PART ONE
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
The biggest buffoon in American politics was either former KU Klux Klan (KKK) Grand Wizard David Duke or his friend, also a former KKK leader, California’s Tom Metzgar, Duke ran for various Lousiana political offices and Metzgar was the official Democratic candidate for the then (1980) most populous congressional district in the U.S.A.
Duke went to prison, a jury found Metzgar guilty of orchestrating the murder of an East African refuge in Portland, Oregon, and he was hit for millions of dollars in damages. He gave up his Fallbrook, California home and returned to the Midwest.
These two scourges of intelligence have disappeared. They are barely footnotes in modern American political history. There is a new buffoon politician that insults American intelligence. He resides in Arizona which is home to a gaggle of racist buffoon politicians. He, however, is the leader of the pack. Right behind him is Governor Jan Brewer who might be the only governor in the U.S.A. that did not attend a four-year college.
Meet Russell Pearce, former Number 2 man in the worst law enforcement agency in the U.S.A., the many-time-sued Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) led by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He also served as director of the Arizona Motor Vehicle agency after he retired from MCSO. He was fired from that job for covering up criminal acts by a department employee.
He ran for the Arizona State Senate and won. He became the senate’s leader and there he did serious damage. His crowning achievement was sponsoring a flagrantly unconstitutional law labeled SB 1070. While it was making its way to the United States Supreme Court, Senate President Pearce was recalled by the voters of his Senate District. He was thrown out of office.
The Court declared his SB 1070 unconstitutional except for Section 2B which it remanded back to the lower courts to be adjudicated when it draws a law suit for denial of civil rights.
Despite his recall by the voters and rebuff of his sponsored law, Russell Pearce has come up with a new way to insult fellow Arizonans and fellow Americans; he is running for election back to the Senate in a newly drawn Senate District that is without an incumbent.
He will not win for three reasons: One, he has a substantial Republican opponent who is successful, well liked and has deep support for the August 28th Arizona Primary. Secondly the revelations that Pearce enjoyed thousands of dollars in illegal gifts from the Fiesta Bowl Association that sponsors the January college football bowl game in Arizona. The giver of these thousands of dollars of illegal gifts to Senator Pearce has pleaded guilty to crimes that benefited Russell Pearce.
The third reason is that voters are not always stupid. The Arizona American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) has demanded copies of all e-mails and letters written by Pearce during his senate years. Part two will dissect his e-mails. Here are some Pearce statements for intelligent people to digest that should disturb intelligent adults in and out of Arizona:
Pearce: “*60% of the homicides in Phoenix involve illegal aliens;”*
Phoenix New Times*: “In 2008, the Phoenix PD cleared 51.8 percent of murders, the rest were left uncleared. How do you determine the immigration status of those involved in the remainder? By magic? Apparently Pearce has his own brand of hocus pocus.”*
Pearce has never offered any proof from either the Phoenix Police Department or from the Sheriff’s office, MCSO, or the FBI, because there isn’t any. The statement is a blatant lie.
Pearce:*”9,000 Americans [are] killed every year at the hands of illegal aliens.”*
*Phoenix New Times: “This oft-repeated bit of blarney originated with Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R), who supposedly “extrapolated” the information from a 2005 GAO report. Thing is, that statistic is nowhere in the GAO report itself, which discussed the number of criminal aliens in federal and state custody. The number of “9,000 Americans” murdered every year by criminal aliens is unsubstantiated.”*
It is a LIE!
Pearce: “*67 percent’ of law enforcement officers killed in ‘the last few years’ have been murdered by illegal aliens.”*
Pearce has never produced proof, not even newspaper reports, to support this statement. He can’t because there is no proof. His statement is a blatant lie.
We know that Pearce has lied so many times as a public official that it is a wonder he is not in prison for lying so much, for felony lying. For example, he told many people that his church, the Mormon Church supported his SB 1070, his anti-Mexican law the Supreme Court threw out as unconstitutional. The Mormon Church, he said, supported SB 1070. Lie! It did not support SB 1070. Pearce lies so much he might have believed his own Big Lie about the Mormon Church.
Editors note: As with all postings on this blog which appear with a byline, the posting represents the author’s opinion and not the official position of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.
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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.
Wonderful editorial, Raoul.
I’m both surprised and pleased that you actually refer to the work done by the Arizona American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU)!!!! As you may well know by now, Raoul, both local chapters and the National ACLU take a very dim view of Institutional Fascism – and when it comes to Law Inforcement within the state of Arizona, “the many-time-sued Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) led by Sheriff Joe Arpaio” [quoting you, Raoul] – leads the pack in Institutional Fascism !!!!
