Sep 172014
 

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Here is the sixtieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is recent Arizona Republican Party vice-chair, Russell Pierce. He is so honored because he mistakenly told the truth about the Republican plan for women’s rights and his Republican pseudo-Christian care for the poor.

0917russell-pearceThe former Arizona lawmaker who sponsored the state’s stringent anti-immigration law resigned as a top state Republican official late Sunday amid criticism for remarks he made supporting mandatory birth control or sterilization for Medicaid recipients.

Russell Pearce, a former state senator, stepped down as the party’s first vice chairman late Sunday, after several fellow Republicans running for statewide office denounced his comments and a Republican congressional candidate called for his resignation.

During a discussion on Sept. 6 on his radio show about the state’s public assistance programs, Mr. Pearce said: “You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants or tubal ligations.”

He continued, “Then we’ll test for drugs and alcohol,” before adding that those who want more children should “then get a job.”…

Inserted from <NY Times>

Here’s the audio.

Barf Bag Alert!!

Pearce has been on my radar for a long time now.  He is the racist with strong Nazi part credentials who was behind Arizona’s infamous Papers Please law.  Four years ago I covered how he tried to steal his recall election.  Three years ago, I covered his defeat.

He has thoroughly upset fellow Republicans by exposing their plans for America’s future.

I don’t know what to say.  This walking sphincter is so prototypical of the Republican agenda, that it amazed me that I have not paraded him long ago.  Please accept my apologies for being so long overdue.

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  15 Responses to “Republicans on Parade–9/17/2014”

  1. Russell Pearce truly deserves this dishonor. He is proof that abortion should be legal. He should be drug tested because of all the InsaniTea he has consumed.

    • It's possible that his mother was also crazy, enough so that she would have wanted him anyway.  I fear we would have had to make abortion mandatory to prevent him, which makes the head explode, and unfortunately not from teh qte

    • Perhaps he qualifies for a post-natal abortion. 😉

  2. ~~I am just speechless.  Racism is just plain and simple sickism

  3. Proving, yet again, that you can't spell C-R-A-Z-Y without an "R-AZ"!

  4. Why do they think they can plan everyone’s families? Just abominable!! Or should I say, TYPICAL RETHUGLICANS!!! They have no shame!!

  5. Yet another deserving candidate for Republicans on Parade. If I add many more states to the places I am glad I don't live, I will have to emigrate to Canada with Lynn.

  6. I remember that Pearce was recalled just before I started following PP in August 2011 and then the recall election was held in November.  He was my introduction to Arizona politics, and what an introduction.  Take a look at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Pearce

    "In October 2006, Pearce included the text of an article by National Alliance, a white separatist group, in an email to a group of supporters. The article, titled "Who Rules America" contained allegations of Jewish control of the media and of multiculturalism being a Jewish anti-White conspiracy, as well as Holocaust denialism. He quickly apologized to supporters in an email, stating: "Ugly the words contained in it really are. They are not mine and I disavow them completely. Worse still, the website links to a group whose politics are the ugliest imaginable." Pearce told reporters he did not agree with the antisemitic and racist statements in the article, and that he had copied it from an email forwarded to him by someone else after "the title and the first paragraphs about media bias appealed to him".

    Pearce was also criticized for his association with white supremacist J. T. Ready. Pearce endorsed Ready for Mesa City Council in 2006 and appeared with him at several rallies. In 2004 Pearce was photographed attending Ready's baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Church documents reveal that Pearce ordained Ready into the LDS priesthood. Pearce has since claimed he was unaware of Ready's neo-Nazi affiliations at the time he made the endorsement."

    Quite a string of controversies and that is only from  2004 to 2006.  It is always the same with Pearce . . . anti immigrant, anti woman, racist, etc . . . clearly he has forgotten the poverty of his early life.

  7. Good grief what an utter horror of a man – but as you say, the only difference is that he told the truth about what the Repugs want….. thanks TC.

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