Arizona Democrats Embarrassed By Kyrsten Sinema's Behavior

Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema has been stealing the spotlight in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons. And now voters in Arizona are getting angry. They are sick and tired of the negative attention that she is bringing to their state, and the Democratic groups that helped get her elected are now actively working to recruit a primary challenger to get her out of office. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Democratic Senator Kirsten Sinema from the state of Arizona is causing a lot of problems for Democrats in Arizona. And the reason is because they're embarrassed, they're embarrassed that Kirsten cinema has stolen the spotlight from Joe mansion as the centrist obstructing the Biden agenda. Now it is not all on cinema by any stretch of the imagination, Joe mansion bear, some blames, uh, blame. We've got other Democrats, both in the house and Senate that have put up roadblocks. So it's not just cinema, but she has absolutely been the focal point. And according to a massive new report in the New York times, the very people who helped her get elected, the people who went and knocked on doors for her in 2018, the groups that raised money to get her to run in the first place, they have all turned against her. And it's not just because she's an embarrassment.

It's the reason she is an embarrassment. And that is because she's literally doing nothing. And that's the big takeaway from all of this folks. It's not just that, oh, she wants to negotiate. Oh, she's a centrist. And she, nah, she's doing nothing by pretending to be a centrist by pretending to be a moderate. What she's really doing is saying I'm not going to vote with the Democrats or the Republicans. I'm going to sit here, get my wonderfully large paycheck and do absolutely nothing and prevent others from doing anything too. That's what she's doing. And that's why they're so embarrassed. And it goes back to earlier this year, when she voted down the $15 minimum wage. And in fact, you know, and that was long before reconciliation infrastructure, all that, that was the moment that a lot of those activists in Arizona said, I'm done. I've had enough of this Kirsten Sinema.

If you're not familiar with her history, she used to be, you know, aligned with the green party. So she was pretty far to the left. You can go through her old tweets saying that, you know, debt ceiling is stupid. You know, things of that nature. We need to be paying people $15 an hour. We need things like the green new deal, all of it. She was absolutely a hardcore progressive. And that's the problem. She sold an image, at least in her early days that didn't actually exist. She's a political chameleon. And we've seen far too many of those folks. She goes out there and she says what she thinks needs to be said in order to get people, to support her, whether or not she believes it's irrelevant because she will do whatever she feels is politically expedient instead of what is actually needed for this country.

Sometimes the right thing. Isn't the popular thing. But what's ironic about the debate we're having right now with reconciliation and infrastructure. Those are things that actually are popular. Those are things that even most Republicans want. And yet she's still putting up these roadblocks for literally no reason. Other than, of course she is taking large sums of money from the corporate interest who do not want any of this stuff to become a reality. And it's sad to think that such, you know, relatively paltry amounts of money in the big picture are able to convince her to not support these things. Her democratic colleague from Arizona, Mark Kelly, his approval rating is above 50%. Joe Biden. His approval rating in Arizona is above 50%. They both support these packages. Kirsten Sinema does not support them, does not support these other progressive ideas. And her approval rating is below 50%.

So even taking in this corporate money, that's not going to save you when you're up for reelection in 2024. So that's, I I've said in the past, like, I don't understand what her end game is here because it doesn't make any sense. Yeah. You're raising a ton of money for your next election cycle, but if you don't support these things that you're getting paid to not support, you're not going to win anyway. So the money is useless unless of course you're angling for a lobbyist position or you're angling to go work at some of the corporations funding you right now.