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Protestors’ harassment giving Sinema an education BY J.D. HAYWORTH Foothills Focus Columnist
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ast week, this column chronicled a curious confrontation on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University, involving harassment of two white students by Black students affiliated with the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition. Observers may be forgiven if they now choose to designate ASU as a “confrontation center,” especially upon hearing the news of another display of intrusion and incivility at the downtown campus involving Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. She was followed into a restroom at University Center by a group of activists affiliated with Living United for Change in Arizona
(LUCHA) Oct. 3. Not content with merely confronting Sinema, LUCHA members recorded the interaction for social media. The twittersphere has been chirping since LUCHA Arizona posted the “production.” It opens with Sinema telling her class, “I’ll be back,” then walking out of the room and right into the group of LUCHA agitators. The word “lucha” means “fight” in Spanish, but Sinema appears to be intent on answering nature’s call, instead of in a “fight or flight” mode. The activists were just as intent on confrontation and follow Sen. Sinema into the restroom, with one female protestor walking right up to the door of the stall that the officeholder enters. That protes-
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tor, who subsequently identified herself as Sophia Marjanovic, is seen facing the closed stall, insisting that “we need solutions, [like] the ‘Build Back Better’ plan.” The $3.5 billion monstrosity of a bill called “Build Back Better,” which Sinema opposes, includes (surprise!) a provision for mass amnesty. That prompts a protestor, a self-admitted illegal immigrant and the young lady known only as Blanca to warn Sen. Sinema: “We got you elected, and…we can get you out of office if you don’t support what you promised us.” Though Blanca cites possible political consequences for Sinema, and complains about the deportation of her grandpar-
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