Why am I not surprised? Krysten Sinema joins advisory board for crypto giant
Years ago she was our neighbor and state legislator. Kyrsten Sinema owned one of the first hybrid cars I ever saw, that early Honda Insight that looked like a wedge, and we’d see her tooling around the neighborhood in it. She always waved, she was nice. I gave her money and my vote every election because she took on the racists like Sheriff Joe Arpaio. She didn’t make it a secret that she was bisexual in conservative Arizona, and she stood up to the homophobes. Yea Krysten!
Then she was elected to Congress in 2012, which we were very happy about because we needed her young, strong progressive voice in DC. Except something happened somewhere along the way when she went from Phoenix to Washington, and then from the House to Senate in 2018. That something was an out-of-control ego that lusted for attention and power.
It’s a shame, really. Sinema was young when she was elected to the US Senate, only 42, and she could’ve stayed there for years building a strong base while serving the people who elected her: women, the LGBTQ community, veterans, Hispanics, environmentalists, healthcare advocates, and the working class. Instead, for headlines she pissed over all of them. I volunteered for a veterans group that was very upset at her policies, which caused some of her own veteran advisors to quit in protest. I sent Sinema a lot of emails, and every time I got back boilerplate BS that never addressed my concerns.
I don’t need to rehash her Senate history here; it’s well known how she and Manchin filibustered some of Biden’s key programs while she made a spectacle of herself. Look at me! By the time Sinema declared herself an Independent, she’d pissed off everyone and her approval rating even among Arizona Democrats had nosedived into the 30s. She realized she could not beat spirited Ruben Gallego in the Senate race so she bailed and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars people had donated to her campaign traveling around the world. We all thought she’d end up in some corporate sewer and indeed that’s the case.
The Democrat-turned-independent is one of four new members to serve on the global advisory council for Coinbase, which operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
You won’t be surprised to learn that Sinema received more than $500,000 from crypto firms and a large donation from Coinbase’s CEO when she served on the Banking and Commerce committees charged with developing regulations for crypto. Fittingly, another new member of the advisory group is Chris LaCivita, Trump’s 2024 co-campaign manager. She’s found her people.
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