WASHINGTON – The powder in a letter sent to Rep. Adelita Grijalva tested negative for anything harmful, an aide to the Tucson Democrat said Tuesday.
But that and other suspicious letters sent in recent days to other Arizona lawmakers and the state’s top elections official are raising concerns about political intimidation on the eve of the midterm elections.
“One envelope can frighten an entire institution, and the powder doesn’t need to be lethal for the intimidation to work,” said Murat Haner, a criminology expert at Arizona State University who studies terrorism and political violence.
Brooke Brennan, a spokeswoman for the
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