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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.movies
Subject: Re: The NEG&LFF Week #3 [Times of Harvey Milk]
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 14:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 14:17:39 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1425@shark.UUCP> hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) writes:
>Dan White, who assassinated Harvey Milk and
>Frank Moscone, was not just a fireman, he was an ex-city councilor.
>Besides being homophobic, he was not particularly good at the kind of dirty
>politics which Milk (a master of the fine art of kicking his enemies in the
>political crotch) and Moscone (who became a paragon unrivalled by anyone
>short of the Kennedys after he died) used to get rid of him.

If you are going to tell the story, please make some attempt to make it
complete.  Dan White was once a policeman, once a fireman, and resigned
from the Board of Supervisors a few days previous to murdering Milk and
Moscone, with the claim that he needed to spend his time running his
business as he could not support his family on a Supervisors pay.  It was
then the job of the Mayor to appoint a replacement for him until the
next election.  Dan informed the Mayor that he wanted the job back, which
Moscone didn't want to do, as Moscone was a liberal, and White was extremely
conservative.

Your slurs against Milk and Moscone are completely uncalled for.  Harvey
Milk was noted as a colilition builder, not as a dirty politition.  He
was serving in his first term as a Supervisor after running for the office
about 6 times.  District elections had just replaced the former at-large
method of electing Supervisors (which has now changed back to at-large).
Moscone was recognised as beginning to repair the damage caused to the
city by the neglect of former Mayor Alioto(?) to worry about the physical
plant (streets, sewers, parks, etc.).

Richard A. Brower		Fortune Systems
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