Talk:Deval Patrick

Reverted obvious vandalism by "Heeley4Gov". 24.218.110.67 03:41, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

repeated removal of ciriticism section and link

Despite my personal political support for this candidate, removal of unbiased analysis of criticism and the link the anti-Patrick blog is against the spirit of Wikipedia and I will continue restoring this if poeple keep removing it. I've been very dilligent in making sure information of criticism situated here is not biased attacks, and as careful as possible in making sure biographical information and discussion of achievements are not biased either. I hope people will continue to contribute positively instead of just removing factual information they perhaps don't want publicized. Articles on current political candidates require a very sensitive attention to balance and detail. Alex 14:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

someone also wrote ne saying my retort to a criticism was biased because it was anti-Healey. it was from the Boston Herald, so if that guy is reading this: get a life.

Campaign Lies as Facts

Do we really need to copy everything from Deval Patrick's campaign biography onto Wikipedia? There is no proof he grew up poor or recieved a scholarship to Milton Academy. It's pretty clear that he grew up wealthy and his parents paid his way in school. The only proof otherwise comes from his fluffed campaign biography. 75.3.23.157 02:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

-- The above is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I have ever read on Wikipedia. You, sir, are a fool. Do you really think that prestigious schools like Milton Academy and Harvard would let his constant references to them slip by if they were false? Seriously, what is wrong with you? o_0

Quota King Remark

I tried to deal with the Quota King remark in its most unbiased way, including correctly noting the person who made the statement and when it was made. I know it's been a hotly edited issue here on this page. --okieman1200 04:45, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

For instance calling Clint Bolcik, an "Anti-Affirmative Action activist" which he is, instead of a "conservative activist" which is more subjective and has a different connotation. --okieman1200 04:47, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks good, thanks a lot. Stilgar135 04:47, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Please leave the remark, stop editing this remark! Recently the blog Blue Mass Group, urged their readers to change the wikipedia entry, I am a Patrick supporter too, like the people who keep removing it, but it is better to have the remark factually dealt with then to not talk about it and have people's only knowledge of the remark be through an opposing campaign.--168.122.175.83 00:12, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Neutrality

Honestly, I have yet to find anything critical on the other candidates posted on wikipedia. Could we tone down the criticism portion of his entry? Not to sound overly biased, however, it seems to take a larger than usual portion of the entry. No, I am not trying to sway the entry to being Pro-Patrick, just bring the level of equality shared by other candidates on wikipedia.

The proper way to do that is to increase the criticism entries for other candidates. Ideally, all the candidates' pages should have well-documented histories of the criticisms levied against them; just because some of them fail to do that does not mean that others should be brought down to their level. Stilgar135 15:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I found the Kerry Healey article to have no criticisms from other candidates and the fact she is double digits behind in the polls.

Healey has plenty of criticisms now.... I think its just easier to find dirt on Deval coz hes an attorney who has defended a lot of vicious criminals... What has healey done? -peterp

One of the problems with the criticisms section here isn't the critiques themselves - they obviously belong there - but the language used to describe them is atrocious. It's clearly prejudiced and quite frankly, bad journalism/reporting/wikipedia-ing. I added some much-needed context to some of the entries, without substituting any language, but some of the language should still be changed. However, I'll leave that to more hard-core wikipedians to do. ~Ryan of www.ryanpadams.blogspot.com (Ryan's Take).

Views Section -More information is needed on his views. He has extremely detailed views and policies on dozens of issues that should be reflected here. There's so much text dedicated to his criticisms, but almost nothing dedicated to his positions. Over the next few days, I can add some information, but hopefully others will as well (especially since I'm not good with html on wikipedia).

Extremely detailed views and policies? Can you please provide some of these views? If you're "not good with HTML" just post some links here that outline his extremely complex views and policies and I'll add them for you.--Kester Teague 21:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Bulger meeting

In my edit summary I said that Patrick met with Deval a "few weeks ago". This was a typo, as the meeting was a few months ago. I'm somewhat new to this and wasn't able to find a way to edit my edit summary....so basically this is for clarification sake.