Sinema backs reducing airline pilots compulsory training hours for 2024 campaign cash from airlines

[StringJunky]

Well, she isn't a Dem now, so she's got to get the 2024 campaign cash from somewhere... hasn't she?

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IN A BLISTERING attack on her Senate colleague last week, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., warned independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema that a proposal to reduce the number of required in-flight training hours for pilots would result in “blood on your hands.” The attack from Duckworth was prompted by an amendment supported by Sinema and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., that would allow pilots to meet training requirements by substituting hours spent in a flight simulator for actual flight time.

snip.... Sinema’s campaign received an influx of cash over the last year from the airline industry. The donations would be crucial to the senator as she strikes out as a newly christened independent during a challenging reelection bid. Without her Democratic Party affiliation, Sinema heads into the 2024 race without the political or financial backing of her former party. 

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Despite the enhanced oversight the 2010 reforms place on aspiring pilots, the Air Line Pilots Association, a union representing tens of thousands of airline pilots, wrote to the Senate in an effort to head off Sinema’s amendment, which they say could cause extreme danger to pilots and passengers.

“This poison pill amendment undermines the current aviation safety regime that has resulted in the safest period in air travel in history,” the union wrote. “The proposal codifies a training regime that is unstructured and introduces an unacceptable risk to our air transportation system.” The group complained that a lack of specifics in the amendment could result in subpar training, “including types of emergency training.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/23/kyrsten-sinema-pilot-training-airline-industry/

 

[exchemist]

3 hours ago, StringJunky said:

Well, she isn't a Dem now, so she's got to get the 2024 campaign cash from somewhere... hasn't she?

 

Lousy time to pull this stunt when we’ve all just seen what happens when regulatory corners are cut in a safety-critical industry.

Edited June 25, 2023 by exchemist

[TheVat]

Sinema loves attention (she used to wear a pink tutu to political demonstrations, back in her Leftist days), and acting foolish or clueless seems her preferred method for getting it.  She's been receiving corporate bribes since she took office.  IIRC, Open Secrets, a group that tracks corporate donations to congresspeople, has consistently ranked her at the top, or near it , in the US Senate.  

[StringJunky]

Political prostitution at it's most lethal, methinks.