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After Congressman [[Leo Ryan]] announced that he would investigate [[Jonestown]] following the November 1978 elections, Willie Brown was still planning a fund raising dinner for the Temple that was to be held on December 2, 1978.<ref>{{cite book |last=Richardson |first=James |url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0m3nb07q |title=Willie Brown: A Biography |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |year=1997|isbn=978-0-585-24985-8}}</ref>
After Congressman [[Leo Ryan]] announced that he would investigate [[Jonestown]] following the November 1978 elections, Willie Brown was still planning a fund raising dinner for the Temple that was to be held on December 2, 1978.<ref>{{cite book |last=Richardson |first=James |url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0m3nb07q |title=Willie Brown: A Biography |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |year=1997|isbn=978-0-585-24985-8}}</ref>
Brown continued to praise Jones after the mass suicide, feeling that attacks on Jones were attacks on the black community. Brown stated he had "no regrets" over his past association the Temple and that he would not dissociate himself from it like other politicians. "They all like to say, 'Forgive me, I was wrong', but that's bulls—t. It doesn't mean a thing now, it just isn't relevant."<ref>Richardson, James, [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0m3nb07q/ ''Willie Brown A Biography''], University of California Press, 1996, p. 252 {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybaoie8?url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0m3nb07q/ |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref>
==Kamala Harris==
==Kamala Harris==