Former Senate President Russell Pearce is lobbying lawmakers to deny additional education funding, and is doing so from his post as manager of the technical services division at the Maricopa County Treasurer’s Office. Using his official county account, Pearce yesterday sent an email at 5:17 pm to lawmakers with the subject line “education opportunities,” warning them that they don’t have enough money to satisfy the “educrats” and urging them to demand that any new education funding proposal include accountability measures.

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