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May 18, 2019 · Published 7:29 PM PDT, May 17, 2019. PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally agreed Friday that China’s trade actions are a big problem but tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are hurting Arizona businesses and are the wrong way to address issues between the two nations. Sinema and McSally spoke separately to ...
Recorded February 13, 2019. Martha Elizabeth McSally (born March 22, 1966) is an American politician and former military pilot who has represented Arizona in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate . McSally served in the United States Air Force from 1988 to 2010, achieving the rank of colonel.
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- Sexual Assault
- Shaped by Loss
- Breaking Barriers
- Marriage
- Political Loss
McSally previously has said she had multiple sexually abusive incidents in her life, one by a high school coach and several assaults in the Air Force, including a rape by a superior officer. McSally’s previous accounts have bothered her critics, who noted that she didn’t identify her alleged assailants then or now, making it more difficult to asses...
McSally speaks frequently of losing her 49-year-old father when she was 12, a traumatic event that permanently altered the course of her life. She recalls, with emotion and vivid detail, summers at their family beach house 45 minutes from their home in Warwick, Rhode Island. There they spent lazy days swimming, digging for clams and collecting muss...
McSally describes her life as bouncing back after that. She earned straight-A grades in high school. She wanted to become a fighter pilot, but she was a half-inch too short. The book traces her exhaustive efforts to win over allies to score a medical waiver. She got it and became the nation’s first woman to fly a fighter jet in combat, and was also...
Before her marriage in 1997 to Donald Henry, McSally was struggling with the loss of two friends who died in separate plane crashes. She wrote that Henry was professional and kind, and like her, was a person of faith. They served together in the music ministry at the base chapel and when they were deployed to Kuwait, they worked out at the gym. She...
In many ways, McSally writes, her travails in the Air Force prepared her for the treatment she would get on the campaign trail in Arizona. McSally lost her 2012 bid for Arizona’s Tucson-based 2nd Congressional District by 2,454 votes. She won that seat in 2014 by just 167. She won a second term in 2016, but lost her first Senate race in 2018. “I di...
McSally eventually became a squadron leader in Afghanistan and a colonel. But her tenure in the military was also marked by another major struggle—this one played out in the halls of the Pentagon, and courtrooms, and Congress—after McSally challenged a policy that required U.S. servicewomen to wear the body-covering abaya when traveling off base in Saudi Arabia.
Jan. 15, 2020 Great news for AZ workers! @POTUS just signed #PhaseOne of a U.S.-China trade agreement that will protect American technology & innovation and increase agriculture trade between our countries.
Mar 7, 2019 · Martha McSally, who shook the U.S. Senate with an unprecedented statement describing her rape by a senior Air Force officer, took an unconventional path to what is sometimes known as the nation's ...
Mar 30, 2015 · March 30, 2015. WASHINGTON — In 2012, Martha McSally, a political novice, came so close to defeating her Democratic opponent, Representative Ron Barber, in Arizona that she flew to Washington ...
