Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema ( born July 12, 1976 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American politician of the Democratic Party from Phoenix, Arizona. The former MPs of both the House of Representatives and the Senate of Arizona successfully ran for the congressional elections of 2012 in the newly created 9th Congressional District Arizona and represents it since January 3, 2013 the House of Representatives of the United States.
Education and career beginnings
Sinema is the child of a conservative Mormon family. After she dropped out of Florida Walton High School in DeFuniak Springs, at the age of 16, she attended Brigham Young University, where in 1994 she earned a Bachelor of Social Work. In 1995, she moved to Phoenix. She then visited the Arizona State University, where she a Masters Degree in Social Work and in 2004 earned a Juris Doctorate in 1999. She worked in the Washington Elementary School District as a social worker before it was criminal defender. In 2001, she ran unsuccessfully for the Phoenix City Council in the election district 8
Political career
Sinema ran as independents in 2002 for the first time in the constituency 15 for the House of Representatives from Arizona, but was not elected. In 2004 she was placed as a candidate of the Democrats and won for the first time the mandate. 2006 and 2008 she was re-elected. In 2010 she resigned her seat in the House of Representatives from Arizona to run for the Senate from Arizona. In the election, she won the mandate of the Republican opponent Bob Thomas.
2006 sat Sinema, who openly professes himself to her bisexuality, the statewide campaign, " Arizona Together" before, which succeeded the dismissed Proposition 107, with the recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions in Arizona would have been banned otherwise. Sinema also led the campaign against Proposition 102, a toned-down remake of Proposition 107, which was, however, accepted by the majority of voters on November 4, 2008.
During the campaign, Barack Obama supported Sinema 2008 and was delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Candidacy for the United States Congress
On January 3, 2012 Sinema announced plans to run in the newly created 9th Congressional District of Arizona for the House of Representatives of the United States. On the same day she gave up her seat in the Senate from Arizona. On their seat David Lujan moved after.
Sinema was able to prevail against her Republican opponent Vernon Parker, making it since 3 January 2013, the first openly bisexual congresswoman.