One group criticized the Democratic senator from Arizona as 'the white moderate MLK warned us about.'
Andrea GermanosSen. Kyrsten Sinema set off a flurry of furious condemnation Monday with a tweet to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day just days after she helped sink Democratic Party hopes to pass voting rights legislation.
The tweet by the corporate Democrat from Arizona, stating that"today we remember the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," came as progressive lawmakersSinema, along with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have faced sustained rebuke over their to reforming the Senate filibuster in order to pass the most significant voting rights legislation since the Civil Rights Era.with archival video footage of the assassinated civil rights leader denouncing the filibuster.
"I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting," King said at a July 5, 1963 press conference.in a tweet Friday by Bernice King, MLK's daughter, in which she tagged Sinema as well as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell .
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