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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: The NEG&LFF Week #3 [Times of Harvey Milk]
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 09:50:19 EDT
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The tone of "hutch"'s posting (from under what rock did he just crawl?)
should betray the author's intent.  Anyone who followed either SF politics
or the subsequent trial of White should recognize the odious nonsense
in the posting.  More detailed accounts are available (Randy Shilts'
THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET).

It's probably a waste of time answering a posting displaying such hatred
& idiocy (common these days, on the net & elsewhere), but here's one
example to show how loony the claims being made are:  George Moscone's
popularity flourished almost entirely during his lifetime.  A native
San Franciscan and Favorite Son (basketball star at an SF high school),
he was one of the most popular mayors the City's had in its long history
of flamboyant local figures.  Except for rival politicians, it was hard
to dislike Moscone; he was one of those public figures universally regarded
as a Nice Guy.  However, the bizarre homophobia of the White trial resulted
in the murdered Moscone dropping almost completely into oblivion: Feinstein
became mayor, Milk's memory was kep alive by the gay community, but the
straights seemed to forgot Moscone ever existed, a really nasty twist of
fate for the Favorite Son.  The posthumous naming of the Moscone Center
hardly makes up for this.  Moscone is apparently tainted because he was
killed along with the fag Supervisor.  I lived in Sf for an entire year
after the city hall murders and well remember the weird public response
or lack of it.

The Moscone mayoralty, an exceptional period of coalition politics, now
looks quite rosey, though, at the time, seemed less than perfect.  Now
SF is stuck with Princess Di and her tireless prudery, the splintering
of the brief political links that had been made, and the more familiar
more ideological cliches of left and right.

Hutch's whining about "dirty politics" eerily echoes the very same
infantile excuse-making that Dan White indulged in the flimsiest of 
attempts to exculpate himself from guilt in the killings.  All the 
backroom manuouverings are detailed in Shilts' book.  They aren't 
very pretty, but they're hardly exceptional in any American city.

You can crawl back under your stone, soldier. Diiiiiiiismissed!

						Ron Rizzo