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The Jan. 2 14:56 update was a major addition of material. Sorry the edit summary was left off that update. Nhprman 15:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Could someone put in how his name is pronounced? I only ever see it in print. Thanks... -- Ken Gallager 09:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Actually it is pronounced with a J sound not a G. It is Italian, from bona guinta which means good addition. (June-ta) ~S. Guinta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.172.232 ( talk) 06:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
He does pronounce it in that manner. however, everyone else in his family and extended family prounce it June-ta. ~S. Guinta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.172.232 ( talk) 14:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
seems a little to advertising like for wiki, any thoughts Cinnamon colbert 14:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
I have updated this article. User ManchGuy85 altered this article to include editorial quotations from the New Hampshire Union Leader. While the endorsement of a major state paper is certainly worthy of inclusion in this article, one must question the addition of entire paragraphs of editorial praise. I have summarized said paragraphs and have left the links available for readers to follow. I removed other content, as most of the citing led directly to New Hampshire Union Leader editorials. This user's updates were even noticed by one of the paper's political writers. See http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=City+Hall%3a+Mayor+wannabes+are+lining+up+in+Manchester&articleId=3e111354-b9b1-4aeb-9e2e-aeb76e5a8f43. I believe that these additions were made by a fan of the mayor's. NHteach 21 April 2009
The 'electoral future' section is entirely unbalanced. There is a quote from a Republican party representative without the publicly-released response from the Democratic party. The partisan nature of On Message, Inc, conductor of the referenced poll, is omitted, as is any link to the poll itself. The inclusion on a Politicker list is irrelevant. The 'it should also be noted' sentence in the 'electoral future' section is entirely partisan advocacy, not neutral and factual information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.223.176.178 ( talk) 01:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
The claims that crime was reduced in Manchester during Frank Guinta's time in office have no factual source provided. These claims are disputed, particularly by state Democrats (see http://bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7286 for an example), and should be excluded until evidence is provided for them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.223.176.178 ( talk) 01:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
This article should focus on the biography of the subject. It should not be a piece of campaign literature. Please be careful in adding back text that others have removed without any sort of comment - expecially if all of your contributions are to this article. Hipocrite ( talk) 19:53, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
This is actually getting pretty obsurd watching individuals from the NH Democrat Party spamming Guinta's wikipedia every hour. They have altered his wife's and mother's names in order to make jokes and consistently add spam comments as well as unsourced attacks on Guinta. Regardless, everything on this wikipedia is sourced as others have argued here before. The constant altercations and deletions by some individuals at the NH Democrat Party or else where should stop and need to stop now- especially such low and dirty tactics as messing with a politician's family member's names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 20:54, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
No "Hypocrite" I am not wrong in my comment. Regardless of who it is, it is wrong to manipulate names of politician's family memebers, which is exactly what someone recently did to this wikipedia. In addition, it is your oppinion that Kiplinger and other awards are irrelevant. I disagree and it seems as do others which is why it will stay.
In addition, go to Obama's wikipedia and you'll see that every criticism has been deleted by wikipedia. A wikipedia is not for slamming- it is for information. This specific wikipedia informs the reader what issues the politician has run on, which is then backed up by facts. Your constant attacks and manipulation of this article to what you believe it should say are annoying and certainly warents the argument that you are doing so with a bias against the particular politician.—Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs)
Didnt say it was you specifically- however someone has been doing it today. In addition, you say you don't care about other articles, then why do you care about this one so much? Is it because you are particularly interesting in manipulating the article to your liking in order to attack the particular candidate where you find it possible? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
There is a sourced comment in this article to the effect that Guinta "was asked" to run for Governor and US Senator as well as the office he chose to run for, i.e., US Representative. An unanswered question is: who asked Guinta to run for these offices and why did they ask him? The source is a brief Associated Press story, which also doesn't actually say who asked him and why. The factoid may as well as stay in the article: it is plausible, albeit meaningless. The New Hampshire Republican party has fared badly in recent elections. Unless you count Gov. Lynch (a conservative and very bipartisan Democrat) as a Republican, they lost every top of the ticket race in both 2006 and 2008. Guinta is an appealing young candidate. But it is still a fact that we don't know exactly who asked him. I shouldn't be making too big a fuss about this: this is just typical political faux-humility, and this is nothing unique to Guinta.
I might add that I myself am a politician: I am one of 400 NH State reps. My friends did ask me in the spring and summer of 2008 if I wanted to run for office: I could certainly say, with honest humility, "I was asked to run." But it would be even more honest for me to say that I decided to run because there was an open seat in my community and I was confident in my ability to fill it. So, I frankly believe that Guinta CHOSE to run for the US House because his party needs a good candidate and he is confident in his own abilities. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 21:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
This is in reference to recent edits by an anti-Guinta person (not even a wikipedia user with a screen name) who has been making edits on this page. Over the past months, there has been a lot of conversation and give and take from both supporters and non-supporters over Guinta's wikipedia (because the NH Democrats have some sort of a thing with attacking this wikipedia article for some reason). First of all, I agree that the section about Guinta at the rally in Portsmouth for Memorial Day was not appropriate for a wiki-however it was actually a Democrat who added it and it went through many edits before it became what it was the other day before I removed at the request of the anti Guinta individual whom has been making recent edits. After many altercations over the past couple of months, we have agreed on the wording and exactly how the section about the editorial endorsement from the Union Leader reads as well as the section about the recent awards Manchester has received under Guinta's leadership. These edits ARE a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, so for this new individual to come it and delete entire sections and try to manipulate wording to an insanely partisan wording in attacking the Union Leader is wrong and will be corrected if changed again. Also, after much change to this article, it is time for the "advertisement" sign at the top to be removed. I would ask that someone who understands how to petition that this is removed do so. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs)
I apologize for not discussing the edits from last night everyone. My question now is- why was the cited information about school funding and the new budget removed?
