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The Washington Post ?@washingtonpostFor 2 years, the girl and her family lived in an empty gas station. No power, no water. Today, she joins Congress. http://wapo.st/ZYD72A
(Fresh'wo'man) Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is a bracingly unfiltered talker, a precocious achiever, a high-energy persuader, an adjunct professor, a lawyer, a marathon runner, a lover of designer clothes. She is a holder of many, many degrees this shes happy to tell you in a humble-braggy sort of way. And she can be a lot of fun to hang out with, a rambling, kind of kooky monologist who can pivot from whimsical and wacky to substantive and earnest without a pause.
Krysten Sinema is also and it irks her to no end that this is such an object of fascination an openly bisexual woman. And not just any openly bisexual woman, but the first openly bisexual person to be elected to Congress, an undoubtedly historic figure whose very presence on Capitol Hill could serve as an inspiration when she is sworn in Thursday and joins six openly gay and lesbian members in the most demographically diverse Congress in U.S. history.
In an era when gay men and lesbians getting elected to public office is trending from oh, wow to almost ho-hum, its a real bummer for this 36-year-old Arizona Democrat that news reports around the world have distilled her to a single distinguishing characteristic based on her sexual orientation (although Sinema has been open about her sexuality for years and welcomed the endorsement and financial support of gay rights groups). And when Sinema is bothered, she isnt that fun-loving, self-deprecating, laugh riot with the quirky ways. She can turn lecturing, hectoring, defensive, accusatory, pouty and curiously repetitive. Even a softball question about how her sexual orientation has informed her thinking about public policy she was, after all, the architect of a successful campaign to block a same-sex marriage ban in Arizona peeves her.
I dont have a story to tell, she snaps. I dont think this is relevant or significant. Im confused when these questions come up . . .
read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kyrsten-sinema-a-success-story-like-nobody-elses/2013/01/02/d31fadaa-5382-11e2-a613-ec8d394535c6_print.html
drmeow
(5,025 posts)there was no hope for my state - we elected Kyrsten (my district, too)! I love it!
Then I look at Jan Brewer and John McCain and Joe Arpaio and ... well, the list goes on ... and on ... and on ... and I hate it!
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)Keep her.
Investigate cloning if things go well for her in the first term.
drmeow
(5,025 posts)vote for her in the primary because I honestly was afraid she was too liberal to win! Since it was a new district which included parts of very conservative Mesa and since the previous Dem in the old district had been ousted by a teabagger nightmare (who fortunately ran in a different district this time), I thought it was going to be a tough fight for any Dem. Even when she won the primary I was still very concerned. I could not have been happier which I learned she had won. Both campaigns were quite nasty from what I saw of the print and on-line ads.
Milliesmom
(493 posts)Rep. Kyrsten Sinema
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(10,597 posts)...ONLY IN AMERICA! Congratulations to Representative Krysten Sinema! (D-Arizona)
Yeah, if a reporter asked me a question like that, I would have to bite my lip,
because my first inclination would be to say "Fuck off!" Go Miss pretty Krysten!