Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema made it official today: She wants a shot at the U.S. Senate.

Sinema has had a colorful career in politics, starting out as a green in her idealistic youth and growing into the kind of moderate Democrat who votes with the Trump/congressional GOP agenda agenda nearly half the time. (Given that she’s running statewide in Arizona, that could be an asset, not a liability.)

Sinema is running for the Senate seat now held by Republican Jeff Flake—but it remains to be seen whether she’ll actually face Flake, whose tangles with Trump and other heresies (comprehensive immigration reform, free trade) have created real problems with the GOP base. He’s facing Kelli Ward (with other candidates considering a run against him) and this week’s Alabama GOP Senate results show once again that the advantage of incumbency is no sure thing in a GOP primary.

This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2017.

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One reply on “Sinema’s In: Democratic Congresswoman Joins Race for Sen. Jeff Flake’s Seat”

  1. This is so typical of Schumer getting the worst Democrat in the House to run for the Senate. Sinema is not a Democrat, a progressive, or a leader. She has the lowest Progressive Punch score among House Democrats & is owned by Wall Street. She has voted against many efforts to rein in Wall Street excesses including supporting decimating the CFPB. The only Democratic policies she seems so support are those that support the LGBT community. Sinema more of a self-interested calculating careerist like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, than someone who wants to serve and improve her country or Arizona.

    This does not bode well for the Arizona Senate race. There were three very electable Progressive Senate candidates: Alan Grayson in Florida, Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania, and P. G. Sittenfeld in Ohio. Well, Schumer got his marching orders from Wall Street and recruited three awful primary candidates. Former Republican Patrick Murphy in Florida, Conservadem Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania, and way past his prime Ted Strickland in Ohio. Needless to day all three results of Schumers meddling lost their races; which is why McConnell is still Majority Leader and and the reactionary garbage known as Gorsuch instead of Merrick Garland sits on the Supreme Court.

    Surely the Arizona Democratic Party can do better?

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