Talk:Tom Vilsack

message: The following discussion was on my talk page. I'm moving it here instead since it relates directly to this article:
Please don't remove vital categories such as Category:Iowa politicians. Such categories are vital to the attempts to improve the articles of such people. Most of the categories you removed from Tom Vilsack were indeed redundant, but please remember that a politician category is NOT redundant with a lawyer category. Thank you. --Tim4christ17 talk 17:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't say it was redundant with a lawyer category. It was redundant with the Category:Governors of Iowa. Clearly all Iowa Governors are also Iowa politicians. Except in rare cases, an article should not appear in both a category and its parent category (in this case, both "Governors" and "Politicians"). I'll move this discussion to the article page, though, for any other follow-up comment. Dugwiki 17:58, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest removing [[:Category:Iowa politicians]] as redundant with [[:Category:Governors of Iowa]]

message: This is a class action settlement that awards approximately $750 million to Native Americans whose trust land was mismanaged between 1981-1999  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.234.0.138 (talk) 01:07, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Keepseagle vs Vilsack

message: The category box is in error, the gov-elect hasn't taken office yet. At the least, it should be listed 'Culver (elect)'. GoodDay 17:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Governors

message: In the last paragraph:
"During the appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Stewart pointed out that Vilsack was "not, seemingly an asshole," in comparison to current President George W. Bush. Since Stewart's view on President Bush is usually critical, it can be assumed that the expletive was meant in a negative way"
I'm not entirely sure that calling someone an asshole can ever be construed as a compliment, so pointing out that it is an insult is superfluous and a bit puzzling.
Also, on the section on Iraq, the paragraph starts by saying he has a politically moderate position on the subject, then says he favours pulling out almost all the troops, which is a fairly extreme position so these two statements made in the present tense about his position on the issue are contradictory.
Mb667584 12:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superfluous sentence: 

message: Somebody add this to the main article, as without it, one gets the impression that ex-Governor Vilsack is still running. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.40.226.226 (talk) 22:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vilsack has dropped from the 2008 Presidential race. 

message: What is the national origin of his adoptive father's surname?  Badagnani 04:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname 

message: Is this section actually noteworthy? It notes that the OCA feels he would be a poor pick for the agricultural poobah, with a list of reasons, but the reasons given aren't inherently obvious as to why they're actually detrimental to the large percentage of the population, or, anyone at all.
It seems cut/paste from OCA's bullet points they posted earlier. It violates a neutral POV. 69.143.88.44 (talk) 08:14, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've expanded this section so that it now discusses how some groups endorsed this nomination while at least one (OCA) strongly opposed it. I think it is important and mostly NPOV. OCA sentences may need a recheck for NPOV. ike9898 (talk) 21:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  OCA opposition 

message: How long was he mayor of Mount Pleasant?  How long did he serve in the Senate?CountMacula (talk) 18:47, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details of political history 

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72.89.98.188 (talk)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agent Cooper (talk • contribs) 22:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Secretary Vilsak was interviewed by Frontline in a program that was broadcast on 5-12-2015, on the response of the Department to a series of salmonella outbreaks resulting from the appearance in poultry of new and virulent strains of salmonella. He insisted that the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) did not have the authority to order recalls of chicken contaminated with the bacteria, even if highly pathogenic strains were present. However he refused to ask Congress to pass legislation providing the FSIS with that authority. Danwoodard (talk) 03:02, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frontline Report on Salmonella Outbreak 

message: I am removing this claim: "Vilsack was also a prime mover in enabling the "Pigford" scandal, a massive fraud involving billions in payouts to minority supplicants who falsely claimed Agriculture department bias in the awarding of farm loans." The source given is http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us/farm-loan-bias-claims-often-unsupported-cost-us-millions.html. This NYT article is a primary source to begin with, but even setting that aside, it never makes the assertion from our article. It only quotes people making this claim, and others countering the claim. (From the journalist's tone, it sounds to me like she sides with those alleging fraud, but she never says so.) --Allen (talk) 00:10, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing Pigford scandal claim 

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message: The line in the article:
On March 28, 2012, Vilsack came out publicly defending the use of "pink slime" added in ground beef.[27]
Sources an article from 2012 that is no longer available online. The only archived instance of that article is on archive.is
https://archive.is/mbP67
Please consider allowing this source, as it's currently the only one that has proof of his statement.
Alexipwns (talk) 12:36, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special case to use archive.is 

message: The lead says that when Arne Duncan resigns, Vilsack will become the last cabinet member who has served since Obama took office. This is not true since Joe Biden and Shaun Donovan have also served on Obama's cabinet from the beginning. This claim should either be removed or possibly rephrased to say "cabinet secretary" rather than "member of the cabinet" Aliiqve (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last member of Obama's original cabinet 

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message: In December 2020, Joe Biden nominated Vilsack to be the Secretary of Agriculture, a position he held for 8 years under President Barack Obama. Vilsack was selected over traditional farm groups support of former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and reformers who wanted the Department of Agriculture to spend money on climate change supporting Representative Marcia Fudge, who was nominated for Secretary of HUD.[41]
I added this because it creates useful context. Otherwise, it's similar to "Jones nominated for Sec of Agri by President Smith-end of story". Instead, it informs the reader in a very brief way about the dynamics of history and Vilsack's nomination. Vowvo (talk) 20:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sec Agriculture under Biden