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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is Taking Money From Private Prisons.
It’s all about money and power.
I’m not sure when Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has last had a positive headline. Then again, she’s done literally nothing to warrant one. Almost the entirety of her career has been built off of giving the middle finger to the left, and getting the donor money and leverage in the Senate as a reward. Of course, it should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following her tenure in office that she’s taking money from the private prison industry.
Ryan Randazzo with AZ Central writes:
“U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party last year to become an independent, is among the top recipients in recent years of political donations from private prison operator CoreCivic Inc., a departure from the norms of her former party.
Arizona Democrats largely are critical of the private prison industry and have challenged the assertions of Republican governors and lawmakers who have supported them as a necessary cost-saving tool.
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.”…”
