Martin Garrick
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Martin W. Garrick represents the 74th district in the California State Assembly
California State Assembly
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. He was elected to the Assembly in November 2006. Garrick served in the Reagan
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 Administration and is a small business owner.

Background

Garrick was born in 1953 in Glendale, California
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. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science
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 in Business from United States International University in San Diego
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.

In the 1980s, Garrick joined the Ronald Reagan
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 for President
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 Campaign at national headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. He then moved to the White House
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 transition team and thereafter into a number of positions in the Reagan Administration
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, including Deputy Senate House Liaison. After leaving the Reagan Administration, Garrick founded Admiral Industries, Inc., a telecommunications company. He also owns and manages Admiral Property Company, a real estate investment firm.

Community and Party Involvement

Garrick has been active for decades in Republican organizations and campaigns. As First Vice Chairman of the San Diego Republican Party, Garrick played a major role in the building of one of the nation's most effective local parties. For a decade, he served as a Board Member in the San Diego Lincoln Club, and as a member of the Adam Smith Institute and San Diego County Republican Party Central Committee.

Additionally, Garrick's community activism included roles on the Solana Beach Crime Commission, Solana Beach Budget Committee and the San Diego County Cable and Television Review Committee.

Priorities in the Assembly

Garrick states his top priorities as first, stopping illegal immigration by voting to secure the border and voting against welfare and driver's license
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s for illegal aliens. Secondly, balancing the budget, he is opposed to new taxes, and supports openness and transparency in the budget including a public audit every year. Thirdly, Garrick wants to end freeway gridlock by voting to use every penny of gas tax for freeway construction.

Family

Garrick is married to Jane, a school teacher and their family includes her four grown children, two boys and two girls.

External links

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