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Alejandro Islas spent several years apprenticing under a master brickmason in Hermosillo, Sonora, before he moved to the United States in 1913.

At age 26, he was learning and gaining experience. Eventually, he got a mason鈥檚 job with Southern Pacific Railroad, building the brick linings of steam engine fireboxes in the Tucson rail yard.

That story, which my uncle told me about my grandfather, is an example of a young person learning and paying his dues. Through much of the economy then and today, it is how the labor force is developed. In bricklaying, carpentry, meatcutting, accounting, news reporting and many other jobs, experience as an apprentice 鈥� formally or informally and beyond school 鈥� is necessary.

Despite that reality, many people in their 20s, it seems, want to skip apprenticing and go to the top quickly. It was true in my younger years 鈥� we were in a hurry to move up and take charge, although we didn鈥檛 even know what we didn鈥檛 know 鈥� and it is true today.

We recently saw it in Southern Arizona politics. Adelita Grijalva won the Democratic nomination in the special election for the 7th Congressional District seat after apprenticing, if you will, for 20 years on the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board and four years as a Pima County supervisor.

Deja Foxx, who finished a distant second to Grijalva in the CD7 primary, had no experience in elective politics before becoming a candidate. She is plenty smart, and she showed it, while also showing her lack of the experience one gains in an apprenticeship. Ironically, she pushed her youthfulness as a top asset.

What Grijalva learned in her six previous campaigns for office and from her father Ra煤l Grijalva鈥檚 mentoring was what Foxx did not know. Grijalva knew, as she said in her election night speech, that success depended on meeting people, listening to them and being part of the community, what some call retail politics.

In her speech, Grijalva cited statistics that revealed at least a part of why she won handily: Her campaign recruited and put to work more than 1,000 volunteers who along with her made 300,000 phone calls to voters and knocked on 39,000 doors in the district.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is retail politics, and how to do it and the need for it come from experience. You can call it 鈥� as a columnist for this newspaper did 鈥� the 鈥淕rijalva machine.鈥� Or you can call it learning from the master as an apprentice filling in the gaps of what you don鈥檛 know and putting the lessons to work for your own success.

Adelita Grijalva has the edge over Republican Daniel Butierez going into the Sept. 23 general election, and it is clearly because of what she knows and how she learned it, in addition to her positions on issues important in her community.

Deja Foxx is bright, ambitious and tuned in on many of the issues. One hopes she will stay involved and run for another office, perhaps at the local level, now that she knows at least a little of what she didn鈥檛 know.