Daily News Online - She tweeted this morning: 'In a natural extension of my service since I was first elected to Congress, I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington and formally registering as an Arizona Independent.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN A NUTSHELL: Her switch of allegiance means she will avoid a head-to-head primary challenge in 2024 from progressive Rep. Ruben Gallego who had been rumored to take on the sitting senator.
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema QUITS Democratic Party and registers as an independent
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'... Sinema informed Chuck Schumer of her decision yesterday.
She said: 'I don't anticipate that anything will change about the Senate structure.
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'I intend to show up to work, do the same work that I always do. I just intend to show up to work as an independent.'
The senator said she has 'never really fit into a box of any political party' and is close with allies on both sides of the aisle.
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In an op-ed for the Arizona Republic published on Friday, she wrote: 'There’s a disconnect between what everyday Americans want and deserve from our politics, and what political parties are offering.
'I am privileged to represent Arizonans of all backgrounds and beliefs in the U.S. Senate and am honored to travel to every corner of our state, listening to your concerns and ideas.
'While Arizonans don’t all agree on the issues, we are united in our values of hard work, common sense and independence.
'We make our own decisions, using our own judgment and lived experiences to form our beliefs. We don’t line up to do what we’re told, automatically subscribe to whatever positions the national political parties dictate or view every issue through labels that divide us.'
Sinema added that her constituents 'expect our leaders to follow that example - and set aside political games'. .
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Some background'- Things began looking up for her family in 1987 when her mother and stepfather secured work and they bought a house with the help of a church.
At 14 she began taking college courses, and she finished high school a year early at 16.
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✓ In two years she obtained a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, and she also married fellow student, Blake Dain. They later divorced.
✓ In 2005, she made her first public comment about being bisexual, when a Republican's speech insulted members of the LGBT community. She said: 'We're simply people like everyone else who want and deserve respect.'
✓ When questioned by reporters, she replied: 'Duh, I'm bisexual.'
✓ Sinema,
now 45, now has a master's degree, law degree and a PhD. She worked as a
social worker, a criminal defense attorney, and was a political
activist in her 20s, running as an independent Green Party candidate for
the Arizona House. . .
✓ She then became a Democrat and served several terms in the state Legislature. Sinema started as an overt liberal but developed a reputation for compromise among her Republican peers, laying the groundwork to tack to the center. She published a book on bipartisanship.
✓ When the 9th Congressional District was created after the 2010 Census, Sinema ran for the Phoenix-area seat as a centrist and won the 2012 election.
In 2019 she became Arizona’s first Democratic U.S. senator since 1994, the country's first openly bisexual senator, and the first female senator elected to represent Arizona in the Senate.'
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PHOENIX (AP) — Two congresswomen running for U.S Senate in Arizona are crisscrossing the state, raising millions of dollars and trying to exploit every possible advantage to eke out a win in what both sides expect to be a photo-finish race.
The wild card: Angela Green, a Green Party candidate who could win votes that might have gone to Democrat Krysten Sinema, clearing a path to victory for Republican Martha McSally.
But on Thursday, Green suddenly announced she would drop out of the race and endorsed Sinema.
"After watching the debates and seeing everything, Sinema's stance on a lot of things are very close to mine," Green said in an interview with Channel 12 news in Phoenix.
The about face demonstrates the significance third party candidates are playing as Election Day nears and key races tighten across the country. There's a fear that these candidates could become "spoilers" by peeling off just enough support to let the other major party win. Democrats are especially sensitive to the issue after Green Party and Libertarian presidential candidates drew about 5 percent of the popular vote in 2016, the year that Hillary Clinton narrowly lost the presidency to Donald Trump.
"When a race is close everything matters -- every demographic group, the number of candidates on the ballot," said Nathan Gonzales, a nonpartisan analyst for Inside Elections. But, he added, that doesn't mean third party candidates will inevitably tip a close race. "We have to be a bit more nuanced."
Third party candidates tend to poll better than they actually perform on Election Day, when voters tend to revert to the two major parties. And some who cast ballots for third party candidates may not otherwise show up to the polls, so it's misleading to presume that every vote for an outside candidate is a vote stolen from a major party. . ." READ MORE
Kyrsten Sinema's run out of excuses: Supreme Court leaves Senate Democrats with little choice
Is Kyrsten Sinema a troll?
There's been disturbing signs in the past that the senior senator from Arizona gets cheap thrills by provoking outraged reactions from her fellow travelers in the Democratic party. Most notably, of course, there was the time Sinema threw a cute little cursty while voting against a minimum wage raise she claims to "support," predictably drawing thousands of angry responses. She then released a photo provoking large swaths of Democratic voters at the height of their anger at her unwillingness to vote to end the filibuster Republicans use to block all meaningful legislation. In the photo, Sinema is seen flashing a ring that reads "f*ck off" with a smile. And then, in a move any 4chan user would envy, she dramatically increased the rage-sputtering on the left by declaring it "sexist" to be mad at her for any of this.
Sinema again pulled her signature gaslighting move — piously claiming to support legislation while actively blocking it — after the Supreme Court upheld a racist voting suppression law in her very own state on Thursday:
Again, it's worth wondering if Sinema is simply trolling here. . ." READ MORE
Is Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema a Democrat? What explains her approach? - Deseret News
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In a dusty basement of Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library, on a shelf of blue books with gilded trim, between a tract on the history of cosmetic surgery and a study of mystical metaphors in medieval poetry, rests the 1995 honors thesis of one Kyrsten Sinema. “Career Aspirations and Humanitarianism Among Gifted College Students” is a forgotten memento from the Arizona senator’s two years of undergraduate studies at BYU. Long before she became the most confounding actor in the drama of the Biden era, she was an Ezra Taft Benson scholar who completed her bachelor’s degree at 18. A child prodigy who, her thesis suggests, was very concerned with people like herself.
“It is ironic that part of our society suffers from a lack of resources,” the teenage Sinema writes, “yet we have within ourselves an often unrecognized, highly useful minority — the gifted.” A couple years earlier, at 16, she had graduated from high school as co-valedictorian. That is, she was gifted.
In the past year, practically every national media outlet in
America has dedicated thousands of words to grapple with what, exactly,
motivates Kyrsten Sinema. The New Yorker asked, “What does Kyrsten Sinema really want?” CNN had a nearly identical question on its mind: “Unsolved mystery: What does Kyrsten Sinema want?” Even “Saturday Night Live” got in on the action,
with Cecily Strong donning a bright red dress, blue pearls and thick
glasses to ask, “What do I want from this bill? I’ll never tell. Because
I didn’t come to Congress to make friends — and so far, mission
accomplished.” READ MORE
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