Talk:Arne Carlson

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A.C. quote on TV show as "Ann Carlson": "I have trouble raising money no matter what sex I am."

Unsigned by User:Rj at 04:43 & 04:50, 25 April 2004.

Actually ont he photo in the front page, he is wearing a "University of Minnesota" jacket. It is a "M" not a "U"

Unsigned by 68.106.129.234 at 17:01, 26 June 2005.

• The old language is not as confused as it looks: "the U" is short for "the U of M" or "the U of Minnesota", at least orally, so "U letter jacket" would probably usually be understood locally without effort as "jacket bearing the letter 'M' ". I've reworded to "wearing a letter jacket for the school", which will travel better, at least unless we include a graphic corresponding to the portrait (at which time more complexity may be justified).
  --Jerzy•t 08:45, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I removed

He served in office as an Independent-Republican

since

1. (even tho in US politics Nomination is a party-based process, re virtually all serious candidates in most local races, virtually all state ones, and all Federal ones), once elected, the party affiliation of an official has no legal meaning and only informal defacto status, and
2. lk'g "Independent-Republican" to Republican is unjustified and probably misleading.

No doubt something encyclopedic could be said about how he ran, but in the US we should never say public officials serve as adherants of a party. --Jerzy•t 08:45, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

The name of the political party with whom Arne Carlson was affiliated was the Independent-Republican Party. Non-natives of Minnesota sometimes not understanding the differing party names (The Democratic Party in Minnesota is known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) are confused and make incorrect edits to remove "errors" in the mention of party names. He was not a political independent at the time of his service as governor, rather he was a member of the Independent-Republican Party and the redirect to Republican Party of Minnesota is therefore not misleading or incorrect. EdwinHJ | Talk 16:13, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Governor template

_ _ The template-generated box is about the subject of the bio as a governor, not in terms of the whole bio. I reverted a note in the box abt his becoming indpt later; what he became later (or was before, and arguably what he became in ofc but never ran under) is irrelevant, and confuses what the box means.
_ _ That drew my attention to his three wives: shouldn't they be kept in the body of the article, except for those who overlapped with his tenure?
--Jerzy•t 19:37, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Carlson distinguished himself in office as a friend of education in the state, continuing his predecessor's emphasis on a skilled and educated work force for the state of Minnesota. He is remembered as a champion of bipartisanship.

I found this in the article. None of it was referenced and it runs counter to what I remember from the 90s (especially the reference to "a friend of education in the state"). If anyone can find neutral (or at least justifiable) sources that confirm these statements, they could go back in, but without cites I think they should stay out. 146.151.45.57 (talk) 05:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

There is no citation on Arne Carlson calling himself no longer a republican. If it is cited by a real source, I wont delete it again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmoszman (talk • contribs) 21:20, 22 December 2007 (UTC)