Russell Pearce

Russell Pearce Is On the Ropes, Even if the Horizon Brain Trust Can't See It

Russell Pearce, Flag-Desecrator and Lawbreaker?

Talk about no class. At least JT wore a suit, though he's sportin' an Old Glory tie...I feel a little like the Arizona Republic's Clay Thompson in discussing this issue, raised via e-mail by someone involved in the effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce. But here goes.Some have sugge ... More >>

Russell Pearce Recall Scores 18,315 Signatures and Counting, Let the Battle Begin

Mark my words, Pearce is going down...Russell Pearce, have a heapin' helping of freshly baked humble pie.Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group spearheading the effort to recall the powerful state Senate President, made history today, turning in 18,315 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State' ... More >>

J.D. Hayworth: Backers of Russell Pearce Recall Are "Socialist Thugs Who Carry Swastikas"

J.D. Hayworth is trying to get people to think that if you don't like Russell Pearce you support Nazism.​Former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth claims the effort to recall Senate President Russell Pearce is being backed "socialist thugs who carry swastikas."It seems the former "free government money" sp ... More >>

Russell Pearce and JT Ready, Together Again on Fox 10

Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I've seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. ... More >>

Russell Pearce Is Going Down, But the Recall Still Needs Your Help

Randy Parraz (in black) with volunteers and staff at recall headquartersAs I type this, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and a number of local activist groups are having a press conference calling on Sheriff Joe Arpaio to resign and for the feds to take the sheriff's office and the jails ... More >>

Russell Pearce Threatens To Lock Up Union Members, Public Employees

Lord of the Flies, maybe. But the King of Comedy, he ain'tWill I miss having state Senate President Russell Pearce to kick around once he's been recalled, his career ended in disgrace?Yes and no. Of course, I want to see this menace to humanity flattened (metaphorically) like a Looney Toons characte ... More >>

May 11 In Blogs: Russell Pearce, Craig Citizen, Fatboy Slim, Four Peaks, and Meghan McCain

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Jan Brewer Defies Russell Pearce, Republinuts, Vetoes Birther Bill, Others

Jan Brewer puts the smack down on Russell Pearce and his wing-nut pals, at least on three bills...Chalk up another embarrassing defeat for state Senate President Russell Pearce and his fellow Republinuts on three bills they desperately wanted: the birther bill, the guns on campus wackiness, and a bi ... More >>

Russell Pearce Is His Own Worst Enemy

Arizona Senate Votes Down Five Immigration Bills Sponsored By Russell Pearce and Dingleberry Right-Wingers

Arizona SenateIs your senator a Russell Pearce dingleberry, like Steve Smith?​Five anti-immigration bills sponsored by Senate President Russell Pearce and dingleberry right-wing senators went down in defeat yesterday as sanity prevailed in the Arizona legislature. The rejected measures were S ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Comeuppance? Don't Count Him Out Just Yet

The Killer Shark of the Senate, always on the attack They're practically singing hosannas in the streets, the pro-immigration folks, or just those who'd like to see an end to Arizona's tsunami of hate. This, over the defeat of five anti-immigrant bills on the state Senate floor yesterday, including ... More >>

Senate Passes Legislation to End Distribution of Spanish-Language Election Material

Arizona SenateRookie senator, veteran boot-licker.​The Arizona Senate passed legislation yesterday that would eliminate Spanish translation of election materials in information booklets distributed by the Secretary of State. Russell Pearce acolyte -- or is it wannabe? -- Sen. Steve Smith, R-M ... More >>

Carl Hayden High School Students, Teachers March to Capitol After Class to Protest for Education Opportunities

Gregory PrattPolice officers keep watch as the protest begins.​An estimated crowd of two hundred students marched from Carl Hayden High School on 35th Avenue and Roosevelt Street to the State Capitol this afternoon, protesting Russell Pearce's SB 1160 and the continuing lack of opportunity for und ... More >>

Valley High School Students Skip Class to Protest Russell Pearce's SB 1611

Pearce continues to divide the state.​About 200 Latino students walked out of class this morning to protest Russell Pearce's latest legislative atrocity: SB 1611, an immigration omnibus that would forbid undocumented students from attending public colleges and universities in Arizona -- even if th ... More >>

