Democrat
turned
Independent
(as of Dec.
9, 2022)
member of
the U.S.
Senate from
Arizona. She
assumed
office on
January 3,
2019. Her
current term
ends on
January 3,
2025. Sinema
ran for
election to
the U.S.
Senate to
represent
Arizona. She
won in the
general
election on
November 6,
2018. She
defeated Martha
McSally (R)
and Angela
Green (G) in
the general
election,
becoming the
first woman
elected to a
U.S. Senate
seat in
Arizona.
Sinema is a
former
Democratic
member of
the U.S.
House
representing
Arizona's
9th
Congressional
District
from 2013 to
2019. Sinema
began her
political
career in
the Arizona
House of
Representatives.
She
represented
District 15
from 2005
until her
election to
the Arizona
State Senate
in 2010. She
resigned
from the
state Senate
on January
3, 2012, in
order to run
for
Congress.
Prior to
running for
office,
Sinema was a
local
spokeswoman
for the
Green Party.
She was
replaced in
the Senate
by
Representative
Ruben
Gallego in
2024.
"Outgoing
Sen.
Kyrsten
Sinema
dropped
thousands on
ritzy travel
experiences
over the
summer as
her tenure
in
Washington
wound down.
In the third
quarter of
this year,
Sinema (I-Ariz.)
spent
roughly
$216,000 on
expenses
related to
travel —
including
trips to
Japan and
France — and
another
$152,000 on
security,
according to
her latest
campaign
finance
report. In
all,
Sinema’s
campaign
spent
$650,536
between July
1 and Sept.
30, far more
than her
other
retiring
peers in the
upper
chamber
— such as
Sens. Mitt
Romney
(R-Utah),
whose
campaign
listed
$224,521 in
spending and
Sen. Ben
Cardin (D-Md.),
whose
campaign
shelled out
$23,440."
"With waning
campaign
money and
questions
over whether
she'll run
for
re-election
at all,
Senator Kyrsten
Sinema went
on a
$1million
spending
spree with
those funds
in the last
three months
of 2023. The
independent
from
Arizona, who
quit the
Democrat
Party in
2022,
outspent
what she
raised by
nearly
$200,000,
dishing out
$796,565 of
campaign
cash in the
fourth
quarter of
the year,
according to
Federal
Election
Commission
filings. At
least
$265,521 was
spent on
security
costs,
including
$77,000 on a
new
Chevrolet
and $1,523
worth of a
tickets to
events for
her
bodyguards,
including
$490 at Red
Rocks
Amphitheater
in Colorado.
"
"The Arizona senator has booked at least 11 private plane trips since 2020, with five of them coming in 2023, when she spent $116,000 on chartered air travel. According to the reports, nearly all of the flights were charted for travel within Arizona, as the senator and several of her staffers hit several cities and towns around the state on one- or two-day trips. By comparison, Sinema’s home-state colleague, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), appears to have never used his Senate budget for privately chartered flights, even though he regularly travels to the same places in the state that Sinema does."
"Sinema didn’t
explain her
vote against
Crews in a
statement or
on her usual
social media
channels. A
spokesperson
didn’t
respond
Wednesday to
a request
for
comment."
"Ms. Sinema is
a cheat of a
different
kind when
she conned
Arizona
Democrats
(and likely
a
substantial
amount of
Independents
too) by
deceiving
voters out
of the
“vows” she
pledged to
them during
her
campaign—a
promise to
promote and
protect the
issues most
important to
Arizona’s
working men
and women.
Sinema
literally
walked away
from those
vows, ran to
the
skeptical
arms of the
Independent
Party and
turned her
back on
every single
person who
voted for
her."
"After she
voted with
Republicans
on June 1 to
kill
President
Joe Biden’s
student debt
forgiveness
plan, the
Arizona
senator
received at
least
$27,000 from
political
action
committees
related to
loan
providers,
banks, debt
collectors
and
for-profit
education in
the months
after her
vote,
Phoenix New
Times
found." [ .