In addition, this section:
reads like an advertisement and I would like to provide an additional cited alternate account of his time as mayor. How does everyone feel about that? thanks for the work everyone is doing to make Wikipedia as objective as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mountbaldface ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I agree that these tags are justified on this article. An article on a person who is running for public office will generally attract the interest of people with conflicts of interest and non-neutral points of view. That is, people who want to help him or her get elected or who want to help some other candidate. I don't see any special reason for the tags on this article unless they are going to be added to every other article about a politican. When more criticism is published then that can, and will (I am confident), be added to the article. For the record I am a Republican (who voted for President Obama BTW) and I would generally support Mr Guinta in his run for Congress, although I had never heard of him before this article showed up on the BLP notice board. Steve Dufour ( talk) 15:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
When looking at other politicians wiki's, Obama's included, it seems totally acceptable to add accomplishments during political terms. Everything on Guinta's accomplishments are not opinion, but fact and have been cited substantially so should be left alone. Pay to Play is going to be voted on again by the school board, so until we actually know what is going on with it, it has no need being here. Plus, if giant accomplishments such as delivering the city's first tax cut this decade are being deleted, then what is the reason to add a small part of the 2009 school budget to Guinta's wiki page other than just because it is recent news? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 13:22, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
The pay to play section was sourced. If you have further sources that would add information to that section, feel free to add them. If you feel the language in the section was biased, feel free to change it. Please don't add unreliable citations, or use the "about the parties" section of a press release about food drives to source information about tax cuts. Hipocrite ( talk) 13:31, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
With a simple yes or no - would you mind if I fixed the overlinking (we should link only the first instance of Manchester) and moved the inaguration to just before "During Guinta's first term as Mayor, he raised the compliment of Manchester's," and made the inaguration start a new paragraph? Thank you for your one word reply. Hipocrite ( talk) 15:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone have an opinion on the heavy reliance upon The Union Leader for sourced material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mountbaldface ( talk • contribs) 21:24, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
This section is appropriate, as there is a police investigation ongoing. This fact is properly sourced and presented in an unbiased way. LivefreeordieNH is repeatedly removing it without a proper reason. -- Muboshgu ( talk) 15:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, LivefreeordieNH, for contributing positively to this article. This is the kind of balanced, well-sourced content Wikipedia is looking for. I appreciate your input. Jaybird vt ( talk) 17:15, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
There have been rumors that Guinta himself is editing this page. There have been an inordinate number of edits from anonymous users who have Comcast Cable broadband service in or near Manchester. These anonymous edits invariably delete factual material which reflects badly on Guinta and/or puts in fluffy material which puffs up Guinta. If this is Guinta doing these edits or even just someone in his inner circle, whoever it is should desist. Editing your own article is a bigtime violation of Wikipedia rules. Even if this is just a supporter, he should identify himself or herself by at least a pseudonym. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 03:49, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
It now says: He filed the paperwork and made an official announcement that he is running against incumbent. Does he have to win a Republican primary first? That would be normal. Steve Dufour ( talk) 04:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Per the resolution of the WP:3RR, we need to establish consensus regarding the inclusion or exclusion of information regarding the bar fight. My vote is to include, as it is newsworthy and sourced. -- Muboshgu ( talk) 20:33, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
This section was deleted because it is no longer valid. There is a Union Leader article explaining that school funding was discussed at a very recent article and sports will be fully funded. When I first deleted this section, I explained it with a link to the afticle (in reference to falcon's claim that I deleted the section without explaination.)
The section was realisitcally just an attempt by people who disagree with Guinta's budget to get a "jab" at him, but we left it there for months anyways. Now, since the budget has been renegotiated and school sports will be fully funded, it is no longer vaild to say that the budget was cut by 7 million (since that isn't even the # anymore). This is why, because of all of these changes, that the paragraph should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Including a 'political positions' section is entirely relevant to a political candidate, and many candidates have them (including his potential general election opponent, Carol Shea-Porter). Whatever anonymous contributor keeps blanking the section apparently has a problem with laying out Guinta's positions, both as he's stated them and as his record indicates. Vote ( talk) 18:47, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Item: the Union Leader's endorsements are used to support the claim that he reduced crime in Manchester. According to official pdf annual reports from the Manchester Police Department linked to from their website, Manchester had 301 violent crimes and 3937 total crimes in 2005 before Guinta took office. In 2009 after 4 years of his mayoralty, there were 502 violent crimes and 4317 total crimes. This represents a substantial increase in crime under his leadership, not the decrease this article now claims.
Item: Guinta got plenty of mileage from promoting the fake story that Carol Shea Porter threw Carl Tomanelli out of a Manchester town hall for daring to ask her a question, when the police officer involved has publicly stated that it was his decision, not Shea Porter's, to eject Tomanelli, and that Tomanelli was removed not for a sincere effort to take part in open dialogue but for repeatedly interrupting others with his shouted accusations.
