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Head of Phoenix Tea Party Hobbits Stands By Phoenix Mayoral Candidate
Wes Gullett
By
Monica
Alonzo Thu., Jul. 28 2011 at 6:16 PM
We've
already heard about Senator John McCain calling tea party politicos hobbits
yesterday as he ranted
before Senate members about debt ceilings and balanced budget amendments.
Well, Wes Harris, the leader of those beloved, hairy-footed small people who live inMiddle-earth Phoenix, is backing Wes Gullett, a former McCain
operative and Phoenix mayoral candidate.
Harris, founder of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party, first declared in an e-mail that mayor-hopeful Jennifer Wright was part of his "life's blood" and the only candidate who could be supported ... only to later question whether she was even right for the job.
His tea party/hobbit support -- at least for now -- is squarely with Gullett, and we say that makes Gullett a hobbit, too. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/07/head_of_phoenix_tea_party_hobb.php
Well, Wes Harris, the leader of those beloved, hairy-footed small people who live in
Harris, founder of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party, first declared in an e-mail that mayor-hopeful Jennifer Wright was part of his "life's blood" and the only candidate who could be supported ... only to later question whether she was even right for the job.
His tea party/hobbit support -- at least for now -- is squarely with Gullett, and we say that makes Gullett a hobbit, too. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/07/head_of_phoenix_tea_party_hobb.php
Downtown Scottsdale residents might call on sheriff for help
Edward Gately - The Arizona Republic -
July 29, 2011 09:10 AM
Downtown Scottsdale residents and merchants again are calling on
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to step in and do something about what they
say is ongoing illegal activity associated with patrons of the entertainment
district.
The Association to Preserve Downtown Scottsdale's Quality of Life has
begun circulating a petition asking the sheriff's office to conduct crime
suppression sweeps in Scottsdale for "various unlawful offenses." The
group's goal is to collect at least 1,000 signatures and present them to the
sheriff by Labor Day, Sept. 5.
Judge unimpressed with state’s
arguments in SB1070 countersuit
Jeremy Duda – Arizona Capitol Times -
July 28th, 2011
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton didn’t immediately rule on a
motion to dismiss Arizona’s countersuit against the federal government, but
left no doubt that she would throw out at least part of the case.
At a hearing Wednesday at the Sandra Day O’Connor United States
Courthouse, Bolton picked apart the state’s arguments. Both Bolton and an
attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice said the arguments raised in
Arizona’s countersuit – filed in response to the federal government’s lawsuit
against Senate Bill 1070 – were resolved by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in similar lawsuits filed in the 1990s by Arizona and California.
Judge: No basis for her to issue
order to feds to increase border security
Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services |
Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:03 pm
A federal judge said Thursday there appears to be no legal basis for a
request that she order the Obama administration to do more to protect the
border.
Judge Susan Bolton noted that the state is requesting that she rule
that the federal government is failing in its mandate to protect the country
from “invasion.’’ That is based on the contention that Arizona — and the United
States — is effectively being invaded by large numbers of illegal immigrants.
Last of Arizona immigration protesters
on trial
Amanda Lee Myers – AP – Boston Globe -
July 29, 2011
PHOENIX—The
president of a national religious organization and five others went on trial
Friday in Phoenix a year after they were arrested while protesting Arizona's
tough immigration law and a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
The Rev.
Peter Morales, president of the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist
Association, is charged with a misdemeanor count of failure to obey an order.
Morales lives in Arvada, Colo. and Salem, Mass., and was elected as the first
Latino president of the association in 2009.
Details emerge of a life of horror
for Phoenix girl who died
William Hermann - The Arizona Republic -
July 29, 2011 12:00 AM
Ame Deal, a 10-year-old girl who died while stuffed inside a small
footlocker, suffered a miserable life and horrific abuse at the hands of the
adults who were entrusted with her care, police and court records say.
The child lived in what police described as a hellish, rubbish-strewn
south Phoenix home where she survived at the mercy of four adults whose
actions, court records say, bordered on torture.
A child's unspeakable end
Laurie Roberts – azcentral.com – July 28, 2011
I write words. It's what I do yet today I find that there are none to
properly convey what has happened here in our city to a little girl named Ame,
forced into a footlocker and left to suffocate and die.
Horror? It seems such an antiseptic word. Outrage doesn't begin to
cover it.
Revulsion probably comes the closest as I read what happened to
10-year-old Ame Deal.
Phoenix twins raise questions over
Chandler homicide
Laurie Merrill and Kevin Kennedy -Arizona
Republic-12 News - July 28, 2011 07:18 PM
It was a brawl outside a Chandler dance hall that resulted in a
homicide, a fleeing suspect who is a twin, and a family in mourning.
Now, nearly half a year later, questions are swirling over whether
police arrested the right sibling in connection with the murder.
The homicide took place Feb. 12 at a would-be hip-hop club called
Leonardo's Da Vinci Code, which was opened for the first time and has since
failed to get a liquor permit. A fight that started inside spilled outside, and
more than 100 young adults were swarming, said Chandler Det. Joe Favazzo.
Twin Brothers Complicate Arizona
Murder Investigation
LAURA RIPARBELLI – abc News - July 29,
2011
Orlando Nembhard has been in an Arizona since March 28 on murder
charges, but he is poised to be released on bail because investigators now
aren't certain whether the suspect in jail should be Orlando or his twin
brother Brandon.
Orlando Nembhard's bond was lowered from $500,000 to $10,000 on
Thursday after it was determined that there wasn't enough evidence to keep
Orlando Nembhard in jail for the murder of 19-year-old Sir Xavier Brooks who
was shot and killed outside an Arizona nightclub on Feb. 12.
Ford fined for illegal race track in
Wittman
Sean Crowley -KPHO TV-5 - July 28, 2011 4:13 PM Updated: Jul 29, 2011
6:51 AM
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office announced that Ford Motor Company
has paid a $225,000 penalty for illegally constructing a test track at its
Arizona Proving Grounds in Wittman without a permit.
Tom Horne and His Office's Possible
Conflict in Redistricting Probe
Stephen Lemons – Phoenix New Times -
Thu., Jul. 28 2011 at 6:32 PM
Horne's probe of the AIRC raises a possible, Andrew Thomas-like
conflict of interest
In this week's column, I addressed the claims of Arizona Tea Party
members, and some Republicans, concerning the Arizona Independent Redistricting
Commission.
One of these claims is that the AIRC may have violated Arizona's open
meetings law, as well as state procurement procedures in the pick of the
commission's mapping consultant Strategic Telemetry.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/07/tom_hornes_office_conflicte.php
