Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona was censored for siding with Republicans in the Senate to defend the analysis, effectively preventing passage of the large-voting legislation.
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Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona was censored for siding with Republicans in the Senate to defend the analysis, effectively preventing passage of the large-voting legislation.
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The Democratic Party of Arizona is reprimanding one of its own parties. Its executive board voted on Saturday to censor Senator Kyrsten Sinema for opposing changing the film. By opposing the change, Sinema, along with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and all Republicans in the Senate, prevented the Senate Democrats from proceeding with the voting rights legislation. big earlier this week.
ADP President Raquel Terán said in a statement that while the party appreciates Sinema’s leadership in passing American rescue plan and bipartisan infrastructure law, “the ramifications of not passing protective federal law [constituents’] suffrage is too large and too far-reaching. “
“While we are not pleased with this announcement, the ADP Executive Board has decided to formally censor Senator Sinema for her failure to do whatever was necessary to secure our democracy, ” she added.
Criticism by itself has no practical effect.
Movie theaters have publicly supported voting rights bills and voted on them on Wednesday. But she objected long ago remove filibuster, which characterizes the proposed rule change in a statement Thursday is one that “would deepen our divisions and risk repeating radical reversals in federal policy, reinforcing uncertainty and further eroding confidence in our government.” .”
When asked about the censorship vote, Sinema’s office pointed to her bipartisan record.
“During her three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and now in the Senate, Kyrsten has consistently promised the people of Arizona that she would be an independent voice for the state – not for any political party,” the announcer said. her statement said in a statement emailed to NPR. “She was assigned to the Arizonans and was always honest about her position.”
The cinema is Arizona’s first Democrat elected to the Senate in 30 years. She was called a peaceful without remorse. And with Joe Manchin, she’s come to wield overwhelming power in an equally divided Senate.
President Biden and other Democratic leaders have calling on the Senate to change filibuster’s rule to overcome voting rights bills, which they say will make it easier for all Americans to vote and reverse efforts by Republican-led states to limit access to the ballot.
But Sinema and Manchin joined with the Republicans to block rule change, although members of their party say democracy is at other risk.
Their opposition has received praise from Republicans and criticism from Democrats, with Sinema loss of support from progressive groups recently.
Arizona is one of the states that has passed a new limited voting law in 2021. Most notably in Arizona is a possible law. eliminate tens of thousands of voters from the state early election mailing list.
Saturday’s vote comes almost exactly a year after Arizona Republicans made headlines for censor three famous Republicans, including former Senators Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, both of whom spoke out against former President Donald Trump.
Cindy McCain is the widow of the late Arizona Senator John McCain, who was also censored by Arizona Republicans in 2014. about what they call his “free” voting record.
