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This is a complete re-write of the deleted article, with more sources for notability than were present during the AFD. "[G4] excludes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies, and content that has been moved to user space or converted to a draft for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy)." -- Xavexgoem ( talk) 20:31, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because it has been completely rewritten and includes half a dozen reliable sources. -- Ricardiana ( talk) 04:06, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) -- 2601:642:C401:36E0:70C0:C2B1:B165:DEAF ( talk) 20:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Clearly this page is being tagged as a possible speedy deletion because Bernie Sanders supporters do not like the idea that he has a primary challenger. It is utter insanity (and hypocrisy) that wikipedia might deleted it because of that. THE MAN IS RUNNING FOR SENATE. If "Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash" is a wikipedia page, this obviously should as well.
This page should not be speedily deleted because... Article has been rewritten with better citations. And he's still notable even if you don't like him. -- Uvaduck ( talk) 02:27, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
The article now has two different birthdates. "1960" is obviously from the Udovitch article. So it's really Dec 31, 1959? I've started to edit the section formerly entitled "Banamex lawsuit". Need to get my stuff organized and I have more sources as to notability, but it might take a few days. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 07:52, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
widely published by reliable sources, or by sources linked to the subject such that it may reasonably be inferred that the subject does not object. Mz7 ( talk) 20:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Of course since Giordano is non-notable and hence the ultimate source for information is almost always him, it is difficult to find sources that meet Wikipedia's definition of reliable sources that contradict his spin on things. For example, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has a post that is the ultimate source for the Charles Nesson quote in this article about Banco Nacional potentially being "New York Times v. Sullivan for the internet". But the same post also says "legal experts may be divided over whether the decision constitutes a significant precedent" and quotes Executive Center Director Eric Salzman as saying "The truly precious nugget in this opinion is Justice Omansky's statement that a news website may be entitled to strengthened First Amendment protections because of its interaction with its readers." (See https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/94045) In fact the U.S. Supreme Court in Lovell_v._City_of_Griffin 303 U.S. 444 (1938) had already ruled that "The press, in its historic connotation, comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion." Furthermore, as the EFF notes in its amicus curae brief, "Though titled the Supreme Court of New York for the district in question, the court is actually the equivalent of the superior court in most states, and roughly the state equivalent of a federal district court." Therefore having limited value as precedent. (See https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/SLAPP/Forum_shopping/BNM_v_Narco_News/20011205_decision.html). I don't see any resolution to this if Giordano supporters are hell-bent on enabling him, other than eventually persuading non-follower editors to delete the article. Brmull ( talk) 18:11, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
And there it is! Been kinda expecting it. Oh well, back to the rambling and poor writing. (You'll just have to wait for it.) Note to self: If I even think about doing something like this again, shoot me! (Quark, DS9, season 6, episode 10) Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 12:49, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
I removed the quote from the Udovitch article on testifying before the State legislative committee, not sure it's relevant to the article. Still looking for more sources on Rowe Nuclear Conversion Campaign (who, when, where). Maybe too much detail on Hoffman and Del-AWARE? Haven't found any secondary sources on involvement in first Kerry campaign for US Senate. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 13:13, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Placed here for "safekeeping" while determining whether they contain info to be added to article and, if so, where.
