Talk:Al D'Amato

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Someone should mention his "What do you think?" commercials. Just a suggestion. --DanielCD 18:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy

As a local resident living in Lido Beach (D'Amato's current town of residence), I'm very familiar with this scumbag and the manipulation of Town zoning laws he has done in recent years. I added some (sourced) information regarding this as a subsection called "zoning" within the larger Controversy section.

I'll continue to develop it further as more newspaper articles are found detailing the manipulation of the local zoning board. --Novaprospekt 00:34, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

board positions

I was trying to find information on D'Amato's board seats. I know he is or was on the Fannie Mae board. Does anyone have information on this or other board positions D'Amato holds?(Wallamoose (talk) 18:59, 21 September 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Neutrality

This reads like a love letter to D'Amato considering the omission of the vast majority of his controversies (let's start with mob ties).Milkshake97 (talk) 23:25, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I was about to start a discussion about the same thing. Aside from the scandals when he was a senator, there should be a section about his actions in founding Park Strategies. (Is Opensecrets.org a reliable source? I would mention any one of four New York Times articles, but at least two are editorials.) Teach267 (talk) 18:09, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Name

The Senator was referred to by most media as "Alfonse D'Amato". Per WP:COMMONNAME, I think this article should be moved. Joefromrandb (talk) 18:55, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it is worth considering a move of this article to "Alfonse D'Amato." He was commonly referred to in the media as both Al and Alfonse, though it appears that Alfonse was and is more common. Ergo Sum 04:43, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ethics

Who scrubbed this. There is not a single mention of his ethics controversies starting from his days in Nassau Country where he was involved in a kickback scheme where county employees had to give 1% of their salary to the County Republican Party. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Horvendile (talk • contribs) 03:27, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And what about when he used a Federal housing program to give his friends and family houses in Island Park? There was an entire section about that in this article a few years ago. 74.89.11.92 (talk) 22:33, 3 January 2018 (UTC)Becca[reply]

External Link

Letter in Nassau Kickback Case An Issue in D'Amato Campaign — Preceding unsigned comment added by Horvendile (talk • contribs) 03:27, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tense in lead sentence

@Shakescene, Per the Manual of Style, articles about living people should be written in the present tense, and use the phrasing "is a former" rather than "was" in their first sentence. Beginning with "John Smith was..." is reserved for deceased people. This rule is used on almost all biographies on Wikipedia. Kornatice (talk) 05:20, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]