Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Asian Americans/Assessment

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Object to Tagging and assessment of articles related to US Senator John Ensign

I disagree with articles John Ensign and John Ensign scandal being tagged for the "Asian Americans" project, and especially being given "Mid-importance", and have deleted this project from the Talk pages of these articles. Yes, he was a US Senator (who resigned during a major scandal) and claimed his 1/8 Filipino ancestry during political campaigns, as he was a Republican from Nevada. But, he never met his paternal Filipino-German grandfather, his father abandoned him and his mother when he was 4, and he did not grow up in a family culture of any Filipino or Asian-American influence. He didn't learn about this ancestry until he was about 40, and used it on the campaign trail. At the same time, in 2008 he voted against increasing federal benefits to Filipino veterans in the Philippines who had fought with the US during WWII. It seems a mockery to tag him for your project. No one tagged this for an Italian-American project (if one exists), but that was his mother's ancestry and she actually raised him, unlike his natural father.Parkwells (talk) 17:59, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]