Pearce plans to run chamber as tea party Senate
Russell Pearce, Bob Burns, Sylvia Allen
In this Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 file photo, from left to right, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, and Sen. Bob Burns, R-Peoria, attend an economic summit so as to see what they can work on during the next legislative session, at the capitol in Phoenix. State lawmakers across the nation are moving to follow Arizona's lead in making tougher laws on illegal immigration, but Arizona has more pressing needs to address, as Pearce and others will push to help the state's ailing economy and state budget shortfall. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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Slabside posted at 4:29 pm on Wed, Nov 3, 2010.
BWA HA HA HA HA! Bingo, you poor baby... your white supremist just got re-elected by the MAJORITY. Rich, and Forked please take note... the MAJORITY has spoken.[beam]
Rich posted at 6:32 pm on Wed, Nov 3, 2010.
Actually Slab I'm laughing. Pearce and Brewer handling a budget deficit like the one over their heads, and you have to add their I.Q.s together to get a three digit number? You and the MAJORITY, voted yourselves a world of pain. About all you guaranteed is that Arizona will be as good at economic recovery as they have been at education.
Slabside posted at 7:23 pm on Wed, Nov 3, 2010.
Perhaps Rich, perhaps. Both candidates have done good things for the state yet no one remembers that.
rrjenn posted at 11:26 pm on Wed, Nov 3, 2010.
Commie scum are crying their eyes out tonight. I got a smile that wont go away. Now you commies be sure to write lots of cry baby garbage so we all can have a few laughs. Tell us all about your prophetic powers that tell you how the economy is going downhill because Pearce is now running the senate and Brewer is running the state. Heck, we won all the way around so you can cry about every little thing that goes wrong and we can laugh cause we won and you are losers. Sucks to be you.
abimopectore posted at 11:37 am on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
McCarthyism at is best is being expressed on this board. This is exactly what these crazies would want you to believe in order to vilify whomever doesn't agree with their attitudes or positions. I'm going to step up to the plate and accept the election for what has happened and hope that the newly elected will finally start doing things that will help this state. They've been the majority in this state and we've seen nothing happen before except to inflame the extreme sides from either camp; however, I'm willing to wish them well and hope they start doing the right things regarding the issues that are TRULY impacting the people of Arizona. Only time will tell but I wish them the best.
Slabside posted at 11:56 am on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
Well said abimopectore.
Rich posted at 12:29 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
"They've been the majority in this state and we've seen nothing happen before except to inflame the extreme sides from either camp..."
And the leopard will change his spots? Let alone we've just rewarded them for inflaming "the extreme sides from either camp..." What possible incentive could we have for a "hope they start doing the right things regarding the issues that are TRULY impacting the people of Arizona." Believing in Santa Claus is more realistic.
dragonwyk711 posted at 2:43 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
NAZI!!!!!!!!..... or a reasonable facsimile.
dragonwyk711 posted at 2:44 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
Arizona HAS fallen into a fascist manhole. It MAY recover someday but Hell is in session until that day comes.
dragonwyk711 posted at 3:19 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
COMMIE? What a cliche. Talk about living in the past?
The Fascists(Repugs,Tea Party and other assorted fools) want us to go back to 1931 and this last election will send us there. The stupids who label anyone who is NOT a fascist Repug or Tea Party idiot will get their payback. Too bad the rest of us who ARE aware of what is REALLY going down will have to suffer WITH them until either America wakes up or dies.
This entire election actually came out like it did because of RACISM( ANOTHER old attitude which should have PASSED). We ELECTED a President who is black and the old school dipsticks can't stand it.
Calling anyone who doesn't agree with killing our formerly free country a 'commie" just shows how filled with ignorance,malaise and reversion into the past America is.
Enjoy your stupidity and lemming-oid smugness while you may. It is only temporary.
rrjenn posted at 6:06 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
If none of you can see the socialistic movement that has been, up until Obama, been quietly taking over this nation then you must all have your heads tucked neatly up your ars. Now that enough people have woke up we are taking back our country from them. Call them what you want, but to me they are true American patriots
DataMan posted at 6:21 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
So Clown Pearce, can you tell me how you can do massive tax cuts when THIS year we are $850m from a balanced budget, and the projected shortfall for next year is over $2b?
Dang. Too many fools voted for this moron.
There's a story on the CBS5 website about AZ being one of the worst run states. (like 45th worse!) I see 50th worst in our near future.
rrjenn posted at 6:28 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
dragonwyk711, we are the same people who voted this black man into office. Without us he could never have won. This election is due to our eyes being awakened to what he actually represents. Black liberation theology, which Obama is a disciple, is nothing more than communism disguised as religion. He spent 20 years at Rev. Write's church listening to anti white rhetoric but we gave him the benefit of the doubt when he said Write's views didn't represent his views. Now we know that he is nothing less than a Marxist who plans to bring this country to it's knees, and we don't want a Marxist state. We want free enterprise because we know only free enterprise can create jobs, Why the heck do you think the old USSR disintegrated?
