DBWI: Dan White is successful?

As i'm sure we all know, Dan White was famously arrested after breaking into San Francisco City Hall with the intent of killing George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Carol Ruth Silver, and Willie Brown. Let's say he succeeds. What now? ome of the most obvious butterflies are gonna be with White himself. IOTL, he would eventually succeed Moscone as Mayor, before his shocking (and razor-thin) election to the House of Representatives in 1984 and his tragic death from AIDS in 1986. Milk served as one of the most prominent voices against the AIDS crisis as well as one of its most high-profile victims. Who know what the lack of his advocacy could do? What about Moscone and his eventual election to Governor? Your thoughts?
 
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Dianne Feinstein was the chair of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors and next in line to become mayor. Can you imagine her as mayor?

IOTL, she did not run for reelection in 1979. I wonder what ever happened to her?
 
Dianne Feinstein was the chair of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors and next in line to become mayor. Can you imagine her as mayor?

IOTL, she did not run for reelection in 1979. I wonder what ever happened to her?
I believe she had a brief strint in the California State Senate.
 
I've heard that she tried to become Democratic Party Leader in the State Senate. Don't know much more about it than that.

Feinstein ended up going to prison for insider trading. Ironically, before she got busted she was planning on running for Congress, where the actions that landed her in prison would have been legal.

I still can't believe White bounced back from that, especially since his motive was revenge.
 
OOC: What exactly do you mean?

The real reason White wanted to kill those four officials was because he felt they double-crossed him. Milk on an adolescent psychiatric hospital White didn't want in his district and the others on an appointment to office.
 
The real reason White wanted to kill those four officials was because he felt they double-crossed him. Milk on an adolescent psychiatric hospital White didn't want in his district and the others on an appointment to office.
IC: Ah. Jesus, it is very shocking he recovered. As mentioned earlier, how would the AIDS Crisis have gone without Milk's influence or death? How would the modern Gay Rights movement have gone? He'd still be a martyr but a less high-profile one. You can bet that Gay Marriage probably won't be legal nationwide by 2008 like IOTL. We also probably wouldn't get an such an effective AIDS treatment as we got in 2006, or gotten as close to a cure ass we have now, or California being the first state to legalize Gay Marriage in 1998.
 
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IC: Ah. Jesus, it is very shocking he recovered. As mentioned earlier, how would the AIDS Crisis have gone without Milk's influence or death? How would the modern Gay Rights movement have gone? He'd still be a martyr but a less high-profile one. You can bet that Gay Marriage probably won't be legal by 2008 like IOTL. We also probably wouldn't get an AIDS cure by 2011 or California being the first state to legalize Gay Marriage in 1998.
OOC: Not sure about a cure for AIDS. Everything else is okay though.
 
OOC: Not sure about a cure for AIDS. Everything else is okay though.
OK, I changed it but, to compensate, I also moved the year of its creation a few years ahead, from 2011 to 2006. I've also decided that a cure IS very far along in development as of TTL 2017. That sound good?
 
What other things would happen? Without the increasing energization of the young Liberal base following Milk's martyrdom, would we see Al Franken's election to the Senate in 2000? Would the DEmocrats lose control of the House and Senate, as they came very close to doing IOTL, only maintaining control by about 10 seats in the House, 3 seats in the Senate? That's especially true if Gingrich manages to keep his affair under wraps ITTL? No Democrat control means no health care reform. You also probably don't get President Bill Bradley in 2000 or President John McCain/VP Colin Powell in '08.
 
Another Bump. Any ideas? Maybe something with Representative Schwarzenegger?
 
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