Adventures with Gil Gutknecht

The good people at Wikipedia recently caught Republican Rep. Gil Gutknecht editing his entry in the most hilarious of ways.

When he was swept into office in the 1994 takeover, Gutknecht made a promise to get out within 12 years. Well, here we are in 2006 and he's running for election again, against his word. So what does he do? You guessed it, he edits his Wikipedia entry (which mentions that pledge) in an attempt to strike it from the record. Amusingly, Wikipedia was tipped off and put the kabash on that plan.

According to Wikipedia (which now mentions the incident in his entry):

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Gutknecht's office twice -- on July 24 and August 14, 2006 -- removed a 128-word section in the Wikipedia article on him, replacing it with a more flattering 315-word entry taken from his official congressional biography. Most of the removed text was about the 12-year term-limit Gutknecht imposed on himself in 1995

Read the story in the Star Trib here.

And, to be fair, here's the Wikipedia entry of Democratic challenger Tim Walz.

h/t to Bluestem Prairie

-Aaron