All posts tagged "Russell Pearce"

Democrats are not pleased that Russell Pearce, the chief architect Arizona’s controversial immigration law, plans to run for the state Senate again after being ousted by a recall election last year.

Less than three months after he lost his seat in a recall election, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce won election Saturday to be vice chairman of the Arizona Republican Party.

Republican candidate Jerry Lewis defeated Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce in an unprecedented recall election on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

It would almost be funny how much the people behind racist uproar in Arizona swear they're not racist, if the whole situation weren't so damn serious. Despite the swearing up and down that this has nothing to do with race, and just is a matter of enforcing immigration law, the targeting of legal immigrants and natural born citizens tells a different story. Let's start with the targeting of school teachers with foreign accents, all of whom have a legal right to live and work here, and some of whom were recruited by the school system to teach English.