This heading misses the central point of the section, i.e., deep pockets trying to squash reporting on their (alleged) illegal activities which resulted in a court extending freedom of etc. to Internet publications. In one of the referenced articles, Mark Shapiro writes: "You've got a Mexican Internet magazine, published in English, being sued in an American court," comments veteran civil liberties lawyer Thomas Lesser, who is defending Narco News. "If they can get away with this, nobody on the Internet will be safe from legal harassment." The suit has been a nerve-rattling experience for Giordano, a former political correspondent for the Boston Phoenix. With no legal insurance and operating on a bare-bones budget, he is conducting a joint defense with Lesser, representing Narco News, and David Atlas, representing Menéndez. I have therefore changed the heading back. That may not be the perfect heading, but "Banamex controversy" IMO isn't even in the ballpark. If you think otherwise, this is the forum for discussing it. Please, don't change it back without a discussion. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 12:27, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 07:28, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Is this the same Al Giordano planning on running for the junior United States Senate seat in Vermont in 2018? https://twitter.com/AlGiordano N.R. 04:54, 9 June 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelson Richards ( talk • contribs)
Seems to be advertising [1] for a podcast by some people who sound self-righteous and just a tad sexist. Quote [2]: She is one of those incredibly self-important Hollywood blondes. Like she writes about the Oscars all year. I'll delete it unless someone gives me a reason why the sentence and the references are relevant to the article. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 08:17, 19 June 2016 (UTC) Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 08:39, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Back in March 2017, an anonymous SPA added a joke tweet of Giordano's to "verify" his claim that Giordano (who is a US citizen from the Bromx) is "Mexican-American." Diff
Another editor quickly removed the "Mexican-American" claim, but did not remove the joke tweet from Giordano, which I am removing, since many subsequent references give ample detail that Giordano is American, a fact for which the existence of one joke tweet is hardly evidence pro or con. This computer does not have a tilde symbol, so let me just sign this manually, HouseOfChange, August 25, 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HouseOfChange ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Because of Giordano's journalism related to the
War on Drugs (in other words, "organised crime")
ref; this article is of interest of
WP:WikiProject Organized crime. So I am adding project's banner on the talkpage. Kindly do not interpret this as he was involved in organized crime. All the persons who were involved in or against organized crime, are being tagged procedurally. If you have any question/doubt; kindly ask me (by pinging me, or on my talkpage). Regards, —usernamekiran
(talk) 05:02, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is very cautious about adding material to the biography of a living person. If the NYT reports a story about allegations against Al Giordano, that would be a reliable source. Somebody's comment on Twitter is not a reliable source. HouseOfChange ( talk) 23:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
This article has been under attack recently from three SPAs with very similar style of creating links to sources: BotMan34 [3], 118.200.144.177 [4], and Don_lemonparty [5]. They are trying to add defamatory material based on rumors in Twitter and Facebook plus (so far) one clickbait blog, which merely reports in detail claims on Twitter and Facebook.
Botman34 was warned a few days ago about edit-warring, after which he became more subtle, making a few "improving" edits. These SPAs don't seem interested in wiki policy, what they want is to get defamatory material into the article, even if only briefly. Why? See for example this tweet from around the same time that Botman34 showed up: "What happens when you google your good buddy Al Giordano?" [6]'
If harassment claims show up in RS, then we can discuss adding them to the bio, although the MeToo claims against Giordano seem minor: that he made some inappropriate remarks, that others at his journalism school harassed people, plus several complaints that he asked women students to do things for no pay, which seems an odd complaint about somebody who runs a nonprofit group that needs volunteer help from many participants.
Semi-protecting the article might do more than continuing to debate policy with these SPAs, but what do others think? HouseOfChange ( talk) 21:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Your concern about the sourcing of the harassment claims is a legitimate one. However, the claims themselves are decidedly not "minor." They include allegations that Giordano offered "roofies" to a male student at the School of Authentic Journalism [7], that he sexually harassed and degraded female students [8] [9], and that he tried to silence and intimidate his victims [10]. Perhaps you should take the time to review the full allegations before making any more contributions to this page. ~BotMan34 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Botman34 ( talk • contribs) 23:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
A new IP, without discussion on this talk page but supporting the effort of new editor Aheezau ( Special:Contributions/Aheezau), has requested support at WP:BLP to add recent HuffPo article to this BLP. Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Al_Giordano HouseOfChange ( talk) 23:39, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
I posted this to the BLP noticeboard and another editor kindly requested I post it here as well (was having trouble locating this page earlier): This BLP has undergone a number of contentious edits since sexual harassment allegations came out against the subject in February. At that time, the consensus seemed to be that the allegations lacked RS to back them up and support their inclusion in a BLP. Now there is a new report, published in the Huffington Post, that includes direct testimony from multiple alleged victims, who attended the subject's journalism training school. I can understand why some editors may take issue with HuffPo as a source, but in this case I see no reason to question the story's reliability, unless you believe the reporter fabricated the women's words. Even journalist Noah Berlatsky, who has written flatteringly about Giordano in the past, calls the report "well sourced and devastating." Nevertheless, I'd like to hear from other editors before reinstating the short section about the sexual harassment allegations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.95.216 ( talk) 01:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
The old lead devoted two out of three sentences to a "potential" Senate campaign that Giordano has said he has no plans to run. I have not seen any other examples of BLP leads giving this much space to activity that never took place. It seems especially odd in this BLP since Giordano is an activist and journalist, not a politician, and he has not (to my knowledge) ever run a political campaign. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.95.216 ( talk) 00:02, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
I would like to make this section more informative, based on references we already cite. The new IP 108.41.95.216 has reverted my changes, so I put the proposed revision here for others to discuss, improve, and reach consensus on including.
