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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Tuesday that she would not be seeking reelection, leaving over $10.5 million worth of unspent funds in her campaign account, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. FEC filings show that Sinema raised just under $3 million through her Senate committee in 2023, a relatively low number for an incumbent senator that fueled rumors she wouldn’t seek another term in Congress. Now that Sinema is officially out, there are only a handful of legal avenues the FEC outlines available for her to offload what remains in her campaign war chest, such as pouring money into...

Senators introduce bill to create digital identity for all Americans.. U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema, an independent of Arizona, and Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, have introduced Senate Bill 884, also known as “the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2023.” The bill was introduced March 21 and ordered to proceed out of committee on March 29 without amendments and with a favorable recommendation. ... The bill’s text states: “The lack of an easy, affordable, reliable, and secure way for organizations, businesses, and government agencies to identify whether an individual is who they claim to be online creates an attack vector that...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has filled her campaign coffers with Wall Street cash — but some donors are miffed she’s spent more than $100,000 of it on luxury hotels, private jets, limos and fine wines, On The Money has learned. Since 2021, Sinema has spent nearly $20,000 worth of campaign donations on wine-related expenses alone — dropping thousands at some of the most exclusive vineyards on the West Coast including Promontory Winery in Napa Valley, Auteur Winery in Sonoma and Argyle Winery in the Willamette Valley, according to election filings. During that same timeframe, Sinema spent nearly $10,000 in campaign...

On Saturday evening, Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler posted photos of Arizona Democratic Sen. Krysten Sinema on his public Facebook page, prompting a heated discussion in the comments section about the senator’s attire. Ziegler, a Republican in his second term as state auditor, posted the photos on his public “Jim Ziegler State Auditor” page, and shared it to his personal Facebook page. The photo caption: “What newly elected AZ democrat senator wore to work.” Some commenters made remarks comparing Sinema’s clothing to an exotic dancer or prostitute. Zeigler has not responded to those comments specifically. Other commenters expressed anger that...

Arizona Senate Candidate Kyrsten Sinema's face spoke louder than words during a March 2018 event when she described her decision to run for the State House and Senate in Arizona.Sinema was speaking at the Federation of American Hospitals Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. when she acted as if she couldn't believe she ran for office in Arizona."I wanted to make a larger impact and create lasting change for Arizona's women, seniors, veterans, families, and so I ran for the State House and State Senate," Sinema said, and while making a questioning gesture with her hand and a seemingly disgusted...

U.S. Democratic Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema promoted events at Arizona State University featuring a lawyer convicted for aiding an Islamist terror organization and its leader. Sinema, a co-founder of the activist group Local to Global Justice, invited people in a now-closed Yahoo group to attend two events with Lynn Stewart, both in 2003. At the time of the invite, Stewart had been charged with helping her former client Omar Abdel Rahman, a radical Egyptian spiritual leader of a terror group, to pass on secret messages to his followers to commit terror attacks. In the first event’s invite, Sinema said the...

Kyrsten Sinema Kyrsten Sinema is a State Representative from Arizona. She serves as the Assistant Leader to the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives and represents central Phoenix in the Arizona Legislature District 15.  Now in her third term, she is the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee and the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Regarded as an high flyer, Sinema will almost run for national office at some point in the future. Sinema is an Arizona native, born and raised in a border region.  She graduated college with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work...