Talk:Mike Lee/Archive 1

Political views/political career?
What are his political views? Has he had a political career? --139.174.58.193 (talk) 18:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Privacy position is severely biased and almost seems like a direct quote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:400:8000:5AEB:0:0:0:54A8 (talk) 20:52, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

American politician
I thought these had been standardized as "U.S. politician" 75.203.60.87 (talk) 08:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Tea Party Movement
Hey, is there any evidence or source that this politician is supported by the tea party? JR00576 (talk) 21:35, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Removed it. Nothing in article supports this claim.  This guy's profile perfectly matches the demographic that voted for him.  Tea Party didn't have anything to do with it.Malke 2010 (talk) 14:34, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Here is a note from the senator's website: "Conservative Reform Agenda: America’s crisis of unequal opportunity is the greatest challenge facing the United States today. We need to start developing a new conservative reform agenda that restores equal opportunity to the families and communities from whom it has been unfairly taken." With such a Conservative position, of course he is supported by Tea Party voters, but if you don't want to mention it, that is OK also. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 22:26, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

$400k write-off in short sale
This will have to be added eventually: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/54135277-90/lee-worth-mike-utah.html.csp 192.41.81.68 (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Section for Donors, PACS, Lobbyist
Wondering why there is not a section which would reflect the money flows to candidates. Any Ideas for inclusion to the article would be welcome. I see Mike Lee's flows and think it is most relevant.--Wikipietime (talk) 14:25, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Should not be said to be from Mesa in categories
We categorize by notable places where people are from, not by the mere accident of their birth in a given location. Mike Lee moved away from Mesa when he was one. Being from Mesa is not a defining chraracteristic of Lee.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:13, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Response to Obama's "State of the Union" address
Headline: Flurry of GOP responses to State of the Union address reflects party’s ideological rivalries "Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Rand Paul (Ky.), two tea party favorites, also delivered high-profile responses, pushing back on Obama’s message with a sharp ideological edge." — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 22:07, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/multiple-gop-responses-to-state-of-the-union-are-they-a-sign-of-party-division/2014/01/28/0d1c68c0-883b-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html

Paul & Lee's blocking 9/11 responder compensation
After a bill was proposed in 2019 to extend and fund 9/11 responder victims' compensation, Lee blocked the bill and Paul objected to unanimous consent, halting its approval, shortly before the Senate's August recess. A good-faith editor attributed reasoning to Lee's blockage that was not in the cited source. This misattribution was corrected and language taken directly from the source substituted. Activist (talk) 16:45, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Questioning Executive Orders of Obama
Headline: MIKE LEE GIVES ERIC HOLDER THE GRILLING OF A LIFETIME OVER OBAMA’S USE OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS: ‘I RESPECTFULLY, BUT FORCEFULLY, DISAGREE’ " Attorney General Eric Holder was unable to explain to Congress why President Barack Obama was within his constitutional limits when he issued an executive order to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate. The nation’s top law enforcement officer said he hasn’t looked at the analysis in “some time” and thus was unsure of where along the constitutional spectrum the order is permitted. The surprising admission came after Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) grilled Holder for several minutes on the constitutional limits of executive orders and the executive branch during a Senate hearing on Wednesday." — FYI, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 22:20, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/29/mike-lee-gives-eric-holder-the-grilling-of-a-lifetime-over-obamas-use-of-executive-orders-i-respectfully-but-forcefully-disagree/

I don't really know what I'm doing but I just made a change about the 220 million dollars to fix pipes in Flint Michigan. Somebody posted a big fat lie that Mike Lee was the lone remaining opponent of 220 million dollars to go to children with lead poisoning. This section is between slanted and outright lies. == External links modified ==

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Updates
Note that the Legislation section has nothing from the current 114th Congress, and anything from the 113th Congress that says has yet to become law could be changed to "did not become law" unless it was enacted after this was last updated but before the end of the 113th Congress. Also, under Scorecard/Rankings, would it be more appropriate to refer to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rather than just Fanny and Freddy? Lastly, in the same section, does the "However" before the Liberal Action score make sense? I'd think it would simply say "He received a Liberal Action score of 38% from ThatsMyCongress.Com." (Although the score is 31 based on the cited link, with 38 being their Conservative Action score. Both are for the 112th Congress, though, and so is pretty dated as well. Scores for the 113th Congress are at http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/senLeeUT113.html, which has 13 for the Liberal Action score and 60 for the Conservative Action score. If this site's scoring is worth mentioning, wouldn't it be appropriate to include both scores?) —Salton Finneger (talk) 16:28, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

