Garcia, a 31-year-old state representative named a “rising star” by the RNC, has long been seen as more conservative than Lambert, a former state senator who has taken liberal positions on abortion and cap-and-trade. “Early in his campaign for Congress, Gary Lambert was privately telling Republicans that they should choose him because Marilinda Garcia was too conservative,” according to a Union-Leader editorial. “Now he is calling her a ‘liberal.'”
