Arizona Rep.-Elect Grijalva Finally Gets Keys to Office - But 'No Internet, No Computers...Phone Lines Aren't Working'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 14th, 2025, 10:43 pm


Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) has been waiting weeks to be sworn in and finally got the keys to her congressional office Tuesday, only to find “just a space” — no internet, no phone lines, no computers. Grijalva won a special election on Sept. 23, easily trouncing her Republican opponent in her deep-blue district 69% to 29%. She will succeed her father, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), who died on March 13, in representing Arizona’s 7th district —if she is ever sworn in.

House Republicans are dragging their feet on letting Grijalva officially join their ranks and have been using the government shutdown as an excuse. However, it’s widely speculated that a major reason for the delay in swearing her in is the vote to release the Epstein files, as Grijalva would be the 218th vote to pass the bill in the House; she’s publicly made this accusation many times herself.

There has been a lot of demand — including from President Donald Trump’s MAGA base — to release the files related to deceased convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and documents obtained by media outlets have only heightened the interest in bringing transparency to the matter.

Late last month, Grijalva expressed frustration because she couldn’t hire staff, use the congressional bypass for the security line, and had not yet been given access to an office. That latter issue was addressed Tuesday, only to lead to more frustration once she realized she had been given the keys to “basically an empty room,” as Politico’s Nicholas Wu reported.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/arizona-rep-elect-grijalva-finally-gets-keys-to-office-but-no-internet-no-computers-phone-lines-arent-working/

[Chipper Chat]

1. I suspect Mikey is waiting until Orange Anus

Is successful in pressuring one of the 4 renegade Pubs to change their vote.

[Safe as Milk]

11. Diddling Donny is searching all of the GOPers' backgrounds for blackmail data.

He'll have as much time as he needs. He doesn't care about the shutdown. He cares about the Epstein files.

[Tribetime]

13. He would screw everyone over just to save himself

He doesn'.nT give two s**** about anybody , but himself

[riversedge]

2. The House Dem Women's Caucus is protesting Speaker Johnson's office for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva They just wal

The House Dem Women’s Caucus is protesting Speaker Johnson’s office for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva

They just walked in chanting “swear her in”

(It’s not clear whether Johnson is here)

Link to tweet

[Biophilic]

3. And these are the people that we are supposed to trust enough to negotiate with?

From now on we should just assume that any republican is lying and totally unreliable. Don’t even wonder for a minute, just know they are like the snake in the story. ALL of them will take any opportunity to destroy those that aren’t 100% supportive of them. Yeah, probably most of those also if the republicans can make a dime off them.

[Efilroft Sul]

7. Republicans never act in good faith. Only damn fools would ever believe them, which explains why they're re-elected.

[markodochartaigh]

12. "From

now on we should just assume that any republican is lying and totally unreliable."

In my opinion the day in 2015 when the Republican party put party before country and chose an authoritarian who refused to state unequivocally that he would accept the results of the election, that was the day that the Democratic party, leadership and rank and file, should have realized that if the Republicans could not be trusted to uphold democracy they could not be trusted with anything.

[slightlv]

15. Nope... you don't negotiate with Republicans...

compromise is a dirty word, and every negotiation implies compromise. It's supposedly the very foundation of politics. Not anymore, not since the republicans were infiltrated by the religious extremists of this country. You don't negotiate with God... and they believe they are representing and speaking for God. Democrats are just heathen pagans and negotiating with them would mean negotiating with the Devil; they ain't gonna do that no way, no how.

[GiqueCee]

4. Johnson is...

... a sniveling little weasel utterly devoid of honor or integrity. He proclaims himself to be an über-christian, but, in fact, he defiles every basic tenet of Christianity. He should be shunned, reviled, and despised for the rest of his miserable life.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. And then fed into a meat grinder. Just to make sure he's dead.

[RussBLib]

17. Johnson is as much a heretic as....

...that weasel Charlie Kirk. And the GOP lionizes Kirk at every opportunity.

[barbtries]

5. jeezus it's amazing

the pettiness. republicans are so fucked up!

[Seinan Sensei]

6. Remind me ... How old is Speaker Johnson?

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[BumRushDaShow]

10. He's 53

but acts like a sniveling 10-year old.

[Abstractartist]

8. First off

Congratulations on your victory. We democrats and most young people are very proud of you.

Get on your cell phone and just order furniture, get comcast in to set up the internet 🛜 and WiFi. Then send the bills to the speakers office.

[republianmushroom]

14. Such a class act mikey.

And they will wonder and complain that she is hostile toward them. Go figure.

[tonekat]

16. The NYT really buried this story today

I think it needs to be kept in front of the public and associated with other unlawful Republican acts, like the denial of a SCOTUS judge under Obama.

Of course the major media is not rising up against anything but their access to the Pentagon.