Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

One of the vast network of R-Cubed correspondents e-mailed me with the, to say the least, amusing news that Joe Arpaio was losing an online poll at his own campaign website.
Unfortunately, by the time I had a chance to evaluate this chuckle-inducing development myself, one of Joe’s minions had the good sense to take the poll […]

Up in North-Central Maricopa County, what the kids at the club refer to as District 6, they are having a heck of a Republican primary. For those of you in Baja Arizona that may not know it, there is an ex-pointy ball player named Tony Bouie running against two candidates, Sam Crump and Carl Seel. […]

I got a missive from the Maricopa County Democratic Party announcing a new website, Joe’s Got to Go. The site is directed at Joe Arpaio of course. I’d like to see the guy forced into retirement, but I’m worried that despite the hammering that Arpaio is finally taking, that his popularity hasn’t been dinged enough […]

Anne Denogean had a write up of the current unpleasantness up in Mesa where an independent expenditure committee is taking on Russell Pearce. One of the Citizen posters (who are always insightful and brilliant), JAMES W. (capital letters because the truth needs to be prominent), revealed this stunning allegation:
This has the stink of actions by […]

Wow.
Check out this piece that has been sent out to Mesa voters. It is being sent from a group called Mesa Deserves Better, led by Republican aparatchiks Nathan Sproul and Brian Murray (who is not Bill Murray’s brother). It is one of those “independent expenditures,” but it is pretty obvious that this hit will help […]

I’ve been following some of the shenanigans up in District 14, where they have a bit of a primary for the House. Chad Campbell and Robert Meza are being challenged by John Valdez, who is an interesting candidate for a couple of reasons. He is a recently naturalized immigrant, which means that unlike a couple […]

Y’all may remember a while back when I wrote a critical post about Phil Gordon’s endorsements of Republicans, and not just moderates but hard cores like Andrew Thomas and Jim Weiers. I recieved a reply from Gordon’s campaign the general gist of which was that Gordon is above petty concerns like partisanship. Apparently, he is some sort […]

Joe Arpaio often touts his high approval ratings, which he likes to give as betweent 80 and 90 percent, as justification for his policies. This comes from the early part of the century (I say that because it sounds like a lot longer ago), but is not borne out by numbers taken more recently.
A Cronkite-Eight […]

I don’t read the New Times, at least not since they detailed that bizarre on-stage fight between Peter “Splat” Catalonotte and Chris Holliman at that River Roses show back in 1989.
Really, I don’t beacause it is a pale imitation of the Tucson Weekly.
Yes, I am saying that in the hopes that Jim Nintzel will buy me […]

Over at Blog for Arizona, Michael Bryan has posted the publicly released grand jury documents in the Maricopa County Attorney’s New Times fiasco. The idea here is to allow other bloggers (ie - me) and blog readers (ie - you) the chance to look through the documents and find interesting tidbits. This is called “Networked […]

It looks like folks in the Phoenix media are not buying Andrew Thomas’s excuse that he didn’t know what Dennis Willenchick was acting entirely on his own and Thomas didn’t know he was going to go and have the owners of the New Times arrested.
Come on guys, do you expect Thomas to actually run his […]

There’s that story, most likely made up, that Rudy Giuliani said “Thank God George Bush is our President” when he found out about the attacks on the World Trade Center. But, every time I hear about another dumb ass publicity stunt perpetrated by Joe Arpaio, I say to myself, “Thank God Clarence Dupnik is my […]

Here’s a strange story: former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley has apparently started doing work for Attorney General Terry Goddard.
This all started when Romley was handling the corruption case of Pinal County Manager Stanley Griffis and used space in the Attorney General’s office. Goddard has decided to make the arrangement a little more formal, and contract Romley to […]

As if things weren’t bad enough for J. D. Hayworth, in addition to losing his race, he had to watch as his 2004 opponent, Elizabeth Rogers, won a term as a Justice of the Peace in Maricopa County.
¡Pobrecito!
I recieved not one but two emails yesterday requesting volunteers to help in a hand recount of the […]