Ahead of tonight’s second GOP primary presidential debate, a new poll conducted by the local consulting group, MBQF, confirms that Republican voters in Arizona overwhelmingly favor Donald Trump and Ben Carson. (29.9 percent and 21.3 percent respectively). Hundreds of Arizona Republican voters were asked over the weekend: “If the election…
Whether or not you’re on team Trump, Wednesday night’s second Republican presidential debate should be very entertaining. Perhaps even more so than the first one August 6. The debate will feature the top 11 candidates — Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio,…
A week after the harrowing image of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy whose dead body washed up on shore in Turkey, Arizona Senator John McCain took to the Senate floor to blame President Barack Obama’s administration for the Syrian refugee crisis. “Let’s be clear,” he said, “the current crisis…
So here’s a giant surprise, Pinal County Sheriff and unannounced candidate for U.S. Congress Paul Babeu is the “honorary chairman,” of a dark money, 501(c)4 non-profit that is pimping….yes, you guessed it, Paul Babeu. Babeu’s new Arizona Security and Prosperity Project’s website promises that the group will pursue “public advocacy for…
When a U.S. District Court judge rejected claims that the so-called “show me your papers” section of Arizona’s controversial 2010 immigration law discriminated against Latinos, DeeDee Garcia Blase’s first thought was: “What the heck just happened? This state clearly has a racial-profiling problem!” Her second: “We have to prove it!”…
Guadalupe’s vice mayor is pressing for a recall of Mayor Rebecca Jimenez after she pleaded guilty to misrepresenting her household income to obtain food stamps. Vice Mayor Andrew Sanchez blasted Jimenez for bringing the small town of about 6,000 “negative media attention by her choices. “Mayor Jimenez holds others in…
As the 41st U.S. Senator voiced support for President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran this week, further shrinking the chance any Republic effort to block the deal in Congress will succeed, a different tactic to undermine the negotiations is brewing in Arizona and a handful of other states. The…
Jessica Burlew, a Glendale teenager charged with killing a 43-year-old man she met online, signed a plea bargain this morning after spending the last 594 days in jail. In exchange for a guilty plea, the state will charge her with second-degree murder and recommend a 10-year sentence with no possibility…
Let the ‘Recall Diane Douglas Games’ begin! The campaign to recall Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Diane Douglas, filed the necessary paperwork with the State Secretary this morning, and can now legally begin collecting signatures. But having spent the last ten months since the November 2014 election organizing and…
U.S. immigration authorities incarcerate Mexicans at a much higher rate than immigrants from any other country, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed News. Seventy-five percent of Mexicans who are facing deportation for non-criminal reasons are being held in detention centers. By comparison, Immigration and Customs Enforcement locks up just 39…
Despite Senator John McCain’s reported interest in all things related to Islamic terrorism and abortion politics, he claimed not to know about the growing Islamophobia movement in Arizona and the recent report by a team of forensic video experts proving that the controversial Planned Parenthood videos were edited in a…
Thanks to Republican presidential contender Donald Trump and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, hating on “anchor babies” is all the rage. But Phoenix nativist Michelle Dallacroce, founder and president of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens wants you to know that she was hating on so-called anchor babies before hating on them was…
Local liberals freaked when their top 10 wacky beliefs were skewered. But Arizona conservatives boast equally nutty ideas. Here are 10 of the nuttiest. 10) President Obama is not a natural-born citizen. 9) More guns in America means a safer America. 8) People give a rat’s ass about Hillary’s e-mails. …
In what may turn out to be one of the least competitive citywide elections in Phoenix history, voters overwhelming reinstated Mayor Greg Stanton and four City Council members — Daniel Valenzuela, Thelda Williams, Bill Gates, and Michael Nowakowski — and passed all five ballot measures. It was not a very…
“I really don’t like the idea of someone getting a traffic ticket or J-walking ticket and having to set up a payment plan in order to finance somebody’s election,” William Nelson, a Navy veteran, said Monday night. “That sounds pretty rotten.” This was one reaction to a proposal to publicly…
Carrying gruesome placards and signs that read “Choose Life” and “Just a Clump of Sells,” anti-abortion activists crowded into a blocked-off street next to a Planned Parenthood office in central Phoenix today, part of a nationwide effort by those in the pro-life movement to end federal funding for the organization and…
Former Minuteman and alleged child molester Chris Simcox can cross-examine one of his child victims face-to-face as he represents himself in Maricopa County Superior Court, but he will have to cross-examine the other child victim, his daughter, via closed-circuit Television. That’s the ruling of Judge Jose Padilla, the jurist overseeing…
Homophobic religious nut and Republican presidential long-shot Dr. Ben Carson was in Arizona recently, getting schooled in illegal immigration by none other than Pinal County Sheriff Paul “Studboi1” Babeu, during a tour of Pinal and Cochise Counties. Carson’s choice of Babeu for a study-session on border issues was ironic on…
Protesters built a fence of faux coffins and body bags around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Phoenix office to mark the three-month anniversary of the death of a 31-year-old Mexican held in a federal detention center in Eloy. Jose De Jesus Deniz-Sahagun, who choked on a sock May 20,…
As part of a national day of action against Planned Parenthood this Saturday, hundreds of people will protest outside of six clinics throughout Arizona, including four in the greater-Phoenix area. Their plan is to draw attention to what organizers call “the heartless and even illegal activities of Planned Parenthood.” But…
Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson delivered his God-fearing, Constitution-loving message to about 6,000 people Tuesday night in the Phoenix Convention Center. The night began with prayer, the pledge of allegiance, a speech from a former patient, and a heartfelt musical performance from a pastor who wrote a song for…
“We’re in the ‘red zone’ right now. Today, tomorrow is probably it,” says Duane “Chili” Yazzie, chapter president of the Shiprock Community on the Navajo Nation Reservation. “We’re about to lose a lot of our crops.” Two weeks after an accident in an abandoned mine in Colorado caused more than 3…
