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The Hartmann Report

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF KYRSTEN SINEMA

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Senior Reporter at Mother Jones, Tim Murphy reports on the little known metamorphosis of Senator Kyrsten Sinema.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:18.4

So there is a real deep dive into Kirsten cinema.

0:22.8

The title of Metamorphosis of Kirsten cinema from radical activist to senate obstructionist

0:28.1

over at MotherJones.com.

0:30.0

It's written by Tim Murphy, his Twitter handle Timothy at Timothy Murphy or at MotherJones

0:34.9

and of course MotherJones.com, the website.

0:36.6

He's a senior reporter for MotherJones and he's on the line with us right now.

0:40.0

Tim, welcome to the program.

0:41.7

I'm not sure where to begin on this thing but I suppose we should start at the beginning.

0:45.9

Kirsten cinema seems to have had kind of a rough life.

0:50.1

My sense of what's going on is that she's trying to be John McCain.

0:55.2

He's trying to be that mavericky person and a democratic side but it isn't quite working

1:00.8

out for her.

1:01.8

But what's going on with Kirsten cinema?

1:04.3

Yeah, you mentioned John McCain.

1:06.2

I think that is a comparison that's made by both a lot of her defenders in Arizona and

1:11.3

both a lot of her biggest critics.

1:13.4

She started off in all just in Phoenix in their city county as the left to the left.

1:20.5

She was outside the democratic party.

1:22.1

She's great.

1:23.1

She ran for offices.

1:24.1

I remember the green party and it was the state green party spokeswoman.

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