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Brian Garcia
2025 - Present
2027
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Brian Garcia (Democratic Party) is a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 8. He assumed office on January 13, 2025. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.
Garcia (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Arizona House of Representatives to represent District 8. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Garcia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Brian Garcia was born in Arizona. He earned a high school diploma from McClintock High School, a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in 2015, a graduate degree from Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in 2017, and a law degree from the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law in 2020. His career experience includes working as an attorney, Maricopa co-director for the Arizona School Board Association Board of Directors, civic engagement mentor, child advocate, and an LGBTQ Victory Empowerment Fellow for Victory Institute. Garcia has been affiliated with Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy, School Board Partners, National Native American Bar Association, State Bar of New Mexico, State Bar of the District of Columbia, State Bar of Arizona, and New Pathways for Youth.[1]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 (2 seats)
Janeen Connolly and Brian Garcia defeated Caden Darrow and Tre Rook in the general election for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Janeen Connolly (D)  | 35.1 | 49,065 |
| ✔ |  | Brian Garcia (D) | 34.3 | 47,977 |
 | Caden Darrow (R) | 25.2 | 35,180 | |
 | Tre Rook (G) | 5.4 | 7,559 | |
| Total votes: 139,781 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 (2 seats)
Brian Garcia and Janeen Connolly defeated Juan Mendez in the Democratic primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Garcia | 34.3 | 9,078 |
| ✔ | | Janeen Connolly | 33.5 | 8,856 |
 | Juan Mendez | 32.2 | 8,510 | |
| Total votes: 26,444 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 (2 seats)
Caden Darrow advanced from the Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Caden Darrow | 100.0 | 9,281 |
| Total votes: 9,281 | |||
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Green primary election
Green primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 (2 seats)
Tre Rook advanced from the Green primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 8 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tre Rook (Write-in) | 100.0 | 7 |
| Total votes: 7 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Garcia's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here. Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Garcia in this election.
2018
General election
General election for Tempe Union High School District, At-large (2 seats)
Brian Garcia and Andres Barraza defeated Don Fletcher in the general election for Tempe Union High School District, At-large on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Garcia (Nonpartisan) | 38.1 | 48,086 |
| ✔ |  | Andres Barraza (Nonpartisan) | 31.8 | 40,196 |
 | Don Fletcher (Nonpartisan) | 30.1 | 37,997 | |
| Total votes: 126,279 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brian Garcia completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Garcia's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My desire to serve is rooted in fighting for our families and our community. This is home – I was raised by our community. I’m the first in his family to graduate from high school, college, graduate school, and earn a law degree.
I’m a community advocate, an attorney, and a proud product of the LD8 community. As a first-generation graduate of Tempe public schools, I served on the Tempe Union HSD Board as president and vice president. I have been fighting to protect public education, advocating for pro-democracy policies, and have represented unaccompanied children.
I’m committed to fighting for public education, housing, abortion and reproductive freedom, healthcare, and democracy, among others. In Yaqui I like to say Itépoté nábuhti sáhaka amán wamé. “We shall go on beyond to those who have (already) gone by here.” (Crumrine, Lynne S. 1961 - Phonology of Arizona Yaqui). I’m determined to build on the work done at the legislature by our LD 8 representatives – at the legislature and in our community.
Brian Garcia is running as a Clean Elections candidate for the AZ House in Legislative District 8.- As a product of our local public schools, fighting for public education and against ESA vouchers.
- Abortion access and reproductive freedom for all.
- Protecting voting rights and our democracy.
My parents struggled to ends meet growing up and I vividly remember their stress. They worked incredibly hard to ensure our family had what we needed.
Spanish is my first language. I was an ELL student growing up and often struggled to keep up because of the frequency that I was taken out of class. In law school I had to teach myself additional grammar to keep up with my peers. After law school, I was diagnosed with ADHD and it helped understand my compounded symptoms in early childhood.
Similar to my experience on the school board and serving in leadership, we could not govern and move business forward without the rules of procedure.
Please visit briangarciaaz.com/endorsements for updated endorsements.
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Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Arizona House of Representatives District 8 |
Officeholder Arizona House of Representatives District 8 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 6, 2024
