There are growing signs that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s term in the U.S. Senate is numbered.Her primary challengers, Republican Kari Lake and Democrat
Congressman Ruben Gallego, the fundraising for her is tremendous, and it seems like she has no intention of meeting the deadline for collecting signatures. Her biggest indicator, even more than her apparent reluctance to announce her re-election bid, comes down to her recent spending habits.
Despite raising a paltry $595,000 in the last quarter, the former Green Party activist said he would “watch bureaucrats in Washington use our hard-earned tax dollars for personal gain.” The critic has rapidly spent his campaign money on a lavish lifestyle that includes five-star hotels in Europe. Hotels, luxury vacations to coastal vineyards, and expensive cars.
new york post
report According to Federal Election Commission filings, between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2023, Sinema spent $796,565 on luxury hotels, new cars, concert tickets and security for her adventures. It is said that
Ms. Sinema dropped $77,000 on a new Chevrolet, described on the paperwork as a “van,” but she reportedly had already purchased a $70,000 “security detail vehicle” for herself two years earlier. ” was purchased. Even if she loses her reelection bid or doesn’t even bother to challenge her reelection, she can still keep her vehicle, assuming her vehicle is licensed to her. right.
The newspaper said Cinema also spent more than $3,000 on limousines in London and Paris, ostensibly for personal use.
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shown Cinema says it has spent $210,000 of taxpayer money on private charter air travel since 2020 and ignored his own long-standing criticism of “first class air travel.”
Ms. Sinema stayed at the five-star Le Roque Hotel & Spa in Paris in July and October last year, raising $7,600 in expenses for her personal political action committee, Getting Stuff Done PAC. It is reported that it took. PAC also covered her $2,500 stay in July at Madrid’s Edition Hotel, a “luxury lifestyle urban five-star resort,” the Beast reported.
Sinema’s PAC also paid travel expenses to the senator through various wineries in California and Oregon.
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report Mr. Sinema still has $10.6 million left in his coffers, and some suspect the senator intends to use it as best he can before leaving office.
“Look, I have no first-hand knowledge, but her actions and fundraising alone speak louder than words. This is not a candidate running,” an anonymous Cinema ally told the Examiner. . “I want her to run, and I think the people of Arizona are best represented by her, but this is starting the most politically challenging campaign of your career.” Not the method.”
When I asked her about her fundraising efforts earlier this week, Sinema said
Said Reporter: “We haven’t talked about that at all.”
“Why waste the question on that? Let me be clear to everyone: the question is completely useless. I’m here to talk about the nitty-gritty,” Sinema added. .
FEC rules allow campaigns to finance candidates’ travel if the trip is for campaign or fundraising purposes. The Beast said that in recent years, Cinema has added donor meetings to its personal trips so that they don’t have to open their wallets when attending various marathon and triathlon events. Her recent expenses could be as much or more.
Thomas Jones, president of the American Accountability Foundation, told the New York Post: “Senator Sinema’s use of campaign funds for what appears to be personal expenditures raises serious ethical questions. “It also raises overall questions about the senator’s judgment.”
“What’s especially disturbing is that even as leftists like Sinema are making Americans less safe by attacking police, the campaign is spending extravagantly on public safety…This is the worst. elitist hypocrisy,” Jones added.
Cinema has not submitted her yet
statement of interest Work with Arizona Secretary of State’s Office to begin gathering information 42,303 signatures She is required to submit by April 8 to appear on the ballot.
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recent polls Sinema was trailing Lake and Gallego by more than 25 points.
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