. . ] "How Sinema uses
her campaign
funds is
also under
fire. A May
complaint
with the FEC
alleged that
Sinema spent
$180,000 of
her campaign
funds on
luxury
hotels, posh
resorts,
Michelin-star
restaurants,
international
travel and
winery
visits. Her
office also
did not
respond to
questions
about the
complaint."
"Ms. Sinema is
a cheat of a
different
kind when
she conned
Arizona
Democrats
(and likely
a
substantial
amount of
Independents
too) by
deceiving
voters out
of the
“vows” she
pledged to
them during
her
campaign—a
promise to
promote and
protect the
issues most
important to
Arizona’s
working men
and women."
[ . . . ]
"Arizona
Democrats,
many former
supporters
of Sinema
have not
forgotten
her slap in
the face
when she
voted in
dramatic,
almost
cinematic
style, when she
mockingly
curtsied,
smiled and
shot a
thumbs-down
vote against
the
increasing
the minimum
wage even
though she
had
previously
said she
supported
it. The
Arizona
State
Democratic
Party
censured
Sinema last
January for
opposing the
removal of
the
filibuster
and stating
that Sinema
had failed
to stand up
for her
constituents
in key areas
such as
voting
rights and
holding
major
corporations
accountable.”
""I don't
care. I can
go on any
board I want
to. I can be
a college
president. I
can do
anything," Sinema reportedly
told Romney.
"I saved the
Senate
filibuster
by myself. I
saved the
Senate by
myself.
That's good
enough for
me." Yes,
preserving
the
brokenness
of a broken
institution
(House
Republicans
may be the
most visible
disaster
right now,
but never
lose sight
of how bad
things are
in the
Senate)
makes Sinema
a winner for
life. Also,
she didn’t
exactly do
it all on
her own.
Sen. Joe
Manchin will
not be
denied his
credit for
keeping the
filibuster
in place and
the Senate
stuck in the
mud. But
also check
out Sinema’s
ambitions:
“I can go on
any board I
want to. I
can be a
college
president.”
Being a
corporate
board member
is a classic
way to make
a lot of
money
relative to
the effort
you put in.
And being a
college
president
is, like
being a U.S.
senator, a
job that
places a
premium on
schmoozing
and
fundraising—but
for
substantially
higher pay."
"Sinema herself,
when she was
serving in
the state
Legislature
as a
Democrat,
was critical
of private
prisons on
social media
in 2010 and
2011, once
calling them
a
"disaster."
In June,
CoreCivic's
political
action
committee
donated
$5,000 to
Sinema,
according to
Federal
Election
Commission
records,
hitting the
maximum
contribution
of that kind
allowed.
Only four
other
congressional
candidates —
all
Republicans
— have
received
that amount
this year
from the
company,
records
show."
"In a
blistering
attack on
her Senate
colleague
last week,
Sen. Tammy
Duckworth,
D-Ill.,
warned
independent
Arizona
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema that
a proposal
to reduce
the number
of required
in-flight
training
hours for
pilots would
result in
“blood on
your hands.”
The attack
from
Duckworth
was prompted
by an
amendment
supported by
Sinema and
Sen. John
Thune, R-S.D.,
that would
allow pilots
to meet
training
requirements
by
substituting
hours spent
in a flight
simulator
for actual
flight
time." [ . .
. ]
"Sinema’s
campaign
received an
influx of
cash over
the last
year from
the airline
industry.
The
donations
would be
crucial to
the senator
as she
strikes out
as a newly
christened
independent
during a
challenging
reelection
bid. Without
her
Democratic
Party
affiliation,
Sinema heads
into the
2024 race
without the
political or
financial
backing of
her former
party."
"filings also reveal that in October, Sinema spent $70,000 on a “security detail vehicle.” In November, she bought a second security vehicle for a man named Lance Polloreno. Polloreno runs an HVAC company and has never done professional security. He is, however, a fellow endurance runner and his wife sits on a board with Sinema as well."