Giordano thinks Sanders has disrupted that critical progressive coalition. The Vermont senator "has a blind spot on racial justice issues," Giordano argues. He is "exploiting racial and gender divisions... in a way that harms the movement." For instance, Sanders' comments about the illegitimacy of the primary process, and dismissal of Clinton's victories in Southern states, which were fueled by black voters, have "poisoned the well," Giordano says, and made unity against the Republicans difficult.
What do others think? (Just updated proposal, which I have been working on in my sandbox.) HouseOfChange ( talk) 01:56, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
References
Giordano says the one thing that would stop him from running would be if Sanders changes his tone and makes a serious effort at unifying the party and bringing his supporters around in time for the Democratic National Convention.
Giordano, a 56-year-old journalist and organizer, began his career working against nuclear power plants in New England, then worked with Abby Hoffman through the 1980s. He wrote for The Nation in the 1990s, before leaving the U.S. to report on the Zapatistas in Mexico and on the ravages of the drug war. In 2008, Giordano was a vocal and animated supporter of Barack Obama — and an impassioned critic of Hillary Clinton. It wouldn't be crazy to suspect he has a "Feel the Bern" tattoo.
To prepare for 2018, Giordano says he'll set up an "organizing academy in Vermont so that people can finally get the training that the Sanders campaign wouldn't give them." He'll seek small donations just as Sanders and President Obama did. He'll conduct a listening tour. And he won't be afraid to work with Democrats, whose party, Giordano argues, is being needlessly split in twain by Sanders' camp.
While improving other sections of this bio, I discovered that some of the RS we cite have interesting information beyond his support for Obama in 2008 and for Clinton in 2016. I propose to add that material to this bio. HouseOfChange ( talk) 23:04, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Then if somebody later comes up with good material for other elections, that could be added later. But RS give us lots of good info about 2008 and 2016. Opposition to Bernie Sanders would be a theme of the 2016 campaigns, but maybe not a separate subsection header. HouseOfChange ( talk) 00:39, 14 May 2018 (UTC)3. Politics, 3.1 2008 Presidential election, 3.2 2016 Presidential election
Al Giordano once hosted a talk segment on Springfield, Massachusetts AM talk radio station WNNZ, which at the time was owned and operated by Curt and Cele Hahn [1]. The years were probably between 1990-91. The Hahns and the station were predominantly of a conservative Republican bias, and I think Giordano may have been the only liberal section on the show. Syndicated personalities that I can remember on the station included G. Gordon Liddy and radio psychologist Joy Brown. Giordano was subsequently let go for reason which Curt Hahn did not fully disclose on air. I will only enter it here in the talk section (for now) because Internet archival history, unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, for instance, seems to shift and erode quickly in the space of a few decades. But rightly, it was probably an important period in Giordano's professional portfolio. giggle ( talk) 20:36, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
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This is a complete re-write of the deleted article, with more sources for notability than were present during the AFD. "[G4] excludes pages that are not substantially identical to the deleted version, pages to which the reason for the deletion no longer applies, and content that has been moved to user space or converted to a draft for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy)." -- Xavexgoem ( talk) 20:31, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because it has been completely rewritten and includes half a dozen reliable sources. -- Ricardiana ( talk) 04:06, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) -- 2601:642:C401:36E0:70C0:C2B1:B165:DEAF ( talk) 20:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Clearly this page is being tagged as a possible speedy deletion because Bernie Sanders supporters do not like the idea that he has a primary challenger. It is utter insanity (and hypocrisy) that wikipedia might deleted it because of that. THE MAN IS RUNNING FOR SENATE. If "Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash" is a wikipedia page, this obviously should as well.
