Talk:Rick Rehm

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A fact from Rick Rehm appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 December 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rick Rehm.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 02:11, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that Rick Rehm partially attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to straight-ticket voting, an assertion that was backed up by local media?~~ Source: https://www.alreporter.com/2022/11/14/how-a-republican-newcomer-beat-a-three-term-democrat/ (local media), https://1819news.com/news/item/meet-wiregrass-state-rep.-elect-rick-rehm-names-second-amendment-repealing-grocery-tax-top-priorities (Rehm's quote)
- ALT1: ... that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting? Source: https://www.alreporter.com/2022/11/14/how-a-republican-newcomer-beat-a-three-term-democrat/ (Grimsley's quote), https://1819news.com/news/item/meet-wiregrass-state-rep.-elect-rick-rehm-names-second-amendment-repealing-grocery-tax-top-priorities (Rehm's quote)
  - Reviewed: N/A
  - Comment: This is my fifth DYK nomination. Thank you!

Created by Kafoxe (talk). Self-nominated at 18:49, 14 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Noting that I will be reviewing this article. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 18:29, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I added a short description but other than that, everything looks good. You might consider adding the primary results (even if he was unopposed, it can be useful to see vote totals), but that's not important enough to hold back the nomination. Good, interesting article! ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 18:29, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kafoxe: It looks like Grimsley was the one who attributed the result to straight-ticket voting? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 02:34, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Theleekycauldron: You're right, I think I may have misread something in the 1819 News article. I've provided an ALT1 nomination. Kafoxe (talk) 02:49, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- cited and interesting :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 04:21, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

erm...

Seems this article skates right over the fact that the "indoctrination" he's referring to is him just being blatantly transphobic:

"Dexter Grimsley never spoke out against the things that were going on," Rehm said. "The number one thing for me was what they were doing with the kids in school, the indoctrination. How they are, without the parents knowing, they are talking the kids into questioning their gender and using different pronouns, but 'don't tell your parents.' That right there, if there was anything, was the number one driver on why I decided, 'you know what, I'm going to step up.'"

I'm not a POV pusher, I'm not gonna say that we should be calling it transphobia in articlespace, but just saying that he was motivated by "indoctrination" in the schools doesn't cut it for me. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 19:02, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's a fair point to raise, and I had missed sections in the Alabama Political Reporter where Rehm directly mentions so-called "transgender ideology." I've added this to the article. Kafoxe (talk) 22:32, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]