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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“her internet service at home in D.C. must always be in working order”
That’s seems legitimate. I suspect my neighbor Nick has employer-paid Internet, because his job requires it.
“message service”
Muscles might become too tight over the wish to strangle fellow Democrats.
“groceries”
I think politicians should shop for their own groceries so they know the inflation people have endured.
I believe it.
It’s delish that the Left is upset about this.
LOL!
Should stayed a dumblecrat.
Now show some guts and tell ‘em to eff off.
She can be abusive and churlish to me all she wants.
Whew! I am relieved to hear that.
She left the Reservation and now the hunting party is out looking to take her scalp.
One of the best comedy skits……EVER…..A-Aron
All I need to know is that she is a LIEberal, and is not in WDC to advance the cause of FReedom!
Nor will she work to improve the lot of We the People!
Send her home, Arizona!
This is what happens when you reject the Democrat party.
Someone tell me how she’s rejected the democrats? She even told Schumer that she’s coin to caucus with them the same way King does.
She’s a publicity hound.
I’m trying to figure out when everyone is finally going to wake and realize that, even down to the most local level, 99.99999% of the people that are elected are solely in it for themselves.
The .00001% are considered might be given a chance but are run out on a rail for not playing along or are considered too “radical”, even if all they’re doing is speaking the plain unfiltered truth.
The Dems want her out of the race in 2024. They know that if they run a liberal Dem with Sinema running as an independent they will split the liberal vote and a republican like Kari Lake would easily win. Of course, this assumes Maricopa County doesn’t manufacture a couple hundred thousand phony votes.
You forget, Sinema is in the US Senate.
There are no We-the-People senators in that body. Anyway, too few to speak of.
Senator Paul, Senator Cruz, Senator Hawley. Who else? A couple of new ones... Sen. JD VANCE is new.
Sounds like she keeps her staff busy. Keeping busy keeps them from doing bad things during work hours. They don’t like that because they hired on as Democrats, not employees.
Uh huh.
Now that she betrayed the Dem commies, let’s finish her off!
How does Maxine treat her staff?
Post her airplane photo when the La Raza witch harassed her, showing her mighty fine rack.
It’s political. That’s why it’s in the Daily Bitch.
Dear Democrats: Go to Hell.
Don’t send her home yet!
She needs to be on the ballot in the next general election, then send her home along with the Dhimmicrat.
She needs our support until she’s on the ballot.
-PJ
Okay. Now do Nancy Pelosi.
Oh, and Kamala Harris. Amy Klobucher, is another.
And didn’t Hillary! have a rule no one on staff could dare look her in the eye?
They’re all the same, democrat women.
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