State Representative Edwin Obras – Washington Independents

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Candidate vs official

What this member said while seeking the office, set against how they voted once they held it. We state only whether the two records differ — never why.

No stated positions have been collected for this member yet. This comparison needs a quote with a citation — a candidate guide, a town hall transcript, a floor video — found and recorded by a person. There is no feed of things politicians said, so an empty section here means nobody has done that reading, not that the member has never contradicted themselves and not that they have.

Last checked 2026-08-07

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Voting record

Recorded floor votes across every session we hold. Committee votes are not included — those are recorded per committee, not per member.

1,201

recorded votes

1,008

yea

193

nay

Votes against their own party’s majority

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of 1,201 recorded votes went against the majority of Democratic colleagues

Counted only where their party had a clear majority on that roll call. A tied party is not a position to diverge from.

Votes against the member’s own party majority
Date	Bill	Motion	They voted	Their party
2026-02-14	ESHB 2303	1720 Walsh Pg 1 Ln 5	Nay	Yea (35-22 yea-nay)
2026-01-29	HJM 4004	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (41-16 yea-nay)
2025-04-22	ESHB 2081	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (50-9 yea-nay)

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 1,201 votes across every session held

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Bills sponsored — and where they stopped

Bills where this member was the prime sponsor. Co-sponsorship is not included; the record we hold names only the prime sponsor.

16

bills prime-sponsored

6

became law

Bills prime-sponsored by this member
Session	Bill	Subject	Outcome	Heard
2025-26	ESHB 1332	Transp. network companies	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1424	Jail system	pending	no
2025-26	SHB 1490	Background checks	became law	yes
2025-26	2SHB 1524	Isolated employees	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 1623	Tips/credit card fees	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1744	Gift card criminal conduct	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1792	Nursing assistant regulation	pending	no
2025-26	HB 1828	Plasma donation/physicians	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1897	Community safety/liability	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 1943	Blood donation/school instr.	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2155	Use of nursing titles	became law	yes
2025-26	EHB 2156	AGO investigator authority	became law	yes
2025-26	ESHB 2165	Peace officer false ident.	became law	yes
2025-26	HB 2422	Private security guards	pending	yes
2025-26	HB 2494	Asbestos training rules	pending	no
2025-26	HB 2524	Security guards board	pending	yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 16 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

House Committee on Community Safety
House Committee on Health Care & Wellness
House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards

We cannot say which of these they chair. A committee chair decides what gets a hearing, which makes the role the single most consequential fact in this section — and the roster export records membership without it. Every seat above is shown as an equal membership because that is all the record supports.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Source WA Legislature committee membership records · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 seats

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Who funds this seat

Campaign finance reported to the Public Disclosure Commission. The record and the PDC share no identifier, so this is a join — on surname, given name, chamber and district for a legislator, and on the office won and the county it was won in for everyone else. Only where one person fits.

$19,140

raised, 2026 cycle

$16,921

spent

$517

average contribution

Total divided by 37 reported contributors.

$272K

raised across 2 campaigns

Every cycle we hold for this filer, not a career total — earlier campaigns may predate our coverage.

By campaign

Reported campaign finance by cycle
Cycle	Raised	Spent	Contributors
2026	$19,140	$16,921	37
2025	$253,278	$256,375	284

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
Puget Sound Energy	Bellevue	$2,400
Washington Association of Realtors PAC	Olympia	$2,000
Building a Stronger Washington Sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters	Kent	$1,200
Justice for All PAC	Seattle	$1,200
Regence	Seattle	$1,200
SEIU 1199NW PAC	Kent	$1,200
SEIU local 6	Seattle	$1,200
Edwin Obras		$677
RPEC PAC	Olympia	$600
WA Physical Therapy PAC	Spokane	$600
Washington State Building and Construction PAC	Olympia	$600
Teamsters Local Union No.117	Seattle	$500
Langley Alexis	Seattle	$375
Bergerson Muriel	Seattle	$250
Catabay Nori	Seattle	$250

