Talk:Cathy McMorris

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Contents 1 District 2 POV insertion 3 DeLay 4 Voting record 5 Name

[edit] District

I transferred the map of the Fifth Congressional District of Washington from George Nethercutt because, after all, he's not using it anymore. Nevertheless, a portrait of McMorris seems more appropriate here. --Calton 07:02, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] POV insertion

The following was inserted in the article:

McMorris has taken $5,000 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.

McMorris voted with Tom DeLay 98% of the time between Jan. 1 2004 and March 31 2005.

McMorris voted to weaken the ethics rules in a move that many say served only to protect Tom DeLay.

When Republicans realized it was "impossible to win the communications battle" over the gutted ethics rules, McMorris flip-flopped and voted to put the old rules back into place.

When Democrats offered a solution to clean up the House by strengthening ethics rules, McMorris voted twice to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote.

This turned the article into a POV piece. -- Jonel | Speak 13:23, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Are these not facts? Aren't there enough references to back this up? In Wikipedia, a point of view or POV is one way of looking at an issue. Wikipedia seeks a neutral point of view by including all relevant POVs while explicitly attributing them to those who hold them. If the whole article is made POV as a result of the insertion of a couple of facts, then please look at balancing the article and tell the other side of the story. Perhaps McMorris returned some of the dirty money or donated it to charity. Maybe as a freshman she did not know what ARMPAC is all about. Please add your point of view to correct what you don't think is fair and balanced about these facts.Kgrr 01:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I placed the section in the talk page because it unbalanced the article. If you can't write a balanced article, please do not turn one into a biased piece. Campaign finance is not something for which I have any stomach, and I'm not going to go searching for balancing facts for all of the politicians whose articles you've edited.

Also, even if balanced, the section still has large issues. First, DeLay no longer faces charges for conspiracy. Please remove that from every bio you have listed it on, as it is not true. Second, "McMorris voted to weaken the ethics rules in a move that many say served only to protect Tom DeLay" is a use of weasel words. Third, words such as "gutted" and "flip-flopped" are not at all useful in an NPOV encyclopedia entry unless part of someone's quote. Fourth, please provide a citation for the quote about the communication battle. Fifth, "McMorris voted twice to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote" is an intentionally misleading statement that plays upon the average reader's ignorance of standard Congressional procedures.

The article as it stands now is *not* NPOV. Please either balance it or move the POV parts to the talk page until they can be balanced. — Jonel | Speak 03:12, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] DeLay

per compromise with editor Roma

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who faces felony charges for money laundering campaign finances, helped finance McMorris's campaign with a $5000 from ARMPAC, DeLay's political action committee. [1] McMorris has not returned the money or donated it to charity, despite calls from Democrats to do so. Republicans say that the charges against DeLay are politically motivated because prosecutor Ronnie Earle has a history of unsuccessful indictments against political enemies of both parties such as Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), and because it has been widely reported that Earle had to shop the charges to multiple grand juries because one refused to indict. [2] [3] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bachs (talk • contribs).

This was added because the added statement about Tom Delay is an unproven allegation that is used to make the member of congress guilty by association. Especially when there is much evidence that Ronnie Earle's indictments are politically motivated. You cannot include one side of an unproven allegation and not include the other, to do so would be unfair and biased. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bachs (talk • contribs).

[edit] Voting record

More than half the article is a mainly unsourced "voting record." Wikipeidia is a list of information. If particular votes are notable they should be addressed with descriptions. It was a copyright-violation of *McMorris' voting record maintained by the Washington Post.Arbusto 02:09, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Cathy was recentoy married and took a double last name. the clerk of the house website even has her lister as Cathy McMorris Rodgers. should we change it here--Bohouse 18:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)