True it was "A Small Emolument' Disclosed by Sly Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, but What A Fragrant Story by Tom Gogola!

NO WINE BEFORE ITS TIME: A Personal Note: Once upon a time long ago, your MesaZona blogger and a friend were taking an economical trans-continental trip driving (and sleeping) in a Porsche 912 east-to-west from Prince Edward Island all the way to Vancouver and points-in-between across Canada to scout the potential for investments by an unknown-party in Avocado farming in the Great State of California. Before we got there in a certain conservative county, it was time to go on vineyard tours in California's Wine Country - Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino

Flash-Forward ! It's worth a Whiff ...Let's Pop-the-Cork and Inhale

 

Political Figures

Congress

Corruption

Kyrsten Sinema’s Grapes of Wealth

The Arizona senator’s wine-soaked politics offer a bold and colorful bouquet of disparate notes, with a hint of corruption.

By Tom Gogola

September 16, 2021

Insert "A curious news story popped up in the Sonoma County Press-Democrat this summer, just as a bipartisan group of US senators was trimming the sails on Joe Biden’s infrastructure plans and sending their own $1.2 trillion package to the Senate floor: The Wine Country paper of record reported that one of those senators, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, had traveled to the city of Sonoma in August 2020, where she earned $1,117.40 as a paid intern at a winery. ..

According to the Press-Democrat, Senator Sinema worked at the California winery for three weeks last summer, and has also traveled to Sonoma for a fundraiser held on her behalf at a luxury inn that charges $950 a night for a room during peak season. Why would a sitting senator—earning a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000—take a paid internship at a winery? Well, Sinema is apparently a serious wine buff, in her own way, who perhaps subscribes to literary lush Charles Bukowski’s view that politics is like “sucking wine through a bent straw.” (Bukowski was sucking wind in the original.)

> Around the same time as the Press-Democrat internship article appeared, back in Washington, D.C., all the headlines were about how Sinema played a key role in keeping the infrastructure negotiations on track by encouraging her fellow “moderates” to guzzle some more wine and get back to work when talks broke down. She supplied the wine, . .It all sounded rather immoderate, if not completely decadent, if you ask me. And anyway, isn’t excessive alcohol consumption supposed to impair your judgment, not enhance it? ..."

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