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The grief-stricken husband of a fourth-grade teacher killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre died of a heart attack just two days after the mass shooting, family said on Thursday. Joe Garcia died in the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers — including his wife of 24 years, Irma Garcia, her nephew said on Twitter. [cut] The Garcias leave behind four children.

A Florida Democrat running for Congress was caught on tape saying that Hillary Clinton “is under no illusions that you want to have sex with her,” according to the Miami Herald. The comment from Joe Garcia, a former congressman attempting to regain his seat, came during an attempt to explain how Clinton reminds him of former President Lyndon Johnson.

A Florida Democrat running for Congress was caught on tape saying that Hillary Clinton "is under no illusions that you want to have sex with her," according to the Miami Herald. The comment from Joe Garcia, a former congressman attempting to regain his seat, came during an attempt to explain how Clinton reminds him of former President Lyndon Johnson.

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JOE GARCIA, Florida Dem. Congressman Accepts Money from Radical Muslim Group Posted By Joe Kaufman On May 30, 2014 @ 12:40 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage Emerge USA is a Florida-based organization whose unstated goal is to give radical Muslims a political voice in America. One way they do this is by getting their leaders placed in key positions of power. Another way is by making friends with those already in power. United States Representative from Florida, Joe Garcia, is one of those friends. He has accepted thousands of dollars from Emerge for his 2014 reelection bid, and he has returned...

Earlier this week, Representative Joe Garcia (D-FLA) said that “poverty and crime in this country could be cured if we had a communist economic system. Under communism everybody has a good government job. No one has to go without the basic necessities. No one has any need to commit crimes.” Contrary to Garcia’s thesis, though, Washington, DC, which has a very high ratio of government jobs, also has one of the highest crime rates in the nation. As for government employees having no need to commit crimes, well, over 300,000 current and former federal workers owe more than $3 billion...

U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia (D-FL) misstated basic facts while praising communism in an online video conference this week. Garcia, who represents southernmost Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives, told video conference participants, “We’ve proved that communism works. If you give everybody a good government job, there’s no crime.” Garcia made his comments while discussing immigration, border security agents, and crime rates in El Paso, Texas. “Let me give you an example, the kind of money we’ve poured in,” said Garcia. “So the most dangerous — sorry, the safest city in America is El Paso, Texas. It happens to be...

Democratic Florida Rep. Joe Garcia — fresh off being caught eating his own earwax on camera — was caught red-handed (or is it yellow-fingered?) in another gaffe this week, claiming that low crime rates in border cities with lots of federal immigration workers is proof that “Communism works.” Garcia made the comment during a Google hangout he convened last week to talk about comprehensive immigration reform with supporters. The Democrat attempted to point out how, for all their talk about limited government, many Republicans are fine spending loads of government money on border security. “Let me give you an example,...

Democrats are holding out hope that their discharge petition on a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill can still work — or at least be used as election-year ammo. House Democrats held a conference call Tuesday to announce their intention to distribute a memo in the districts of 30 House Republicans who have signaled support for an immigration overhaul previously. Democrats are calling on these Republicans, and others, to “put their pen where their mouth is,” as Colorado Democrat Jared Polis put it, and sign the discharge petition for HR 15, the companion bill to the Senate-passed immigration bill. The discharge petition...

Congress is consumed with the troublesome government shutdown, but House Democrats are trying to kick-start the stalled debate over immigration reform. “The American people have spoken,” Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia of Florida said this week. “They want Congress to take on this issue.” Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., said he’s sure there are enough House votes to pass a bill that “fixes our broken immigration system, including provide a path to legal residency and ultimately to citizenship to millions of people who work hard everyday in this country.” …

Many freshman Democrats in the House are defying Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and not voting with the party on key issues. They told Politico they are there to represent their constituents and not make big points with House leadership. Dan Maffei (D-NY) has voted less with his party than any other freshman Democrat. He voted with Republicans to delay the mandates in Obamacare for one year. Fourteen of his colleagues joined him and Pelosi accused them of undermining her. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-FL) took to the House floor to attack the defectors, but Maffei does not regret his actions:...

Updated 7:26 p.m. | Republicans and Democrats slammed Rep. Steve King Tuesday for saying last week that children who were brought to the U.S. illegally don’t deserve “amnesty” because they’re not “all valedictorians.” South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy called the remarks “reprehensible,” while Florida Democrat Joe Garcia argued they were “beneath the dignity” of a member of Congress. The Iowa Republican told the conservative website NewsMax that he is sympathetic to the situation in which many undocumented children find themselves. But he said those so-called DREAMers are not all created equal. “Some of them are valedictorians — and their...

