The LGBTQ community is heralding the election of the first bisexual Senate nominee, Democratic Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who will face off with Rep. Martha McSally in the fall election.
“Arizona voters shattered a lavender ceiling in selecting Kyrsten Sinema as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate,” said the LGBTQ Victory Fund.
The Washington Blade, the newspaper voice of the LGBTQ community, said after her election Tuesday that Sinema “achieved a significant victory on Tuesday in the Arizona primary when she became the first openly bisexual person to win a major party nomination to run for a U.S. Senate seat.”
The Human Rights Campaign noted that the lawmaker is the co-chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus in Congress and has led on LGBT issues.
"HRC proudly supports pro-equality champion Rep. Kyrsten Sinema -- a strong, effective leader who puts solutions first and fights to ensure every Arizonan has a shot at the American Dream,” said HRC Arizona State Director Justin Unga.
In an interview with the Advocate this year, Sinema said that having faced bullying for her sexuality as a child made her a better leader.
“Growing up LGBT is often to be tried by fire and to wrestle with the fundamental question of who you are,” she told the magazine. “Virtually all of us have faced bullying, discrimination, exclusion, or worse. When you grow up like this, working to find common ground with people you sometimes disagree with is all you’ve ever known. That’s why LGBT leaders are some of the hardest-working, most effective leaders you’ll find,” she added.
The LGBTQ Victory Fund suggested in its statement that it will make sexuality an issue in the campaign. It called McSally, a retired Air Force pilot, “anti-LGBTQ.”
McSally is also a trail blazer. She was the first woman to command an Air Force fighter squadron and successfully sued the Pentagon to end a policy requiring servicewomen in Saudi Arabia to wear a body-covering abaya off base.
The LGBTQ Victory Fund said in its statement, “An LGBTQ Senate candidate taking down an anti-LGBTQ opponent in a red state will be a defining moment in this year’s rainbow political wave – and will further the evolution in how Americans view LGBTQ people and candidates.”
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
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"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
So in the past, we've been told we had to vote for someone because of their skin color. THEN we were told we had to vote for someone because they were a woman. So what you're telling me NOW is that we have to vote for someone because they either like or dislike sausage or front holes? OK...Got it! [Making mental note..."has nothing whatsoever to do with the issues."]
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
Sad to say but Sinema is going to be a strong candidate and it will be a close race. Sinema is trying to brand herself as a moderate, friendly to the military and veteran's issues. Some of her past actions and statements should come back to bite her in the ass but she has the media working on her side.
My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball.
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"The LGBTQ community is heralding the election of the first bisexual Senate nominee, Democratic Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who will face off with Rep. Martha McSally in the fall election."
Or perhaps face ON
"No matter where you go - there you are"
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So what? Extra normal sexuality isn't new anymore. It's not brave anymore. There's no risk anymore. In fact, it's barely extra-normal now. It's more risky to come out as a straight white conservative male Trump supporter. Just tell us where you are on the issues.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
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