Talk:Joseph F. McCormick

Notability

Notable enough to have a whole chapter devoted to him in Thurber's book. While the article could definitely use work and expansion, I disagree that the subject doesn't meet notability requirements. Are there any reasonable arguments to the contrary? Xenophrenic (talk) 08:03, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Since the subject fails #3 of WP:POLITICIAN, it is important to show the subject meets the WP:GNG. I would agree that he does based on your last edit. Kind regards, and thanks for your follow-up! VQuakr (talk) 17:58, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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Edit request from article subject

From his user talk page. Please do not contact me about it; please ping Josephfmccormick and keep discussion of the edit request here, on the article talk page. Thank you. Rotideypoc41352 (talk) 06:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Edit request

"After his defeat in the 1998 congressional campaign, McCormick served as an alternate-delegate in the 2000 Republican convention. He then dropped out of active political involvement, citing disillusionment with partisanship.[8] In 2003 he retraced portions of the 1831 route of Alexis de Tocqueville to interview rank and file citizens and political leaders of varying ideologies about the state of four universally held American values: unity, equality, freedom and self-governance. Among the dozens of people interviewed included H. Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union Dave Keene, and the President of the ACLU Nadine Strossen. McCormick produced a 20 minute documentary about this trip and a subsequent transpartisan experiment called the Rogue Valley Wisdom Council.[9] These experiences motivated McCormick to begin organizing meetings among key national leaders from different perspectives.[8][10] Between 2004 and 2007 as co-founder of the Reuniting America Project[11] he and a steering committee organized seven such private, facilitated transpartisan retreats, designed to build relationships and cooperation between over 145 national leaders from widely diverse points of view.[12] Among the more notable participants included in these four day, off the record dialogues were Vice President Al Gore, conservative activist Grover Norquist, co-founders of MoveOn.org Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, former Congressman Bob Barr, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Fred Smith, Congresswoman and former Common Cause president Shelly Pingree, President of the Christian Coalition of America Roberta Combs, and co-author of Getting to Yes, Harvard Professor William Ury. [13] From the new atmosphere of trust and respect created emerged numerous cross-spectrum initiatives including the Save the Internet Coalition[8], the Criminal Justice Reform Coalition[14], the Bridge Alliance, the Transpartisan Center, extensive political bridge-building research from members of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, including Living Room Conversations, as well as several books and articles about the theory, practice, and potential of transpartisan politics. In February 2009, McCormick organized the first American Citizen's Summit in Denver, Colorado on the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with the theme "A house divided against itself cannot stand".[15] Out of this gathering emerged prototypes of a Transpartisan Alliance of grassroots groups representing millions of people and an associated policy council of leaders from major and minor parties called the Sunshine Cabinet. In 2011, he co-authored the e-book Reuniting America: A Toolkit for Changing the Political Game, an effort to summarize the lessons learned in the previous eight years of field research into practical means of reconciling polarities in America at the national and grassroots level."

Moved edit request from user talkpage (Josephfmccormick). VB00 (talk) 11:06, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

@Josephfmccormick: Now, giving the proposed rewrite a brief overview, I am concerned with sentences such as "...to interview rank and file citizens and political leaders of varying ideologies about the state of four universally held American values: unity, equality, freedom and self-governance", "These experiences motivated McCormick to begin organizing meetings among key national leaders from different perspectives", "...designed to build relationships and cooperation between over 145 national leaders from widely diverse points of view (referenced to a youtube video?)", "From the new atmosphere of trust and respect created emerged numerous cross-spectrum initiatives...", "extensive political bridge-building research". Such tone and word choices may not conform with the neutral point of view policy, and you may also want to look at WP:RS, as at least some of the current sources used in the article may not be reliable, and may not be able to "support" the additional content, thus, new coverage for the additions should be located. Regards, VB00 (talk) 11:35, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Per the above comments I have attempted to bring the above into line with the NPOV.

"After his defeat in the 1998 congressional campaign, McCormick served as an alternate-delegate in the 2000 Republican convention. He then dropped out of active political involvement, citing disillusionment with partisanship.[8] In 2003 he retraced portions of the 1831 route of Alexis de Tocqueville interviewing political leaders of varying ideologies. The interview requests were for each to comment on the current state of four values: unity, equality, freedom and self-governance. Among the dozens of people interviewed included H. Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union Dave Keene, President of the ACLU Nadine Strossen, and Reagan White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger. McCormick produced a 20 minute documentary about this trip and a subsequent transpartisan experiment called the Rogue Valley Wisdom Council.[9]

Between 2004 and 2007 as co-founder of the Reuniting America Project[11] he and a steering committee organized seven such private, facilitated transpartisan retreats. Among the more notable of the 145 participants included in these four day, off the record dialogues were Vice President Al Gore, conservative activist Grover Norquist, co-founders of MoveOn.org Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, former Congressman Bob Barr, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Fred Smith, Congresswoman and former Common Cause president Shelly Pingree, President of the Christian Coalition of America Roberta Combs, and co-author of Getting to Yes, Harvard Professor William Ury. [13] From these events emerged numerous cross-spectrum initiatives including the Save the Internet Coalition[8], the Criminal Justice Reform Coalition[14], the Bridge Alliance, the Transpartisan Center, research from National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, including Living Room Conversations, as well as several books and articles about the theory, practice, and potential of transpartisan politics.

In February 2009, McCormick organized the first American Citizen's Summit in Denver, Colorado on the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with the theme "A house divided against itself cannot stand".[15] Out of this gathering emerged prototypes of a Transpartisan Alliance of grassroots groups representing millions of people and an associated policy council of leaders from major and minor parties called the Sunshine Cabinet. In 2011, he co-authored the e-book Reuniting America: A Toolkit for Changing the Political Game, an effort to summarize the lessons learned in the previous eight years of field research into practical means of reconciling polarities in America at the national and grassroots level."

I went ahead to implement this edit request. Alexius08 (talk) 23:32, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Sources

I've found the following sources to be informative:

• The battle for Congress: consultants, candidates, and voters; James A. Thurber; Brookings Institution Press; 2001; Pgs. 81-122
• Conference offers partisans time out from election rancor; The Hill (news article); July 19, 2006
• We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter; Marcia Ford; Tyndale House Publishers, 2008; Pgs. 179-188

I'm curious as to whether interview source would be considered reliable enough for basic biographical info. Xenophrenic (talk) 22:43, 24 June 2017 (UTC)