What Next - Why I Quit Advising Kyrsten Sinema
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
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Summary
Last week, five members of Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s Veterans Advisory Council publicly stepped down. In their resignation letter, they claimed that they were just “window dressing for her image” and called her “one of the principal obstacles to progress.” One of those veterans explains why she finally said enough.
Guest: Sylvia González Andersh, former member of Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s Veterans Advisory Council.
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| 1:05.6 | It's funny to make a list of all the places Arizona Senator Kirsten Cinema can't seem to go these days without running into a constituent, brandishing a smartphone, and a long list of questions. |
| 1:15.3 | Cinema's been pulled aside while rushing past security at Reagan National Airport. |
| 1:18.6 | How many times I think I'm going to go to go back? Sorry about this. |
| 1:19.9 | I think it's part of the course. |
| 1:21.6 | She's been confronted while on a flight squashed into a seat next to the aisle. |
| 1:28.8 | And on a flight, squashed into a seat next to the aisle. Senator, hello, how are you? |
| 1:34.1 | And she's also been approached at Arizona State University. |
| 1:36.7 | She teaches a class in social work there. |
| 1:38.2 | Is that everybody want to talk to you now? |
| 1:40.6 | Hi, actually, I am heading out. If you watch enough of these confrontations, you realize there's a pattern. |
| 1:49.7 | It doesn't matter what the people who approach cinema want to talk about. |
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