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Steve Iyer
Steve Iyer (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 14th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the primary on March 5, 2024.
Biography
Steve Iyer was born in Bangalore, India. Iyer earned a graduate degree from the University of Kentucky in 1988. His career experience includes working as the CEO for the Asia-Pacific region of a European energy company.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California's 14th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 14th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 14
Incumbent Eric Swalwell defeated Vin Kruttiventi in the general election for U.S. House California District 14 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Eric Swalwell (D) | 67.8 | 187,263 |
 | Vin Kruttiventi (R)  | 32.2 | 89,125 | |
| Total votes: 276,388 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 14
Incumbent Eric Swalwell and Vin Kruttiventi defeated Alison Hayden and Luis Reynoso in the primary for U.S. House California District 14 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Swalwell (D) | 66.7 | 84,075 |
| ✔ | | Vin Kruttiventi (R) | 17.6 | 22,134 |
 | Alison Hayden (R) | 9.5 | 11,948 | |
 | Luis Reynoso (R) | 6.2 | 7,812 | |
| Total votes: 125,969 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Steve Iyer (R)
- Joseph Grcar (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Iyer in this election.
2022
See also: California's 14th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 14
Incumbent Eric Swalwell defeated Alison Hayden in the general election for U.S. House California District 14 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Swalwell (D) | 69.3 | 137,612 |
| Alison Hayden (R) | 30.7 | 60,852 | |
| Total votes: 198,464 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 14
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 14 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Swalwell (D) | 63.6 | 77,120 |
| ✔ | | Alison Hayden (R) | 10.3 | 12,503 |
 | Tom Wong (R) | 9.4 | 11,406 | |
 | Steve Iyer (R) | 8.9 | 10,829 | |
 | James Peters (D) | 5.1 | 6,216 | |
 | Major Singh (Independent) | 2.1 | 2,495 | |
| Liam Miguel Simard (Independent) | 0.5 | 657 | ||
| Total votes: 121,226 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Steve Iyer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
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| Video submitted to Ballotpedia Released March 29, 2022 |
Steve Iyer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Iyer's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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If I am elected, it is my goal to enable current and future generations reach their full potential as well. Unfortunately, Democrats have made that impossible by penalizing success and by enacting an ideology driven by guilt and self-hate.
I bring a pragmatic, common sense perspective to this district because I am not a career politician and bring over 35 years of professional experience to this role. I promise to uphold the high level of independence, integrity and honesty that helped me achieve success in my career.
I strongly believe that being a self-sufficient country, with an upwardly mobile population, plentiful opportunities, and equal access to opportunity for all (collectively the 'America First' platform) is not only achievable, but also essential to ensure stability and prosperity.
I also believe that a strong adherence to law and order and protecting the sovereignty of our nation are essential to providing a secure environment for Americans to flourish.
Lastly, having worked in energy and environment for over 30 years, I can guarantee that there is a pathway to be both energy independent and reduce waste and emissions sensibly.- Security, Stability and upward mobility for all Americans.
- Common sense solutions that put Americans first.
- A sincere, in-depth candidate with a knowledge base deeper than bumper stickers.
My experience in energy and environment enables me to put the US on the path to energy independence while sensibly reducing our emissions and waste. I can guarantee that we can do this while reducing energy costs to American consumers, which helps small businesses and industries compete in the global marketplace.
I am also passionate about reducing barriers to existing and new businesses. Many industries in our country are burdened with excessive regulation; I believe I can innovatively preserve our standards while reducing the regulatory burden on our businesses.
I will bring a high level of fiscal discipline and prudence to enacting new legislation. I will always ask 'why do we need additional legislation?' and 'How much is already being spent to solve this problem?' before I lend support to any new legislation.
I will strive to ensure that America continues to be a country that welcomes legal immigrants, and will work to reduce wait times and reunite families.
"Don't know yet; they're still arguing over whether the bulb is racist..."
