Kyrsten Sinema raises over $1.5 million in fourth quarter while opposing key pieces of Biden agenda
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema raised over $1.5 million toward the end of 2021 as she opposed key elements of her own party's agenda, according to new Federal Election Commission records.
Sinema, who represents Arizona and is up for reelection in 2024, with a possible primary challenge on the way, raised the amount during the October-December period. Her campaign had just over $5.7 million on hand going into the New Year. Her fourth-quarter fundraising haul eclipsed what she pulled in during the previous quarter.
The centrist lawmaker raked in the campaign cash while she fought crucial parts of President Joe Biden's agenda. She has objected to changing the Senate filibuster rule, which would enable Democrats to pass more legislation, and opposed raising some tax rates. Sinema has also opposed raising the minimum wage to $15 and worked to shrink Biden's climate change and social safety net bill, which has hit a dead end in the Senate.
Sinema's donors in the fourth quarter included wealthy investors who had supported ex-President Donald Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kyrsten-sinema-raises-over-1-5-million-in-fourth-quarter-while-opposing-key-pieces-of-biden-agenda/ar-AATl9WB
On edit: New Financial Disclosures Show Kyrsten Sinema Is Raking in Cash from Big GOP Donors
Newly released 2021 financial disclosures show something that, really, we should have expected: Centrist Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is raking in cash from Republican donors, including at least one who’s also been propping up fellow obstructionist Sen. Joe Manchin.
According to new FEC filings, Sinema brought in $1.6 million in Q4, only $33,983 of which was unitemized, which designates donations of less than $200 (i.e., ones from ordinary people). Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times pointed out on Twitter that a lot of this big-money donor action comes from some familiar names: Harlan Crow, a massive GOP donor the Texas Tribune called “one of the biggest whales in the country”; Ken Langone, another massive GOP donor who felt “betrayed” by Trump and switched to Biden; Nelson Peltz, the aforementioned Manchin confidante; and Miguel B. “Mike” Fernandez, a Florida health care billionaire who threw his fortune behind Hillary in 2016 after Jeb Bush fizzled out.
Goldmacher noted that Sinema actually had to refund Crow’s money because he tried to give her too much of it.
Sinema drew money from additional Republican megadonors like financier George Roberts, groups like the American Petroleum Institute, and companies like Fox News, whose political action committee, Fox Corp. PAC, gave her $5,000. Manchin has also received money from Fox Corp. PAC.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/financial-disclosures-show-kyrsten-sinema-235742064.html
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it keeps her warm at night.