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Edwin Obras to PDC filer OBRAE–594 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (33) all agree, and because only one person fits. If that is the wrong person, tell us at corrections@washingtonindependents.org and we will unpublish this section while we check — see Corrections.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings · as of 2026-08-07 · filer OBRAE–594

The original filing at the PDC

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

What the money bought: Where a filing is matched we show what was raised and from whom. Connecting that to how the member voted would be a causal claim from two records that were never linked, and campaign money is not the only thing that moves a vote.
A complete funding career: Cycles are shown back to 2009. A member who served before that has earlier campaigns we do not hold, so the career total is a floor rather than a lifetime figure.
Employers we cannot see: The employer field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so the bundling table shows employers we can see rather than every one that exists.
Whether a difference was a broken promise: Where a stated position and a vote differ we show both records and say only that they differ. Why is not in either one — an amendment, a procedural vote, or a bill that changed under the member all produce the same pair.
A complete set of statements: Positions are found and cited one at a time by a person. An empty or short list means nobody has done that reading, not that a member has said little.
Advertising: Meta’s ad library and PDC independent expenditures targeting this member are both public and neither is loaded.
What a divergent vote means: We can say a member voted against their party’s majority on a given roll call. Whether that was principle, a local interest, a drafting objection or a trade is not in the record, and the count is not a measure of independence.
Committee influence: Chair and ranking-member roles decide which bills get heard. The roster gives membership without role, so every seat here looks alike.
A member’s response: The design reserves space for one. We have no process yet for soliciting or publishing it, so the section is absent rather than empty.

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How to run for this office

This is an office, not a possession. Every seat here is filled by whoever files for it and wins, and the requirements are the same for everyone.

Filing requirements and next election by seat
Seat	Term	Next election	Filing opens
State Representative, District 33	2 years	2026	May 2026

What the job is. The Legislature sits for 105 days in odd-numbered years and 60 days in even ones, and the work does not stop when the session does — committee days, constituent casework and district meetings run through the interim. Someone deciding whether to file needs that more than they need anyone’s opinion of the incumbent.

Reporting follows money, not candidacy. Registering with the Public Disclosure Commission and filing contribution reports is triggered by raising and spending, not by putting your name in. A campaign that stays under the mini-reporting threshold files a short form and nothing more.

We cannot yet tell you what filing costs. The fee is one percent of the office’s annual salary (RCW 29A.24.091 — one percent of the annual salary of the office), which makes it a specific dollar amount rather than a rule — and a page that makes you compute your own filing fee has not told you the filing fee. Legislative salaries are set by the Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials and we do not hold that schedule, so the figure is missing rather than estimated. A candidate who cannot pay it may file a petition of signatures instead.

Source Election cycle derived from past regular elections in PDC candidate filings; requirements from RCW 29A.24 — candidate filing · as of 2026-08-07

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Connected records

Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.

On the record

HOLDS A SEAT IN

Washington’s 33rd Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

House, Legislative District 33

WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

Nothing on file

No funding edge is published. Campaign finance and the Legislature roster share no key, and matching people by name across the two produces wrong pairs often enough to be worse than nothing. No lobbying edge either: Washington lobbying filings name neither bills nor legislators.

Source WA Legislature member roster · as of 2026-08-07

Cite this page

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“State Representative Edwin Obras,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/edwin-obras/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

WA Legislature member roster: Name, party, district, chamber and contact details, per session served.
WA Legislature roll call service: Every recorded floor vote. Committee votes are recorded per committee rather than per member and are not included.
Party divergence: Derived, not published by the Legislature. For each roll call we take the majority position of the member’s own party and flag votes against it, counting only roll calls where that party had a clear majority.
WA Legislature legislation records: Prime sponsorship, and each bill’s outcome and hearing status. Co-sponsorship is not in the record we hold.
Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings: Contributions, expenditures, the largest reported contributors and their stated employers, for every cycle back to 2007. Matched on surname and given name plus chamber and district for a legislator, or the office won and the county it was won in for everyone else — never on name alone — and only published where one person fits. Across the record that resolves 1,938 of 13,879 officials over 3,548 cycles, with 45 refused as ambiguous; the rest say why they did not match.
Not loaded: Public statements, advertising, committee roles, and committee votes by member.