Talk:Jim Colver

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Christina Overturf is Jim Colver's legislative aide, as is made perfectly clear by this. Her Linkedin profile states that her last job was in Governor Walker's office. This isn't the first time that a legislative aide or other political operative showed up on here to "fix" their boss's article: see Scott Kawasaki, "fixed" by his legislative aide (Brodie Anderson) in 2009 concurrent with Kawasaki's plugging of the article in his constituent newsletters.

Christina's first edit added an infobox photo, which is a good thing IF it passes muster as free content. Many other photos contributed by legislators have. I don't have any of the appropriate software installed, so someone else may wish to crop it, as the mostly out-of-focus background isn't very useful. If you can crop AND sharpen it sufficiently, the portion of the photo which shows Matt Claman may be useful in that article. Another edit removed the birthdate from the infobox, but left it in the article body. Given that Colver's official legislative biography and other sources state that he was born in 1958, I would question the usefulness of this "information" in the first place, rather dismissing it as yet another case of content for the sake of content. Another edit inserted "Alaska State Representative" into the "Occupation" field of the infobox. Why do we have "Alaska Legislature on the one hand, while otherwise disregarding that elsewhere across the encyclopedia?

The malformed references can be easily fixed and are not that big a deal. However, I'm really surprised that she didn't remove the "he used to support Democrats" statement. The impression I had from the IP edit which did remove that statement is that this article (or at the very least that statement) attracted the attention of Colver himself, and hence the recent editing activity. For those of you too tied to your Google searches or talking points memos and lack of collective memory reflected therein, not only was Warren Colver a Democrat, but he was attorney general during the first Egan governorship. So if Jim Colver has past ties to the Democratic Party, not only am I not surprised, but I fail to see what the big deal is. As Wikipedia covers the topic of political families (see List of political families and specifically List of United States political families), this may be something worth pursuing. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 10:32, 11 December 2015 (UTC)