A year ago today, in a blatantly political about-face, then-Rep. Martha McSally removed herself as a co-sponsor from a bipartisan bill to create a path to citizenship for DACA recipients – a policy she’d long supported but abandoned, in a “painfully obvious shift,” under pressure from her primary opponents. Some say McSally’s hard right turn cost her last year’s election. But the unelected senator hasn’t learned from her loss, participating just this week in a closed-door, Republicans-only meeting.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Stewart Boss issued the following statement:
“It’s been a year since unelected Senator Martha McSally went back on her word to Arizonans and turned her back on bipartisan immigration reform. On the anniversary of her shameful flip-flop, it’s clear McSally is still playing political games instead of working on solutions and hasn’t learned from her mistakes.”
More on McSally’s rightward lurch here:
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