Farrell Quinlan

July 24, 2008 - 4:33pm

Independent group hoping to be a factor in LD18

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

There is a newcomer to the Legislative District 18 senate race, and it's not a candidate. Judgment Matters, a new political action committee, is trying to raise funds for a "primary voter education and mobilization effort in Arizona Legislative District 18" - one that opposes the Arizona Senate candidacy of state Rep. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa).

The group is urging donations so that it can mount "independent expenditures" - usually advertising - against Pearce in his primary fight with Kevin Gibbons.

"A surgically-timed contribution from you and others can help excise Russell Pearce and his strain of politics from Arizona's legislature," read the Judgment Matters pitch.

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