Would you be surprised if we told you former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is trying to hide something from the public? As Thomas faces possible disbarment — stemming from 32 alleged ethical violations ranging from prosecutorial misconduct, perjury, and conspiracy to violate people’s civil rights — he doesn’t want to…
They say that politics make for strange bedfellows.Well, apparently some folks in Phoenix can’t decide whether they want to be bedfellows with Councilwoman Peggy Neely or Councilman Claude Mattox. There are at least 13 people on Neely’s fundraising committee — helping her raise money as she explores whether she wants…
Maricopa Community Colleges Debra Pearson: politician, Minutewoman, educator. Undocumented youth across the Valley are organizing demonstrations against the Maricopa Community College Governing Board after the MCCGB quietly passed a massive tuition hike its president warned is “targeted” at undocumented students last month. The measure was supported by a minutewoman board…
They don’t call Arizona the “meth lab of Democracy” for nothing — where else could a lack of foreskin prove citizenship?The Arizona Senate formally passed the “Birther Bill” today, but not in its original version. Apparently, requiring presidential candidates to provide a long-form birth certificate before allowing their names on…
A traffic stop near State Highways 347 and 84 on Saturday resulted in the apprehension of 12 suspected illegal immigrants, including a 10-year-old girl. Seven others got away. The undocumented travelers were in a caravan of three vehicles all going 75 miles per hour in a 55-mph-zone, says a write-up of the incident…
Stephen Colbert, the late-night dispenser of all things “truthiness,” is continuing to wage war against Arizona Senator Jon Kyl over lies the senator told on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, and his flabbergasting response after getting called on his BS.To keep the heat on the lying fact-challenged U.S…
Is Councilman Sal DiCiccio playing the victim card?The councilman claims he has been the target of attacks over his political beliefs that city services should be privatized and city employees are overcompensated.DiCiccio was in a city meeting and unavailable for comment. In an e-mail blast asking for support (read money),…
As the United States government creeped closer to shutting down on Friday because far-right-wing-nuts don’t like abortion, Senator Jon Kyl took to the Senate floor to give a less-than-“factual statement” about the amount of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood, a federally funded organization that’s been known to end a pregnancy…
The Arizona Republic reported yesterday that Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, whose prison-bound wife was recently convicted of having sex with the same teenage boy whom his adult daughter is accused of having sex with, has a GOP challenger for his seat in the 2012 election.According to the Republic, investor…
The Fiesta Bowl hasn’t been the only organization handing out goodies to public officials.The Greater Phoenix Convention and Visitors Bureau paid for Phoenix Councilwoman and mayoral wannabe Peggy Neely to fly to Hawaii on a six-night, seven-day junket to woo a youth soccer tournament that didn’t need wooing.New Times is reviewing Phoenix travel…
foundshit.com Have a McCrappy plastic toy too. The Arizona Legislature’s had a busy couple of weeks — Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill banning imaginary abortions and the state Senate’s trying to make sure Arizonans can’t vote a Kenyan into the White House — and on Wednesday, the Legislature voted…
The Arizona Senate gave preliminary approval to the “Birther” bill, which would require any presidential candidate to prove to state election officials that they are U.S. citizens, old enough to hold office, and meet residency requirements — despite each of these things already being federal requirements to land the job.The bill already…
It’s official — Greg Stanton is the winner of an Arrogant Butcher straw poll gauging who might be the next Phoenix mayor. Stanton, a former deputy Attorney General and Phoenix councilman, claimed victory with 524 votes, or about 40 percent of all the votes cast by diners at the downtown…
The Arizona state Senate was scheduled to debate the humiliating “Birther” bill yesterday, but that didn’t happen — the Senate has postponed a preliminary vote on the bill.The bill already has failed in the Arizona Legislature twice — once last year and once in the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year. However,…
Despite state Representative Judy Burges’ humiliating “Birther Bill” having failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year, it has found its way back to the Legislature via a strike-everything amendment. Sadly, a preliminary vote on the bill will be taken in the Senate today.The bill is slightly different from…
Candidates in the Phoenix mayor’s race carefully measured their words during a forum hosted by Equality Arizona, a political organization that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. The Monday night forum included questions to gauge candidates’ stances on same-sex marriage and discrimination in housing and employment within city…
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he will seek a second term in office, despite the piss-poor economy, the high unemployment rate, the border mess, Libya, Japan, the housing crisis, and flaking on campaign promises like closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Let the rhetoric commence. On the Republican side,…
If you’re planning to run against Congressman Jeff Flake for the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Jon Kyl, you should understand — the guy’s got some cash.Flake announced today that his campaign has raised $1 million in three months.”Our tremendous finance committee includes most of Arizona’s hardest-working Republicans, and…
Former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth thinks the reason Arizona’s medicaid program is in such bad financial shape is that it covers people who are in the country illegally. The only problem with that is Arizona’s medicaid program doesn’t actually cover the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants.Oh, J.D., how we’ve missed…
A former Goodyear City Council candidate is sticking to her story that a state Republican Party leader told her she could get Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s endorsement by paying $2,000. The Politico Mafioso blog reported this interesting example of sleazy politics on Tuesday after perusing the SCA report we published last week. Buried in…
God, apparently, is a little indecisive.Despite having suggested earlier in the week that he would announce plans Saturday to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Kyl, Congressman Trent Franks — who said earlier this month he would leave the final decision about whether he’d run to the man upstairs –…
The Arizona Senate gave final approval earlier this week to the second of two controversial abortion bills to pass through the Legislature this year. This one’s aimed at guilting women out of ending their pregnancies and places more restrictions on abortions by pill.HB 2416, approved 18-10 by the Senate on Wednesday, forces…
