Help support State Senator Russell Pearce against the open borders / illegal alien invaders apologist’s recall effort.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse, 6811 E. Cave Creek Road [MAP]
5 PM – 9 PM
If you support conservative patriots isn’t Senate President Russell Pearce number one on your list? We have joined Larry Wendt, owner of the Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse in sponsoring a fund raiser for Russell Pearce.
Pearce, as you know, is facing a recall election, unless his court challenge wins, with early voting beginning on Oct. 13 and the election on Nov. 8. As author of the famous SB 1070 law he has gained nationwide acclaim and many states have followed his courageous lead.
In a meeting last week with Pearce, his son Sean and Larry Wendt early details were decided with lots more to come.
Tickets are $25 and will pay for a barbeque dinner with music
So far, MCSO Sheriff Joe Arpaio has agreed to be there for the entire event and he and Pearce will speak and be available for discussions. We invite the public and will inform Tea Party members. Watch for new information about who you may meet at the event. We are seeking luminaries, Republican leaders and will report on others you may want to meet.
The proceeds will go to Russell Pearce
On a Sunday, in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise, state legislator Steve Montenegro stands behind the pulpit and preaches with confidence.
“Hermano, hermana, en su vida El no va dejar que se burlen de usted,” he says in Spanish and then transitions into English. “Brother, sister, in your life He won’t let anyone put you to shame.”
An audience of about 40 people, mostly Latino, listens to him attentively as he punctuates every sentence with a wide smile.
In his second term in the Arizona state legislature, the 29-year-old immigrant from El Salvador is the only elected Latino Republican in the Arizona House, and politicos on both sides of the aisle view him as a rising Republican star. Montenegro, who is running for re-election in 2012, is the product of a national effort by Republicans to recruit and train more Hispanic candidates for office – including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez – because they say Latino voters are shifting to the right.
Conservative Latinos praise him for immigrating legally, “the right way,” as others called him a “vendido,” or sell-out, for supporting legislation like SB 1070, which makes it a state crime for unauthorized immigrants to be in Arizona. (Federal courts have stayed key parts of the law, pending a final decision on its constitutionality.)
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Photo: Arizona’s own Gila Courier
The Nov. 8 recall election of Senate President Russell Pearce will go forward, at least for now.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Hugh Hegyi on Friday denied a legal challenge of the recall petitions filed by Pearce’s attorney Lisa Hauser. But Hauser said she will appeal the ruling to the Arizona Supreme Court.
If Hauser can get more than 2,609 of the 10,365 certified signatures thrown out, the election would be canceled.
If she cannot, the state will see the first recall election of a state lawmaker in Arizona history.
Hauser’s legal challenge alleged several problems with the signatures, including that none of the petition forms complied with state requirements that a petition gatherer sign an oath that the signatures are “genuine” and that the recall statement was misleading and did not clearly explain that signing the petition would support a recall election.
“As the Supreme Court has stated, recall petitions are ‘not a judicial (proceeding) but political in nature,’ ” Hegyi wrote in his ruling. “The voters may recall a public official for any reason or no reason at all.”
Hauser, in an e-mailed statement, said the ruling was expected.
“As the court indicated in the ruling there are several questions raised which require the Supreme Court’s review,” she said. “We look forward to our opportunity to present our case to Arizona’s highest court.”
Ed Phillips, communications director for Citizens Who Oppose the Pearce Recall, said the Supreme Court could hear the case by the end of this month.
“We’ll hope for the best,” he said. “We’re prepared for any eventuality.”
Pearce did not return calls for comment.
Senator Russell Pearce at the “Phoenix 912 Event”, T.E.A. Party, on September 12, 2009 at the Arizona State Capital.
Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce (R) is not yet a household name. Most Americans are unaware that he is one of the leaders fighting to have states enforce the rule of law regarding illegal immigrants. He has been at the forefront of this issue for the last twenty-five years but currently is facing a recall battle. American Thinker interviewed Senator Pearce and other political figures about the recall and illegal immigration.
He is a fifth-generation Arizonian shot in the line of duty while serving as a sheriff’s deputy, has authored bills that provide tax relief, and has been honored for his contributions to public education. However, his new prominence comes from the work done in fighting illegal immigration. Among illegal immigration bills authored in Arizona: Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship to vote and a legal US presence to obtain public benefits; Prop 100 that prevents illegals committing serious crimes to get released on bond; Prop 102 that will not allow illegals to receive punitive damages; Prop 103 that makes English the official language of Arizona; the Fair and Legal Employment Act, allowing the state of Arizona to impose sanctions on those employers who hire illegal aliens; and SB 1070 signed into law in April, 2010. All of these bills were passed overwhelmingly by over 70% of the vote with a support of over 60% of the Latino vote.
Four of the ten elements of 1070 are being enjoined in the appellate court including the provision that requires law enforcement to check a person’s immigration status after committing a violation of the law — even though the bill stipulates “a person is presumed to be lawfully present if the person provides a valid Arizona drivers license or identification license or a valid federal or state issued identification.”
