Michelangelo Signorile: How Sinema became a dangerous force in American politics
Kyrsten Sinema, currently the Arizona Democratic senator who is blocking a vote to pass voting rights legislation and save American democracy, came out as bisexual on the floor of the Arizona legislature in 2005, when she was an Arizona Democratic House member.
It was a time of intensive battles over LGBTQ rights and marriage amendments — and it immediately gained Sinema national recognition and support, as well as endorsements and money from state and national LGBTQ rights group.
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To the contrary, she bizarrely told me that she couldn’t “remember” her coming out when I interviewed her seven years after she announced she was bisexual, in 2012 on my SiriusXM program, when she was striking a decidedly different political pose.
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This was perhaps the first warning sign that Sinema’s ambitions were exceedingly dangerous, that she was willing to go much further than other politicians who feel they need to sometimes play down past actions. She was ready to jettison it all, and, in a methodical, robotic fashion, morph into something else with ease.
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That Sinema called the late great John Lewis a “hero” while she won’t let the voting rights bill named after the civil rights leader be voted into law is a slap in the face to millions of African-Americans. Sinema has been courting billionaire donors and attending fundraisers, taking money from pharmaceutical companies and just checking out entirely, while the rest of the party is working hard to save this nation from authoritarianism as Donald Trump promotes the Big Lie and Republicans are passing laws to rig elections.
https://signorile.substack.com/p/how-sinema-became-a-dangerous-force
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