Talk:Special election musical chairs

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03:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC) I would rename this page - special election musical chairs, the MADNESS nomenclature smacks of partisanship.

Hank chapot 03:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC) I renamed this page because madness is a faux clinical term, and though pertinent, is really not that understandable.

I agree that "special election madness" is not a good term, but as most of the article refers to a specific series of events, rather than the general practice of manipulating special elections, "manipulation" is not a good title either. "Musical chairs" is a common phrase in editorials and articles about both the 1998-99 events in Oakland and similar occurrences elsewhere, so I changed the title, and fixed the double-redirects. Argyriou 06:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Paulhogarth 13:32, 05 Jun 2006

Someone made the change from Frank Russo to John Russo, believing that there was a mistake. It's not a mistake, and they are not the same person. Frank Russo is an Oakland lawyer who ran for the State Assembly in the February 1999 special election. John Russo is the current Oakland City Attorney who is currently (June 2006) running for the State Assembly -- ironically in the same district. They are not the same person (although they are both Democrats), and it was a source of some confusion when I walked precincts for Frank.

[edit] POV

Even if everything alleged in this article is true, then the article's language must be changed to present it in a neutral point of view.—Markles 20:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I've done some cleanup of the POV. It's not so easy, because the article is written in a journalistic style which demands adjectives and makes POV rather easy to insert and hard to remove. But I'm way too lazy to rewrite the whole article in a non-journo style. Argyriou 17:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)