Wendy Rogers Rhetorical Analysis

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Marcela Romero Dr. Kathryn A. DePalo Women in Politics 10th November 2014 Arizona-9th District: Kyrsten Sinema vs. Wendy Rogers Elections 2014 After the 2010 Census results Arizona’ ninth congressional district was created, having its first representative in the 113th Congress Kyrsten Sinema, a democratic leader. In 2014 elections, House Representative Sinema was seeking re-election against her Republican opponent Wendy Rogers, an air force veteran and small business owner. Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema focuses her primary policies of concern on “women’s issues” and her democratic political ideology and her opponent Wendy Rogers based her issues on republican political “masculine issues”. The candidate Wendy Rogers had two major faux pas that …show more content…

Wendy Rogers’ website had just one ad label “Walk with Wendy” which started by criticizing Kyrsten Sinema’s career, by accusing her of ignoring the needs of the people in the Arizona’s ninth district, and then showing Wendy Rogers as the perfect women that listens to the people. In this ad she expresses her dedication to serve and emphasize in her family that makes her who she is, having her daughter talk about her qualities in the kitchen, a very masculine idea of portraying family in the media but feminized by the scenario. Also, it shows different citizens of different races and ethnicities greeting Wendy Rogers and expressing her characteristics of being a passionate, caring, trustworthy, and a great mom, ready to serve. In her website there also pictures of her career achievements and her family composed by her husband and her two kids. Another ad found online, express the life of Liutenant Wendy Robers, her service for twenty years in the Air Force, making her promoter of security. It discusses her major policy issues such as preserving senior’s retirement, affordability of college, and get America back to work. The most dramatic and controversial ad in Wendy Rogers’ campaign was named “Growing” in which Kyrsten Sinema is attack for not doing her job in congress due to the increase in terrorist threats by voting to give …show more content…

Wendy Rogers first sparked of negative media started as a result of the social discontent on one of her campaign ads, in which it was feature a part of the clip from the beheading of the American journalist James Foley in hands of ISIS. Rogers received criticism due to the dramatic images, she had to remove the disturbing part and apologize to Mr. Foley’s family in order to continue showing the ad. Wendy Rogers was marked as an unhuman disrespectful woman which give her a total deteriorating face in her political image. This video was meant to criticize Kyrsten Sinema’s actions by voting in favor to set free Guantanamo Bay prisoners and return them to their country, as a result many of them join ISIS one the most recent national terrorist threats (Lucy Burns Institute). But Rogers’ bad publicity did not stop there, she gained public attention by not attending a televised debate between Congressional District ninth candidates with Arizona PBS Channel. This debate was consider to be a very informative exchange of ideas among participants and give them more chances to reach voters. However, Rogers’ spokesman expressed that it is not a norm to attend the debate, and claims that Sinema skipped the event in 2012 (Hendley). Rogers also attacked Kirsten Sinema’s Veteran suicide

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