Phoenix New Times : Randy Parraz and other Human Rights Activists accuse Russell Pearce and the Right Wing Extremist Press in Arizona of being guilty of many Lies, Slanders, Libels and Smearing Reputations - Recall Election of Pearce

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The Conservative Right Wing Press is accusing Black American Citizens of being "Illegal Aliens", look at the photos.

Conservative Libel Defamatory Newspapers are accusing American Citizens of being "Illegal Aliens" - Randy Parraz called Bentley's allegations of fraud while collecting signatures for the Pearce Recall Election "false, misleading and baseless."

Now the recall election of Russell Pearce is a fact - He should be defeated by a Conservative Republican because Democrats are very weak in this district.

Pearce will emerge stronger if he wins in a landslide, but a small Pearce victory would signal growing dissatisfaction with the conservatives. This has broader significance than just Russell Pearce. If he wins just narrowly, then it is a referendum against the tea party movement, this is no place for the liberals to win. This district is too conservative !

Immigration will be a very hot topic during the Presidential Election of 2012. Everybody knows that President Obama sides with the moderates and with what is rational and best for the American Economy.

Phoenix New Times
Feathered Bastard
Russell Pearce and Sonoran News Slammed by Recall Group
By Stephen Lemons 
June 29, 2011


Russell Pearce and Sonoran News Slammed by Recall Group


Some excerpts :

In his June 22 editorial on the effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce, Don Sorchych, publisher and editor of the right-wing Cave Creek pub Sonoran News, erroneously referred to Mesa resident and petition-signer Benita Lantigua as "a Mexican woman," who is "likely an illegal."

Today, Lantigua showed up to a press conference sponsored by the recall group Citizens for a Better Arizona. In her hand was her U.S. passport.

Her lawyer Sean Larkin told reporters that Lantigua, who was on her lunch break from her job at Wells Fargo, has been a U.S. citizen since 1996.

Lantigua did not answer questions about Sorchych's editorial, or the shabbily reported June 15 article by Sorchych's top hack Linda Bentley, on which the opinion piece was based. The Bentley item offered Lantigua's registration as an example of the "massive voter registration fraud" that she alleged was present in the recall petitions.

But on Lantigua's behalf, Larkin and CBA organizer Randy Parraz blasted Pearce, the Sonoran News, and other outlets that have disseminated the same inaccurate information, such as the nativist non-profit Ban Amnesty Now, as well Websites for both the Arizona Republican Party and the Maricopa County GOP.

"It seems [Sonoran News] willfully published false information and accusations that would ultimately be accusing [Lantigua] of committing both federal and state crimes," Larkin said.

Randy Parraz called Bentley's allegations of fraud "false, misleading and baseless." He noted the irony that out of more than 18,000 names CBA turned in to the Arizona Secretary of State's Office, Pearce's supporters ended up spotlighting someone who was, unbeknownst to them, an American citizen.

"Out of 18,000 names to pick from and you can't even get it right?" Parraz asked incredulously of Bentley and the Sonoran News. "You end up picking someone who is registered to vote, who lives in the district, and you [label this ]`massive voter fraud' and use her as the poster child of this?

"That goes beyond the line. We believe it is illegal activity. That's why we are here today...Russell Pearce should be ashamed that he has people supporting him that [use] these kinds of tactics."

Bentley originally reported that Lantigua was registered under three different names with Maricopa County elections, citing this as evidence of "rampant voter registration fraud."

She also suggested that Lantigua might have committed bigamy.

County elections director Karen Osborne later told me that Lantigua had done nothing wrong. Osborne said Lantigua has never voted dually, and signed the recall petition only once.

Indeed, Lantigua, who has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades, simply changed her name over the years when she divorced and remarried. The county failed to consolidate the registrations as one.

Additionally, Osborne stated that the claim of "massive voter registration fraud" was "inaccurate" based on what she's seen of the petitions.

So far the county has validated 10,374 signatures from Pearce's Legislative District 18, or 2,618 more than the 7,756 required to force a recall election, assuming Pearce doesn't choose to resign instead.

Parraz noted that all Bentley had to do was ask Osborne about Lantigua's registration, and she would have been told that Lantigua had voted appropriately. He believes Lantigua was targeted because she is Latina.

"If her name was Smith or Jones, we would not be having this press conference," said Parraz.

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