Something Sinema Said Years Ago

[Tony_FLADEM]

I remember Sinema being interviewed about 10 years ago and she mentioned how she grew up in poverty and was homeless at times.

Does anyone remember this?

This makes her willingness to block the reconciliation bill and favor wealthy special interests even more infuriating.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Perhaps her childhood left her damaged, and terrified of being poor and homeless again.

She will sell her soul to feel financially secure.

[kimbutgar]

2. She's never had been around enough rich people to know they are flatter you in order to get their

Way and then throw you away after they get what they want. She doesn’t know she is being used and will be discarded when she’s no longer a useful idiot for them.

Growing up I had a friend who lived in an exclusive area of SF. Her Mother was liked my Mother and she invited me over to have play dates with her daughter. The mother used to say things like the little people are peasants and it’s ok to use people to get what you want. For some reason she liked me and encouraged a friendship between myself and her daughter. I told my mother what she said and my mother told me that’s how rich people are. I always remembered that and years later When I worked in the stock brokerage industry and met a lot of rich people and I always kept that knowledge in my mind about wealthy people. I was careful to not be used or flattered by them because I knew they were bull shitters and users.

Poor Sinema is being used.

[Celerity]

3. she lived in a petrol station at one point

A ‘bootstraps’ story like no other: Kyrsten Sinema lived in a shuttered country store and gas station. Now she’s running for Senate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-bootstraps-story-like-no-other-kyrsten-sinema-lived-in-a-shuttered-country-store-and-gas-station-now-shes-running-for-senate/2018/08/30/df27481a-a7f0-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html


From the time she was 8 until she was 11, Kyrsten Sinema lived with her brother, sister, mother and stepfather in this 864-square-foot cinder-block building on her step-grandparents’ property. (William Widmer for The Washington Post)

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. — The simple, cinder-block structure looks like it hasn’t been used in decades. A board covers one large window, and broken glass hangs in another. Rotten beams frame the roof. Out front, a tall, rusted light pole rises from an oval concrete pad, a ghostly reminder of the gas pumps that stood there long ago. This former gas station and country store on a rolling ribbon of rural highway in the Florida Panhandle, across the road from an endless vista of cotton fields, is a main character in Rep. Kyrsten Sinema’s life story. The Arizona Democrat, a rising star and formidable campaigner who is giving up her House seat to run in one of the year’s most-watched Senate races, lived there when she was a child after a sudden tumble out of the middle class.

Sinema, now 42, talks about the experience frequently on the campaign trail, crediting those difficult years with forming her political philosophy: that people should “work really hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and be able to turn to the government for help when they are most vulnerable. It’s a message she has used to position herself as a leader who can speak with authority to both disaffected voters who have had to rely on the social safety net and conservatives who oppose government aid. Her pitch must resonate widely in Arizona if she is to succeed in her bid to replace retiring Sen. Jeff Flake and take a seat that has been in GOP hands for more than two decades.

Sinema described her years in poverty in a video that began her Senate campaign last year. “For nearly three years, we lived in an old, abandoned gas station without running water or electricity,” Sinema said. “Sometimes, we didn’t have enough food to eat, but we got by thanks to help from family, church and, sometimes, even the government.” “There’s really no other country in the world where a little girl who grew up homeless living in a gas station could ever dream of serving in the United States Congress and run for the United States Senate,” Sinema said while campaigning in Phoenix in July.

Her distinctive approach to crafting a centrist platform appears to have put her in a strong position. Public polls have shown Sinema leading Republican Martha McSally since April, and some GOP party leaders privately voice nervousness about her potential strength in the general election. On Tuesday, Sinema consolidated support in the Democratic Party, winning the nomination by about 60 points. McSally secured her party’s nomination with 53 percent of the Republican vote. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the Arizona race — one of the Democrats’ best hopes for gaining control of the Senate — as a “toss-up.” The way Sinema has described her early years in DeFuniak Springs, the hometown of her stepfather, has surprised a few members of his family, who say she does not adequately credit their efforts to give her a home.

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[Xoan]

6. Does she ever wonder why ...

little girls grow up homeless living in a gas station in the USA?

[DURHAM D]

4. I believe she has NPD.

She needs professional help but she, like Trump, will never understand that.

[Bettie]

5. Well, now it is being reported she has gone back to AZ

so, will she return to do her f-ing job, or will someone have to cajole her to come back?