Kyrsten Sinema Draws Heat From Liberals for Voting Nay on $15 Minimum Wage With a Flippant Thumbs-Down: ‘All a Game’
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted against including a $15-an-hour minimum wage hike to the $1.9 billion Covid-19 relief bill — drawing heat for giving the proposal a flippant thumbs-down.
Sinema also reportedly brought cake to the Senate floor when she voted against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) proposal on Friday– prompting many to compare her to Marie Antoinette.
A spokesperson later claimed Sinema brought the cake for Senate staffers, as they had been working all night.
Following Sinema’s vote, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan posted a 2014 tweet from the senator, in which she urges her followers to “Tell Congress to #RaiseTheWage!”
pic.twitter.com/8JiB4yj8VM https://t.co/ydOW6yqnW9
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 5, 2021
“A full-time minimum-wage earner makes less than $16k a year,” read Sinema’s tweet. “This one’s a no-brainer.”
The symbolic nature of Sinema’s cake, her change of heart regarding a minimum wage increase, and her thumbs-down vote, sparked outrage on Twitter, many calling out the senator for being insensitive towards minimum wage workers.
Whatever one thinks about the $15 min wage being added to this bill, trying to figure out the wisdom of this from a Dem senator. https://t.co/xrXk5DgLjE
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 5, 2021
Too many politicians think this is all a game. https://t.co/eiYAM5rvUx
— Tracey (@traceylross) March 5, 2021
“Let them eat cake” https://t.co/McmMAx3tar
— Tracey (@traceylross) March 5, 2021
She’s decided she’s going to be a media darling as Marie Antoinette of the establishment. Dress in a super fun way, do performatively hip thumbs downs as she votes to kill higher wages & now rub it in with symbolic cake we can all eat instead of higher salaries. #CorporateTool https://t.co/IvbzF7NfOj
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 5, 2021
By doing this & bringing in cake to rub it in as the corporate Marie Antoinette, @KrystenSinema is basically telling working Americans to fuck off on behalf of of her corporate donors. I assure you that feeling is mutual. No one should ever donate a dollar to her or vote for her! https://t.co/A7Ljv3X3au
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 5, 2021
I’m sure this won’t come back haunt the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/xmtNk3cwih
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) March 5, 2021
Between this, carrying a chocolate cake into the Senate today, and posting on Facebook about going to Bora Bora, my senator is having herself a day https://t.co/xeJ3Yxvdzv
— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) March 5, 2021
There’s kind of a Marie Antoinette thing going there…
— David Wilson Brown (@davidwbrown) March 5, 2021
Awww it’s so cute how @SenatorSinema just told minimum wage workers to eat shit. Adorbs!! @kyrstensinema https://t.co/kuNZ6mCsm7
— Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) March 5, 2021
US facing growing historic income inequality crisis, worse since just before the Great Depression. Yet @kyrstensinema does this: https://t.co/dWGRsKKiqe
— Andrea Chalupa ?? (@AndreaChalupa) March 5, 2021
Arizona’s late Senator John McCain gave a thumb’s down on repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017.
Today Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema gave a thumb’s down on a federal minimum wage of $15 an hr.
Hey AZ, I know I don’t have much room to talk but why is your Senator like this? https://t.co/DD3I0NsMJV
— Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) March 5, 2021
Senator Sinema having fun voting against a meager minimum wage hike that would benefit workers, businesses and the economy. pic.twitter.com/AbZCiFPFaF
— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) March 5, 2021
I am insane and zoomed in on another picture of her carrying and in the spirit of Edward R. Murrow-level journalism I’m humbled to announce in a parody of white feminism Krysten Sinema [sic] voted against a $15 living wage while carrying a giant Lululemon bag. pic.twitter.com/BCHVCbpvR2
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) March 5, 2021
This is a real video of an actual senator (Kyrsten Sinema) voting no on a $15 minimum wage pic.twitter.com/ATAqcWmTqs
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 5, 2021
This is as ugly and self-destructive as Ted Cruz fucking off to Cancun as Texans froze. I’ll never stop being amazed at how power makes people stupid. https://t.co/LJ6csLw7xr
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) March 5, 2021