"While it
was
challenging
to find
Independent
voters
willing to
speak on the
record one
man who did
not want to
be
identified
told
Northeast
Valley News,
“he didn’t
like anyone
who’s a turncoat,”
and likely
would not be
voting for Sinema even
though he’s
been a
registered
Independent
for three
decades."
"A new
Public
Policy
Polling
survey in
Arizona
finds that
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema (I)
stands to
lose
re-election
badly in
virtually
any
potential
matchup this
November and
is deeply
unpopular
among
voters. The
survey
results show
that just
27% of
voters in
the state
view Sinema
favorably
and want her
to run
again,
compared to
50% of
Arizonans
who view her
unfavorably
and 54% who
say she
shouldn’t
run again.
In any
likely
three-way
matchup
among
Sinema,
Ruben
Gallego (D)
and whatever
Republican
candidate
wins their
primary,
Sinema
appears to
have
virtually no
chance of
winning."
"The Arizona
senator “has
filled her
campaign
coffers with
Wall Street
cash — but
some donors
are miffed
she’s spent
more than
$100,000 of
it on luxury
hotels,
private
jets, limos
and fine
wines,” the
Post’s On
the Money
feature
reports. In
the past two
years, she
has spent
$20,000 in
campaign
funds at
high-end
wineries on
the West
Coast,
according to
On the
Money, which
reviewed
election
finance
documents.
The article
also details
$10,000 in
spending at
luxury
restaurants
around the
world and
$45,000 on
chauffeurs.
She’s been
staying at
resorts and
chartering
flights
too."
"Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema (D-Ariz.)
raked in
hundreds of
thousands of
dollars from
Wall Street
firm
employees,
big bank
PACs and
several
prominent
Republicans
during the
first three
months of
2023,
according to
new campaign
finance
disclosures
filed with
the Federal
Election
Commission.
Arizona’s
2024 U.S.
Senate race
is rated a
toss-up by
the Cook
Political
Report,
setting the
stage for an
expensive
battle as
control of
the chamber
hangs on a
razor-thin
balance.
Sinema has
not yet
announced
her
reelection
bid, but
she’s
reportedly
preparing to
defend her
seat."
"While
attacks
labeling her
“the worst
kind of
hypocrite”
from former
colleagues
in the
Arizona
legislature
have died
down, her
campaign is
still being
hounded by
angry
Democratic
donors who
want their
money back.
According to
one source,
angry donors
were
initially
told the
campaign was
working on
it — but now
they aren’t
even getting
their calls
returned. Neither
the senator
nor her
staff are
even
bothering to
respond
anymore, a
source
added.
Still, Sinema —
who almost
single-handedly
squashed a
challenge to
the carried
interest
loophole
that taxes
private
equity and
hedge fund
profits at a
lower rate
than other
businesses —
may be
expecting a
generous
payday from
her Wall
Street
beneficiaries"
"Since 2007,
the
representative
has had a
consultancy
with Chad
Campbell, a
former
legislator
who backed
industry-supported
bills and
later
lobbied for
payday
lenders."
"A consortium of political advocacy groups are pushing for an investigation into allegations that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has had staffers running her personal errands and performing sundry household tasks on the taxpayer dime.
As first reported in December by The Daily Beast, Sinema aides are bound by a 37-page memo that lays out a very specific set of demands: the senator’s groceries are to be picked up promptly, her hour-long massages are to be booked weekly, and her internet service at home in D.C. must always be in working order. (If not, an assistant “should call Verizon to schedule a repair” so a staff member can be there to let a technician into her apartment, according to the memo.)
Now, 13 progressive nonprofits—including, among others, the Arizona Democracy Resource Center, Sunrise Movement Tempe, Patriotic Millionaires, and Vets Forward—have filed a formal complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee over Sinema’s alleged behavior.
