Senator Kyrsten Sinema has been censured by the Arizona Democratic party over her opposition to change or eliminate the Senate's filibuster rule. There was a recent attempt to change the filibuster rule in an effort to get a voting rights bill passed.
The decision, according to a statement, was made during an executive board meeting on the morning of Jan. 22, and came after state committee members passed a resolution in Fall 2021 that outlined potential actions to be taken by the party should Sen. Sinema "choose to protect the filibuster and obstruct voting rights legislation."
Sen. Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors, after playing a key role in scuttling voting rights legislation that many Democrats consider essential to preserving democracy. "We are quite literally doing everything we physically, possibly can in terms of putting our bodies on the line and trying to plead for this action because the consequences are far worse than starving or going to jail or both," said Shana Gallagher, one of about three dozen young people holding a hunger strike to protest Sinema and Manchin. Gallagher is co-founder of Un-PAC, launched last year to organize young people in favor of passing voting rights legislation.
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