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WASHINGTON The mailers on behalf of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., being sent out to homes across Arizona paint a picture of a renegade politician who delivers results.
"Independent Leader." "Straight Talk." "Bipartisan." "Just like John McCain." "Ask her to keep fighting."
"Kyrsten Sinema reached across the aisle to pass The Infrastructure and Jobs Act," says one mailer obtained by NBC News, adding that because of Sinema's leadership, "Arizona will receive" $110 billion to boost roads and bridges, enhanced broadband access and more.
But some Democrats with deep pockets are already plotting to replace her in the party primary if she doesn't change course and get behind Biden's agenda. Sinema allies say her critics shouldn't be surprised given her track record in the House, when she voted against Nancy Pelosi to lead the Democratic caucus and showed a tendency to break with her party.
Democrats have grown nervous by reports in The New York Times* and Politico* that Sinema has privately said she won't support ... the party's plan to lower prescription drug costs by letting Medicare negotiate prices. Biden told House Democrats behind closed doors Friday that he has spent "tens of hours" speaking with Sinema, according to Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., who was in the room.
"I dont have any sense of what the hell shes doing," said one Democratic operative based in Arizona who supported her 2018 campaign and asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. "Shes pissing off all the activists," the operative said. "If this fails, there is going to be anger like Ive never seen before."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sinema-plugged-iconoclast-arizona-she-threatens-biden-s-agenda-n1280600
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*As Sinema resists the budget bill, she is set to raise money from business groups that oppose it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/sinema-fund-raiser-social-climate-bill.html
*Sinema tells White House shes opposed to current prescription drug plan
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/kyrsten-sinema-biden-drug-pricing-prescription-plan-512907
spanone
(135,630 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)And go independent now. It's clear that's her desired end state.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)Would Mcconnell take over?
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)With Dems.
I doubt she'd give McConnell the gavel.
It would just be more honest a position as opposed to being a democrat solely because it's the only party that will have her. She very clearly doesn't feel any loyalty to the party or sense of obligation. It's a tool to achieve power.
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)I say she should then if it makes her more in line with her beliefs.
Me.
(35,454 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)It would just be more honest
Me.
(35,454 posts)brush
(53,467 posts)once she got elected. A Trojan horse.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)but, could be I misunderstood.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)No disrespect intended to honest Karen's.
But if the meme fits use it.
dchill
(38,315 posts)...on K Street.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)She's just another politician bribed by the wealthy to keep them from paying taxes by funding her, and her campaign for her vote. She, like Manchin, are frauds.