Talk:Bill Richardson (politician)

Discussion on WP:RM

This entry was moved here from WP:RM, as a record of the discussion there. Please do not add to this archived content, but instead make new entries in the section below. Noel (talk) 14:26, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bill Richardson (politician) → Bill Richardson

There is consensus that Bill Richardson (politician) is a far better known personality than Bill Richardson (radio). I have moved the disambig at "Bill Richardson" to "Bill Richardson (disambiguation)" -- Jord 17:18, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Oppose - Unless you were to move his page back to Bill Richardson, there's not much point in that. A bigger issue is probably that there have been a number of politicians named Bill (or William) Richardson, including a few other Congressmen and a longtime California state Senator (H.L. "Bill" Richardson) who ran for U.S. Senate. Outside of politics, there are probably any number of others. I'd recommend leaving the Bill Richardson page as a disambig, but moving the N.M. governor's page to Bill Richardson (governor) or Bill Richardson (New Mexico). MisfitToys 21:19, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose there are too many famed individuals named Bill Richardson to justify the move...and more than just the two listed on the disambiguation page.—ExplorerCDT 21:42, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose for the reasons MisfitToys stated above. I hope someone will add a few more Bill Richardsons to the list, even if they don't currently have articles. --LostLeviathan 21:51, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Comment: I just wonder whether the three authors named Bill Richardson (that I know of) will require a disambiguation page at Bill Richardson (author) and what their individual articles should be named. —ExplorerCDT 23:02, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • No, Bill Richardson (author) should in that case be a redirect to the main disambiguation page for the name. No point in having a twisty maze of little disambiguation pages. Gdr 21:23, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)
• Oppose can't really see any evidence of consensus (or discord for that matter) and who's to say there aren't others? Icundell 22:09, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. I'm canadian, and have heard of the radio guy, and never the politician. here's my biased vote. SECProto 03:47, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. What SECProto said. —Michael Z. 05:13, 2005 Jan 8 (UTC)

Ridiculous comment on Wen Ho Lee case

MISHANDELING OF WEN HO LE CASE

Wow. What an argument you make. Or not. It earns discussion, perhaps, but how was it mishandled? Because Lee plead out on the charges? Think Richardson had control over the FBI investigation? You're ill-informed if you believe that. --ABQCat 08:21, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

First sensible thing on Talk page

NBC had a story on the Latino/Hispanic vote and briefly profiled Bill Richardson on October 14, 2004. Brokaw said that Richardson was born in Mexico. Before anyone goes and changes the article for that comment, according to Project Vote Smart (most respectable source I could find in 5 minutes, Vote Smart's entry for Bill Richardson), Richardson was born in Pasedena, California. Brokaw was mistaken as far as I can tell. --ABQCat 01:04, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Reasons for move

I was just wondering - when two notable people have the same name, is it necessary (per wiki policy, for example) to create a disambig page, or could the predominant user of the name keep the main article? I'm asking because I've noticed this in the past and honstly don't know - Brian Williams, for example. I thought for example that the Bill Richardson (radio) blurb up at the top of Bill Richardson was quite sufficient, but as I said, I'm not up on what the policy is. --ABQCat 05:11, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please note that this move has broken links on at least 10 pages I have found so far. I just think someone should bother taking care of that before deciding to just move the page. --ABQCat 05:15, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Discussion on WP:RM decided to keep the page here; see above. Noel (talk) 14:26, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Richardson' Conversion to Supply-Side Reaganomics and Tax Cuts for Business ("The Rich")

Where does this UPI story fit into the text with the following quote:

"Make no mistake," Richardson said. "The point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business (2/19/2003)

or this Letter to the Albuquerque Journal from a citizen:

Richardson Emulates Reagan's Tax Cuts

Airport/Enron Comment

This is clearly biased. First of all, Santa Fe is not 2 hours from Albuquerque and the writer included none of the discussion of the article. I have posted it here to be edited before it is put back on the main site.

Removed Text

The Albuquerque Journal reported on June 12 2005, that a New Mexico State Auditor concluded the Governor used Enron type accounting after his adminstration "circumvented the Legislature and proper accounting procedures when it opened the office in 2004 because it used money intended for the Taxation and Revenue Department to pay for the governor's Albuquerque digs." The Governor had opened an office in Albuquerque five minutes from the airport to meet with potential out of state donors for his 2008 Presidential campaign without inconveniencing them with the two hour round trip to Sante Fe.