Poor ol’ Russell Pearce is getting picked on (Just ask Russell Pearce)

by David Safier

"Poor me!" Pearce wails in a recent fundraising email. "Poor, poor me!"

Will you help me defeat [Lewis]? I know I’ve asked for a lot but I must have the necessary resources to defend my record. We cannot allow their vicious lies and personal attacks to go unanswered. If we do, we lose. It’s just that simple.

I’m going to need the support of good people like you behind me. I’m not a wealthy man. I don’t have the personal resources to put into this campaign. I’m reaching out to you because I desperately need your support – again.

Will you stand with me to stop this recall?

I hate asking for contributions, but I've been around elections long enough to have learned this simple truth: if I do not ask you for money, this group of left-wing extremists will successfully engineer the taking of my Senate seat this November. I have to rely on the contributions and prayers of thousands of likeminded Americans like you, in the hope that you care enough about the values we share to contribute to the effort.

Clearly Pearce thinks the seat belongs to him, by divine right or something. "My Senate seat," he calls it. November 8 will tell the tale.