Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Rachel Maddow pulls together the strings of reporting on "King" Russell Pearce that we have posted about here over the years into a tapestry of a short, concise summary. "The only thing that is harder to believe than the fact that Russell Pearce is gone now is that he was there in the first place. That somebody that radical could be that powerful in a state like Arizona. " Well said.
Maddow is joined by Congressman Raúl Grijalva as her guest.
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The Tucson Weekly posts, Grijalva: Pearce Recall a "Game Changer":
Congressman Raúl Grijalva told The Range last night that the election results in Tucson and elsewhere showed that Democrats “are not an endangered species.”
Grijalva called state Sen. Russell Pearce’s loss in his recall election a “game-changer.”
“There have been a lot of politicians locally and statewide and nationally who have used hate and division as their principle political tool,” said Grijalva, who has been one of loudest critics of Pearce’s signature SB 1070 immigration legislation. “Pearce’s loss is going to make everybody pause.”
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