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   https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/from-far-left-to-dem-filibuster-defender-   
   who-is-kyrsten-sinema/   
      
   Since being elected to the Senate in 2018, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has drawn   
   as much attention for her eye-catching outfits and hairdos as her   
   politics.   
      
   But as one of the architects of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal   
   announced by President Biden Thursday — as well as one of two moderate   
   Democrats publicly committed to preserving the Senate’s legislative   
   filibuster — the Arizona Democrat has made clear she’s not to be taken   
   lightly or underestimated.   
      
   Born in 1976 to a Mormon family in Arizona and raised by her mother and   
   stepfather in Florida, Sinema became a social worker after graduating from   
   Brigham Young University and cut her teeth in Arizona activist politics.   
   During the 2000 presidential campaign, she was the Green Party’s local   
   spokesperson and her views during this period would be familiar to   
   supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).   
      
   A 2018 Wall Street Journal story recounted a letter from Sinema that was   
   published by the Arizona Republic newspaper in 2002. It read, in part:   
   “Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her   
   livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty   
   Dollar will continue to rule.”   
      
   Sinema also organized rallies and protests opposing the wars in Iraq and   
   Afghanistan, telling a local radio host at the time that she welcomed   
   participation from “Libertarians, Democrats, Republicans, Greens,   
   independents, anarchists, socialists, communists, whoever wants to come.   
   They’re all welcome.”   
      
   At a February 2003 rally organized by a group Sinema co-founded, fliers   
   were distributed calling for an end to “U.S. terror in Iraq and the Middle   
   East.” The flier included a drawing of three skeletons — one dressed as a   
   soldier, another dressed in a top hat holding a dollar bill and another   
   dressed in a suit.   
      
   When CNN reported on the fliers during Sinema’s 2018 Senate race, her   
   campaign claimed Sinema did not design or approve the fliers.   
      
   Sinema joined the Democratic Party in 2004 and experienced her first   
   electoral success that same year, winning a seat in Arizona’s House of   
   Representatives. Her activist work continued, as she organized pro-   
   immigrant marches and campaigned to defeat a proposed amendment to the   
   Arizona Constitution that would have outlawed same-sex marriage.   
      
   Sinema is openly bisexual, but does not like to discuss her orientation,   
   particularly in relation to her political views. “I don’t have a story to   
   tell,” she told an interviewer in 2013. “I don’t think this is relevant or   
   significant. I’m confused when these questions come up. I’m not a pioneer.   
   I’m just a regular person who works hard. Nor am I a poster child. I’m not   
   forging away or pioneering. I don’t understand what the mystique is.”   
      
   After three terms in the Arizona House, Sinema was elected to the Arizona   
   Senate in 2010, then resigned her seat after less than a year in office to   
   run for Congress and represent Arizona’s new 9th District. She won again,   
   narrowly defeating Republican nominee Vernon Parker.   
      
   Arriving on Capitol Hill, Sinema showed her moderate side, joining both   
   the conservative Democrat Blue Dog Coalition and the bipartisan Problem   
   Solvers Caucus. The website FiveThirtyEight found that over Sinema’s last   
   two years in the House, which coincided with Donald Trump’s first two   
   years as president, she voted with his position 62.6 percent of the time.   
      
   Undeterred by that record, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-   
   NY) recruited Sinema to run against Republican Martha McSally for the seat   
   being vacated by the retiring Jeff Flake. Sinema again tacked her message   
   to appeal to moderate voters, at one point telling USA Today that Trump   
   was “not a thing” in the race and “not a part of what I think my   
   constituents are worried about or think about.”   
      
   That strategy paid off, as Sinema became the first Democrat to represent   
   Arizona in the Senate since 1995. In her first two years as a senator,   
   FiveThirtyEight found she voted with Trump’s position just 26.2 percent of   
   the time, but did back the 45th president on issues like the USMCA trade   
   agreement, the nomination of William Barr to be attorney general and   
   opposing the repeal of an Environmental Protection Agency emissions rule.   
      
   “Everyone knows that I am very independent-minded,” Sinema told Politico   
   in October 2019. “And that it’s not super useful to try and convince me   
   otherwise.”   
      
   That independent streak extends to fashion, such as when Sinema presided   
   over the Senate wearing a hot-pink shirt bearing the words “Dangerous   
   Creature“, or when she wore a zebra-striped coat and a purple wig to   
   fellow Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly’s swearing-in. At the White House Thursday,   
   Sinema stood out in a sea of blue and gray suits by wearing a sleeveless   
   red dress that concealed a crutch she’s using to help recover from a   
   broken foot she sustained running a marathon.   
      
   In recent months, Sinema has become notorious for standing firm against   
   the left wing of the Democratic Party. In March, she gave a dramatic   
   thumbs-down disapproval to Sanders’ proposal to make a $15 national   
   minimum wage part of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, earning a   
   rebuke from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others.   
      
   But Sinema and Manchin’s public opposition to removing the legislative   
   filibuster and enabling any legislation to pass the Senate with a mere 51   
   votes has made them the two most-scrutinized lawmakers in Washington, even   
   causing President Biden to incorrectly claim the two vote more with the   
   GOP’s position than with his own.   
      
   In a Washington Post op-ed published this week, Sinema emphasized her   
   support for the filibuster, writing: “If anyone expected me to reverse my   
   position because my party now controls the Senate, they should know that   
   my approach to legislating in Congress is the same whether in the minority   
   or majority.   
      
   “My support for retaining the 60-vote threshold is not based on the   
   importance of any particular policy. It is based on what is best for our   
   democracy,” she wrote. “The filibuster compels moderation and helps   
   protect the country from wild swings between opposing policy poles … I do   
   not accept a new standard by which important legislation can only pass on   
   party-line votes”.   
      
   Sinema concluded: “Instability, partisanship and tribalism continue to   
   infect our politics. The solution, however, is not to continue weakening   
   our democracy’s guardrails. If we eliminate the Senate’s 60-vote   
   threshold, we will lose much more than we gain.”   
      
      
      
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