I hate the word Breaking in a diary title but in this case it really is a Breaking story...here's what we know so far
UPDATE: Maneegee's diary that posted same time as this one is much better than mine...go get his on the rec list please! Grijalva's Office on Lockdown and then someone bring me a strawberry eegee! Everytime I see his name I get a craving!
I was on Twitter and noticed someone had tweeted this link. Given my involvement with Team Grijalva on both the campaign and official side of things, I immediately felt my heart rate increase and my stomach turned.
Here's what I know:
This afternoon an envelope arrived at the Congressional office of Rep. Raul Grijalva in Tucson. Luckily, no one actually opened the envelope. I haven't been told exactly what was in it, only that it was in fact hazardous.
The FBI, police and hazmat are on the scene. The office has been quarantined, all staff have been tested and no one is sick.
That's the good news.
The bad news? It's 2010 and someone out there thinks it's cool to send stuff like this to a Congressional office where a staffer or a volunteer could get sick, and god forbid, die. Disgusting is the first word that comes to mind.
I don't know enough to say who did this... and I'm truly relieved no one got sick. I've been working w/these people for a little while now and they feel like family to me, but I'd be just as disgusted no matter who the victim of such a stupid thing was to be.
I'm sure the campaign will put out an official statement and when they do I will update with that. I also realize that some will say "not a diary, delete". I know it's a short diary, but I wanted to stay away from speculation and focus on the facts.
If I get any updates I'll post them here.
On a happier note, when I found out about this I was in the middle of creating some special LOL pictures for tomorrow's Pooties for Grijalva. Those that know me will know this is a feature I do on a regular basis. I will post a bunch of pootie pictures, make a pledge and then ask all of you to post pooties- my pledge will be that I will donate X amount per pootie pic in the diary in a certain amount of time and I will ask for matching pledges.