Here's how NOT to convince Senator Sinema to change her mind...

[brooklynite]

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[2naSalit]

1. Yeah, that was wierd.

[budkin]

2. Ugh

Yeah, not helpful

[OnDoutside]

3. A bit extreme alright but at least she's aware of the little people now.

[questionseverything]

11. It's not like they went into her stall

She won’t talk to her voters or the press so they have to get creative

It’s no big deal

[Celerity]

14. +1

[former9thward]

21. Yes, little in mind and sensibility.

[FBaggins]

37. Do the little people include her students?

Who were also filmed in the bathroom?

[OnDoutside]

38. As if she gives a rat's ass.about them, lol.

[FBaggins]

39. Riiight

Because $24k is so important to a US Senator. That must be why she's still teaching.

[OnDoutside]

40. Suurrre, the betterment of mankind while taking large wads of cash

from big pharma....

[BeyondGeography]

4. Yeah, show some respect to Miss Standing in Front of the Elevator

This is called making your bed.

[bluewater]

5. The male protester definitely should be arrested...

for harassing a woman in the women's restroom and video recording there.

The picture was fuzzy, but i believe that was a sign designating it as the women's restroom on the way in.



I can't tell if the female protester was video recording also, she might have been recording audio, but I suspect otherwise.

If she did record video she should be arrested also for violating a woman's right to privacy in a public restroom. Her phone was pointed directly at the stall Senator Sinema entered.

But, hey, I am not a lawyer so I might wrong; perhaps I'm just out of touch and very old fashioned about what's indecent.

[Vinca]

6. That was not okay whether it was male or female following her in there.

There needs to be some common decency. Let a person relieve themselves in peace.

[bluewater]

9. If the female was video recording that, she should be arrested.

She had her phone aimed directly at the stall Senator Sinema had entered and was using.

The male definitely should be arrested, there was a sign on the way in designating it as the women's restroom and we watched his video.

[XanaDUer2]

7. Guess she's pissing off former supporters

Mavericks can do that. Tho people should be allowed to drop a deuce in peace.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. I understand the frustration with the ridiculous way she acts,

and the snotty uppity comments about "where she is". But there's no excuse for following her into a bathroom.

Wait outside the crapper for her to come back out, then resume letting her hear that the people think her position and behavior is exactly like what she just flushed.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. I was creeped out just watching this. A new low.

[wellst0nev0ter]

12. We already tried to convince her the Dem leadership way

Let her constituents take over on this one

[FBaggins]

13. That wasn't a constituent

If she couldn't leave the country because there was no path to citizenship, then she can't vote.

Regardless... The vast majority of Democrats want her to change her vote... but the vast majority of Democrats would surely agree that the convincing should be done in a legal way.

[wellst0nev0ter]

16. There was a group

[FBaggins]

17. None that struck me as worth listening to as constituents

The mature thing to do would be to ignore them.

The tempting thing to do would be to vote in the opposite direction from whatever they were demanding.

As the OP hints - there's almost zero chance that they helped their position.

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. They worked hard to get her elected in the first place

And now we're going to shit on them.

It's like we don't want to get out the vote and inspire activists to our side.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

34. Arizona is blue in large part due to pissed off Latino activists that became activists ...

…. after Arizona passed the racist “show me your papers laws”

A lot of those activists can’t vote because they aren’t citizens. But they have family that can and will vote.

[FBaggins]

36. Arizona isn't blue.

Red governor/AG/Treasurer... red legislature. Competitive senate races and upcoming governor race. Just barely blue in the last presidential race with the most offensive opponent imaginable.

It's trending blue, but the middle is far more important than the fringe in such a state... and anyone filming in a bathroom is beyond the fringe.

Letting nuts like this drive politics in the state is an easy way to give the state back to republicans.

[Kaleva]

15. They should have just quietly taken all the TP from the restroom and left.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. If Sinema won't meet with her constituents, then she should expect more of this

Bravo to the AZ activists who pulled this off.

[Arazi]

20. She could have a townhall. Or meet with her constituents without a 5 figure check

Then they may not be SO FUCKING ANGRY that they resort to this in order to be heard.

