Just ask Senator Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat elected last November to fill the open seat vacated by retiring Republican Jeff Flake.
Late last week, news broke that the progressive caucus of Arizona's Democratic party was mulling plans to formally censure Sinema for "Failing to uphold tenets of [the] Democratic party platform."
Dan O'Neal, Arizona state coordinator for Progressive Democrats of America, told ABC 15 Arizona that the progressive caucus is "Very concerned" with Sinema's voting record in Congress.
The anti-Sinema resolution that the Arizona progressive caucus floated took particular issue with her votes in favor of two Trump nominees: William Barr to serve as attorney general and David Bernhardt to serve as secretary of the interior.
If the party hopes to gain ground in red and purple spots on the map next election cycle, as it did in last year's midterms, it would do well to embrace candidates such as Sinema and reject efforts to push all of its politicians into one progressive mold - especially when that mold is defined solely by constant and mindless opposition to Trump.
In part because she shifted markedly and skillfully to the center as she rose from the state legislature to the House, Sinema became the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Arizona in more than three decades, narrowly defeating Republican congresswoman Martha McSally by a little more than two points in last November's midterms.
Sinema's victory over McSally was heartening for Democrats, who would very much like to turn Arizona purple and then, just maybe, blue, overcoming its long history of support for Republicans.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/kyrsten-sinema-escapes-progressive-censure/
Late last week, news broke that the progressive caucus of Arizona's Democratic party was mulling plans to formally censure Sinema for "Failing to uphold tenets of [the] Democratic party platform."
Dan O'Neal, Arizona state coordinator for Progressive Democrats of America, told ABC 15 Arizona that the progressive caucus is "Very concerned" with Sinema's voting record in Congress.
The anti-Sinema resolution that the Arizona progressive caucus floated took particular issue with her votes in favor of two Trump nominees: William Barr to serve as attorney general and David Bernhardt to serve as secretary of the interior.
If the party hopes to gain ground in red and purple spots on the map next election cycle, as it did in last year's midterms, it would do well to embrace candidates such as Sinema and reject efforts to push all of its politicians into one progressive mold - especially when that mold is defined solely by constant and mindless opposition to Trump.
In part because she shifted markedly and skillfully to the center as she rose from the state legislature to the House, Sinema became the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Arizona in more than three decades, narrowly defeating Republican congresswoman Martha McSally by a little more than two points in last November's midterms.
Sinema's victory over McSally was heartening for Democrats, who would very much like to turn Arizona purple and then, just maybe, blue, overcoming its long history of support for Republicans.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/kyrsten-sinema-escapes-progressive-censure/
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