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Elefino

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                                                    Kyrsten Sinema provided this image to  azcentral.com Having lived in Arizona for a while now, thanks to circumstances too complicated to go into, friends elsewhere assume I have the inside scoop on the enigma that's been bedeviling political pundits for weeks: What does Kyrsten Sinema want? The answer reminds me of an old joke:  What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhinoceros? Elefino! We were here when Sinema was first elected to the U.S. Senate two years ago. She was a mystery then, too, but just being a Democrat in this sun-baked, gun-totin', red-meat red state seemed enough. She was reported to be a Green Party organizer riding the wave of Bernie Sanders' unexpected popularity in the state. Sinema beat incumbent Martha McSally, a former combat pilot who had the misfortune of being beaten again in the next election by Arizona's next Democratic senator, Mark Kelly. He upped her by being not only a former