Downtown San Bernardino, California.

Robert Garcia

Democrat, State Assembly
District 50, San Bernardino
Time in office:
  • Assembly: 2024-present

Bio

Robert Garcia, 47, has spent the last two decades as an elementary school assistant principal and former math and science teacher. He also served as a board member for the Etiwanda School District, to which he was elected in 2016. During his tenure as president of the school board, he saw the district through the pandemic and racked up some accolades, including four prestigious National Blue Ribbon School awards. Garcia lives in Rancho Cucamonga with his wife and three children.

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Alignment Meter

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Financials

This feature tracks three sources of money intended to help a candidate win election: 1-Money given directly to a candidate’s committee, 2-Money given to an Independent Expenditure Committee, 3-Money given to a political party. (NOTE: Senators are elected every four years. Twenty of the 40 Senators are on the ballot in even-numbered years, so Senators may do little or no fundraising in the first two-year session of their Senate term).

Election

This display shows money given directly to the incumbent’s campaign committee (NOTE: The industry categories for donors come from Open Secrets, a nonpartisan research organization for campaign finance. Some contributions are “uncoded,” meaning they have not been assigned to an industry sector. As a result, the total for each sector is also an estimate).

Candidate Contributions

$12.0K

Communications & Electronics

$200.0

General Business

$5.5K

Government Agencies/Education/Other

$23.6K

Health

$1.9K

Ideology/Single Issue

$4.8K

Labor

$111.8K

Lawyers & Lobbyists

$15.6K

Party

$250.0

Transportation

$100.0

Uncoded

$229.8K

Unitemized Contributions

$4.6K

Candidate Donations

Individuals, corporations, organizations and committees are limited to a maximum donation to candidates of $5,500 for the primary and for the general elections.

Total
$410.0K

46.0% lower than the average legislators

Independent Expenditures

Money from Independent Expenditure Committees (IEC) for advertising or grassroots activity to help a candidate win office is unlimited, but it cannot be spent in coordination with the candidate or the candidate's campaign.

Total
$119.0

Grand Total for Elections

$410.1K

46.0% lower than the average legislators

This is a total of the money to help this legislator win office including direct donations to the candidate, money from Independent Expenditure Committees and money from political parties.


Influence

There are three categories of donations to legislators after they are elected that encourage a working relationship between the donor and the legislator. The three categories are: 1-Gifts, 2-Travel, 3-Behests.

No personal gifts data found

Policy

Bills Authored by Robert Garcia

Committees

Most of the policy work in the state Capitol is done in “Standing” committees. Legislators also work on budget subcommittees. There are also “Special” and “Select” committees with a more narrow topic focus. And there are “Joint” committees with members from the Senate and Assembly.

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Hearings

Featured Comments

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District

View of map with yellow overlay for Assembly District 50 boundaries.
District 50 is a Safe Democratic District
Democratic Party candidate has a very high likelihood of winning in an election

Previous Election:

Adam Perez
43.6%
Robert Garcia
56.4%
WON

Party Registration

Census Data

Median age0102030

Median age