Talk:Nick Harper (politician)

Changes to Sen. Nick Harper's (politician) Wikipedia page
Hello- I'm an information officer for State Sen. Nick Harper, who represents the 38th legislative district in the Washington State Senate. I noticed that his Wikipedia page contains some incorrect information. Since it is a stub entry, I will go line by line:
 * Nick Harper is an American politician of the Democratic Party. (Correct)
 * He is a member of the Washington State Senate District 38.[1] (Correct)
 * He first came into office in 2010 by defeating incumbent Democratic senator Jean Berkey, who was officially nominated by the 38th District Democratic Central Committee.[2] (Correct)
 * Harper bankrolled ads for the Republican candidate in an apparent effort to "Squeeze The Middle" and prevent the moderate incumbent Berkey from running in the general election.[3][4][5] (Incorrect. Harper ran against Berkey in 2010, but it was a liberal campaign consulting firm, Moxie Media, which pumped up the campaign of Republican Rod Reiger with anti-Berkey postcards and robocalls. Harper was unaware that this was happening. Moxie Media was later sued and paid a fine. You can read articles about Moxie Media’s activity and Harper’s nonparticipation in those activities below:)
 * http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/01/10/move-to-block-harper-from-senate-fails/
 * http://seattletimes.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2013899574_nick_harper_of_everett_seated.html
 * http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2011/01/06/puyallup-sen-jim-kastama-says-hell-introduce-resolution-to-not-seat-fellow-democrat-nick-harper-due-to-moxie-media-scandal/


 * When Berkey placed third in the primary by a margin of 122 votes,[6] the state's election watchdog committee unanimously voted to refer the case to the state Attorney General Rob McKenna, who within hours "filed suit, alleging multiple campaign-finance violations."


 * [4] Despite a call several former state senators to hold another election, the election results were upheld and Berkey was prevented from running in the general election.[4][5]


 * Harper easily won the subsequent uncompetitive runoff election.[7] (Mostly correct. Calling it a runoff election isn’t accurate. He defeated Reiger in the general election. Also this is out of order, as the challenge to seating Harper came on the first day of the 2011 legislative session in January) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.170.95.128 (talk) 03:31, 10 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi. I noticed Collect made some edits to the article that appears to be along the lines of the Request Edit. Can you clarify if any factual errors remain? CorporateM (Talk) 23:32, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Some Changes
I've made some substantial changes to this article to account for Harper's subsequent biographical evolution, namely:  (1) uploaded an image to the Commons and added to this article, (2) added info on this appt. as CoS DIR (3) cleaned-up and pared-down the entire 2010 elections question, creating a separate article for Moxie Media scandal and linking to it, (4) added some additional information on his pre-Senate career BlueSalix (talk) 23:27, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Nick harper
I know first hand he had an affair when he was a senator!!! Sadly l i lived with the woman he was seeing 2601:1C2:4300:14E0:5039:E115:117C:DAE4 (talk) 01:28, 9 March 2023 (UTC)