When Will Kyrsten Sinema Make It Official And Formally Join The GOP?

Does she look like she could be a mass murderer?

There are plenty of reasons to oppose Kyrsten Sinema-- like all the reasons that made Chuck Schumer pick her to be the U.S. Senator for Arizona. Her corruption is stupendous, mimicking his own. Her voting record was once the most Republican of any Democrat's in the House and is now the most Republican of any Democrat's in the Senate. For example, the last vote the Senate took before leaving for spring break was April 11 on whether or not to confirm oil lobbyists David Bernhardt as Secretary of the Interior. Even some of the Senate's most egregious corporate whores-- like Michael Bennet and Tom Carper-- felt compelled to vote NO. But not Sinema.

Since arriving in the Senate in January, she's been struggling with West Virginia conservative Joe Manchin for the title of "Worst Voting Record." They go back and forth. Her "F" is 52.38%; his is 47.62%. Her career-long Trump adhesion score is 58.4%, imperceptibly "better" than Machin's. Factoring in the partisan-lean of states, though, her Trump score is not just worse than Manchin's but worse than that of 41 current Republicans!

Yesterday, Alex Henderson asked, rhetorically, if she's the Joe Manchin of the West. I'll explain why she's far worse in a moment. I don't think Henderson knows much about her although he did mention that "Arizona Republicans and Tea Party activists in Arizona have described Sinema as 'far left,' but her record doesn’t bear that out by any means. No, not by any means at all. He list 4 positions she's taken since January:

• She opposes Medicare-For-All
• She voted to confirm William Barr as Attorney General
• She voted against the Green New Deal
• She sides with corporate donors against New Neutrality

That doesn't even scratch the surface of why Schumer should be driven from office for having given her the Arizona Senate seat.

When I first met her, she was still serving in the Arizona state legislature. We served on a board together and I noticed there was something wrong with her. I couldn't quite put my finger on it at the time but when we had to pick seats at the big table for the board meetings, I always tried to pick a seat that wasn't in her direct eye range... in case she pulled a gun out of her purse and started randomly shooting up the room. Yeah, I sensed CRAZY from the first time I met her. And she got crazier with time.

There were always House Republicans voting more progressively than Sinema

She's had a bizarre political devolution from full on anarcho-socialist to Green to Democrat to Blue Dog to... well, for her the obvious next step would be Republican, except she's aggressively bisexual-- aggressively in terms of telling everyone she meets over and over, not necessarily trying to hook up with people-- and Republicans like people that kind of stuff kept on the down low. And she's also pro-women, which Republicans tend to frown on.

She asked me for a Blue America endorsement when she ran for Congress. The vetting process painted a very, very, very different picture of her than the one she had tried to present. She said she was a champion of immigrants' rights in the state legislature. Immigrants rights activists in Arizona I asked, told me said she's an untrustworthy backstabber. Many of her colleagues in the legislature agreed-- and not just on that issue. She received the worst vetting outcomes of any candidate in the history of Blue America. It pained me to tell her we couldn't endorse her but the picture that was painted turned out to be totally accurate.

She's also a compulsive liar on a Trumpian scale. And is notorious for selling her votes to corporate special interests. She had a pattern while on the House Financial Services Committee of voting with the Republicans against reform, probably atrributable to the massive contributions from Wall Street she was gobbling up. Of everyone running for the Senate last cycle-- including sitting senators-- she took the most Finance Sector sewer money ($2,882,605.) Since first being elected to Congress, she's taken $4,600,708, more than any other Senate freshman, of either party, by far.

She takes money from sleazy interest groups most Democrats keep at arm's length, from Payday Lenders ($82,000) and charter schools ($63,496) to Big Tobacco ($34,300). But mostly she takes from the banksters.