Warmer? Yes. Crisis? No. Visit the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) website. Search their documents for the word "crisis." If Democrats win, gas prices will go up again and so will inflation, to combat a climate crisis for which they have no evidence. (Full Disclosure: The candidate's retirement income includes significant income from oil.)

Students who have not mastered reading and arithmetic facts by third grade rarely catch up and graduate unable to compete in the information age. For a century public schools embraced "progressive education", which was anti-phonics and anti-drill, so students depending on classroom instruction do not master the basics. Those who do are tutored at home. The high school minority student achievement gap first appears in 3rd grade.

Public school curricula are picked by administrators who feel no consequences when students do not learn. Higher school spending subsidizes the problem rather than solving it. Losing students to competition would provide consequences.

"France banned absentee voting in 1975 because of massive fraud in Corsica, where postal ballots were stolen or bought and voters cast multiple votes. " Source.

Do not let in the drug- and sex-traffickers and gang members from whom other immigrants are trying to flee.

You do not have to wait until 2027 for General Mills to remove synthetic dyes; you can stop eating General Mills products now. See Surgeon General nominee Casey Means's book Good Energy for the connection between chronic disease and chemicalized food. See Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer's book, Brain Energy, for the connection between diet and mental illness.

As noted above, public schools perpetuate poverty and chemicalized food causes mental illness. To end gun violence, fix the schools and clean up the food. Complex gun laws turn law-abiding citizens into inadvertent felons.

Abortion always takes a life. Abortion advocates focus on the rare abortions required to save the mother's life, even at the end of pregnancy. Keep abortion legal for those rare cases but never encourage abortion. Do not refer to abortion as a reproductive right -- it prevents reproduction. Even when justified to save the mother's life, it is always a tragedy because another life is lost.

How do you determine what is ethical if you don't have God-given commandments? George Washington's Farewell Address states, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." While the First Amendment prohibits a state church, the Founders expected government to foster Christianity. See Abraham Lincoln's proclamation for a national day of fasting and prayer.

Every tax hike makes families less self-sufficient. Make families self-sufficient by bringing back good jobs, having schools that know how to teach reading and arithmetic, ending chronic disease by eating real food, and ending the war on fossil fuels to reduce gas and grocery prices.

Arthur Purves grew up in Washington D.C. and earned a BA, MS, and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.

He and his late wife, Carol, moved to Vienna in 1976. They have two children, who graduated from Fairfax County Public Schools in the mid-90s. Arthur was his son's lacrosse boosters' president at Marshall High School and was his daughter's crew boosters' president at Thomas Jefferson High School.

Arthur worked as a computer programmer for 40 years and is now retired. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

For 28 years he has been president of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance. He was treasurer for the Fairfax Committee of 100 for ten years, was a member of the 2014 Fairfax County Meals Tax Task Force, and in 2013 served on the Hunter Mill Citizen Budget Committee. He has also served on three Fairfax County Public Schools advisory committees and is a member of the League of Women Voters and the Fairfax branch of the NAACP. He was a Scoutmaster for his church, including for a Latino troop, and was elected to the Order of the Arrow.

As Taxpayers Alliance president, Arthur has testified at most county and school proposed budget hearings since 1997 and has attended school superintendent and county executive budget press briefings. This was not automatic. The first time he attempted, in January 2000, to attend the school superintendent's budget press briefing he was arrested, handcuffed, made to sit out the briefing in a police station, and charged with trespassing. He had wanted to ask why the superintendent had waited until after the supervisors' election to announce a school budget crisis. The school system did not press charges.

The school advisory committees were Family Life Education (FLE) in 1991 and 2002, the Superintendent's Advisory Committee for Student Success (1993-95), and Professional Technical Studies (1996-2003).

It has never been shown that FLE reduces teen promiscuity or drug use, and FLE does not even have goals to do so. The school board should drop FLE and concentrate on reading, math, and history that is both accurate and patriotic. Family life is better learned at church, synagogue, mosque, and temple.

While Professional Technical Studies (aka Career and Technical Education) had a commendable goal to teach career preparedness, it was never shown that that goal was being accomplished. Meanwhile Arthur felt that the schools were neglecting the essentials for any job, e.g., mastery of math, reading, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and writing.

Something good did come of the "Student Success" committee in that the administrator in charge of that committee persuaded then-superintendent, Dr. Spillane, to invite elementary schools to teach E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge Sequence. Dr. Hirsch was a University of Virginia English professor and author of Cultural Literacy (1988). Five schools did so from 1997 to about 2002. The school system suspended funding because a study found that Core Knowledge did not adequately prepare students for the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests. This was ironic because Governor George Allen tried to base the SOLs on E. D. Hirsch's curriculum, which teaches geography, American and world history every year from K-8th grade and is phonics-based.

Arthur has run in seven general elections. In all but the first race, if Arthur had not run, a tax-and-spend incumbent would have had a free pass. He ran for school board (1995, 2003); for county chairman against Kate Hanley, as an independent when there was no Republican candidate (1999); for delegate (2007); as the Republican candidate for county chairman against Sharon Bulova (2015); for state senate against Janet Howell (2019); and a third time for county chairman against Jeff McKay (2023).

Arthur has in all but the first race advocated reversing the Supreme Court decisions removing the Lord's Prayer, Bible, and Ten Commandments from public schools, as he believes these decisions resulted in a deterioration of marriage and family that is the basic cause of gun violence and of higher taxes through increased welfare and public safety spending.

More recently he has served as an election officer, helped refugees with asylum applications, and has researched phonics-based ESL curricula for use with refugees. He has a General Class amateur radio license, KQ4AXT, and is currently a member of the Fairfax County Schools Equitable Access to Literacy Community Advisory Committee.

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