Miami-Dade School Board member Carlos Curbelo threw his hat in the ring as a Republican candidate for Florida’s 26th Congressional District Tuesday. His family in tow, Curbelo made the announcement in his backyard in west Miami-Dade. The 26th Congressional District – which stretches from western Miami-Dade County across to Florida’s west coast and includes the Florida Keys – is currently represented by Democratic Congressman Joe Garcia, who handily defeated then-Republican congressman David Rivera last November. It was a slugfest campaign with charges of phony candidates and ballot rigging. Now, Garcia is plagued with an investigation of a former top aide...

Democrats like to claim that concern over ballot fraud is just paranoid conspiracy-theory rubbish. It might be a little more difficult to make that case after Miami-Dade investigators busted a ring of Democrats for attempting to push hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests in the 2012 election – a ring that reached the inner circle of at least one Democratic Congressman, and perhaps two: Congressman Joe Garcia’s chief of staff abruptly resigned Friday after being implicated in a sophisticated scheme to manipulate last year’s primary elections by submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests.Friday afternoon, Garcia said he had asked Jeffrey Garcia,...

Congressman Joe Garcia’s chief of staff abruptly resigned Friday after being implicated in a sophisticated scheme to manipulate last year’s primary elections by submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests. Friday afternoon, Garcia said he had asked Jeffrey Garcia, no relation, for his resignation after the chief of staff — also the congressman’s top political strategist — took responsibility for the plot. Hours earlier, law enforcement investigators raided the homes of another of Joe Garcia’s employees and a former campaign aide in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation into the matter. “I’m shocked and disappointed about this,” Garcia, who said he...

JOE GARCIA AND HIS CORRUPT, PRO-CASTRO FRIEND CHARLIE RANGEL (D-NY)Why leftists keep on finding Joe Garcia and are willing to donate to his campaign? What do they see in Joe Garcia? ...Miami media is not investigating Joe Garcia's sources of income and campaign contributions from people people in business with Castro. When will the Miami media unveil the real Joe Garcia? "Garcia has yet to provide a credible explanation as to why individuals who do business with the Castro brothers and are diligently working to end the embargo against Cuba's dictatorship would want to invest tens of thousands of...

CHECK THE PUBLIC RECORDS YOURSELF Links to donation records here Joe Garcia, Democrat candidate for Congress in Florida's 25th district, has been accepting thousands of dollars in donations from John Cabanas, friend and partner of Fidel Castro. Video: "I sympathize a lot with Fidel Castro," says John Cabanas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDJVSr3T5M DONOR FOR 'JOE GARCIA FOR CONGRESS':JOHN CABANAS, OWNER OF C & T CHARTERS (Direct flights to Cuba): Reported contributions from April through August, 2010: John Cabanas (CT Charters, aviation) $2,400 5/19/2010 (1) John Cabanas (CT Charters, aviation) $2,400 5/19/2010 (1) Adalgiza Cabanas (Homemaker) $2,400 5/19/2010 (1) Adalgiza Cabanas (Homemaker) $2,400...

CUBAN LEFTIST GROUPS ARE ATTACKING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DAVID RIVERA TO FAVOR DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST CANDIDATE JOE GARCIA. Florida Race: Congressional District#25 Republican David Rivera vs. Democrat Joe Garcia The Miami Herald blog, NakedPolitics, reported that Jorge Mas Santos, ex-boss of Joe Garcia, and Carlos Saladrigas are behind the 527 group (Committee for Responsible Politics) running the ads attacking David Rivera: [...] THE PUBLIC RECORDS SHOW IT'S TRUE Sources: Federal Election Commission (FEC), Florida's Company Records, and OpenSecrets.org:COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE POLITICS (FEC ID#: C30001697) Address: 2618 Centennial Place, Tallahassee, FL 32308 Custodian of Records: Mark Herron, Attorney from Messer, Caparello & Self,...

WHO IS DONATING MONEY TO JOE GARCIA’S CAMPAIGN? Here are partial reports of contributions via the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website: link ....Some of the donors are the same people who have pushed for the U.S. to have a business relationship with Fidel Castro: - John Cabanas linked to Fidel Castro. - Richard Reposa, attorney working closely with John Cabanas. - Maria Reposa, wife of Richard Reposa. - Alfredo Duran, attorney who visited Fidel Castro in 2001. .....

PROOF: ROLY ARROJO IS A DEMOCRAT AND A FAKE TEA-PARTY CANDIDATE (Links to all public records here) Here are the public campaign records proving that Roly Arrojo is a Democrat, but he wants voters to think he is representing the Tea-Party-Movement. Informed voters know that the "Tea Party" is not a political party, but a movement or loosely affiliated smaller local groups composed by every-day Americans who care about the U.S. Constitution and oppose government waste and abuse. The name "Tea Party" alludes to the historical Boston Tea Party of 1773 when Americans protested the British monarchy and their...