Citizens in Mesa's very
conservative District 18 elected Russell Pearce six straight times. He was
virtually untouchable, and when the nation pivoted to the right in 2010,
Arizona went over the edge. Voters elected "Headless Bodies" Jan
Brewer as governor, they gave her a veto-proof House and Senate, wingnuts Tom
Horne and Ken Bennett were elected Attorney General and Secretary of State, and
then legislators installed Russell Pearce, chief architect of SB 1070, as
President of the Senate. Talk about a mandate!
The media dubbed Pearce "the
most powerful politician in Arizona." That was one year ago. Tonight
Russell Pearce can't say he's never lost an election.
Jerry
Lewis, a political neophyte who was outspent greatly in the historic recall of
Senate President Russell Pearce, sailed to victory tonight as the vast majority
of votes have been counted in the west Mesa special election. Arizona Capitol
Times
Why did voters turn so quickly? It
didn't take long for the honeymoon between Pearce and the public to sour, after
he tried to install himself as co-leader of the police state he and Sheriff Joe
Arpaio were building.
Pearce drew up a blacklist
that prohibited human rights advocates from entering the legislative chambers.
He banned the
public from the Senate's press conferences. He seemed not to
give a damn when his policies, including SB 1070, pushed Arizona's economy into
the shitter, saying
it's a "myth" that the state's image was damaged! He ignored the
public's will and went after education and healthcare with a vengeance, even
kicking 100 people off a life-saving organ transplant list. He said
they would "die anyway." Eh. At the same time they were gutting
schools and healthcare, Pearce and the other GOP greed-heads passed huge
corporate tax breaks.
Believing he had a mandate to push
through even more drastic immigration dumbfuckery, Pearce introduce five extremely
racist bills last session. They were so radical that 70 Arizona CEOs
sent the Senator a letter asking him to quit acting like such a douchebag,
because the cloud of bigotry he cast over the entire state was hurting tourism
and business in general. In March the foundation of hate cracked completely
when the GOP-dominated, veto-proof Senate rejected
all of Pearce's immigration bills. Uh oh.
The worm had started to turn, but
it appears Pearce didn't learn anything. He brought the same level of arrogance
to the recall campaign. But when the media shined a light on his deceptive
tactics, and voters saw the real Russell Pearce, they sent him packing.
Read more.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/08/1034299/-Lies-deceptions-backfire:-Arizona-Senator-Pearce-DEFEATED!?via=siderecent
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