Sen. Kyrsten Sinema complains criticism of her vote against $15 minimum wage hike is sexist Salon 3/6/2021 Kyrsten Sinema Votes No on $15 minimum wage C-SPAN
On Thursday, after a month-long Democratic-backed effort to put a $15 minimum wage mandate into the latest COVID relief bill, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. –– and several others in the Democratic caucus –– killed the effort on the Senate floor, deciding in a 58-42 vote that the minimum wage provision should not be included.
Sinema, brought with her big chocolate cake into the Senate chamber, where, with a pep in her step and a Lululemon bag on her shoulder, she struck a pose and voted against the wage hike.
Kyrsten Sinema s Team Suggests Criticism of Her Thumbs-Down No Vote Is Sexist
On 3/6/21 at 6:04 AM EST
A spokesperson for Senator Kyrsten Sinema has suggested that the lawmaker s gender was why she had been criticized for the thumbs-down gesture she used when rejecting her party s provision to raise the minimum wage.
The Arizona senator raised eyebrows and sparked comment on social media for the manner in which she voted with Republicans and seven of her fellow Democrats in voting against an amendment to the American Rescue Plan that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Did Sinema really have vote against a $15 minimum wage for 24 million people like this? tweeted Sawyer Hackett, an advisor to former housing secretary Julian Castro,