Update: Pearce Recall on track to collect enough signatures – help put them over the top

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

There was an Anne Murray hit single back in the 1980's, "We sure could use a little good news today." Well, here's your "a little good news" for today, and things will only get better if you get out there and work to make this goal a reality. Russell Pearce will likely face recall election:

Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce could be headed for a historic recall election as soon as November.

Organizers of the recall campaign said Tuesday in Mesa that they are within about 500 valid signatures of the 7,756 they must file by the end of the month to push Pearce into a recall.

Matt Roberts, spokesman for the Arizona Secretary of State's Office, said it likely would be the first time in Arizona's century of statehood that a sitting lawmaker had been forced onto the ballot in the middle of a term.

An election to recall Governor Ev Mecham had been scheduled for May 17, 1988, but the Legislature expelled him from office in April.

Randy Parraz, co-founder of Citizens for a Better Arizona, said his group plans a "big mobilization" from its Mesa office Saturday in a final push to gather signatures. Volunteers will go door to door in west Mesa's legislative District 18, which Pearce represents.

Parraz said the group has an absolute deadline of May 31 to submit petitions to the secretary of state.

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Parraz said "We want to have a November election."

To ensure that, he said, the petitions will be delivered six to 10 days early. By then, he thinks the campaign will have garnered 10,000 valid signatures.

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Only registered voters who live in District 18 are eligible to sign the recall petitions.

Parraz said his group has collected about $25,000 in donations and spent most of it on paid petition circulators and other staff members.

To Donate: www.recallpearce.com Checks made payable to: Citizens for a Better Arizona.

To Volunteer: Please help put this recall effort over the top by colunteering your time. Once again, here is the contact information for the recall.

Citizens for a Better Arizona have a web site Recall Russell Pearce (http://recallpearce.com/). The web site has a download page for petitions. Petitions Recall Russell Pearce | Recall Russell Pearce.

Citizens For A Better Arizona, P.O. Box 41232, Mesa, AZ, 85274-1232
Phone: (480) 748-8991, Email: info@recallpearce.com.

Citizens for a Better Arizona needs to collect 7,756 valid signatures by May 31st in District 18, Mesa Arizona.

Now get out there and get those final signatures!