Eddie Andrews

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Eddie Andrews
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Republican Party

Iowa House of Representatives District 43
Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

2

Predecessor
Prior offices
Iowa House of Representatives District 39
Successor: Rick Olson
Predecessor: Karin Derry

Compensation

Base salary

$25,000/year

Per diem

$178/day for legislators who live outside of Polk County. $133.50/day for legislators who live within Polk County.

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Des Moines East High School

Bachelor's

University of Iowa

Personal
Birthplace
Des Moines, Iowa
Religion
Christian
Profession
Entrepreneur
Contact

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Eddie Andrews (Republican Party) is a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, representing District 43. He assumed office on January 1, 2023. His current term ends on January 1, 2027.

Andrews (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Iowa House of Representatives to represent District 43. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Eddie Andrews was born in Des Moines, Iowa.[1][2] Andrews graduated from Des Moines East High School. He earned a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa.[2] Andrews' career experience includes working as an app developer and tech entrepreneur. He founded #mentoromics and has volunteered with I'll Make Me A World In Iowa.[1][2]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Andrews was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Andrews was assigned to the following committees:


The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 43

Incumbent Eddie Andrews defeated Tiara Mays-Sims and Brett Nelson in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 43 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Eddie Andrews
Eddie Andrews (R)
 
50.9
 
9,598
Image of Tiara Mays-Sims
Tiara Mays-Sims (D)
 
47.5
 
8,959
Image of Brett Nelson
Brett Nelson (Independent)
 
1.5
 
280
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
23

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 18,860
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43

Tiara Mays-Sims advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43 on June 4, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Tiara Mays-Sims
Tiara Mays-Sims
 
99.5
 
1,101
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
5

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,106
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43

Incumbent Eddie Andrews advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43 on June 4, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Eddie Andrews
Eddie Andrews
 
99.0
 
676
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.0
 
7

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 683
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

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2022

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 43

Incumbent Eddie Andrews defeated Suresh Reddy in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 43 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Eddie Andrews
Eddie Andrews (R)
 
51.1
 
7,684
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Suresh Reddy (D) Candidate Connection
 
48.8
 
7,326
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
15

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 15,025
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43

Suresh Reddy defeated Tiara Mays-Sims in the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Suresh Reddy Candidate Connection
 
56.4
 
1,358
Image of Tiara Mays-Sims
Tiara Mays-Sims Candidate Connection
 
43.3
 
1,042
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
7

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 2,407
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43

Incumbent Eddie Andrews defeated Brett Nelson in the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 43 on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Eddie Andrews
Eddie Andrews
 
84.2
 
1,948
Image of Brett Nelson
Brett Nelson
 
15.7
 
364
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
2

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 2,314
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2020

See also: Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Iowa House of Representatives District 39

Eddie Andrews defeated incumbent Karin Derry in the general election for Iowa House of Representatives District 39 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Eddie Andrews
Eddie Andrews (R) Candidate Connection
 
50.8
 
12,455
Image of Karin Derry
Karin Derry (D)
 
49.1
 
12,040
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
24

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 24,519
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 39

Incumbent Karin Derry advanced from the Democratic primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 39 on June 2, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Karin Derry
Karin Derry
 
99.7
 
3,961
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
11

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 3,972
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 39

Eddie Andrews advanced from the Republican primary for Iowa House of Representatives District 39 on June 2, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Eddie Andrews
Eddie Andrews Candidate Connection
 
98.9
 
2,346
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.1
 
25

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 2,371
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Eddie Andrews did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Candidate Connection

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

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I married my high school sweetheart and have a wonderful family, including two daughters, one son who passed away, a niece I helped raise in our home, and other kids who just "showed up".

Helping people is a ministry and I have always been a servant leader, putting the needs of others above mine. For example, my mentoring program and programming classes have always been free for students.

I am a bilingual minister (Spanish) and have been active in our community for many years, helping people at the retail level (getting housing, immigration, food and shelter, teaching English, etc).

As a freelance app developer, I founded a successful youth mentoring program that teaches free coding and programming and entrepreneurship and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills.

I am a problem solver, working with people of all languages, cultures, ethnicities and parties.

Life Matters, and as a Black man, I wish to reverse the targeting of Black and Brown communities by abortion clinics.

I wish to strengthen our criminal justice reform and have actively supported legislation long before even considering running for office.

  • I am running as a PROBLEM SOLVER with a positive conservative message. For many years, as part of ministry, commumity and political efforts, I have listened, strategized and help to solve problems among many ethnicities, languages and cultures.
  • Without a commitment to a strong 1st and 2nd Amendments, which protects free speech and religious liberties, and the right to protect our lives, family and property, we have no Constitution.
  • Mental Health Reform is needed to let families in need get services fast, when they need them
TAXES

As a common sense conservative, I want all Iowans to keep more of their hard earned money. After all, you earned it, and we should be good stewards of public funds. I will fight for to lower taxes on working families and small businesses. When you have more money, our local economy flourishes.

