arizona made national history yesterday.

[Robeysays]

I live in Mesa CD-18, formally Rep. Pearce's district.

He lost. like a punk.

mud all over his face like a bridge troll.

any who. did you know this was the first successful recall of a sitting Senate President in national history? As in the entire US, in some ~240 years of our nation.

Also this was the first recall of any Arizona state legislator in our own ~100 years of history.

A lot of Ass Holes who are not members of this board talk shit about AZ. Maybe you should read about how this state was founded on progressivism (the actual movement for the early 1900's)

Before California, Oregon, Washington or Nevada, Colorado or New Mexico. you all were late to the game. joke constitutions built of manifest destiny and supreme right of white ownership. AZ was a shining bastion of liberalism in the west for several years, until all the wretched old conservatives moved here after air conditioning was invented. That's when shit hit the fan. you all scared them off. they ran here. and elected "Russel Pearce"s for the last 55 years. My state's powerful liberal history of progress and education were systematically destroyed by these jack wagons.

did you know education funding and rights are in the Arizona Constitution? that's why are universities still get funded in this recession and schools have not cut teachers beyond frictional unemployment?

no a lot of you don't. you think it's nothing but hillbillies in this state. it's not true. it's all your hillbilly cousins that moved here. but were coming up. it's been going back blue for 15 years now.

If anything is a sign. it's that Russel "I KNOWINGLY HANG OUT WITH NEO-NAZIs and APPEAR AT THEIR EVENTS" Pearce has just been defeated. you have to live here to understand the magnitude of the loss. this man was untouchable. UN FUCKING TOUCHABLE.

bonus info on AZ, did you know there are more ecosystems in AZ than any other state in the nation? no. you thought it was all desert.

learn something.

[Kali]

1. a lot of the riducule we get is deserved but I recc'd your post anyway

belated welcome to DU

[Robeysays]

5. yeah true, but we've been trying.

liberal AZ has been tryin and grindin and strugglin for years to come up. and i think the next generation is gonna be throwin political bows down here.

[bemildred]

2. +1. nt

[Fumesucker]

3. I'm not alerting but broad brush attacks on other DUers are forbidden..

You might want to edit before your post is locked or deleted.

[Robeysays]

9. edited.

i forgot. some constitutions aren't as strong as Arizonans'.

[Demoiselle]

4. Um...I think Arizona is very beautiful ...

And the one brief time I was there, I met a lot of beautiful people too. I"ve never held the prejudices you list, but
I'm glad you wrote this, Robeysays. I'm gonna do more reading about Arizona.

[aquamarina]

6. Good info - thanks for sharing

and congratulations on getting rid of Pearce.

[Robeysays]

10. the man was a toad

and little fat toad

[JanMichael]

7. :) thank you

AZ is my favorite state other than NC, and Colorado. It's gorgeous there, and we always enjoy the diversity whenever we are lucky enough to visit.

[Robeysays]

11. out side the concrete jungle of greater pheonix...

you'll be hard pressed to find any ecosystem in the nation that isn't here.

Did you know that Live Oaks grow in southwestern AZ in southern Greenlee county? They film several Civil war movie plantation scenes there. being that it's still all farms and live oaks.

[JanMichael]

16. I did not know that

I do know that we dislike the Phoenix area for vacations, and prefer starting in the South around the Saguaro cactus forests, then heading up north to the GC....love love love the area around Sedona, but were sad to see all the new "growth" there :(

[Robeysays]

20. it's tragic. you know we almost got Urban Sprawl out-lawed...

in the constitution by referendum. lost by like 5% maybe 7% in 2002 in think.

Yeah we're that Bad ass. ARIZONA. deal with it.


i honestly think if they tried again they would win.


the only reason they lost was that the construction cos. lobbied so hard. out spent the group like 2-1 or something.

[Tansy_Gold]

8. Proud to K&R from Apache Junction n/t

[Robeysays]

14. when i sign the petiton thought it wouldn't even get cert.

but i made sure everyone i know who lived here at least knew of the election. doing my part. ya mean.

[struggle4progress]

12. kudos and congrats!

and let me add that, although i understand you are saying "arizona is not all desert," i personally find deserts very beautiful

[Robeysays]

18. well there's a lot of that.

the thing is, a lot of these ecosystems are "Islands". They call them that because they occupy the top the the mountain ranges that stretch across the basin and range zone of our state which is a rift zone. each island chain as unique as the last. like islands in the pacific.


to get to them you have to cross miles of dessert and hike miles of trail. but there are so many beautiful unique islands.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

13. You sound angry. Relax

All most people know about Arizona is what makes the news and lets face it, Pearce, Arpio, Mc Cain, Kyle and Brewer don't exactly present a positive image but they are who make the news. Few people are familiar with how great Grijalva is. Hell, he makes Di Fi look like a right wing hack but he rarley makes the news.

I moved to Tucson a year ago from a lifetime in the S.F. Bay area and I will admit that it was not without some trepidation because all I really knew was what I'd heard about the above named assholes. A year later I absolutly love this state but only because, after living here showed me what a great place this is.
I could go on for pages but I don't have the time.

Anyway, try to understand why Az has the image it does and try not to be so angry.

Peace
Bud

[Robeysays]

17. word. i get what you are saying.

it's just we have such a great history. a really shinning example of progress, federalism, liberalism of 45 years. then AC, retirement, sun city, jane hull, fife simington, jane brewer.

it took them 55 years to gerrymandered the legislature into 2/3 majority for Rs in a state where they constitute only 1/3 of the population.

did you see what they are doing to our independent commission? the one we put in to law 11 years ago precisely for jerk offs like brewer and her little flying monkeys?

we be grinding. comin' up.

[yellerpup]

15. Congratulations on your historic win unseating Pearce!

You brought up much about AZ history that has never been on my radar. Thanks for bringing us up to date. I look forward to learning more any time you want to talk about it. :kick: & Rec.

[Robeysays]

19. it was stolen from us.

it really was a tragedy. our state started with a lot of promise. don't worry. though. the natives tell every loud mouth that likes to drive his stakes and pan at the salt what this state really is about.

also ;) there is usually no water in the salt. except for tempe's ugly yet good intentioned lake.

[yellerpup]

21. No matter what happens

a good sense of humor never hurts. :D

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Thank you and congratulations to Arizona voters!