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Marilinda Joy Garcia (born ) is an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A Republican, she served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Rockingham 8th district from 2012 to 2014. She previously represented the Rockingham 4th district from 2007 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2012. She is an accomplished harp player, and teaches as an adjunct professor at local universities. The Republican National Committee named Garcia a "rising star" in 2013, and she won the Republican nomination for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in the 2014 elections on September 9, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marilinda Garcia Wins GOP Primary In New Hampshire )〕 Garnering 45% of the vote, she lost the general election on November 4, 2014 to Ann McLane Kuster.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Hampshire House Election Results by District )〕 ==Career== While Garcia attended high school, she was a member of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Repertory Orchestra and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Senior Orchestra, as the Principal Harp. She attended Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music (NECM), earning joint bachelor's degrees in 2006. After graduating from Tufts and NECM, served as a court appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children.〔 She also began teaching the harp at Gordon College, Phillips Exeter Academy, and St. Paul's School as an adjunct professor in music.〔 She also attended Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she obtained her Masters degree in Public Policy in 2010.〔 Garcia was elected to the New Hampshire House in 2006, at the age of 23.〔〔 She became the co-chairman of the House Republican caucus and Majority Whip. She lost her bid for re-election in 2008. Her Rockingham District 4 elected thirteen candidates to the House and Garcia finished fourteenth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 04 Race – Nov 04, 2008 )〕 She returned to the House in 2009 in a special election for Rockingham District 4, winning the Republican primary with 66% of the vote〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 04 – Special R Primary Race – Mar 24, 2009 )〕 and the general election with 62% of the vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 04 – Special Election Race – Apr 28, 2009 )〕 She was re-elected in 2010, coming fourth out of the thirteen candidates who advanced to the general election,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 04 – R Primary Race – Sep 14, 2010 )〕 where she came seventh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 04 Race – Nov 02, 2010 )〕 The new Speaker Bill O' Brien appointed her vice chair of the House Legislative Administration committee which considers all matters pertaining to the legislative process including such issues such as mileage, elections, the journal, house resolutions and screening; enrolling bills; creation of statutory and chapter study committees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legislative Administration Committee, New Hampshire House of Representatives )〕 In 2012, she was re-elected from Rockingham District 8. In the Republican primary to determine the nine candidates for the seat, she came fifth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 08 – R Primary Race – Sep 11, 2012 )〕 In the general election, she came seventh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Campaigns – NH State House – Rockingham 08 Race – Nov 06, 2012 )〕 During her tenure in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Garcia was the prime sponsor of the New Hampshire Innovation Job Growth Program bill, which enables the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority to facilitate the acquisition of early stage seed capital for NH entrepreneurs. In the 2012 session she was the prime sponsor of Destination Specialty Treatment Center bill that would reform the current antiquated regulatory environment of hospital construction and equipment purchasing and enable the development of NH's specialty health care sector. Most recently, she was the prime sponsor of a bill to restructure upper management of the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, and the Price Transparency Act relative to medical care pricing transparency for self-pay patients and the uninsured. The Republican National Committee named her a "rising star" in 2013. On October 23, 2014, the progressive advocacy group Granite State Progress accused Garcia of having plagiarized parts of a March 21, 2012, state house speech in opposition to same-sex marriage, and published an article documenting similarities between that speech and an editorial published in National Review on September 7, 2010. In a statement released on October 23, 2014, Garcia acknowledged that she failed to attribute excerpts from the article: "It appears I did not verbally attribute select excerpts of a speech I delivered on the House floor in 2012 to the article from which they came. I acknowledge that I should have verbally cited the author of the article and apologize for the oversight." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marilinda Garcia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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