User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Hekman


 * Comment User:Tim Beals, primary author of this article, is a press agent for the Randy Hekman campaign. See this press release for evidence: .  This user is a single purpose account with a major undisclosed financial conflict of interest.  This user's only goal on Wikipedia seems to be to advance the candidacy of Randy Hekman, rather than to improve the encyclopedia.  In an edit a few hours ago, he deleted a link in the Hekman article to Debbie Stabenow, the incumbent United States Senator from Michigan.  This was a totally biased edit, in my opinion.  Cbl62's argument that Hekman is notable because various Michigan newspapers (prompted by Tim Beal's press releases) covered the announcement of Hekman's candidacy would eviscerate our consensus described at WP:POLITICIAN that unelected candidates are non-notable unless they gain notability for significant and unrelated accomplishments.  Accepting this argument and keeping this article would open the floodgates to thousands of promotional articles about political candidates.  Let's keep the consensus that, in general and with a few rare exceptions, politicians become notable only when they are actually elected to high office.  It is a clear and rational standard.