MENTAL HEALTH
Our family experienced the frustration of many families navigating the mental health flow, and I am proposing expansion of mental health rapid response units to help families struggling with mental health to get the help they need quickly.

EDUCATION
Education is the best path to success. My parents instilled the need of hard work and education. Every child deserves a high quality education regardless of their zip code. I will fight for full funding for public, private, religious schools to have the resources they need to teach, and students can be free to learn without distraction.

JOBS

The American Dream must be open to all. This means creating incentives for job creators and entrepreneurs, training programs to be prepared for a solid workplace and career advancements.

I have a lot of personal, technical, entrepreneurial, political and spiritual mentors.

Personal: my mother, grandparents

Technical: Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs

Entrepreneurial: Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban

Political: Ronald Regan, Frederick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr

Spiritual: T.D. Jakes, my uncle Joe Lee, Duane Bolinger, Ravi Zechariah and of course, my dad
The Federalist Papers

5000 Year Leap

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Many are important: trustworthiness, transparency, desire to help the people, being an active listener, being a servant leader, creativity to do things differently when needed, conviction, integrity, leadership, faith.
I am a problem solver and intense listener. All of my life, helping has been a part of my being. I am the one who friends and associates call at 3 am, because they know I'll listen, walk them threw whatever issue they're facing. Sometimes that's because I'm in ministry. Other times, it's because I'm just the guy who people know will get things done.

I have a soft spot for young people. My successful mentoring program has helped students for the past 5 years learn technology and coding, entrepreneurship and STEM.
Actively listen, propose ideas to move the state of Iowa forward, provide solutions for people.
lower taxes, moving Iowa towards an income-tax-free state, better access to mental health, rapid response mental health units, expanded options, including vouchers for educational opportunities, fair incentives to expand jobs that work for all business, not just the shiny new ones.
My first historical event I remember was the Blizzard of 1973 and the talk of Global Cooling.

I shared my brother's paper route, though technically it was his job and kept that from 11 or 12 for 3 or 4 years. My first personal job was a busboy at Babe Bisignano's Italian Restaurant downtown. It was amazing and let me meet and learn from a lot of people.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

This book fascinates me because it shows how we as people move in herds, and sometimes vote and move against our own interests. It's made me a better political observer.
Besides Superman? Come on! Superman all the way!
Grateful by Hezekiah Walker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQy71bBnMbw)

I am song writer, so I relate to what Steven Tyler of Aerosmity says: I have at least one song CONSTANTLY moving in my head.
Life is always joy and struggle. I am grateful that any struggles have made me a better person.
Tenure and size of districts. The senate seems to move slower, and perhaps that's the way it's intended.
No. It's supposed to be a citizen government where regular everyday citizens serve and get back to civilian life. This is not intended for a permanent political class.
Economic growth in the age of automation and artificial intelligence. As an award-winning tech engineer and entrepreneur, I'd love to be in a position to help use technology to lead us forward.
The governor's job as it relates to the legislature is primarily one of leadership and overall direction. The legislators are closer to the people and should in turn inform the governor.
Yes. Even as a candidate, I constantly reach out to those in office to understand nuances of the law, the background of issues under discussion, and to explore ways to tackle problems. Plus, I meet regularly with other candidates to discuss plans of action and to pass information along. So should I be blessed enough to be elected, I would continue the camaraderie and education through constant communication.
I'm interested in where I could be of the most benefit, such as Economic Growth, Education, Human Resources, Transportation, and Judiciary committees.
I am looking at several
My current focus is representing the good people of District 39 and by extension the great people of Iowa.
After I gave a speech mentioning my focus on mental health, a lady came up to me with tears in her eyes and said she was so glad that I mentioned mental heath as a primary focus. Why? She said it was her number one issue. But, she added, that if you had asked her a few months ago, it wouldn't have made her top 10 list of political concerns. But now that it's affected her family, she knows I'm on the right track in trying to expand and simplify the mental health navigation systems.

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Campaign finance summary

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Eddie Andrews campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Iowa House of Representatives District 43Won general$92,762 $22,239
2022Iowa House of Representatives District 43Won general$50,208 $95,788
2020Iowa House of Representatives District 39Won general$71,337 N/A**
Grand total$214,307 $118,027
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 23, 2020
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Iowa Legislature, "Eddie Andrews - All Years," accessed May 13, 2023


    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Jennifer Konfrst (D)     		Iowa House of Representatives District 43
    2023-Present    		 Succeeded by
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    Preceded by
    Karin Derry (D)     		Iowa House of Representatives District 39
    2021-2023    		 Succeeded by
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