The accusations “paint a picture of a Senator who is not only unresponsive to her constituents, but also disrespectful and even abusive to her employees and wholly unconcerned about her obligations under the law,” they wrote in a three-page letter dated Feb. 2.
“Most troubling,” the letter alleges, Sinema, who recently switched from the Democratic Party to govern as an Independent, “calls on staff members, who are employed and paid by the public and explicitly barred from campaign activity, to schedule and facilitate political fundraisers and meetings with campaign donors, presumably during the workday while they are on the clock and physically on federal property.”"
[...]
"“Given that many of the activities that the Senator has allegedly required of staff appear to be unambiguous violations of Senate Ethics Committee guidelines that interpret the rules adopted by the Senate pursuant to the Constitution, you can understand that we find the allegations concerning,” the letter continues. “In the public interest, we ask that the Committee conduct a comprehensive and fair investigation and, in the event that these concerns are substantiated, we ask the Committee to take remedial action.”"
"Aides to
the Arizona
senator were
expected to
get her
groceries,
fix her
internet,
and learn
her very
specific
preferences
for airline
seats,
according to
an internal
memo." [...]
"Craig
Holman, a
congressional
ethics
expert with
the
nonprofit
group Public
Citizen,
said Sinema’s
apparent
demands that
staffers
conduct
personal
tasks amount
to a clear
violation of
Senate
ethics
rules, and
would
typically
warrant a
formal
reprimand by
the Senate
Ethics
Committee."
"In a
statement on
Friday,
Arizona
Democratic
Party chair
Raquel Terán
acknowledged Sinema’s
work on
“several
historic
pieces of
legislation”
but accused
her of
falling
“dramatically
short” when
it came to
protecting
voting
rights and
curbing
corporate
power: As a
party, we
welcome
Independent
voters and
their
perspectives. Senator
Sinema may
now be
registered
as an
Independent,
but she has
shown she
answers to
corporations
and
billionaires,
not
Arizonans. Senator
Sinema’s
party
registration
means
nothing if
she
continues to
not listen
to her
constituents."
"To get
Sinema’s
vote, and
the
Inflation
Reduction
Act passed,
Senate
Majority
Leader Chuck
Schumer said
Democrats
had “no
choice” but
to drop the
carried
interest
provision
from the
broader
bill. Sinema’s
been
fighting to
help
preserve the
loophole
since at
least last
year when
she told
Democratic
leaders she
opposed
closing the
carried
interest tax
break. Since
the start of
the 2018
election
cycle, she’s
raked in at
least $2
million from
the
securities
and
investment
industry —
outraising
Senate
Banking
Chairman
Sherrod
Brown’s
$770,000 in
industry
donations
over the
same time,
FEC data
shows."
"As Senate
Democrats
work to
finalize
their new
reconciliation
package,
corporate-friendly
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema is
reportedly
demanding
the removal
of language
taking aim
at a
notorious
tax loophole
that
primarily
benefits
rich private
equity
investors
and
billionaire
hedge fund
managers.
Politico
reported
Wednesday
that the
Arizona
Democrat — a
major
recipient of
private
equity
campaign
cash —
“wants to
nix language
narrowing
the
so-called
carried
interest
loophole,”
which allows
some
ultra-wealthy
executives
to pay a
lower tax
rate than
ordinary
employees."
"The most
important
thing ... we
have to
change -- I
believe we
have to
codify Roe
v. Wade in
the law,"
Biden said
during a
news
conference
at the NATO
summit in
Madrid. "And
the way to
do that is
to make sure
the Congress
votes to do
that. And if
the
filibuster
gets in the
way, it's
like voting
rights -- it
should be
(that) we
provide an
exception to
this ...
requiring an
exception to
the
filibuster
for this
action to
deal with
the Supreme
Court
decision." The
plan was
quickly shot
down by Sinema and
Sen. Joe
Manchin,
D-W.Va., who
have opposed
scrapping
the
filibuster.