This article needs more independent sources and fact-checking, in my opinion. betsythedevine ( talk) 22:50, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
My goal is improve this article so that it is fair to Guinta and fair to the facts. Manchester won some awards while Guinta was in office. Putting the awards into the bio implies that he deserves credit, -- but none of the awards mention Guinta. Look at the other side of the question -- if the article about Guinta talks about the substantial rise in crime during Guinta's 4 years in office, it would imply the crime increase was his fault. I don't think crime in Manchester is Guinta's fault, and I don't think the millyard improvements and NH's tax structure should be credited to Guinta either. betsythedevine ( talk) 23:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Consider this statement in the article: "The mayor attributes Manchester's 17% reduction in violent crime during his first term to these actions." I don't see any citation for the claim that Manchester's violent crime was reduced 17% during Guinta's first term. From the official Manchester NH Crime Index for 2006 and the official 2009 Police Department report, violent crimes were as follows:
2003: 301 2004: 367 2005: 301 2006: 321 2007: (no data about 2007 violent crime rate in Manchester Police reports for 2007 or 2008) 2008: 457 2009: 502
Violent crime spiked up about 20% between 2003 and 2004, then fell back down the same amount in 2005, but since Guinta was not elected until 2005, how could his policies have caused that decrease? The article cites no source for its claim that violent crime decreased 17% during Guinta's first term. Furthermore, people's statements about themselves may be acceptable as per WP:SELFPUB but not when those statements are essentially self-serving. I am trying to edit this promotional material back to a normal Wikipedia biography based on neutral statements from reliable sources. betsythedevine ( talk) 20:10, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Yet more editorializing about Guinta, that is not supported by WP:RS: "Guinta was instrumental in revitalizing the newly formed Rimmon Heights Neighborhood on Manchester's West Side and in bringing a large economic development project in Manchester; Elliot at the River's Edge, which plans to turn the long closed Jac Pac Foods warehouse into an $87 million dollar redevelopment project." Two references given, neither of which supports this statement: http://www.manchexpress.com/express092807.pdf and http://millyardcommunications.com/index.php?src=news&refno=582&category=News
One of those references talks about the opening of a police station on Manchester's West Side, but neither reference gives Guinta credit for benefiting Manchester in anything like the glowing and specific terms of the sentence they are attached to. A 2008 article by the Union Leader about the Jac Pac project also fails to credit Guinta. betsythedevine ( talk) 20:45, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
This article used to contain a list of several awards to Manchester, NH -- a list that included a Forbes award to "the Manchester-Nashua region." Not one award mentions Guinta or anything he did. These were not awards given to Frank Guinta, and they were not awards given to Manchester because of any action by Frank Guinta. Including them in this article, however, clearly implies that Guinta deserves credit for these awards. Find some reliable source exists that gives credit to Guinta for having achieved x, y, or z or else leave x, y, and z out of this article.
It is WP:SYNTHESIS to attribute credit to Guinta for good events that happened to occur during his mayoralty. One could, by exactly the same token, implicitly blame Guinta by listing here the many bad events that occurred in Manchester during his mayoralty such as the huge recession that has hit the city, the striking rise in crime over the 4 years of his term, etc. etc. That would not be fair, and it would not be in accord with Wikipedia policy. It is also a violation to keep larding this article with praise of Guinta for things that no WP:RS has said were achievements by him. betsythedevine ( talk) 10:58, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
In May 2010, during the Republican primary, Frank Guinta was asked about how to fix Social Security. Somebody blogged his remarks on the subject as follows:
These remarks were quoted in part or in full here and here. They have been rejected as reliable sources vouching for the accuracy of the quote. The conservative website GraniteGrok hosts a video of the remarks in question; Guinta gets the microphone at about 6:52 and very soon gets to the words just as quoted above.
In other words, the quote that has been multiply written about in other media is 100% accurate and its accuracy is verifiable by anyone who cares to check. betsythedevine ( talk) 22:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Two days have gone by since Guinta won the election and no one has updated the article to reflect that fact. This must prove something; I am not sure what it proves, however. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 20:09, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
The following section has been repeatedly removed and re added to the article. Please discuss here before continuing to edit war over this section. The next person to add or remove the section will be reported by me to the appropriate noticeboard. Reach consensus, as opposed to edit warring. Hipocrite ( talk) 16:19, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I agree that the name should probably be changed ("Controversy" is unnecessarily leading) but this matter played a significant role in his Congressional campaign, and the section on it looks to be balanced and well-sourced (WMUR, Fosters). The attempt to remove it completely appears, to me, to be whitewashing. Arbor832466 ( talk) 16:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
It should stay, and be in the section about the campaign. It's well sourced, and has been investigated by multiple respected news sources, thus it is notable and verifiable. The attempts to remove it seem to be from a single editor, which suggests they may have a conflict of interest of some kind. Matt J User| Talk 19:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Guinta has been challenged on the origins of personal loans to his own campaign of $355,000. Guinta states that he saved this money over the course of his career from real estate deals and from consulting work, but has not provided supporting documentation. The issue was first raised by Guinta's fellow Republicans during the Republican primary, [1] but Guinta won anyway. [2]
In October 2010, New Hampshire Public Radio political reporter Josh Greenberg tried to verify the verifiable aspects of Guinta's claims. Guinta almost certainly made less than $100,000 from his known real estate deals (involving four residential properties in Manchester.) His other activities seemed unlikely to generate enough income to accumulate a quarter of a million dollars' savings. One of his past political jobs, as a New Hampshire State Representative, has a notoriously low salary— $100 per year— although like most of his colleagues he held down outside jobs during his New Hampshire House service. His two later political jobs paid somewhat higher salaries— but not high enough to explain his large savings, which were in any case not reflected on any of the many financial disclosure forms he filed over the years. (He made about $55,000/year as a Congressional aide and $72,000 a year as Mayor of Manchester.) [3]
(Restart indents) Concord Monitor, Nov. 11, 2010: "It seemed suspicious to people of all political persuasions that Guinta forgot to disclose half his life savings in a clerical error." And so on. The story is not going to vanish out of the news--it would seem to me Guinta's supporters would be grateful for a chance to give a balanced account here in Wikipedia for reporters and others. betsythedevine ( talk) 19:38, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
(restart indents) I have attempted to give a balanced account of the story in the context the Congressional campaign section. betsythedevine ( talk) 23:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
This isn't going away - the Washington Post included it in a story today. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120105763.html. Vote ( talk) 23:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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No. The SS section that was stable and under consensus can stay until a new consensus is reached on this talk page. That section has been repeatedly attacked, shortened, or removed by editors who claim that Guinta's own statements about his political positions should be removed. I don't agree that an elected official's campaign statements and promises should be whitewashed or hidden from people who come to this article wanting to learn more about him. betsythedevine ( talk) 18:48, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
(Restarting indent) Politician's official statements on their own websites are often contradicted or clarified by what they have said in other places. As these comments were made very public during the campaign, perhaps you can find a public statement by Guinta backing away from them or explaining he meant something different from what he said during the primary. betsythedevine ( talk) 17:51, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
"We have to honor the obligations that have been made to those who are reliant on the federal government - older generations. But future generations should seek different private sector solutions and have personal responsibility start to lead the way. My kids are 6 and 5. They shouldn't know what Social Security is!"
