Gawker is now threatening one Arizona senior senator as they published an article entitled “We Have Kyrsten Sinema’s Social Security Number.”
Gawker never learn from their previous mistakes after this media outlet went bankrupt for publishing Hulk Hogan’s sex tape.
This time, the Freedom of Information Act was used by Gawker in order to get this information from Senator Kyrsten Sinema. It was in 1990 when Sinema met her ex-husband Blake Dain at Brigham Young University, it was reported that the to got married in 1995 and divorced in 1999, though information on him and their union is so difficult to come by that a 2013 profile of Sinema described her as never having been married.
Gawker noted that there’s nothing much they can do with Sinema’s social security number, noting the illegality:
You can do a lot with a social security number. Unfortunately, if the number in question isn’t yours, most of what you can do with it is a felony. For example, we were hoping to run a credit report on Sinema. But that seems to be illegal if you are not, per Legal Beagle, “a business or individual qualifying a person for a job, insurance, government benefits or tenancy.” (One might argue that any of Sinema’s voting constituents are technically “qualifying [her] for a job,” but none of us is registered to vote in Arizona). We also considered wiring a deposit of $0.69 into her bank account. No theft there. It’s more like a campaign donation and every dollar counts. But the legalities seemed iffy, and none of the lawyers Gawker contacted for comment were interested in indulging our largely stupid game.
In October, progressive activists supportive of Build Back Better followed Sinema into a restroom and filmed her after she entered a stall. President Biden hedged in his response to the incident, admitting that it was “not appropriate” while also calling it “part of the process.”
Besides announcing its possession of Sinema’s social security number, Gawker also listed the communal items shared and split by her and her ex-husband.
The Gawker article concludes with the musing that, “one might hope her familiarity with debt and social-worker salaries might have made her sympathetic to legislation aimed at increasing the federal minimum wage, which has languished at $7.25 since July 24, 2009. It did not, to which we can only say: 👎🏻.”
After Sinema’s refusal to end the filibuster, the Arizona Democratic Party censured her.
Arizona state party chair Raquel Terán denounced Sinema in a statement regarding the censure, saying, “I want to be clear, the Arizona Democratic Party is a diverse coalition with plenty of room for policy disagreements.”
Terán continued:
As a party, our job is to support our Democratic candidates, and we appreciate Senator Sinema’s leadership in passing the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. However, we are also here to advocate for our constituents and the ramifications of failing to pass federal legislation that protects their right to vote are too large and far-reaching. While we take no pleasure in this announcement, the ADP Executive Board has decided to formally censure Senator Sinema as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy.
Sources: Daily Wire, Newser, Gawker, National Review
Yes we will thank you when you side with us, but go against us when we want to totally ruin what democracy we have left and we give out your SS number for others to hurt you with. We are the communist party and all comrades stick together for the better of its leaders and to hell with the dopey people! Don’t forget our motto…”we really care about you, unless you go thinking for yourself, then we will destroy you because we care.” Signed the Democratic Party.