Kyrsten Sinema knows she was elected in a red state. Earlier this year she voted to confirm Bill Barr for AG and now Democrats are losing their minds, threatening to censure her if she doesn’t more fully support the anti-Trump party platform:
ABC15 – Progressive Democrats’ frustration with the new senior Senator from Arizona are spilling into the party’s annual state meeting.
The Progressives are demanding Senator Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona to “support the tenets of the 2016 Democratic party platform” and now want to formally censure her at the state committee meeting this weekend, according to a resolution obtained by ABC15.
The move would come at the state Democratic committee meeting Saturday in Prescott and the details are spelled out in the resolution.
Sinema is specifically targeted in the resolution for her confirmation vote of President Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee William Barr, in which she was one of only three Democratic senators to vote to confirm Barr. The Progressives are also upset with her decision not to co-sponsor the “Save the Internet Act,” a bill that would have repealed recent rules by the FCC that removed Obama era net neutrality protections.
A confirmation vote for Barr and a failure to co-sponsor a bill that would restore Obama’s net neutrality – this is what they are so upset about? Hilarious.
Here’s one of the lead Democrats behind this threat to censure Sinema:
“The Progressive Caucus is very concerned with Kyrsten Sinema’s voting record. We love her, as we love all Democrats, but we want her to vote like a Democrat rather than supporting Trump half the time,” O’Neil said.
“…Rather than supporting Trump half the time.” Yep, that’s what this is about.
Sinema has reportedly voted almost half the time for Republican bills, just like Joe Manchin:
Sinema is often seen as one of the most moderate members of the U.S. Senate. She is one of two Democrats in the Senate that have sided with Trump on more than 50% of votes held in the Senate. The other is Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a state Donald Trump won by over 40 points. Arizona, by contrast, went for Donald Trump by a margin of less than 4 points.
These are Arizona progressives and you’d think they’d be a little more understanding of her position, being a Democrat in a red state. But I guess her confirmation vote for Barr must have sent them over the edge.
