Eric Mahaffy

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Eric Mahaffy
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Elections and appointments
Last election

August 6, 2024

Personal
Birthplace
Boston, Mass.
Profession
Electrician
Contact

Eric Mahaffy (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Washington's 10th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on August 6, 2024.

Biography

Eric Mahaffy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and lives in Olympia, Washington. Mahaffy's career experience includes working as an electrician.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2024

Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 top-two primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Washington District 10

Incumbent Marilyn Strickland defeated Don Hewett in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 10 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Marilyn Strickland
Marilyn Strickland (D)
 
58.5
 
203,732
Image of Don Hewett
Don Hewett (R)
 
41.2
 
143,492
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
820

Total votes: 348,044
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 10

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 10 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Marilyn Strickland
Marilyn Strickland (D)
 
54.3
 
93,942
Image of Don Hewett
Don Hewett (R)
 
26.7
 
46,258
Image of Nirav Sheth
Nirav Sheth (R) Candidate Connection
 
11.7
 
20,208
Image of Desirée Toliver
Desirée Toliver (D) Candidate Connection
 
3.7
 
6,424
Image of Eric Mahaffy
Eric Mahaffy (D)
 
2.0
 
3,527
Image of Richard Boyce
Richard Boyce (Congress Sucks Party)
 
1.2
 
2,056
Image of Kurtis Engle
Kurtis Engle (Union Party)
 
0.3
 
545
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
192

Total votes: 173,152
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

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2022

See also: Washington's 10th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Washington District 10

Incumbent Marilyn Strickland defeated Keith Swank in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 10 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Marilyn Strickland
Marilyn Strickland (D)
 
57.0
 
152,544
Image of Keith Swank
Keith Swank (R) Candidate Connection
 
42.9
 
114,777
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
427

Total votes: 267,748
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 10

Incumbent Marilyn Strickland and Keith Swank defeated Dan Gordon, Eric Mahaffy, and Richard Boyce in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 10 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Marilyn Strickland
Marilyn Strickland (D)
 
55.3
 
90,093
Image of Keith Swank
Keith Swank (R) Candidate Connection
 
33.9
 
55,231
Dan Gordon (R)
 
6.3
 
10,315
Image of Eric Mahaffy
Eric Mahaffy (D)
 
2.3
 
3,710
Image of Richard Boyce
Richard Boyce (Congress Sucks Party)
 
2.0
 
3,250
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
189

Total votes: 162,788
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Campaign themes

2024

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Campaign website

Mahaffy’s campaign website stated the following:

My Platform

In no particular order.

I do not have extreme views on abortion or gun rights.

I Believe In a reasonable and fair immigration policy

More options for a 911 dispatch operator.

Giving teachers smaller classes and more options.

Interest free student loans with payments based on income

Create rules to help us have a cleaner and healthier planet.

Creating interest free home loans for all Americans.

Stabilizing the economy

Reduce and Eliminate prejudism.

Ensuring our government is working for the people.

Looking for ways to unite us by finding our similarities.

I believe in allowing the dreamers to come into and be part of the only country they’ve ever known, loved and cared about.

I believe that we will always need a reasonable jail system, but we also need to allow those who have learned their lesson to move on.

Inflation needs to stop. By allowing a certain amount of money per citizen into our economy, no more no less we can stop inflation.

Solution-Based lawmaking aimed at the problem not the symptom.

Getting politics and religion out of the womb.

Against for-profit jails that make better criminals at taxpayers’ expense.

Creating programs to help keep people from or returning to a life of crime.

Honesty and truthfulness in reporting and information.

Equal pay for equal work.

Reasonably priced Healthcare and medicines.

Employee-owned businesses

Equal and fair justice for all.

Finding a non-political way of picking our judges.

Not allowing politicians to select or alter voting districts.

I’m a Believer in ranked Choice voting. This allows more choice in candidates and does a job of reflecting the will of the people.

Legal fines based on income. Everything from parking tickets to bail.

I believe there are times the government should help the people and I believe there are times the government should just get out of the way.

Reasonable Healthcare at a reasonable price.

The FDA should test old-fashioned cures that can be created easily or inexpensively and so that knowledge of the past does not get lost.

Decent education should be available to All and a reasonable way to pay for it.

I also understand that we must have a strong business atmosphere. Good strong profitable businesses make it possible to have good strong reasonable jobs.

People need to be encouraged to start up their own business, especially in times of heavy unemployment. When you live in a community you tend to be aware of what that Community needs, this will also help Spark plenty of innovation.

We need a decent military and all of its different branches. I would like to add one more, we need an Earth Force. A group dedicated to finding and stopping all enemies trying to destroy this planet. Without Mother Earth we have nothing, no history, no future. She needs to be protected.

There is NO plan B. We only have one planet and I think we can all agree that something is going wrong. We have many tools at our disposal to be able to fix this planet and bring it back to normal. The biggest fix is just cleaning the planet up.

We all need to be able to live on the same piece of dirt that we call the United States in peace and harmony with each other. We all want the same thing, but we have different ideas on how to get it. It all comes down to reasonable compromise.

I do tend to align with the opinions of most unions. I believe the unions are working for the working class.

I truly believe in this country, and I believe that pretty much we all do want the same thing, a safe place to live and retire and have a place to be able to raise our kids.

I believe that the people should be in control of their Own Destiny and their government.

I also believe that we can’t make a good decision without good trustworthy information. Garbage in, garbage out.

A rising tide will raise All Ships.

I believe there should be more employee-owned businesses. I think it’s a good idea to give the employees what is called ‘the right of first refusal’ when a business goes up for sale.

I believe right now what’s causing harm in this country is there is a perfect storm of WTMI, Way Too Much Information coming from too many places with way too many people pushing their wants, needs, intentions and agendas.

I believe that the people should have their voice in government and for my entire 60-plus years on this earth, I have understood that the Democrats basically work for the people and the Republicans basically work for big business.

I am not directly affiliated with any party. Believing in the basic idea of democracy, I am running as, the preferred party, Democrat.

The bones of the United States of America are strong, but our information systems keep trying to convince us that it is badly broken and all falling down. We need to stop helping to rip it down because of their lies. We need to fix what we’ve got. If we tear it down, there will be too many people trying to take over. What we have is extremely amazing let’s just repaint and move in.

My biggest hope when in office is to find a way to heal this damage that is being done to our country and figure out how to get us to unite as the United States of America.

Vote for Mahaffy Eric in 2024, V4me2024

U.S. Representative for Congressional District 10

Washington State

Thank you for reading all of this.

Eric Mahaffy [2]

—Eric Mahaffy’s campaign website (2024)[1]

2022

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Campaign finance summary


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Eric Mahaffy campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House Washington District 10Lost primary$0 N/A**
Grand total$0 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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External links

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eric Mahaffy, "About Me," accessed July 17, 2024
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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