Independent senator Kyrsten Sinema will not seek re-election in Arizona

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Admin

Sinema won in 2018 as a Democrat and was first non-Republican to win a Senate seat for Arizona since 1994

Kyrsten Sinema, the former Democrat from Arizona who is an independent in the US Senate, said on Tuesday she would not run for re-election this year.

“I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we’ve delivered,” Sinema said in a video posted to social media. “Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year.”

Election denier Kari Lake of Arizona to announce run for US Senate seat

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Admin

Failed far-right gubernatorial candidate is also a possible pick for Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election

The far-right Trump supporter Kari Lake still refuses to accept her defeat in the 2022 race for Arizona governor but will nonetheless run for US Senate next year.

“We need to get a senator in there who is going to fight back and put America first,” the Republican told the Wall Street Journal.

Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema vows to never join Republican party

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Admin

The former Democrat says she speaks frequently with White House but ‘rejects party politics’ and stays mum on re-election

US senator Kyrsten Sinema has vowed to never join the Republican party after she changed her party affiliation from Democrat to independent late last year.

In an interview aired on Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, the Arizona senator said that she is “absolutely” done with the country’s two-party political system.

George Santos: puppy theft charge news follows Romney’s ‘sick puppy’ barb

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Admin

Republican at centre of string of scandals was charged in Pennsylvania with theft over purchase of puppies in 2017

The New York Republican congressman George Santos, who is at the centre of a bizarre string of scandals and who the Utah senator Mitt Romney this week called a “sick puppy”, was charged with theft in Pennsylvania in 2017 – over a purchase of “puppies”.

The scandal, reported by Politico, is not Santos’s first involving dogs and his charity, Friends of Pets United. A New Jersey veteran alleges Santos raised money for an operation for his dog, then absconded with the money.