Not Luis Garcia, a newly elected state representative who was running against a right-wing Cuban in a district that is 72 percent republicans or independents and includes Little Havana.

At 60 years old, Garcia is a lifelong democrat. After all, he says, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who first helped the Cubans arrive in this country with the Freedom Flights of the 1960s.

The former Miami Beach fire chief says Democrats are "responsible for most of the civil rights legislation and Democrats have proven throughout the years to be sensitive to the needs of working families."

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