Sinema's
office told
CNN that the
senator is
"still
opposed to
gutting the
filibuster
on any topic
including on
reproductive
rights."
"At the same
time that
Arizona
Democratic
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema was
standing in
opposition
to
Democratic
efforts to
raise taxes
on
corporations,
she was
raking in
campaign
cash from
many of the
companies
lobbying
against the
tax
increases —
corporate
PACs have
given Sinema
more than
$2.5 million
since 2021,
more than
one out of
every three
dollars
she’s
raised."
"back in
January, Sinema and
Manchin
voted with
Senate
Republicans
to defeat a
proposal
that would
have dropped
the
filibuster’s
60-vote
threshold in
order to
pass voting
rights
legislation.
Now, with
the leak of
the Supreme
Court the
two
Democrats
will again
be faced
with
choosing
between the
wishes of a
majority of
Americans or
sticking
with an
arcane,
much-altered
Senate
rule."
""What I
can't tell
you is
if negotiations
will start
again or
what they'll
look like," Sinema,
D-Ariz.,
said at an
Arizona
Chamber of
Commerce and
Industry
luncheon at
the Arizona
Biltmore
resort in
Phoenix.
"But what
I can
promise you
is that I'll
be the same
person in
negotiations
if they
start again
that I was
in
negotiations
last year.""
"A liberal
group that
helped push
EMILY’s List
to cut ties
with Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema (D-Ariz.)
over her
opposition
to changing
Senate rules
has a new
target in
its pressure
campaign:
the Human
Rights
Campaign.
The Arizona
Coalition to
End the
Filibuster
has helped
organize an
open letter
to the LGBTQ
organization,
which was
first shared
with
POLITICO,
urging it to
withdraw
financial
support from
Sinema until
she reverses
her position
and supports
eliminating
the
filibuster.
The letter
also calls
for donors
to HRC to
stop funding
the group
unless it
backs away
from the
senator.
“The toll of
Sinema’s
obstruction
— which HRC
continues to
tacitly
support and
thus enable
— for your
constituents
is growing
each day,”
the letter
reads, “with
the
filibuster
blocking
popular
legislation,
backed by
all or
nearly all
Democrats,
to address
the urgent
issues of
reproductive
justice,
immigrant
rights, gun
violence,
police
reform,
workers’
right to
organize,
raising the
minimum
wage, and
more.”"
"Out Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema (D-AZ),
a thorn in
the side of
the Biden
administration
and a pariah
in the LGBTQ
community
for her
willingness
to derail
civil rights
legislation
in favor of
“bipartisanship,”
has
reportedly
been busted
talking
smack about
her fellow
Democrats.
[...] During
a fundraiser
hosted by a
group of
“Republican-heavy”
lobbyists,
Sinema
reportedly
praised GOP
House
Minority
Leader Kevin
McCarthy
(R-CA) and Rep.
Andy Biggs
(R-AZ).
Biggs has
repeatedly
endorsed
former
president
Donald
Trump’s “Big
Lie” that
Trump
actually won
the
election.
One of the
most
anti-LGBTQ
members of
Congress,
Biggs also
claimed that
the attack
on the
Capitol by
Trump
supporters
was actually
a false flag
operation by
Antifa. “I
love Andy
Biggs,” she
said. “I
know some
people think
he’s crazy,
but that’s
just because
they don’t
know him.""
"Kyrsten
Sinema’s
only
friends, it
seems, are
Republican
donors and
executives
from
petrochemical
firms. Her
persistent
opposition
to the
Democratic
agenda,
particularly
her efforts
to sink its
twin
centers, the
Build Back
Better Act
and voting
rights
legislation,
has dried up
her
grassroots
donor
support.
