Arizona GOP official resigns after saying poor women should be sterilized

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

A top GOP official in Arizona resigned from his statewide position after calling for the forced sterilization of women on welfare.

Russell Pearce, the first vice-chair of the state’s Republican Party and recalled Arizona senate president, made the comments Sept. 6 on his weekly, self-titled talk radio program, reported the Phoenix New Times.

“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations,” Pearce said on his KKNT-AM program. “Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”

In addition to forced sterilization, Pearce suggested recipients of public assistance be tested for drugs and alcohol, have their homes subjected to random searches, and severely cutting the amount of food aid and dictating what items recipients could buy.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/blog/2014/09/15/arizona-gop-official-resigns-after-saying-poor-women-should-be-sterilized/

[louis-t]

1. You know who else wanted this?

Hitler..

[riversedge]

3. Not only wanted...

I was thinking the same thing--Has this guy woke up in Germany in the early 40's!!

[Scalded Nun]

17. Their planning actually moving forward in the 20s.

They really moved along on the 30s. The 40s brought about their deserved destruction.

Dehumanize people based upon lifestyle, religion, gender, income, reliance on outside support (welfare, food stamps, etc.), union membership, etc. and you make them non-human. You make them things. It is easy (far less complicated) to eradicate a thing.

You pit one side/group against the other, then repeat with ever-shrinking groups. The end result is just 1 small group to deal with when the time comes.

Much of what you see now in our country is that same results-driven philosophy that has been in motion for a while. They (ultra-rich conservatives and their minions) are just more emboldened in their willingness to spout it due to general acceptance by the population and media.

[Louisiana1976]

30. Absolutely true.

[jwirr]

9. And China after one child. These people do not even understand when they are using the kind of

systems we say we are against. I bet if you asked him if he considered himself a communist in the style of China or a Nazi he would think you were crazy.

[Archae]

11. You'd be surprised by Hitler's actual edicts on this.

German women (not Jews or other "inferiors&quot who had themselves sterilized or had an abortion would get 2 years at hard labor, and the doctor would get the noose.

[louis-t]

16. Correct. He wanted lots of little Nazis.

[NickB79]

34. Well, yeah, those were the RIGHT Germans that Hitler was "protecting"

Our esteemed Congressman in the link is indeed talking about what he considers our "undesirables" of society, so I'd say the comparison is apt.

[riversedge]

2. Ramdom searches? forced sterization!! Actually

I think this guy is saying what the teaparty-Republicans are saying behind closed doors (many of them anyway).

[bobGandolf]

4. What a piece of work!

Back in the good ol R. Reagan days, he insinuated a lot of what this guy said. Reagan made poor bashing very popular.

[The CCC]

28. What a piece of work!

Ronald Reagan was famous for his midnight raids to find the number of shoes, and pot and pans those on welfare had. Too many of the "wrong" type and he'd kick you off of AFDC.

[niyad]

5. now, if he would only resign from the human race. .. .

[Fuddnik]

14. His membership was revoked a long time ago.

[Cartoonist]

6. What's fair is fair

The first requirement of all laws should be that those writing them have to be the first ones to submit to them. For example, all politicians should be drug tested on a regular basis and the results made public so voters can be informed. All republicans should have trans-vaginal scans even if they don't have a vagina.

[Plucketeer]

13. I like the way you think

If we're going to PAY public servants for what they do on our behalf (supposedly), bless them with life-long top notch medical care AND set them up for a cushy, trophy job once they're out of office...... WHY THE HELL shouldn't we test them for controlled substances and other humiliating "checks" as a qualifier for eligibility??? You KNOW some of them would FAIL.

[Louisiana1976]

32. Right on!

[Shrike47]

7. A former chief deputy under Joe Arpaio. He is a mean, vindictive and unChristian man.

[niyad]

42. did not know that, but not surprised.

[yallerdawg]

8. The Arizona echo chamber.

There is very little push back when it is all right wing whites, so aren't familiar with politically correct language.

No apologies from this tea bagger.

The Arizona heat has fried their brains - "but it's a dry heat."

[LittleGirl]

10. there are so many of them too!

So glad he dropped out. What a jerk.

[Sunlei]

12. Why did McCain, the Senator from Arizona abandon his home state to the nazis?

[Ash_F]

15. Hope he's been sterilized. /nt

[SoapBox]

19. I was going to give him a new nickname...

Neutered.

[Demeter]

18. Did his party disown him? No?

then I am not impressed or satisfied.

[thelordofhell]

39. They will never disown this dirtbag

They created the position of Vice-Chair specifically FOR him after he got his ass tossed out of the AZ Senate in a recall election..............

[Cal33]

20. It's the rich corporation execs. who, through their crooked ways and means, make such vast

amounts of money, yet do their best to prevent raising the minimum wage for the poor,
that has driven more people into poverty, and causing the already poor to become still
poorer, and some of them have died of hunger and malnutrition.

