Today is closing arguments in Melendrez v Arpaio and there just happens to be a high profile raid by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office on a GNC distribution center. Coincidence, I’m sure.
While testifying at the his racial profiling trial yesterday, Joe Arpaio was confronted with an assertion from his book, Joe’s Law. In the book, Arpaio states that second and third generation Mexican-Americans are separate from the American mainstream. When confronted with this nugget, Arpaio did the brave, no-nonsense and take-charge thing: he blamed his co-author. [...]
Today begins what is scheduled to be a seven day trial over allegations (yeah, I gotta say that) of racial profiling in the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office. Cue the responses from my conservative friends that racial profiling doesn’t exist, and if it exists it is justifiable, and Robert Byrd was in the Klan seventy years [...]
Joe Arpaio has scheduled yet another press conference for Tuesday to tell all of us what his “cold case posse” has found out about the circumstances of Barack Obama’s birth. He promises it will be “breathtaking.” What’s breathtaking is that this baboso continues to be taken seriously as a political and law enforcement figure by [...]
There are all sorts of low level and petty shenanigans among the candidates in our brand spanking new LD’s 9 and 10. I haven’t written much about them because they don’t seem to rise much above rumor and innuendo, and far be it from me to write about nonsense like that. Our beleaguered primos up [...]
La Cervecera put out a statement saying that the “heart” of 1070 has been held up, and this makes everything okay. It may be, but the court seemed to say that there could be further litigation depending on how the provision empowering police officers to check immigration status of those that are deemed “reasonably suspicious” [...]
I resisted writing anything about Joe Arpaio’s arrest of a six year old girl. It’s hard for me to write about the more odious actions of Arpaio. I find when I’m angry, I’ll just write an unhinged rant instead of a decent post. Still, it pisses me off. Here is the sheriff of one of [...]
Janet Napolitano announced this morning that DHS will no longer deport “low priority” illegal immigrants. These would be folks who migrated before their sixteenth birthday, have committed no major crimes and are under the age of 30. It goes without saying that this will cause the usual veins-in-the-neck popping snit from certain folks who have [...]
No one seems to be listening to Joe Arpaio on his latest attention grabbing crusade. The only people that are are crackpots and third-rate talk show hosts. Here is Arpaio on his frustration that even Republican presidential candidates aren’t following him like lonely puppies: I’ve had presidential candidates visit me in my office. I’ve talked [...]
We were all horribly astonished that Joe Arpaio declared that he will not cooperate with federal officials on a probe of his office. I mean, it wasn’t too long ago that he said he would, right? The New Times has a bit on the response from Maricopa County Attorney and Arpaio henchman Bill Montgomery in [...]