"Let's not forget that this [Social Security] is something the government created. And now we're trying to have a government solution to a problem government created. Government's the problem here, ladies and gentlemen. When Social Security was created, you didn't have the wealth of private sector solutions for lifetime savings that you have today. We have to honor the obligations that have been made to those who are reliant on the federal government - older generations. But future generations should seek different private sector solutions and have personal responsibility start to lead the way. My kids are 6 and 5. They shouldn't know what Social Security is! You want to get down this debt and deficit? 65% of our budget is entitlements. We're going to have to make tough decisions as members of Congress..."
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Guinta Statement on Preserving Social Security
Frank Guinta has released the following statement in response to false assertions made by Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter's office:
"Carol Shea-Porter continues to deny there is a problem with Social Security. Social Security is projected to run a deficit in 2015 because of the partisan, big-spending agenda championed by Carol Shea-Porter and Nancy Pelosi. They have wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on frivolous spending, and trillions on the failed stimulus package and Obamacare takeover. And for too long both parties have raided the Social Security Trust Fund, which is due to become bankrupt by 2037.
The only way to ensure Social Security's future is to cut federal spending, so we can maintain the commitments we've made to our nation's seniors. I believe we need a solution to preserve Social Security which does not privatize the system, does not raise taxes, and does not cut existing benefits. If Carol Shea-Porter is so concerned about our seniors, why did she vote for ObamaCare which cuts half a trillion dollars in Medicare benefits for seniors?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.241.70 ( talk) 21:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
If we are going to have a policy section, it should be actually about the policy beleifs of an elected officialy - not an area of the website for member of another political party to take shots at an elected official. The section had gotten rediculous prior to these edits.
With regards to the mentioning of the elected official's bank accounts, it is a political attack and has no right to be in this article, but from prior edits from others, I can tell that the partisans who dominite Wikipedia want it to stay. If it has to, then there should be a statement that it has remained political in nature without ANY action from the FEC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.44.78.19 ( talk) 15:27, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There appears to be a concerted effort to remove unflattering information about Rep. Guinta -- specifically the CREW allegations of corruption -- by someone, not logged in, apparently from an IP address in the Washington, DC area. I don't mean to get on my high horse here, but this is starting to look to me almost like vandalism. If you think this sourced information does not belong in the article, please discuss it here rather than just wiping it out. -- Mark Asread ( talk) 22:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Why not just have Guinta's office write the page? It probably is. What possibly use is it to a reader to read that Guinta is for turning the Manchester V.A. into a full service facility? Where is the independent citation that tells us of his actual efforts on this and other issues? This looks like campaign literature. This is just a political stand. Where is the information, independent objective information, that he is trying to do any of this? Shemp Howard, Jr. ( talk) 05:43, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
In March, when Anon segregated the report by CREW into a new section Criticism, he added the adjective "liberal" to describe CREW. To me, it is not newsworthy that advocates of the other camp have criticism of the Congressman, nor is it particularly credible that CREW morphs a filing error, which did not seem to concern the relevant authorities, into a finding of "Corrupt." CREW primarily, though not exclusively, targets Republicans in office.
I don't mind that the article contain a Criticism section, as support for Rep. Guinta is not universal. The CREW report is also newsworthy in that its charge is often used by local adversaries. However, this month, another Anon deleted the word "liberal" and I restored it, a move that Arbor8 called POV. Spike-from-NH ( talk) 21:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
I have added this info to the page! Guinta ran one of the internet's finest chats and feuded intensely with the now-deceased "Jase Glenshadow," former male model and drug addict Chris Schiebel. For those of you not interested in the history of role playing or what sustained all non-World of Darkness goth games during what is now known as "the dark ages" this may seem like a minor historical footnote, however I assure you that Guinta and Schiebel were the two most well-known online RPG chat hosts in the world for a brief period (although Schiebel moreso). In particular the IWT was known for its high level of female "talent" cutting across all age groups and racial demographics. I myself met several women from that site "In Real Life" (IRL). Anyway just thought that this would flesh out the page a little more because I don't see any political stuff being added for the foreseeable future LOL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HistoryFightFan ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I have added a source for the information which has been vetted on other articles. An unidentified user keeps trying to suppress information on Guinta's role in establishing an infrastructure for online roleplaying, possibly a rival campaign operative?? I found it VERY unusual that the completely unsourced statement above was unaltered. HistoryFightFan ( talk) 19:29, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I now see that a possible malicious user is editing the page and trying to cast doubt on whether this is "the same" Frank Guinta from WBS. I assure you that this is the same Frank Guinta but would be happy to use my headjack port to allow us to share memories in order to prove this point - LOL! Simply a humorous aside. But it is the same person. Never doubt that. HistoryFightFan ( talk) 20:05, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
There has been an edit war going on for years on this article over this content. I don't really know what to make of it, I just know it should be discussed here rather than removed and re-added ad infinitum. It seems a bit like WP:TRIVIA and not a very notable biographical fact. I ask other editors with opinions on this content to please discuss it here rather than continuing this long-term edit war. Champaign Supernova ( talk) 17:00, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
The section under 2010 on the campaign finance controversy comes across to me as a bit disjointed. There are two sequential paragraphs currently referring to the $355,000 sum, one referring to the initial complaint, and another short paragraph referring to the 2015 settlement. I believe it would make sense for this to have it's own section on the page, since it is related to the 2010 campaign, but the controversy spans 5 years.
BallotPedia https://ballotpedia.org/Frank_Guinta#Campaign_finance_controversy has a well composed section, but I have been unable to find any policy statements on what license BP releases their work under, and whether it is compliant with WP policy and if it can just be migrated over. It already has citations.
