Andrew Sherwood, the Mesa Democrat who unsuccessfully took on Republican state Senator Russell Pearce in 2010 (before Pearce was Senate president), just called to let me know that he will not be throwing his derby in the ring for the November 8 recall election.Sherwood came in second in a three-way…
The United States government is revamping a program that will fly undocumented Mexican immigrants back to Mexico City, after they’ve been caught entering the country illegally.The feds claim this prevents deaths from dehydration and exhaustion from people crossing the Arizona desert during the hottest time of the year.But activists cry…
America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” spoke at the Conservative Leadership Conference/Joe Arpaio Comedy Hour in Las Vegas over the weekend, where he had the conservative crowd in stitches as he yucked it up about how he’d never heard of that pesky concept of “transparency” in government until three years ago.We’re gonna…
Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik has outed a possible challenger to state Senate President Russell Pearce in the November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18: Jerry Lewis, and, no, not the cheesy dude on the telethons.Resnik writes in his blog that,”This would be Lewis’ first run for elected office. He…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is on the scene as his boys in beige raid a Valley bread company in search of illegal immigrants, the MCSO announced this morning.According to the MCSO, Arpaio’s boys got word that 31 employees at Mesa’s Alpine Bread Factory near 300 West Southern Avenue were…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s got a hankerin’ for rocker Alice Coopers’ two-foot wiener.Apparently so impressed with the two-foot hot dogs served at Coopers’ Cooperstown restaurant in Phoenix, the sheriff has challenged “any reporter” to an eating contest.”After signing autographs at Cooperstown yesterday, I’m now ready to challenge any reporter…
Marciopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio claimed yesterday that “intelligence sources” tell him that illegal immigrants and drug smugglers are avoiding Maricopa County to avoid him and his tough guy antics.He says smugglers are now choosing to use alternate routes through Arizona after crossing the border.However, the claim came in the…
Maricopa County’s corrupt top cop, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims smugglers transporting drugs and illegal immigrants are avoiding Maricopa County to avoid run-ins with him.That said, 10 illegal immigrants smuggled into the United States on their way to California and North Carolina, were arrested by the MCSO’s Human Smuggling Unit in the…
Members of the human-rights group Puente greeted sports fans with anti-Senate Bill 1070 chants and signs outside Chase Field Tuesday, as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game got under way.About 100 protesters from Puente demonstrated against Arizona’s immigration law while baseball enthusiasts filed into the stadium.”In Arizona there is daily…
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. How do you get to the set of Good Morning America? Apparently, all it takes is acting like a dipshit at the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby.As we noted yesterday, Kingman resident Keith Carmickle nearly died when he tried…
I like Sinema, but she flubbed a couple of facts on OlbermannUPDATE, July 13 5:17PM: Sinema called me about her appearance on Olbermann. She explained that she didn’t call Parraz ahead of time because she didn’t know Olbermann was going to ask her about the recall. She knew it was going…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is littering social-media websites with alerts to his upcoming verbal sparring match with civil rights leader Al Sharpton. “Interview with host Al Sharpton on MSNBC today @ 6:40 est Last time we spoke he led thousands of protestors here and asked for me to quit,”…
Somos America, a Phoenix-based pro-immigrant group, has gained the first high-profile name for its white-ribbon campaign, which encourages players and fans to don a symbol of opposition to Senate Bill 1070 during Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Chase Field.Jackie Robinson’s daughter, Sharon, who will be at the All-Star Game, plans to wear…
A Mexican soccer match between Club America and Morelia at the University of Phoenix Stadium on Sunday was hoping to draw 50,000 attendees, but fell way short of that mark. Actual attendance numbers were not announced, but a safe guess is less than 10,000.The fans’ favorite was America, which has a large following…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon says America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” has agreed to keep his chain gangs away from the Major League Baseball All-Star Game tomorrow night at Chase Field. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you may recall, said last month he planned to roll out the chain gang in response…
At 11 a.m. today, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to unveil his new line of pink skivvies. But there’s a twist: the traditional “Go Joe” written on the promotional boxers will now be in Spanish, which — according to Arpaio — proves he isn’t a racist.Arpaio will be at the…
More bad news for state Senate President Russell Pearce.One day before the historic announcement by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office that the Pearce recall will go before the voters of Legislative District 18, Arizona Solicitor General David Cole informed Pearce that recall committees cannot accept corporate or union contributions.Cole…
I’m cooking up some barbecued black bird for all of my colleagues in the local press who pooh-poohed the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce. First slice goes to lifelong hack Howie Fischer. The rest of the crow flesh is for all of the members of Horizon’s clown table, that circle…
More than a year ago pro-immigrant organizations were demanding that the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game be moved from Phoenix to punish Arizona for passing one of the harshest immigration laws in the nation.Among those organizations was the Phoenix-based immigrant-rights coalition Somos America, but MLB did not heed activists’ demands and the game…
As Sheriff Joe Arpaio plots to humiliate Arizona by deploying a chain gang of illegal immigrants to clean up around Chase Field, where the Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to take place July 12, there’s ample evidence Arpaio should be in stripes right along with them, cleaning the…
Ever since Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law, pro-immigrant activists and politicians have had different perspectives on how to best show disapproval of the controversial immigration statute. Organizations such as the Phoenix-based human-rights organization Puente have called for a boycott of the state. U.S. Representative…
Ten retired Scottsdale police officers are suing in federal court over tens of thousands in medical-leave pay they claim to have been shorted.The employees include: former Scottsdale police public information officer Sam Bailey; Bill Zeller (who once made the news for arresting a Scottsdale high school student because he disobeyed…
