Top donors threaten to cut off funding to Sinema

[JoeOtterbein]

Politico

The donors said they will support a primary challenge, and demanded that the senator refund their contributions if she doesn’t change her position.

By HOLLY OTTERBEIN

01/19/2022 04:51 PM EST

A group of big-dollar donors who have spent millions electing Kyrsten Sinema and other Democratic senators is threatening to sever all funding to her if she doesn’t drop her opposition to changing Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation.

In a letter to the Arizona lawmaker, which was first obtained by POLITICO, 70 Democratic donors — some of whom gave Sinema’s 2018 campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law — said they will support a primary challenge to Sinema and demanded that she refund their contributions to her 2018 campaign if she doesn’t budge.

“We are terrified about our prospects as a democracy if we do not pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis VRA Act,” they wrote in the 1,400-word missive. “We appreciate your support of these bills, but they will die without your action on Senate rules. Bipartisanship works only if it is reciprocal. Republicans are gutting our electoral system in state capitals with no federal check on them. This is life and death important to us.”

The broadside is the latest example of the fury among a growing number of Democratic donors, lawmakers and organizations after Sinema’s rejection of their pleas to do away with the filibuster. They are turning the screws on her in the hours before the Senate careens toward a showdown over voting rights Wednesday evening, which is expected to end in failure for Democrats because they lack the votes to create an exception to the filibuster.

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[qazplm135]

1. she doesn't need them anymore

or so she thinks. She doesn't need us either.

[JoeOtterbein]

3. True...

...sad fact tonight.

[Hulk]

5. She couldn't care less...

We had better get AT LEAST two more Senators on our side of the aisle.

The two dino's could likely switch parties. They sure as hell are not supporting the Democratic platform, nor this administration.

[DENVERPOPS]

7. True

They way that she has been carrying the water for the Republican donors would love to step in.....And Putin

[LetsGoBiden]

2. To be honest

To be honest she does not need us anymore she has already made millions plus who knows how much in dark money at this point she could switch parties to be a liberal conservative and they would give her whatever she wants she would take Democrats with her plus gain the conservative vote she would literally be the Joan of arc to their cause because of what she’s doing

[wnylib]

6. Agree except for the part that says

she could be a liberal conservative. There is nothing liberal about her, besides the fact that liberal conservative is a self-contradicting term.

She is probably not even a true conservative since there aren't any in politics any more. After that handshaking scene tonight, she's part of the Republican cult.

[C Moon]

4. She has Russian billionaire money behind her now. nt

[DFW]

8. "Threaten?" Now there's a useless move if ever there was one.

In what, a strongly worded letter?

Do it, or shut up.

[DLevine]

9. Don't threaten. Just do it. nt