Kyrsten Sinema appears to use campaign funds for personal travel

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is passionate about athletics, competing in marathons and triathlons around the country, and reportedly making her staff prioritize her training regimen. Now, a new report suggests she may have scheduled campaign fundraisers around some of those trips in order to justify using campaign funds to pay for her personal expenses.

According to The Daily Beast, the bisexual former Democrat raised over $16,000 from a handful of Massachusetts-based donors in April 2022 — the same month that she competed in the Boston Marathon. The week of the race, her personal political action committee, Getting Stuff Done PAC, also reportedly spent $1,500 on “meeting meals” and “event supplies” at Boston-area businesses, suggesting she held some sort of campaign fundraiser while she was in town for the marathon.

Her campaign paid $8,470 in lodging expenses at an unspecified Ritz-Carlton Hotel that same month. A photo Sinema posted to Twitter after finishing the marathon appears to have been taken at a Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

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Ran the Boston Marathon yesterday. It’s been a long road to get here – I kept running qualifying marathons, but the pandemic and then a broken foot had other plans for me. Couldn’t be more grateful to have 2 strong feet and 1 happy heart this Boston Marathon!