Five veterans on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-AZ) advisory board for Arizona service members quit while publicly dragging the senator over the coals for persistently blocking progressive policies by clinging onto the filibuster and holding up Democrats’ reconciliation package.
Can you imagine the payoffs she has received and the future ones she has been promised?
She needs a Dem. challenger. Now.
Stop using that photo. She’s not dismayed in the slightest by this. It actually functions to reaffirm her pathological belief that she’s the only righteous and principled person left on the planet.
Future one-term senator don’t care. She won’t start caring until her staffers quit and she has to hire boebert’s and empty greene’s refugees.
By alienating her constituents, staff members, and even former campaign volunteers, Sinema believes that she’s increasing her “maverick” bona fides. Why, if nearly everyone despises her, that must make her the most maverick-y one of all!
What a shallow, two-faced putz.
In one year, 2018, she reported her net worth at $32,500. In 2019, her net worth was $1,000,000. Nice return on her income, which was her Senate salary of $174,000. I’d say she a gifted grifter, with great expectations.
Excerpts:
“In a letter to Sinema, they confronted her with a litany of offenses—accusing her of using them as “window dressing” for her political brand, ignoring their recommendations, and going back on her campaign promises to protect voting access and reduce the price of prescription drugs.”
“Are you choosing to answer to big donors rather than Arizonans?” they asked. “These are not the actions of a maverick.”
“ The veterans who served are questioning how hard they worked to help Sinema win a difficult 2018 contest, one in which she burnished her pro-military credentials in a state with over 500,000 veterans.”
“Nobody knows what she is thinking because she doesn’t tell anybody anything,” Sylvia González Andersh, one of the veterans who resigned, told the Times . “It’s very sad to think that someone who you worked for that hard to get elected is not even willing to listen.”
Can she keep the contents of her campaign war-chest if she either decides not to run or resigns? The sky really is the limit with the Senate evenly divided.
She’s not up for reelection until 2024.
I can’t help but notice that most politicians, even the ones we like and admire, come out of it quite ok, more than ok in many cases. There’s the book deals and pension to add to the pile of dough. Speaking engagements, charity and corporate boards, endorsements of vitamins and now legal pot etc. etc. etc.
Does she have a PAC or SuperPAC in addition to a campaign fund?
You can do a lot with a SuperPAC even after resignation or losing an election because it can be used for political messaging, not just funding election campaigns. For example, fund all the costs for a nice vacation trip to Paris for a few weeks while giving a small speech there. Fund your wardrobe with PAC money, because it’s part of your “messaging” and a cost of doing PAC business.
ETA: This is what Trump is doing now with his Save America PAC, so she has an example to follow.
Are there any legal limits at all?
“This is what Trump is doing now with his Save America PAC” similar question–can Trump do whatever he wants with this money-for instance, to settle his debts if the Russian mob calls in its markers?
Other than being a nose to count when doing the arithmetic to determine which party holds the “Majority” position in the Senate…
She is an albatross … a burden to bear … she is a disfiguring battle scar - with increasingly little reward for having gotten her.
“Five veterans on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (D-AZ) advisory board for Arizona service members quit while publicly dragging the senator over the coals for persistently blocking progressive policies…”
She had advisors?
Going to be some interesting ads in AZ come 2024, yep.
I’m sure there are limits, but as I understand it, there’s a lot you can do involving travel and grifting from “services” you own within the guardrails. Especially with the SuperPAC type that doesn’t have to be focused on a specific election campaign.
At this point, even if Manchin gets on board, I think we can expect her to stand alone in blocking the entire democratic agenda, with a simultaneous party switch a serious possibility. In exchange she’ll have 7 figure deals to write books and make appearances for right wing media.
Can you imagine what it would be worth to the GOP for her to walk up to the podium during the vote, give her signature thumbs down curtsey, and then have a grinning McConnell walk up to the podium to take the gavel from Schumer?
And news outlets continue to refer to Sinenema and Manchin as “MODERATES”!
Our lack of focused MESSAGING is killing us here. These two dim-witted assholes need to be permanently labeled as OBSTRUCTIONISTS or SPOILERS or POSERS or even, dare I say… FRAUDS. Let’s fix this folks.
So much greed in elected and appointed govt officials.
Even the Fed chairman and vice chairman, along with countless Critters of Congress.