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family history
Are you related to the late J Bracken Lee208.72.162.2 (talk) 00:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC)Al Winters St George

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Dad’s boy
Rex Lee’s son — Rex Lee was the founding Dean of the Law School at Brigham Young University, past Solicitor General, and Assistant Attorney General, in charge of the Civil Division. He served nine years as president of Brigham Young University. Rex Lee graduated first in his class at Chicago, and clerked for Justice Byron White. Justice Alito was an assistant to Rex Lee in the Solicitor General’s office, 1981-85.

Setting up the law school at Brigham Young, Rex Lee personally recruited many of the top Mormon graduates from universities around the country, intending to make the first graduating class (1976) at BYU’s law school notable, to build the school’s reputation from the start. Political organizing may run in the family. Wikipietime (talk) 11:43, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Remarks on the Green New Deal, YouTube video
A video is available on his YouTube channel of the speech Senator Lee gave which is referenced under 3.3 Climate change in the third paragraph. I don't know whether this should be listed under References or External Links so I thought I would post it here if anybody wants to review it and place it under the right heading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK27NZon11w WolfShadow (talk) 04:43, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll add it in. Bluewolverine123 (talk) 16:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Captain Moroni and Trump edits
The recent edits regarding Lee and Trump and the "attacks upon the Republic" are POV editorializing and cross the line of WP:BLP. I've copied what was kept on Captain Moroni by the same editor on the same subject and moved to the "Tenure" subheading as imo it fits better there. I think it might fail WP:UNDUE and WP:RECENTISM. The ALL CAPS yelling of the recent edits and veiled accusations that other editors are acting in bad faith on behalf of Lee are equally ridiculous. --FyzixFighter (talk) 06:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 March 2021
205.197.212.210 (talk) 19:47, 19 March 2021 (UTC) Change “Michael Jr.” to “John David Lee.”Mike’s children are actually named: “James Rex Lee, John David Lee, and Eliza Rose Lee.” Mike has no son named “Michael Jr.”
 * All set. I removed a dead source that just went to huffpo's main page and sourced the first names to the Senate bio. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:52, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 23 April 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) BilledMammal (talk) 14:41, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Mike Lee (American politician) → Mike Lee – Mike Lee is by far the most viewed, most recognized, most known, and most covered person of his name. The only comparable figure is drummer Michael Lee, who never has been known by the name Mike Lee. He satisfies all criteria to be the primary topic of his name, and with his increasingly prominent position in American politics and growing interest in him due to his recent involvement in creating several high-profile bills, it is likely he will only continue to further stand out as the primary topic. Supporting him being the primary topic is the fact that, short of regional biases such as being from British Colombia, Australia, or North Carolina, home to other Mike Lees of minor notability, almost entirely all results on all search engines, mass media feeds, and social platforms are about the Senator. Unless a person is in such a realm of specificity that they are already including a modifier by default, it is highly unlikely that they will come to Wikipedia looking for a Mike Lee who is not the Senator, as evidenced by the page view counts and general coverage outside Wikipedia. Thus, I believe the Senator's page should be moved away from the unwieldy and frankly unnecessary disambiguation tag "American politician" and to simply his name. This move would satisfy the otherwise unsatisfied Concision and Naturalness naming criteria, without, in my view due to reasons expressed above, sacrificing Precision. A hatnote would likely have to be added to link to the disambiguation page Michael Lee, which currently also houses all Mike Lees. Builder018 (talk) 23:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Comment To help people form a view on this nomination it would have been useful to include evidence to support your assertions. AusLondonder (talk) 14:53, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I tried, and any links I inserted immediately broke and didn't allow my post to be submitted. Thankfully Schierbecker supplied it below. Builder018 (talk) 17:07, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to support based on a cursory search of |Mike_Lee_(New_Zealand_politician)|Mike_Lee_(boxer)|Mike_Lee_(bull_rider)|Mike_Lee_(ice_hockey)|Michael_Lee|Michael_Lee_(musician)|Michael_K._Lee|Michael_V._Lee|Michael_Lee_(Canadian_politician) page views. Schierbecker (talk) 05:33, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, and per the pageviews (courtesy of Shierbecker). Cheers! Fakescientist8000 (💬) 02:02, 27 April 2022 (UTC)