Rodney Pyles
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Rodney Pyles (Democratic Party) was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, representing District 51. He assumed office in 2016. He left office on December 1, 2020.
Pyles (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the West Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 51. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Committee assignments
2019-2020
Pyles was assigned to the following committees:
- House Government Organization Committee, Minority Chair
- Political Subdivisions Committee
- Senior Citizen Issues Committee
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2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
| West Virginia committee assignments, 2017 |
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| • Education |
| • Government Organization |
| • Political Subdivisions |
| • Senior Citizen Issues |
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2020
See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2020
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 (5 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Barbara Fleischauer (D) | 11.8 | 19,718 |
| ✔ |  | Evan Hansen (D) | 11.3 | 18,800 |
| ✔ |  | Joe Statler (R) | 11.0 | 18,304 |
| ✔ |  | Danielle Walker (D) | 10.8 | 17,931 |
| ✔ |  | John Williams (D) | 10.7 | 17,737 |
 | Cindy Frich (R) | 10.6 | 17,704 | |
 | Rodney Pyles (D) | 10.6 | 17,689 | |
 | Justin White (R)  | 8.5 | 14,187 | |
 | Todd Stainbrook (R) | 7.3 | 12,204 | |
 | Zach LeMaire (R) | 7.3 | 12,134 | |
| Total votes: 166,408 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 (5 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Danielle Walker | 20.6 | 9,685 |
| ✔ | | Barbara Fleischauer | 20.5 | 9,626 |
| ✔ | | Evan Hansen | 19.8 | 9,300 |
| ✔ | | John Williams | 17.2 | 8,065 |
| ✔ | | Rodney Pyles | 14.7 | 6,889 |
 | Jeffrey Budkey | 7.1 | 3,343 | |
| Total votes: 46,908 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 (5 seats)
Joe Statler, Cindy Frich, Justin White, Todd Stainbrook, and Zach LeMaire advanced from the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Statler | 24.8 | 5,151 |
| ✔ | | Cindy Frich | 23.9 | 4,965 |
| ✔ | | Justin White | 18.3 | 3,801 |
| ✔ | | Todd Stainbrook | 17.6 | 3,660 |
| ✔ | | Zach LeMaire | 15.4 | 3,200 |
| Total votes: 20,777 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 (5 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Fleischauer (D) | 12.2 | 16,357 |
| ✔ | | Evan Hansen (D) | 11.6 | 15,558 |
| ✔ | | John Williams (D) | 11.2 | 15,045 |
| ✔ | | Danielle Walker (D) | 11.0 | 14,725 |
| ✔ | | Rodney Pyles (D) | 10.6 | 14,240 |
| Joe Statler (R) | 9.7 | 13,051 | |
| Cindy Frich (R) | 9.4 | 12,601 | |
 | Debbie Warner (R) | 8.3 | 11,058 | |
 | Roger Shuttlesworth (R) | 6.6 | 8,885 | |
| Aaron Metz (R) | 6.3 | 8,464 | |
 | Buddy Guthrie (L) | 2.2 | 3,011 | |
| Harry Bertram (American Freedom Union Party) | 0.7 | 942 | |
| Total votes: 133,937 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 (5 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Fleischauer | 21.5 | 6,116 |
| ✔ | | Evan Hansen | 19.9 | 5,639 |
| ✔ | | Danielle Walker | 18.0 | 5,104 |
| ✔ | | John Williams | 17.6 | 4,994 |
| ✔ | | Rodney Pyles | 13.9 | 3,952 |
| Cory Kennedy | 9.1 | 2,585 | |
| Total votes: 28,390 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 (5 seats)
Incumbent Joe Statler, incumbent Cindy Frich, Debbie Warner, and Roger Shuttlesworth advanced from the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Statler | 27.2 | 3,160 |
| ✔ | | Cindy Frich | 25.8 | 3,004 |
| ✔ | | Debbie Warner | 24.1 | 2,799 |
| ✔ | | Roger Shuttlesworth | 22.9 | 2,665 |
| Total votes: 11,628 | |||
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2016
Elections for the West Virginia House of Delegates took place in 2016. The primary election took place on May 10, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was January 30, 2016. Incumbent William Flanigan (R) did not seek re-election.
