Talk:Pete Wilson

message: Removed the One-Strike section. It was ambiguous. If someone wants to add it back in, it should be a separate paragraph under "policies on Crime, not mixed in with the more controversial Three-Strikes. Ericstoltz  —Preceding undated comment added 05:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The idea that Wilson damaged the Republican Party of California is completely false.  Wilson and Lundgren hardly suffered at all with Latino voters.  (Lundgren actually lost because his percentage of the white vote fell dramatically.)   Here is an excellent article examining the figures and debunking the myth: http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_05_08/cover.html  24.113.82.222 10:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: Its kind of important in a discussion like this to know who your talking to, at least a screen name or online persona, or else you just have a lost of anonymous paragraphs arguing with each, each saying they know what they know be personal experience and rarely quoting a soure--Dudeman5685 02:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Doesn't anyone on here sign their name? 

message: I didn’t realize that Pete Wilson did such a lousy job as mayor of San Diego. Somebody should tell the locals, beginning with the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce, which every year hands out a “Pete Wilson Courageous Leadership Award” for exemplary leadership in service to the San Diego region.
What Wilson did offer as mayor was vision. Consider what’s going on in New Orleans post-Katrina: lots of confusion over how to rebuild.
San Diego wouldn’t have such problems thanks to reforms implemented by Wilson decades ago. He created a nonprofit corporation which delegates authority to act as the city’s agent in making the complex real estate deals that will be essential to redevelopment – a nonprofit with a paid staff and a board of volunteer real estate and land-use professionals.
The result was that the pace of redevelopment of downtown San Diego remarkably accelerated, transforming a decaying core with a declining tax and job base into one of America’s most vibrant and thriving urban environments.
To suggest that Wilson was not attentive to California’s infrastructure needs simply isn’t true.  Among his accomplishments:  
Then-Gov. Wilson opened the first two major freeways in California in nearly a decade – the Stockton Crosstown Freeway and the Century Freeway in Los Angeles.
In 1994, Wilson signed legislation establishing the California Infrastructure Bank (CIB) to assist local government in financing improvements to streets, sewers, drainage and flood-control systems, schools and parks, and public transit lines.
  
Wilson broke ground on the first privately financed toll road to be built in California in more than 50 years, the State Route 91 toll road in Orange County.
 Wilson improved the state's water system by completing an emergency connection giving the City of San Francisco access to state water, beginning construction of the second phase of the Coastal Aqueduct, and expanding and enlarging a number of facilities. Among his first acts in office as governor was creating a State Water Bank to broker deals between buyers and sellers.
Wilson was also the state’s most prominent champion of the Alameda Corridor Project, successfully pushing the federal government to get that plan off the ground and running (the Corridor, a 22-mile truck- and railway connecting downtown L.A. with the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, handles about 25% of the nation's waterborne trade).
 
I’d expand the definition of “infrastructure to include military-base reuse. The conversion of Fort Ord from an Army base to CSU-Monterey Bay occurred on his watch, as did the handing-over of several military airfields statewide. 
And I’d include earthquake recovery in this discussion as well. On this front, Wilson has impeccable credentials. Due to his administration’s cutting through red tape and unnecessary delays, freeways devastated by the Northridge Earthquake were rebuilt within 291 days, years ahead of schedule.
-- I agree. Wilson also stopped most of the suburban sprawl occurring in the north part of the city (Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Peñasquitos and Mira Mesa), not because he was against improving infrastructure, but because he let the state and housing developers know that there would be no more expansion in the area until old 395 was finally converted from a 4 lane road into Interstate 15.  Developers didn't like it in the short run, but in the long run that area is a beautiful example of planned development with the necessary infrastructure in place.
On another note, the idea that Wilson was responsible for the state's financial situation in the early '90s totally ignores the fact that the Early 1990s recession in the United States was happening, and the state was still reeling from the effects of California Proposition 13 (1978).  He wasn't a great governor, but to blame him for the effects of the recession is just as stupid as the recall of Gray Davis, which was a result of the Early 2000s recession.  47.185.104.184 (talk) 19:07, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wilson's Infrastucture Record 

