Wednesday, March 26th, 2008...8:36 am
Catching Up
I don’t read the New Times much, so I miss out on a lot of the latest shenanigans of Joe Arpaio. Frankly, if it is a butt stupid naked play for publicity, I already know he is fully capable of it.
But a fella sent me some older articles this morning that relates to a guy that Arpaio fired once (his last episode of good policy): Russell Pearce. This one from January chronicles some of the bills that Pearce has introduced this session. I went and checked, and all of these bills are still in various states of being alive, although some still have not been heard by assigned committees (which may be a sign of some semblance of sanity among our solons).
The article includes the picture I have grievously stolen and posted here. The guy with Pearce is J. T. Ready, a neo-nazi who runs a site called New Saxon (more about Ready’s activities here). This guy ain’t exactly an unknown, he’s run for public office on a couple of occasions. Yep, these are the people who Pearce calls his friends. You can argue until you are blue in the face that this isn’t about race but protecting ‘Merica, but as long as Pearce hangs with these bozos, forwards their e-mails, invites them to Republican party meetings and repeats their white supremacist garbage when the mikes aren’t on, it puts a lie to that, donnit?
By the way, Pearce’s colleagues still think he is the sort of guy that should be a committee chair.
5 Comments
March 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Wow…Pearce was fired by Arpaio. Will wonders never cease.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Expect a comment soon from J.T. If my experience is any guide, he Googles himself quite regularly.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Ever notice that white supremacists are nearly always fat, ugly geeks who couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse?
March 26th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
He’s got a purty mouth.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I hadn’t heard Arpaio fired Pearce, but that just shows how politics makes strange bedfellows. The extent to which Arpaio, Pearce, and Andy Thomas and other Republicans are directly connected to neo-nazi and other hate groups is becoming increasingly public. They willingly speak at their meetings and rallies. They willingly court their vote and they willingly encourage them to keep doing “the right thing.”
Another interesting tidbit, is that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “The Year In Hate” issue reports that out of the nation’s top 20 racists, five live in Arizona (one in Tucson) and all five can be traced to the above-mentioned legislators. The Nazi movement’s web site has a link to Andy Thomas’ immigration web site on its front page. Finally, there are 14 articles in the issue and five deal directly with Arizona. You can see them here: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp
I’d encourage everyone to read the New Times work and watch Joe Dana’s reports on Arpaio’s Honduras escapades at taxpayer expense. You really don’t have to scratch too far under the surface to see who is really driving the immigration debate in Arizona.
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