Others, including Liz Luna of Rural Arizona Action, faulted Sinema for allowing the filibuster to prevent protecting abortion rights, while Bob Lord of the group Patriotic Millionaires said he could not get a meeting with her staff. Instead, Barnwell's scheduler called for another meeting with her staff. When Barnwell requested a meeting on June 7, Sinema's office said they offered the same day to schedule a call with the senator. Sinema's office maintains they did try to accommodate Barnwell's desire to discuss the voting rights bill.īarnwell and his organization met with Sinema's staff in April 2021, at least six months before the voting rights bill officially failed, her office said. Mark Kelly did, she ignored us,” Barnwell said. Instead of collaborating with us, like Sen. “She claimed that John Lewis was a personal hero of hers but refused to get into ‘good trouble’ with us. Instead of strategizing with us on how to get the John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed, we had to use our efforts and resources to protest her.

“Sinema led us to believe she supported the freedom to vote but refused to work with Arizona constituents to accomplish it. John Lewis, D-Ga., a legend in the civil rights movement. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., requested and held a meeting with his group about the voting-rights legislation, which was named for the late Rep. Sinema helped move or block several key initiatives, such as limiting spending on his domestic agenda and bringing together bipartisan coalitions to pass laws boosting infrastructure spending and adding gun safety measures.īarnwell said Sen. What that meant became clearer during the beginning of the Biden era, when Democrats held narrow majorities in both chambers. Sinema cast herself as 'independent' in 2018, and her House voting record suggested she was arguably the Democrat most inclined to support Republican positions at the time. If she does run, it will be over the protests of those on the left who see her as betraying their expectations and downshifting the Biden agenda. Those relations curdled years ago in many cases, but could have new significance as Sinema weighs a 2024 campaign bid as an independent. The stark rhetoric underscores the broken relations between Sinema, I-Ariz., and some of those who supported her Senate run in 2018, when she was a Democrat. Kyrsten Sinema took turns Wednesday calling for her not to seek reelection or even resign her office, pointing to what they viewed as different snubs at different times.

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