Indeed, it sounds like she’s for shamnesty. That is disappointing.
I had heard of Marilinda Garcia before, but didn’t look up her legislative voting record until a couple of days ago when she announced her congressional run. She appears to be moderate-to-conservative, like a Jeb Bradley. She appears to have switched from pro-choice to pro-life on abortion after the GOP won the state house in 2010 (the RATs won it back in 2012, but Garcia has continued to vote pro-life); it’s possible, though, that she always was pro-life but voted, for strategic reasons, not to proceed with pro-life legislation with no chance of passage. As for immigration, state legislators generally don’t get to vote on such matters, but her membership in some sort of “immigration reform” group obviously is not a good sign (although neither does it make her an open-borders amnesty hack).
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that Marilinda Garcia is running in NH-02, the more Democrat of NH’s two districts; the district voted 43.1% for McCain and 44.5% for Romney, hasn’t voted for a Republican for president in 25 years., and has been represented by Democrats or by RINO Charlie Bass since 1990. So our choices in NH-02 won’t be between Garcia and a conservative like Bob Smith or John Sununu (both of whom represented the more conservative NH-01, which voted for Bush in both 2000 and 2004 and gave Romney 48.6%); they’ll likely be Garcia or some RINO. We can’t afford to be too picky in NH-02.
my impression of Lambert (the other GOP candidate) is that he is NOT interested in “social issues”. Former Speaker O’Brien, the more conservative choice, decided not to run.
Unfortunately, Garcia has no base. She lives on the Mass border in the corner of the district and represents a puny house seat.
was Salem deliberately gerrymandered from CD-1 into CD-2 because of her? CD2 is the part of the state I’ve campaigned in from time to time. An interesting area ... but very difficult for a newcomer to get any name recognition ... sprawling rural area with no central media. I think much of their cable TV is from Vermont.
If she is pro-life, great. I wish her the best. But an uphill fight for the nomination, let alone November. District is 3% Hispanic and them liberal-moderate rural Yankees are racist and do not like outsiders.