I would still integrate the first paragraph from this article (about the 2010 election and initial complaints) with the BP text, as the BP text primarily focuses on the 2015 settlement and controversy (which is where I feel the WP is lacking). 166.20.224.10 ( talk) 15:23, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
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The Jan. 2 14:56 update was a major addition of material. Sorry the edit summary was left off that update. Nhprman 15:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Could someone put in how his name is pronounced? I only ever see it in print. Thanks... -- Ken Gallager 09:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Actually it is pronounced with a J sound not a G. It is Italian, from bona guinta which means good addition. (June-ta) ~S. Guinta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.172.232 ( talk) 06:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
He does pronounce it in that manner. however, everyone else in his family and extended family prounce it June-ta. ~S. Guinta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.172.232 ( talk) 14:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
seems a little to advertising like for wiki, any thoughts Cinnamon colbert 14:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
I have updated this article. User ManchGuy85 altered this article to include editorial quotations from the New Hampshire Union Leader. While the endorsement of a major state paper is certainly worthy of inclusion in this article, one must question the addition of entire paragraphs of editorial praise. I have summarized said paragraphs and have left the links available for readers to follow. I removed other content, as most of the citing led directly to New Hampshire Union Leader editorials. This user's updates were even noticed by one of the paper's political writers. See http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=City+Hall%3a+Mayor+wannabes+are+lining+up+in+Manchester&articleId=3e111354-b9b1-4aeb-9e2e-aeb76e5a8f43. I believe that these additions were made by a fan of the mayor's. NHteach 21 April 2009
The 'electoral future' section is entirely unbalanced. There is a quote from a Republican party representative without the publicly-released response from the Democratic party. The partisan nature of On Message, Inc, conductor of the referenced poll, is omitted, as is any link to the poll itself. The inclusion on a Politicker list is irrelevant. The 'it should also be noted' sentence in the 'electoral future' section is entirely partisan advocacy, not neutral and factual information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.223.176.178 ( talk) 01:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
The claims that crime was reduced in Manchester during Frank Guinta's time in office have no factual source provided. These claims are disputed, particularly by state Democrats (see http://bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7286 for an example), and should be excluded until evidence is provided for them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.223.176.178 ( talk) 01:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
This article should focus on the biography of the subject. It should not be a piece of campaign literature. Please be careful in adding back text that others have removed without any sort of comment - expecially if all of your contributions are to this article. Hipocrite ( talk) 19:53, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
This is actually getting pretty obsurd watching individuals from the NH Democrat Party spamming Guinta's wikipedia every hour. They have altered his wife's and mother's names in order to make jokes and consistently add spam comments as well as unsourced attacks on Guinta. Regardless, everything on this wikipedia is sourced as others have argued here before. The constant altercations and deletions by some individuals at the NH Democrat Party or else where should stop and need to stop now- especially such low and dirty tactics as messing with a politician's family member's names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 20:54, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
No "Hypocrite" I am not wrong in my comment. Regardless of who it is, it is wrong to manipulate names of politician's family memebers, which is exactly what someone recently did to this wikipedia. In addition, it is your oppinion that Kiplinger and other awards are irrelevant. I disagree and it seems as do others which is why it will stay.
In addition, go to Obama's wikipedia and you'll see that every criticism has been deleted by wikipedia. A wikipedia is not for slamming- it is for information. This specific wikipedia informs the reader what issues the politician has run on, which is then backed up by facts. Your constant attacks and manipulation of this article to what you believe it should say are annoying and certainly warents the argument that you are doing so with a bias against the particular politician.—Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs)
Didnt say it was you specifically- however someone has been doing it today. In addition, you say you don't care about other articles, then why do you care about this one so much? Is it because you are particularly interesting in manipulating the article to your liking in order to attack the particular candidate where you find it possible? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 21:50, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
There is a sourced comment in this article to the effect that Guinta "was asked" to run for Governor and US Senator as well as the office he chose to run for, i.e., US Representative. An unanswered question is: who asked Guinta to run for these offices and why did they ask him? The source is a brief Associated Press story, which also doesn't actually say who asked him and why. The factoid may as well as stay in the article: it is plausible, albeit meaningless. The New Hampshire Republican party has fared badly in recent elections. Unless you count Gov. Lynch (a conservative and very bipartisan Democrat) as a Republican, they lost every top of the ticket race in both 2006 and 2008. Guinta is an appealing young candidate. But it is still a fact that we don't know exactly who asked him. I shouldn't be making too big a fuss about this: this is just typical political faux-humility, and this is nothing unique to Guinta.
I might add that I myself am a politician: I am one of 400 NH State reps. My friends did ask me in the spring and summer of 2008 if I wanted to run for office: I could certainly say, with honest humility, "I was asked to run." But it would be even more honest for me to say that I decided to run because there was an open seat in my community and I was confident in my ability to fill it. So, I frankly believe that Guinta CHOSE to run for the US House because his party needs a good candidate and he is confident in his own abilities. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 21:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
This is in reference to recent edits by an anti-Guinta person (not even a wikipedia user with a screen name) who has been making edits on this page. Over the past months, there has been a lot of conversation and give and take from both supporters and non-supporters over Guinta's wikipedia (because the NH Democrats have some sort of a thing with attacking this wikipedia article for some reason). First of all, I agree that the section about Guinta at the rally in Portsmouth for Memorial Day was not appropriate for a wiki-however it was actually a Democrat who added it and it went through many edits before it became what it was the other day before I removed at the request of the anti Guinta individual whom has been making recent edits. After many altercations over the past couple of months, we have agreed on the wording and exactly how the section about the editorial endorsement from the Union Leader reads as well as the section about the recent awards Manchester has received under Guinta's leadership. These edits ARE a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, so for this new individual to come it and delete entire sections and try to manipulate wording to an insanely partisan wording in attacking the Union Leader is wrong and will be corrected if changed again. Also, after much change to this article, it is time for the "advertisement" sign at the top to be removed. I would ask that someone who understands how to petition that this is removed do so. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs)
I apologize for not discussing the edits from last night everyone. My question now is- why was the cited information about school funding and the new budget removed?
