Joe Garcia: His life and times - Ever since Joe Garcia has been running against Mario Balart for Florida’s 25th district, there are people who think that he can end Balart and Castro dynasty within US. He is one of few Cuban Americans who took the road from Republican to Democratic.

WHILE THERE have been many Independents, Libertarians, and Greens running for office in the elections that are being held in America in 2008, there are some people within the Democratic Party that are worth mentioning. One of them is Joe Garcia. Garcia is running against incumbent Republican Congressman, Mario Diaz Balart, for the upcoming elections of the 25th District of Florida, with a promise of common sense in a country and district that needs it.

Garcia deserves to be mentioned in this life and time. While I do not know Garcia personally, I have seen him in Versailles Restaurant (a popular Cuban Restaurant) in Miami, Florida, talking about politics and other subjects. He would either be talking with those in the tables while waiting for their food. After seeing these reunions, I was reminded of the painting by Rembrandt: ’The Syndics of the Cloth maker’s Guild’, in which there is a dominance of intellectual discussion. I was also reminded of the discussions that Voltaire (French writer of the 18th century) with other intellectuals of the day. Yet, his intellectual discourse is based on common sense. He is also one of the few Cuban Americans who took the road from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.”*

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