Talk:Joe Morrissey

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Second revocation

I've added a discussion of the charges/proceedings that led up to Morrissey's law license being revoked a second time.this name is also in use 03:05, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely poor "biography."

This page is almost exclusively constructed from cited sources, an approach that insulates those maintaining it from overt responsibility for having comprised a "biography" that is little more than a series of snipped sentences that corroborate a negative depiction of someone in politics.

For instance, Mr. Morrissey doubtless "claims" that he is a descendant of John "Old Smokey" Morrissey, but is there any reason to doubt that claim? If not, then it should just be accepted; instead, the presentation makes it seem dubious, even though we're talking about less than 200 years ago, a lineage that should be easily demonstrated.

Also, the findings of the New South Wales Bar Association in 2006 hardly qualify as "Early Life and Education" for someone who finished law school in 1982. The insertion of that line and the inclusion in the preceding line of the reason for his firing in 2003 serve only one purpose: to ensure that no section of this "biography" can be read without immersion in the preferred narrative, even though that narrative is already given central prominence in "Legal Troubles" (which forms by far the preponderance of the article).

Most egregious of all in this article is the treatment of the section "sex crimes conviction." Morrissey was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which is a Class 1 misdemeanor but is not a sex crime. The writeup in the section is fully intended to make it appear as if Morrissey were convicted of the felony charges, and the repeated references to "the girl" as if she were nameless and not his current wife exist simply and solely to underpin the smear tactics of the people who wrote this. That they can get away with it so easily, just by stringing together a long list of cited sources cherry-picked and compiled with absolute ill intent, is a testament to how destructive Wikipedia can be.

There is a legitimate value in understanding Morrissey's rather unusual record of legal practice, disbarment, election, resignation, and (most recently) victory in the Virginia primary against Rosalyn Dance. This page does not render that value, except incidentally. Its principle purpose is to be an attack.

Jsamans (talk) 17:18, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I find this BLP article objective and NPOV. See though my other comment below: Zezen (talk) 09:21, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Motivation of his voters?

As a casual uninvolved reader, I am missing the reasons why the voters keep electing him. I would welcome a scholarly study analizing his popularity. Zezen (talk) 09:19, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't this mention he's the state senator for Virginia's 16th District?

That seems more important to someone looking up information on him than the fact that he was disbarred at some point. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.144.250 (talk) 05:15, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Children

After his recent pardon by outgoing Governor Northam, I read this page and noticed a very minor inconsistency. The current statement of “Morrissey has fathered a total of six children by four different women,” is mathematically out-of-sync with, “…the person who became his wife and mother of four of his children”. I suspect he now has seven children (i.e., 1-1-1-4). Zatsugaku (talk) 20:08, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]