Talk:Kirsten Gillibrand

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Contents 1 Original article 2 Andrew Cuomo 3 Issues 4 First woman to represent the district 5 Controversies

[edit] Original article

original article was a stub and did indeed deserve replacement with a redirect to the district page. This version is no longer a stub, but describes Kirsten, her issues, and links to her campaign site. I suggest to change the district page, make her name there link to this new version.

[edit] Andrew Cuomo

I've added the FACT that Gillibrand worked under Cuomo during the HUD fiasco. Whoever moderates the page keeps removing it. It's a FACT she worked for him during the time it all went down. I have not accused her of any wrongdoing, I was simply stating that she worked for him during this time. (neutrality dispute) CAPSPAC 20:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

You refer to "fiasco" and "it all went down", but, reading the Talk:Andrew Cuomo page, it seems quite clear that (a) no mainsteam newspaper reported anything like this while Cuomo was Secretary of HUD; (b) the most serious charge against Cuomo seems to confuse bad bookkeeping (not unique to HUD - the Department of Defense has had more serious accounting problems) with theft or fraud, which is absurd - it's not as if the Secretary of a cabinet department can write checks to him/herself; (c) Gillibrand has never been linked to whatever Cuomo has been accused of.

As far as "keeps removing", I see exactly one posting by you to the article. Here's what I removed just before your posting - did you post it? Gillibrand was driven out due to the HUD scandal. In my mind, one isn't "driven out" unless one has done something wrong - which, of course, was unsourced. John Broughton | Talk 18:23, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Issues

I have removed this section. It was relevant during the campaign because it was informative to potential voters. However, it is highly POV. Now Gillibrand has been elected this article needs to be more encyclopaedic dealing with what she has done not what she might do. A summary of her views on issues remains at New York 20th congressional district election, 2006 (which can be expanded if required) so they are not lost. BlueValour 20:40, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First woman to represent the district

"She is the first Democrat to represent the district since 1978 and the first woman to represent the district." Really? What about Bella Abzug and Nita Lowey? Mattwhiteski 09:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

• • The current incarnation of the 20th district is not near New York City, those two women represented the 20th district when under a different redistricting scheme which placed it near Manhattan. T0llenz 20:42, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Controversies

Liberal LuLu replaced this with a POV entry. It has been restored.