The following candidates ran in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 general election.[1][2]
| West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, General Election, 2016 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Barbara Fleischauer Incumbent |
11.84% | 16,269 | |
| Democratic | John Williams |
10.47% | 14,386 | |
| Democratic | Rodney Pyles |
9.48% | 13,025 | |
| Republican | Cindy Frich Incumbent |
11.78% | 16,182 | |
| Republican | Joe Statler Incumbent |
11.15% | 15,318 | |
| Democratic | Evan Hansen | 9.45% | 12,988 | |
| Democratic | Nancy Jamison | 9.04% | 12,426 | |
| Republican | Michael Acevedo | 7.09% | 9,742 | |
| Republican | Eric Finch | 7.16% | 9,832 | |
| Republican | Roger Shuttlesworth | 9.03% | 12,407 | |
| Libertarian | Eddie Wagoner | 3.51% | 4,824 | |
| Total Votes | 137,399 | |||
| Source: West Virginia Secretary of State | ||||
The following candidates ran in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 Democratic primary.[3][4]
| West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic | Barbara Fleischauer Incumbent |
20.12% | 9,702 | |
| Democratic | Evan Hansen |
13.30% | 6,414 | |
| Democratic | John Williams |
13.35% | 6,438 | |
| Democratic | Nancy Jamison |
12.73% | 6,136 | |
| Democratic | Rodney Pyles |
12.12% | 5,842 | |
| Democratic | John G. Lucas | 8.51% | 4,105 | |
| Democratic | Billy Smerka, Jr. | 11.62% | 5,603 | |
| Democratic | Barry L. Wendell | 8.24% | 3,971 | |
| Total Votes | 48,211 | |||
Michael Acevedo, Eric Finch, incumbent Cindy Frich, incumbent Brian Kurcaba and incumbent Joe Statler were unopposed in the West Virginia House of Delegates District 51 Republican primary.[3][4]
| West Virginia House of Delegates District 51, Republican Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Republican | Michael Acevedo | |
| Republican | Eric Finch | |
| Republican | Cindy Frich Incumbent | |
| Republican | Brian Kurcaba Incumbent | |
| Republican | Joe Statler Incumbent | |
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Rodney Pyles did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Rodney A. Pyles participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 10, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Rodney A. Pyles's responses follow below.[5]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Funding for highways and infrastructure 2) Protect higher education from budget cuts |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Higher education, highways and infrastructure, senior citizen issues. Higher education has been cut the last 4 years; roads and bridges are in miserable shape.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[7]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Rodney A. Pyles answered the following:
What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?
| “ | Put people first; look out for the poor, working families and working poor, minorities, and all those who need help.[7] | ” |
| “ | Educated, experienced, passionate and religious.[7] | ” |
| “ | Work hard at the job; read, study, listen and pay attention.[7] | ” |
| “ | Always voting for legislation that helps people and against legislation that hurts them.[7] | ” |
| “ | Election of 1952 when I was 7 years old.[7] | ” |
| “ | I had a paper route in my early teens and worked briefly as a laborer with an independent contractor, carrying cement blocks and bags of cement- enough to convince me that manual labor was not for me.[7] | ” |
| “ | Thanksgiving- a family gathering at a dinner with a nice variety of food.[7] | ” |
| “ | The Senate seems to be more conservative and obstructionist.[7] | ” |
| “ | Yes[7] | ” |
| “ | Improving education and infrastructure.[7] | ” |
| “ | It is beneficial to have relationships outside the meetings, to get a wider outlook on pending issues and aid decision making on pending votes.[7] | ” |
| “ | There needs to be an independent citizens' commission to draw district lines on a geographic basis with no gerrymandering.[7] | ” |
| “ | As a political science grad who specialized in state and local government, the government organization and political subdivision committees had special appeal. I wanted to be on education committee to look out for home town WV university, and as a senior citizen, on the senior issues committee.[7] | ” |
| “ | No, need more experience.[7] | ” |
| “ | My older brother John who served two terms in the House of Delegates in the 1960s.[7] | ” |
| “ | No[7] | ” |
| “ | During this past session I received many letters (email) from teachers and government employees suffering hardships due to changes in the public employees insurance system, many stories sad enough to bring tears to my eyes.[7] | ” |
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2020
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2019
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In 2019, the West Virginia State Legislature was in session from January 9 through March 9.
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2018
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In 2018, the West Virginia State Legislature was in session from January 10 through March 10.
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2017
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In 2017, the West Virginia State Legislature was in session from February 8 through April 9. The legislature held a special session from May 4 to June 26. The legislature held its second special session from August 1 to September 15.
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2016
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In 2016, the West Virginia State Legislature was in session from January 13 through March 12.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate search," accessed November 4, 2016
- ↑ West Virginia Secretary of State, "2016 official general election results," accessed May 3, 2017
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 West Virginia Secretary of State, "Candidate Listing by Office," accessed January 30, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 West Virginia Secretary of State, "Statewide Results - Primary Election - May 10, 2016," accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Rodney A. Pyles's responses," April 10, 2018
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
