Russell Pearce’s ‘Hate Humanity Tuesday’ Targets AHCCCS, ABOR, and the Undocumented
14th Amendment under attack in AZ again
The last time I went to a car wash in Arizona I did the full thing in Lake Havasu because we had two thousand miles of crud on the outside and dog hair all over the inside. That meant there were about five people working on my car after it rolled out. Two of them were Hispanic, one was Black, one was Asian, and one was of indeterminate race and I thought nothing of it since we live in a mixed race neighborhood in Lenexa.
Then the beer-bellied, pipe stem-armed, pasty-face next to me said “Hurrr… looks like you got the full burrito there…”
I’m happy to say that I didn’t get the bigot joke until a couple of seconds later when his wife nervously laughed “Tee Hee - that’s not nice”, without any sincerity. I gave him my “I’m crazy so don’t talk to me” stare and walked away.
That moment became symptomatic of the rest of my stay there, as I watched elderly whites living the dream with their retirement homes and massive attached toy barns while pissing bile about the brown and the poor whom they could not live without. Without that labor force there to cheaply take care of them, fully a third or more of those retired in Lake Havasu probably couldn’t afford to live there anymore. They are destroying their own economy and low prices with their bile and they don’t even know it.
And now we have another attempt to tear down the 14th amendment from the Russell Pearce camp in AZ.
More from Stephen Lemons:
The agenda, which you can eyeball, here, includes some of the “crazy” bills that couldn’t get through other committees, such as SB 1308 and SB 1309, which are meant as a challenge to the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
That’s a pet project of state Senate President Russell Pearce, and the rest of what will happen Tuesday is part of his master plan to wreck Arizona.
You’ll recall, state Senate Judiciary Chairman Ron Gould, had to withdraw 1308 and 1309 from his own committee because he didn’t have the votes.
But the wingnuts have enough votes to give a “do-pass” recommendation to this illegal, unconstitutional and un-American effort, one guaranteed to convince the world, if it’s not convinced already, that Arizona in 2011 is equivalent to Alabama circa 1960.