'People Need to Know She Sucks': Kyrsten Sinema's Volunteers, Ex-Staff Are Fed Up

[Jilly_in_VA]

When Maria-Elena Dunn first met Kyrsten Sinema, she said she was elated.

Dunn, a leader in the local chapter of the Indivisible progressive activist group in Prescott, Arizona, was introduced to Sinema at a campaign event and was blown away by the Senate candidate’s poise and her impressive life story. Her group hosted Sinema multiple times for events. Dunn volunteered, by her estimation, for more than 100 hours to elect Sinema and other Democrats that election cycle.

“I was very impressed. I had literature, I did canvassing for her, I contributed, I campaigned. We did everything we possibly could to get her elected. We were very excited about her. We knew she was a Democrat who had centrist tendencies, and that wasn’t a bad thing. Here in Arizona and especially our area, you have to be realistic over who you could elect. We were thrilled. She seemed like the real thing,” she told VICE News.

But now?

“I’m livid. I can only call her a turncoat,” Dunn said. “I feel betrayed.”

Sinema’s Wednesday vote against changing the filibuster, which kept the 60-vote margin for most major bills and effectively killed Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation, is the latest in a long line of votes that have enraged and upset some of the people who worked hard to put her in office. Dunn said for her, it was the “last straw.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nzay/kyrsten-sinema-volunteers-staffers-feel-betrayed

[Walleye]

1. Too bad she can't be sued for fraud or breach of promise

[Ray Bruns]

2. Kyrsten Sinema is a

[qazplm135]

3. I've never seen a politician

So blissfully ignorant of their own political demise done at their own hand.

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. She will benefit financially from this.

She will land in some cushy think tank job as a reward for her antics.

[qazplm135]

5. She would have benefited from being a regular Dem

there's money everywhere for politicians.

[LiberalFighter]

7. If she is voted out next election she will have only 6 years eligible for pension

If I have the calculation right her pension would be 17,748 annually. She would not be eligible to collect until age 62.

Nobody in Congress receives their full salary as their pension. It is also limited to 80%.

[tenderfoot]

6. The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder lets loose on her

[totodeinhere]

8. I agree that Sinema is a turncoat.

But technically she did not kill the Democrats' efforts since it would have failed regardless of how she voted because Manchin also opposed it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Doesn't make her any better

[totodeinhere]

11. I didn't say it did. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

10. Sinema's parents went to court to refute her "life story."

And they had receipts to prove Sinema was lying about her history.