In addition, this section:
reads like an advertisement and I would like to provide an additional cited alternate account of his time as mayor. How does everyone feel about that? thanks for the work everyone is doing to make Wikipedia as objective as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mountbaldface ( talk • contribs) 19:58, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I agree that these tags are justified on this article. An article on a person who is running for public office will generally attract the interest of people with conflicts of interest and non-neutral points of view. That is, people who want to help him or her get elected or who want to help some other candidate. I don't see any special reason for the tags on this article unless they are going to be added to every other article about a politican. When more criticism is published then that can, and will (I am confident), be added to the article. For the record I am a Republican (who voted for President Obama BTW) and I would generally support Mr Guinta in his run for Congress, although I had never heard of him before this article showed up on the BLP notice board. Steve Dufour ( talk) 15:03, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
When looking at other politicians wiki's, Obama's included, it seems totally acceptable to add accomplishments during political terms. Everything on Guinta's accomplishments are not opinion, but fact and have been cited substantially so should be left alone. Pay to Play is going to be voted on again by the school board, so until we actually know what is going on with it, it has no need being here. Plus, if giant accomplishments such as delivering the city's first tax cut this decade are being deleted, then what is the reason to add a small part of the 2009 school budget to Guinta's wiki page other than just because it is recent news? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 13:22, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
The pay to play section was sourced. If you have further sources that would add information to that section, feel free to add them. If you feel the language in the section was biased, feel free to change it. Please don't add unreliable citations, or use the "about the parties" section of a press release about food drives to source information about tax cuts. Hipocrite ( talk) 13:31, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
With a simple yes or no - would you mind if I fixed the overlinking (we should link only the first instance of Manchester) and moved the inaguration to just before "During Guinta's first term as Mayor, he raised the compliment of Manchester's," and made the inaguration start a new paragraph? Thank you for your one word reply. Hipocrite ( talk) 15:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone have an opinion on the heavy reliance upon The Union Leader for sourced material? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mountbaldface ( talk • contribs) 21:24, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
This section is appropriate, as there is a police investigation ongoing. This fact is properly sourced and presented in an unbiased way. LivefreeordieNH is repeatedly removing it without a proper reason. -- Muboshgu ( talk) 15:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, LivefreeordieNH, for contributing positively to this article. This is the kind of balanced, well-sourced content Wikipedia is looking for. I appreciate your input. Jaybird vt ( talk) 17:15, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
There have been rumors that Guinta himself is editing this page. There have been an inordinate number of edits from anonymous users who have Comcast Cable broadband service in or near Manchester. These anonymous edits invariably delete factual material which reflects badly on Guinta and/or puts in fluffy material which puffs up Guinta. If this is Guinta doing these edits or even just someone in his inner circle, whoever it is should desist. Editing your own article is a bigtime violation of Wikipedia rules. Even if this is just a supporter, he should identify himself or herself by at least a pseudonym. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 03:49, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
It now says: He filed the paperwork and made an official announcement that he is running against incumbent. Does he have to win a Republican primary first? That would be normal. Steve Dufour ( talk) 04:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Per the resolution of the WP:3RR, we need to establish consensus regarding the inclusion or exclusion of information regarding the bar fight. My vote is to include, as it is newsworthy and sourced. -- Muboshgu ( talk) 20:33, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
This section was deleted because it is no longer valid. There is a Union Leader article explaining that school funding was discussed at a very recent article and sports will be fully funded. When I first deleted this section, I explained it with a link to the afticle (in reference to falcon's claim that I deleted the section without explaination.)
The section was realisitcally just an attempt by people who disagree with Guinta's budget to get a "jab" at him, but we left it there for months anyways. Now, since the budget has been renegotiated and school sports will be fully funded, it is no longer vaild to say that the budget was cut by 7 million (since that isn't even the # anymore). This is why, because of all of these changes, that the paragraph should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LivefreeordieNH ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Including a 'political positions' section is entirely relevant to a political candidate, and many candidates have them (including his potential general election opponent, Carol Shea-Porter). Whatever anonymous contributor keeps blanking the section apparently has a problem with laying out Guinta's positions, both as he's stated them and as his record indicates. Vote ( talk) 18:47, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Item: the Union Leader's endorsements are used to support the claim that he reduced crime in Manchester. According to official pdf annual reports from the Manchester Police Department linked to from their website, Manchester had 301 violent crimes and 3937 total crimes in 2005 before Guinta took office. In 2009 after 4 years of his mayoralty, there were 502 violent crimes and 4317 total crimes. This represents a substantial increase in crime under his leadership, not the decrease this article now claims.
Item: Guinta got plenty of mileage from promoting the fake story that Carol Shea Porter threw Carl Tomanelli out of a Manchester town hall for daring to ask her a question, when the police officer involved has publicly stated that it was his decision, not Shea Porter's, to eject Tomanelli, and that Tomanelli was removed not for a sincere effort to take part in open dialogue but for repeatedly interrupting others with his shouted accusations.
