Mail ballots go out Wednesday in the special election to fill the Congressional seat left vacant by the death of Congress member Raul Grijalva.

In the prickly world of politics there is a rare open seat in Congress for our part of the Arizona desert. Congressional District 7 was left vacant by the death of Raul Grijalva after 22 years in that seat. Now her daughter Adelita Grijalva is working on making her own path to Congress.

Opponents have tried to paint Adelita Grijalva as hoping to inherit her fathers seat in Congress. She has been elected to the same local positions Raul Grijalva held: the Tucson Unified School District Board, and the Pima County Supervisors but she says those jobs built 22 years of her own independent experience.

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