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Michael Garza
DEMOCRAT
Michael Garza is running for Georgia State Representative, District 46.
Personal background
Michael studied chemical engineering at Rice University for one year. He lives in Marietta with his wife, Samantha. They have one daughter.
Professional background
Michael is a web developer. He has a web development business. He used to build websites and consult for local businesses, and he worked as product manager at EarthLink.
Political background
Michael Garza's campaign for state representative is his first entry into politics.
Economy
Believes that Georgia should invest in small businesses instead of "giving massive corporate tax breaks to attract out-of-state businesses."
Wants to expand affordable broadband internet to rural areas.
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Voting & Elections
Wants to make it easier to vote and repeal S.B. 202 so that state legislatures don't control election boards.
Supports a constitutional amendment on the ballot that creates an independent commission to run elections and voting districts are done fairly.
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Healthcare
Wants to expand Medicaid to cover more than 150,000 uninsured Georgians and 32,000 uninsured veterans.
Supports expanding treatment for mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders.
Believes that decisions about women's healthcare "are best made between a woman and her doctor," and promises to reduce barriers to birth control, protect women from pregnancy discrimination, and provide paid parental leave to state employees.
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Education
Wants to increase funding for public education so that the state education system is fully funded, including funding sparsity and equalization grants and providing additional funding to districts with higher poverty rates.
Plans to hire more school counselors and remove administrative tasks from teachers.
Supports "stopping anti-diversity bills which heap additional burdens on lesson planning and create an adversarial relationship between educators and parents where none should exist."
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Public Safety
Supports universal background checks on every gun purchase and transfer, awareness programs about safe gun storage, extreme risk laws to keep people in crisis or with dangerous histories from accessing guns, and waiting periods on new gun purchases.
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