RED ALERT:
Call Krysten Sinema Today, Tomorrow & The Next Day
Call Senator Sinema at 202-224-4521 (Washington DC), 602-598-7327 (Phoenix) and 520-639-7080 (Tucson).
Sample script: Hello, my name is _______ calling from zip code ________ in __________. Senator Sinema works for us, not big corporations. We need the Build Back Better Act, big business must pay its fair share and Senator Sinema has to stop negotiating in bad faith.
What’s going on with Krysten Sinema?
We expect the House to vote on the reconciliation bill this week, at which point it’ll go to the Senate — which means we need to get working now to ensure the entire Democratic caucus in the Senate, including Sinema, is ready to vote YES and enact all its crucial components.
1. Kyrsten Sinema is threatening to vote against the Democratic reconciliation bill, which includes drug pricing and childcare provisions crucial to everyday people, if the House doesn’t pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework first. She says it is too expensive, but she refuses to say how much is acceptable to her.
2. Sinema to hold fundraiser with groups opposed to social spending package. And yesterday, news dropped that the pharmaceutical industry is promoting Sinema in hopes of killing those widely popular drug pricing provisions. Read about it HERE
3. Arizona Democrats are threatening a “no confidence” vote against Sinema if she blocks the bills. Organizers say if Sinema doesn’t vote to end filibuster and back Biden they’ll “replace her with someone who will. Read about it HERE
4. Activists who helped elect Kyrsten Sinema are launching CrowdPAC to fund a primary challenger to Sinema in 2024. The crowdfunding effort comes amid widespread scrutiny of Sinema’s corporate ties. The senator reportedly told colleagues that she would not support a Democratic plan to lower prescription drug costs, even though she campaigned in 2018 on doing just that. Sinema has received more than $750,000 from pharmaceutical and medical firms. She has also balked at the Democratic proposal for tax increases on big corporations and wealthy individuals after taking more than $900,000 from industry groups and companies who are leading a massive lobbying blitz to defeat the bill. Read about it HERE