Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will not run for re-election in Arizona
By HatetheSwamp March 5, 2024 12:05 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Too bad. pb's a sort of radical moderate, a fan of enigmats DC freethinkingers who don't walk the party line, and he liked Sinema and was rooting for her to find a way to win in 024.
The Democrat-turned-independent is leaving the Senate after one term.
“Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year,” Sinema said in a video posted on her X account.
In her video, Sinema said partisan warfare has carried the day.
“Compromise is a dirty word. We’ve arrived at that crossroad, and we chose anger and division. I believe in my approach, but it’s not what America wants right now,” Sinema said.
Sinema’s political arc has been extraordinary, from Green Party organizer to the GOP’s erstwhile favorite Democrat in the U.S. Senate. In 2004 she became a Democrat and was elected to the Arizona Legislature. At a 2011 progressive gathering, she labeled Arizona the “meth lab of democracy” while criticizing legislation that state Republicans were advancing. She ran and won an election in 2012 to the U.S. House, where her voting record showed some centrist bona fides. She used that moderate approach to get elected to the Senate in 2018, ending a losing streak for Democrats statewide.
Other key 2024 battleground races include Democratic Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, both running for re-election, while in West Virginia, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is not running for another term.
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Too bad. pb's a sort of radical moderate, a fan of enigmats DC freethinkingers who don't walk the party line, and he liked Sinema and was rooting for her to find a way to win in 024.
