Mesa Republican Russell Pearce: Flagrant Icon For White Male Supremacy

There he was last week giving public testimony for the defense of indicted Maricopa County Assessor Paul Peterson who didn't show up for a suspension appeal in front of The Maricopa Board, and here he was shown in an image from 2013 talking with reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court  

ALEC Is an Incubator for Efforts to Protect White Supremacy, Says New Report

By Mike Ludwig, Truthout

Truthout | Published December 4, 2019

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Maintaining this system by necessity requires maintaining economic and political control

< here's the new Maricopa County BOS + the Arizona Attorney General

Here's the previous BOS >

ALEC claims to be a nonpartisan group that values “public-private partnership,” but critics argue it’s essentially legislating in secret, leaving the public with little understanding of how the bills it generates are drafted. . . ALEC boasts nearly one quarter of state lawmakers among its membership, and hundreds of its model bills have become state law around the country. . ."

Here's Russell Pearce next to Paul Petersen's attorney last week . . . The cast of characters who are now 'coming out-of-the-woodwork' tells more than the allegations and more than 60 federal charges lodged in 3 states than the suspension appeal.

It's none other than the long-time notorious conservative Mesa Republican Russell Pearce* who's now got a new gig as chief deputy to Maricopa County treasurer Royce Flora. He testified for only two minutes as the last defense witness for Petersen's attorney Kory Langhofer.
He said the treasurer’s office works very closely with the assessor’s office, and that the treasurer saw no evidence of the office’s official duties not being performed during Petersen’s absence

> Russell Pearce and AZ Congressman Andy Biggs appeared together in April 2019

21 April 2019Russell Pearce Redux: A Conservative Mesa Mormon Republican On-The-Fringe Again

This time around with another Mesa Republican U.S. Congressman Andy Biggs at a "Patriotism over Socialism" rally staged in conservative stronghold Gilbert last week.
Pearce says blood may need to be spilled to protect the country. (Video courtesy America's Voice News)
"It may take the shedding of blood to keep this Republic and I, for one, am willing to do whatever it takes," the former president of Arizona's Senate, said in a recent speech.
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Aw-aw . . . Better pick up the phone and call Mitt!
Pearce endorsed Romney back in 2014.
He also endorsed Mark Freeman last year in a campaign to get elected to the Mesa City Council.
Will the rest of Republicans holding public office here in Mesa now come out to disavow these hate-speech riddled remarks four days ago?  Mesa Mayor John Giles?
Pearce's remarks could certainly scare away immigrants to register for the 2020 Census, whether citizens or not.
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> Pearce's brand of politics was long ago rejected by voters.

"We have stupid leaders, stupid politicians and it’s time we start replacing those who refuse to stand up for the values that those have shed blood for," he told the crowd Monday.

By replace, I'm hoping he meant via a public vote not a rocket launch.

Link > https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed
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GILBERT (3TV/CBS 5) -- Russell Pearce, the chief deputy for the Maricopa County treasurer's office, appeared to advocate violence in the name of politics Monday night at a rally in Gilbert. . . The comment came toward the end of a rambling speech where he railed against politicians for going light on immigration and repealing a decades-old law that banned teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom.
"They took that away. Why would they do that? Why would they do that? Why would they put my children at risk?" Pearce said about the repeal of the so-called "No Promo Homo" law.
Pearce was the president of the state Senate and the author of the tough immigration law, SB1070.He was later recalled from office and failed to win re-election to his seat, getting defeated by Bob Worsley.
Since then, Pearce has worked at the treasurer's office, where he makes a salary of $157,000 a year, according to county officials.
County Supervisor Steve Gallardo, a longtime critic of Pearce, called for Pearce to lose his job.
"I would only hope that the treasurer takes care of Russell Pearce, and removes him from office. Let’s not have this type of person who does not reflect the values of Maricopa County make these off-the-wall comments that [are] inciting violence," Gallardo said.

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14 December 2019

Paul Petersen fights to get assessor job back but didn't show up for his...

Only 149 views on YouTube ...and note how few members of the public are there.
David Petersen, his father, was there [former State Treasurer who was booted out of office]