The feds are finally getting serious about folks like Evelio Padilla-Ortega. Padilla-Ortega served just six years in a Mexican prison for a 1988 murder he committed in California, then snuck back into the United States. The Mexican national, now 47, was caught by U.S. authorities in 2003 and deported. The…
On Wednesday, both the Chicago City Council and the San Jose City Council approved resolutions that call for a quasi-boycott Arizona. Unlike other cities that have opted to boycott Arizona in retaliation for SB 1070, the San Jose and Chicago boycotts don’t end any current contracts the cities have with…
Following our post today about Augustus Shaw, who’s running for the State Legislature, a reader pointed us to an Arizona Guardian article published today that spells even more trouble for the ethically challenged HOA lawyer. Shaw lied about where he lives in official election documents, according to the law firm…
Augustus Shaw IV, a Republican candidate for state representative in Tempe’s District 17, has been disciplined twice by the State Bar and was scolded by a judge in 2006 for his aggressive tactics as an HOA lawyer. The case, easily findable with a Google search for Shaw’s name, spurred a Maricopa Superior Court judge to write in…
Yesterday, disgraced, former Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff was released from the Maryland prison he’s called home since 2006. Simultaneously, Senator John McCain and his opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth, are bickering over which of the two is more of a lobbyist. As you’re probably aware — and…
The Chicago City Council passed a resolution today urging city departments not to sign any new contracts with Arizona companies because of SB1070. The resolution, which passed on a 46-2 vote, doesn’t have any real teeth or affect current contracts. An existing contract with Redflex that brought in $48 million…
With the latest leg of the John McCain/J.D. Hayworth saga focusing on which of the two is more of a lobbyist, it seems only fitting that one of the most scandalous lobbyists in history just got released from prison.Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Washington D.C. lobbyist who many credit with Hayworth’s failed re-election…
We checked in yesterday with Tom Horne, the state Superintendent of Schools running in the Republican primary for Arizona Attorney General against former Maricopa County Andrew Thomas.As we pointed out in this blog post, Horne is surely one of the big winners in yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to block Clean…
Yesterday, gubernatorial candidate and state Treasurer Dean Martin unveiled his plan to combat illegal immigration and called for — among other things — a statewide “Tent City” for illegal immigrants arrested in Arizona. In his announcement, Martin was sure to point out that his plan got a wink and a…
Want to know how to get love as a Republican candidate for just about any office in Arizona RIGHT NOW: Drop to your knees and pucker up to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ass.Smooch, smooch, GOPers (that’s you Vernon Parker, J.D. Hayworth, and Andrew Thomas.) And now that’s you, too, Dean Martin. Republican gubernatorial candidate…
The so-called “debate over debates” seems to have spilled over from the GOP Senate primary and found its way to the left side of the aisle where former Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman is in a primary contest with — among others — former New Times columnist John Dougherty.Dougherty issued…
As attorneys at the Goldwater Institute stressed in a conference call with reporters this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block matching funds — effectively stopping their dispersal for the 2010 election cycle — is hardly shocking. Astute observers had anticipated the possibility of such action for more than…
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning put a halt to the matching funds portion of Arizona’s Clean Elections program.The decision blocks matching funds for publicly funded candidates until the Supreme Court either hears the case brought before it or decides not to review it. This almost certainly means matching funds will not play…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin is holding a press conference this morning where he claims to have a “major announcement” regarding his candidacy for governor. Governor Jan Brewer, according to the latest Rasmussen poll, has about a 27-point lead over not only Martin but any other candidate in the race. Brewer…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin, currently running in the GOP primary for governor, announced last week that he would hold a press conference tomorrow where he would make a “major announcement” regarding his campaign. Today, Martin announced the announcement again only now he says “immigration leaders” will be joining him at the…
Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker announced this morning that he will give up his duties as mayor to focus exclusively on his Congressional campaign.Parker, Paradise Valley’s first black mayor, will hand over his duties to members of the Town Council on Thursday as he attempts to become Arizona’s first black…
It’s now been moe than 100 days since J.D. Hayworth first asked Senator John McCain to debates, and “The Maverick” still won’t do it. Hayworth first made his request for a debate in March, but McCain said he would not debate the former congressman until he was an official candidate…
We got an email from former Congressman J.D. Hayworth’s campaign this afternoon pimping his latest Web ad titled It’s Time for John McCain to Go and were instantly hit with a case of déjà vu.The ad features a few man-on-the-street interviews of Arizonan’s who can’t seem to think of a…
Yavapai County businessman Owen “Buz” Mills released his campaign’s spending report this week, and it turns out that he’s dropped even more cash on his dismal campaign for governor than previously imagined.According to the report, before May 31, Mills had spent about $2.3 million, and much of the money came from…
Campaign signs for Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker have been disappearing, his campaign claims, and the assumption from the campaign is that the anti-Joe Arpaio faction is to blame. The signs in question point out that Arpaio supports Parker’s candidacy for the Congressional seat being vacated by Congressman John Shadegg,…
Apparently it’s go-grab-your-gun day in the GOP Senate primary and both former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and his opponent, Senator John McCain, each picked up endorsements from some big-name gunslingers.We got an email from Hayworth’s campaign earlier today announcing that Bob Corbin, the former president of the National Rifle Association, was…
Every month the city of Phoenix Public Information Office sends out a blast to media with story ideas reporters might consider covering on a slow news day.Some of the June story ideas include covering the fire ban the Phoenix parks department has instituted in the city’s desert preserves or the…
