What candidate went to Jonestown?
Jackie Spier was also there as a part of Leo Ryan’s investigation, and has been a successful candidate and politician in California since then. It does seem dirty pool to cast the investigators as “followers”. Jim Jones was very influential in local San Francisco politics before he left for Guyana, serving on local commissions and turning out the votes for the progressive machine here. Most politicians were keeping their distance, though, by the time he went to South America, as I understand it.
Megafly: Again, here’s the line in question- A candidate who followed the “Rev.” Jim Jones to a Kool-Aid resort in Guyana (don’t forget that this did actually happen) If he hadn’t made a point of reminding his readers that this was an actual event, then there would be no reason to ask who he was referring to in the first place.
