Posted on 02/04/2023 3:22:30 PM PST by Libloather
Aconsortium of political advocacy groups are pushing for an investigation into allegations that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has had staffers running her personal errands and performing sundry household tasks on the taxpayer dime.
As first reported in December by The Daily Beast, Sinema aides are bound by a 37-page memo that lays out a very specific set of demands: the senator’s groceries are to be picked up promptly, her hour-long massages are to be booked weekly, and her internet service at home in D.C. must always be in working order. (If not, an assistant “should call Verizon to schedule a repair” so a staff member can be there to let a technician into her apartment, according to the memo.)
Now, 13 progressive nonprofits—including, among others, the Arizona Democracy Resource Center, Sunrise Movement Tempe, Patriotic Millionaires, and Vets Forward—have filed a formal complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee over Sinema’s alleged behavior.
The accusations “paint a picture of a Senator who is not only unresponsive to her constituents, but also disrespectful and even abusive to her employees and wholly unconcerned about her obligations under the law,” they wrote in a three-page letter dated Feb. 2.
“Most troubling,” the letter alleges, Sinema, who recently switched from the Democratic Party to govern as an Independent, “calls on staff members, who are employed and paid by the public and explicitly barred from campaign activity, to schedule and facilitate political fundraisers and meetings with campaign donors, presumably during the workday while they are on the clock and physically on federal property.”
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“Insubordinate and churlish”
What is wrong with this picture?
This is the Democrats trying to get rid of her. The Republicans are too lazy to do this.
Amy “Salad Fork” Klobuchar, anyone?
-PJ
And all of these organizations suffered by her allegedly doing this? I seriously doubt that she did anything overtly wrong, I don’t think she’s that stupid, but if she did, Congres will address it like to do everyone else in Congress, say “Don’t do it anymore.”
A real person of the people, like all DemoRats.
What happened to allegations against Sheila Jackson Lee?
Key and Peele! Great quote!!
I know a woman who worked on Senator Dodd’s staff and had to run personal errands for him, such as picking up his dry cleaning.
I decided the better part of valor would be to not ask her if that was all she had to do for him. Poor thing.
Now that Hobbs is in she can pick her replacement
I’m sure that she will just pay her $10 fine and go her merry way.
When does AZ Rep go after the real problem - Cartelista Fontes?
He put her in there, and will now make sure that all statewide elections have “issues” caused by his Sinaloa cartel helpers.
I’m really surprised the “ethics” boyz and girlz haven’t gone after Kati Hoggs yet. She had a winning discrimination complaint brought against her.
I wonder if she’s woken up with a horse head on her pillow yet.
Never cross the Demo-mafia, or you be swimmin’ wiff da fishes.
Biden jammed his fingers somewhere and he’s President. So I guess a little rudeness could be tolerated.
And yet she is still caucused with the group that wants to bring her down.
It has absolutely nothing to do with leaving the Democrat party, I assure you...
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