"I Heard That" -- Jackie Speier Wins; More About FranceRochelle Metcalfebyline‚ Apr. 23‚ 2008There’s a time and season for all things! Politically speaking, congratulations to former State Senator Jackie Speier on her win to complete the term of the late Democratic Representative Tom Lantos for California’s 12th congressional district. I was in Paris, France Election Day, voted by Absentee Ballot - Speier was my choice! Jackie Speier is a very courageous lady, a fighter, a survivor! Timespan back to Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre, November 18, 1978, a time when she served as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan, and part of the November 1978 fact finding mission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the Reverend Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers in Jonestown, Guyana. As you know Peoples Temple was headquartered in San Francisco on Geary Street, where now is the U.S. Post Office. |