Talk:Gwen Moore

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Family

Is it really appropriate to mention her son's arrest? I don't see how it relates to her career as a legislator. I wonder if a white man's son commited a minor crime: would that be included in an article? Just wondering! --24.184.16.201 18:03, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately, lawmakers are public figures and that means their families are by association. This obviously is degrees of difference in terms of national spotlight, but Teresa Heinz-Kerry was never running for president, and yet her quirky personality became news as part of her husband's campaign. Same for the Bush twins. The information in the article is accurate and not overblown, so I think it would be difficult to make a case for its removal -- particularly since it was sort of a partisan attack. It's a reasonable question though. Maybe it could be balanced by some more information on her? Katefan0 19:23, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

- OK. I will add more information about her family --Justy329 19:46, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

- I see that this discussion hasn't been updated in a while, but, inasmuch as I recently rewrote and reworked most of the article and appended info apropos of the resolution of the case of Rep. Moore's son, I suppose I ought to explain why I left the information concerning the criminal case in the article. Principally, I suppose, given that my edits were primarily to improve the syntax, tone, and grammar of the article, I didn't want them to be reverted because someone was not in accord with my having removed the material. Ancillarily, I think Katefan0, whose comment supra I hadn't seen when I reworked the article, is quite right. Surely we include information about the immediate families of politicians when members of those families make news—although surely I would hope we don't make untoward inferences about the politican him/herself—as we did, for example, with the Bush twins. As Katefan0 well notes, the tire-slashing here was alleged to have been partisan and to have been undertaken by the four persons accused of the crime at least in part in their official capacities as "operatives" (to use the term so en vogue w/respect to this case) either of the DNC or the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Finally, it should be noted that during the pendency and at the resolution of the case, Rep. Moore issued comments with respect to the character of her son and her beliefs about the appropriate disposition of the case. My personal opinion is that, even though the Milwaukee County DA is a Democrat, like Rep. Moore and Mayor Pratt, whose son was also involved, were the tire slashings to have been indiscriminant vandalism or even volitionally political but connected neither to the Democratic Party nor to any Democratic politican, the case would never have received the publicity or strident prosection that it did. Nevertheless, it is a not insignificant note about the Congresswoman, and, so I think it belongs in the article, though I will surely welcome any views to the contrary. Joe 22:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

District Boundries?

Is any of West Allis in her district? I live in West Allis, but am in Sensenbrenner's District. I am going to remove West Allis.--67.53.88.202 03:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, a portion of West Allis is in the district; so I corrected the article to reflect that. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:31, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways and Means

Moore is now on the Ways and Means Committee. 98.10.165.90 (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article issues

The article has a multitude of "citation needed" tags. This is not a good thing for any article but a BLP should have better sourcing.

External links

Some things just grow by nature. The "External links" section, one of the optional appendices, has eight entries. Three seems to be an acceptable number and of course, everyone has their favorite to add for four links.

The problem is that none is needed for article promotion.

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Some of the current links include ones that are not needed giving no benefit to the article, can be included in the article with sources, and should be trimmed accordingly. -- Otr500 (talk) 18:24, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]