and say that if Brewer wins, Russell Pearce will essentially run this state because she won't stand up to him. That's if he becomes president of the state senate. I think the paper was right - if Pearce is king, education and other social programs are toast, business will have even larger tax cuts, and Arizona will indeed drown in the bathtub.
"Goddard has to sell himself to voters as the governor who will check the radical excesses of Pearce, who hopes to be state Senate president next session and can be expected to implement an agenda so far out of the mainstream that he won't even get his feet wet.
Goddard is the guy who can keep Pearce from running the state.
Brewer won't stop Pearce. She owes her sudden popularity to him. Signing Pearce's immigration bill, the controversial and damaging Senate Bill 1070, gave her poll numbers with Republican primary voters that challenger Buz Mills' millions won't move and state Treasurer Dean Martin can only dream about.
Brewer isn't likely to cross Pearce if she wins in November.
Goddard's goal should be to remind voters of that early and often."
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/2010/07/11/20100711goddard-pearce-valdez.html