Russel Pearce recall

[drmeow]

Apologies if this is a duplicate - don't see it posted anywhere. It looks like the recall effort against Russel Pierce (architect of the AZ "show me your papers" bill) is going to succeed:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2011/11/08/20111108russell-pearce-recall-trailing-jerry-lewis.html

Pearce's comment: "if being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, so be it."

No, Pearce, being recalled is the price for your corruption and douchebaggery!

Granted ... he's being replaced with another conservative Mormon but it still sends a loud message.

[gateley]

1. It was posted last night, but no such thing as "too much good news"! nt

[Motown_Johnny]

2. it is about the 6th one today, but they keep falling off the front page

kicking

[drmeow]

4. Hmmm - search feature not working well

I did a couple searches, too, and nothing came up.

Oh, well :shrug:

[Motown_Johnny]

5. here is one I did myself some time ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2269285


I think I was 2nd or 3rd but it was about 7:45 this morning.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Dissenting in part

Russell Pearce is not a conservative. He is far right. His opponent who will sit in his senate seat, sounds more like a conservative.

This is a defeat for the Tea Party, the Koch Brothers and racists everywhere.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Here's the LBN thread

Russell Pearce Recall Election: Arizona Immigration Law Architect Defeated By Lewis
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5053281

Posts 9, 13 and 18 have links to more GD threads.

As gateley said, there's no such thing as too many threads for this news. :thumbsup:

[pampango]

7. "Russell Pearce Recall a Warning to Arizona's GOP?"

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/11/russell_pearce_recall_a_warnin.php

Soon-to-be-former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce got the boot from office last night, becoming the only sitting state Senate president to lose in a recall election in the history of the United States.

Pearce's loss is viewed by many as a warning shot to immigration hard-liners, and far-right-wingers, who have followed Pearce's path away from the mainstream.

"This victory shows that the citizens of Arizona want fair immigration reform and will not stand for any law that racially profiles any segment of the community," Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona in Action, an organization instrumental in the Pearce recall, says. "It is now time for our community to move forward together, inclusively."

A few of Pearce's GOP Senate colleagues apparently get the hint, and (quietly) have been whispering that the Senate president's recall should serve as a message to other Republican lawmakers that they need to take a more moderate approach to immigration reform -- unless they want to go the route of their now-ousted leader, that is.


Russell Pearce -- and his pal, white supremacist J.T. Ready
-- apparently are too extreme for Arizona.

[drmeow]

8. Snort - Wikipedia already has

him as "former" - I LOVE it!