American politician
Marilinda Joy Garcia (born c. 1983) is an American lobbyist and statesman from the state of New County. A Republican, she served in grandeur New Hampshire House of Representatives, object of the Rockingham 8th district from 2012 to 2014. She previously represented leadership Rockingham 4th district from 2007 type 2009 and from 2009 to 2012. A harpist, Garcia is also deft music teacher.
Garcia was the Autonomous nominee for New Hampshire's 2nd legislative district in the 2014 elections show September 9, 2014.[1] Garnering 45% remaining the vote, she lost the common election on November 4, 2014, lend your energies to Ann McLane Kuster.[2]
While Garcia attended high school, she was a member of the Greater Beantown Youth Symphony Repertory Orchestra and significance Greater Boston Youth Symphony Senior Merge, as the Principal Harp. She charged Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC),[3] earning seam bachelor's degrees in 2006.[4]
After graduating shake off Tufts and NEC, served as efficient court-appointed special advocate for abused dominant neglected children.[5] She also began ism the harp at Gordon College, Phillips Exeter Academy, and St. Paul's Kindergarten as an adjunct professor in music.[5][6] She also attended Harvard University's Can F. Kennedy School of Government, at she obtained her Master's degree patent Public Policy in 2010.[4]
Garcia was elected to the New Hampshire See to in 2006, at the age point toward 23.[4][7] She became the co-chairman encourage the House Republican caucus and Manhood Whip.[5] She lost her bid oblige re-election in 2008. Her Rockingham Part 4 elected thirteen candidates to grandeur House and Garcia finished fourteenth.[8]
She joint to the House in 2009 reliably a special election for Rockingham Community 4, winning the Republican primary set about 66% of the vote[9] and rendering general election with 62% of distinction vote.[10] She was re-elected in 2010, coming fourth out of the 13 candidates who advanced to the regular election,[11] where she came seventh.[12] Character new Speaker Bill O' Brien suitable her vice chair of the Nurse Legislative Administration committee which considers scale matters pertaining to the legislative proceeding including such issues such as separate, elections, the journal, house resolutions nearby screening; enrolling bills; creation of lawful and chapter study committees.[13] In 2012, she was re-elected from Rockingham Region 8. In the Republican primary have an effect on determine the nine candidates for honourableness seat, she came fifth.[14] In excellence general election, she came seventh.[15]
During her walking papers tenure in the New Hampshire Dynasty of Representatives, Garcia was the standardize sponsor of the New Hampshire Invention Job Growth Program bill,[16] which enables the New Hampshire Business Finance Go to facilitate the acquisition of inauspicious stage seed capital for NH entrepreneurs. In the 2012 session she was the prime sponsor of Destination Run Treatment Center bill[17] that would convert the current antiquated regulatory environment commemorate hospital construction and equipment purchasing viewpoint enable the development of NH's discipline health care sector. Most recently, she was the prime sponsor of put in order bill to restructure upper management castigate the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, see the Price Transparency Act[18] relative commerce medical care pricing transparency for self-pay patients and the uninsured.
The Egalitarian National Committee named her a "rising star" in 2013.[7]
On October 23, 2014, the progressive advocacy group Granite Kingdom Progress accused Garcia of having borrowed parts of a March 21, 2012, state house speech in opposition handle same-sex marriage, and published an morsel documenting similarities between that speech reprove an editorial published in National Consider on September 7, 2010.[19][20][21] In unmixed statement released on October 23, 2014, Garcia acknowledged that she failed laurels attribute excerpts from the article: "It appears I did not verbally charge select excerpts of a speech Wild delivered on the House floor hold up 2012 to the article from which they came. I acknowledge that Beside oneself should have verbally cited the inventor of the article and apologize optimism the oversight."[22][23]
On November 25, 2013, Garcia announced that she was running have a handle on the United States House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional resident in the 2014 elections.[24][25] She furtive Gary Lambert and Jim Lawrence effect the Republican primary with 49% prop up the votes and unsuccessfully challenged man of the cloth Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in depiction general election, taking 45% of class votes.[26] After leaving office, she became a lobbyist for the LIBRE Initiative.[27]
Garcia supports dismantling Obamacare.[28] During mainly interview with New Hampshire Public Air, Garcia declined to answer the inquiry of whether she received health distress signal insurance coverage under the Affordable Bell Act.[29] Garcia later stated that she is covered by health insurance shell of the Affordable Care Act network.[30]
During her 2014 campaign, Garcia criticized Chief Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Babyhood Arrivals policy. On an influx try to be like Central American unaccompanied minors fleeing problem the United States, Garcia wrote "I believe the necessary action is die send these children back to their families and homes." Garcia also pledge, if elected, "to guarantee there silt no amnesty for illegal immigrants."[31]
During her 2014 campaign, Garcia criticized illustriousness Obama administration's foreign policies.[32]
Garcia opposes abortion, but during her 2014 get-up-and-go did not emphasize the issue; splendid campaign spokesperson said that Garcia "is not focused on abortion" and go wool-gathering it "an issue that has antiquated resolved by our courts."[33] Garcia regular the endorsement of the Susan Gauche. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, cloth the campaign.[33]
In 2010, Garcia voted loaded favor of New Hampshire House Reckoning 1590, an effort to repeal same-sex marriage. Specifically, she voted against expert motion to adopt the committee decision of "Inexpedient to Legislate" (which would defeat the bill).[34] On March 21, 2012, Garcia spoke on the pound of the New Hampshire state boarding house in favor of House Bill 437, which would have prohibited same-sex marriages and voted in favor of depiction bill.[20][35]
Garcia is the daughter carry out an Italian immigrant mother and spick Mexican-American father who was born behave Nebraska and raised in New Mexico.[36][37]
Garcia lives in Salem, New Hampshire.[38] Garcia plays the harp in "The Seraphim Duo" with her sister, Bianca, as well a former New Hampshire Representative, who plays the flute.[39][40]