"I'll just keep soaking up those federal tax dollars like Daddy did."
Posted on 07/03/2025 4:48:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.
Year after year, Ms. Torres, 70, dutifully volunteered and cast her ballot for Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, a staunch Arizona progressive who was battling lung cancer when he was elected to his 12th term in November. He succumbed in March, the second of three House Democrats to die this year, bolstering the Republicans’ oh-so-slender majority.
Now, Mr. Grijalva’s oldest daughter, Adelita, has been asking Ms. Torres to vote for her in the Democratic primary on July 15, another Grijalva to take up her father’s seat. Several challengers are trying to block her, saying that Arizona needs a fresh voice and new ideas, not another Grijalva. And Ms. Torres agrees.
“Nobody is listening,” Ms. Torres said, clearly frustrated one scorching morning last week as she sat in her living room on Tucson’s working-class south side, shades drawn against the sun.
Ms. Grijalva is still likely to prevail in the heavily Democratic district — dozens of powerful Democrats have endorsed her, including the state’s two Democratic senators. But with two weeks to go, the special election in Arizona’s Seventh District is brewing into the next contest to question what the Democratic Party wants after its defeats of 2024 — experience versus generational change, left versus center, old versus new.
And beneath it all is simmering anger over the reluctance of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other aging, ailing Democrats, like Mr. Grijalva, who died at 77, to leave office when their time had come.
“We need change,” Ms. Torres said.
Ms. Grijalva, 54, is a longtime elected official in Tucson, but to some frustrated voters, she is also the embodiment...
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It's the Soviet Union all over again.
Raul Grijalva was just another stupid Tucson pol when he accepted big Jewish money to oppose the emplacement of a Muslim sponsored Dry Lands institute at the U. of Arizona. When he succeeded in blocking that proposal he could depend on Jewish money to back him. Winning a Congressional seat in a majority Latino district, he has used his name to achieve reelection. His constituents, of little intellectual acumen, don’t care that he is a Marxist and has done nothing to help them over a long career far from the home base of Nogales. Expect another Grijalva to take his place.
Sadly our Soviets outlive their Russian counterparts.
I often recall what Newt Gingrich said when the Berlin Wall fell -
“we won the cold war over there but lost it here”.
The new face of america
It doesn’t help that republicans Don’t put up more appealing and younger candidates.
Came over on the Mayflower.
I think it was a cornflower tortilla…..
Take notice of what demoncraps say. Nothing about improving lives of US citizens, taxpayers, workers, etc. Its all about flipping a seat to get back into power and go along with the same BS as before.
I’m originally from Tucson Arizona. The last interest that the Grijalva family has is their constituents.
The enbeded vote fraud doesnt help.
How about s candidate who will put America First?
"I'll just keep soaking up those federal tax dollars like Daddy did."
sunsentinel.com———After the 2020 death of Richard Elias, she won the District 5 seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors. In April of this year, just a few months into her second term, she resigned to launch her campaign in the special election.
While she followed in her father’s footsteps and said she was proud to be his daughter, she said people shouldn’t expect her to be exactly like him.
“What we walked into is totally different,” she said “The values that we bring are the same, but how we deal with it is different.”
Grijalva has garnered more endorsements than anyone else in the race. Both of Arizona’s U.S. senators, Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, have endorsed her, as has Kelly’s wife, former member of Congress Gabby Giffords.
“We need fighters like Adelita,” Kelly said during a May press conference opposing the Republican budget plan to slash Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy subsidies. “She understands what working folks in Southern Arizona are going through. She’s lived this her whole life. She’s got tremendous experience representing this community, and she is always going to put Arizonans first as she serves in Congress. So thank you for running, and I’m saying this in advance, but thank you for winning.”
Kelly is generally seen as a moderate Democrat, but Grijalva has also won the support of progressive Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who said she “understands that real change never comes from the top down, it comes from the bottom up. She is standing with working families in Southern Arizona and building a grassroots movement to take on the corporate greed that’s driving up the cost of everything – from groceries to housing – while poisoning our air and water.” (Raúl Grijalva was the first member of Congress to support Sander’s 2016 presidential campaign.)
She has the support of two dozen members of Congress, including Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton and and New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said that Grijalva “has long been a champion for the people of Southern Arizona and in the fight for public education and climate justice. Now she is ready to take that fight to Washington. Adelita carries forward the powerful legacy of Representative Raúl Grijalva — not just in name, but in her dedication to working people.”
Former U.S. Reps. Ron Barber and Ann Kirkpatrick, who both represented Southern Arizona in Congress, are backing her, as is Tucson Mayor Regina Romero (who was considered a contender for the seat) and all six members of the Tucson City Council.
Three members of the Pima County Board of Supervisors – Rex Scott, Jen Allen and Andres Cano – are supporting her, as are Tohono O’odham Tribal Chairman Verlon Jones, Pascua Yaqui Vice Chair Peter Yucupicio, South Tucson Mayor Roxanna Valenzuela, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, San Luis Mayor Nieves Riedel and Somerton Mayor Gerardo Anaya – connections that help Grijalva establish credibility to voters who live outside Pima County. (While nearly 61 percent of Congressional District 7 voters live in Pima County, 14 percent live in Yuma County, 13 percent are in Maricopa County, 7 percent are in Santa Cruz County, 4 percent are in Cochise County and less than 1 percent are in Pinal County.)
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Grijalva is supported by Latino-rights organizations LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona), Moms Fed Up (which is dedicated to electing mothers to Congress), Christopher Street Project (which fights for transgender rights) and two organizations that oppose gun violence, GiffordsPAC and Moms Demand Action.
She has the support of more than a dozen unions, including Communication Workers of America, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 570 and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Find a complete list of Grijalva’s endorsements here.
“I’m proud to be endorsed by a broad coalition of leaders, activists, and organizations from our community,” Grijalva said. “Our movement draws people from all walks of life including labor unions, gun violence prevention, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental advocacy, and other organizations that are drawn to our inclusive and progressive message.”
Early voting is now underway in the July 15 primary. The winner will be the favorite to win the Sept. 23 general election, giving the district’s voter breakdown: 40 percent of voters are registered Democrats, 21 percent are registered Republicans and the remaining 39 percent are independent of the two major parties.
Is the South Asian Muslim immigrant mayoral wannabe lying?
An earlier Mamdani Identified himself as Asian and African American on College App
NY Times ^ | 7/3/25 | Benjamin Ryan
Posted on 7/3/2025, 3:58:39 PM by CaptainK
As he runs for NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani has made his identity as a Muslim immigrant of South Asian descent a key part of his appeal.
But as a high school senior in 2009, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee, claimed another label when he applied to Columbia University.
Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also Black or African American,” according to internal data derived from a hack of Columbia U that was shared with The New York Times.
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Lazy democrats
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