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November 09, 2011

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SB 1070 is a wonderful law. All 50 states should have it.

Why?

There are no jobs. We need to drive out immigrants and give their jobs to Americans who desperately need them.

The United States does not have enough jobs for its (legal) population. It is insane to allow employers to hire illegals when Americans are eating out of garbage cans.

In Florida, only illegals hold construction jobs. This includes electricians. Many truck drivers are illegal. Many warehouse workers are illegal. Nuclear power plants even hire illegals (or they used to, you can dig it up online). These are jobs that Americans are willing to do.

Let's drive out the illegals and put Americans to work.

Aside from SB 1070, Mr. Talton's analysis is outstanding.

I mean no harm to illegals, but Americans need those jobs DESPERATELY.

People can't get food. There are no jobs.

The Federal court system has all but gutted SB 1070, though the mean-spirited legislature that created it is certainly not gone.

I realize this might be too Phoenix-centric by your readers, but there's a collective sigh of relief that Wes Gullett didn't win the Phoenix Mayoral runoff, and that Daniel Valenzuela won a City Council seat instead of the other candidate who seemingly denied her association with the arts(not a good Republican link, though it probably would have gotten her votes)and campaigned with aforementioned Wes.

We can look forward to our next Mayor now. The proof will be in the results and campaign promises kept.

The Federal Court System is wrong. The judges who made those rulings should be removed from the bench.

We need jobs desperately. End of discussion.

Employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be imprisoned and destroyed financially. Americans are living in homeless shelters and eating out of dumpsters.

Let's force those judges to live under bridges and eat out of garbage cans and see how they like it.

Please consider this.

We have Americans who are begging and groveling for job. They live in filthy homeless shelters, under bridges, in abandoned cars, and in cardboard boxes. They beg for food and go to soup kitchens. They are former construction workers, truck drivers, electricians, engineers, and computer programmers.

There are virtually NO JOBS in the United States.

American employers are hiring illegal immigrants to work in construction, drive trucks, to work as electricians, plumbers, to work in warehouses, to repair phone networks, and to work in nuclear power plants. American employers want slave labor.

I know of a cement plant that fired all its American workers and replaced them with illegals and then the manager bragged "Illegals don't ask for overtime pay."

I once worked at a hospital that was forced by law to spend millions of dollars to care for illegal immigrants. None of the money was repaid. The hospital had to FIRE AMERICANS to make up for the money wasted taking care of illegal immigrants.

It is a hell of a lot of fun to work like a dog to take care of an illegal who doesn't pay a nickel, and curses you while you patch him up.

We don't need immigrants. They are taking jobs away from Americans.

We need jobs for our own people.

It would probably be better to enact laws that impose devastating penalties on any employer that hires illegal immigrants. Sadly, the Republicans will never let that happen.

SB 1070 is probably the next best thing.

Illegal immigrants ought to be driven out of the United States, and if necessary, at gunpoint. We could hire millions of unemployed Americans to do the job.

We can save massive numbers of American jobs by driving the illegals out.

If you don't like it -- then figure out a way to put Americans in decent jobs.

Note this: we would not have very many arguments over illegal immigrants if Americans had jobs.

Unfortunately, the real issue behind SB 1070 is *JOBS*. The core of the matter is not immigration policy or human rights. That's sad.

Everyone, including illegals, should be treating with decency. But that also extends to Americans who were fired and replaced by illegal immigrants.

Everyone forgets that part.

If you really want illegals to be treated well or welcomed, then you ought to be screaming "WE NEED JOBS FOR AMERICANS!!!!"

If Americans could get decent jobs, and were not losing jobs to illegal immigrants, then we would not have an SB 1070.

If Americans had jobs, we could toss SB 1070 into the trash can and move on.

We need jobs desperately. That is the central fact of life. Nothing else matters compared to that. People are starving. There are no jobs.

Washington apple growers scrambling to find workers...

OTHELLO, Adams County — One after another, at a recent emergency meeting in Wenatchee called by the Governor's Office, fruit growers talked about how hard it's been to find workers as the harvest hits its sweet spot.

One orchardist recalled how, of the 149 people referred to him earlier in the season by the state's unemployment office, half showed up on the first day, a quarter on the second day.

Now, only five remain.

