Bonus Poem on Former Arizona state Senator Russell Pearce resigning as Arizona Republican Party's first vice chair late Sunday after receiving criticism over recent comments he made about women on Medicaid

Item: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/russell-pearce-resigns_n_5822136.html

Russell Pearce as a GOP vice-chair's resigned
After comments 'bout birth control which he opined,
Saying, if you're on Medicaid, and you have sex,
And are female-inclined, then the state should object,
And should make you take Norplant, or have your tubes tied,
And should test you for drugs or for booze, then deny
You the help you might need if from such tests you fail,
Yes, especially if, from some male,  you're impaled!
Now Republicans distance themselves from this jerk,
Who assumes women helped by the state just won't work,
And are lounging around, all quite drunk and in heat,
While they mooch from old men, who no more rule the streets;
Now we pity the folk living in this young state
Since the rest of the country just laughs at the hate
That we see in a guy who would help not a dame,
Who, while maybe Latina, needs help, just the same.

Scott L. Barton