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Feb 1 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW w/ @SollenbergerRC
From 5-star hotels in Europe, first class airfare, and an astounding sum on security, Kyrsten Sinema's campaign spending in the last 6 months has been, as one watchdog said, "nuts"
Quick 🧵with some highlights:
thedailybeast.com/one-clue-that-…
The craziest spending came from Sinema's "Getting Stuff Done" leadership PAC. These PACs usually spread $ to allies
Sinema's spent $10K for stays at luxury hotels in Paris and Madrid
She also reimbursed *Altria* $4K for first-class airfare, likely the use of their private jet
Sep 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Right now, Sen. McConnell is introducing Sen. Sinema ahead of her speech at U of Louisville
Calls her "the most effective first-term senator I've seen in my time in the Senate"
Sinema speaking now about her friendship with McConnell—she says based in “our pragmatic approach to legislating, respect for the Senate, love for our home states, and dogged determination on behalf of our constituents”
Nov 21, 2019 • 22 tweets • 23 min read
Back in here for impeachment hearing day 6.
The only way I know for sure that time has passed is the daily change of the GOP’s “days since Adam Schiff learned the identity of the whistleblower” poster.
In the members' gallery on this last morning of the congressional workweek, just 4 of the House's impeachment diehards:
Welcome to Impeachment Day 3. I’m back in the room this morning and starting the day with a helping of JEFF VAN DREW, courtesy GOP
We're underway here in Longworth 1100.
For the third straight morning, someone on the GOP side of the dais has cracked a can of soda the moment Schiff begins his opening statement.