And so it went around the room, until a representative from the state Department of Corrections proposed an unexpected solution: prison labor.

"Do they come with guards?" one grower asked.

While putting inmates to work in the fruit orchards of Eastern Washington proved too costly and too late to help growers this year, that it was even considered and studied shows the lengths to which growers and state officials will go to address the labor problems in one of Washington's most vital industries.

Apples alone are a $1.5 billion-a-year business in the state.

And two weeks ago Gov. Chris Gregoire amped up what now has become an almost annual harvest-time refrain by growers when she declared the state's farm-labor shortage a crisis.

Growers mostly blame rising tensions around illegal immigration that have spooked migrant farmworkers, the majority of whom are here illegally, while worker advocates say there'd be no shortage if growers were willing to pay workers more.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016652587_farmlabor31m.html

Mick I hear the "illegals" have abandoned the fields in Alabama. Have at it...though I hear the work is grueling and most Americans do not last a day. Americans are not so desperate that they'd take jobs that many illegals do happily. Laws like SB 1070 disproportionately affects these individuals. Jobs most Americans are looking for aren't jobs the typical "illegal" takes.

SB 1070 was never about chasing illegals out of Arizona, much less about raising wages to where citizens would take these jobs. If too many illegals left, the economy would collapse.

The low-wage, immigrant economy **is** Arizona, enriching the Anglos in ways most take for granted.

SB 1070 was about vote suppression of Hispanic citizens, keeping "the Mescans in their place," and creating an "enemy" that the right-wing could ride to electoral victory based on the fears of the gullible.

Mick, your concerns are tactile and accessible. The fact that your solutions to those concerns reinforces the idea of "The Other" wilts my excitement.

Think harder.

Jon, I agree with what you say except I am trying to understand how SB 1070 suppresses the Hispanic vote? Since voting Hispanics, like me, would be citizens, SB 1070 has little impact on us.

It wouldn't work against educated and/or multi-generational Hispanic-Americans. But it would be a deterrent against those naturalized in the '80s amnesty and after, who have kin here illegally, and are low skilled, poor, and don't fully trust their rights would be protected in Arizona. And their fears are not unfounded in a state that so favors the well-off.

Plus, we both know Mexican-Americans who are deeply ambivalent about the big immigrant wave and more than a few are anti-illegal, whatever their own story. This isn't spoken of in mixed company, but it's there.

An interesting perspective that I wouldn't have come up with on my own, sadly. Yes, there are plenty in my family that are ambivalent and others against illegal immigration. Interestingly, I know legal immigrants (mostly from Mexico) that are very frustrated with illegal immigrants as well...frustration that stems from a perceived sense of unfairness. I believe that is a learned response that they picked up along the way.

It is amazing that Arizona, a failing state economically and socially, tolerates its governor wasting so much time posturing on a federal issue. Rather than address economic malaise, Brewer forms a PAC to push a national agenda of the extreme wing of the National Republican Party.

A governor who truly was focused on its constituency's well-being would approach the immigration situation pragmatically. Texas sensibly rejected their own version of SB 1070 last year. But then Texas has always been pragmatic on commercial issues that benefit its state. The border states would be better off joining forces to petition Congress for economic aid to offset the stress caused by immigration on the southern border.

The political reality is that neither the majority of Republicans or Democrats actually desire drastic changes related to border migration. Brewer and SB 1070 serve Republicans as a distraction from pressing economic and social issues facing the nation. On a national scale, it is like abortion, flag burning or school prayer. Emotional yes; nationally significant, really not.

Arizona is one state of fifty. Like any other state, it is not permitted to pass obviously unconstitutional statutes due to a local problem.

The gun point approach to social problems suggested here is pathetic.

"My common-sense solutions include ..." - Rogue

Arizona has a singular, foundational, long-term, sustainable, exportable asset. It has been been languishing for decades.

Let's no get too far ahead of ourselves (or the courts). Judge Bolton issued a preliminary injunction to enjoin several provisions of SB1070 pending a full trial on the constitutionality of the legislation. The 9th Circuit upheld that ruling on the preliminary injunction. That decision is now pending at SCOTUS.