LinMesa posted at 7:39 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
Our new state motto:
"Arizona, the hate state"
With our fearsome threesome (Brewer, Pearce, and Arpaio) what could possibly be more appropriate.
Rich posted at 9:13 pm on Thu, Nov 4, 2010.
Back up and relax people. The government has to fade, they spent about all they can, and yes, pocketed a bit. Now it's just about getting more out of you. Can you afford all this? I mean does the luxury of hating people who aren't like you, don't agree with you justify the cost of having a government that takes sides? I'm going to say something to you that got me a 'B' almost fifty years ago, on a question we haven't really settled yet. Top student in the class, highest marks, before I said: "This is America, eveyrbody's got a place. Segregation, we've got a place. Integration? We got it covered. Wetback? You're cute Sharon, want to go to the prom?" Got me a prom date and a 'B'. The point is freedom, and when we stop selling it, we're just used car salesmen with an old Pontiac.
forkedlift1 posted at 2:53 am on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
I wonder what the last grade in school was that rrjenn finished....or dropped out of. The unregulated investment banking industry and Wall Street, both of whose top execs receive(d) multi-million dollar bonuses...and let's throw in Enron and AIG, have all been run by SOCIALISTS....or is it COMMIES today.
Oh wait, it's "illegal aliens" that are after and have taken over those jobs. This was accomplished by their well known invasion of our country from south of border.
CooperG posted at 8:17 am on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
Assuming all 59% of the people who voted for Republicans are Tea Party members is a monumental stretch of the imagination and fairly arrogant. It's also arrogant to presume that the 41% who didn't vote for them are Tea Party members or are willing to go along with the dictates of a small group of right-wing activists. This demonstrates, again, how Pearce doesn't know how to understand the "Will of the People" or accept any notions that are different than his own.
Samuel Johnson said "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Pearce, it seems to me, fits the bill.
Butters posted at 3:03 pm on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
CooperG, there is no main Tea Party political party. They are all local groups loosely made up of people fed up with intrusive and out of control government.
To you left wing liberals such as Rich, Forkedlift, Cooper and others, remember, the dems have been in control since 2006, two years before Obama was elected. They got stronger in 2008 and have done a massive amount of damage to our country, including and especially our country's financial health.
Let me also remind you that it was Nappy and her crew who overspent in this state on entitlements that many people really aren't entitled to. At least Brewer has had the guts to take on the problems and deal with them. Pearce being the leader of our state senate is a blessing. He's also not afraid to tackle our state's problems. There's going to be pain in reduced spending. Many will leave this state and to those who do leave because we stopped giving you handouts you were never entitled to I say, Goodbye.
As for me, I'm not known for being PC. I'm glad as heck that we now have straight republican leadership not afraid to speak out for our state. Maybe now we can get back to being the CONSERVATIVE state that Arizona was before the left coast and carpetbaggers moved here and tried to turn it into another Oregon or worst yet, California.
What happened in the voting booths on Tuesday confirms that we do live in a Republic, where the voters do have a say in who runs our country. The voters have made it clear that the left's agenda is neither wanted or accepted. To those of you still pouting because the dems lost control, get over it. Majority vote still rules in this country. We have made it clear that you small group of socialist progressives are NOT going to control the majority of us who believe in smaller government, fiscal responsibility and a free market system. I'll also decide if, when and how I want to obtain health insurance. I'll thank you socialist progressives to mind your own darn business, worry about your own lives and STOP trying to run mine.
dragonwyk711 posted at 5:57 pm on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
rrjenn-You are an illiterate fool and a stupid redneck! No further comment is needed to show others what an idiot you are. Pearce is a fascist. Racism is a tool for the stupid.
dragonwyk711 posted at 5:58 pm on Fri, Nov 5, 2010.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.-Oscar Wilde
wdgnas posted at 6:04 am on Sat, Nov 6, 2010.
once again, the people that vote for republicans in this state blame the former governor, a democrat, for the state's economic woes while either failing to choosing not to remember the legislature with a republican majority was involved also...
Butters posted at 9:12 am on Sun, Nov 7, 2010.
Wdgnas, it was the former governor who pushed her budget through in a most deceptive way. What got our state into serious financial hot water, was Nappy's way of going around the legislature with her executive orders. The buck stops at the governor's office and like it or not, Nappy's liberal socialist progressive agenda was very costly to our state. Also, give me one example of Nappy asking for budget cuts or at least attempting to do what Brewer has been trying to do by way of balancing our state's budget. What's that, you say you can't? That's what I thought.
Dragonwack, got news for you, the tea party groups backed a number of black and Hispanic republicans who won office on Tuesday, including several black members of congress and the new governor for New Mexico. I suggest you spend less time watching Keith Olberman and more time studying up on the facts. Oh, sorry, I forgot, Keith Olberman was SUSPENDED without pay indefinitely. Amen to that.