Talk:Chris Bell (politician)

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He may be "passionate" and "dedicated" about things, but that should be saved for the personal website, not for Wikipedia.

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[edit] Question on "truce"

"...ending a 7-year truce between the parties..." Truce? What truce? They've always been at each others' throats. Can someone elaborate on what they meant with this particular line? Did you mean a truce on ethics complaints, or something else? · Katefan0(scribble) 23:47, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

You are correct - there were no ethics complaints for 7 years between the two parties.

[edit] Mentor to Houston Community College trustee Jay K. Aiyer

During the 2005 Houston city elections to replace term-limited councilmember Gordon Quan (a former Bell colleague during his tenure as an at-large Houston City Councilmember), it has been known that Bell is a mentor to HCC Board President Jay Aiyer. One issue brought up during the 2006 primary elections is Bell's position on the recent constitutional amendment which passed in November banning same-sex marriages although he is supportive of civil unions like his former primary opponent Al Green.

The sitting councilmember who replaced Quan - Sue Lovell - voiced her statement in response to endorsing Bell as the primary candidate where she discussed her opponent's receiving an endorsement from a right-wing conservative talk radio host on KSEV AM Radio. Since Jay Aiyer and Bell are close friends - there is a rift in the Texas Democratic Party to which candidate should be voted this November in response to Prop 2 being passed in November 2005. - —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.187.174.15 (talk • contribs)

Okay. So you want.... what? You want the above section added? You never say. You slapped a NPOV tag on the article, and drop the above infodump here in the text page, but that leaves little clue as to just what you want to happen to the page, or why you think that the page has NPOV issues. - TexasAndroid 20:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is DEFINITELY an advertisement/needs cleanup

"Chris" needs to be replaced with "Bell" in all uses. That alone shows this is an ad, or a press release.

If it is not so cleaned up, it needs to be put on hold until Nov. 8. 216.201.197.1 19:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I've cleaned up the odd use of the first name, but some of the rest could use some work as well. Some of it reads almost verbatim like ad copy and could be more neutrally restated, and better sourced. In particular, there are places where things Bell alleges about his opponents are stated as fact, but would be more clearly stated as "Bell alleges...". --Delirium 05:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this a campaign page?

This entire article is one of the worst examples of biography bias I have ever seen on Wikipedia. This looks like it was written by member the Bell for Governor campaign staff. The writer is either a political supporter of Chris Bell or a plagarist who has pulled this information from a Democratic website. This is pure political propaganga and has NO place on this website. THIS IS BIASED, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. ~~rncwright