Updated Brian Frosh's Wikipedia Entry

[ToneGrail]

Please update with any pertinent information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_E._Frosh

I added the "MD Self-Defense Controversy" section and a link to www.froshwatch.com.

 

[Norton]

very cool. You might want to add a link to the video of the "they're nuts" comment so that they can't take it down for being unsubstantiated.

 

[G O B]

Good job!

 

[paponte]

maybe spelling out LEO for the non informed .. Law Enforcement Officer. Other then that GREAT JOB

 

[guthook]

maybe spelling out LEO for the non informed .. Law Enforcement Officer. Other than that GREAT JOB

That would make the "a" as opposed to "an" error more apparent. (Who is not an LEO)

Good job BTW He deserves a good thumping.

 

[t3tech]

I'm not sure of wikipedia's guidelines on valid citations so this may not be useful but here's a Sun blog entry that gives some credibility I would think.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/2009/04/its_good_to_be_chairman.html

Wasn't there an article in the Sun that covered at least part of this. I can't seem to find it now though.

 

[txiyo]

great, that is one of the first things that will pop up when people search for him on google. at least they'll know.

 

[txiyo]

people don't know that he smells like old news papers, people may want to know just to be prepared if they meet him.

 

[EVOIXGSR]

OMG, which one of you guys wrote that!!

 

[Norton]

Someone took out the paragraph about self-defense.

 

[Drmsparks]

It was just there when I checked it...

MD Self Defense Controversy

Frosh is an ardent supporter of draconian gun control laws. He has publicly stated that anyone who wishes to carry a gun (who is not an LEO) is "nuts". As committee chairman, Frosh has repeatedly used a technique called the "desk drawer veto" where he refuses to schedule a bill for a vote, letting it die in committee. He is accused by his many detractors of "vetoing" bills which he personally disagrees with or would hurt his personal injury law firm's business. One such bill is HB420 (which passed uninimously in the MD House), which would grant homeowners civil immunity from lawsuits by a criminal who injures himself during a home invasion. Frosh's critics claim that he has a conflict of interest since his law firm would lose clients should this civil immunity bill pass, which is the reason why he has done everything to prevent it from being passed into law.

Or was there more?

Now that we have an archive we can always repost it when if it gets deleted...

 

[Half-cocked]

The edit removing that section was undone, restoring it.

Also, someone at some point edited the page putting an obscene sexual remark about Frosh. That comment was removed quickly.

That kind of thing is vulgar and unnecessary, and damages the credibility of those trying to spread the truth about Frosh's abuse of power and his flagrant contempt for crime victims in Maryland. I hope it wasn't anyone here.

 

[hole punch]

It was just there when I checked it...



Or was there more?

Now that we have an archive we can always repost it when if it gets deleted...

wikipedia keeps a record of ALL changes to ALL pages. just go up to the top of any page and click on the history tab to get a list of all changes and who made the change, and you can view each one and compare them

note these two edits:

11:11, 9 April 2009 69.251.222.75 (talk) (3,152 bytes) (added image, removed NNPOV unsourced paragraph)

and

17:02, 9 April 2009 76.26.205.142 (talk) (4,111 bytes) (Undid revision 282745331 by 69.251.222.75 (talk)) (undo)

 

[thebullpupkid]

omg! last sentence first paragraph!

wiki will lock the article over that kind of harrassment.
funny as hell though.

 

[STSCM]

Has anyone read the "Background" paragraph? Someone here post that?

 

[thebullpupkid]

oh, anyone editing this page should do so only through a proxy. Wikipedia displays the editing IP's. You think a senior MD politician couldn't have someone look up an IP?

 

[Norton]

Good job fixing the self-defense paragraph.

The unnecessary remark has been removed.

 

[13mogul]

wrote what?
thats been on there for years

 

[EVOIXGSR]

Also, someone at some point edited the page putting an obscene sexual remark about Frosh. That comment was removed quickly.

That kind of thing is vulgar and unnecessary, and damages the credibility of those trying to spread the truth about Frosh's abuse of power and his flagrant contempt for crime victims in Maryland. I hope it wasn't anyone here.

I can't say I haven't done stupider things. Point well taken.

 

[hole punch]

LOL

Frosh is an openly gay man, who regularly takes the meat stick.