Kyrsten Sinema announces she is retiring from the Senate (www.cnn.com)

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago

death-to-the-poor

[-] pudcollar@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

Time to go private and cash in on her connections.

[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

Wasn't this what we were predicting this ghoul would do the whole time?

[-] ElGosso@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

Damn turns out it's hard to run for Senate when you've alienated your entire voter base and all of your political allies

Who could have possibly predicted this?

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

she's definitely alienated her base enough that she can't get re-elected but if she'd actually alienated her political allies they would have kicked her off committees or even out of the party entirely

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

She left her party willingly so that she could garner support from the other party and the private sector.

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Why bother running again when she's likely got some cushy consulting gigs lined up.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hedge funds will shower her with ill-gotten gains after ~~killing~~ preserving carrying interest loophole in some tax bill, she was literally shopping around what to oppose in that bill and got that