In her first year in office, she thinks of herself as a bomb thrower who's just not getting anything done. And that kind of causes her to do some soul searching about what she's in politics for. What did she find? She found an outlet. A group called arizona together was formed to combat a same sex marriage band that was going to be on the ballot in two thousand and six. Cinema zeroed in on the fact that what this referendum was really going to do was changed the state's domestic partnership law - which is filled with retirees.
Tim Murphy from Mother Jones explains how Sen. Kyrsten Sinema went from a left-wing activist to a Biden obstructionist.
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