sinema's cash cow vs. the rest of us

[orleans]

Link to tweet

brian tyler cohen: JUST IN: Kyrsten Sinema raised $1.1 million in Q3 — 90% of donations came from outside of Arizona and she saw a 456% increase in donations from Big Pharma compared to Q2. Her biggest donors are executives from pharmaceutical companies and big banks. (per @politico)

hoarse whisperer: Ya don’t say. Well, how about that.

moo moo cheese: um... there appears to be a bit of a conflict of interest (ie: her personal, ego-centric, self-centered, grandstanding, self-interest vs. the rest of the country)

[elleng]

1. conflict of interest

(ie: her personal, ego-centric, self-centered, grandstanding, self-interest vs. the rest of the country)

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One of the WORST ever.

[DET]

2. Highest Bidder

These companies are buying her cheap. One million is nothing. Can’t Biden or someone else find a legal way to offer Sinema substantially more to pretend to be a real Democrat?

[njhoneybadger]

3. There must be a name for someone who sells themselves to other people.

[Midnight Writer]

6. It used to be "Republican".

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

4. She is vile.

[betsuni]

5. "Nobody's seen anything like this. And so there is an impulse out there to say, 'Look, stop

trying to overanalyze this. It's quite simple. She raises a ton of corporate money and she's doing the biding of her corporate donors.' No. That analytic framework doesn't work because so many other politicians with so much corporate money aren't behaving this way. You need more." Ryan Grim.

All politicians receive campaign contributions. The idea that it's automatically corrupting is populist. Teddy Roosevelt (populist hero), said, when criticized for accepting enormous corporate campaign contributions: It's "entirely legitimate to accept contributions, no matter how large," provided they were freely given. Why the automatic assumption of corruption? Where did that start? One populist guy claiming all dysfunction in government is caused by money in politics and not the real reason, Republicans? Why do so many people think if you repeat something over and over again without any proof it makes it true?

[Hotler]

7. "Nobody's seen anything like this." They're called dicks and I run in to

at least one a day. They're all over the place.

[betsuni]

8. Yes, people can be horrible and it's not because of money.

They're horrible for all sorts of reasons.