Russell Pearce: Putting another nail in the coffin of his political career

From AZFamily.com (aka - Channel 3 in Phoenix), written by Dennis Welch -

Days after one of the men who led a national border vigilante movement was arrested on accusations of child molestation, former Senate President Russell Pearce had this to say about Chris Simcox: “good people do stupid things sometimes.”

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Pearce was speaking after appearing on the station’s weekly public affairs show, Politics Unplugged, which airs at 5:30 Sunday.

The video -



Pearce is right about one thing - good people do stupid things occasionally.

However, bad people do evil things, and molesting children qualifies as "evil", not "stupid".

If Pearce ever runs for an elected office again, expect this to seriously haunt him.