The Arizona Republican Party’s second-in-command resigned over the weekend after he called for the forced sterilization of women as a requirement for receiving public aid.
According to the Arizona Republic, former state Sen. Russell Pearce—who once passed along neo-Nazi literature to his campaign supporters and called fellow Republicans “sissies” for giving up on the word “wetback”—resigned as Arizona Republican Party’s first vice chair on Sunday, one day after telling listeners about his downright Goebbels-esque designs for the state’s Medicaid program on his weekly call-in radio show.
“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations…Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”
Arizona Democrats immediately pounced, calling for Republicans to condemn the remarks.
In a statement released on Saturday evening, Arizona Democratic Party executive director DJ Quinlan took note that—at least to that point—the state’s GOP leadership had been silent on the remarks, adding that the silence “indicates that they have made a cynical calculation that Russell Pearce and his brand of politics appeals to the most extreme elements of their electoral base.”
Shortly thereafter, the state’s GOP candidates for governor, secretary of state, attorney general and Congressional candidates all spoke out against Pearce.
“The notion that government would force sterilization upon anyone is counter to everything I believe about individual liberty and contrary to the founding principles of a free nation,” said GOP attorney general candidate Mark Brnovich’s in a statement on Sunday. “Comments that demean the plight of the poor, including women in the dual role of mother and economic provider, are not conservative; they’re cruel. And I reject them.”
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