Mahesh (Max) Ganorkar
Party:
Republican
Incumbent:
No
Age:
~60
Previous experience in elected office:
None; ran unsuccessfully for the same role in 2022 and 2024
Occupation:
"Worked on international joint ventures”

Description:
Ganorkar calls himself an “anti-socialism warrior” and his top priorities include education, healthcare, affordability and “insurance freedom” (he dislikes redlining and credit scoring). He aspires to expand school choice and privatize education, provide healthcare vouchers to citizens through the tax-filling process, prevent large corporations from buying "up single-family homes and convert[ing] them into rental properties" and stop insurance companies from making people with lower credit scores pay higher insurance premiums because it hurts families facing financial hardship.
Other personal:
Ganorkar was born in India. He has been married to his wife, Chaaya, for 33 years and has three children. In a YouTube video, his wife said that the couple decided he would be a stay-at-home dad after promising one another to "not send [their] kids to daycare or have someone else babysit them." Furthermore, according to his wife (who appears to be a pharmaceutical executive), he homeschooled his children. He is producing a film about domestic violence. He was also a former Tea Party Founder and Leader. He has an MBA in international finance and marketing.
