Protesters Follow Sinema into Bathroom of Arizona State University
“We knocked on doors for you to get elected. And just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don’t support what you promised us,” a protester warns
Sen Kyrsten Sinema is finding that Democrats back home in Arizona — the very people who helped elect her to the Senate in the first place — are increasingly looking to hold the freshman senator's feet to the fire as a result of her persistent opposition to President Biden's agenda.
And angry Arizonans literally are giving Sinema nowhere to hide, as a group of fearless protesters followed their senior senator into the restroom at Arizona State University so as to give her a piece of their minds.
Along with Sen Joe Manchin, Sinema has been one of the most consistent opponents of Biden's domestic agenda since he took office in January.
However, where Manchin at least has the excuse that he hails from the deep red state of West Virginia, Arizona is far from.
Arizona not only elected its second Democratic senator just last year in Mark Kelly, but Biden carried the state in the presidential election.
Democrats — and Arizonans of all stripes — simply have begun calling “shenanigans” on Sinema and the way that she has turned her back on representing her constituents’ interests.
Arizona Democrats specifically recently voted to warn Sinema to begin backing the Democratic agenda — including filibuster reform — or face the wrath of the party in her next election, set for 2024.
And now they are fed up enough with her to trail her into a public toilet for the chance to confront her.
The encounter was caught on video and the group that the protesters were from — LUCHA — released the video on social media.
“We knocked on doors for you to get elected. And just how we got you elected, we can get you out of office if you don’t support what you promised us,” one protester complained.
“My name is Blanca. I was brought into the United States when I was 3 years old. And in 2010, my grandparents both got deported because of SB 1070,” she added, referring to the strict “Show Your Papers” anti-immigration law Arizona's legislature approved more than a decade ago but ultimately was partially struck down by the US Supreme Court. “And I'm here because I definitely believe that we need this pathway to citizenship. My grandfather passed away two weeks ago and I was not able to go to Mexico and visit him because there is no pathway to citizenship.
“And if we have the opportunity to pass it right now, then we need to do it because there's millions of undocumented people just like me, who share the same story or even worse things that happen to them because of SB 1070 and because of anti-immigrant legislation,” the protester who identified herself as Bianca, continued, even as Sinema ducked behind a ladies room stall. “This is the opportunity to pass it right now and we need you to — we need to hold you accountable to what you told us — what you promised us that you were going to pass when we knocked on doors for you. It's not right.”
Another protester jumped in with, “"I'm a survivor — I'm a survivor of human trafficking, and it's because of the lack of worker protections that we don't have the gig economy. I need you to stand by workers, lots of people who are like me, became homeless...” trailing off as the encounter came to an end.
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