Put simply, there is no final decision yet. That Judge Bolton issued the preliminary injunction certainly suggests that she believes (and I think rightly so) that the State has overstepped its bounds and entered into federal terrain. However, after an appeal, the parties typically have the right to notice the trial judge (meaning: request a new judge). So regardless of what happens at SCOTUS (reverse the injunction and remand for trial, or affirm the injunction and remand for trial), this case is far from over and there's no telling what the next district court judge might do. Of course, there will be another round of appeals after the trial. We are several years away from the federal courts really gutting this law.

As for the law itself, like mentioned by Talton in the above comment, it's a great way to get rid of immigrant children who are themselves citizens but whose parents are illegal. My wife immediately lost students after the law passed. Not because the kids were illegal (they were born here), but because the parents or other relatives they lived with were illegal and had to leave. Not many 14 or 15 year olds can support themselves so they go back to Mexico with their relatives.

Three things happened, Jon.
1. Yes, the LDS hierarchy got sick of Russell Pearce. You are correct.
2. The "moderates" in the AZ GOP got sick of him too. SB1070 was a great get out the vote gimmick, but McCain/Brewer wing of the party wanted him gone. They also want Arpaio gone.
3. An amazing grassroots campaign coordinated by Randy Parraz united Democrats and, for the first time, young Latinos, who canvassed ceaselessly.

BTW, the ONLY extreme partisanship in this state is on the GOP side. Dems barely register a pulse. This will no doubt continue if the Brewer redistricting power grab is successful.

Post mortem's abound and generally each have at least some validity.

The kooks ARE still in charge at the state capitol. This will especially be true if Andy Biggshot is elected the next senate president.

However, the potential exists, with sustained focused,leadership and volunteers, to expand this movement.

I have to believe the Occupy movement, in ways that may not be yet measurable, contributed.

I believe the fact that this recall election was exclusive to Mesa highlighted the role of the LDS church in Pearce's ouster. But that doesn't mean waves of change are not or cannot be rippling outside of Mesa.

"the good is oft interred with their bones.”

Montini wrote an interesting piece in this mornings Republic regarding the reasons Pearce lost. The biggest reason perhaps being that voter turnout was double that of the last election. Many of those whom showed up at the polls were Democrats since they were allowed to vote in this recall election due to a "century's old State law".

Montini goes on to state that Pearce even tried to attract moderate voters by avoiding the illegal immigrant rants he is so well known for and instead focused primarily on the economy. Here is Montini's article:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2011/11/09/20111109montini1110-will-pearces-loss-save-ariz.html

Pearce supporters' antics (introducing a sham candidate, robo-calls with the caller having a heavy ethnic accent) didn't help Pearce's campaign either.

Something that has gone unmentioned is that voters of District 5 (Phoenix) elected to council a second Hispanic and Democrat, Daniel Valenzuela.

"It is amazing that Arizona, a failing state economically and socially, tolerates its governor wasting so much time posturing on a federal issue."

Misdirection. Prestidigitation. Everyone enjoys a magic show; preferring it to harsh reality.

we got rid of pearce and ended up with pierce?

all we changed was one vowel?

Arpiao makes Pearce Chief Deputy

Arpaio is next to go; you heard it here first...

Just as Pearce seemed too popular to lose, so goes it for Arpaio. Both men had/have more out-of-state support and monies in their war chests than local.

azrebel, Pierce did vote against Pearce's five additional and extreme anti-illegal immigration bills last session. Pierce said his focus will be "jobs and the economy". We'll see...

Russell Pearce will run, if he so chooses, in a more Republican district next year. Steve Pierce's idea of "jobs" means more tax cuts for corporations and the rich.

There are two things that can change Arizona. One will be a dramatic increase in Hispanics voting. The other will be an electoral debacle that chastens the ideologues on the right. Neither appears imminent.

The vacuum at the center of Arizona's power elite has been filled with free-lance paladins of bigotry and hysteria. There's no other political narrative now in this state except for the one they provide. But the deeper saga intertwines Arizona's collapse into tribalistic consciousness with a globalized economy that no longer cares about local issues. In effect, we're stranded in the 21st century with Mayberry values and a political class obedient to a two-headed monster - transnational corporate power and white victimology. This wouldn't be happening if Arizona had strong leadership. But absent strong civic stewards and a pragmatic business class, we're a flock in search of a shepherd. In turn, we can't formulate a coherent economic rationale, which leaves nostalgia and scapegoating to mediate our discourse.