message: I usually end up at this article by following the links from other articles.  And I am sure not everything about Pete Wilson is great.  I'm sure that each politician has his or her share of lovers or haters, but that does not apply here.  What is required are facts, not opinions, assumptions, or unverifiable conclusions.  We are not here to give conclusions on poll numbers, policies, or personal conduct -the best approach would be to provide the aforementioned poll numbers, policies, and personal conduct so that the reader can create his or her own personal conclusions.  Additionally, when giving facts, we must provide everything as well as package it in a neutral point of view (i.e.  "His policies on ... benefited ... however ...").  Please leave politics to the politicians.
I would really wish for the perfect governor, but I am skeptical that such a thing could exist.  I'm not saying that Wilson was a horrible person or governor, but that not all of his policies were the best, and for anything that is considered a success, someone will argue that it was failure of some sort.  Additionally, we can't go to unverifiable conclusions like "In recent years, as San Diego has struggled with keeping up with rising costs of overdue maintenance, many have pointed to the budget changes from Wilson's term as significantly contributing to the challenge of catching up in this regard."  This sentence sounds like his budget policies were a deciding factor in this, however it is unverifiable.
In all honesty, the "Governor" subsection of the article looks like it was lifted off of campaigning materials.
On an irrelevant matter, please sign your comments using the four tildes.Cikoykip 10:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is a header, please use it 

message: This page is not neutral.  It is overly pro-Wilson in its word choice instead of sounding encyclopedic.  The section concerning the California energy crisis does not address any role Wilson might have played in its cause.  Many democrats can be sourced for blaming Wilson for the crisis.   calbear22 July 28, 2007.
I added a little bit about how there's a metal band called Brujeria who wrote a song that was critical of Wilson's immigration policies and it was removed on grounds of not contributing to the article. Why is simply mentioning that there are people in the world who don't agree 100% with Pete Wilson grounds for censorship?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nohardfelines (talk • contribs) 23:11, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagged for bias

message: The sourcing in this article needs improvement.  There are no inline citations in the text of this article.  Some information might be unsourced. User:calbear22 07:11, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources and References

message: Previous version of the Wilson page suggested that Wilson enacted term limits.  While it could be said that he, as an executive, is enacting and enforcing the laws like term limits, such a statement is misleading.  It implies that Wilson had a more direct hand in the passage of term limits, as if he signed term limits into law as governor.  However, this is not true as term limits were passed in a voter initiative.  I changed the article text to remove the confusion.  Sourced California term limits from initiative with http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legismgt/about/supca.htm. User:calbear22 06:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Term limits fact

message: Wilson will be remembered (not!) for what he did to worker's overtime pay back in 1998.
The same reason apples to his association with the D-Day Museum.  American D-Day veterans were a mixed group, the impoverished were not left out (pre-dates the Vietnam poverty issue by a few years).  Whole CCC crews were drafted and sent to the English Channel.  The Depression was more than just a word to these people, it represented years and years of hunger and poverty, humiliation that dug so deeply into America it will always be felt. Wilson and his Republicans revive that pain.  These Americans were the people on Normandy Beach, and they weren't Pete Wilson.
When Wilson takes away overtime pay, he takes away the same food that our fathers fought to bring to us.  There's no talk about hypocritical Democrats here, just Republican war profiteers who will always try to make themselves look palatable on the backs of the poor.
Do America a favor, fire Pete Wilson!  Let him eat food stamp food for a while.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.157.235 (talk) 02:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Overtime

message: The lead section of this article, after giving a summary of Wilson's career, contains these lines: "On September 27, 2007, Wilson endorsed Rudy Giuliani for United States President. On February 4, 2008, Wilson endorsed John McCain as candidate for U.S. Presidency in a recording disseminated by telephone call on the eve of Super Tuesday. Giuliani dropped out of the race after the Florida primary." Does this really belong in the lead? It seems to me that it belongs more in the articles Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, 2008 and John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 - it's information related to Giuliani and McCain rather than Wilson, and will swiftly become out-of-date (if it hasn't already). If it does belong in the article, it should probably be further down the page, in the section about his life since leaving office. Terraxos (talk) 13:37, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnecessary information in lead 

message: The Nov 2008 election is far over.  Who agrees it's time to move this presidential endorsement to a latter part of Wilson's article, or even remove them all together as they have little importance considering he's a Republican who endorsed another Republican. (go figure, right?)  Zpowers (talk) 22:40, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move/remove Presidential Endorsements from Opening Text 

message: Is it true on the end of his second term as state governor, the Gallup/AP poll on January 1998 listed his approval rating was at a whoppoing 70 percent? That would made him the third most liked or popular governor after George Deukmejian before Wilson and Ronald Reagan in between Edmund Brown and his son Jerry Brown who's running for governor in 2010. It is often said by political critics that the failed governor Grey Davis was Wilson's colleague, the 2003 governor recall election campaign warning voters that electing (the current governor) Arnold Schwarzenegger was like "bringing back Wilson" and same is now going out about the candidate for governor Meg Whitman. I just mentioned all the California state governors in the past 50 years (1960-2009) who should taken responsibility for the mismanagement of the state and a major negative influence in the US government as well. + 71.102.11.193 (talk) 12:21, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
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message: Would an interview with Pete Wilson from 1987 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A646AB79222F449EBD278C5392EBE716 (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 21:59, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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