Following last week’s news that Kyrsten Sinema has continued raising money from corporate lobbyists and courting Republican donors while trashing Democrats, the folks back home have taken notice.
Arizona Republic: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema takes Jell-O shots at Democrats
EJ Montini // March 24, 2023
Excerpt:
For some time now the senator has been on a Burning Bridges Tour.
There was a time, for example, when the party of Sinema appeared to support working class individuals, whom she needed to get elected. That ended in 2021, when Sinema gave the thumbs down to a minimum-wage increase in President Joe Biden’s pandemic aid bill.
When the party of Sinema sought support from the wealthiest of the wealthy it found a legislative way to protect big money boys in private equity and hedge funds from higher taxes.
The party of Sinema also figured out how to go from a well-known protector of consumers to what the Kaiser Health News called a “pharma favorite in Congress.”
And while claiming support for John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, each of which would have helped the citizens who elected her, the party of Sinema scuttled the possibility of passage by her undying support of the filibuster.
Read the full piece here.
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