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.
http://www.nhrtl.org/pac/2012/2012_NHRTL_House_VG_OFFICIAL_VERSION_05.pdf
that is the A.L.L. affiliate in NH
all 6 votes that they scored, she voted pro-life. On #2, she was not in office. She did not return their survey.
Her system and “running mate” was a first time candidate. She returned the survey and answered YES on the 3 questions.
IN 2008, almost 1000 people ran for the state house. Only 19 scored a perfect 7 for 7 pro-life score on the A.L.L. rating, combination of voting record and survey. (sure, only incumbents had the voting record)
She was one of the 19.
http://www.nhrtl.org/pac/2008/HouseVGPrimarySept2008.pdf
Too bad she did not spend the past 8 months on a speaking/organizing tour of western New Hampshire, from Keene to the Canadian border. A very tough job in the dark frozen months ahead. Probably laying the groundwork now for a more serious run in 2 years.