803:"n 1980, sculptor Robert Arneson was commissioned to create a monument to Moscone to be installed in the new Moscone Convention Center. The bust portraying Moscone was done in Arneson's expressionistic style and was accepted by San Francisco's Art Commission. Arneson included as part of the decoration on the pedestal the likeness of a pistol that gained public disapproval. At issue were references to Harvey Milk, the assassinations, the "Twinkie Defense", the White Night riots, and Dianne Feinstein's mayoral succession. Arneson refused to make alterations to the work, the commission was returned to him, and it was later resold. In a critique of the event, Frederic Stout wrote that "Arneson's mistake was in presenting the city mothers/fathers with something honest, engaging and provoking, that is to say, a work of art. What they wanted, of course, was not a work of art at all. They wanted an object of ritual magic: the smiling head of a dead politician." In 1994, a new bust by San Francisco artist Spero Anargyros was unveiled, depicting Moscone holding a pen, below which are words from Moscone: "San Francisco is an extraordinary city, because its people have learned to live together with one another, to respect each other, and to work with each other for the future of their community. That's the strength and beauty of this city – it's the reason why the citizens who live here are the luckiest people in the world."
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I centralised the material from this and the willie brown article into the People's temple article, under public support. It's a weight and relevance concern in these two articles, because it is unduly long and out of proportion to the politicians' legacies. Jones had widespread public support from
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Why does this article claim
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I'm in the process of reviewing historical documents as I prepare an article on the
California firm currently known as Hanson Bridgett LLP. Among the documents are timesheets for George Moscone dated 1969 through 1973. His title is given as Associate. I'm trying to work out how this four-year period
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I took out "so-called" as needless and not objective. It implies that the name
Peoples Temple was somehow not genuine, or not fitting. The former is simply wrong -- Peoples Temple was, in fact, the organization's name (leaving aside apostrophal quibbles). The latter is an opinion, and an opinion
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I was really surprised to find this essentially out of the article until I added it. It was one of the defining and most controversial things of
Moscone's career, and his main concern (by far) at the time of his death, with allegations about his connections with Jones swarming on the massive
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Please stop arbitrarily deleting entire sections. As it stands now, you have actually deleted the section on the man potentially responsible for
Moscone's 1975 election victory (per just about every source that has written on the issue) and San Francisco's "9-11", the Jonestown
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Moscone was an associate here, but was under the impression that he left the firm at the time he became mayor.
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I agree, this article has some strong anti-Feinstein commentary that would mislead anyone who doesn't know that
Feinstein wasn't party to the assasination or that she tried to save Milk and later introduced the anti assault weapons bill partly because of this.
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I just cut down the section and moved it to a subsection of the prior section. Hopefully, this will address any "weight" concerns within the article. The idea of "relevance" concerns is, frankly, odd given the subject, its huge weight and the actual events.
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There is no discussion about this article, and the controversy is not apparent from the edits. I removed the NPOV tag. The article needs some editing for structure, but I don't see anything contentious. If things are otherwise, feel free to explain.
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