This article needs more independent sources and fact-checking, in my opinion. betsythedevine ( talk) 22:50, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
My goal is improve this article so that it is fair to Guinta and fair to the facts. Manchester won some awards while Guinta was in office. Putting the awards into the bio implies that he deserves credit, -- but none of the awards mention Guinta. Look at the other side of the question -- if the article about Guinta talks about the substantial rise in crime during Guinta's 4 years in office, it would imply the crime increase was his fault. I don't think crime in Manchester is Guinta's fault, and I don't think the millyard improvements and NH's tax structure should be credited to Guinta either. betsythedevine ( talk) 23:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Consider this statement in the article: "The mayor attributes Manchester's 17% reduction in violent crime during his first term to these actions." I don't see any citation for the claim that Manchester's violent crime was reduced 17% during Guinta's first term. From the official Manchester NH Crime Index for 2006 and the official 2009 Police Department report, violent crimes were as follows:
2003: 301 2004: 367 2005: 301 2006: 321 2007: (no data about 2007 violent crime rate in Manchester Police reports for 2007 or 2008) 2008: 457 2009: 502
Violent crime spiked up about 20% between 2003 and 2004, then fell back down the same amount in 2005, but since Guinta was not elected until 2005, how could his policies have caused that decrease? The article cites no source for its claim that violent crime decreased 17% during Guinta's first term. Furthermore, people's statements about themselves may be acceptable as per WP:SELFPUB but not when those statements are essentially self-serving. I am trying to edit this promotional material back to a normal Wikipedia biography based on neutral statements from reliable sources. betsythedevine ( talk) 20:10, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Yet more editorializing about Guinta, that is not supported by WP:RS: "Guinta was instrumental in revitalizing the newly formed Rimmon Heights Neighborhood on Manchester's West Side and in bringing a large economic development project in Manchester; Elliot at the River's Edge, which plans to turn the long closed Jac Pac Foods warehouse into an $87 million dollar redevelopment project." Two references given, neither of which supports this statement: http://www.manchexpress.com/express092807.pdf and http://millyardcommunications.com/index.php?src=news&refno=582&category=News
One of those references talks about the opening of a police station on Manchester's West Side, but neither reference gives Guinta credit for benefiting Manchester in anything like the glowing and specific terms of the sentence they are attached to. A 2008 article by the Union Leader about the Jac Pac project also fails to credit Guinta. betsythedevine ( talk) 20:45, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
This article used to contain a list of several awards to Manchester, NH -- a list that included a Forbes award to "the Manchester-Nashua region." Not one award mentions Guinta or anything he did. These were not awards given to Frank Guinta, and they were not awards given to Manchester because of any action by Frank Guinta. Including them in this article, however, clearly implies that Guinta deserves credit for these awards. Find some reliable source exists that gives credit to Guinta for having achieved x, y, or z or else leave x, y, and z out of this article.
It is WP:SYNTHESIS to attribute credit to Guinta for good events that happened to occur during his mayoralty. One could, by exactly the same token, implicitly blame Guinta by listing here the many bad events that occurred in Manchester during his mayoralty such as the huge recession that has hit the city, the striking rise in crime over the 4 years of his term, etc. etc. That would not be fair, and it would not be in accord with Wikipedia policy. It is also a violation to keep larding this article with praise of Guinta for things that no WP:RS has said were achievements by him. betsythedevine ( talk) 10:58, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
In May 2010, during the Republican primary, Frank Guinta was asked about how to fix Social Security. Somebody blogged his remarks on the subject as follows:
These remarks were quoted in part or in full here and here. They have been rejected as reliable sources vouching for the accuracy of the quote. The conservative website GraniteGrok hosts a video of the remarks in question; Guinta gets the microphone at about 6:52 and very soon gets to the words just as quoted above.
In other words, the quote that has been multiply written about in other media is 100% accurate and its accuracy is verifiable by anyone who cares to check. betsythedevine ( talk) 22:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Two days have gone by since Guinta won the election and no one has updated the article to reflect that fact. This must prove something; I am not sure what it proves, however. Timothy Horrigan ( talk) 20:09, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
The following section has been repeatedly removed and re added to the article. Please discuss here before continuing to edit war over this section. The next person to add or remove the section will be reported by me to the appropriate noticeboard. Reach consensus, as opposed to edit warring. Hipocrite ( talk) 16:19, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I agree that the name should probably be changed ("Controversy" is unnecessarily leading) but this matter played a significant role in his Congressional campaign, and the section on it looks to be balanced and well-sourced (WMUR, Fosters). The attempt to remove it completely appears, to me, to be whitewashing. Arbor832466 ( talk) 16:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
It should stay, and be in the section about the campaign. It's well sourced, and has been investigated by multiple respected news sources, thus it is notable and verifiable. The attempts to remove it seem to be from a single editor, which suggests they may have a conflict of interest of some kind. Matt J User| Talk 19:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Guinta has been challenged on the origins of personal loans to his own campaign of $355,000. Guinta states that he saved this money over the course of his career from real estate deals and from consulting work, but has not provided supporting documentation. The issue was first raised by Guinta's fellow Republicans during the Republican primary, [1] but Guinta won anyway. [2]
In October 2010, New Hampshire Public Radio political reporter Josh Greenberg tried to verify the verifiable aspects of Guinta's claims. Guinta almost certainly made less than $100,000 from his known real estate deals (involving four residential properties in Manchester.) His other activities seemed unlikely to generate enough income to accumulate a quarter of a million dollars' savings. One of his past political jobs, as a New Hampshire State Representative, has a notoriously low salary— $100 per year— although like most of his colleagues he held down outside jobs during his New Hampshire House service. His two later political jobs paid somewhat higher salaries— but not high enough to explain his large savings, which were in any case not reflected on any of the many financial disclosure forms he filed over the years. (He made about $55,000/year as a Congressional aide and $72,000 a year as Mayor of Manchester.) [3]
(Restart indents) Concord Monitor, Nov. 11, 2010: "It seemed suspicious to people of all political persuasions that Guinta forgot to disclose half his life savings in a clerical error." And so on. The story is not going to vanish out of the news--it would seem to me Guinta's supporters would be grateful for a chance to give a balanced account here in Wikipedia for reporters and others. betsythedevine ( talk) 19:38, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
(restart indents) I have attempted to give a balanced account of the story in the context the Congressional campaign section. betsythedevine ( talk) 23:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
This isn't going away - the Washington Post included it in a story today. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120105763.html. Vote ( talk) 23:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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No. The SS section that was stable and under consensus can stay until a new consensus is reached on this talk page. That section has been repeatedly attacked, shortened, or removed by editors who claim that Guinta's own statements about his political positions should be removed. I don't agree that an elected official's campaign statements and promises should be whitewashed or hidden from people who come to this article wanting to learn more about him. betsythedevine ( talk) 18:48, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
(Restarting indent) Politician's official statements on their own websites are often contradicted or clarified by what they have said in other places. As these comments were made very public during the campaign, perhaps you can find a public statement by Guinta backing away from them or explaining he meant something different from what he said during the primary. betsythedevine ( talk) 17:51, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
"We have to honor the obligations that have been made to those who are reliant on the federal government - older generations. But future generations should seek different private sector solutions and have personal responsibility start to lead the way. My kids are 6 and 5. They shouldn't know what Social Security is!"