These sociopathic corporation executives are the cause. Catch them red-handed at their
filthy tricks, send them to court. These filthy swine are the real cause of the downward
turn of our nation. But sociopaths not only don't give a damn about their fellow mankind.
They actually enjoy making and seeing others in misery and causing their deaths.

[phantom power]

21. I bet they made him resign because he was promoting birth control

Maybe he was advocating a horrible authoritarian use of birth control, but still, he was implying that birth control is a useful tool, and that's taboo!

[panader0]

22. This guy was the State Senator behind SB1070

Good riddance!

[blkmusclmachine]

23. The GOP has officially jumped the shark. But will the voters notice?

[jillan]

24. But isn't sterilization a form of birth control? And isn't Birth Control a form of abortion...

I'm so confused

Get your story straight - goopers.

[valerief]

25. I'm having trouble understanding this quote.

“Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”

Does this mean he only wants junkies and drunks to be in the work force?

[redstatebluegirl]

26. What about poor men?

And rich men who make babies with working girls and their nannys?

[Skittles]

27. so they are FOR birth control only if it is forced....by them

omg

[azurnoir]

29. This is an appeal to the working poor who supposedly get no benefits

pitting the working poor against the non-working poor is a good part of how the pukes stay in power at least in certain areas

[Third Doctor]

31. A lot of them think that.

This guy is just dumb enough to say it.

[Wellstone ruled]

33. Just another TeaBilly doinng his

good deed in Arizona. This guy is a real tool of the Right Wing hate groups. It's all about the distractions from the real issues and Pearce is a master of deceit.

[BobbyBoring]

35. If anyone should be sterilize....

It's women who give birth to ass hats like him.

[secondvariety]

36. Resigned from what?

The parasite still has his $85,000 a year do-nothing taxpayer funded job. You scratch the loudest anti-public assistance blow-hards and you'll find they're the biggest abusers of tax payers money. Almost every single time.

[Alkene]

37. Test politicians and political officials for drugs and alcohol,

and I guess throw some sterilization in there somewhere (Okay, not really; I don't support drug screening or coerced sterilization.)

, just in case.

[former9thward]

38. He only resigned from his non-paying GOP post.

He remains working for the Maricopa County Treasurer's office for $85,000 a year.

[Uncle Joe]

40. What a total waste of DNA.

Thanks for the thread, Galraedia.

[whereisjustice]

41. The American Taliban, just as extreme, just as dangerous. Our existential enemy is here, not there.

[deafskeptic]

43. That's just unacceptable. Of course, he should resign!

Everytime I go on the bus towards downtown Lynchburg and back home, I go by a familiar institution with a dark past.

Nowadays it's a training center for the intellectually and developmentally disabled though it's slated to close by 2020. In the past, it would sterilize the 'Epileptics' and the 'feebleminded'. It was where the Bucks were sterilized. It was founded by eugenicists. (of course! )

[Amimnoch]

44. Pearce is right! Forced sterilization, and mandatory drug and alcahol testing.

Let's start with him, and his family. After all, he receives his income from the government. Haul his wife in and force him to watch as they setup to sterilize her. His mother, grandmother, any close family getting any kind of government assistance.. Haul them in as well. Drug test him and his family, and not at any upscale hospital of his chosing, but at a free clinic in downtown Phoenix, and they can enjoy the same lines that his consituants enjoy.

I wouldn't take it as far as ACTUALLY steralizing his family, but bring it right to the edge, and scare the crap out of him into having SOME fucking sense.

If it's good enough for the citizens he's SUPPOSED to represent, then hell, it's good enough for him and his family.

[marble falls]

45. This isn't even the first time Pearce has had to resign a post or office beause of his ...

inability to keep his asinine opinions to himself. How does a guy who was recalled by his constituents get to be a party official??????????????

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1038777

[Bartlet]

46. Ya know,

every time I think these Republicans assholes have gone and said the stupidest thing I've ever heard, they keep talking and amaze me by saying something even more stupid.

[FiveGoodMen]

48. You have to admire their resourcefulness

They can find stupid where others don't even know it exists!

[Bohemianwriter]

47. SMALL Government GOP STRIKES again....

[jonjensen]

49. republicans gave him$41 an hour job in treasurers office

He just quit as party deputy chairman not his $41 an hour job republicans gave him in treasures office and he can still meet his neo-nazi supporters and do his radio show. I think its called nazi germany west speaks ;but as bill o'reilly sez I could be wrong!

[Kber]

50. But he didn't resign for the reasons you'd think...

After both Democrats and Republicans urged him to step down from his elected but unpaid statewide position, he submitted his resignation Sunday — essentially claiming he had plagiarized the offensive remarks.

“Recently on my radio show there was a discussion about the abuses to our welfare system,” Pearce said in a statement. “I shared comments written by someone else and failed to attribute them to the author. This was a mistake. This mistake has been taken by the media and the left and used to hurt our Republican candidates.”