Talk:Elijah Cummings/Archive 1

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"He writes a bi-weekly column" -- Does this mean "fortnightly" or "twice per week"?

The quotes from Mark McGwire are not accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.101.235.138 (talk) 15:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Biographical Background
So a person with a passion for public service graduated from high school in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, but the article doesn't say what he did about military service. This is a gigantic omission because Vietnam was the Number One issue for any healthy male in 1969.

Improvements need for citations, references
In the opening sentence, the mention Me. Cummings civil activism, but it hardly is mentioned after. Should we add a section about his political activism? Newsworthyfacts (talk) 01:37, 23 November 2019 (UTC)Newsworthyfacts

I reduced the class of the article from B to C, because it has too much material without citations and uses bare urls to cite references. After this condition has been corrected, the class should be re-evaluated. Folklore1 (talk) 02:34, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

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Health
Rep. Cummings had heart surgery in May, 2017, and participated in his Congressional duties remotely for a while. I can't find any information on whether he's fully-recovered and back in DC. Isn't this relevant? John Moser (talk) 15:31, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

I've added some information about this. Somebody please check over the language and make sure it is sufficiently NPOV and whatnot. John Moser (talk) 14:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * He just spoke about being in the hospital for several months and that it got him thinking about life. Yes, it is pertinent to include in the article. Source: live on CNN, following the Oversight Committee hearing. Dogru144 (talk) 22:54, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

NYT story on Cummings
This story is mostly a profile of Cummings as new chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and discusses his power and strategy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/magazine/democrats-trump-investigation.html These Democrats Will Soon Have the Power to Investigate the White House. How Far Will They Go? By Jason Zengerle New York Times Dec. 17, 2018

--Nbauman (talk) 21:12, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Kids
How about the name of his three (3) offspring? MaynardClark (talk) 00:55, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

""Personal Life"?
"Cummings serves on numerous Maryland boards and commissions including the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy and the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel. He is an honorary member of the Baltimore Zoo Board of Trustees.[34]

In addition to his many speaking engagements, he writes a biweekly column for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper..."

The above have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with his private life, and everything to do with his public / professional / political life, and need to be deleted ... or relocated.
 * Addressed.--Artaxerxes (talk) 12:26, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

On November 24, 2018, Rep. Cummings officiated the marriage of Mika Brzezinski and Joseph Scarborough in Washington D.C. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.74.177.100 (talk) 13:54, 17 October 2019 (UTC)


 * My husband watched "Morning Joe" today. He tells me that Mika and Joe were very upset at the death of their dear friend. The three were apparently closer than the usual officiator-and-marriage-couple are. Some of Representative Cummings close relationships could go into his Private Life section, as he had a number of them. Thank you for your time, Wordreader (talk) 16:26, 17 October 2019 (UTC)


 * (Excuse me - "Personal Life". Wordreader (talk) 16:28, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Birthplace
The Baltimore Sun says the family only moved to Baltimore in the 1940s -- where Cummings was RAISED. (He could have been born in a Baltimore hospital while the family lived elsewhere, of course.)--Artaxerxes (talk) 14:53, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, I get the math now. The Sun sentence is confusing as to born/raised, though .--Artaxerxes (talk) 14:56, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Cause of death?
Why the secrecy over his cause of death? The public should know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.66.176 (talk) 05:59, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * Obama speaking at Cummings funeral - 2019.jpg

Democrat vs. Democratic
insists on changing this but this has been discussed many times on my talk pages. Members of the Democratic Party (United States) are democrats, they are not members of the Democrat Party (epithet). Praxidicae (talk) 13:42, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Resemblance to John Lewis
Resemblance to John Lewis When looking at the photos of the two side-by-side, it's clear that the two men look alike. It should be brought up in their articles. 24.112.138.212 (talk) 20:17, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Why? Acroterion (talk) 20:43, 18 July 2020 (UTC) Your 24.112.138.212 comment is extremely racist! No, all black men do not look alike. I am a white person who is privileged with the honor to call both John Lewis and Elijah Cummings my dear, dear friends. I have had that honor since the late 1960s - I was just a young pup back then. They are much better people than I am - much, much better. As I've told them for decades, I can only hope and strive to have the patience, intelligence, and where-with-all they had in dealing with racist pieces of filth that they had, but I don't. By that I mean, part of my white privilege is that racists piss me off - but they weren't allowed to be pissed off like me. Ya' see, I've never understood racism or bigotry of any sort. How in the world can one human hate/despise or want to demean/degrade/oppress another human just because their skin color, or religion, or dialect is different? Racism is a learned thing. Hate/bigotry is a learned thing. Seems you had the wrong teachers? I had the right teachers: the lovely, and very manly John Lewis and Elijah Cummings. To close, I proudly proclaim my undying, unfettered love for both Elijah & John. The world is a better place because they were in it. I miss them both so much that my heart is aching, the hole in my heart is almost unbearable. Yes, I've been crying all day over my loss, the world's loss - and it is truly the world's loss. It's unfortunate for you that you, apparently, never had the honor of knowing, hugging, and engaging in brilliant conversation with anyone like either of those lovely, lovely men. Godspeed my dear John & Elijah. BetsyRMadison (talk) 03:47, 19 July 2020 (UTC) Please remove the reference to John Lewis. They bear no physical similarities with the exception that they were both black men. Kristinafh (talk) 06:34, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Marco Rubio thought they looked alike. 2601:14F:8300:C1C0:106D:90F6:679F:C8C5 (talk) 20:49, 23 July 2020 (UTC) This article is about Cummings not Rubio. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:51, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Cummings' widow recently wrote about the resemblance. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0723-elijah-cummings-john-lewis-20200722-sls4huvaznct3ne6kjrqdn5dge-story.html 2601:14F:8300:C1C0:115E:D02E:9D1E:72C2 (talk) 00:15, 24 July 2020 (UTC)