Sen. Kyrsten Sinema pulls in cash from Wall Street, real estate titans as she mulls reelection bid

[toesonthenose]

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Source: CNBC

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema raked in campaign cash from corporate leaders at the end of last year as she prepared for a potential high-stakes 2024 reelection bid in the battleground state of Arizona.

Sinema, a centrist swing vote in the narrowly split Senate, switched her party affiliation from Democrat to independent in December. Real estate and private equity leaders, who have long helped to fill Sinema’s campaign coffers, contributed to a healthy cash haul for the senator in the final months of last year.

As Sinema considers whether to launch a bid for a second Senate term, the senator’s campaign entered 2023 flush with cash, with $8.2 million on hand, according to a new Federal Election Commission filing. Sinema’s campaign raised over $800,000 during that time period, and a portion of those funds came from affiliated committees, according to campaign filings that became public Tuesday.

Since October, Sinema has seen the support of leaders from private equity giants such as Blackstone, along with the president of America’s largest business lobbying group, the Chamber of Commerce, according to the filing.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/kyrsten-sinema-gets-wall-street-real-estate-support-ahead-of-2024-election.html

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Nothing to see here, move along please.

[jalan48]

1. Curious if she was raking in the same kind of money when she was a Democrat or if

this was a payoff for leaving the Party.

[toesonthenose]

5. I can't for the life of me imagine she wasn't. I may be wrong, but I don't think so.

[jalan48]

7. Yes, she's been it for the money for awhile.

The Senate would be a great stepping stone to wealth if a person was so inclined.

[Casady1]

2. I would compare to a hooker

But hookers have integrity.

[Meadowoak]

3. Don't let the door hit you.

[IronLionZion]

4. those are her real constituents

not the people of Arizona

[toesonthenose]

6. 100%! Actually, 1000000%!!!!

[sakabatou]

13. Yup.

[Omaha Steve]

8. We have a link for a D opponent in the race

Here is his page: https://gallegoforarizona.com/

(Unofficial) Democratic Underground for Gallego: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforgallego

[progressoid]

9. Yeah...so are we going to be consistent with this criticism?

Cuz, that might backfire. Biden overwhelmingly received more than T**** from Wall Street donors during the 2020 election.

The financial-services sector gave $982.8 million in party-coded contributions across 2019 and 2020 through both individual employee donations and PACs, the report said. Of this, 47% went to Republicans and 53% went to Democrats.

Current congressional candidates received $311 million in contributions from the financial sector to their campaign committees and leadership PACs, according to the AFR.

The 10 current members of Congress who received the largest amounts were:

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) — $6.5 million
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — $6.3 million
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — $6.2 million
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — $5.5 million
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) — $5.3 million
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) — $5.1 million
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) — $4.9 million
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — $4.8 million
Sen. (D-MI) — $4.7 million
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) — $4.5 million

https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-political-contributions-lobbying-election-trump-biden-president-2021-4

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. "Overwhelmingly" because Trump is an obvious danger to the nation

The overall Republican-Democrat split is pretty even, but Wall St didn't donate much to the idiot psychopath, after he'd shown how much he could fuck up. Those Democrats you list were running against kooks, on the whole.

In Sinema's case, she's not a criminal. So she has that over Trump. The Democrat she will run against is not a nutcase. Donations to her are about self-interest in policy detail, not saving the country.

[progressoid]

14. Right

I think it's fair to say that WS had lost confidence in trump. Indeed they saw Biden as a friend of wall street. In fact that was often brought up in the primaries much to the chagrin of Biden supporters.

So I guess my question is, if we think money from WS is problematic for Sinema, is it also problematic for, say, Mark Kelly?

[PortTack]

10. As the last 3 or so elections have proven, money isn't everything. There is no way she'll be

Re-elected. She will never survive a primary whether she runs as a dem, or as a republican. If she runs as 3rd party she’ll pull mostly from the gqp candidate which will more than likely be scary lake. Sinema is despised by AZ Dems and lake, she’s a now known trumplican commodity who no one wants either.

[patphil]

12. People who don't live in Arizona are buying themselves an Arizona Senator.

With that much campaign money, there's no way Sinema isn't running.
Unfortunately for Arizona, if her big donors are from out of state, then her agenda will be to.

[ZonkerHarris]

15. Her coversion is amazing. A firebrand liberal to a corrupt politician in just a few years.

Someday a journalist or historian will tell this story and it will be shocking how she lost her ideals and literally became everything she once despised.

I do wonder what she see's when she looks in the mirror.

[snot]

16. Um,

hasn't pretty much every Dem leader also received millions from Wall St. & big corps, with the exception of Bernie Sanders?

[Omaha Steve]

17. After a review by forum hosts, locking........

Analysis.

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