When Is Our Children’s Health More Important Than Politics?
- SOS Arizona Network, October 23, 2021 – AZ Educators Battle Ducey’s Ban on Mask Mandates
Brianna Westbrook (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Arizona House of Representatives to represent District 24. She declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on August 2, 2022.
“Brianna Westbrook isn’t your typical politician. As a child growing up in poverty, her source of food was dumpster diving every day. She witnessed substance abuse and experienced domestic violence. Brianna’s great-grandparents took her in, and she spent two years learning the meaning of hard work on their apple orchard. As a teenager, she graduated from high school with no parental support. As a young parent, Brianna returned to Arizona to be the primary provider for her siblings. For years, she worked blue-collar jobs to keep her family afloat. At 27 years old, Brianna documented her transition story to normalize the experiences of trans women.” 1
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Prior to her Senate run she tweeted, “Asking big corporations & the rich to pay their fair share is common sense, not class warfare.” – Wow! Just another Big Lie. Twitter
“Joe Biden allies ran ads thanking Kyrsten Sinema for fighting for lower drug prices — just before she did the exact opposite by opposing Democrats’ drug pricing plan.” 2
“Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the controversial Arizona Democrat who threatens to derail President Biden’s legislative agenda, received more than $750,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. After that, she announced her opposition to a Democratic plan to lower prescription drug costs.” 3
Kyrsten Sinema has received over $750,000 from Big Pharma. Her office is led by a former lobbyist whose firm worked on behalf of pharmaceutical companies.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 23, 2021
And now she’s trying to tank a bill to lower drug prices.
This is the power of big money, folks.
Here’s @kyrstensinema just 8 months before announcing her senate run. Walk us through what’s changed since then, Kyrsten, other than the amount of donations you’ve pocketed from corporations. pic.twitter.com/a9vkqYDfwC
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈 (@AmoneyResists) September 30, 2021
“The battle over the budget deal is not the first time Sinema has bucked her party since Biden became president. In March, she was one of eight Democrats to vote against a minimum wage increase in the pandemic relief bill and enraged many liberals by doing so with a jaunty thumbs-down. Her office claimed the criticism was sexist, and the following month Sinema posted a photo of herself wearing a ring that said, “F*** off.”” 4
In a recent email from Arizona Democrats they state, “Kari Lake is dangerous, Terry! A far-right, anti-science fanatic, she was a supporter of the dangerous and expensive elections “audit,” and continues to pander to Trump’s far-right base. As if that wasn’t bad enough, she recently called for Arizona’s legislature to pass Texas’ extreme abortion ban!
Kari Lake is looking to do Trump’s bidding, and we won’t allow it. Arizona Democrats are leading the charge against Republican extremists. We will not sit by and watch our democracy succumb to their attacks, but we need you on our side.”
“Kari Lake, a former news anchor who is now the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona governor in 2022, told One America News on Friday that she “would not have certified” the votes had she been governor at the time. She cited debunked lies about “serious irregularities” that were spread by the likes of Rudy Giuliani, whom she noted was in Arizona “at that very moment” of certification. (A New York court suspended Giuliani’s law license this year for making “demonstrably false and misleading statements” about the 2020 election.) Lake previously told the Arizona Republic that Trump was “the real winner of Arizona.” Her latest comments follow the much-hyped and highly dubious “audit” authorized by Arizona’s state senate recently that nonetheless confirmed Biden’s victory in the state.” 5
Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed candidate for Arizona Gov, says she would not have certified Arizona's 2020 election results if she was governor at the time. pic.twitter.com/D3MAULRYB0
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) October 2, 2021