Talk:Charles E. Collins (politician)

Extremely Poor Sentence Structure

This page is written in an extremely poor fashion. An example follows:

Deciding to run as an independent, a group called C.U.R.E. led by Evan Mecham, a Republican former governor of Arizona, endorsed former California State Assemblyman and State Senator Don Rogers, who would later be the Presidential candidate of the American Party in the 2000 presidential election, instead of Collins and John Yiamouyiannas, formerly a candidate of Take Back America who had won 2,199 votes in the 1992 presidential election.[4] his Vice Presidential running mate Rosemary Giumarra of Porterville, California.

This so-called sentence runs to 79 words. Its length alone is enough to condemn it, but its convoluted and disjointed structure takes the issue beyond style or aesthetics: the sentence is just plain incomprehensible. Try reading it to yourself. It is impossible to understand what the author was meaning to convey, unless you go elsewhere and painstakingly research what happened in the election.

Who was deciding to run as an independent? It sounds like C.U.R.E. was trying to run as an independent, but that can't be the case because organizations can't run for office. Was it Don Rogers who made the decision? It sounds like it could be referring to him, also, but from the subject of the article and the preceding sentences it must be concluded on a common sense basis that Charles Collins made the decision; however, the sentence isn't written in a manner to properly convey that information.

Further into the sentence, at the point regarding C.U.R.E.'s nomination, more issues arise. Does the author mean to say that C.U.R.E. (led by Evan Mecham) nominated Don Rogers and John Yiamouyiannas instead of Charles Collins? Does it mean C.U.R.E. nominated Don Rogers instead of Charles Collins and John Yiamouyiannas? How does John Yiamouyiannas even factor into the situation? Was he Charles Collins's running mate, or was he another independent candidate unrelated to Charles Collins and only mentioned because C.U.R.E. also passed him over for an endorsement?

I still have no idea what the sentence is trying to say. It is completely useless.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.164.55 (talk) 13:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC) 

You're right. It might read better now. Шизомби (talk) 17:52, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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Death

I found his obit and added his dates to the article. It appears that he died in such obscurity that the only obit was the one posted on the funeral home's website - no obit in any of the regular papers in the vicinity, not even the "alternative" paper.Sussmanbern (talk) 15:39, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

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