Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema: Senate Hopeful
Kyrsten Lea Sinema (Sinema) was born on July 12, 1976, in Tucson, Arizona, US.
Sinema knows firsthand the challenges everyday Arizonans face. Born in Tucson, Sinema went through some tough times growing up. Her family struggled to make ends meet, and for a while, they were even homeless. But they got by thanks to family, church, and hard work.
Sinema graduated as valedictorian from Walton High School at age 16 and went on to earn her B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1995 at age 18. Sinema received her Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University in 1999. In 2004, she earned a J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law. In 2012, she earned a PhD degree in Justice Studies, also from Arizona State.
Sinema first ran for the Arizona House of Representatives in 2002, as an independent affiliated with the Arizona Green Party. She finished in the last place in a five-candidate field, receiving 8% of the vote.
In 2004, Sinema won the Democratic primary for Arizona's 15th district, with 37% of the vote. David Lujan also won the election with 34% (there are two seats in each district). Sinema was subsequently reelected three times with over 30% of the vote. In 2009 and 2010, Sinema was an Assistant Minority Leader for the Democratic Caucus of the Arizona House of Representatives.
In 2010, Sinema was elected to the Arizona Senate, defeating Republican Bob Thomas, 63% to 37%.
In 2012, she was elected to the US House of representatives from Arizona's 9th congressional district. She was re-elected from the same district in 2014 and 2016.
In 2018, she ran the most contested senate race in Arizona which was vacated by Jeff Flake. As of November 9, 2018, the result was not declared. She was leading the race by a thin margin against Republican Martha McSally.
So Sinema went back to school and started working at the grassroots level to help people access our leaders and talk about their needs. She helped them argue for better schools and fought to ensure that the services we fund were actually helping the people who need and deserve them. Her feeling was that if she could help these struggling people change the circumstances in which they live, instead of just giving them a food box and trying to help them find a place to sleep for a night, that she had done her job.
Because she believes that everyone should get the same shot and that the system should not favour those at the very top, she ran for the legislature and won."
Sinema knows firsthand the challenges everyday Arizonans face. Born in Tucson, Sinema went through some tough times growing up. Her family struggled to make ends meet, and for a while, they were even homeless. But they got by thanks to family, church, and hard work.
Sinema graduated as valedictorian from Walton High School at age 16 and went on to earn her B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1995 at age 18. Sinema received her Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University in 1999. In 2004, she earned a J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law. In 2012, she earned a PhD degree in Justice Studies, also from Arizona State.
Sinema first ran for the Arizona House of Representatives in 2002, as an independent affiliated with the Arizona Green Party. She finished in the last place in a five-candidate field, receiving 8% of the vote.
In 2004, Sinema won the Democratic primary for Arizona's 15th district, with 37% of the vote. David Lujan also won the election with 34% (there are two seats in each district). Sinema was subsequently reelected three times with over 30% of the vote. In 2009 and 2010, Sinema was an Assistant Minority Leader for the Democratic Caucus of the Arizona House of Representatives.
In 2010, Sinema was elected to the Arizona Senate, defeating Republican Bob Thomas, 63% to 37%.
In 2012, she was elected to the US House of representatives from Arizona's 9th congressional district. She was re-elected from the same district in 2014 and 2016.
In 2018, she ran the most contested senate race in Arizona which was vacated by Jeff Flake. As of November 9, 2018, the result was not declared. She was leading the race by a thin margin against Republican Martha McSally.
From Her Page in US House Website:
"After college, Sinema became a social worker helping struggling families. She soon realized that the problems they came to her with – poverty, homelessness, job loss, abuse – were common to so many families and that solving these problems meant thinking bigger than one family at a time. It required fighting for real change to rebuild an America that works for ALL Americans.So Sinema went back to school and started working at the grassroots level to help people access our leaders and talk about their needs. She helped them argue for better schools and fought to ensure that the services we fund were actually helping the people who need and deserve them. Her feeling was that if she could help these struggling people change the circumstances in which they live, instead of just giving them a food box and trying to help them find a place to sleep for a night, that she had done her job.
Because she believes that everyone should get the same shot and that the system should not favour those at the very top, she ran for the legislature and won."
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