Lorena Garcia
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Lorena Garcia (Democratic Party) is a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, representing District 35. She assumed office on January 9, 2023. Her current term ends on January 12, 2027.
Garcia (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Colorado House of Representatives to represent District 35. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
The Colorado Democratic Party appointed Garcia to the District 35 seat in the state House after Adrienne Benavidez (D), who had won the general election in 2022, resigned from office.[1]
Biography
Lorena Garcia lives in Colorado. Garcia earned a bachelor's of fine arts in film, cinema, and video studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.B.A. in international business from George Washington University. Her career experience includes working as a director in a variety of roles and organizations, such as Colorado state director for 9to5, executive director of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, executive director of Wyofile, development and strategic communications director for Colorado Youth Matter, and CEO of Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition.[2]
Sponsored legislation
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Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Garcia was assigned to the following committees:
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Elections
2024
See also: Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 35
Incumbent Lorena Garcia defeated Lee Knoll in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 35 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lorena Garcia (D) | 64.6 | 19,526 |
| Lee Knoll (R) | 35.4 | 10,689 | ||
| Total votes: 30,215 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Geral Hays (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 35
Incumbent Lorena Garcia advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 35 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lorena Garcia | 100.0 | 4,327 |
| Total votes: 4,327 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 35
Lee Knoll advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 35 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Lee Knoll | 100.0 | 2,101 | |
| Total votes: 2,101 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Garcia in this election.
2020
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Colorado
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Colorado on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Hickenlooper (D) | 53.5 | 1,731,114 |
 | Cory Gardner (R) | 44.2 | 1,429,492 | |
 | Raymon Doane (L) | 1.7 | 56,262 | |
| Daniel Doyle (Approval Voting Party) | 0.3 | 9,820 | ||
 | Stephan Evans (Unity Party) | 0.3 | 8,971 | |
| Bruce Lohmiller (G) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
 | Danny Skelly (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Michael Sanchez (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Total votes: 3,235,659 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Gary Swing (Other)
- Joseph Camp (Independent)
- Veronique Bellamy (Socialist Party)
- Martha Wolf (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Colorado
John Hickenlooper defeated Andrew Romanoff in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Colorado on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Hickenlooper | 58.7 | 585,826 |
 | Andrew Romanoff | 41.3 | 412,955 | |
| Total votes: 998,781 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Danielle Kombo (D)
- Erik Underwood (D)
- Denise Burgess (D)
- David Goldfischer (D)
- Lorena Garcia (D)
- Trish Zornio (D)
- Michael Johnston (D)
- Diana Bray (D)
- Stephany Rose Spaulding (D)
- Michelle Ferrigno Warren (D)
- Critter Milton (D)
- Keith Pottratz (D)
- John Walsh (D)
- Dan Baer (D)
- Ellen Burnes (D)
- Alice Madden (D)
- Angela Williams (D)
- Derrick Blanton (D)
- Dustin John Leitzel (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Colorado
Incumbent Cory Gardner advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Colorado on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cory Gardner | 100.0 | 554,806 |
| Total votes: 554,806 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Margot Dupre (R)
Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Colorado
Raymon Doane defeated Gaylon Kent in the Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate Colorado on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Raymon Doane | 62.8 | 4,365 |
 | Gaylon Kent | 37.2 | 2,583 | |
| Total votes: 6,948 | |||
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Unity Party convention
Unity Party convention for U.S. Senate Colorado
Stephan Evans defeated Joshua Rodriguez in the Unity Party convention for U.S. Senate Colorado on April 4, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Stephan Evans (Unity Party) |
 | Joshua Rodriguez (Unity Party) | |
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Unity Party primary convention
Stephan Evans advanced from the Unity Party primary convention on April 4, 2020. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Noteworthy events
Garcia submitted 13,812 signatures, 9,428 of which were found valid by the Secretary of State's office, which placed Garcia below the 10,500 threshold to qualify for the ballot.[3] Garcia initially intended to contest the Secretary of State's decisions signature-by-signature. Following the April 21 ruling in Warren's favor, Garcia announced on April 22 that she would file a lawsuit similar to Warren's. She said, "That precedent has already been set at a ridiculously low threshold," and argued that her number of valid signatures displayed significant support amid the coronavirus pandemic.[4]
On April 30, Judge Christopher Baumann ordered that Garcia's name be added to the Democratic primary ballot.[5] The Secretary of State did not indicate whether she would appeal the ruling.[5]
On May 5, the Colorado Supreme Court removed Garcia from the ballot after Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) appealed the earlier district court decision. The Supreme Court applied the same argument used in Warren's case one day prior that only the Colorado General Assembly can alter signature requirements. Garcia indicated she would challenge the decision in federal court.[6]
On May 7, U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez ruled that Garcia would not appear on the primary ballot.[7] Garcia formally suspended her campaign the following day.[8]
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2020
Lorena Garcia did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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2024
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2023
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ 9NewsCBS, "Lorena Garcia picked to replace Rep. Adrienne Benavidez in Colorado House," January 4, 2023
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Lorena Garcia," accessed February 10, 2023
- ↑ Colorado Politics, "'We choose to keep fighting': Democratic US Senate candidate to challenge petition shortfall in court," April 21, 2020
- ↑ Colorado Politics, "Colorado's primary ballot could get more crowded due to pandemic," April 22, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Colorado Politics, "Citing COVID-19 obstacles, judge orders 4th Democrat onto Colorado's US Senate primary ballot," April 30, 2020
- ↑ Colorado Sun, "Colorado Supreme Court removes second Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Lorena Garcia, from primary ballot," May 5, 2020
- ↑ Colorado Politics, "Federal judge denies Garcia's request to appear on ballots, clinching Hickenlooper-Romanoff primary," May 8, 2020
- ↑ Garcia's 2020 campaign website, "Garcia Suspends Her Campaign," May 8, 2020
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| Preceded by Shannon Bird (D) |
Colorado House of Representatives District 35 2023-Present |
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