Kyrsten Sinema Confronted by Hecklers Claiming They’re ‘Having an Affair’ — Right After She Made a ‘Cougar’ Joke

Kyrsten Sinema Confronted by Hecklers Claiming They’re ‘Having an Affair’ — Right After She Made a ‘Cougar’ Joke

(Paighten Harkins | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who famously changed parties from Democratic to Independent, capped off a really bad day Friday at a policy forum in Utah when two men heckled her for allegedly having affairs with them. Sinema was taking part in a panel discussion on policy at the Grand America Hotel where she was the keynote speaker with Gov. Spencer Cox (R). Reporter Paighten Harkins with The Salt …

Sinema and Cox’s economic ‘disruption’ speech takes on another meaning at Salt Lake event

A panel with former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute Director Natalie Gochnour was twice disrupted by hecklers on Jan. 16, 2026. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)When former Arizona independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was asked to describe the world’s current chapter in history during a Salt Lake City event, the question was almost unintelligible, obstructed by the yells of a heckler and the qu…