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Montini: The highest (low) profile Arizona Democrat - who wins
She’s a Democrat who didn’t trash Donald Trump and who didn’t cheerlead for Hillary Clinton. This perhaps makes her the politician you want all politicians to be, independent, open to working with anyone. Or perhaps it makes her a lousy team player looking out for herself.
Those are only opinions. The facts are:
First, she runs for Congress in what has been a contested district.
Second, she wins.
In that sense, her enigmatic approach to elected office makes Rep. Kyrsten Sinema the highest (and lowest) profile Democrat in Arizona.
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Last week, I asked her how that works?
Just say no to partisanship
“One of the things that makes me different than some other people is that I’ve just said no to this whole partisan politics gig,” Sinema told me. “I’m just not going to do it. It was the ugliest political year of my lifetime. It was petty and it was personal and it was debasing and demeaning – to voters – and I just said no. I’m not going to play the game you guys are playing.”
What about attacking Trump? What about fighting for Clinton?
“I made the decision early on in the presidential election that I was not going to engage in any of that back and fort
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EJ MONTINI- Many years ago, while attending college back East, I knew a female student – smart, attractive and worldly – who volunteered at what she called the “women’s center.”
I had a car on campus, an old Chevy Nova, and had told the young woman if she ever needed a favor that required transportation to let me know.
One day she asked if I’d be willing to drive her and a client to one of the state's big cities for an appointment at a clinic.
It would be a long drive, but I agreed.
Even now, lawmakers want to punish women
She and the other young woman sat together in the backseat, which seemed odd to me. I turned the radio on as we were leaving campus and the woman I knew asked me to turn it off. During the drive, by way of whispered conversation and muffled sobs I figured out there had been what we’d refer to now as a date rape, and the visit to the clinic in the city was for an abortion.
It was a decision the woman clearly agonized over. One I couldn’t imagine anyone judging her for. One I couldn’t imagine anyone making for her.
And yet, in the decades since then, that is exactly what politicians and special interest groups have tried to do, again and again, in states all over the country, as they are trying to do, again, at the Arizona Legislature. This time ar
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Montini: Three geezerhood later, a veteran on level pegging can't fasten his wife's grave
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