
Robert Sparks, the hearing officer overseeing fired sheriff’s deputy Joel Fox’s appeal, is worried that he’s out of his league in the complex case. This isn’t an average appeal for the job of an average county worker who was fired, of course — it’s about a scandal and cover-up that…
One of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige was booked into jail on five felony charges today.According to the sheriff’s office, now-former Deputy Torrey McRae skimmed $5,000 out of the sheriff’s office that was meant for drug investigations.The internal investigation into McRae started in January, when one of…
Carrying signs depicting U.S. Representative Trent Franks of Arizona’s Second Congressional District as a hot dog with the slogan, “Congressman Franks, Don’t Be a Wiener,” around 25 protesters rallied on the sidewalk before Franks’ Glendale office this morning to oppose an anti-abortion measure proposed by the West Valley Republican.Franks’ legislation,…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, action-movie star Steven Seagal, and others have been named in a lawsuit stemming from a raid last year where Arpaio and his boys brought the dog-and-pony show to arrest a single cockfighting suspect.Attorney Robert Campos — who filed the lawsuit on behalf…
Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios has been calling for embattled Sheriff Paul Babeu to step down from his post as the county’s top cop. In the past few weeks, several individuals have lodged allegations against Babeu that he abused his power, was complicit in the abusive conditions at the DeSisto…
An unsigned opinion article in the conservative magazine National Review today states that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn’t deserve to win re-election.The magazine has previously run articles that defended Arpaio, but the sheriff’s recent “birther” madness pushed it over the edge.That’s understandable, because the National Review has already debunked…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wrote to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster a year ago about two guys — one of whom was an elementary school music teacher — who were surfing the website trying to find a dog to have sex with.Buckmaster apparently doesn’t want to be pen-pals with Arpaio,…
Did Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu employ another law enforcement officer to pressure Jose Orozco, the sheriff’s ex-boyfriend, to keep quiet about his relationship with the sheriff? Orozco believes so, and he revealed that detail in a $1 million claim his attorneys filed on March 2 against Pinal County and…
As far as lawsuits go, the Maricopa County Superior Court case of Alice and George Kaplan v. Chandler was anything but monumental. Heck, all it concerned was a broken water pipe at an unoccupied building that the couple own in the East Valley city. The Kaplans claimed that the city…
It’s been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne’s close friend Carmen Chenal’s problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronies…
For the low price of $9.99, you can obtain your own copy of an e-book that’s billed as “a law enforcement investigation” into President Obama’s birth certificate.The authors happen to be Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Posse “lead investigator” Mike Zullo and notorious “birther” Jerome Corsi.The forward, unsurprisingly, is…
Tea Party princess Michelle Ugenti has a mouth on her, that’s for sure. The Republican state House Representative and former real-estate peddler was elected to represent District 8 voters in 2010, largely with the assistance of Clean Elections funding and the campaign hackery of Clean Elections-parasite Constantin Querard.And what has Clean…
Tony Diaz, dropping some knowledge with the Libro-Traficante caravanArizona’s ethnic studies ban has resulted in the eradication of the successful and popular Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District, and a backward edict banning certain supposedly “dangerous” books by Latino authors from Tucson classrooms.This peculiar mix of…
As much as the late Andrew Breitbart was reviled by the left, I always found him to be an entertaining, if often inflammatory, media presence. Breitbart died Thursday of natural causes at the way-too-young age of 43, giving liberals everywhere less reason to assault their TV screens in apoplectic rage.Breitbart’s…
As you may have heard, it’s 2012, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.It’s the latest entry in a long line of publicity stunts for Arpaio, and this one just so happened to…
Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don’t apply to him. That’s been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last year’s recall…
Conservative writer Andrew Breitbart died early this morning at the age of 43, and according to Jerome Corsi, Breitbart’s last interview could have been with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Corsi, however, is a conspiracy-theorist extraordinaire who doesn’t always tell the truth.If he is to be believed (at least on this…
We actually looked at the report given out today during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he believes President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery, and there is a grand total of zero new information in it.In fact, the report prepared by Mara Zebest — who was at the…
