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Arthur Purves
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2019

Arthur Purves (Republican Party) ran for election to the Virginia State Senate to represent District 32. Purves lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.

Purves completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.

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Elections

2019

See also: Virginia State Senate elections, 2019

General election

General election for Virginia State Senate District 32

Incumbent Janet Howell defeated Arthur Purves in the general election for Virginia State Senate District 32 on November 5, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Janet Howell
Janet Howell (D)
 
73.5
 
48,581
Image of Arthur Purves
Arthur Purves (R) Candidate Connection
 
26.3
 
17,376
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
127

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

Total votes: 66,084
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2019

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Candidate Connection

Arthur Purves completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Purves' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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1. End mediocrity and racial inequality in Virginia public schools.

2. Bring down medical costs using free market forces instead of subsidies.

3. End gun violence by returning the Ten Commandments to public schools.
I'm passionate about ending racial inequality. l believe that a major cause is the public schools' use of "whole word" instruction instead of intensive phonics to teach reading, the schools' opposition to arithmetic drill, and the subordination of history to "social studies." Low-income children's futures are ruined by fourth grade because schools haven't taught them reading and arithmetic. What schools have done is persuade most people that low-income Hispanics and African-Americans cannot learn. This is false. They can learn; they just haven't been taught.
I look up to my father, who knew more history than any other person I've met, Abraham Lincoln, and Jesus Christ.
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" by Rudyard Kipling
Putting what's right ahead of getting elected.
I always try to hear both sides of an issue.
Listen to all viewpoints. Recognize accountability to God.
He ended racial inequality in public schools. He brought down health care costs. He made it possible to not live paycheck-to-paycheck but to actually save and help others.
Eisenhower running against Adlai Stevenson in 1956. I was seven.
Paper boy. About three years.
I broke up with the girl who became my wife.
Christmas. Christmas shopping challenges me to think of others.
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris. Riveting history of physics and astronomy, and without a single equation.
None come to mind.
My leaf blower. I like it more than my Mac. It makes things clean, quickly. It is useful all year. I even use it to clear snow.
Just a Closer Walk with Thee - Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson version
Posture
Senators serve longer terms than delegates and therefore don't have to demagogue as much as delegates.
Yes.
Reduce crime, poverty, welfare costs, and indirectly taxes, by returning phonics, arithmetic drill, history instead of social studies, and the Ten Commandments to public schools. Wouldn't it be great if every fourth grader had mastered reading and math and was poised for lifelong high academic achievement?
The governor should consult often with General Assembly members.
Of course, to learn alternate viewpoints, benefit from their experience, and to build coalitions for good legislation.
Districts should be geographic and not political. I don't know of a process that can guarantee that.
No.
Not at as freshman.
No.
Maybe. This is my eighth run. In five of those races if I had not run the Democrat would not have had a Republican opponent. For 24 years I've been campaigning to end mediocrity and racial inequality in public schools by throwing out the John Dewey (different from the Dewey decimal system) "progressive education," which replaced phonics with whole word, called arithmetic drill evil, crowded out history with social studies, and removed the Judeo-Christian faith from public schools. Dewey created a nation with over 14 million dyslexics, a new industry called "remedial reading", unnecessarily stigmatized children as "Learning Disabled," and fostered an epidemic of ADHD and ADD, which are often associated with reading disabilities. Also, we didn't have school shootings before the Supreme Court removed the Lord's Prayer from public schools.
A friend of mine got a phone call from the school psychiatrist saying that their teenage daughter had emotional problems and needed treatment. The mother discovered that her daughter did not know how to read. The daughter was then given phonics instruction, learned how to read, and became a successful, well-adjusted student. The mother later won a seat on the school board and tried, successfully, but over intense opposition, to get a phonics-based reading series approved for the school system.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Tim Hannigan, Chairman, Fairfax County Republican Committee," June 11, 2019


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