The other day I pointed out in a comment that “In the wake of Sinema’s floor remarks Thursday, more than 70 women involved with Arizona’s Democratic Party signed an open letter urging the reproductive rights political action committee EMILY’s List—a leading contributor to Sinema—to “immediately make a public demand to Senator Sinema to support ending the filibuster now.”
Asked and answered.
Wow, @emilyslist says it can't support @kyrstensinema moving forward due to her opposition to scrapping the filibuster for the voting rights bill. They've been backing her since the Dem primary in her first congressional campaign in 2012. https://t.co/7fWbdSOz6v
— Jeremy Duda (@jeremyduda) January 18, 2022
The Washington Post reports, Emily’s List says it will no longer endorse Sen. Sinema as she holds firm on filibuster:
Emily’s List, the national group that backs female Democrats who support abortion rights, said Tuesday that it will no longer endorse Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because she opposes changing Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation.
Later Tuesday, the abortion-rights group NARAL said that it, too, will not endorse any senator who opposes changing the Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation. The group did not mention Sinema or Manchin by name.
[D]escribing the country as being “at an inflection point in the fight for voting rights and reproductive freedom,” Emily’s List President Laphonza Butler said in a statement Tuesday that the group’s mission “is not possible without free and fair elections.”
“So, we want to make it clear: if Sen. Sinema can not support a path forward for the passage of this legislation, we believe she undermines the foundations of our democracy, her own path to victory and also the mission of EMILY’s List, and we will be unable to endorse her moving forward,” Butler said.
The group said that, together with others, it has lobbied Sinema to back Democratic efforts to pass the voting rights legislation but that “so far those concerns have not been addressed.”
“We have not endorsed or contributed to Sen. Sinema since her election in 2018,” Butler said. “Right now, Sen. Sinema’s decision to reject the voices of allies, partners and constituents who believe the importance of voting rights outweighs that of an arcane process means she will find herself standing alone in the next election.”
NARAL said Tuesday that it is changing its endorsement criteria because “our democracy is on the line.”
“The freedom to vote is a fundamental freedom—inextricably linked to reproductive freedom,” the group said in a tweet. “NARAL’s commitment to voting rights is unwavering. We won’t endorse any senators who don’t support changing the Senate rules to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.”
Sinema lamely defended her indefensible position with a “word salad” statement Tuesday night.
“While the Senate’s 60-vote threshold to end debate on legislation has been used repeatedly to protect against wild swings in federal policy, including in the area of protecting women’s health care, I said on the Senate floor last week that different people of good faith can have honest disagreements about policy and strategy,” she said. “Such honest disagreements are normal, and I respect those who have reached different conclusions on how to achieve our shared goals of addressing voter suppression and election subversion, and making the Senate work better for everyday Americans.
What About Emily List’s Arizona affiliate, Arizona List? Where is its companion statement to Emily’s List? Arizona List contributors should call and ask when a statement is going to be forthcoming. (520) 327-0520.
Sen. Kysten Sinema is also losing another major component of her constituency, the Navajo Nation.
As President of the Navajo Nation, I issued a letter to U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, urging her to take the action necessary to pass H.R. 5746 Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, even if it means reforming the filibuster. #VotingRightsNow pic.twitter.com/lXkmKbyawl
— Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez 2019-2023 (@NNPrezNez) January 18, 2022
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has already lost the progressive and liberal wing of the Democratic Party coalition.
THIS JUST IN: 94% of Arizona Indivisibles voted YES on primarying Sen. Sinema if she fails to deliver on voting rights. pic.twitter.com/YES2fEPIs6
— Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) January 18, 2022
Senator Sinema is finding herself on an island, the Island of Misfit Toys, alone with her corporate donors.
Once again, resign from office and allow Arizona Democrats to appoint a real Democrat to your Senate seat, and you can move on to take that high-paid corporate lobbyist job you have been lining up. Fo the love of God, just go!
https://twitter.com/SenQuezada29/status/1483526259581669377
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“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail in this purpose, they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in “A Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in 1963.
To be fair to Sinema, the big money is made by courting corporations and billionaires, not so much with Emily’s list.
A girl’s got to look out for herself.
Also, expect big news on the investment front soon as we finally find out how much a human soul is worth.
.@kyrstensinema vote against filibuster for voting bills leads to this question: Is Sinema running for a 2nd term? Killing Freedom to Vote Act and BBB earns enmity in Dem primary and @RubenGallego is ready to pounce. Could a TV or major corporate gig be in the offing? #AzSen
A multimillion-dollar parachute already strapped on is the only exit that makes sense of the data.
“A multimillion-dollar parachute already strapped on…”
Yeah, one way or the other we’ll find out if it was extreme greed or mental illness or some combination.
But it doesn’t fix the damage done.