According to
Politico,
just over 2
percent—a
meager
$33,983—of
the Arizona
senator’s
donations in
the last
quarter of
2021 came
from small
donors,
while a PAC
intent on
primarying
her when
she’s up for
reelection
in 2024
raised a
whopping
$180,000. At
the same
time, her
net
favorability
among
Arizona
Democrats
has plunged
to
negative-57;
Mark Kelly,
the state’s
other
senator,
boasts a 72
percent
approval
rating, per
a Data for
Progress
poll. The
same poll
found that
Ruben
Gallego, a
likely
progressive
primary
challenger,
was
currently
routing
Sinema 72–18
in
head-to-head
polls."
"With a
crucial vote
pending over
filibuster
rules that
would have
made strong
voting
rights
legislation
feasible,
Democratic
senator Kyrsten
Sinema flew
into
Houston,
Texas, for a
fundraiser
that drew
dozens of
fossil fuel
chieftains,
including
Continental
Resources
chairman
Harold Hamm
and
ConocoPhillips
chief
executive
Ryan Lance. The
event was
held on 18
January at
the upmarket
River Oaks
Country
Club. One
executive
told the
Guardian
that Sinema
spoke for
about half
an hour and
informed a
mostly
Republican
crowd that
they could
“rest
assured” she
would not
back any
changes with
filibuster
rules,
reiterating
a stance she
took several
days before
during a
Senate
speech."
"The Arizona Democratic Party's executive committee formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Saturday morning as a result of her inaction on changing the filibuster rules to pass voting rights reform.
"...on the matter of the filibuster and the urgency to protect voting rights, we have been crystal clear. In the choice between an archaic legislative norm and protecting Arizonans’ right to vote, we choose the latter, and we always will," Chairwoman Raquel Teran said in a statement.
"While we take no pleasure in this announcement, the ADP Executive Board has decided to formally censure Senator Sinema as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy.”
"Newly released 2021 financial disclosures show something that, really, we should have expected: Centrist Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is raking in cash from Republican donors, including at least one who’s also been propping up fellow obstructionist Sen. Joe Manchin.
According to new FEC filings, Sinema brought in $1.6 million in Q4, only $33,983 of which was unitemized, which designates donations of less than $200 (i.e., ones from ordinary people). Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times pointed out on Twitter that a lot of this big-money donor action comes from some familiar names: Harlan Crow, a massive GOP donor the Texas Tribune called “one of the biggest whales in the country”; Ken Langone, another massive GOP donor who felt “betrayed” by Trump and switched to Biden; Nelson Peltz, the aforementioned Manchin confidante; and Miguel B. “Mike” Fernandez, a Florida health care billionaire who threw his fortune behind Hillary in 2016 after Jeb Bush fizzled out.
Goldmacher noted that Sinema actually had to refund Crow’s money because he tried to give her too much of it.
Sinema drew money from additional Republican megadonors like financier George Roberts, groups like the American Petroleum Institute, and companies like Fox News, whose political action committee, Fox Corp. PAC, gave her $5,000. Manchin has also received money from Fox Corp. PAC. . ."
"Betsy DeVos
spent four
years in the
Trump
administration
attacking
LGBTQ
rights. Now
the company
that made
her rich is
donating to
out Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema so
she'll
oppose labor
reform."
"They've
been derided
as spruced
up pyramid
schemes:
Companies
that
incentivize
their own
customers to
become
salespeople
for
products.
Now, these
so-called
multilevel
marketing
businesses
are flexing
their
political
muscle. And
they're
turning to
one lawmaker
"
"A graduate
student in
social work
started a
petition and
asks, 'How
can we learn
about
advocacy
from a
politician
who is
continually
silent on
issues
impacting
local
Arizona
communities?"
"Long before
she gave a
thumbs-down
to a $15
minimum
wage,
kowtowed to
Big Pharma,
and blocked
progressives’
efforts to
dismantle
the
filibuster,
US senator Kyrsten
Sinema,
nominal
Democrat and
onetime
Green Party
activist,
attempted to
scuttle the
recall of
State Senate
president Russell
Pearce,
author of
Arizona’s
infamous
anti-immigrant
legislation,
Senate Bill
1070, which
effectively
empowered
local cops
to stop
brown people
on
“reasonable
suspicion”
and inquire
into their
immigration
status."
