they were not campaigning for russell pearce. they were campaigning for this third candidate they found. olivia cortez. to get her on the ballot. in addition to that remarkably charitable effort by the russell pearce family, the mysterious cortez campaign also somehow found itself with enough money, enough funding to pay professional signature gatherers to go out alongside russell pearce s nieces in order to get olivia cortez on the ballot. i was told that if people were supporters of mr. pearce, to tell them go ahead and sign this, that this will help his chances. so the idea was to dilute or divert the vote? yeah. by running a diversionary or a sham candidate that that might run a file of arizona s election laws? i had no idea. i had no idea, she says. no idea there could be serious legal consequences in this scheme to save russell pearce from being recalled, by saving russell pearce from running a