Talk:Tom McClintock

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[edit] Photo

Perhaps a different photo should be found for this article. McClintock is running for Congress now. The current photo seems more to highlight the other person he's with than McClintock himself. We need some portrait style photo. Any thoughts? JBFrenchhorn (talk) 09:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

There are a lot of photo's at flickr. You could also crop the current photo.User:calbear22 (talk) 13:25, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Judy Mikels

2000 Primary Election for State Senator Tom McClintock (R), 74.9% Judy Mikels (D), 25.1%

The above quote from the article may have an error in it. There is a D after Judy Mikels's name, indicating that she ran as a Democrat. But this was a primary election. Does anybody know of a source that might indicate that she was in fact running as a Republican? Republicans and Democrats don't run against each other in primaries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JBFrenchhorn (talk • contribs) 19:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I took care of it.User:calbear22 (talk) 20:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comments on current article status

This article needs a lot of work to conform to quality standards and to be the type of article worthy of McClintock's long political career in California. From my observation (somewhat far away since I am a Bay Area liberal), McClintock is a rock star for the conservative base of the California Republican Party. The picture at the top of the page, beyond looking bad because of pixels, also has copyright problems because it was copied from his website. There are few citations in the article, so I'm adding a citations needed tag. Most of the sections in the article need expansion (only a few sentences on the recall?). There seems to be a few editors (perhaps a little newer to Wikipedia than me) dedicated to the cause of improving this page. Please message my talk page with any questions that might help you improve this page. Thanks.User:calbear22 (talk) 20:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)