Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced today that she will not be running for reelection. In her statement she focused on a kind of moderate politics that she says is just not what voters are interested in right now. Rather than fight the tide, she has decided to bow out.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said on Tuesday that she would not seek re-election, ending more than a year of speculation about her political future and clearing the race for a traditional matchup between the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees.
“Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year,” she said in a video announcement.
Sinema has had a wild ride. She started out as an anti-war activist opposing George W. Bush as a member of the Green party.
When George W. Bush was elected president, Sinema quickly began to make a…
