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Publications?

I was going through my library of books and found this text: "Police Guide to Search and Seizure, Interrogation and Confession", by Arlen Specter and Marvin Katz (copyright 1967 by the authors and published by the Chilton Company). On the last page of the pamphlet (p. 64), the text identifies Specter (among other things) as the DA in Philadelphia (we already show this in the wiki-article), and it also says that "Marvin Katz is a lawyer in private practice in Philadelphia and is a member of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal from 1952-1954.

Does this publication have a place in the Specter article? Maybe we can afford a "publications" section at the bottom...

—Kanodin (talk to me / slap me) 00:08, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Political Positions

I would really like to see more about his political positions, not just his past. The guy is coming up for a tough 2010 reelection campaign and I think it would add to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.225.63 (talk) 06:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Section on Spygate

It's extremely biased and offers little about what actually happened. Most of it is just claims that he has a conflict of interest, etc. Enigma ^message 19:39, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Polish Jokes

In December he has told some offensive Polish jokes, which was brought to the attention of media; he later apologized to the Polish minority. Ref. I wonder if this should be added to the controversies section? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:09, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Has anyone in the media started calling him Benjimin Arlen Specter? I thought this would be the obvious joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.109.195.126 (talk) 23:05, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Negative comments posted re Specter & Stimulus Package

Within fifteen minutes of Sen Specter and Collins coming out in favor of the Stimulus Package (on the GOP side), 75.73.147.116 modified the page to read the [Specter] "is a traitor." I removed the comment.

Shadow Two (talk) 07:06, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Switching Parties

The AP just reported that sources say Specter intends to switch parties. I'd still suggest waiting on published reports before making any changes, though. Dayewalker (talk) 16:09, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The New York Times: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/specter-will-run-as-a-democrat-in-2010/

Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/specter-to-switch-parties.html

Agreed. It's already reads "Democratic" in the infobox. Any word on whether this switch is effective as of today? The sources are silent on that. For example, Jeffords annouced in early May 2001 he would switch, but the swith did not occur until June 6, 2001.DCmacnut <> 16:34, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is also a very right wing bias point of view and the way it was written, the neutrality of his switching parties section should be examined. Liberal and Promised should be reexamined. He did not promise to run as a Republican, we was quoted as saying that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.166.190.124 (talk) 17:24, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've corrected the lede to tone down the POV phrasing.DCmacnut <> 17:44, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The most neutral, NPOV way to report on his promise to run as a Republican is to quote his exact words. It's a fact that he said those words. So I added them to the article. Grundle2600 (talk) 00:52, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protect?

Quite an onslaught of edits coming about the party switch. Any thoughts about whether the page should be temporarily semi-protected? -Pete (talk) 16:30, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it should be, but, who am I...? 24.98.20.220 (talk) 16:48, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Who are you? A valued second opinion. Thanks for your perspective. I've semi'd for a day. -Pete (talk) 16:50, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If any new or unregistered users would like to propose changes to the article, they are welcome to suggest them on the talk page. You can call attention to such proposals by placing {{editsemiprotected}} before your proposed change. --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 16:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{editsemiprotected}} Minor, but the text "Democratic (2009-) is appearing at the bottom with the footnote, rather than on the table. 68.181.218.75 (talk) 17:12, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This had already been done by the time I looked at the request, with this edit. Cheers, Chzz ► 22:50, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Caucus with Democrats? Chair of any Senate Committees?

I am supposing that Specter will caucus with the Democrats, but will he become chairman of any Senate committee?

I will see how the semiprotected status works out for this article. I have asked my question, and will await whatever the news produces or other editors learn elsewhere. --DThomsen8 (talk) 19:03, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On that note, shouldn't we say that Specter "holds" the committee seats (the page currently says "held") - until we have a source saying that he has been re-assigned? His official U.S. Senate page still lists him as having his "old" committee seats, including being the ranking member of an appropriations subcommittee and the judiciary committee. [1]

To answer Dthomsen8's question, MSNBC reports that he won't assume any chairmanships before the election [2] and the Wall Street Journal confirms that he will maintain his seniority despite switching parties. [3] --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 23:31, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

so what is he right now?

Officially? Dem or Rep? Is he a Republican until 2010 until he runs as a Democrat? Will he caucus with the Dems until then? Lemniwinks (talk) 01:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 :To answer Dthomsen8's question, MSNBC reports that he won't assume any chairmanships before the election [http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/28/1913180.aspx] and the Wall Street Journal confirms that he will maintain his seniority despite switching parties. [http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090428-723816.html]  --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 23:31, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
+==so what is he right now?==
+Officially? Dem or Rep? Is he a Republican until 2010 until he runs as a Democrat? Will he caucus with the Dems until then? [[User:Lemniwinks|Lemniwinks]] ([[User talk:Lemniwinks|talk]]) 01:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)