Tag Archives: Arizona

What could possibly go wrong? Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s armed volunteer posses are set to begin patrolling areas around Phoenix, Ariz. schools on Monday, more than a week after the plan drew national attention in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Arizona’s 3TV reports that Arpaio’s volunteer force is comprised of …

SF Weekly reports: You can count on San Francisco to keep things real, and last night the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence didn’t just keep it real, they kept it really entertaining. Was it a coincidence that the sisters had dinner reservations next to the very conservative Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio (aka “America’s Toughest Sheriff”) last night at John’s Grill in …

An Arizona high school principal has punished two fighting boys by forcing them to hold hands in front of the entire school and thereby allow fellow students to cruelly mock them as homosexuals. The boys were so humiliated, they shielded their faces rather than face their taunters. Earlier this week, the two students at Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz., …

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It took almost a week to count all the absentee ballots, but today the Associated Press finally called the election for Krysten Sinema, who becomes the nation’s first-ever openly bisexual member of Congress. Chris Geidner has a recap at Buzzfeed: Sinema defeated Vernon Parker in the closely fought contest. She will be the only out LGBT female in the House …

Jared Loughner, the man who shot Rep. Gabby Giffords in the head and killed six others, was sentenced in Arizona today. The facts in the case were never in doubt. Loughner was the only suspect. The key issue focused on whether he would avoid the death penalty because of his mental health. After the shooting, Loughner was diagnosed with schizophrenia …

(Via JMG reader Kent)

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, one of the state’s most vocal opponents of same-sex partner rights, has been exposed (by the FBI, no less) as an adulterer. Tom Horne caused more than $1,000 worth of damage when he clipped another car in a parking garage and just drove off, in order, according to FBI agents, to conceal an affair he …

The right-wing Daily Caller reports that a CBS affiliate in Arizona ran a lower-screen graphic on Friday that showed the president as having already won the election. Oops. For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election over Gov. Mitt Romney with 99% of the …

Another amusing brain spasm from Brewer: “I know if President Obama is elected in November, which I hope he is, he will be able to come together with all of us and come up with a solution. I believe he will secure our borders. And therefore, we can resolve all of the other issues as a simple matter.”

Yesterday Kyrsten Sinema won the Democratic primary for the U.S. House, advancing her bid to become the first-ever openly bisexual member of Congress. Julie Bolcer reports at The Advocate: The Arizona Republic called the race for Sinema around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. She defeated former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Andrei Cherny and state Senate minority leader David Schapira, taking 42.5% of …

Yesterday was the first day that young undocumented immigrants began lining up to apply for deportation deferrals made possible by President Obama. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer responded by banning applicants from being issued driver’s licenses or receiving any public benefits. Gov. Brewer said the federal program doesn’t give immigrants legal status and she’s following the intent of the current state …

Rep. Ben Quayle (above right) is demanding that his Arizona GOP primary opponent apologize for what Quayle says is an allegation that he is bisexual. Schweikert’s campaign is not backing down from the controversial mailer it issued on Friday, which characterizes Quayle as someone who “goes both ways.” The campaign says the wording refers to his flip-flops on important issues. …

The Arizona man who was fired on the spot after posted a YouTube video in which he berated a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru employee has issued an apology to her.

Earlier today I reported about Adam Smith, the straight Arizona biotech CFO who was fired yesterday for berating a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru employee and then posting a YouTube clip of the incident. According to Smith, who is the married father of four children, two of whom were adopted with special needs, his family has been receiving death threats from God’s Gentle …

After an Arizona man filmed himself berating a drive-thru employee of a Scottsdale-area Chick-Fil-A, his clip went viral on anti-gay sites, prompting internet sleuths identify the man and track down his biotech employer who fired their CFO on the spot. From the company’s press release: Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam …

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that allows state employees to place their same-sex partners on their health insurance. Chris Geidner reports: After the 2011 decision, lawyers for the state asked the Ninth Circuit to re-hear the case en banc, or by an 11-judge panel. On April 3, the Ninth Circuit denied the …

As news cameras rolled, a former Wall Street banker appeared to swallow poison moments after he was convicted of burning down his Arizona mansion. Paramedics pronounced him dead minutes after he went into convulsions on the court room floor. All eyes were on the court clerk as she read the verdict on a single count. Then the jury left the …

It’s not all good news: “The court let stand the part of the law that requires law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being undocumented.”