Russell Pearce Bans Public from Pressers, Kyrsten Sinema Blasts Move

Sinema: Pearce's police state move unnecessaryIn an effort to further curtail the rights of citizens to visit the state Senate, Senate President Russell Pearce has issued a dictate that the public will no longer be allowed to attend press conferences held inside the Senate building.Today, he sent a ... More >>

Russell Pearce's "Hate Humanity Tuesday" Targets AHCCCS, ABOR, and the Undocumented (Natch)

Beelzebubba Pearce's Day of Hate, on its way...To twist a line from the Bible's Book of Amos, "Let the hatred roll down like water, and stupidity like a mighty stream." This, because "justice" and "righteousness" are sorely absent in Sand Land.So shall it be in the state Senate Appropriations Commit ... More >>

Russell Pearce Pinatas? Where Can I Buy One?

An excellent idea, if I do say so myself...So where are the Russell Pearce pinatas? Arizona's state Senate President is the most powerful politico in Sand Land, and arguably an even greater foe of Latinos than Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who's been "honored" in pinata form by his opponents on many occasions ... More >>

Why a Russell Pearce Run for Congress Would Be a Good Thing

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 17, 2011

Russell Pearce for Congress, Kyrsten Sinema Hearts Russell

Sinema describes the love that dare not speak its nameNow that Congressman Jeff Flake has announced his intention to run for the seat of retiring Arizona U.S. Senator Jon Kyl, it's safe to assume that state Senate president Russell Pearce will go after Flake's sixth district seat in 2012.Actually, y ... More >>

Russell Pearce's "Anchor Baby" Bills Pulled from Agenda, but Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Don't kid yourselves. Pearce's anti-anchor-baby bills are alive and kickin'The bigoted bills state Senate president Russell Pearce has been pushing to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- SB 1308 and 1309 -- have been pulled from the agenda ... More >>

Russell Pearce Shoves Carlos Galindo? Let's Go To the Videotape

Watch Pearce get aggro about 40 seconds inWant more proof that state Senator Russell Pearce can't control his temper? Other than the alleged incidents with his spouses, present and past, that is? Not to mention the fruit-doesn't-fall-far-from-the-tree allegations against his son Joshua.Then check th ... More >>

Russell Pearce's "Anchor Baby" Bills, John Eastman's Homophobia, Adam Driggs' Political Courage

Pearce, foiled, but only for the moment, on his two 14th Amendment bigot bills...As you likely know by now, state Senate President Russell Pearce's unconstitutional, un-American, immoral, and illegal effort to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitut ... More >>

Recalling Russell Pearce

Russell Pearce Recall, Part Two, Drops Monday

Pearce is being slapped silly with recall bids: Couldn't happen to a nicer guyMore bad news for state Senate President Russell Pearce.There's another group that's going to file paperwork to recall Pearce on Monday: Citizens for a Better Arizona, led in part by former Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate ... More >>

Russell Pearce Recall Paperwork Filed by Anti-Pearce Group

Halina Reed (left) and Somos Republicans' DeeDee Blase: Leading the (first) recall of Russell PearceOn the day that state Senator Russell Pearce's insidious, anti-American, and unconstitutional plot to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment was being ... More >>

Russell Pearce Scores Partial Win in Bid To Rig Redistricting

Pearce wins a Pyrrhic victory, of sorts The Arizona Supreme Court today handed state Senate President Russell Pearce a partial win in his bid to rig the redistricting process that will affect Sand Land politics for the next 10 years.In an order just issued by Vice Chief Justice Andrew Hurwitz, the c ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 13, 2010

Russell Pearce's Problem with the Rule of Law; and Andrei Cherny Contends for Democratic Party Chair

Russell Pearce Fundraiser To Be Protested Friday

Pearce builds his own trough and goes hog-wild FridayAnti-Russell Pearce activists are set to protest both a Friday, January 7 fundraiser for the state Senate President-elect, and the opening day of business for the Arizona Legislature on Monday, January 10, when Pearce will take his seat as the Dar ... More >>

Russell Pearce Wimps Out on D.C. Trip, and Paul Begala Wipes the Floor With Him on CNN

Check out this killer debate, first aired in August on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 between state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, on the subject of changing the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision.The video was recently re-p ... More >>

Fourteenth Amendment Challenged by Racist Wackjobs in D.C.