This page should not be speedily deleted because... Article has been rewritten with better citations. And he's still notable even if you don't like him. -- Uvaduck ( talk) 02:27, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
The article now has two different birthdates. "1960" is obviously from the Udovitch article. So it's really Dec 31, 1959? I've started to edit the section formerly entitled "Banamex lawsuit". Need to get my stuff organized and I have more sources as to notability, but it might take a few days. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 07:52, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
widely published by reliable sources, or by sources linked to the subject such that it may reasonably be inferred that the subject does not object. Mz7 ( talk) 20:58, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Of course since Giordano is non-notable and hence the ultimate source for information is almost always him, it is difficult to find sources that meet Wikipedia's definition of reliable sources that contradict his spin on things. For example, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has a post that is the ultimate source for the Charles Nesson quote in this article about Banco Nacional potentially being "New York Times v. Sullivan for the internet". But the same post also says "legal experts may be divided over whether the decision constitutes a significant precedent" and quotes Executive Center Director Eric Salzman as saying "The truly precious nugget in this opinion is Justice Omansky's statement that a news website may be entitled to strengthened First Amendment protections because of its interaction with its readers." (See https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/94045) In fact the U.S. Supreme Court in Lovell_v._City_of_Griffin 303 U.S. 444 (1938) had already ruled that "The press, in its historic connotation, comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion." Furthermore, as the EFF notes in its amicus curae brief, "Though titled the Supreme Court of New York for the district in question, the court is actually the equivalent of the superior court in most states, and roughly the state equivalent of a federal district court." Therefore having limited value as precedent. (See https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/SLAPP/Forum_shopping/BNM_v_Narco_News/20011205_decision.html). I don't see any resolution to this if Giordano supporters are hell-bent on enabling him, other than eventually persuading non-follower editors to delete the article. Brmull ( talk) 18:11, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
And there it is! Been kinda expecting it. Oh well, back to the rambling and poor writing. (You'll just have to wait for it.) Note to self: If I even think about doing something like this again, shoot me! (Quark, DS9, season 6, episode 10) Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 12:49, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
I removed the quote from the Udovitch article on testifying before the State legislative committee, not sure it's relevant to the article. Still looking for more sources on Rowe Nuclear Conversion Campaign (who, when, where). Maybe too much detail on Hoffman and Del-AWARE? Haven't found any secondary sources on involvement in first Kerry campaign for US Senate. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 13:13, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Placed here for "safekeeping" while determining whether they contain info to be added to article and, if so, where.
