Why Thea Garcia-Ramirez Decided to Run

Thea Garcia-Ramirez is also the chair of the National Women’s Commission.  Her foray into electoral politics is attributed to a group of childhood friends that she went to school with and the community work they have been able to achieve together.

 

Thea Garcia-Ramirez, P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Corozal Bay

“Part of the success is that we are active monthly.  We are either doing clean up campaigns, we have done the entire rehabilitation of a school and we’ve painted another school and we do regular fundraising for these activities.  So it’s a team that I know well, that knows me well, [and] we work very well together and it’s a big team.  We have about two hundred and fifty people out there yesterday. I didn’t have enough time to meet with everybody, so, right off the bat, I want to assure supporters that I did not get to see this time around [that] I will definitely continue the campaign and ensure that I make more thorough visits and consultations.  It was definitely hectic.  Corozal has grown and so, as statistics recently show, it has nine thousand households.  So those are the amounts of households that we have to visit and it takes time, you know, to speak with everyone, especially establishing a relationship with the voters, the families.  It’s not a five-minute visit. I wanted to take the opportunity if I can for thanking Corozal Bay for all the voters that came out, all the voters that cast their votes.  There were some people, unfortunately, that were not on the list and to them, I would like to say, that despite that, I will reach out to each and every one of them as voters of the bay and I will campaign to them and I will present my ideas and I honestly wanted just to thank them because many of them, even if they could not vote, stood with us, encouraging and supporting, and the positive, positive energy, was really contagious.”

 

As we mentioned, Thea Garcia-Ramirez garnered one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine votes, while her political opponent and sitting area representative Elvia Vega-Samos received one thousand, one hundred and seventy-four votes.  Fifty-six votes were either spoilt or rejected.