Arizona is not nearly as dynamic as California but we are its satellite so that's where our future will eventually manifest. We're passive bystanders in all of this, so we might as well wish them the best. The best solutions will emerge from there; in branch-office fashion, we'll do with them what we can. But Arizona is not going to forge its own destiny because the power is elsewhere. We're rugged individualists if we ignore the government propping us up. And we shall.

I talked today with the boss of a contracting company building a rail line for an oil terminal. All the workers were Hispanic, likely Mexican. He said: "White guys wouldn't last two days on this job. It's too hard." I also knew Burt Barr and Alfredo Gutierrez, both of them fine men. Barr was a World War II hero and House majority leader in the 1970s. Alfredo was a groundbreaking and earthshaking state senator from Tucson. It's hard to believe what's happened to Arizona. Shocking. It's soullessness rivals only Penn State's perversion.

jmav is on the nail again:

"It is amazing that Arizona, a failing state economically and socially, tolerates its governor wasting so much time posturing on a federal issue."

Like Arizidouni upthread suggests: Magicians call it misdirection. The last thing Brewer and the State House want is anyone suggesting they are to blame for unemployment.

This "nothing up our sleeves" really is amazing. Unemployment is the Feds fault. Totally + totally. In fact we can focus it solely on that black socialist in the White House. All politics is local except for that which causes local unemployment. So go fish!

Here is what always amazes me:

Capitalism comes thru all this without blame. It is the biggest sacred cow on the North American continent. Capitalism is bigger than the Beatles and Jesus combined. God forbid anybody doubting for one second that Capitalism can provide manna endlessly for all.

But Capitalism can't and it won't...

Sure it was a fine horse in its day, but Capitalism can only run the human race so far up ladder. In fact it is dooming itself by birthing robots and AI computers by the factory full. Even China is losing manufacturing jobs to robots. So in answer to this question: Is unemployment structural or cyclical. Yes. That is to say: It is both. And it is those structural changes that are dooming Capitalism. More and more white collar jobs will go to AI. Truthfully? They've got AI software right now that does a better job of diagnosing human diseases than human doctors can...

The world is going to have to figure out a way to distribute the wealth the machines and robots create. This puts us outside of the Capitalistic system. The sheer bulk of future unemployment will force us off the current path.

Change is in the air...

There is more happening underfoot than our Decade of Discontent indicates...

Good to see the expanded participation. Jon's wisdom merits our collective attention; he's become an oasis in this media desert.

One observation: considering the recent votes in AZ, Ohio and even Mississippi, there are signs of SOME sanity returning . . or am I one of those "bright-siders" to whom Jon refers?

I am dragging the following over from the last blog, "election Day" then I ll be back to talk to Mick.

Now we will see what Stanton is made of?
I am holding off on Pearce until ALL the votes are counted. Who knows what skullduggery abounds out there in cult land.
But I believe the next two priorities for me are Brewer is a one term governor and AZ legally commercializes marijuana and heroin.

And see what happens when you ask a Robot to analyze a word like Bizzaro?
Susan Calvin would have objected for the mental welfare of the robot.

Dear Mick, First I would like to suggest you evaluate your future as a German citizen. That said as a 72 year old conservative white republican I try and think as a citizen of the planet earth and try not to live within boundaries drawn in the sand by others. I suggest a reading of Jeffery Keyes on migration. People go where they go for economic survival. Neither fences nor moats full of crocodiles or flaming oil will keep folks from migrating. I have no doubt the human species will make a serious attempt to migrate into the galaxy. For those who plan on staying keep your “Still Suit” in good working order. Frank Herbert was a real study as was Keith Laumer and Clifford Simak. I count them among my Science (fiction) heroes with Clarke and Asimov who I think saw the big picture on Urbanization.

And Jon, I have a real problem with "hope" consequently I think it's the same ole bull shit day in AZ.
And you think we got problems I suggest a reading of "Crazy River" by Richard Grant also the author of "Gods Middle Finger." He gave a god talk at Changing Hands last nite.
Mas Tarde,
EL Groucho

From the sweat lodge in Sedona.