This heading misses the central point of the section, i.e., deep pockets trying to squash reporting on their (alleged) illegal activities which resulted in a court extending freedom of etc. to Internet publications. In one of the referenced articles, Mark Shapiro writes: "You've got a Mexican Internet magazine, published in English, being sued in an American court," comments veteran civil liberties lawyer Thomas Lesser, who is defending Narco News. "If they can get away with this, nobody on the Internet will be safe from legal harassment." The suit has been a nerve-rattling experience for Giordano, a former political correspondent for the Boston Phoenix. With no legal insurance and operating on a bare-bones budget, he is conducting a joint defense with Lesser, representing Narco News, and David Atlas, representing Menéndez. I have therefore changed the heading back. That may not be the perfect heading, but "Banamex controversy" IMO isn't even in the ballpark. If you think otherwise, this is the forum for discussing it. Please, don't change it back without a discussion. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 12:27, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 07:28, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Is this the same Al Giordano planning on running for the junior United States Senate seat in Vermont in 2018? https://twitter.com/AlGiordano N.R. 04:54, 9 June 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelson Richards ( talk • contribs)
Seems to be advertising [1] for a podcast by some people who sound self-righteous and just a tad sexist. Quote [2]: She is one of those incredibly self-important Hollywood blondes. Like she writes about the Oscars all year. I'll delete it unless someone gives me a reason why the sentence and the references are relevant to the article. Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 08:17, 19 June 2016 (UTC) Space4Time3Continuum2x ( talk) 08:39, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Back in March 2017, an anonymous SPA added a joke tweet of Giordano's to "verify" his claim that Giordano (who is a US citizen from the Bromx) is "Mexican-American." Diff
Another editor quickly removed the "Mexican-American" claim, but did not remove the joke tweet from Giordano, which I am removing, since many subsequent references give ample detail that Giordano is American, a fact for which the existence of one joke tweet is hardly evidence pro or con. This computer does not have a tilde symbol, so let me just sign this manually, HouseOfChange, August 25, 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HouseOfChange ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Because of Giordano's journalism related to the
War on Drugs (in other words, "organised crime")
ref; this article is of interest of
WP:WikiProject Organized crime. So I am adding project's banner on the talkpage. Kindly do not interpret this as he was involved in organized crime. All the persons who were involved in or against organized crime, are being tagged procedurally. If you have any question/doubt; kindly ask me (by pinging me, or on my talkpage). Regards, —usernamekiran
(talk) 05:02, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is very cautious about adding material to the biography of a living person. If the NYT reports a story about allegations against Al Giordano, that would be a reliable source. Somebody's comment on Twitter is not a reliable source. HouseOfChange ( talk) 23:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
This article has been under attack recently from three SPAs with very similar style of creating links to sources: BotMan34 [3], 118.200.144.177 [4], and Don_lemonparty [5]. They are trying to add defamatory material based on rumors in Twitter and Facebook plus (so far) one clickbait blog, which merely reports in detail claims on Twitter and Facebook.
Botman34 was warned a few days ago about edit-warring, after which he became more subtle, making a few "improving" edits. These SPAs don't seem interested in wiki policy, what they want is to get defamatory material into the article, even if only briefly. Why? See for example this tweet from around the same time that Botman34 showed up: "What happens when you google your good buddy Al Giordano?" [6]'
If harassment claims show up in RS, then we can discuss adding them to the bio, although the MeToo claims against Giordano seem minor: that he made some inappropriate remarks, that others at his journalism school harassed people, plus several complaints that he asked women students to do things for no pay, which seems an odd complaint about somebody who runs a nonprofit group that needs volunteer help from many participants.
