[1][2] In late October 2019, Arnold was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and underwent successful surgery two days later at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to have it removed.
[6] His campaign spent more than three times that of his opponent, incumbent Deirdre Eshleman, whom he had easily beaten in the Republican primary though had enough write-in votes to appear on the Democratic ballot.
[8] In 2007, Arnold's office and the Lebanon School District partnered to provide families with a child-security program, including software for creating a CD record of children's parent-chosen medical and other personal information for ready access in case of a crisis.
[9] In 2011, Lebanon County commissioners approved Arnold's request for continuance of an alternate DUI sentencing program, wherein nonviolent offenders underwent a two-year treatment rather than going to jail.
The letter identifies election-related legal protections its signers believe were undermined, and asks that Congress "reject electoral votes that are not 'regularly given' or 'lawfully certified'", as they are enabled to do by federal law.