Phoenix Human Rights Commission votes to oust Arpaio. Wingnuts are displeased.
My good bud Diane D’Angelo chairs the City of Phoenix Human Rights Commission. Unlike many boards and commissions, HRC actually does stuff. Last night they voted unanimously to demand Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s resignation for numerous and egregious civil and human rights violations. Needless to say this has caused consternation among Arpaio’s nativist fan [...]
They are Fast and Furious with the red herring. And that’s too bad.
I get regular email updates from several GOP politicians in Arizona, including my own Representative Ben Quayle. Earlier this afternoon I received a mass email from him demanding US Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation for “the Fast and Furious debacle”. After questioning the attorney general and listening to his responses during the December 8 Judiciary [...]
The type of sensible moderate legislator we’ll get if they just do away with Clean Elections
AZ Senator Lori Klein (R-LD6) may face felony charges for brandishing her loaded hot pink pistol at a reporter and pointing its laser sight at his chest. Klein, a proud Tea Partier, recently attracted notoriety when she read a letter on the floor of the Senate from a substitute teacher that viciously stereotyped and denigrated [...]
This is exactly how it started with Arpaio
A facebook friend made the astute observation today that the Valley news media have been giving Pinal County Sheriff Babeu the same kind of fawning, obsequious coverage they had given Sheriff Arpaio for years. This uncritical reporting, which at times was difficult to distinguish from outright PR flacking, helped enable Arpaio to run a massively [...]
I’m taping the Square Off
The show will air 8am on Channel 12 Sunday morning. I’m on the panel with Neil Rosekrans of Statebrief (a nice guy and only conservative whose blog is allowed on the Diva blogroll) and Howie Fischer of Capitol Media Services. We’re going to be discussing Arpaio’s latest misspending foibles and the sucktastically bad bills coming [...]
Our rich overlords are superior to us because, why?
In the 2008 Maricopa County Sheriff’s race, there were some rich people who thought it would be cute to run nasty ads against the guy who had the temerity to run against Joe Arpaio. They set up an illegal slush fund to do just that. The organizers of this endeavor and their donors were so [...]
Meanwhile, Arpaio is so desperate for someone to pay attention to him
He’s reduced to going on cockfighting man dates with Steven Seagal. In a massive show of force on Monday, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant and arrested the homeowner, Jesus Llovera, on charges of suspected cockfighting. Llovera was alone in the house at the time of the arrest, and he was unarmed. [...]