Although Arizona’s tough immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, was crafted by state legislators, it made waves among city policy makers.
Mayor Phil Gordon thrust Phoenix into the debate after coming out in opposition to the bill, asking the Phoenix City Council to consider using city resources for a lawsuit that would bar the state from implementing the bill. Boycotts have led to millions of dollars in losses for facilities in the city such as the Phoenix Convention Center and the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix Hotel.
t of The Arizona Republic’s election coverage, we asked mayoral candidates what role Phoenix has in supporting or opposing SB 1070. Early ballots for the council and mayoral election go out Aug. 4, and the election is Aug. 30.
Anna Brennan
The city and the state should work together. I would collaborate more with the governor to move forward on this issue and to put a halt to all the politicizing.
- The Obama administration’s recently announced administrative amnesty – a decision basically to stop taking enforcement action against non-criminal illegal immigrants – may severely undercut its legal challenge to SB 1070, Arizona’s heavily litigated anti-illegal-immigration law.
The most legally vulnerable sections of the law are those making illegal presence a state crime, adjudicated in state courts and punished in state penal institutions.
As a general rule, local police departments can enforce federal laws. So, the parts of SB 1070 instructing local police to give priority to potential immigration-law violations are likely to withstand the Obama administration’s legal challenge.
However, I have always assumed that federal judges would determine that federal law was intended to pre-empt the field regarding punishments for immigration violations. And, indeed, all four federal judges who have considered the matter so far – the district judge and three 9th Circuit appellate judges – have seen it that way.
But now, I’m not so sure.
If immigration-law violators cannot be processed in state court, the only option local police would have is to turn them over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Victor Quroz-Salate..."gets stuff for free here"
The following illegal aliens have been deported 50 times between them
-May 2011?Ricardo Elvin Martinez, 47, was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison, after he pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the United States. He was arrested in September when a U.S. Customs agent discovered him sleeping in shipping container at Norfolk International Terminals in Virginia.
The Mexican national has already been deported five times, with his last removal in August 2009. Over the last several years, he has been convicted of 24 criminal charges, including robbery, larceny and cocaine distribution.
According to U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride, “Each time he turned right back around and unlawfully reentered the country, once within a matter of days. Seemingly, his only purpose here has been to violate our laws and terrorize our citizens.”
-May 2011?Police in Gallatin, Tennessee arrested Victor Quroz-Salate after he allegedly climbed into a bed with a 9-year-old girl and fondled her. The girl was spending the night at a friend’s house.
Adrian Gonzalez says he won't address the immigration issue at the All-Star Game this week.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, barraged with phone calls and requests for a boycott, ignores them.
Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney, has called for baseball to back immigration rights at the All-Star Game but gets the indifference.
Puente, a human-rights organization, is among the groups scheduled to protest Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law Tuesday outside Chase Field. Luis Avila, president of Somos America, Arizona’s largest immigrant-rights coalition, has asked players to wear white ribbons in support. Their outcry has been met with silence.
On May 13th, Georgia’s governor signed a bill that essentially made it illegal for illegal aliens to be illegal. As hatefully punitive as that sounds, the bill’s most explosive passage-hold onto your seat, because it’s shocking-permits police who are conducting criminal investigations, including traffic stops, to inquire into a suspect’s immigration status in cases where the suspect fails to provide personal identification.
At the risk of sprinkling too much shredded cheese on my taco, isn’t that sorta the way it works all around the world? I suspect that if I were nabbed doing 110KPH in a 40KPH zone deep in Quintana Roo and couldn’t cough up my passport, the best possible scenario would involve being arrested and deported. Even here in Georgia, I believe the common etiquette is to produce identification during traffic stops, but what do I know-I live in Georgia!
The bill would also make it illegal for illegal aliens to receive public benefits. Again, I’m pretty sure that’s how it works down in Mexico, too, assuming there’s much in the way of beneficios públicos to be had. Either way, I’d consider it ill-mannered if I were to barge into an emergency room somewhere in the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua and demand that they yank out my gall bladder for free.
A year after the City Council approved the sanction, little has changed. There’s not even an ordinance specifying how the boycott should work.
In May 2010, Los Angeles was a part of wave of cities that voted to boycott Arizona after lawmakers in that state passed a controversial law targeting illegal immigrants.
City Hall staffers were ordered to review contracts with Arizona companies for possible termination, and official travel to Arizona was supposed to be suspended.
But a year later, little has changed in the way Los Angeles does business with the state next door.
The city still buys street sweeper parts from one Arizona firm and has a contract for emergency sewer repairs with another, officials say. The Harbor Department alone has four contracts with Arizona companies that total nearly $26 million.
A similar pattern can be seen across California. Boycotts in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles County made headlines last year but have since delivered little punch.
None of those jurisdictions has canceled a contract with an Arizona-based company because of the boycott – leading some immigrant-rights activists to dismiss the high-profile calls for economic sanctions as empty symbolism.