"Let's not forget that this [Social Security] is something the government created. And now we're trying to have a government solution to a problem government created. Government's the problem here, ladies and gentlemen. When Social Security was created, you didn't have the wealth of private sector solutions for lifetime savings that you have today. We have to honor the obligations that have been made to those who are reliant on the federal government - older generations. But future generations should seek different private sector solutions and have personal responsibility start to lead the way. My kids are 6 and 5. They shouldn't know what Social Security is! You want to get down this debt and deficit? 65% of our budget is entitlements. We're going to have to make tough decisions as members of Congress..."
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Guinta Statement on Preserving Social Security
Frank Guinta has released the following statement in response to false assertions made by Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter's office:
"Carol Shea-Porter continues to deny there is a problem with Social Security. Social Security is projected to run a deficit in 2015 because of the partisan, big-spending agenda championed by Carol Shea-Porter and Nancy Pelosi. They have wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on frivolous spending, and trillions on the failed stimulus package and Obamacare takeover. And for too long both parties have raided the Social Security Trust Fund, which is due to become bankrupt by 2037.
The only way to ensure Social Security's future is to cut federal spending, so we can maintain the commitments we've made to our nation's seniors. I believe we need a solution to preserve Social Security which does not privatize the system, does not raise taxes, and does not cut existing benefits. If Carol Shea-Porter is so concerned about our seniors, why did she vote for ObamaCare which cuts half a trillion dollars in Medicare benefits for seniors?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.241.70 ( talk) 21:00, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
If we are going to have a policy section, it should be actually about the policy beleifs of an elected officialy - not an area of the website for member of another political party to take shots at an elected official. The section had gotten rediculous prior to these edits.
With regards to the mentioning of the elected official's bank accounts, it is a political attack and has no right to be in this article, but from prior edits from others, I can tell that the partisans who dominite Wikipedia want it to stay. If it has to, then there should be a statement that it has remained political in nature without ANY action from the FEC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.44.78.19 ( talk) 15:27, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There appears to be a concerted effort to remove unflattering information about Rep. Guinta -- specifically the CREW allegations of corruption -- by someone, not logged in, apparently from an IP address in the Washington, DC area. I don't mean to get on my high horse here, but this is starting to look to me almost like vandalism. If you think this sourced information does not belong in the article, please discuss it here rather than just wiping it out. -- Mark Asread ( talk) 22:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Why not just have Guinta's office write the page? It probably is. What possibly use is it to a reader to read that Guinta is for turning the Manchester V.A. into a full service facility? Where is the independent citation that tells us of his actual efforts on this and other issues? This looks like campaign literature. This is just a political stand. Where is the information, independent objective information, that he is trying to do any of this? Shemp Howard, Jr. ( talk) 05:43, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
In March, when Anon segregated the report by CREW into a new section Criticism, he added the adjective "liberal" to describe CREW. To me, it is not newsworthy that advocates of the other camp have criticism of the Congressman, nor is it particularly credible that CREW morphs a filing error, which did not seem to concern the relevant authorities, into a finding of "Corrupt." CREW primarily, though not exclusively, targets Republicans in office.
I don't mind that the article contain a Criticism section, as support for Rep. Guinta is not universal. The CREW report is also newsworthy in that its charge is often used by local adversaries. However, this month, another Anon deleted the word "liberal" and I restored it, a move that Arbor8 called POV. Spike-from-NH ( talk) 21:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
I have added this info to the page! Guinta ran one of the internet's finest chats and feuded intensely with the now-deceased "Jase Glenshadow," former male model and drug addict Chris Schiebel. For those of you not interested in the history of role playing or what sustained all non-World of Darkness goth games during what is now known as "the dark ages" this may seem like a minor historical footnote, however I assure you that Guinta and Schiebel were the two most well-known online RPG chat hosts in the world for a brief period (although Schiebel moreso). In particular the IWT was known for its high level of female "talent" cutting across all age groups and racial demographics. I myself met several women from that site "In Real Life" (IRL). Anyway just thought that this would flesh out the page a little more because I don't see any political stuff being added for the foreseeable future LOL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HistoryFightFan ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I have added a source for the information which has been vetted on other articles. An unidentified user keeps trying to suppress information on Guinta's role in establishing an infrastructure for online roleplaying, possibly a rival campaign operative?? I found it VERY unusual that the completely unsourced statement above was unaltered. HistoryFightFan ( talk) 19:29, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
I now see that a possible malicious user is editing the page and trying to cast doubt on whether this is "the same" Frank Guinta from WBS. I assure you that this is the same Frank Guinta but would be happy to use my headjack port to allow us to share memories in order to prove this point - LOL! Simply a humorous aside. But it is the same person. Never doubt that. HistoryFightFan ( talk) 20:05, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
There has been an edit war going on for years on this article over this content. I don't really know what to make of it, I just know it should be discussed here rather than removed and re-added ad infinitum. It seems a bit like WP:TRIVIA and not a very notable biographical fact. I ask other editors with opinions on this content to please discuss it here rather than continuing this long-term edit war. Champaign Supernova ( talk) 17:00, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
The section under 2010 on the campaign finance controversy comes across to me as a bit disjointed. There are two sequential paragraphs currently referring to the $355,000 sum, one referring to the initial complaint, and another short paragraph referring to the 2015 settlement. I believe it would make sense for this to have it's own section on the page, since it is related to the 2010 campaign, but the controversy spans 5 years.
BallotPedia https://ballotpedia.org/Frank_Guinta#Campaign_finance_controversy has a well composed section, but I have been unable to find any policy statements on what license BP releases their work under, and whether it is compliant with WP policy and if it can just be migrated over. It already has citations.
I would still integrate the first paragraph from this article (about the 2010 election and initial complaints) with the BP text, as the BP text primarily focuses on the 2015 settlement and controversy (which is where I feel the WP is lacking). 166.20.224.10 ( talk) 15:23, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
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