Biden: 'Not appropriate' for protesters to follow Sinema into bathroom
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President Biden on Monday said he did not agree with activists who followed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) into a bathroom over the weekend to protest her position on a reconciliation bill containing Democratic priorities.
© Greg Nash Biden: 'Not appropriate' for protesters to follow Sinema into bathroom
"I don't think they're appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody. The only people it doesn't happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around them. So it's part of the process," Biden said, responding to a question from Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy.
Sinema traveled over the weekend to Arizona for a medical appointment and a reported fundraiser. The senator said protesters followed her into a bathroom at Arizona State University, where she is a lecturer, videotaped students without their permission and recorded her and her students in a campus bathroom.
"Yesterday's behavior was not legitimate protest," Sinema said in a statement. "It is unacceptable for activist organizations to instruct their members to jeopardize themselves by engaging in unlawful activities such as gaining entry to closed university buildings, disrupting learning environments, and filming students in a restroom."
"It is the duty of elected leaders to avoid fostering an environment in which honestly-held policy disagreements serve as the basis for vitriol - raising the temperature in political rhetoric and creating a permission structure for unacceptable behavior," she added.
A video of the incident showed an activist standing outside of the bathroom stall that Sinema was in while the other stood at the entrance of the bathroom filming the encounter.
Sinema, along with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), has opposed the initial $3.5 trillion price tag proposed for Democrats reconciliation bill. Manchin has said he is not comfortable with a figure larger than $1.5 trillion, while Sinema has avoided outlining her own specific views in public, frustrating some Democrats and triggering talk of a potential primary challenge when Sinema is up for reelection in 2024.
Biden said Monday he is still working on getting Manchin and Sinema on board with his economic agenda.
"This is a process," he said, pointing to Democrats' narrow margins in the House and Senate. "We'll get it done."
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It's a shame the protesters chose to use such tactics, and even sadder to see them make such fools of themselves.
Really, recording in a bathroom?
Hanging around a bathroom stall?
SMH
Pathetic. Seems like tactics that grade school bullies would use, not grown ass people.
And the next day they harassed her at the airport and then on the plane for a cross country flight.
The only things that follow people into bathrooms are toddlers, dogs, and sexual predators. I'll let you decide which of those applies here.
They weren't just protestors. They were part of the group known as Living United for Change in Arizona. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation is Living United’s biggest donor.
Way to out on a limb Joe.
Sarah Sanders’ treatment doesn’t justify this but it put the public harassment tactic on the board.
false equivalency, when was that freak of nature ever a senator?
She’s human and this is assault.
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Prove she is human in such a way you can understand it??
Is that even possible?
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Thanks again for the inanity!
What's sad is how mealy mouthed Biden was. He called it inappropriate, but then laughingly said it "happens to everyone."
Of course it doesn't. It's why this is a story.
He's so afraid to piss of the psychopaths who run his party that he can't even condemn outrageous invasions of privacy of a female Senator without downplaying it.
For giggles, imagine if this had been those dreaded right wing protesters who followed AOC or another darling of the progressives into a bathroom and taped her. Would Biden dismiss it as something that happens to everyone? Of course not. It would be the biggest scandal in America. But Sinema is on the outs with progressives, so she's fair game to be treated as an enemy of the Republic.
Much as the "psychopath" republicans deal with Liz Cheney ... @!@
Please post whatever you have in regards to people following her into a bathroom, recording her.
Shall I wait?
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off the bat:
1: Were the two, one who followed her and the other who stood in the doorway women?
2: I have used many unisex bathrooms in many locations and have yet to see anyone freakout. Sinema needs to get over herself.
3: I doubt that Liz would have whined about it, the lady rides the range and having driven through Wyoming I do not recall port-a-potties conveniently dotting the landscape.
So no evidence to support your claim.
I figured as much.
Believe it or not, I was going to seed this.
Ridiculous.
On another note, I thought congress people had security.
She likely will now, many far left activists have a legacy of violence
And the extreme right is just squeaky clean...
With far less numbers nationwide
Seriously though, I thought senators got like secret service protection.
Guess I was wrong.
I actually wouldn't mind them all getting it.
As much as we already spend, it would be a drop in the bucket.
I agree that our spending thousands vs. trillions would be a drop in the bucket. However, according to the article ...
Do we need guards at every bathroom in the country that every elected official and non-elected others might use? I certainly hope that we've not become that barbaric!
Perhaps a simpler and less expensive solution would be to not allow "protesters" to enter bathrooms to deliberately harass elected officials and ordinary students.
If she had a security officer assigned to her, that person would be with them always.
According to the US Constitution, she doesn't "qualify" for that level of security.
You would think, right?
Well, this is standard practice for many leftist loons.
I'm beginning to like this lady....a Democrat with a brain and a heart
That has become a novel concept lately. So much has changed in that party over the years since I left it.
So when conservative protesters (crazy conservatives protestors) have breached the perimeter of the Capitol and they are separated from members of Congress by several walls and rooms (and some aren’t even in the same building), and security forces are present, that is some kind of attempted mass murder and a coup d’etat. Anyone shot brought that shit on themselves. Furthermore, every member (even the ones not close by) was rightly terrified for their life and America should be outraged. Forever. We should probably have a holiday to remember it and maybe build some statues or something.
OK, let’s go with that. I’m not here to argue that the Capitol riot wasn’t wrong.
But when progressive protestors (crazy progressive protestors) trap a member of Congress in a bathroom with no security and no escape, that’s the kind of thing that “happens to everybody.” She should probably get over it, has no cause to be afraid, and the rest of us should just forgettaboutit.
I've read about, and seen videos of, radical Left American Marxists harassing Americans while they're eating, outside a movie theater, and while they're walking on a street. But, Left wing American Marxists harassing women in a bathroom takes it to a new level.
Maxine Waters and her Squad set the harassment table years ago, so they can be very proud, even though Sinema is a member of their own Democrat political party.
She is a disgusting woman, but everyone deserves to take a dump in private.
Sinema was also harassed while sitting in her seat on an airplane and while walking through an airport. IMO, no one should be treated this way.
I agree.
Why is she disgusting? That she’s as big a maverick to Dems as McCain was to us?