Jon, I can’t let Janet go even if she is keeping an eye out for you and me. Keeping an eye out suggests (phxsunfan) a variation of the word skullduggery. If Janet had been a “real” democrat she would have cut Joe’s nuts off when she was US attorney. But she was not and never will be a real democrat. She is a self serving female, men don’t ask out and she is owned by Dennis Dicoccini and beholden to Joe. Only the devil knows what keeps Joe and Dennis around?
If Janet had any balls she would have stuck around as a “Democrat” Governor and not let the miscreant Jan Brewer assume the position that allowed Pearce to stick it to the public. And if we had a real AG a lot of politicians would have been indicted by know.
The fact that Janets boy US attorney Dennis Burke is gone just might make it possible to get some indictments at MCSO by the Feds? But not likely.

PS, I thought Homeland Security was a joke from the day Bush announced such, Of course as a real republican I thought Georgie Jr. was a joke.

Had “God is Red “(Vine Deloria) been true the natives would have kicked the white man’s ass.

"White guys wouldn't last two days on this job. It's too hard."

To which "white guys" was the bigot referring? Any job that is "too hard" simply means that an imbecile and/or a slaver is in charge.

Off topic but the "white guys" comment reminds me on this Veterans' Day that our recent wars have been fought for the most part by young people at the behest of old "white guys" and the Military-Industrial Complex. (sidebar: My 'Nam veteran brother saw the odious Don Rumsfeld at an event today and resisted the urge to throttle his sorry ass!)

Not a new day in AZ. The Pearce election was a neighborhood, tribal dispute. The same self-defeating policies will remain in place for the state.

One Amazon.com review of "God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre" said:

"Pure anglo-centric cultural imperialist hate speech with occasional lapses into research notes, which usually culminate in a bad and anti-Mexican punchline (such as Pancho Villa worshipping a cross dresser). A work of pure fiction disguised as druggy ethnography."

RATECRIMES There is validity in the Amazon review but there was good cultural and local flavor in Grants observations.
Particularly to the negative influence of the US drug cultutre on Mexico.

@korevel:

I agree with everything you said about Capitalism, including its sacred cow status, except for this one generousity:

"Sure it was a fine horse in its day..."

I am sure you were referring to a "fettered" horse, but that horse has been straining and snapping any and all harnesses so affixed, as it is by nature a wild horse. It's been a boil on human society's ass from day one (wherever you might place that day), as its True Believers have used every available avenue to separate the rest of us from a shared prosperity.

And its voracity as regard to resources have all but extinguished the dystopian possibilities of the technological future you posit and lament.

My admonishment is not to disagree, friend, but only to reassure.

Mick,

SB 1070 was a horrible law that turned 1/3 of the state's population (Hispanics) into second-class citizens.

It reversed the foundation of American jurisprudence -- the state must prove guilt -- by allowing police to stop Hispanics under the flimsiest of pretexts: witness the MCSO's "sweeps" in which trivial (or in many cases, fabricated) traffic or motor vehicle equipment violations were used as an excuse to interrogate Hispanics about their background.

Those unable to prove their innocence -- not even of a crime but of the civil offense of undocumented presence -- were subject to indefinite detention. Anyone giving transportation to such individuals (e.g., a family member) was potentially subject to arrest even if their own legal presence could be documented.

Anonymous complaints could be used to settle scores by falsely reporting neighbors or business employees as illegal, thus giving a pretext for police investigation. Anonymous complaints could also be used to give police other excuses for interrogating Hispanics about their background: anyone who merely suspected that their neighbor MIGHT be illegal or include illegals in their household, could anonymously report drug activity or other illicit activity at the home, with the intent simply of having their background checked by an investigating officer.

As for jobs, when the economy is poor and jobs are few, undocumented immigrants (who are here for employment) leave of their own accord or enter in fewer numbers.

The economy of Mexico, in contrast to our own, grew 5 percent last year. The Pew Hispanic Center reports that hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants have left Arizona (a decrease of 1/3). The number caught trying to cross the border at the Tucson Sector has plummeted to a low not seen since 1993, despite the increase of thousands of Border Patrol agents and thousands more National Guardsmen. (Apprehensions have also declined elsewhere along the border.)

When the economy is good, by contrast, population growth contributes to economic growth, and this is no less true for working illegal immigrants as it is for citizen workers migrating to Arizona from other states. By paying sales and payroll taxes, by paying rent, by purchasing food, cars, clothing, and other goods and services, migrants (whether legal or illegal) support the local economy and help it to expand, thereby actually creating new jobs. Documentation status does not change their economic role.

