Jimmy is not Wikipedia. What about that is hard to understand?
I would have agreed with you half a year ago. But Jimbo decided there would be a SOPA blackout, and a SOPA blackout was had. And every press article that mentions his campaign for O'Dwyer has the obligatory "Wikipedia founder" label. Whether you like it or not, Wikipedia is now associated with that effort in the public's eye, for better or worse.
Yes, you can argue it's his right to act as an individual, it's not his fault that the press describe him as the Wikipedia founder, etc.