"The senator had been in Washington for eight years, six of them in the House, and the stories about her were already legion. A former Green Party activist who had reinvented herself as a Fortune 500-loving moderate, Sinema had bewildered her colleagues in Congress long before she flummoxed the Biden White House.
"Before her election to the Senate in 2018, she had enjoyed aisle-crossing friendships in the House and joked with Democrats about how easy it was for her to charm Republican men: Sinema ... boasted knowingly to colleagues and aides that her cleavage had an extraordinary persuasive effect on the uptight men of the GOP. She told one House Republican that while she would never switch parties, her father would be delighted if she did. ... She had bonded that evening with Mike Lee, the hard-line conservative Utah senator, about their shared Mormon upbringing and experience attending Brigham Young University. Displaying a side of herself she concealed from the press, Sinema confided that her family had tried to nudge her back to the faith she had long ago abandoned."
Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, "This Will Not Pass"
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