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Jan Brewer: Ignorant, Irrational, Prevaricating, Self-Serving Bigot

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...

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Joe Arpaio Recall Suspends Paid Signature Gathering Campaign for Second Time

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...

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Joe Arpaio Recall: 14 Days Left, a New Dennis Gilman Video

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...

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Joe Arpaio’s Sycophant Don Shooter Wants to Give Joe $1.5M of Your Money (Update: Shooter Amendment FAILS in Senate)

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...

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Joe Arpaio’s Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe

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...

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Russell Pearce Gets Mad Love from the Arizona Republic

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...

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Joe Arpaio Recall Re-Ignites Paid Petition Effort with 22 Days to Go

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 ...

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Bill Montgomery’s Apartheid Policies Challenged by Puente’s Carlos Garcia in Videotaped Confrontation

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...

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Bill Montgomery Screwed Up Tom Horne Complaint, Second Judge Rules

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...

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Bill Montgomery’s Victims Break: 14 Captured in Sportex Raid Plead Out Under Coercion

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 ...

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ICE Detainee Commits Suicide, and a Not-So Modest Proposal (w/Update)

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...

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Did Phoenix Police Need to Kill Zachariah Pithan?

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...

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Joe Arpaio Recall: Give Joe the Pink Slip and Help Retire Him from Office

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...

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Bill Montgomery: Victimizer of Undocumented Workers, Turns "Victims’ Rights" Advocate in DC

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...

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DPS Officer’s Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months (w/Update)

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...

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Joe Arpaio Recall Claims 200,359 Valid Signatures with 38 Days and Counting

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...

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Joe Arpaio’s Chili Cooked by Kyrsten Sinema, Randy Parraz, and Andrew Sherwood

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...

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Joe Arpaio Henchman Bill Montgomery Milks CIR While Separating Parents from Children

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...

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Bill Montgomery’s Victims Rot in Jail, While Arizona Republic Praises His Hypocrisy on Immigration Reform

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...

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Joe Arpaio’s Wing-Nut Supporter John Philip Sousa IV’s Hysterical Appeal for Moolah

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 ...

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