Talk:Tim Sheldon

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Questioning neutrality and factual accuracy

I have added a "Disputed" tag to this article for the following reasons:

The description of Sen. Sheldon as a "moderate" is POV.
I am fairly certain Sen. Sheldon has not been elected to 7 terms in the Senate. He may have been elected to a total of 7 terms in combination in the House and Senate. I am also not sure that he was elected to his first term--it may have been appointment. This needs to be verified.
The use of the clause "the Democrats desperately needed him" is POV.
HB 1010 (2005) is Renewable Energy Standards, not Human Rights Commission. See http://www.leg.wa.gov

Margareta 21:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I have removed or rephrased the POV items, corrected the factual errors and added references, so deleted the "Disputed" tag. Margareta 22:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In reference to the above, Senator Sheldon was elected to his seat in 1997. He was a candidate for appointment to the vacant seat earlier that year (the seat became vacant with the swearing in of Lt. Governor Brad Owen), but was not selected by the 35th District Democratic Committee as one of the three candidates that the combined boards of the Grays Harbor, Kitsap, Mason and Thurston County county commissioners. Lena Swanson was selected to fill out the remainder of Lt. Governor Owen's term.

The first section about his term in office contained no sources or citations.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.19.100.18 (talk) 21:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reference 6 is a link to a RedState tag - the RedState blog post is a lot of commentary on an article from the Seattle Times (a Pulitzer Prize winning publication) that is not behind a pay wall. I don't really see RedState, an unabashedly conservative blog offering commentary on news, being an ideal source when others with less political baggage and actual news are available. Furthermore, being "accused of being a moderate" is a rather strange phrase and does not appear anywhere in the Kitsap Sun article, which purports to be its reference, suggesting to me that it is more POV. Alanus mercator (talk) 14:39, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]