before last night, no lawmaker had ever lost his or her job in a recall election in the history of the great state of arizona. before last night, no state senate president had ever been recalled in the history of the united states of america. both of those precedents were established last night by this guy, russell pearce, recalled from office bay big margin. he has been the most powerful republican in the state of arizona who is not the governor, jan brewer. and some say he s been even more powerful than she is. russell was the architect of sb-1070, the law to demand documentation, to demand papers from anyone who looked like they might be an illegal immigrant. what does an illegal immigrant look like? does it look like me? i do not know. i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i can tell you that i think that
congressman, raul grijalva of arizona. thank you very much for your time tonight. thank you. why do you think that russell appea pearce was recalled? i think at some point, the basic decency of the people in arizona and certainly in this district came to force. excellent work on the part of many people to organize, certainly the now-elect senator lewis put together a wonderful team. people like randy paris, falcone did ooflt work to energize, build a coalition of people that were wanted decency returned to our policy making. russell pearce has been a power in this state. he s now gone. and so his defeat sends a ripple effect not only across the state, but i think across the nation. because many people have tried to mimic what he does and use that as a call per to keep themselves in office or get
before last night, no lawmaker had ever lost his or her job in a recall election in the history of the great state of arizona. before last night, no state senate president had ever been recalled in the history of the united states of america. both of those precedents were established last night by this guy, russell pearce, recalled from office bay big margin. he has been the most powerful republican in the state of arizona who is not the governor, jan brewer. and some say he s been even more powerful than she is. russell was the architect of sb-1070, the law to demand documentation, to demand papers from anyone who looked like they might be an illegal immigrant. what does an illegal immigrant look like? does it look like me? i do not know. i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i can tell you that i think that there are people in arizona that assume they know what an illegal immigrant looks like. i don t know if they know that
the state of new york or new jersey. i don t know where he s coming from with let s let the state decide when a woman can actually take steps to protect her own health and when she can t. the thing is, though, in this case, it was mississippi trying to decide as a state. mitt romney said that he would absolutely support something like that. now that mississippi has voted no for it, he says, no, no, no, don t say i was in favor. is there a is there a secret anti-abortion language by which what he s doing is making sense in some level? is this one of those things where there s jargon within the anti-abortion movement that might make this a consistent position, or is he just changing his mind about what he s for? i think he s just changing his mind about what he s for. but it s very interesting to me that the catholic bishops did not support the mississippi personhood amendment. in fact, phillip slafly s eagle form didn t support it either. and this thing has come up in colorado. we
but unlike those other very well known nationally famous governors, terry branstad has not become nationally famous i]f from iowa, and i think that s because in large part he hasn t been able to get a lot of his stuff passed. republicans in iowa have the xd amazing mustacheio terry branstad in the governor s office, and they doxdñ control state house, but the democrats hold the state senate1 so big conservative priorities like, for example, getting rid of same-sex marriage rights in iowa, those priority have said stalled because of divided but terry branstad is no fool. and in september of this year, when it came time to appoint someone to an available full-time gig on the state utilities board, he bypassed a whole bunch of people that really wanted that job, a whole bunch of republicans who really wanted that job. donors, elected officials, appointed a conservative democrat to the job.fá now, why is that a genius move? it s because the democrat he appointed to that job was a state s