Eric Sarrafian
Eric Sarrafian (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Hawaii House of Representatives to represent District 37. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 13, 2022.
Sarrafian completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Eric Sarrafian attended Leeward Community College. His career experience includes working as a student senator and real estate agent associate. Sarrafian has been affiliated with the Rotary Club, 808Cleanups, Oahu Housing Now, and the Young Democrats of Hawaii.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Hawaii House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 37
Incumbent Ryan Yamane defeated Jamie Detwiler in the general election for Hawaii House of Representatives District 37 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ryan Yamane (D) | 65.7 | 7,340 |
| Jamie Detwiler (R) | 34.3 | 3,833 | ||
| Total votes: 11,173 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 37
Incumbent Ryan Yamane defeated Eric Sarrafian in the Democratic primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 37 on August 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ryan Yamane | 89.8 | 5,996 |
 | Eric Sarrafian | 10.2 | 678 | |
| Total votes: 6,674 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 37
Jamie Detwiler advanced from the Republican primary for Hawaii House of Representatives District 37 on August 13, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jamie Detwiler | 100.0 | 1,816 | |
| Total votes: 1,816 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Eric Sarrafian completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sarrafian's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Representing the people; to have that I believe we need legislators that are not beholden to corporate interests. I promise to represent the people and have not taken a single cent from corporations.
- The rising cost of living is growing to be a bigger and bigger issue. Children who have lived here their whole lives are being forced to the mainland. I plan to implement financial literacy curriculum in schools to help prepare kids for the future.
- Helping kupuna is extremely important to me. I have met some who sleep on a matress of newspaper and it is terrible to me how we treat our most venerable members of society. I believe we need to implement more laws and programs to protect kupunas from poverty, scams, and elder abuse.
Prison Reform is something I am personally passionate about. The recidivism rate in our prisons is 50% and that is far too high. If we can improve the quality of our prisons and make it so people that have paid their debt to society have the tools they need to rejoin it we can cut down on future crimes. Less crimes means a safer state, lives saved, a better economy, and a freer people.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 28, 2022
