Talk:Raúl Grijalva

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Award

While a Pima County supervisor, Grijalva pointedly snubbed an award from an environmental group named for Edward Abbey, and attacked Abbey's views.

What's our source for this? Thanks, -Willmcw 00:47, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Edward Abbey: A Life by James Calahan Kaibabsquirrel 01:20, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And do we know the name of this group and what his commetns were? This is such a short reference, it would help if it were expanded. Thanks, -Willmcw 02:04, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

This reference makes it seem that Grijalva is on good terms with a group called the "Western Watershed Project, which give out a "Edward Abbey Memorial Hooved Locust Award" [1]. -Willmcw 05:19, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if that was the group or not. The name of the group wasn't specified in Cahalan's book. I'll replace that part of the article with the verbatim quote from Cahalan as soon as I can dig out the book. Kaibabsquirrel 03:07, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Since it appears to give a different slant than other sources show, and since we haven't been able to find out more, I'm going to remove the assertion. We can add it back when we learn more. -Willmcw 05:35, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand, why isn't there any reference to Mr. Grijalva being associated with MEChA? Wasn't that a big party of this controversy? Does somebody keep deleting this?

anon added

anon added and an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network to a bunch of pages.

Don't want to revert if it's true.

Mikereichold 07:02, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Links

The critical links listed here seem to be a violation of WP:EL and WP:RS which dissuade us from using extremist sites. "Widely acknowledged extremist or even terrorist organizations or individuals, whether of a political, religious, racist, or other character, should never be used as sources for Wikipedia..." The Southern Poverty Law Center is very critical of the first source and states that American Patrol head honcho Glenn "Spencer posts dozens of immigration-related articles but replaces the words "illegal immigrant" with "illegal alien," among other editing touches."

The second site is anonymous as documented by one blog and may be in violation of election law in addition to featuring pictures of Grijalva with the Mexican flag and Osama bin Laden.

Raul Grijalva Watch critical website
Shame on Grijalva critical website

I think it would be great to link to critical sites, but I feel that the ones chosen here don't measure up to the standards for external links. One is almost a hate site, and another is an anonymous site that is barely linked to besides this site and blogs critical of its criticism.

I say those two links should be removed. (Full disclosure: I'm a resident of AZ district 7, Grijalva is my congressman, I've met him, and I voted him. But I am not in any way affiliated with his campaign nor have I ever been.) --Kynn 04:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. -Will Beback · † · 17:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citation for MEChA membership

The original link for Grijalva's MEChA membership was a partisan, anti-MEChA conservative site with many unsourced and exaggerated allegations about Grijalva.

While his MEChA membership does not seem to be disputed, the source used is very questionable and I suggest it be replaced with a more reputable source. I've added a request for sourcing.

This may be a possibility, but it isn't a great one:

OC Weekly mentions his MEChA membership in passing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kynn (talk • contribs) 00:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]