Kyrsten Sinema
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Kyrsten Lea Sinema (born July 12, 1976) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona since 2019.
A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the U.S. Representative from Arizona's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2019.
She previously served in both chambers of the Arizona State Legislature, after election to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2004 and the Arizona Senate in 2010. Sinema began her political career as an activist for the Green Party before joining the Arizona Democratic Party in 2004.
In the 2012 elections she was elected to the United States House of Representatives, becoming the first openly bisexual person and second openly LGBT woman (after Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin) elected to the United States Congress.After her election to Congress, she shifted toward the political center, joining the conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and amassing a center-left to centrist voting record.
Sinema worked for the adoption of the DREAM Act and campaigned against Propositions 107 and 102, two voter referendums to ban the recognition of same-sex marriage and civil unions in Arizona. Sinema won the 2018 United States Senate election in Arizona to replace retiring Senator Jeff Flake, defeating Republican nominee Martha McSally.
The outcome of the election made Sinema the first openly bisexual person and second openly LGBT person (after Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin) elected to the United States Senate as well as the first woman elected to the United States Senate from Arizona.
Sinema is also the first Democrat elected to represent Arizona in the United States Senate since Dennis DeConcini, who held this seat until 1995.
She became Arizona's senior senator immediately upon taking office, making her the most junior senior senator.
Early life and education
Sinema was born in Tucson, Arizona, on July 12, 1976, to Marilyn (Wiley) and Dan Sinema. Sinema has an older brother and younger sister. Her father was an attorney. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and her mother, who had custody of the children, remarried. With her siblings, mother, and stepfather, Sinema moved to DeFuniak Springs, Florida, a small town in the Panhandle.
When her stepfather lost his job and the bank foreclosed on their home, the family lived for three years in an abandoned gas station. Sinema has said that for two years they had no toilet or electricity while living there. She later recalled, "My stepdad built a bunkbed for me and my sister. We separated our bunkbed from the kitchen with one of those big chalkboards on rollers. I knew that was weird. A chalkboard shouldn't be a wall. A kitchen should have running water."
According to journalist Jonathan Martin in The New York Times, Sinema has given "contradictory answers about her early life", and her mother and stepfather have filed court documents saying they had made monthly payments for gas, electricity, and phone bills, even though Sinema had said they had been "without running water or electricity". Asked whether she had embellished details from her childhood, Sinema said, "I've shared what I remember from my childhood. I know what I lived through."
Sinema was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She graduated as valedictorian from Walton High School in DeFuniak Springs at age 16 and earned her B.A. from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1995 at age 18. She left the LDS Church after graduating from BYU. Sinema returned to Arizona in 1995.
While employed as a social worker, Sinema completed a Master of Social Work degree at Arizona State University in 1999. In 2004, she earned a J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law and started working as a criminal defense lawyer. In 2012, she earned a Ph.D. in justice studies, also from Arizona State. She completed a M.B.A.
Personal life
Sinema is bisexual. She has also been reported to be the only non-theist member of Congress, although she has rejected such labels.
Sinema has completed numerous marathons. In 2019, she completed a marathon in 3:28:17, which was fast enough for her age group to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Two weeks before her Boston-qualifying race, she ran a three-mile race in 20:42, setting a record for women in Congress. In 2020, she set a personal record of 3:21:45 and later in 2021, she broke her right foot while running a marathon, requiring her to use a hands-free crutch.
On November 17, 2013, Sinema completed an Ironman Triathlon in a little over 15 hours. She was the second active member of Congress, after Senator Jeff Merkley, to finish a long-distance triathlon, and the first to complete an Ironman-branded race.
On December 25, 2013, Sinema climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Career
Sinema joined Arizona State University School of Social Work and an adjunct business law professor at Arizona Summit Law School in 2003, formerly known as Phoenix School of Law. Sinema began her political career in the Arizona Green Party before joining the Arizona Democratic Party in 2004 and describing herself as a "Prada liberal."
Sinema served on Ralph Nader's presidential campaign in 2000. She ran for local elected offices as an independent in 2001 and 2002, but she failed. A letter from Sinema criticizing capitalism appeared in The Arizona Republic in 2002. "Until the average American understands that capitalism destroys her livelihood while also improving the lives of the wealthy," she wrote. At this time, she opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. She protested Joe Lieberman's loss of his 2004 presidential bid in Hartford, Connecticut, saying, "He's a shame to Democrats." I'm not even sure why he's running. He seems to be trying to get Republicans to vote for him, so what kind of tactic is that?
Sinema, the Green Party's local spokesperson, was instrumental in repealing the death penalty and organising anti-war demonstrations. By the time the Iraq War began, she had organized 15 antiwar rallies. She has also condemned the war in Afghanistan. A group led by Sinema also carried flyers portrayed a US service member as a skeleton "inflicting the 'U.S.' during a protest in Phoenix on February 15, 2003. There is terror in Iraq and the Middle East," Hammurabi says.
President Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, according to Sinema, were "the authentic Saddam and Osama supporters" in a 2003 opinion piece. Sinema replied "Yes... if asked on a local radio show whether she would oppose someone joining the Taliban and fighting on behalf of the group." I don't care if you want to do that, go ahead." Sinema co-hosted a radio show with Jeff Farias, a 9/11 truther, in 2005 and 2006.