According to
Sylvia
González
Andersh, Sinema’s
strategy of
avoiding
tough
questions
extends to
her own
advisers.
Andersh, an
Air Force
veteran who
served on
the
senator’s
veterans
advisory
council, had
grown
disillusioned
with
Sinema’s
obstructionism
around the
Democrats’
legislative
agenda. Last
week,
Andersh and
four other
veterans on
the council
resigned in
protest with
a letter
calling
Sinema “one
of the
principal
obstacles to
progress”
and accusing
her of using
them as
“window
dressing.”
"Congratulations
are
apparently
in order to
Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema for her
role in
killing a
wildly
popular plan
to have
Medicare
negotiate
lower prices
on
prescription
drugs."
"Sinema balked
at Biden's
proposed
$3.5
trillion
price tag
and is
reportedly
dead set
against
Democrats'
proposals to
partly roll
back the
Trump
administration's
tax cuts for
corporations
and the
wealthy and
to allow
Medicare to
negotiate
prescription
drug costs.
It's a
remarkable
reversal for
a former
Green Party
activist who
campaigned
for the
Senate in
2018 on
lowering
drug costs
and has
repeatedly
called for
the wealthy
to "pay
their fair
share"
throughout
her career.
Sinema has
criticized
Democratic
leaders for
making
"conflicting
promises" on
Biden's big
legislative
package, but
Arizona
progressives
who are now
pushing a
potential
primary
challenge in
2024 say
she's the
one who
broke her
campaign
promises."
"As
Democrats'
sweeping
Build Back
Better
package
hangs in the
balance
largely due
to a pair
of corporate-backed members
working to
water down
their own
party's
budget
reconciliation
bill, two
dozen
Arizona
groups
joined with
Public
Citizen on
Wednesday to
pressure
their
obstructionist
U.S. senator
to support
keeping
various
improvements
to Medicare
in the
package."
"Opposition
from Sen. Kyrsten
Sinema of
Arizona to
lifting tax
rates on
individuals
and large
businesses
is derailing
Democrats'
plans to
roll back
President Donald
Trump's
tax law,
setting off
a last-ditch
effort to
seek
alternatives
that can
lock in the
centrist
Democrat's
support."
"As
congressional
Democrats
frantically
tried to
reach
agreement on
passing
President
Joe Biden’s
$1.2
trillion
infrastructure
bill and
$3.5
trillion
social
spending
bill, Kyrsten
Sinema (D-Ariz.),
one of the
key
moderates
blocking the
Build Back
Better Act,
abruptly
left
Washington
DC for
Arizona on
Friday. Her
spokesperson
said she had
a medical
appointment
for a foot
injury, but
it turns out
Sinema will
be attending
a
fundraising
“retreat”
for her
political
action
committee at
a high-end
Phoenix
resort and
spa on
Saturday.
It’s the
second time
in a week
Sinema will
have
fundraised
with
corporate
interests
who oppose
Biden’s
spending
bill."
"So, in
Wednesday’s
installment
of How
Nothing Gets
Done, the
starring
role appears
to be going
to Senator Kyrsten
Sinema,
International
Pest of
Mystery. She
seems to be
enjoying her
new position
as a
pointless
partisan
roadblock
jamming up
the agenda
of a
president.
It
admittedly
takes a lot
of work, if
not much of
a
conscience.
She met a
few times
with the
president on
Tuesday and,
at the end
of the day,
she was
still
sabotaging
the entire
agenda
without
giving the
slightest
indication
of why she’s
doing it."
Sep. 29,
2021
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FOR BY STONEWALL DEMOCRATS OF ARIZONA
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