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Secret recording shows U.S. Rep. McSally has concerns about reelection

JUNE 08, 2017

Congresswoman Martha McSally may be in more political trouble than she's been letting on.

Team McSally has been poo-pooing recent polls showing that more than half of the voters in her district disapprove of her job performance, while her approval has fallen down to the mid-30s, percentage-wise, and that she was losing to a generic Democrat by 7 percentage points.

But last week, in a private talk to the Arizona Bankers Association, McSally conceded that in the current political environment, she has some real challenges in next year's election.

McSally complained that President Donald Trump and his tweets were creating troubling "distractions" and "it's basically being taken out on me. Any Republican member of Congress, you are going down with the ship. And we're going to hand the gavel to Pelosi in 2018, they only need 28 seats and the path to that gavel being handed over is through my seat. And right now, it doesn't matter that it's me, it doesn't matter what I've done. I have an 'R' next to my name and right now, this environment would have me not prevail."

Admittedly, McSally was making these comments as she was asking the bankers to open their checkbooks for her reelection campaign, so it could well be that she was just doing the ol' fear-mongering-for-dollars act.

McSally's comments came to light after some of McSally's critics—including Kristen Randall, the leader of Indivisible Southern Arizona—ordered tickets to a talk McSally was giving at a luncheon for the Arizona Bankers Association.

Someone on Team McSally, however, appears to have taken a closer look at who was attending the event, because four of the five members of the group received emails about two hours before the lunch informing them that their tickets had been revoked. "They caught onto us," Randall says with a laugh.

But the fifth member (whose identity The Skinny is not privy to) did manage to appear bankerly enough to crash the party—and the spy recorded McSally's entire speech for the Randall's group, and from there, it fell into our hands.

McSally was more blunt in many of her comments behind closed doors than she typically is when questioned on the issues. In fact, she expressed frustration that the media and her constituents ask her to comment on what President Trump says and does.

"The environment has changed and some of it changed on January 20," McSally told the crowd. "There's just an element out there that's just, like, so against the president. Like they just can't see straight. And all of a sudden on January 20, I'm like his twin sister to them. And I'm, like, responsible for everything he does, and tweets and says. And they want me to be spending my time as a pundit. 'I disagree with that. I agree with this.' I have a job in the legislature!"

Randall says she does expect McSally to speak up when Trump does something offensive.

"That's her job," Randall says. "When there's going to be a vote, we want a statement. We want a dialogue. And she's not giving it to us. She seems really put out. ... She's a leader in our community and that is part of her job. There's a human component to her job that she very obviously does not enjoy."

In her talk, McSally acknowledged that the job comes with a lot of frustration. She said serving in Congress had gotten a lot harder since Trump's election last year and that she's forced to "navigate in the political theater, but I don't breathe life into it and I don't enjoy it, just to be frank with you. It actually drains me."

As she was talking to bankers, McSally focused on the latest GOP efforts to repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that regulated banks after the 2007 economic collapse. She characterized Dodd-Frank as a hindrance to banks that needs to be repealed.

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by Anonymousreply 9January 18, 2018 3:24 PM

Well that's a plus next to the Democrats in 2018, that Republican sit is a gonner.

by Anonymousreply 1June 10, 2017 7:30 AM

She’s now on tv blaming Democrats for a possible government shutdown, saying they’re willing to stop paying veterans in order to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

by Anonymousreply 2January 18, 2018 4:02 AM

Ha! Dumb cunt!

by Anonymousreply 3January 18, 2018 4:04 AM

Cane face.

by Anonymousreply 4January 18, 2018 4:16 AM

OBAMA! BENGHAZI! EMAILS! MEXICANS! 9/11!

Why aren't the magic words working?

by Anonymousreply 5January 18, 2018 4:29 AM

She is actually bewildered that she has to answer questions about whether she, as a member of Congress, supports the policies or agrees with the words and actions of the president of her own party?

Some people are just not very bright.

by Anonymousreply 6January 18, 2018 4:53 AM

She's leaving her seat, AZ-02, to run for Senate, the Flake seat. So her seat is open and Ann Kirkpatrick (D) is probably going to pick it up. Kirkpatrick gave up HER seat AZ-01 in 2016 to challenge McCain, which was a fool's errand.

Rumor is that she wants the McCain seat, but no one knows, obviously, when he'll pass away or be unable to continue to serve. The Arizona Senate picture may be a jumble by summer.

The (D) bench needs to be stronger. Krysten Sinema is a strong choice vs McSally for the Flake seat, but I'm not sure where we go on the McCain seat, if it opens. Gabby Giffords's husband, the ex-astronaut, perhaps?

by Anonymousreply 7January 18, 2018 4:56 AM

Closeted dyke who is in her 50s and was only married for two years, in the '90s.

She's very anti-LGBT: Against same-sex marriage, against LGBT workplace protections.

And she won the 2016 election against an out gay man, the supercute Dr. Matt Heinz. (He's running again.)

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by Anonymousreply 8January 18, 2018 6:04 AM

bump

by Anonymousreply 9January 18, 2018 3:24 PM
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