sinema's "Statement Following Events at ASU on Sunday." finally she talks?

[orleans]

yes, on bathrooms and classrooms

Link to tweet

[Midnight Writer]

1. Tell it to the people who will lose their right to vote because of your fiddle-faddling.

I don't agree with following someone into a bathroom with a camera either, but she is a poor choice to lecture folks on unacceptable behavior.

[brooklynite]

10. "Sinema, Kelly vote with Democrats on sweeping voting rights bill blocked by Republicans"

Point to any opposition Sinema has to voting rights legislation.

Arizona Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly voted with a united Democratic-controlled Senate on Tuesday to advance their party’s sweeping elections and ethics bill that would dramatically change the way Americans vote, but could not overcome a Republican filibuster.

On a 50-50 vote with all Democrats voting for and all Republicans voting against, the For the People Act fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster in the evenly divided chamber, where Vice President Kamala Harris presided as it voted on whether to open debate on the bill.

That only heightened frustration with Sinema by protesters gathered in the sweltering Arizona heat staging a sit-in at the senator’s north-central Phoenix office to try to pressure her to support eliminating the filibuster — an unlikely scenario. Ten people were arrested, organizers said.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/06/22/sinema-kelly-vote-senate-democrats-sweeping-voting-rights-bill/5311148001/

[femmedem]

13. She doesn't support voting rights legislation enough to carve out an exception to the filibuster.

Of course, I hope she proves me wrong.

But so far, she reminds me of municipal elected officials who say they support their local school system but won't take the difficult vote to increase financial support.

That said, I disagree with the protestors' methods.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Indeed, it is the Republicans who block voting rights legislation, but

it is the recalcitrance of Democrats like Sinema that allows the minority party to maintain a 60 vote threshold.

[jimfields33]

11. I don't know. Filming in a bathroom is so unsettling

I think that is a line to far crossed. What if someone was changing?

[wellst0nev0ter]

28. Then she should start speaking to her constituents

[Omnipresent]

2. She's a US senator...

Why is she teaching a class?

[obamanut2012]

4. Why shouldn't she?

There is plenty to dislike about her, but this isn't a big deal. Lots of pols do it.

[Tribetime]

17. I agree 100%

She already has a job that demands 100% of her focus

[Omnipresent]

30. Damn straight!

[4Q2u2]

3. I did not know

She was the Sole arbiter of what constitutes a legitimate Protest.
I guess she does not like her Ox being gored!

[onecaliberal]

5. But republicans storming the capitol to overturn an election A-okay.

Such a sorry excuse for a legislator.

[brooklynite]

9. And your basis for claiming she support the Jan 6 insurrection is what?

[wellst0nev0ter]

29. Here

We should stop covering for bad actors

[Salviati]

7. Those that make polite confrontation impossible make impolite confrontation inevitable...

If you don't want to be accosted at inopportune moments, perhaps you should make yourself available to your non-donor constituents/journalists and actually engage in their questions/criticism, rather than just dodging and deflecting with terrible dad jokes.

[marble falls]

8. If she refuses to speak in an honest dialogue with her constituents, she just mind find them ...

... cornering her in uncomfortable places. She is learning painfully she was elected as representative of her voters, as well the Senator merely elected by them. She's just lining up to turn that seat over to a Republican. I hope Ruben Gallego is in the Bull Pen warming up.

[Nixie]

12. Filming women using the bathroom is really stupid.

[forthemiddle]

19. It was still a bathroom

It should not be intruded!
I won’t back down on this.
Would you be ok if moderates surrounded one of the progressive members that are also refusing to compromise? Of course not! It’s shameful, and should never be done. Period, end of story!

[Nixie]

22. Exactly what I thought. What if it were one of the

squad and they intruded like that. Great point that they are also holding out.

[Nixie]

21. She was urinating when they were talking to her.

Urinating.

[Nixie]

25. Of course, and then washed her hands.

All to hide out.

[Nixie]

27. I think I know where she learned to be an

“Independent,” and just use the Democratic Party for whatever. Plus McCain pushed the maverick-y image, so she has that to fall back on.

When you think about it, she has more voters to pull from on the GOP side in red/purple Arizona than she does “progressives,” so it’s showtime for her to pull them in.

[W_HAMILTON]

18. She has a second job?

She is having enough problems doing her first job (serving her constituents and the American people) -- perhaps she should focus more of her time on that instead? I'm sure there are PLENTY of people that would just love to talk to her about her recent actions and inactions...

[msongs]

20. one wonders how much $$ she raised after performing at her fund raiser with the filthy

rich

[gratuitous]

31. Sen. Sinema is the one with the cutesy-poo "Fuck Off" ring, isn't she?

Imagine her lecturing anyone on "inappropriate"!