What Next: Why I Quit Advising Kyrsten Sinema

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	All right, here we go.
0:53.4	It's funny to make a list of all the places Arizona Senator Kiersten Sinema can't seem
0:59.0	to go these days without running into a constituent, brandishing a smartphone, and a long
1:04.4	list of questions.
1:10.4	Sinema has been pulled aside while rushing past security at Reagan National Airport.
1:22.0	He's been confronted while on a flight, squashed into a seat next to the aisle.
1:31.5	And she's also been approached at Arizona State University.
1:34.8	She teaches a class and social work there.
1:45.5	If you watch enough of these confrontations, you realize there's a pattern.
1:49.8	It doesn't matter what the people who approach Sinema want to talk about, immigration, climate
1:55.7	change, voting rights, the Senator is remarkably consistent.
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