Over the past weekend, U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, from Arizona, was harassed by students who followed her to bathroom while being recorded. They harassed and intimidated her because she does not support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which is the $3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill. For this bill to pass, it needs 50 democrats in the senate to vote for it, since the senate is currently 50/50 and the Vice President would be the tiebreaker. Sinema and West Virginia senator Joe Manchin are not on board with this reconciliation bill.
After that incident happened, Senator Sinema released a statement today condemning the actions of the students harassing and recording her in a bathroom. If you have to record someone, especially women, and follow them to a bathroom, under the name of protest, that does not make you a protestor. That makes you a pervert. Just because you do not agree with a representative/senator’s stance on certain positions, does not give you the entitlement to torment them, especially when they’re using a washroom. Recording her and other students without consent and even recording in the bathroom is not only wrong, but also illegal. They should be charged and held accountable for their actions. The mob intimidation doesn’t end there.
Today, one of the protestors (or pervert I should say) who harassed her in the bathroom, was also on a flight with her and she harassed her as well. After that, more protestors harassed her at the DCA airport asking her what she would cut from the budget reconciliation bill. Sinema did not answer. Will she ever catch a break from this? Will the constant mob intimidation be enough to change her position on the reconciliation budget bill? Time will tell. And in the past, Congress members who get harassed by protestors because of their position on certain issues, are more likely than not to bend the knee to the rage mob and change their position in the end. And that has been proven in the past.