I look forward to reading your Part 2 in this series.
Keep up the fine work, Raoul.
There you go again “Raul;” you were born in Mexico so I’ll write your name in Spanish… names ARE important and one always deserves the respect of being able to name oneself. Pero TU– cuando escribes esta clase de “porcaria” (para no utilizar unas palabras que jamas admitiria de mi hijo, y por eso no digo)–NO mereces mi respecto!
Now when I see one of your posts, I quickly scan it to see if it is…
1) One of the thoughtful, historically interesting, insightful and replete with unusual and interesting minutae (which I invariably read with great interest),
OR
2) One these vile, name-calling, racist– yes racist!– irrational rants…
I’m just in from a long trip, and I am very tired… but when Jan Brewer gets equated with David Duke… I don’t read any further… and I (presently)wonder if I shall ever open a “Raul” blog again to see which Raul/Raoul shows up. If it’s the current one, he is not worth my precious reading time; much less the time and effort it takes to comment. Life is too, too short!
I posted my comment before I saw the “endorsement” of Raul’s views by the ACLU fellow. In the late 70′s I was a not yet 30 year old (assistant) professor at USC, and a member of the ACLU. That membership ended when Gloria Allred was elected the president of the local ACLU chapter. (That was the “moment” that I was no longer a “child” and no longer “spake as a child.”)
Raoul, please write on the US-Mexican war and other too little known and/or not well understood historic events of interest– in particular to, but not exclusively to– Latinos… and lay off this “mierda” that so endears you to the ACLU types.
Thanks, Miguel “angel”, for calling Raoul to task for his obnoxious slur of equating Jan Brewer with David Duke. I was so pleased to see Raoul’s endorsement of the ACLU that I totally missed the slur.
I’ll be one of the first to chastize the ACLU for past mistakes that they have made – as with their obnoxious collaboration during the McCarthy period, however, of late, they have returned to their roots of protecting the Individual from the Tyranny of the Majority !!!!
Thanks again, Miguel “angel”, for your posts – particularly the part in Spanish (although I needed to use Google’s translator for this).
I want to ammend my last comment – thanking Miguel “angel for calling Raoul to task for equating Jan Brewer with David Duke. I certainly agree that Jan Brewer is far, far, away from being anywhere close to David Duke.
With that said though, I believe that Raoul is upset that Jan took responsibility for signing the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, otherwise known as Arizona SB1070, into law. Raoul has a right to be upset about that.
In like manner, I do NOT agree with Jan Brewer on her orientation to guns, nor Healthcare, nor denying marriage to couples who love each other. These items do NOT make Jan Brewer a David Duke character – they just make her look and sound rather foolish and silly – and politically dangerous – within the give and take of American Politics. Politically, Jan Brewer and I are NOT in agreement on much of anything – BUT, as Miguel “angel rightfully points out – this does NOT make Jan Brewer into a David Duke character.
Although I applaud Raoul for some things in this Blog-spot – I also see Miguel “angel as correctly calling Raoul to task for his slur on Jan Brewer.
Note that Russell Pearce often quotes faulty statistics from the Violent Crimes Institute, claiming we have 240,000 unauthorized immigrant sex criminals.
As with any large group, we do have rotten apples among the unauthorized immigrant population, but nowhere near the numbers Pearce and his ilk claim. I wrote a blog debunking this myth.
Raoul – it doesn’t look like much of anything appears in Part Two – except the title ! I clicked on the title – “Former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, a Charlatan? | Cafe Con Leche Republicans” – and ao Internet 404 error comes up.
I also cut and pasted your title in the Cafe Con Lech Republicas Search box – and the search Failed to return the titled artical.
I was looking forward to reading Part Two !!!!
So – This time, Raoul, clicking on the title of “part two” – brings up a post at this Website – http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-lincoln-republican/2012/07/30/liar-liar-russell-pearce/. HOWEVER, Raoul – The article that you refer to with the link that appears on that Website – with YOU, Raoul positing that this article as “part two” – IS ONLY a REPEAT – of “part one” !!!!
SO, Raoul – WHERE is “part two” ??????????
WHY, Raoul – are YOU HIDING “part two” ????? Are you afraid that Miguel “angel” might take you to task – AGAIN. Are you afraid of what Miguel “angel” says to you in Spanish ?????