[DogByte6RER]

The article further details how Jim Jones cultivated political alliances and close ties with then S.F. Mayor George Moscone, Supervisor Harvey Milk, then Assemblyman Willie Brown, then Supervisor Dianne Feinstein, then Governor Jerry Brown, and even the 1976 Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale campaign ... "the wild and bloody birth of San Francisco values" indeed; murderous marxist social utopianism in motion towards mass suicide and murder.

[B Knotts]

The thing about this is that all the stuff that “progressives,” especially “religious progressives,” claim to stand for was basically what Jim Jones was all about. He was the logical conclusion of their demented views.

[Carry_Okie]

For the Record: Milk and Kool-Aid

[Carry_Okie]

Urban renewal czar Justin Herman – the Robert Moses of San Francisco — had “literally destroyed the neighborhood,” observed community activist Hannibal Williams, “[and] people were desperate for solutions, something to follow.

I'd really like to know more about the particulars of this.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Vote fraud is a San Fran value?

““We loaded up all 13 of our buses with maybe 70 people on each bus, and we had those buses rolling nonstop up and down the coast into San Francisco the day before the election,” recalled Jim Jones Jr. “We had people going from precinct to precinct to vote. So could we have been the force that tipped the election to Moscone? Absolutely! Slam dunk. He only won by 4,000 votes. I’m sorry, but I’ve got to give my father credit for that. I think he did the right thing. George Moscone was a good person; he wanted what was best for San Francisco.””

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I had no idea Jane Fonda supported Jones. He was a Commie and so is she so it really should not come as a surprise.