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&lt;h1 class="articleHeadline" style="color: black; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.083em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/19recall.html?hp"&gt;In Arizona, Sponsor of Immigration Law Now Faces a Recall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/nyt_headline&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;MESA, Ariz. — It has been a rough year for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/russell_pearce/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Russell Pearce."&gt;Russell Pearce&lt;/a&gt;, the president of the Arizona Senate, as he has sought to solidify his state’s reputation as the nation’s incubator for hard-edged conservative policies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/nyt_headline&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1258723469974922379-4544719737310095164?l=desertmetro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesertMetropolis/~4/YLubb8X3nRU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1258723469974922379/posts/default/4544719737310095164?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1258723469974922379/posts/default/4544719737310095164?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDesertMetropolis/~3/YLubb8X3nRU/pearce-faces-recall.html" title="PEARCE FACES RECALL" /><author><name>Introducing 'THE DESERT METROPOLIS'</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05739566726151379792</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0qSFTje7P5E/Sb1ExdCt0rI/AAAAAAAAAKM/_PMyCElyY6w/S220/jackrabbittrendtshritweb.jpg" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://desertmetro.blogspot.com/2011/06/pearce-faces-recall.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YBR30-cSp7ImA9WxFRFEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258723469974922379.post-1344332035648414868</id><published>2010-04-27T16:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T16:32:36.359-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-04-27T16:32:36.359-07:00</app:edited><title>Reveals root of immigration law based on hate</title><content type="html">
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;1. HB 2382: withhold state funding for undocumented children.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;2. HB 2281: attacks Ethnic studies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;3. SB 1097: State can withhold state aid for non-citizen students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;4. HB 2162: Provides $200,000 to the Cochise County Sheriff's office for costs relating to creation of an armed volunteer security force on the U.S./Mexico border&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1258723469974922379-8403831823778457302?l=desertmetro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDesertMetropolis/~4/Ddx3fYlJedI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1258723469974922379/posts/default/8403831823778457302?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1258723469974922379/posts/default/8403831823778457302?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDesertMetropolis/~3/Ddx3fYlJedI/more-bills-that-create-unequal-arizona.html" title="" /><author><name>Introducing 'THE DESERT METROPOLIS'</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05739566726151379792</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0qSFTje7P5E/Sb1ExdCt0rI/AAAAAAAAAKM/_PMyCElyY6w/S220/jackrabbittrendtshritweb.jpg" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://desertmetro.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-bills-that-create-unequal-arizona.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQAQ349fCp7ImA9WhZbFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258723469974922379.post-3208747360072365026</id><published>2010-04-26T01:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-19T12:55:42.064-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-06-19T12:55:42.064-07:00</app:edited><title>Feelings toward non-elected AZ Gov.</title><content type="html">
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