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A clue that Sinema may not be running again [1]

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Date: 2024-02-19  

Haven’t seen any DK coverage on this Feb 1st Daily Beast story by Sam Brodey and Roger Sollenberger, and wanted to make sure to call attention to it. Well worth clicking on the link and reading in its entirety. Sinema’s spending patterns lately have been decidedly odd for someone who plans to run for reelection. LOTS of luxury travel, which she publicly deplored when running for office in 2018. “Mind-boggling” spending by both herself and her Getting Stuff Done leadership PAC on security, adding up to $105K/month, most of it on buddy Vrindivan Bellord, the sister of her former colleague Tulsi Gabbard.

She has spent very little on advertising, and took in less money in the fourth quarter of 2023 than her fellow Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, who is not running again till 2028. “Leadership PACs are generally for spreading cash around to allied politicians, party organizations, or other political causes”, says the article, but her PAC is running badly in the red and has spent only $25K or about 2.25% of last year’s revenues on other candidates. She still hasn’t officially declared and only has till April 8th to file. Maybe this means we’ll get lucky and it will be a two-way race between Ruben Gallego and notorious 2020/2022 election denier Kari Lake. If so, I’d give Gallego good odds.

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