'We are being used': Five veterans quit Kyrsten Sinema's advisory committee

Five military veterans on Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's advisory council submitted a letter of resignation to the centrist senator Thursday, criticizing her for not listening to the council or her constituents.

The five veterans said they felt they were "being used as window dressing for [her] image and not to provide counsel on what's best for Arizonans," accusing Sinema of "repeatedly ignor[ing]" their suggestions on "three issues that support our veterans and protect the heart of our nation" in a letter read in an ad by progressive veterans' group Common Defense.

"Are you choosing to answer to big donors rather than Arizonans?" Air Force veteran Sylvia Gonzalez Andersh, one of the five signers, asked, citing Sinema's opposition to provisions of the Freedom to Vote Act, the Build Back Better Act, and the vote to establish the Jan. 6 commission as "not the actions of a maverick."

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Andersh said the five veterans, representing a quarter of Sinema's 20-member Veterans Advisory Council, felt the senator ignored their suggestions.