CITIZENS for a Better Arizona, a group in Mesa, near Phoenix, this week sub mitted more than 18,000 signatures to re call their district's state senator, Russell Pearce. That is more signatures than the votes Mr Pearce won last November when he was re-elected, and far more than the 7,756 necessary for a recall-forcing him to defend himself in a special election-even allowing for some invalid ones. This is much more than a local sideshow: Mr Pearce is not just a member of the state Senate but its president. His recall would be the first of a Senate president in Ameri can history.
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