He cavorts with neo-Nazis. He's a birther. He rejected $7 billion in Medicare funds. But Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce is best known as the mastermind for that state's controversial SB1070 "Papers Please" bill that in effect attempted to make racial profiling legal there until the courts struck down much of the bill. Now Pearce is about to see himself struck down. Almost six months to the day he assumed the office of the state Senate President, Pearce is looking at a recall that will remove him from that office and the Senate entirely if he either resigns in five days or the voters kick him to the curb. Arizona has seen nothing but bad news for the past year, be it the boycotts that followed SB1070, to the fact that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is still running things in Phoenix, to the shooting in Tuscon that claimed the lives of six people and almost claimed the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. With this, it looks like Arizonans want to reclaim the legacy of their state once again, and it looks like that is going to happen.Good luck to them.
