MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
In the end it wasn't illegals who did him in, it was his own precious gun. He was 'a pal' of AZ 1070 author, and Republican Senate leader, Russell Pearce.
J.T. Ready, Arizona's most prominent neo-Nazi and the one-time political protege of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, is reportedly dead by his own hand in a multiple murder-suicide in Gilbert that left four others dead, including a two year old.
A one-time member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, Ready, 39, was a committed white supremacist, a former Republican precinct committeeman and a failed candidate for Mesa City Council....Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Ready was his relationship with ex-Senator Pearce (Repbulican), who helped him join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and groomed him, according to Ready, for a possible run for the legislature....
See also : Five Dead in Gilbert Mass Killing