Fuck her

[questionseverything]

23. We need millions more everywhere

Doing same and more

[jcmaine72]

22. Politicians must be accountable to the people.

But not when they're taking a shit.

Please show some decency.

[tenderfoot]

24. Do tell us the correct way to go about it.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. Good question!

[FBaggins]

32. If you can't think of anything better than ambush filming in a bathroom...

... please don't involve yourself in Democratic politics. We're much better off without such.


I doubt that there's much of anything that three people (at least two of whom can't vote) can do to influence a US senator - except negatively (as shown here). Why not try much larger groups of people marching near her office such that it gets press coverage? Whether or not she's there, she'll get the message.

And no... "that didn't work" isn't a good enough excuse.

[bullwinkle428]

33. I have a strategy, but have no idea whether the OP will approve...

Okay, spoiler alert...HE WON'T!!

Anyway, here it is - The Progressive Caucus gets on TV today, and holds up copies of the Pandora Papers. They make a statement that this is exactly the thing that Kyrsten Sinema is trying to defend, by insisting that zero taxes should be raised as part of this bill.

[Nixie]

25. That's just a step away from standing on the toilets in adjoining

stalls and filming down on her wiping herself. That’ll really show her!

Unfortunately, they just made this about their own behavior, which was not smart.

[Blue_Adept]

26. Or "This is what happens when you don't run a town hall for 3 years and have no constituent outreach

services"

[XanaDUer2]

27. I didn't realize she was so remote to her voters

that could make tempers flare.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

28. People generally don't do things like this unless other channels have been fruitless. And not

everyone can afford the exclusive fundraisers for access, so they have to find other tactics.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

29. Nothing will change her mind. Even knowing that she's going to be primaried

out of the Senate in 2024 will not change her mind.

Her job is to help McConnell destroy President's agenda, the Democratic party, and democracy in the US by continually obstructing President Biden's agenda, in order to ensure a Republican takeover of the House and Senate in 2025.

She will be richly rewarded for her service to those who wish to end democracy in the US.

McConnell privately assures GOP that Kyrsten Sinema will kill Biden’s tax hike: report

Senate minority leader thinks Republicans have found their secret weapon in Arizona's puzzling Democratic senator

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has privately assured his Republican colleagues that centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., is likely to block President Joe Biden's proposed tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations, according to The Washington Post.

Biden has introduced a $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan that would be paid for with tax increases on corporations and a $1.8 trillion "American Families Plan" that would be funded with higher taxes on the wealthy and investors and increased IRS enforcement. Republicans are pushing a much smaller infrastructure counterproposal that would shift the tax burden from corporations to workers, and have loudly objected to the proposed tax increases. McConnell, however, does not seem worried about the hikes clearing the 50-50 Senate where a single Democrat can block any party-line vote.

McConnell has privately "reassured allies of Democrats' long odds in approving tax hikes, pointing in particular to the voting record of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema," according to the Post.

https://www.salon.com/2021/05/13/mcconnell-privately-assures-gop-that-kyrsten-sinema-will-kill-bidens-tax-hike-report/

Dark energy surrounds her.

[lagomorph777]

31. Just use Kompromat; it's so much cleaner.

And I'm not joking.

[SKKY]

35. Concur. This does absolute "Richard" to help our case and convince her.

[helpisontheway]

41. This is kinda creepy..I understand that her constituents are upset because she has not had a

townhall in 3 years (according to someone on Twitter). How are they supposed to connect with her? I agree that the restroom is the wrong place but goodness does she not care about the people that she is supposed to represent? I think she will lose her seat if she does not engage with her constituents at all.

[BannonsLiver]

42. I very much agree

They should have followed her into the bathroom with giant wads of cash.

[themaguffin]

43. It's not ok, but I don't give a fuck. Honestly, she needs an old school LBJ style "intervention"

Fuck her. I have zero respect for her destroying the country while she whores herself.

[Polybius]

45. Democrats had 67 Senate seats back then

If one got offended with him and switched, no big deal. If one switched now, we're screwed.

[Polybius]

44. Why do people try and convince politicians to change their minds anyway?

If a Senator was to be that easily swayed, that could be a bad thing.