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By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
A group of progressives used an Arizona Democratic Party dinner on May 20 as an opportunity to let U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema know how they feel about her repeatedly bucking the party line.
Ten members of Progressive Democrats for America at the party’s 2019 Mofford-Warner Dinner on Saturday held up signs during Sinema’s speech that said “Vote like a Democrat.”
Sinema began her political career as an unabashed left-winger, running for the Legislature Phoenix City Council under the Green Party banner before becoming a Democrat and winning her first legislative race in 2004. From there, she gradually migrated toward the center, and after she was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, she established herself as one of the most moderate Democrats in the chamber.
That trend has not only continued, but has become more pronounced, and many Democrats have become increasingly disenchanted with Sinema since she joined the Senate in January. She voted to confirm U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who has become one of congressional Democrats’ biggest nemeses. She opposed Democratic efforts to restore net neutrality rules. And she waffled on taking a position on the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