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Campaign website
Iyer's campaign website stated the following:
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State of our nation What's at stake? A self-reliant and strong nation with equal opportunities for all its citizens vs. Economic chaos, lawlessness and open borders A snapshot of what’s happening Over two-thirds of our country believes we are headed in the wrong direction. This administration has appointed inexperienced leaders to deal with supply chain, energy sources, illegal immigration, law and order and covid response. The runaway inflation that we are facing was entirely avoidable as several other countries have successfully kept inflation under control. Instead of addressing the pocketbook issues of its citizens, Biden wants to pass wasteful spending and usurp state’s rights. Even members of his own party are opposed to some of his radical proposals, which have since stalled. Over the past year, this current administration has gone on an ideological rampage, and another three years is only going to cause irreversible damage. Only a return to America First principles can repair this damage. So what needs to be done? We need competent leadership that can:
Specific Actions that Steve will take
What's at stake? Transparent curriculum with parent input and competition for tax dollars vs. Monopoly of public schools, race shaming and age-inappropriate topics A snapshot of what’s happening Woke ideology and political correctness have permeated our education system, threatening the critical thinking and analytical foundation of our education system. Parents who are concerned about their children’s welfare and education are labeled as ‘terrorists’. Not a day passes when a new gender or sexual identity is not born, or another word ‘banned’. Conservative speech is heavily restrained or banned outright. Several school districts are doing away with competency testing, and allowing teaching of age-inappropriate topics without parental consent. We need to dismiss the ever-changing woke terminology, race-shaming and redefining basic grammar, and instead help our children compete and succeed. School Boards must seek input from parents on curriculum. So what needs to be done? We need competent leadership that can:
Specific Actions that Steve will take
What's at stake? A pragmatic approach of low taxes, pro blue-collar policies, and high-paying jobs in critical industries vs. An ideological zeal that depresses wages, penalizes success and creates bureaucratic roadblocks. A snapshot of what’s happening Our nation is currently in an ‘inflationary death spiral’, which was triggered in May 2021 and continued to worsen with no counter-measures. In such a spiral, corporate margins are squeezed, leading to firms raising prices, triggering a wage rise to meet inflation, which again squeezes corporate margins in a never-ending cycle. High paying, quality jobs are exported overseas to control costs, leading to layoffs and an stagflation in the economu. Global events like the Ukraine invasion, the Iranian negotiations etc. have hyper-stressed an already tight market. Biden finally admits that inflation is ‘here to stay’, and forecasts are for even higher inflation rates than the current 7%. It is tragic that we have an administration with zero real-life experience. As the operations head for several blue-chip companies, I have creatively resolved the very same supply chain issues that plague our nation. So what needs to be done? We need competent leadership that can:
What's at stake? Enforcing laws as a deterrent to criminal behavior, and supporting law enforcement vs. Support for Defund movement and the naive belief that career criminals will self-rehabilitate A snapshot of what’s happening No other issue affects every American more than the deteriorating law and order spreading across the country. The Antifa demonstrations and the Defund movement were but precursors to weaken and demoralize our police. This emboldened criminals to brazenly assault and murder police (a record 150 were killed in 2021), women and minorities. To add to the misery, criminal-friendly District Attorneys have helped accelerate the spread of homelessness, smash and grab robberies, and the rapid spread of dangerous drugs. The standard Liberal response is that ‘crime happens’. 2021 was one of the worst years for homicides across the country in a long time, brought about by a criminal-friendly, liberal interpretation of our legal system. Democrats, by implicitly or explicitly supporting Antifa, BLM and Defund movements, have all but ensured that the end of the covid pandemic is followed by a crime wave and mental health crisis. So what needs to be done? We need competent leadership that can:
Specific Actions that Steve will take
What's at stake? A compassionate nation that embraces legal immigration and enforces its laws vs. Allowing our borders to be overrun, eroding the value of being an American or a legal immigrant A snapshot of what’s happening The horrific effects of this administrations’ open border policies are reverberating across the nation. Unprecedented numbers of illegals cross-over without so much as a Covid test and are covertly dispersed to other states. Even though seizures of dangerous drugs have gone up by 500%, the street price of those drugs have fallen by over 75%, a clear indication that we are facing a drug epidemic. In recent actions and interviews, Secretary Mayorkas has all but made it clear that he is coordinating his actions with open-border activists. At the rate of immigrants flowing across the border, over 10 million would have entered the country during Biden’s term without any vetting whatsoever. Never forget that, in desperate act to gain attention during the Democratic Presidential primary debates in 2020, Biden asked illegals to ‘surge’ to the border. They remembered, and we are paying the price for it now. So what needs to be done? We need competent leadership that can:
Specific Actions that Steve will take
What's at stake? Being energy independent AND using innovation to reduce waste and emissions vs. Pretending that the US lives in a bubble, and celebrity-driven climate alarmism. A snapshot of what’s happening The US is already 20% below its 1990 emissions levels, (reduced from 7 bil. tons of CO2/year to 4.5 bil. tons/year, with ongoing reductions of 7-10% per year). This reduction in US emissions was due to American ingenuity market forces, i.e., solar and wind becoming cheaper than fossil-fuel based energy, and not because of climate alarmism by Democrats. Even if the US and Europe managed to eliminate all carbon emissions (together, roughly 10 bil. tons/year), as the ‘Green New Deal’ proposes, it wouldn’t change the current climate trajectory because the rest of the globe is adding emissions faster than we are reducing. To limit temperature rise to 1.5o C, a reduction of 25 bil. tons/year of CO2 is required (from the current total of 40+ bil. tons/yr). While the US should continue to take sensible steps to reduce emissions, other emitters need to take similar steps. Also, Our supply chain for renewables components are dependent on China, which manipulates markets. We need to bring critical manufacturing closer to home So what needs to be done? We need competent leadership that can:
Specific Actions that Steve will take
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| —Steve Iyer's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 30, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Iyer4congress, “Home,” accessed May 11, 2022
