Comments on: Pearce issues memo on Senate ban http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/03/14/pearce-issues-memo-on-senate-ban/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 17 May 2013 21:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dennis Gilman http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/03/14/pearce-issues-memo-on-senate-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-56613 Dennis Gilman Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:17:04 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/03/14/pearce-issues-memo-on-senate-ban/#comment-56613 J. Odhner is 100% correct. There was absolutely no drumming inside and if clapping in a separate room is the new RULE OF LAW at the Capitol, it needs to apply to everyone which will eventually include Pearce's supporters just like Arpaio's supporters at the BOS meetings a few years ago. That little lapse in fairness and judgement cost the Tax Payers 500,000 big ones and if the individuals arrested were not kind folk-they could've collect much more. Pearce wanted Reza away because he is a very serious threat to him. But everyone who knows Reza knows he practices and preaches non violence. For Pearce to make statements about "safety" is ridiculous. J. Odhner is 100% correct. There was absolutely no drumming inside and if clapping in a separate room is the new RULE OF LAW at the Capitol, it needs to apply to everyone which will eventually include Pearce’s supporters just like Arpaio’s supporters at the BOS meetings a few years ago. That little lapse in fairness and judgement cost the Tax Payers 500,000 big ones and if the individuals arrested were not kind folk-they could’ve collect much more.
Pearce wanted Reza away because he is a very serious threat to him. But everyone who knows Reza knows he practices and preaches non violence. For Pearce to make statements about “safety” is ridiculous.

]]> By: J. Odhner http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/03/14/pearce-issues-memo-on-senate-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-56561 J. Odhner Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:52:57 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/03/14/pearce-issues-memo-on-senate-ban/#comment-56561 This article claims "The issue stems from Pearce’s decision to prohibit several immigration activists from entering the Senate building after they were identified as leaders of disruptive behavior during a committee hearing last month." By uncritically accepting as fact Pearces claim that Sal Reza was disruptive, Mr Del Puerto does this paper a disservice. Pearce has claimed that Mr Reza was kicked out of the Appropriations Meeting on 2/22. This claim is demonstrably false. The entire audience of that meeting was segregated from the policy makers in a separate room, and the entire audience did applaud on several occasions -- Mr Reza no more than the rest. He was never asked to leave, and (as camera footage clearly shows), he was present throughout the entire marathon session which did not end until the early morning hours of 2/23. Pearce further claimed that people in the overflow seating were "pounding on drums". This is also a patiently false claim; no drums were present that night. I hope that in the future, Mr Del Puerto & the Capitol Times editors will use more responsible verbiage. It's a mistake to blindly accept Pearces claims as fact -- I expect better from the Az Capitol times. This article claims “The issue stems from Pearce’s decision to prohibit several immigration activists from entering the Senate building after they were identified as leaders of disruptive behavior during a committee hearing last month.”

By uncritically accepting as fact Pearces claim that Sal Reza was disruptive, Mr Del Puerto does this paper a disservice.

Pearce has claimed that Mr Reza was kicked out of the Appropriations Meeting on 2/22. This claim is demonstrably false. The entire audience of that meeting was segregated from the policy makers in a separate room, and the entire audience did applaud on several occasions — Mr Reza no more than the rest. He was never asked to leave, and (as camera footage clearly shows), he was present throughout the entire marathon session which did not end until the early morning hours of 2/23. Pearce further claimed that people in the overflow seating were “pounding on drums”. This is also a patiently false claim; no drums were present that night.

I hope that in the future, Mr Del Puerto & the Capitol Times editors will use more responsible verbiage. It’s a mistake to blindly accept Pearces claims as fact — I expect better from the Az Capitol times.

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