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It was [[Willie Brown]], the mentor of [[Kamala Harris]], who first recognized that Jim Jones’s organization could play a pivotal role in  [[George Moscone]]’s run for mayor. Jones filled buses with temple members in Redwood Valley and [[Los Angeles]] and shuttled them to San Francisco. Voting procedures were [[liberal]], and many nonresidents were able to cast their ballots for Moscone, some more than once. ‘You could have run around to 1200 precincts and voted 1200 times,’ said Moscone's opponent after losing by a whisper of a margin.  Temple leaders claimed credit for Moscone's win.<ref>''[https://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/jim_jones_sinister_grip_on_san_francisco/ Jim Jones' sinister grip on San Francisco:] How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive icons, David Talbot, ''[[Slate]]'', May 1, 2012.</ref>  The new mayor appointed Jones chairman of the Housing Commission Authority, making Jones the largest landlord in the city.  

It was [[Willie Brown]], the mentor of [[Kamala Harris]], who first recognized that Jim Jones’s organization could play a pivotal role in  [[George Moscone]]’s run for mayor. Jones filled buses with temple members in Redwood Valley and [[Los Angeles]] and shuttled them to San Francisco. Voting procedures were [[liberal]], and many nonresidents were able to cast their ballots for Moscone, some more than once. ‘You could have run around to 1200 precincts and voted 1200 times,’ said Moscone's opponent after losing by a whisper of a margin.  Temple leaders claimed credit for Moscone's win.<ref>''[https://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/jim_jones_sinister_grip_on_san_francisco/ Jim Jones' sinister grip on San Francisco:] How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive icons, David Talbot, ''[[Slate]]'', May 1, 2012.</ref>  The new mayor appointed Jones chairman of the Housing Commission Authority, making Jones the largest landlord in the city.  

''[[Salon]]'' magazine says, {{quotebox|“no political figures were more gushing in their praise of Jones than Willie Brown and [[Harvey Milk]], San Francisco’s rising tribune of gay freedom. Milk, a perennial candidate for office until he finally won a supervisor’s seat in 1977, aggressively sought Jones’s political blessing. ‘Our paths have crossed,’ Milk wrote Jones during an earlier campaign for supervisor, in a letter filled with the kind of awed reverence that the cult leader demanded from his followers. ‘They will stay crossed. It is a fight that I will walk with you into . . . The first time I heard you, you made a statement: “Take one of us, and you must take all of us.” Please add my name.’”<ref>''[https://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/jim_jones_sinister_grip_on_san_francisco/ Jim Jones' sinister grip on San Francisco:] How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive icons, David Talbot, ''[[Slate]]'', May 1, 2012.</ref>}}

''[[Salon]]'' magazine says, {{quotebox|“no political figures were more gushing in their praise of Jones than Willie Brown and [[Harvey Milk]], San Francisco’s rising tribune of gay freedom."<ref>''[https://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/jim_jones_sinister_grip_on_san_francisco/ Jim Jones' sinister grip on San Francisco:] How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive icons, David Talbot, ''[[Slate]]'', May 1, 2012.</ref>}}

===Jerry Brown===

===Jerry Brown===