Eric Brody
Eric Brody (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Colorado House of Representatives to represent District 39. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Eric Brody was born in New York, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1988.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 39
Incumbent Brandi Bradley defeated Eric Brody in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 39 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brandi Bradley (R) | 59.0 | 36,364 |
 | Eric Brody (D) | 41.0 | 25,305 | |
| Total votes: 61,669 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39
Eric Brody advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Brody | 100.0 | 7,055 |
| Total votes: 7,055 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39
Incumbent Brandi Bradley advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brandi Bradley | 100.0 | 13,499 |
| Total votes: 13,499 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2022
See also: Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 39
Brandi Bradley defeated Eric Brody in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 39 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brandi Bradley (R) | 58.1 | 28,347 |
| Eric Brody (D) | 41.9 | 20,475 | |
| Total votes: 48,822 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39
Eric Brody advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Brody | 100.0 | 6,406 |
| Total votes: 6,406 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39
Brandi Bradley advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 39 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brandi Bradley | 100.0 | 12,661 |
| Total votes: 12,661 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
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Eric Brody completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brody's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a member of the steering committee of the Southern Front Range Alliance, which is my local chapter of the Braver Angels organization devoted to reducing political polarization.
As an undergraduate I was the secretary, vice chair, and chair of the Independent Party of the Yale Political Union.
And I have worked for a member of Congress and for the democracy-promoting National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
My entire adult life, and starting even before, I have acted on the conviction that we fulfill our responsibilities as citizens best when we engage in political and civic life from the position of fair-mindedness and independent thought.
In my 17 years as a resident of Douglas County, I have worked for health and behavioral health nonprofits and reared a daughter who just started college. I have keenly observed the challenges in our community and in our state and am eager to bring people together to address them.
- My campaign theme is decency and sense. I appeal to people of any political leaning and none at all who value fair-mindedness and evaluate issues and people with an independent and candid mind.
- As a private citizen I have been engaged in and championed democracy my entire adult life. I will bring this commitment to the statehouse.
- I focus on what matters, including policy concerns such as wildfire risk, water scarcity, behavioral health, education and equally our broad civil rights and liberties.
Two years before I moved to Castle Pines, the Cherokee Ranch fire burned 1,200 acres and spurred the evacuation of over 10,000 residents. This past December the Marshall Fire -- the 10th costliest in U.S. history -- took the home of a friend’s parents.
Out of a total state population of 5.7 million, about 3 million of us live in what’s called the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where buildings and fire-prone wild areas meet. In Douglas County, 82 percent of us live in areas of at least some wildfire risk and 22 percent in areas of high risk of negative impact.
WATER SCARCITY
In July, Centennial Water & Sanitation District implemented Stage 1 drought restrictions. In other parts of Colorado, severe and extreme drought conditions prevail. For the sake of our quality of life, agriculture, recreation, and the environment, we must do more to conserve our precious water resources.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Last year, Mental Health America assessed Colorado to be the worst state for adult mental health care and Children’s Hospital Colorado declared a state of emergency for youth mental health.
EDUCATION
1. To respond to the concerns of the voters.
2. To act independently of the wishes of the voters.
These may seem to be contradictory, but they are not.
Input from voters is enormously important in helping officials to understand what is going well and what issues need attention. The effectiveness of officials in fulfilling their duties is -- or ought to be! -- a key element in their reelection prospects.
At the same time, though, it is important to recognize that elected officials serve their constituencies not simply by obeying the dictates of the loudest or the most numerous voices.
Setting aside ballot initiatives, our system of government is not a direct democracy but a representative one. Elected officials serve their constituencies best by marshaling the abundant information and expert counsel that is available to them, consider competing interests and viewpoints, and in collaboration with their colleagues exercise their best judgment to arrive at the best possible policies.
An elected official must be both humble enough to accept that another person may understand an issue better and have a better approach and also sufficiently principled and independent-minded to resist pandering in order to gain or retain political support.
I joined the Independent Party, because it was important to me that I consider matters freshly on the merits rather than in accordance with an agreed-upon ideology. In succeeding semesters I served as secretary, vice chair, and chair of the Independent Party, where I delighted in discussing issues with others who were open-minded like me.
This way of engaging has stayed with me all of these years. I am the founding and continuing president of the board of the Transcendental Politics Foundation. One of the primary missions of our organization is to promote fair-mindedness in thinking and discourse -- to transcend the political and social tribalism that tends all too greatly to bind us.
I am a founding member of the steering committee of the Southern Front Range Alliance, which is Douglas County’s chapter of the national Braver Angels organization devoted to “uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America.”
Years ago I took the Pro-Truth Pledge and always strive, among other elements of the Pledge, to share information only after I have verified it, to retract and correct when I learn that something I have shared is incorrect, and to honor and defend those who do likewise.
And I am active in The BRIDGE Project, which is a private team of optimistic problem solvers who wish to do better regarding race relations and other divisive issues in American life by engaging people of diverse backgrounds in civil and honest discussions.
Had I been just a little older I would have had at least an inkling as to the significance of this event. Such understanding would come later -- in high school, college, and through independent reading over the course of my life.
Crime, impeachment, prosecution, pardon -- all of this is very much on our minds nowadays in connection with the 45th presidency and its aftermath. What lessons have we learned from this historical event? How should or shouldn’t we apply them now? How are children of today absorbing and being shaped by the historical events swirling around them? What is the path forward for our democracy?
The legislature -- subject to the governor’s approval or veto -- enacts laws that give directions to and allocate funding for the different departments within the executive branch.
The governor informs the work of the legislature by submitting an annual budget and may also propose bills for the legislature to take up.
Legislative committees also oversee the executive branches of government and may call officials to testify at hearings and provide documents that inform the legislature as to the functioning of the executive branch, for instance with regard to regulations that the executive departments are considering or may already have implemented. Such information is also essential to the legislature in crafting and considering legislation.
In an environment of good faith and mutual respect, the governor and the legislature give fair consideration to each other’s roles and work. In the very best case, such an environment prevails whether or not the governor is affiliated with a political party that is different from that which holds the majority of seats in one or both houses of the legislature.
Too often in Congress and in state legislatures around the country, partisan politics takes precedence over the public good. When bad actors take positions for the purpose of thwarting the other party’s prospects for success, the people lose.
Ideally, legislators -- regardless of party affiliation -- would consider themselves first and foremost to be members of the legislative team, bringing their individual judgment and values to the performance of their responsibilities for the people of Colorado. I believe that the better legislators relate to and interact with one another as colleagues rather than competitors on opposing teams, the more easily they will be able to approach this ideal.
Such cordial and authentic interactions are essential to healthy compromise. Merely splitting the difference between opposing positions does not necessarily yield the best result, particularly if either side has staked out an extreme bargaining position. Legislators ought not only to bring forward only their true views but also to seek to persuade others who disagree.
Agriculture, Livestock, & Water, which has responsibility for water issues and, of course, an industry that is so very important to House District 39, agriculture.
Energy & Environment, which is the committee of jurisdiction for legislation that addresses policy to address wildfires.
Public & Behavioral Health & Human Services, which is the committee of jurisdiction for behavioral health legislation and has oversight over the Behavioral Health Administration.
“I frequently enter wordplay contests and once submitted almost a dozen entries to a single contest. Did any of my submissions win, place, or show? No pun in ten did.”
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 8, 2022
