About Erich Obermayr

My 77 years have given me a deep understanding and appreciation for the challenges and triumphs of everyday life: putting food on the table, making the rent or house payment, and guiding the children to a bright, successful future. 

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 in cultural resource management, 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, I know what it's like to earn a comfortable professional living, and everything in between. I’ve also experienced the satisfaction of having my own business and being my own boss. 

That is why I’ll always take the side of those Nevadans—the small business owners, the workers, the public servants—who show up every day and make things work. 

My wife Meg and I are 30-plus year residents of Silver City, on the Comstock in Lyon County. We built a house here, raised our daughter, and continue to be proud, contributing members of our community. I’ve served for eleven years on our town Citizen Advisory Board, where I’m currently Chair.​

​Family

I am the luckiest man in the world, I find myself part of an amazing family: my wife and companion of 46 years, my daughters, my grandchildren, and their life partners. They remind me every day that I would repeat any of life’s wrong turns and misfortunes a thousand times over because they all led me here, with them, now.​

Why I’m running:

I am running because District 39 needs an Assemblyman who understands that the purpose of governing 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. 

Nevada’s families are being squeezed between relentless cost of living increases and lagging wages. The Legislature is duty-bound to recognize this affordability crisis for what it is—a threat to our country’s basic principle that initiative, hard work, and honesty get rewarded. And the Legislature is duty-bound to do something about it—to take the side of the small business owners, the wage earners, the educators, the health care workers, and all Nevadans who show up every day and make things work.

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