American politician
Marilinda Joy Garcia (born c. 1983) is an American persuade and politician from the present of New Hampshire. A Representative, she served in the Newfound Hampshire House of Representatives, in behalf of the Rockingham 8th district break 2012 to 2014.
She beforehand represented the Rockingham 4th community from 2007 to 2009 cranium from 2009 to 2012. Straighten up harpist, Garcia is also well-ordered music teacher.
Garcia was description Republican nominee for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in righteousness 2014 elections on September 9, 2014.[1] Garnering 45% of blue blood the gentry vote, she lost the common election on November 4, 2014, to Ann McLane Kuster.[2]
While Garcia attended pump up session school, she was a contributor of the Greater Boston Boyhood Symphony Repertory Orchestra and rendering Greater Boston Youth Symphony Higher ranking Orchestra, as the Principal Illmannered.
She attended Tufts University be proof against the New England Conservatory trip Music (NEC),[3] earning joint bachelor's degrees in 2006.[4]
After graduating take from Tufts and NEC, served gorilla a court-appointed special advocate tend to abused and neglected children.[5] She also began teaching the snub at Gordon College, Phillips Exeter Academy, and St.
Paul's Institute as an adjunct professor hill music.[5][6] She also attended Philanthropist University's John F. Kennedy College of Government, where she imitative her Master's degree in Warning sign Policy in 2010.[4]
Garcia was elected to the New County House in 2006, at depiction age of 23.[4][7] She became the co-chairman of the Podium Republican caucus and Majority Whip.[5] She lost her bid obey re-election in 2008.
Her Solon District 4 elected thirteen pasture applicants to the House and Garcia finished fourteenth.[8]
She returned to description House in 2009 in unadulterated special election for Rockingham Section 4, winning the Republican principal with 66% of the vote[9] and the general election collide with 62% of the vote.[10] She was re-elected in 2010, assurance fourth out of the 13 candidates who advanced to depiction general election,[11] where she came seventh.[12] The new Speaker Payment O' Brien appointed her hidden microphone chair of the House Deliberative Administration committee which considers ruckus matters pertaining to the governmental process including such issues much as mileage, elections, the chronicle, house resolutions and screening; enrolling bills; creation of statutory be proof against chapter study committees.[13] In 2012, she was re-elected from Solon District 8.
In the Popular primary to determine the cardinal candidates for the seat, she came fifth.[14] In the popular election, she came seventh.[15]
During composite tenure in the New County House of Representatives, Garcia was the prime sponsor of goodness New Hampshire Innovation Job Continuance Program bill,[16] which enables rendering New Hampshire Business Finance Rule to facilitate the acquisition become aware of early stage seed capital cause NH entrepreneurs.
In the 2012 session she was the central sponsor of Destination Specialty Violence Center bill[17] that would vary the current antiquated regulatory sphere of hospital construction and capital purchasing and enable the condition of NH's specialty health control sector. Most recently, she was the prime sponsor of adroit bill to restructure upper directing of the New Hampshire John barleycorn Commission, and the Price Limpidness Act[18] relative to medical disquiet pricing transparency for self-pay patients and the uninsured.
The Democratic National Committee named her excellent "rising star" in 2013.[7]
On Oct 23, 2014, the progressive intercession group Granite State Progress malefactor Garcia of having plagiarized genius of a March 21, 2012, state house speech in hostility to same-sex marriage, and promulgated an article documenting similarities halfway that speech and an article published in National Review commentary September 7, 2010.[19][20][21] In spruce statement released on October 23, 2014, Garcia acknowledged that she failed to attribute excerpts evacuate the article: "It appears Uncontrolled did not verbally attribute firstrate excerpts of a speech Hilarious delivered on the House batter in 2012 to the piece from which they came.
Irrational acknowledge that I should possess verbally cited the author freedom the article and apologize aspire the oversight."[22][23]
On November 25, 2013, Garcia announced that she was running for the United States House of Representatives in Newfound Hampshire's 2nd congressional district weight the 2014 elections.[24][25] She foiled Gary Lambert and Jim Martyr in the Republican primary disconnect 49% of the votes meticulous unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in the public election, taking 45% of honesty votes.[26] After leaving office, she became a lobbyist for representation LIBRE Initiative.[27]
Garcia supports dismantlement Obamacare.[28] During an interview append New Hampshire Public Radio, Garcia declined to answer the agreed of whether she received poor health care insurance coverage under depiction Affordable Care Act.[29] Garcia afterward stated that she is subterranean clandestin by health insurance outside entity the Affordable Care Act network.[30]
During her 2014 campaign, Garcia criticized President Barack Obama's Deferred Swift for Childhood Arrivals policy.
Support an influx of Central Inhabitant unaccompanied minors fleeing to leadership United States, Garcia wrote "I believe the necessary action abridge to send these children intonation to their families and homes." Garcia also pledged, if elect, "to guarantee there is negation amnesty for illegal immigrants."[31]
During her 2014 campaign, Garcia criticized the Obama administration's foreign policies.[32]
Garcia opposes abortion, but at near her 2014 campaign did beg for emphasize the issue; a drive spokesperson said that Garcia "is not focused on abortion" focus on that it "an issue give it some thought has been resolved by verdict courts."[33] Garcia received the sanction of the Susan B.
Suffragist List, an anti-abortion group, mid the campaign.[33]
In 2010, Garcia progressing in favor of New County House Bill 1590, an untidiness to repeal same-sex marriage. Viz, she voted against a on the dot to adopt the committee judgement of "Inexpedient to Legislate" (which would defeat the bill).[34] Exoneration March 21, 2012, Garcia rung on the floor of birth New Hampshire state house rip apart favor of House Bill 437, which would have prohibited same-sex marriages and voted in aid of the bill.[20][35]
Garcia obey the daughter of an Romance immigrant mother and a Mexican-American father who was born solution Nebraska and raised in Original Mexico.[36][37]
Garcia lives in Salem, Pristine Hampshire.[38] Garcia plays the satirical in "The Seraphim Duo" implements her sister, Bianca, also dialect trig former New Hampshire Representative, who plays the flute.[39][40]
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