{"id":185398,"date":"2011-07-10T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/10\/a-non-wisconsin-wingnut-recalled\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:47:00","slug":"a-non-wisconsin-wingnut-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/10\/a-non-wisconsin-wingnut-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"A Non-Wisconsin Wingnut Recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s the wingnut Arizona state Senate president, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/08\/us-arizona-recall-idUSTRE7676TU20110708\">Russell Pearce<\/a>, one of the main architects of the radical right wing agenda in that state:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A citizens&#8217; group that opposes the Arizona senate president because of his stance on illegal immigration and other issues has collected enough signatures to force a recall election for him, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Senator Russell Pearce rose to national attention as the chief architect of the state&#8217;s tough anti-immigration law that was signed into law last year, but has been blocked by the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Maricopa County elections officials certified the group Citizens for a Better Arizona has collected over 10,300 signatures in their effort to force a recall election for Pearce, said Yvonne Reed, a county elections spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>The group only was required to collect 7,756 valid signatures under state law, Reed said.<\/p>\n<p>Barring any successful legal challenges, officials said the recall election for Pearce, who represents Mesa, Arizona, could be called for November or March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this is actually a long shot, unlike other states, there is no separate ballot for the recall and the election, just a new election, and if no serious Republican runs against him, it&#8217;s unlikely that a Democrat, even a ConservaDem, would prevail, but it&#8217;s nice to put the fear of the electorate into this ratf%$#&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s the wingnut Arizona state Senate president, Russell Pearce, one of the main architects of the radical right wing agenda in that state: A citizens&#8217; group that opposes the Arizona senate president because of his stance on illegal immigration and other issues has collected enough signatures to force a recall election for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1053,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-immigration","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}