Critics of Ariz. legislator who sponsored immigration law file petitions to force recall (Pearce) [View All]

Source: Associated Press

PHOENIX — Critics of an Arizona legislator who sponsored the state’s controversial immigration law filed petitions Tuesday to force a recall election for the Mesa Republican.

The requirement to do so is 7,756 voter signatures from Senate President Russell Pearce’s legislative district.

Recall proponents say they filed petitions bearing 18,315 signatures. But campaign chairman Chad Snow acknowledged thousands of those might be duplicates or signatures of people who live outside Pearce’s district.

“We want those extra petition signatures to send a message,” Snow said. “We want to send a message to Sen. Pearce, to every legislator down here at the Arizona Legislature that this kind of extreme, ideologically driven policies will no longer be tolerated in our state.”

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