Joe Garcia
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"José Antonio Garcia, Jr.", known as "Joe Garcia", is the former U.S Representative for ; he was defeated in his 2014 bid for re-election and left office on January 3, 2015. The district includes most of western Miami-Dade County, as well as the Florida Keys. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. He is the former executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation and was nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact and Diversity of the United States Department of Energy, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate.

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This was certainly not a worthwhile battle. What do you gain - that a few ballplayers can't play ball? This was a silly resistance and just not worth it.

If there was a grain of sand on Kathy, it would have come out and it hasn't. She's run twice, she's beat them twice.

She's from our neck of the woods, and she grew up here and went on to bigger and better things, ... I think it's important for kids to see someone like that come back and show them what is possible.

It was really hard on us.

Our child is being raised as a proxy, ... but we hope some day to get the proxy back through negotiations. And in public life, the longer you're in, the poorer you are.

But it marks, to some degree, a failure on our part to communicate the message.

Those injuries kind of hurt us. But we have to go with what we have got. I think we are ready.

This is the message we need to get out about Cuba.

We look forward, ... to when Fidel Castro's birthday gives way to the possibility of celebrating democracy in Cuba.