See Also: How Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change Phoenix’s City Council Race State Senator Robert Meza is being accused of threatening to sue a volunteer for fellow Democrat Raquel Terán, his primary opponent in the newly-created Legislative District 30. Meza, who is openly gay, claims Tony Valdovinos, a 22-year-old undocumented immigrant,…
See also: SB 1070, SCOTUS, Friendly House, and a Ray of HopeSee also: SB 1070: Supreme Court Upholds “Papers Please” Section, Invalidates OthersSee also: The Supreme Court’s 1070 Ruling Is No Win for Teabaggers As I anticipated in April, when it became clear that the U.S. Supreme Court intended to lift a lower…
See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer Afraid See Also: Obama’s 287(g) Move Bogus, Activists Call on Feds to Cut Ties with Arizona Arizona Congressman David Schweikert admits he’s no expert on immigration. Still, he insists that any immigration-reform proposal in Congress resulting in…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio had about an entire day to come up with a response to alleged comedian George Lopez calling him a “fat motherfucker” and “fucking puto.”And here’s what Arpaio’s “ghost tweeters” eventually delivered to the world.”Go back to school. Learn to make intelligent commentary rather than dropping F bombs…
See Also: Joe Arpaio Denied Birther Donations, Randy Parraz Blasts Andy Kunasek See Also: Joe Arpaio Hides as Randy Parraz and CBAers Pizza Party It Up Randy Parraz and his posse of activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona want Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to come clean on using…
Based on the video above, George Lopez is no fan of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Or, according to Lopez, the “fat motherfucker,” “fucking puto” Joe Arpaio…
After being run out of three venues in Phoenix last month by activists, a fundraiser for recalled, former state Senate President Russell Pearce has finally found a home at a local hotel run by one of his supporters. According to an item on the conservative Sonoran Alliance blog, Pearce and…
See Also: DREAMers Score a Win with Obama’s Immigration Initiative, But the War Is Far from Over Young illegal immigrants should be wary of scam artists promising work permits as a result of the Obama administration’s new immigration policy toward them. That’s the message from pro-immigrant activists worried that the…
See also: Kyrsten Sinema Identified (Wrongly) as Latino by NALEO See also: Can Kyrsten Sinema Win in Congressional District 9? See also: Kyrsten Sinema’s Hilary Rosen Moment, and Her Persistent Verbal Flubbery My Monday blog item discussing Ninth Congressional District candidate Kyrsten Sinema and the “Latina” label incorrectly granted to…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office claims a gang member was “planning to publicly assassinate Sheriff Joe Arpaio using a high powered rifle.”The first problem with the plot of gangster Samuel Matta was that he couldn’t come up with the $1,800 to bond out of jail after he stole a car…
See Also: Ana Tijoux at Puente’s Noche de Mujeres See Also: Ana Tijoux Rocks Phoenix Sunday Night at Puente’s Noche de Mujeres See Also: DREAMers Score a Win with Obama’s Immigration Initiative, But the War Is Far from Over Chilean-French MC Ana Tijoux today released a new music video titled…
See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer Afraid While most pro-immigrant activists are focusing on educating people about President Obama’s new immigration policy regarding DREAM Act students, which promises to stop the deportations of some undocumented youth, the local human-rights group Puente is advocating a halt…
Former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema is many things: a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District, a strident advocate for lefty causes, a one-time supporter of erstwhile Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. And, according to the nonprofit National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials,…
There are many things Sheriff Joe Arpaio could fully explain to us here at New Times. Many of them can be found under our “Investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio” file.That said, Arpaio opted to defend himself from the assumption that he was a horrible basketball player in high school.Let’s just say…
See also: Joe Arpaio Owned by the Infamous Duke St. Rollins.Part verbal terrorist, part international man of mystery, Duke St. Rollins trolls the Facebook sites of teatard politicos and talking heads, leaving behind flaming piles of fresh manure that the ‘baggers are never entirely able to extinguish. Via screenshots, the Duke…
See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer AfraidSee Also: Janet Napolitano’s “Secure Communities” Program Secure in Arizona, Elsewhere Not So MuchThe California State Senate passed a bill Thursday that is being called the “anti-Arizona law” by pro-immigrant activists.The TRUST Act, as it is officially known, would…
See Also: Obama’s 287(g) Move Bogus, Activists Call on Feds to Cut Ties with ArizonSee Also: Bill Montgomery Blames Obama’s 287(g) Move for Attack on Phoenix Cop Arizona Congressman David Schweikert is taking a jab at the Obama administration for its decision to scrap part of a federal immigration program in Arizona.In an opinion…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probably the only person who could convince his faithful fans to watch him open Al Capone’s empty vault over and over again.That’s pretty much what Arpaio’s set to do in a couple of weeks, as the sheriff announced through his other PR team (WorldNetDaily) that he’s holding…
Buzzfeed posted a list earlier this week of “69 Politicians As They Were In High School,” including some vintage yearbook shots of Governor Jan Brewer, Senator John McCain, and former Governor Janet Napolitano.That prompted us to check out the Museum of Natural History 1950 yearbook from Commerce High School in…
I despise the United States Border Patrol. One-hundred miles from the U.S. Border, the entire U.S. border, they are a law unto themselves, in what the ACLU refers to as a “constitution free zone,” that encircles the entire contiguous United States.They regularly treat U.S. citizens with contempt. This, despite the…
From an authoritative book review on a book he never actually read to backlash from a cockfight with Steven Seagal, it’s been a busy first six months of 2012 for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. With the Fourth of July upon us, it’s only right that we honor this self-anointed…
ABC 15’s report on Joe’s ICE announcementSee also: Bill Montgomery Blames Obama’s 287(g) Move for Attack on Phoenix CopSee also: Obama’s 287(g) Move Bogus, Activists Call on Feds to Cut Ties with ArizonaSee also: Jan Brewer Hysterical Over Homeland Security’s 287(g) MoveI’m skeptical of MCSO press releases and anything our…
