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Erich Obermayr
Erich Obermayr (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Nevada State Assembly to represent District 39. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Obermayr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Erich Obermayr was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He earned a high school diploma from El Paso High School and a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in 1986. As of 2024, Obermayr was retired. He previously worked as a field archaeologist, in cultural resource management, and in historic and archaeological public interpretation.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Nevada State Assembly elections, 2024
General election
General election for Nevada State Assembly District 39
Incumbent Ken Gray defeated Erich Obermayr in the general election for Nevada State Assembly District 39 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ken Gray (R)  | 71.5 | 33,461 |
 | Erich Obermayr (D) | 28.5 | 13,347 | |
| Total votes: 46,808 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Erich Obermayr advanced from the Democratic primary for Nevada State Assembly District 39.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Ken Gray advanced from the Republican primary for Nevada State Assembly District 39.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Obermayr in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Erich Obermayr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Obermayr's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In my time, I have been a dishwasher, factory laborer, janitor, and construction worker, to name a few. I found a trade at age 16 as a field archaeologist, which led to a career studying and writing about Nevada history and archaeology. I ran a small business producing interpretive signs, books, and pamphlets which shared the results of these studies with the public.
I know what it is like to work for minimum wage, earn a comfortable professional living, and everything in between. And I’ve experienced the satisfaction of having my own business and being my own boss.
My wife Meg and I are 30-year residents of Silver City, Nevada, on the Comstock in Lyon County. We built a house here, raised our daughter, and are proud, contributing members to one of Nevada’s best and strongest communities.- District 39 needs an Assemblyman who understands that the job is to advance economic opportunity, health, education, and public safety for all Nevadans, as well as protecting our democratic republic and the rights and freedoms we enjoy under it. It requires standing on principle, and also bipartisanship, compromise, and respect for the ideas of others.
- Open our primary elections to all voters by giving non-partisans their choice of party ballots in the primaries. Under our closed primary system, only party members can participate in primary elections. This disenfranchises 27% of voters in District 39 just because they don’t belong to a political party. The right to vote should include more than choosing from a list of candidates. It should include deciding who’s on the list in the first place.
- Women have the inalienable right to control their own health care. Reproductive decisions are theirs and theirs alone, not the government’s. Nevada State Law allows abortion within the first 24 weeks of gestation, or after to preserve the life or health of the pregnant woman. The 2019 Trust Nevada Women Act decriminalized medication abortions and removed antiquated consent laws. Legislation in 2023 codified an order barring Nevada officials from assisting out of state investigations of their own residents seeking abortion care in Nevada. I fully support these laws and also the proposed Nevada Reproductive Rights Amendment. This will, if approved by voters and confirmed in 2026, make access to abortion a permanent, constitutional right.
We also face the challenges brought on by climate change. Nevada includes a variety of desert environments, from the Mojave Desert to high sage desert, but deserts just the same. Water is a particular vulnerability, vital to both agriculture and urban development. Extreme weather events such as drought or unbearably high temperatures are threats which must be dealt with. We must act to both reduce carbon emissions and protect against the impacts which are already happening.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 13, 2024
