Mayou Angelou said, "when people show you who they are, believe them the first time."
Mike Garcia has shown us who he is – not just once – but in every single vote he's taken against the people of CA-27 and against our democracy.
He showed us when he voted against certifying a democratically-held presidential election. He showed us when he put his corporate donors first ahead of the needs of working people by voting against the Infrastructure Bill and The American Rescue Plan.
And, he recently showed us he's more interested in dog whistling to the most racist, extreme factions of his party by voting against the CROWN Act that bans discrimination based on hair styles and textures. There is no excuse for this.
John, Mike Garcia and his Republican ilk are jumping at the opportunity to undermine all the social progress we've made as a nation and unravel our social safety net piece by piece.
They're itching to get rid of protections for pre-existing conditions, they're jumping at the prospect of overturning Roe, and they want to make it as difficult as humanly possible just to cast a ballot. (And in many GOP-led states, they've already been successful).
We all know what the future holds for America if Republicans hold the majority in the House and Senate; it's not pretty for working-class people, for women, for LGBTQ+, and people of color.
