About 200 people filed into the Carl Hayden High School auditorium in west Phoenix in search of answers on Monday evening, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed one of the most controversial provisions of SB 1070 to stand. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, councilmen Michael Nowakowski…
If right-wingers such as Arizona’s clueless, incompetent Governor Jan Brewer had actually read today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Senate Bill 1070, they would not be so quick to issue press releases spinning the court’s 5-3 ruling as a victory for xenophobes, or even for the idea of some sort…
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Governor Jan Brewer is declaring the Supreme Court’s decision on SB 1070 a “victory,” as the high court sided against Arizona on three of the four provisions challenged.The Feathered Bastard is providing the updates on the 1070 decision, as the Supreme Court let section 2(b) — “papers please” — stand,…
Congressman Ben Quayle denies changing his stance on immigration policy, contrary to what Congressman David Schweikert and a few others have suggested.The Schweikert campaign’s response to that: you’re going to trust Brock Landers?Yes, Quayle’s past contributions to TheDirty.com — then known as DirtyScottsdale.com — are back like it’s 2010, when…
As we told you at the beginning of the week, Congressman Ben Quayle didn’t seem incredibly upset about creating a way for many people who were brought to the United States illegally to be able to stay here, without a path to citizenship.In fact, he went on 12News to explain…
Paradise Valley Town Councilman Vernon Parker is leading the Republican field in the state’s Ninth Congressional District, according to a poll commissioned by Vernon Parker.It’s pretty much impossible to tell how legitimate the poll is, as one anonymous person on the Internet says it sounded a lot like a “push…
Congressman David Schweikert, not to be outdone by his primary opponent, Congressman Ben Quayle, introduced his own bill to block the implementation of the Obama administration’s new immigration policy.This move by Schweikert may seem familiar, since Quayle did just about the same thing yesterday too.The bills don’t appear to have…
It appears Congressman Ben Quayle does not find the Obama administration’s new immigration policy “something that’s intriguing,” as he did with the plan of Senator Marco Rubio.So much so, it seems, that Quayle just introduced the “Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act of 2012” to block its implementation.The Obama administration’s policy, announced…
Senator John McCain is not pleased about boxing judges scoring a decision for Timothy Bradley over Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight title match earlier this month.That said, now might finally be the time his legislation to regulate boxing — which he’s tried over and over again — sees some success.McCain…
Last month, Congressman Ben Quayle was talking about an idea for immigration policy that was being floated around, calling it “something that’s intriguing, that we should be looking at.”Quayle was on 12News explaining the idea of a “blue card,” a way for people who were brought to the United States…
Folks at Tempe City Hall weren’t the only ones to meet with representatives of the apparently fake company believed to be set up by the FBI in its bust of state Representative/former Tempe Councilman Ben Arredondo.According to lobbyist filings with the Secretary of State’s office, Mike Williams met with four…
Former Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano’s giving the tell-all (maybe the tell-most) story of his life in a book released this month, and the man’s got some stories to tell.Giuliano faced some tough times in his decade-long stint as mayor — from being openly gay to the unsuccessful recall election against…
In April, the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a portion of Arizona’s voter-approved voter-ID law, intended to keep non-citizens from voting. Because of that ruling, Arizona was supposed to stop enforcing the law. But a new order by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy permits the law…
Governor Jan Brewer called for a press conference this morning shortly after news broke of the Obama administration’s plan to stop deporting young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country when they were kids.Brewer apparently forgot that she’d actually have to articulate a response to the policy change, because…
President Obama announced today that his administration “will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children and have since led law-abiding lives.” From the Associated Press: The policy change, announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, will affect…
At least Republican Jesse Kelly’s being honest about why he’s not going to try for a third shot at running for Congress — he wasn’t very close this time.Democrat Ron Barber beat Kelly by about 6.5 percentage points this week, in the special election to finish out the term of…
Talking Points Memo uncovered some details yesterday about the FBI allegedly using lobbyist Mike Williams as the middle-man between Tempe City Council members and a fake corporation in its bust of former city councilman and current state Representative Ben Arredondo.The question people may have is, “Who the f**k is Mike…
The theft of a first-edition Book of Mormon, we have discovered, is some serious shit.At least, it was to the eight law enforcement agencies investigating the matter.Jay Linford’s been pegged by Mesa police as the guy who lifted the 182-year-old Book of Mormon from the Rare and Out of Print…
It took help from the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI, but a first-edition Book of Mormon stolen from a Mesa bookstore has been located in Washington, D.C.The theft of the book did not make the Mormon community happy, as folks used to stop by Mesa’s Rare and Out of…
Ron Barber, a former aide to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was elected yesterday to finish the remainder of Giffords’ term.Giffords resigned from Congress earlier this year to focus on her recovery after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage outside a Tucson grocery store. Barber also was…
