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Votes with the Republican majority 94% of the time; Garcia’s 6 recent breaks lean one way - voting no on bills most Republicans backed. official roll calls
Advocacy groups split on the record - Americans for Prosperity - Florida scores it 100, Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida 70 (4 published scorecards). published scorecards
Sponsored 34 bills and co-sponsored 15 on record; most recently SB 302 “Coastal Resiliency” (Mar 20, 2026). bill records
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What we don’t cover yet
Campaign finance filings for this office aren’t wired in yet - when they’re sourced, they’ll appear here.
The record
official roll calls · every vote links to the bill
94%
Votes with the Republican majority.
Where both parties recorded a position on the same roll call, Garcia’s vote matched the Republican position 94% of the time. That makes the 6 recent breaks the clearest signal of where Garcia actually stands - they’re first, below. official roll calls · Jun 2, 2026
1,843 votes · 1,562 yes · 111 excused · 80 absent · 49 no · 41 not voting
Where Garcia broke from the party - the high-signal votes
VOTED NO
Establishing the Congressional Districts of the State
Republicans voted yes, 21–4; Garcia was one of the 4 against · HB 1D · Apr 29, 2026
roll call
VOTED NO
Establishing the Congressional Districts of the State
Republicans voted yes, 21–3; Garcia was one of the 3 against · HB 1D · Apr 29, 2026
roll call
VOTED NO
Public Records/Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs
Republicans voted yes, 23–2; Garcia was one of the 2 against · SB 4D · Apr 28, 2026
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Pattern: the breaks lean one way - voting no on bills most Republicans backed.
Votes by topic: top topics first, the rest behind filters
Criminal Justice28 votes · yes on 26, no on 2
Law Enforcement24 votes · yes on 23, no on 1
Public Safety20 votes · yes on 18, no on 1, 1 other
Insurance19 votes · yes on 19, no on 0
State Government17 votes · yes on 15, no on 0, 2 other
One vote can touch several topics.
LATEST: NOT VOTINGSave our Homes from Excessive Property TaxesSJR 2F · Jun 2, 2026CommitteesChair · Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil JusticeVice Chair · Children, Families, and Elder AffairsAppropriationsAppropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
4 ratings from advocacy groups, across 5 issue areas. Scores are shown on a shared 0–100 scale so groups can be read side by side, with each group’s own published score kept next to it. Every score is the group’s opinion, never our verdict, and every row links to the scorecard.
third-party academic estimates - never our verdict
Left–right estimates (academic)
Shor-McCarty · votesConservative
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More conservative than 89% of Florida Senate members
Details
Score+0.68 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom roll-call votes
Party median0.20 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.48)
Compared with173 members of Florida Senate members (1996–2022)
Covers2021–2022
● This person Democrats (69) Republicans (104)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
Shor, Boris. 2025. "Individual State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data, January 2025 Update." Harvard Dataverse, V1. Method: Shor, Boris, and Nolan McCarty. 2011. "The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures." American Political Science Review 105(3). Shor-McCarty ↗
DIME CFscore · donorsVery Conservative
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More conservative than 84% of 2022 Florida Senate candidates
Details
Score+1.04 on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale
BasisFrom campaign donors
Party median0.09 more conservative than the Republican median in this group (+0.95)
Compared with83 members of 2022 Florida Senate candidates
Covers2020–2022
● This person Democrats (37) Republicans (45)Thick bar: middle half · thin line: middle 80%
Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0. Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime DIME CFscore ↗
About these scores
These are third-party academic estimates of one left–right dimension, computed by researchers from roll-call votes or campaign donors. They are not Poliscope’s judgment. Each source uses its own scale, so compare people within a source rather than across sources.
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From their own channels
campaign site· Jun 10, 2026· unverified handle
“Jason Pizzo is a current Florida State Senator representing District 37 who is running for Governor of Florida in the 2026 election. In April 2025, he left the Democratic Party to become a candidate with no party affiliation and resigned from his position as Senate minority leade”
“Ileana Garcia is a Republican member of the Florida State Senate representing District 36. She is currently serving a term ending in 2026 and is a candidate for re-election in the August 18, 2026, primary.”
