well, not so shocking.....

compared to Trump, Thomas, etc.

She still has some fans here, but she made a big thing of declaring she isn't a Democrat.

I went way out of my comfort zone to knock on Tucson doors, work the phone bank to GOTV for her.
Then she immediately betrayed us all!
"Not in a forgiving mood."

a while ago, we had a state rep who stood in our living room and told us what she wanted to do...then, she switched to R right after she got in.

ETA: But Sinema still has her fans....for whatever reason.

That will protect her against prosecution.

She didn’t run for reelection.

Shocked, I say...

If you are poor and vote Democrat, you will be held to an accounting. There is a different system in place for rich Republicans.

continued to caucus with the Democrats. But she often voted with the Republicans.

For her entire tenure in Congress it was slightly lower at 79.58%. Yes, it was lower than most Democrats (I'm not defending her), but voting with Republicans about 15% of the time didn't make her like Republicans in general.

https://www.progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?x=47&y=2&house=senate&party=&sort=overall-current&order=down

Here are the ideology scores for 2022 -- they don't have anything more recent. She is the most conservative Senator that caucuses with Democrats. She's right there with Murkowski and Collins who are usually the most liberal Republicans. Senator Sanders was the most liberal Senator out of all of them.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2022/senate/ideology

When she was in her last year in the House her ideological score was near McSally's. I supported Deedra Abboud in the primary back in 2018 as I knew Sinema would turn out like this but a lot of establishment Democrats such as Schumer wanted her.

And I disagree it's more accurate. I was looking for what each Senator's voting record was in relationship to Joe Biden's or Democratic leadership's position was on legislation. That is what the link I posted was measuring. This link from 538 measures the same thing.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/ I also found another site a few weeks ago that had slightly different numbers than the ProgressivePunch website, but was similar in overall rating. Unfortunately, I can't find that link again, but I posted this about the data from that link on Dec. 14:

"Hell he's not even close to Jon Tester who voted with Biden less than 75% of the time. (Fetterman voted with Biden 92% of the time, Warren 92.9%, Bernie Sanders only 89.%, Manchin 35.7%)."

Back to the original point. Sinema was terrible but she did not "frequently vote with Republicans". She did more often than most, but not nearly as often as Manchin & Tester. And Collins and Murkowski voted with Biden, far more often than Sinema voted against him.

An example would probably be that hard right border bill sponsored by a Republican that leadership supported because they thought it would help them win an election. Another example off the top of my head would be something relating to Israel that a lot of liberals or progressives may oppose the Biden administration on depending on the policy they're objecting to.

She is easily as conservative as Manchin even though Arizona isn't nearly as red as West Virginia. The ideological scores also predate the Biden administration as she is reliably the most conservative Democrat if not the most. It is also easy to see that Bernie Sanders would be the most liberal even though he may disagree with Biden on important issues.

Neither mentioned anything about progressive or conservative. I don't give a damn about that in this context. The original post said she voted like a Republican and I proved that assertion was wrong. You're arguing against a point I never even tried to make.

She shows up when Republicans start appearing on the list. The data is based on several factors including voting but it doesn't take account the full picture but the GovTrack scores don't surprise when determining who is conservative or liberal.

Either way good riddance to Sinema.

Edit: Your link was from ProgressivePunch that does rankings based on who they believe is more progressive.

Sinema and Manchin were dependable obstructionist votes to derail every legislative initiative in the senate.

in that she was in it for the show.... remember the (McCain) copy cat move. That was absolutely for show.

Another similarity to Republicans; She is in it for the money...

She is accused of using campaign funds on non campaign related expenses.

they will have to nail the greatest grifter of all time.........

Donors could sue her for their money back, I suppose, but they gave it willingly.

oh yeah

I mean, is there some dispute as to whether the lower Central Valley actually exists or that they grow grapes there or something? True it's not exactly the Mediterranean coast but they do have lots of vintners there who will happily give you samples to brag on their wares, which is as good a reason to leave Los Angeles as any.

That's definitely California wine country, no quotes required.

but now I'm curious about which winery is mentioned.
lol.

I live here too and I would call Sonoma and Napa counties our wine country

Definitely weird use of quote marks all over this “article”

thanks for the laugh!

You hang around rich people long enough and you think you should live like they do. You have an expense account…..

Yet she keeps on keeping on. So sickening.

She's forced to pay it all back at the very least.

While she initially represented as a Democrat she never really caucused with the Democrats. But she always exhibited plainly corrupt behavior.

In this particular case she was clearly primed for corruption. I mean what’s not to like about free money?

At this point, there aren’t a lot of serious controls on how the free money is used.

If not for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington she would have gotten away with this (and very likely still might get away with it).

We have a serious problem with our system now. It starts with the Supreme Court legalizing bribery.

Stealthily faithful but faithful nonetheless ….

Years ago.

to the bribing class. How much has she concealed in offshore money laundries?

A grifter from the get go.

anything beyond some fines happen if even that. Meanwhile DOJ spent millions and spared nothing in order to nail that desperado Hunter Biden for telling a lie about his drug use on a gun purchase form and for having back taxes despite them being paid when assessed.

I mean after all DOJ resources are limited and we have to prioritize the efforts.

What a creep.

I sincerely hope that her illegal activity comes with more penalties than 'you shouldn't have done that'.

Self serving scumbag.