Salem's Marilinda Garcia Officially Running for Congress

Submitted on behalf of Marilinda Garcia, a New Hampshire state representative from Salem

Pledging to bring a new generation of fiscally responsible leadership to Congress, State Representative Marilinda Garcia today filed paperwork to run for the Republican nomination in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District.  

A four-term member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Garcia has a strong record of supporting economic development, the strengthening of local control and choice in education and the full repeal of ObamaCare.

“I look at Washington, D.C. and am tired of the dysfunction.  Elected officials are supposed to be public servants committed to putting the needs of the country first, not self-aggrandizing politicians making promises they don’t intend to keep,” said Garcia.

“I simply cannot stand by while our state continues to be hurt by an overreaching federal government that is recklessly spending our country into debt, punishing entrepreneurship and taking away our freedoms.

"If we want to solve our country’s problems, we have to change the kind of people we send to Washington and that’s why I’m running for Congress,” said Garcia.

Marilinda is focused on removing obstacles to business development and job creation in the Granite state, strengthening education opportunities for children, and working towards patient-centered reforms that actually drive down the cost of health care.

“The President’s top-down, government-knows-best health care law is causing a great deal of pain for thousands of New Hampshire families, with more to come as the mandates take effect.

“I will work to replace this expensive ObamaCare mess with real, bottom-up reforms that take power out of the hands of politicians and put power into the hands of consumers,” said Garcia.

Marilinda Garcia is a life-long New Hampshire resident and a four-term member of the state House of Representatives.  A graduate of Tufts University, the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University, Marilinda works in education and cyber-security. 

New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District is one of the most politically competitive seats in the country, having changed parties three times since 2006 (in 2006, 2010, and 2012).