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Grant Starrett
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Last election

August 4, 2016

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Grant Starrett was a 2016 Republican candidate for the U.S. House to represent the 4th Congressional District of Tennessee.[1] Starrett was defeated by incumbent Scott DesJarlais in the Republican primary on August 4, 2016.[2]

Elections

2016

See also: Tennessee's 4th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Scott DesJarlais (R) defeated Steven Reynolds (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. DesJarlais defeated Yomi Faparusi, Erran Persley, and Grant Starrett in the Republican primary on August 4, 2016.[3][2][4]

U.S. House, Tennessee District 4 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngScott DesJarlais Incumbent 65% 165,796
     Democratic Steven Reynolds 35% 89,141
Total Votes 254,937
Source: Tennessee Secretary of State


U.S. House, Tennessee District 4 Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngScott DesJarlais Incumbent 52.1% 24,211
Grant Starrett 43.3% 20,138
Erran Persley 3.5% 1,615
Yomi Faparusi 1.1% 493
Total Votes 46,457
Source: Tennessee Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Starrett's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

“
  • Spending And Debt: I stand for a simple proposition: we shouldn’t spend more than we take in. It’s a principle that Tennesseans in every household from Murfreesboro to Cleveland recognize—but those in D.C. fail to live up to. The federal government continues to grow year after year, saddling every child born today with nearly $60,000 in debt, and my generation will be stuck with the bill.
  • The Moral Crisis: Our families are disintegrating and our unborn children are being slain – and the federal government subsidizes both while activist judges ignore the plain text of our Constitution to impose their liberal agenda.
  • The Constitutional Crisis: The federal government has exceeded its constitutional boundaries and unelected bureaucrats are bribing, cajoling, and dictating to Tennessee what we should be doing on our own. Activist judges misread the plain text of the Constitution in order to impose their liberal agenda on the nation while our Commander-in-Chief has vacated his position.
  • Foreign Policy: Our federal government needs to be lean at home and mean abroad. The Commander-in-Chief has vacated his position as threats gather around the world: chaos throughout the Middle East threatens our ally Israel; Iran races to build a nuclear bomb and our president wants to pursue the same tactics that failed to stop North Korea; Russia is invading its neighbors; and China is unnerving theirs.
  • Veterans: Our veterans served to protect our country and our way of life, and deserve our nation’s thanks and admiration. The Department of Veterans Affairs has done an abysmal job in serving our veterans, with many veterans not getting the medical treatment they deserve for service-related injuries. We must hold the executives in Veterans Affairs accountable for their actions, reduce wait time for medical care, and ensure that we take proper care of our veterans.

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—Grant Starrett's campaign website, http://www.grantfortn.com/issues

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named declared
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Politico, "Tennessee House Primaries Results," August 4, 2016
  3. ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "Candidate Petitions Filed as of April 7, 2016 Noon Qualifying Deadline," accessed April 8, 2016
  4. ↑ CNN, "Election Results," accessed November 8, 2016
  5. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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