Anti-immigration hawk - Russell Pearce (AZ) - trounced in primary

Russell Pearce, the inspiration for GOP's immigration platform, lost another election in Arizona Tuesday



While Republican convention-goers fortify the ramparts of their Arizona-style immigration platform, SB 1070 standard-bearer Russell Pearce went down in an expected but still humiliating Republican primary defeat for a state senate seat last night.

Perhaps someone needs to inform the Republican convention: Russell Pearce has left the building.

“In less than one year, Russell Pearce has gone from being the most powerful politician in the state to being unemployed,” said Randy Parraz, whose Citizens for a Better Arizona organization led last year’s recall election of the former state senate president and played a key role in getting out voters in yesterday’s primary election.

...his self-proclaimed role as the “Tea Party President” and SB 1070 mastermind served as another referendum on the state’s controversial immigration policy for Republican voters in arguably one of the most conservative legislative districts in the nation. In a nearly identical repeat of last year’s recall voters’ rejection of the state’s punitive immigration approach, Pearce lost again by 12 percent ...

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/russell_pearce_trounced/

Old news, but I didn't notice it when it happened. It is a happy day when SB1070's architect loses his latest election. Hope springs eternal.

Something tells me that ALEC won't let him be 'unemployed' for very long.