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If Jonestown still happens, but for some reason(Dan White has his "WTF am I doing?" moment, or gets stopped by city hall security, or is on too much of a sugar-buzz to shoot straight), Harvey Milk and George Moscone don't get murdered a week later, what, if any, are the Jonestown-related implications for the political careers of those two men?

I'm thinking mostly of Moscone, because I think he was the most closely linked to Jim Jones, having relied heavily on People's Temple for campaign activists, and of course appointing the Rev to that housing commission. Are his political prospects in the '79 election seriously impaired?

One of the things I recall from The Mayor Of Castro Street is that Moscone WAS politically vulnerable after Jonestown, and that Harvey Milk was well aware of this, the implication being, I think, that this encouraged Milk to press Moscone against reappointing White, since Moscone couldn't afford to piss off his gay and liberal constituencies.

Shilts also includes a quote from Milk, seemingly meant to emphasize his distrust of the Temple, though it seems a little ambiguous, something along the lines of "I accept help from their volunteers, but I don't want to get too close to them, because they're all nuts." Not quite an unequivocal denunciation.
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