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Saturday, May 18th, 2013
They don't call her "GED Jan" for nothin.' Following U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell's ruling this week in Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Jan Brewer, Brewer was quick to gloat and m...
Continue reading "Jan Brewer: Ignorant, Irrational, Prevaricating, Self-Serving Bigot" >
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
The roller-coaster campaign to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio took another dive today. With just two weeks left before the recall's May 30 deadline, the on-again, off-again paid effort to gather sig...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio Recall Suspends Paid Signature Gathering Campaign for Second Time" >
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Citizens for a Better Arizona president Randy Parraz makes two very important points in this new video from Dennis Gilman. The first has to do with what is possible. See also: -Joe Arpaio Shi...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio Recall: 14 Days Left, a New Dennis Gilman Video" >
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Note: Please see update below. Think Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's been doin' a bang-up job lately, and not just on that broken arm of his? See also: -Don't Tread On Me, I'm DON SHOOTE...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio's Sycophant Don Shooter Wants to Give Joe $1.5M of Your Money (Update: Shooter Amendment FAILS in Senate)" >
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Nativist Nimrod and birther nutbar John Philip Sousa IV slays me with his whole, "Guess who my great-grandpappy was?" song and dance, which he uses to sell his lame book about the original Joh...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe" >
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
The Arizona Republic's editorial board must be patting themselves on the back right now. Why, they scored an editorial on the Gang of Eight's immigration bill from none other than recalled, di...
Continue reading "Russell Pearce Gets Mad Love from the Arizona Republic" >
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
With 22 days remaining, the effort to boot Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office has re-started the paid petition-gathering campaign it discontinued back on March 18. See also: -Joe Arpaio Fans Look ...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio Recall Re-Ignites Paid Petition Effort with 22 Days to Go" >
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Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Monty's head nearly explodes as he's challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomer...
Continue reading "Bill Montgomery's Apartheid Policies Challenged by Puente's Carlos Garcia in Videotaped Confrontation" >
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
I'm beginning to think Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery should enroll in some remedial law classes. That's because now a superior court judge has agreed with an administrative law judg...
Continue reading "Bill Montgomery Screwed Up Tom Horne Complaint, Second Judge Rules" >
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Bill Montgomery's victims speak... Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery must feel really proud of himself. After more than three months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's dirty, dangerous and sometimes ...
Continue reading "Bill Montgomery's Victims Break: 14 Captured in Sportex Raid Plead Out Under Coercion" >
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Watch A clip from The Undocumented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. Please see update below. I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigratio...
Continue reading "ICE Detainee Commits Suicide, and a Not-So Modest Proposal (w/Update)" >
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
During the uproar over the 2010 shooting death of South Phoenix resident Danny Rodriguez by former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman, I often wondered why two Phoenix cops could not subd...
Continue reading "Did Phoenix Police Need to Kill Zachariah Pithan?" >
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Saturday, April 27th, 2013
I've been thinking about sending Sheriff Joe Arpaio a note expressing my deep concern for his health, and suggesting that he resign before the MCSO ends up being Phoenix's version of Weekend at...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio Recall: Give Joe the Pink Slip and Help Retire Him from Office" >
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
It's a requirement in Arizona, more than in any other state in the Union, that politicians be shameless hypocrites. And Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is no piker in this regard. Se...
Continue reading "Bill Montgomery: Victimizer of Undocumented Workers, Turns "Victims' Rights" Advocate in DC" >
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
If you need an illustration of Arizona's diseased "attrition through enforcement" mentality, look no further than the case of Solaguahire Zenil, a local DREAMer, who is currently in the custody...
Continue reading "DPS Officer's Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months (w/Update)" >
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Respect Arizona, the group attempting to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office, may yet prove the naysayers wrong. At a press conference Monday in downtown Phoenix, about 20 members of the gro...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio Recall Claims 200,359 Valid Signatures with 38 Days and Counting" >
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
I'm heartened to see local Democrats unabashedly supporting the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio, which is spearheaded by Respect Arizona, and assisted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, head...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio's Chili Cooked by Kyrsten Sinema, Randy Parraz, and Andrew Sherwood" >
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is gettin' real popular with some in the pro-immigration reform crowd. Never mind that he collaborates with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in prosecuting undocumen...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio Henchman Bill Montgomery Milks CIR While Separating Parents from Children" >
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
Now, a news flash from inside the stultifying atmosphere of the Arizona Republic's editorial bubble: Hypocrisy is a good thing. Particularly as practiced by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Mon...
Continue reading "Bill Montgomery's Victims Rot in Jail, While Arizona Republic Praises His Hypocrisy on Immigration Reform" >
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013
Anyone who actually would be proud to be the great grandson of John Philip Sousa, a third rate 19th Century composer of marching tunes whose music could bore you right into a coma, must have a ...
Continue reading "Joe Arpaio's Wing-Nut Supporter John Philip Sousa IV's Hysterical Appeal for Moolah" >
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