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Of note: one of the co-authors of this article, Patrick Toomey, is a US Senator (R-Pennsylvania). The fact that someone in Congress is involved in this issue in
by lmkg 5y ago
Of note: one of the co-authors of this article, Patrick Toomey, is a US Senator (R-Pennsylvania). The fact that someone in Congress is involved in this issue increases, however marginally, the odds that it will be addressed.
[edit] It appears I was mistaken, because The Hill website was also mistaken. Same name, different guy.
- yodon 5y agoAre you sure it's the same Patrick Toomey? The article describes his bio as Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project and legal Co-Counsel on the case in question. Presumably if the author were also a US Senator they would have mentioned it.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> sure it's the same Patrick Toomey Same Toomey [1]. Just a different mantel. [1] https://thehill.com/people/patrick-toomey https://thehill.com/people/patrick-toomey
- runlevel1 5y agoThey linked to the wrong person. This is the Pat Toomey that co-wrote the article: https://www.aclu.org/news/by/patrick-toomey/ https://www.aclu.org/news/by/patrick-toomey/
- lucasmullens 5y agoYou can open his bio on the site where it shows his picture and "OCCUPATION: Senator, 2011 - Present"
- lavezza 5y agoThe Hill site is wrong. The ACLU Pat Toomey is Patrick C. Toomey. Picture of him here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/ https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/ The Senator is Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. Maybe the Hill automates scanning the bylines and adds links to bios. Obviously it isn't perfect.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThe concept of using the same name for 2 different people, in the same household, has always befuddled me.
- jcranmer 5y agoI know of a family with three generations of people with same First Middle Last name, but since grandfather goes by First, father goes by First Middle and grandson goes by Middle, there's no actual confusion.
- patmorgan23 5y agoExcept where your trying to do some paperwork. Ok
- unmole 5y agoI stopped reading One Hundred Years of Solitude because I had enough of people across generations having the same damn name.
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