432,000

The number of signatures of Arizona voters that must be collected by the end of May in order to force the recall of Gov. Jan Brewer, whose defunding of medical assistance for low income residents of the state has been likened to a “death panel” for the poor.

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For those of us following the coverage of the [...]

When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry…People tend to “pooh-pooh” this business about all this vitriol we hear enflaming the American public by people who make a living off of doing that. That may be free speech, but it’s not without consequences.

Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, answering the question he was asked repeatedly in the wake of the terrorist attack on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az.) that claimed six lives. The question was, “Why did it happen?”

Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer made news earlier this year when she claimed that the deserts in her state were littered with headless bodies — corpse of the victims of bloodthirsty illegal aliens who were crossing the border to wreak havoc on Arizonans. And though that claim was proven to be false, she never admitted [...]

Faced with the need to cut government budgets, Republicans reflexively start with programs for the poor, the ill, the elderly and children. In Arizona last year, the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer — best remembered for pushing the state’s “papers please” anti-immigrant law and then getting caught lying when she asserted that the Arizona deserts [...]

From Liberal Viewer.

Arizona’s dreadful new anti-immigrant law, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer within hours of Pres. Obama denouncing it, isn’t the slam-dunk wedge issue Republicans might have hoped for. In an impassioned press release, a group called Somos Republicans called out Brewer and the red-faced anti-immigrant extremists who passed the legislation. The real question is where Republican candidates of Latino descent will stand on this issue. Specifically, where will Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio, who refers to himself as a child of “exiles,” not “immigrants,” in his campaign ads stand?