Semi-protecting the article might do more than continuing to debate policy with these SPAs, but what do others think? HouseOfChange ( talk) 21:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Your concern about the sourcing of the harassment claims is a legitimate one. However, the claims themselves are decidedly not "minor." They include allegations that Giordano offered "roofies" to a male student at the School of Authentic Journalism [7], that he sexually harassed and degraded female students [8] [9], and that he tried to silence and intimidate his victims [10]. Perhaps you should take the time to review the full allegations before making any more contributions to this page. ~BotMan34 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Botman34 ( talk • contribs) 23:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
A new IP, without discussion on this talk page but supporting the effort of new editor Aheezau ( Special:Contributions/Aheezau), has requested support at WP:BLP to add recent HuffPo article to this BLP. Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Al_Giordano HouseOfChange ( talk) 23:39, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
I posted this to the BLP noticeboard and another editor kindly requested I post it here as well (was having trouble locating this page earlier): This BLP has undergone a number of contentious edits since sexual harassment allegations came out against the subject in February. At that time, the consensus seemed to be that the allegations lacked RS to back them up and support their inclusion in a BLP. Now there is a new report, published in the Huffington Post, that includes direct testimony from multiple alleged victims, who attended the subject's journalism training school. I can understand why some editors may take issue with HuffPo as a source, but in this case I see no reason to question the story's reliability, unless you believe the reporter fabricated the women's words. Even journalist Noah Berlatsky, who has written flatteringly about Giordano in the past, calls the report "well sourced and devastating." Nevertheless, I'd like to hear from other editors before reinstating the short section about the sexual harassment allegations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.95.216 ( talk) 01:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
The old lead devoted two out of three sentences to a "potential" Senate campaign that Giordano has said he has no plans to run. I have not seen any other examples of BLP leads giving this much space to activity that never took place. It seems especially odd in this BLP since Giordano is an activist and journalist, not a politician, and he has not (to my knowledge) ever run a political campaign. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.95.216 ( talk) 00:02, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
I would like to make this section more informative, based on references we already cite. The new IP 108.41.95.216 has reverted my changes, so I put the proposed revision here for others to discuss, improve, and reach consensus on including.
Giordano thinks Sanders has disrupted that critical progressive coalition. The Vermont senator "has a blind spot on racial justice issues," Giordano argues. He is "exploiting racial and gender divisions... in a way that harms the movement." For instance, Sanders' comments about the illegitimacy of the primary process, and dismissal of Clinton's victories in Southern states, which were fueled by black voters, have "poisoned the well," Giordano says, and made unity against the Republicans difficult.
What do others think? (Just updated proposal, which I have been working on in my sandbox.) HouseOfChange ( talk) 01:56, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
References
Giordano says the one thing that would stop him from running would be if Sanders changes his tone and makes a serious effort at unifying the party and bringing his supporters around in time for the Democratic National Convention.
Giordano, a 56-year-old journalist and organizer, began his career working against nuclear power plants in New England, then worked with Abby Hoffman through the 1980s. He wrote for The Nation in the 1990s, before leaving the U.S. to report on the Zapatistas in Mexico and on the ravages of the drug war. In 2008, Giordano was a vocal and animated supporter of Barack Obama — and an impassioned critic of Hillary Clinton. It wouldn't be crazy to suspect he has a "Feel the Bern" tattoo.
To prepare for 2018, Giordano says he'll set up an "organizing academy in Vermont so that people can finally get the training that the Sanders campaign wouldn't give them." He'll seek small donations just as Sanders and President Obama did. He'll conduct a listening tour. And he won't be afraid to work with Democrats, whose party, Giordano argues, is being needlessly split in twain by Sanders' camp.
While improving other sections of this bio, I discovered that some of the RS we cite have interesting information beyond his support for Obama in 2008 and for Clinton in 2016. I propose to add that material to this bio. HouseOfChange ( talk) 23:04, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Then if somebody later comes up with good material for other elections, that could be added later. But RS give us lots of good info about 2008 and 2016. Opposition to Bernie Sanders would be a theme of the 2016 campaigns, but maybe not a separate subsection header. HouseOfChange ( talk) 00:39, 14 May 2018 (UTC)3. Politics, 3.1 2008 Presidential election, 3.2 2016 Presidential election
Al Giordano once hosted a talk segment on Springfield, Massachusetts AM talk radio station WNNZ, which at the time was owned and operated by Curt and Cele Hahn [1]. The years were probably between 1990-91. The Hahns and the station were predominantly of a conservative Republican bias, and I think Giordano may have been the only liberal section on the show. Syndicated personalities that I can remember on the station included G. Gordon Liddy and radio psychologist Joy Brown. Giordano was subsequently let go for reason which Curt Hahn did not fully disclose on air. I will only enter it here in the talk section (for now) because Internet archival history, unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls, for instance, seems to shift and erode quickly in the space of a few decades. But rightly, it was probably an important period in Giordano's professional portfolio. giggle ( talk) 20:36, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
References