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-- 68.192.222.87 21:22, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)tom bradley 68.192.222.87 21:22, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)-- Tom Bradley site
Tom Bradley WAS NOT the first African-American mayor of a major American city -- Carl Stokes of Cleveland was. He was elected in 1967, five years before Bradley became mayor of L.A.
For a guy that was mayor of a major city for 20 years, this article is pretty spartan. Lantoka 07:10, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Everyone loved Tom Bradley; he smiled, kissed babies, was charming, went to dinner parties with the most important people in town, had enormous charisma, and offended no one. He avoided controversy and never pushed for issues that would offend anyone. That's the reason you don't see a section with a long list of his accomplishments.
HI —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.143.222 ( talk) 00:08, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Omar Ahmad (American politician) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 22:30, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering why his time in the LAPD is categorized under military service? The police aren't the military. It should be listed instead under either "Law enforcement career" or "civil service" or something like that, but he wasn't in the military, he was a police officer.
Many people are champions of acceptance and integration, but few are invited to make a cameo appearance in a feature-installment of a TV series where integration was a central theme. Mr. Bradley had a cameo in Alien Nation: Dark Horizon. Few politicians are so widely (or wildly) popular as to have their name given positive inclusion in the script of a contemporary sit-com, but Mr. Bradley was adored by the character Roger Thomas in What's Happening (in contrast to former Presidents Ford and Carter who were not so adored in that series). Granted, not every detail of a person's life can be included in the few bytes afforded to a wiki article, but these media appearances are relevant because they demonstrate the significance of his cultural impact, perhaps more effectively than dry names, dates, and the broad strokes commonly presented in encyclopedic entries. Should they be included? 104.153.219.203 ( talk) 10:37, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
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I wonder what does the J stand for ? Let me know if you find more information. ( 725edwards 5:53, February 13, 2019 (CST).
There are countless California mayors whose party affiliation is listed in the lede despite technically being a nonpartisan office. And the wording I added did not imply that he was elected to a partisan office, it just listed his party affiliation. You’re welcome to take the time to delete party affiliation from hundreds of other ledes if you think other users would allow that, but I don’t see any reason to specifically exclude it from this specific article. I’m willing to listen to your thoughts if you think there is a good reason though. — 169.234.216.238 ( talk) 02:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved to Tom Bradley (mayor). Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 14:45, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
– Tom Bradley is the most notable historical individual with the name per Wikipedia:Article titles. Every other Los Angeles Mayor is deemed noteworthy enough to not have the (American politician) parenthesis afterwards. Bradley is LA's longest-serving and most significant Mayor, overseeing its transformation from a conservative white city to a liberal Latino-plurality one. We can drop the (American politician) here. Plumber ( talk) 01:18, 3 December 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky ( talk) 05:31, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
The article twice indicates Bradley played football at UCLA. This is incorrect. The “Black Bruins” book cited never makes that claim, and Bradley himself confirms that he intended to play football when he enrolled but then changed his mind. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-02-sp-28609-story.html Jsmathematics ( talk) 11:53, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
The lead refers to Bradley at least twice as "the first liberal mayor" of Los Angeles. According to whom? This seems subjective to me rather than something that should be stated as objective fact. Presidentman talk · contribs ( Talkback) 20:18, 29 May 2024 (UTC)