Rep. Grijalva Dead From Cancer Complications, Posts From the Grave

March 13, 2025 ADI Staff Reporter
Raul Grijalva
Rep. Raul Grijalva

Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-07) passed away on Thursday at the age of 77 from cancer complications. Shortly after his passing, Grijalva issued one last post on X to criticize President Donald Trump, ostensibly from the grave.

The final remarks attributed to Grijalva after his passing concerned the Trump administration’s mass firing of Department of Education employees.

According to a statement issued Thursday afternoon by Grijalva’s staff, Grijalva passed away on Thursday morning.

Grijalva passed away just several days after his rumored replacement pick, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, sustained a crushing defeat with voters’ rejection of Proposition 414. Romero’s proposition would have increased sales taxes “temporarily” by 50 cents for the next 10 years — hiking rates from 8.70% to 9.20%. The proposed tax rate would have secured Tucson’s standing as having the highest overall tax rate.

Romero blamed Trump for the loss.

“The uncertainty of what’s happening in our economy, the mass firings from the federal government, what’s happening in our state, I believe did affect how voters reacted,” stated Romero in a watch party for supporters on Tuesday.

Romero’s husband, Ruben Reyes, is Grijalva’s district director. As reported previously, Reyes has spoken to the press with authority on Grijalva’s capabilities while the congressman’s health declined.

Since announcing his cancer diagnosis in February 2023, Grijalva has missed hundreds of key votes. This legislative session, Grijalva all but bowed out after the first day, missing over 97 percent of roll call votes.

Despite his excessive absence, prompting repeated calls to relinquish his seat from Arizona’s Democratic leaders, Grijalva refused to step down.

Last month, State Rep. Alma Hernandez questioned why House Democratic leadership weren’t holding Grijalva accountable for his absence, especially during key votes requiring “maximum attendance” from Democrats.

In the case of another account potentially not run by its owner, former President Joe Biden posted on X to acknowledge Grijalva’s passing.

“Jill and I are saddened by the passing of Congressman Raúl Grijalva. He will be remembered for tirelessly standing up for working families and protecting our environment,” read the post attributed to Biden. “Our prayers are with his family and loved ones.”

Grijalva first took office in 2003. In that time, 10 of his bills became law: HR 4881, “Old Pascua Community Land Acquisition Act”; HR 2030, “Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act”; HR 1075, designating the Customs and Border Protection Port of Entry in Douglas, Arizona as the “Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry”; HR 507, “Pascua Yaqui Tribe Trust Land Act”; HR 3319, allowing the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to determine the requirements for membership; HR 3739, amending the Arizona Water Settlements Act to modify the requirements for statement of findings; HR 5857, designating a USPS facility in Tucson as the “Morris K. ‘Mo’ Udall Post Office Building”; HR 794, “Colorado River Indian Reservation Boundary Correction Act”; HR 237, allowing binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts affecting land within the Gila River Indian Community Reservation; and HR 326, amending the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Act of 2000 to adjust the boundary of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area.

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25 Comments

  1. Hate the sin not the sinner. Admittedly, in his case there are many sins and actions from his poor character. He is now answering for his sins. The question remains, is Tucson going to send another Congressman to meet Lucifer?

    • No, No = don’t forget this Turd; PJ Media’s Steven Kruiser has a suburb piece on Grijalva’s career and why it will persist, thru his daughter, etc. Read it and weep.

  3. I am never glad about a death, but the damage that this one man had done to the CoT and Pima County is immeasurable. He kept the poor in that state and made sure that they were on the government dole. He hated this country and loved all things Mexican including his precious ILLEGALS and their freeloading. Now you people are looking at worse choices. His daughter or the POS mayor of the CoT. What choices. Just one more liberal vote in the house to help kill this country. Once the armpit of southern AZ, always the armpit of southern AZ with either of these two as a replacement. Oh, and lets not forget the payoff for an office staff member that accused the “Toad” of sexual harassment. That was paid for out of the house’s slush fund which uses taxpayer money. Great gig isn’t it.

    • Well stated.
      The guy didn’t just have cancer, he *was* a cancer on the political landscape. Just sayin’.

  4. I find it no small contradiction the late Congressman, who had great seniority, was a major committee chairman, for some reason simply couldn’t “bring home the bacon” to his district. He was so ideological & racially resentful he could never use that power by interacting, trading, wheeling & dealing with his peers in Congress. Tragic, but so typically Libtard Tucson.

  5. No loss. A waste of space will be replaced by another.. either his commie daughter or commie mayorette Ragina.

  7. Parasite: one who lives at others expense without making any useful return, AKA The Toad!

  8. Bye, Raul.

    But my second favorite part, “Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, sustained a crushing defeat with voters’ rejection of Proposition 414 […] Romero blamed Trump for the loss,” – I’ve already bought it, babosa, you don’t have to sell it to me.

  9. I grew up in a small town in California. Its motto was the city of planned progress and over the years it grew quickly, efficiently and attractively. 6 miles away was a town named Livermore, home of the Lawrence Radiation Lab. It had leadership similar to Tucson, stagnate growth, semi-dilapidated, entrenched in no growth philosophy. Finally, after 3 decades of stagnation, the citizenry had enough and changed the leadership. Now it’s a thriving, desirable and attractive city. The point is, the change won’t happen overnight, but it will eventually come when people get fed up enough to make it happen. Grijalva’s passing is one cog in the wheel that’s gone.

  11. I see that the ADI posted a message from Joe Biden – who is also probably deceased.

  12. i cant understand az voters that reject these bad policies but elect these people making the bad policies

  13. Grijalva and his Marxist politics including his rabid hate for America and white people was the number 1 reason I left Tucson after 50 years. No jobs, no growth, just handouts. No one person made Tucson and Pima County the dying community with roads falling apart and no hope for youth than Raul. Now his fascist daughter, LaGorda will take his place and continue to punish Southern Arizona.

  14. The problem is DC does not belong in education. 10th amendment. Ad infinitum. Founders warned us. DC was meant to be a limited seat not this organized crime syndicate. This is what the founders warned us about. They did not want DC controlling everything. They knew it would lead to
    Pay to play and money laundering schemes. Education belongs in the states with the people not DC. It’s like these people never read the constitution. Rest in peace but he was wrong. Founders wanted limited government. No taxation for a reason.

  15. Romero blamed Trump for the loss… look in the mirror – is that Trump?

    Reading the list of ‘accomplishments’ while in orifice – a hole lotta nothing – must run in the family – we know which end he was talking from – who owns him now? One can pray for the best.. realization being ‘not everyone has accepted Christ as saviour- the only thing you can do to not be saved is not to believe in your saviour. I’m not the judge or the jury.. but I’ll have my day one day as he will his.

  16. As a Christian, I say “rest in peace.” As a resident of So Az I say GOOD, it’s about time the stubborn a__wipe is finally gone!

    God help us if that POS mayor somehow gets to fill his spot 😩

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