You know what galls me about Spiers? She knew the Democrats in SF are how Jimmie Jones got all his people and his power. Since the days of the Guyana Massacre, and reading her initial reactions, post 9-11; I’ve always wondered how much she knew before Leo and the Two Reporters flew down there. Leo Ryan was a decent man. There used to be some decent Democrats in CA. I don’t consider Spiers one of these.
All decency went out of the SF Democrat party when the People’s Temple bussed their people in from Ukiah to vote Moscone over the top.
I don’t think she had any advance knowledge of what was going to go down in Guyana - she’d have been far, far away.
I’ve spoken with her (I’m no longer banned from town hall meetings as I was under Lantos - for now). She’s an intelligent person but I cannot for the life of me understand her reasoning. You would think that after what happened in Guyana, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the hemisphere, she would understand that guns exist and all gun control does is keep law abiding people from protecting themselves. Instead she has this ‘would that there were no guns all would be right in the world’ attitude that is impervious to reasoning. It’s a classic example of a liberal failing to recognize that reality doesn’t bend to their preconceptions and being oblivious to the law of unintended consequences.