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Kyrsten Sinema is Setting Her Own Senate Career on Fire.
But hey, what does she care?
As irritating as I find Senator Joe Manchin, I’ve come to the conclusion that I find Senator Kyrsten Sinema even more so. Reason being: the American public and his voters always knew what they were getting with Manchin. We knew from the very beginning the type of lawmaker he would be, and what we could expect from him throughout the years of the Biden presidency.
Sinema on the other hand, has Arizona’s Democratic party reeling.
After months of reports about organizers who were responsible for getting her elected now seeking to primary her, the frustration has — understandably — only grown more intense, stemming from the grassroots right up to the state’s party itself.
Igor Derysh with Salon writes:
“The Arizona Democratic Party on Saturday passed a resolution threatening a no-confidence vote against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., if she does not support the party’s agenda and the elimination of the filibuster. More than 80% of the party voted in favor of the resolution, according to Democratic organizer Kai Newkirk, which pledged to “officially go on the record” with a vote of no confidence if Sinema does not reverse her support for the filibuster, which it described as a “Jim Crow relic,” or…
