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Sreenivas Cherukuri

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Sreenivas Cherukuri
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Elections and appointments
Last election

August 4, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

University of Michigan, 1991

Graduate

Arizona State University, 1998

Personal
Birthplace
Southfield, Mich.
Religion
Hindu
Profession
Co-founder of MDHearing Aid
Contact

Sreenivas Cherukuri (Republican Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 38. He lost in the Republican primary on August 4, 2020.

Cherukuri completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Sreenivas Cherukuri was born in Southfield, Michigan. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1991 and a master's degree from Arizona State University in 1998. His professional experience includes working as the co-founder of MDHearing Aid, a hearing aid manufacturing company in Southfield. He also worked as director of the information technology services department for Detroit and as a management consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He is a member of the Bharatiya Temple of Troy.[1]

Elections

2020

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 38

Kelly Breen defeated Chase Turner in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 38 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kelly Breen
Kelly Breen (D) Candidate Connection
 
51.6
 
31,217
Image of Chase Turner
Chase Turner (R) Candidate Connection
 
48.4
 
29,263

Total votes: 60,480
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 38

Kelly Breen defeated Megan McAllister in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 38 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kelly Breen
Kelly Breen Candidate Connection
 
50.5
 
7,051
Image of Megan McAllister
Megan McAllister Candidate Connection
 
49.5
 
6,907

Total votes: 13,958
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 38

Chase Turner defeated Sreenivas Cherukuri and Krista Spencer in the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 38 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Chase Turner
Chase Turner Candidate Connection
 
61.9
 
7,301
Image of Sreenivas Cherukuri
Sreenivas Cherukuri Candidate Connection
 
23.1
 
2,730
Krista Spencer
 
15.0
 
1,771

Total votes: 11,802
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Sreenivas Cherukuri completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cherukuri's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Michigan born and raised, I am a Son, Husband, Father - those come first. My wife Vani and I have been proud to call Novi home for 12 years. My daughters attend the Novi Public Schools.

I am also an Entrepreneur, Tax payer, and a Home owner. And I am the only candidate that has built a company and created jobs, while bringing the manufacturing supply chain back to the US.

I am a constitutional conservative with a deep belief in a muscular federalism. We start by remembering it is your money. Power belongs to the people, and the government serves the people.

As a Republican, I am focussed on delivering the lowest total cost of government. But I also believe we must work at the State level, to undo decades of wreckage caused by reckless globalization and the concentration of Political and Economic power in Washington.

  • Healing Michigan - The pandemic has hit the state hard - and we need proactive leadership to help our people, businesses, and governments to adapt.
  • Fixing Education. Primary and Secondary education needs to be protected, and parents need to be given more control. Higher ed must be made affordable and accountable.
  • Putting Michigan First. Michigan must protect our consumers and local businesses from the massive consolidation of business power at the national level.
In recent decades there has been a massive consolidation of business power at the national level. Across the state we have seen the disappearance of local and regional businesses in manufacturing, banking, retail, media, insurance, etc.

In most cases this is not free or even fair trade - this is collusion and monopoly on a national scale. Multinational firms have used Washington's influence to nationalize whole industries, destroying local businesses, and robbing Michigan consumers of billions.

Lansing must wrest this power back from Washington in order to protect our fellow Michigan citizens and give our local Michigan businesses a fair chance to compete.

Three sepcific examples 1. Elimination of High Fructose Corn Syrup from our pop. 2. A la carte Cable tv - end the gouging. 3. Control the Ticketmaster monopoly,
My parents. The older you get the more I realize how much the examples the have provided have paved my way in life.
I remember the helicopters that were used to evacuate the US Embassy in Saigon being pushed off the aircraft carriers. I would have been 5 or 6 watching it on TV.
Childhood - delivering the Southfield Eccentric Newspaper - 2 years

Teenager - Stock boy at A.L. Price - Summer job - 3 months

After College: Environmental Engineer - 4 years.
To Kill a Mockingbird. It is as perfect a novel as has ever been written.
With term limits - I believe the house has become the chamber with more "new energy" and the senate has emerged as the more experienced "cooling saucer.
We need a legislature with people of different backgrounds and different experiences.
Our tax system needs to be restructured. Michigan, like many Midwestern states is reliant on property taxes - especially commercial property taxes.

The value of these properties was already plummetting before the COVID crisis - and this trend will continue.. As these values keep dropping, it will put a severe constraint on the ability of our many layers of government to fund itself.

Also - unfunded pensions and retirement health care. Michigan already has 1.3 retirees for each government employee - and these retirements are not fully funded. This is a huge unfunded liability that will drag us down in the future.
They must work together - as the constitution envisions. In the current situation - it is fine for the governor to act under emergency declaration for a period . but now that we know this is not quickly passing - the legislature needs to be involved.
I prefer the Iowa model - Under which using a known algorithm, a computer generates 4 alternate maps from which the legislature must approve one. This appears to minimize gerrymandering, and results in districts which represent cohesive communities.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 12, 2020


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