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  In Arizona, a candidate faces a boycott backlash
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Last EditedJason  Oct 23, 2010 07:22pm
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MediaNewspaper - Los Angeles Times
News DateSunday, October 24, 2010 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionRep. Raul Grijalva should slide to reelection in a district where Democrats greatly outnumber Republicans, but his call for a boycott of his state over a harsh immigration law has made him a target.

Reporting from Rio Rico, Ariz. — The contrast between the two candidates couldn't have been starker. On one side of the stage slouched Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, 62, a four-term congressman and local Democratic icon, sporting a bushy moustache and wearing an open-collared shirt that he had changed into an hour earlier but already looked rumpled.

On the other end sat Republican nominee Ruth McClung, 28, her yellow jacket matching her sensibly styled blond hair, carefully smiling at the crowd gathered here this week at a candidate forum about 15 miles from the Mexico border.

Grijalva has represented southern Arizona for decades and his daughter sits on the Tucson School Board, as he did in the 1970s. McClung's only other experience running for office was her campaign to become captain of her high school swim team.
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