Today I sent the following text in an email to Krysten Sinema via her official website:
The fact that you apparently put more stock in a arcane Senate procedure which was most famously used to try to prevent civil rights legislation back in the 1960’s than the safeguarding our democracy by assuring that every qualified American has an opportunity to vote is exceedingly troublesome.
Moreover, your reluctance to put aside the Senate filibuster rule in order to pass voting rights legislation was bad enough, However making a definitive statement of opposition on the floor of the Senate right before President Biden was scheduled to meet with Senate Democrats on the issue was the last straw for me .
Joe Manchin may be the only Democrats capable of being elected to statewide office in West Virginia, but you don’t have that luxury in Arizona.
Unless you change your stance on this issue, I vow here now to support one of your opponents financially in your 2024 Democratic primary, and I can assure you that I have the means to do so in a meaningful way. In addition, I have a rather large presence on social media and I will do my best to persuade my Democratic friends to do the same.
Frankly that shouldn’t be a difficult task. The sentiment of my 3,500+ Facebook friends is currently running strongly against you and Manchin as of late for obvious reasons. Many of those Democrats also have huge social media footprints so it shouldn’t be difficult to organize a nationwide effort to oppose your ability to resent the Democratic Party in Arizona’s 2024 senatorial election and to contribute to your primary opponent.
Your popularity among Arizona Democrats is waning. A recent poll by the Phoenix-based OH Predictive Insights found that 72% of Arizona Democratic voters want a Democrat other than you as their U.S. Senator. No amount of donations from special interests to your campaign fund is going to help you overcome those odds.
You are acting as if you plan to retire from the Senate after your current term. Whether or not that is the case, if you continue down your current course, I plan to try to insure that is your fate regardless unless you quickly revise your thinking. And I can assure there are many other Democrats across this nation who will have similar intentions.
Cajun 1/15/2022