You’d think a practicing lawyer, former president of the Arizona Board of Regents, and erstwhile GOP gubernatorial candidate would possess a lick of sense. But Tucson attorney John Munger is proof positive that possession of a swell resume is no guarantee of intelligence.Munger is the fella who recently threatened legal…
For once, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he shouldn’t be the center of attention.Six young people — the oldest 23 years old — were arrested by Phoenix police Tuesday during a protest at Trevor Browne High School, rallying against Arpaio’s methods of immigration enforcement.To those six people — and…
The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa’s Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he’s running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him…
Less than 24 hours after we told you about the mailman claiming the “foreign” Barack Obama hinted to him about a “prearranged” presidency while hanging out at the Ayers residence, and just hours after we asked our readers if this whole thing could get any more loony, it happened again.Fresh…
Well, wouldn’t you know it — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation has gotten worse.Mailman Allen Hulton — who was only identified as a “retired government employee” at the “birther” press conference — has taken an oath swearing that Ayers’ mother told him about a “foreign, black” student at…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is featured in an editorial cartoon in the latest edition of GayCalgary, a magazine based Canada. Not long ago, he was the subject of a column in a London newspaper. Babeu is getting a lot of international press, but certainly not the flattering coverage he’d…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” squad continues to add to the absolute embarrassment of an “investigation” that the sheriff has ordered in his name.This time around, Arpaio’s conspiracy-nut buddies have released a signed affidavit from a retired mailman claiming the legitimacy of the Bill Ayers aspect of the “birther”…
A 13-year-old girl whose molestation claims were ignored by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t want to pursue her case, the girl’s mother tells New Times.We’re not disclosing their names. But we mentioned the Chicago-area mother and daughter in our February 16 feature article about how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s misguided…
Though he can’t boast much in the way of contributions, Scottsdale Police Lieutenant and sheriff’s office hopeful Mike Stauffer may have earned his place on the November general election ballot as an Independent.According to a press release issued today by the Stauffer camp, which you can read below, Stauffer has…
Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just encountered his first major obstacle in his revenge campaign for state Senate from Legislative District 25: Republican businessman Robert Worsley.Today, the wealthy Mesa executive has announced that he’ll be Pearce’s rival in the Republican primary for LD 25, effectively upstaging Pearce’s planned announcement…
Tempe’s Luna Fitness can keep its name and logo, thanks to a settlement last week in a federal trademark lawsuit against the small gym by Clif Bar, the maker of Luna Bar energy snacks.The gym’s been fighting the energy-bar giant in court for almost a year. As we reported last…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens will not go gently into that good night, like he should.Rather, Bivens seems hell-bent on an ugly contest in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this year. Already, he’s going negative on former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, the guy President Barack Obama and…
Republicans. I know some of them are sane here in Sand Land, but you wouldn’t know it by their wingnutty hijinks in the state Legislature this year, where they’ve placed a birther-bill, a late-term abortion ban and a state-funded border militia ahead of doing anything to aid the economy, bring…
Right-wing attempts to legitimize nativist border wacko Glenn Spencer persist in the strangest fashion.Today, the conservative website Right Side News reported on a letter from former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Munger to Luis Heredia, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party, demanding that Heredia issue a “letter of retraction” concerning statements…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent his boys out on the 58th illegal-immigrant roundup “employer sanctions operation” today, and get a load of this — a grand total of zero employers were arrested, while 31 non-employers were arrested.According to our math, there have been two employers sanctioned through 58 “employer…
On Saturday night, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office raided a Phoenix cockfight, arresting 40 people — 17 of them alleged to be illegal immigrants.One of those alleged illegal immigrants, 43-year-old Pedro Reyes-Lopez, was identified as the owner of the house, which earned him a big mugshot in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s…
The threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from some guy with a keyboard in Tennessee was apparently so serious that the sheriff’s office says he was sentenced to probation.Arpaio has claimed Adam Eugene Cox is an “Obama fanatic” — intel the sheriff says came from evident from what he…
Hupp goes all Hannibal on the MAS crowd, 6:34 onWhat I like about Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal is his consistency. You know when he opens his mouth, he’s bound to say something stupid. It’s just a matter of how stupid.His latest round of revelatory idiocies — at…
Columnist James Fenton called Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu “Republicans’ latest nightmare” in a piece for the London Evening Standard. Fentons’ column hit the presses about a week after New Times reported that Babeu’s Mexican ex-boyfriend lobbed allegations that the sheriff threatened him and that the sheriff’s attorney raised threats…
Joe at the CSPOA. If you don’t want to watch 30 minutes of blather, the highlights are belowThe mutual embrace of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and far right wing extremist groups has been going on for some time now, Arpaio’s ludicrous foray into the conspiranut world of birtherdom being but the…
Two days after the news broke that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, actor Steven Seagal, and others were 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, the sheriff’s office tried that one again.This…
As unsophisticated, marble-mouthed and ham-fisted former state Senate President Russell Pearce is as a politician, his brother, Justice of the Peace Lester Pearce, makes him look like Jack Kennedy by comparison.You may recall that Judge Pearce was linked to the Tea Party plot to put sham candidate Olivia Cortes on the…
