Why am I not surprised? Sinema ends up in a trumpy corporate gig lower than we even thought possible

I'd rather post a photo of Arizona's current Senator--someone who's there for us, not himself.

Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, once a proud Progressive and my state legislator, continued along her ego-driven road from Green Party to corporate hell last night in Chandler, Arizona, a Phoenix suburb. As the city considers whether to permit a huge 420,000 square-foot, energy-sucking AI data center, Sinema showed up to tell the planning and zoning commission that she’s working “hand in glove” with the Trump administration, and if the city doesn’t allow the facility, the Trump regime will build it in their community like it or not. Here’s NBC reporter Brahm Resnik’s one-minute post from her testimony.

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13. pic.twitter.com/KulHg594gj

— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) October 24, 2025

Rep. Ro Khanna said Sinema’s rapid journey from the U.S. Senate to lobbying for AI tech overlords is the perfect example of why “we need a lifetime ban on members of Congress lobbying.” Less than a year out of office, Sinema joined the lobbying firm Hogan Lovells and purchased a $2 million home in tony Cave Creek. Technically she’s subject to a two-year wait period before she can lobby but she can advise. So, Chandler, consider her threats and bullying “advice.”

If Sinema had appeared in Chandler last night to support food banks, LGBTQ protections, immigrant rights, or the environment, as she once did when she served in the Arizona legislature, her former voters and supporters might applaud the transition. No, she didn’t do that. 

Instead, she’s invoking Trump policy to strong-arm communities to accept data centers that raise household energy prices dramatically and threaten local water supplies, already a scarce resource here. Serving the billionaire tech donors to Trump who’re directing him on AI is, writes reporter Nathan Newman, “about as low as it goes.”

Give her time, she’ll go lower. Expect to see her in a flashy outfit yucking it up with plutocrats in trump’s ballroom. I haven’t agreed with all of his decisions, but Arizona is so fortunate that Ruben Gallego occupies the Senate seat Sinema tarnished. Especially now, with democracy under attack.