Arizona may have shot itself in the foot by creating a climate unfriendly to Hispanic immigrant workers: they may not flock to the state, this time, when the economy begins to recover, leaving the state with slower population growth, fewer consumers, and fewer taxpayers; and as a consequence, a more slowly growing economy (i.e., one slower to add new jobs).

This may also mean a choice between higher taxes or decaying infrastructure, the maintenance costs of which have traditionally been paid for by new growth (especially by new population and housing growth and the retail growth which follows the new population). Yes, it's a Ponzi scheme, but like it or not that's the way Arizona's economy works.

It's been a great year for cleaning house: the "axis of evil" spanning three branches of government, and consisting of Arpaio, Thomas, and Pearce, has been broken up.

The veil of silence at the MCSO was broken by Deputy Chief Munnell's memo. Arpaio's henchman, David Hendershott, has been fired, as have a clique of his cronies. Arpaio and others remain under federal investigation for both civil and criminal complaints. Arpaio has shown himself through testimony to be either incompetently ignorant or deceitful and conniving.

Thomas is gone and faces possible disbarment, and several of his henchmen face disbarment or other sanctions.

Pearce, despite raising three times the funds of his unknown novice opponent, lost a recall vote. Great stuff.

That said, the Arizona legislature, and in particular its majority leadership, is still packed with reactionary wackos, many of the most influential of whom were put in leadership positions (or otherwise nurtured) by Pearce when he was Senate President or chaired influential legislative committees. He's already assured continuity for many of his policies by stacking the cards for his succession. Getting rid of them will require one of two things:

(a) A massive voter-registration effort among Hispanics and others among the poor and disaffected who might be convinced to register as independents so as to be able to vote in Republican primaries; or

(b) An amendment to Arizona's constitution to allow open primaries where anyone can vote regardless of party affiliation. (The fact that Democrats got to vote in the recall election against Pearce helped a lot.)

This probably won't change the state's majority party, but it will result in greater moderation among candidates: the reason is that when faced with the choice of two (or more) Republican candidates running in a primary election, minority Democrats in a district will naturally vote for the least repulsive. While it's true that Republicans can also vote for more conservative candidates among Democrats, the state isn't exactly a hotbed of left-wing liberals: it IS a hotbed of right-wing conservatives.

E.J. Montini reports that the Arizona Open Government Coalition is trying to get an open primary proposition on the 2012 ballot. They "need to collect 259,213 valid signatures of Arizona voters by July 5 to get it on the ballot. They've gotten about 40,000 so far and have a website where folks can contribute or become volunteers". The website is:

http://azopengov.org

This is doable.

Excellent posts Emil.
Maybe HOPE is not an illusion?

State legislator John Kavanagh is a former Pearce uber altar boy who is most likely crafting his own re-invention strategy. It will be interesting to see how he and other Kooks behave now that their Whack-a-doodle in Chief is deposed. While State Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is the brightest of all the Arizona legislators, Dr. Kavanagh is the most intelligent of the conservatives. But now he's without Big Brother, thus crippled considerably.

One of your best, Emil. Thanks.

A new day in AZ?
A new day in the U.S.?

Ever since reading the autobiography of Teddy Roosevelt, I have been curious about the effort the old Rough Rider put into restraining both big corporations and big government,i.e. government bureaucracy.

It would appear that over the ensuing 100 years, the big corporations have morphed into areas "where the money is". That would make sense. That is what they feed on.

More disheartening is the bureaucracy that is Washington, D.C. It would appear that when a bureaucracy is targeted for reduction or removal, it reacts as if alive and the end result is additional growth. Even when funding is cut, the bureaucracy has friends within the system and when the threat is gone, money finds its way back.

I don't think it's going to be a new day anywhere until the Black Hole in DC is dealt with. I don't see how that can happen.

Here's Salon's take:

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/russell_pearce_open2011/

And the LA Times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/russell-pearce-recall-election-arizona.html

Will the survivng members of Arizona's cartoonishly bizaare, corrupt, and unintelligent political class now have a competition to see which can best reassure the voting public that they're sane, decent, and genuinely concerned with the welfare of their constituents? I sure hope so, I love a good laugh.

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