Talk:Shelley Berkley

Structure and sequence
User:Jerzeykydd claimed he 'cleaned up' this article back in March. What that actually consisted of was merging the campaign material into the US House section in an attempt to trivialize the job itself and bury the important points such as her Committee assignments. This has been some campaign of his (all Senators, all Reps) to make Congress appear to be nothing more than some team sport, putting all the focus on the campaigns. We have separate campaign articles for a reason. He also DELETED the link to the 2010 campaign to make it appear that article didn't exist. This is not editing in good faith, imo. Flatterworld (talk) 15:26, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * These claims are false. How I'm trying to trivialize the job itself and bury the important points such as her Committee assignments is just not true. I'm not trying to put all the focus on the campaigns or to make Congress appear to be nothing more than some team sport. I was just trying to put all things that related to being U.S. Rep in that section, including the elections.--Jerzeykydd (talk) 18:31, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Much of the article was plagiarized from the subject's website. Rather than deleting this content outright, I moved it to the talk section where another editor can attempt to re-write, verify and cite this content. SteveFromLasVegas (talk) 04:23, 22 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Early political career
 * While in the state legislature, she advocated consumer safety laws, campaigned against drunken driving, and founded the Senior Law Project.

Removal of No footnotes template
After adding a number of citations and cleaning up plagiarism throughout the article, I removed the No footnotes template and added Citations needed templates where they are needed in the article.SteveFromLasVegas (talk) 04:39, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Cap-and-trade
It looks like there is a disagreement with the cap-and-trade sub-section of the political positions section of the article. First, I would like to preserve the disputed article content:
 * The cap-and-trade regime supported by Berkley is estimated to result in the United States losing 1.145 million jobs overall, 3 million manufacturing jobs, and $9.4 trillion in economic output.

The impasse we have now is that UCSFGreen feels that:
 * "Deleted one-sided reference to Cap and Trade, that only mentioned adverse economic effects and not possible benefits."

The economic impact of this issue is extremely relevant to both the subject and the issue—especially when the subject says that her #1 priority is jobs.

Simply deleting content you don't like when you can boldly edit the article is not the answer. Furthermore, UCSFGreen edited the article to include the "possible benefits" of the policy immediately after originally removing the negative economic impact of the policy. And, then removed the content again after I reverted the original edit.

The bottom line is that the economic impact of Berkley's support for cap-and-trade belongs in the article. SteveFromLasVegas (talk) 02:38, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

2012
She faces several opponents in the primary June 12. "She is expected to be the Democratic nominee and will likely face Senator Dean Heller in the November elections" may be true, but I am not certain that it is, and there is no source cited. Bustter (talk) 17:04, 4 June 2012 (UTC)