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Tag: The Green Papers

Were Elections Being Held Hostage?

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Sat Oct 26, 2013 at 07:13:38 PM EST
Tags: Terri Lynn Land, Gary Peters, Terry Ray Whitney, Robert James Fulner, Michigan's Class 2 U. S. Senate Seat, Federal Election Commission, 3rd Quarter campaign finance disclosure filing, 2014 U. S. Senate election in Michigan, 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, United States federal government shutdown of 2013, Wikipedia, The Green Papers (all tags)

Add "Wikipedia Contributing Editor" to the list of things I do that I don't get paid for. It started around mid-November of last year, with me noticing that a certain biographical page really needed to be updated with recent events, which I initially did anonymously (before realizing that I might as well create an account if I'm going to be doing this regularly). Of course, I'm now at the point where there's just under three dozen Wikipedia articles on my watchlist (which is steadily expanding), and the pages for Michigan gubernatorial election, 2014 and United States Senate election in Michigan, 2014 currently sit in the "top eight" on the most frequently visited pages that show up every time I open a new tab in my Google Chrome browser (right now at positions #6 and #7, respectively). I'm also doing the heavy lifting for a major restructuring of the United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan, 2014 article.

And go figure that, in the process of researching for a project that's only tangentially related, I learned a little something yesterday about yet another unnecessary snag created by the recent federal shutdown.