Talk:Dan Lungren

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Contents 1 "Vandalism" 2 Non-confirmation as State Treasurer? 3 WikiProject class rating 4 Mortal Kombat and Video Game Violence

[edit] "Vandalism"

The "congress IP" I guess has removed this statement (and one other, on Lungren's vote in the recall election), which has been reverted several times as vandalism. I don't think it's vandalism:

During his first tenure in Congress, Lungren was a harbinger of the "angry young man" style of conservative politics that has now become common among Republicans.

This kind of thing needs to be backed up by and credited to notable observers, and is also poorly stated. I don't know what '"angry young man" style of conservative politics' even means (Is it policies? A rhetorical style?), nor whether it is common among Republicans or not, or in what way Lungren was a "harbinger" of them. Demi ^T/_C 16:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure, that would be a good thing, but the credibility of the (unknown to me because I didn't look) wikipedian who entered the text significantly surpasses that of the almost certainly biased editor from the Congresscritter IP. It is not wikipedia policy to remove every statement on wikipedia that lacks a reference. In addition, the term 'angry young man' sounded familiar. Feel free to do the work you think warrants doing; google <"angry young man" conservative politics>... Elvey

It's certainly true; IMO whoever's seeking to remove it is just whitewashing. I'll see if I can't find a specific citation (that I didn't write, that is ;) ). I'm the one who inserted the information in the first place. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 05:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

To elaborate on the question of the "style" -- this is the sort of thing Newt Gingrich rode in on; Contract with America and all that. The firey, righteous, "anti-corruption" diatribes they'd have on the House floor during morning hour. He was sort of the precursor to that whole wave of new, young Republican members who made a big splash by promising to clean house with the changing of the guard from the old Democratic domination of Congress. · Katefan0^(scribble)/poll 05:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Non-confirmation as State Treasurer?

Why was Dan Lungren not confirmed as State Treasurer? --Degrassifan 21:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mortal Kombat and Video Game Violence

I am curious to know why his extensive involvement with the discussion about violence in video games is not mentioned in this article. It is a highly notable point of one of the biggest moments in video game history, and he was helping to lead the charge.

This article seems to have NPOV issues, where every fact that may not be positive appears to have been censored over the years. I see many, many questionable removals of facts that needed to be cleaned up to a neutral point of view rather than removed outright.

This notable incident should be in the article, with an obvious neutral tone, but to leave it out completely brings this article's neutrality into question. SashaNein (talk) 22:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)