Pity poor state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce.He couldn't be there for all the fun today in D.C. as a passel of his moonhowlin' racist buds -- including nativist poster-boy Kris Kobach, now Secretary of State from Kansas, Pearce's primary flunky Arizona Representative John Kavanagh, and fell ... More >>

Russell Pearce Versus J.T. Ready in Dennis Gilman's New Video

Pearce vs. Ready: The Dennis Gilman videoWho's more credible: Arizona's best-known neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, or state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce? Watch Dennis Gilman's latest, and you be the judge. In it is some never-before-seen footage of Pearce endorsing Ready for Ready's 2006 Mesa city cou ... More >>

Russell Pearce Buffaloes CNN with Nativist Bull on 14th Amendment

I wish that when CNN news anchors have on a practiced prevaricator like state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce to discuss something as specific as the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship, they would at least read up on the subject. Or failing that, have a Constitutional expert ... More >>

Russell Pearce and the Neo-Confederate Cause

democraticunderground The new Republican "neo-Cons," are neo-Confederates, led by Russell Pearce Having recently returned from spending Christmas in my native North Carolina, an obviously older state than the almost-but-not-yet-100-year-old state of Arizona, I was struck by a sense of history ... More >>

Russell Pearce Wants To Rig Redistricting (Surprise, Surprise)

Pearce wants to meddle with the IRC for his own selfish political endsArizona's Independent Redistricting Commission won't be independent if state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce has anything to do with it.Already, Pearce, with the assistance of state House Speaker Kirk Adams, has effectively ... More >>

Dec. 28 In Blogs: Russell Pearce, Historic Places, The Love Me Nots, Beer, and Bad Drivers

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Richard Mellon Scaife's Cash Pays For Judicial Watch's Ideologically Motivated Lawsuits

Russell Pearce's Son Joshua Pearce: Mesa Police Will Not File Charges in Child Abuse Allegations

Joshua Trent Pearce, in an MCSO mug shot from a 2006 DUI arrest State Senate President-elect Russell Pearce's son Joshua Trent Pearce was recently under investigation by the Mesa Police Department for allegations of possible child abuse.Mesa PD spokesman Sgt. Ed Wessing confirmed that police respond ... More >>

When Valley Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Converted to Mormonism, Guess Which Prominent Politico Ordained Him an "Elder"

Russell Pearce's E-Mails To Me on the Subject of J.T. Ready

Russ to moi: "Enough is enough with your hatred of me and my Christian beliefs." Christian? You sure don't act like it, bub.As I promised in this week's Bird column concerning state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce's involvement with neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's spiritual life as a member of the Churc ... More >>

Russell Pearce, Bigot, Claims President Will Need "Papers" to Visit Arizona

Pearce tells a bigot-boy joke at a Judicial Watch panel on immigration Chalk up another racist remark from Sand Land's neo-Nazi-hugging state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce. In D.C. to attend the oral arguments on Arizona's employer sanctions law before the U.S. Supreme Court, he stoppe ... More >>

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and to Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans

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Russell Pearce, Enemy of the U.S. Constitution

Pearce regurgitates a nativist whopper on the "original intent" of the 14th Amendment during an October presser Of all the grotesque lies spewed by the nativist right in its effort to undo birthright citizenship as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the most odious is ... More >>

ICE Punks Out To DREAM Act Students

In the light of day, while they're being watched, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ain't so tough.The above video with footage by Bill Pierce and editing by Dennis Gilman documents a November 19 demonstration outside the Phoenix offices of ICE by undocumented Arizona DREAM Act student ... More >>

Russell Pearce on Barack Obama, Jihad, Impeachment and His "Favorite Place," a Bar

Pearce's Obama-jihad-impeachment quote begins 4:09 in For me, neo-Nazi-hugging state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce is the gift that keeps on giving. Seems like there's not a week that goes by where he doesn't say or do something totally whack, thus allowing me to pull out the verbal&n ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce and Jan Brewer's Arizona: Hate Crime Stats Climb

democraticunderground Jan Brewer's new Arizona flag? The FBI stats suggest so... As if you need more proof that Arizona is the "state of hate," look no further than the FBI's recently released hate crime report. From 2008 to 2009, Arizona's number of reported hate crimes increased by more th ... More >>

Russell Pearce's "Psycho Talk" on AHCCCS

Schultz rips Pearce for his crazy talk on Brahm Resnik's Sunday Square-OffJust another reminder of what the local Republinuts -- led by neo-Nazi-huggin' state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce -- have in mind for you one million-plus folks down on your luck, or those about to be in this economy: ... More >>