Clinton St. Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 3 Fall 1979 (Portland) | Fall 1979 /// Issue 3 of 41 /// Master# 3 of 73

Junk Food Makes You Kill By Michelle Hall Williams Mayor George Moscone. Re-loading his gun, Dan White proceeded Do you sometimes feel withdrawn? through City Hall to the office of his Lacking energy because of your poor former colleague, San Francisco diet and irregular sleeping habits? Do Supervisor Harvey Milk. Supervisor you sometimes refuse tb shave and Milk smirked at ex-Supervisor White. instead lie in bed for hours on end? Dan White maimed and executed Get moody and depressed? Do you Harvey Milk, then drove to a nearby sometimes feel frustrated by your Doggie Diner and called his wife. financial and personal problems? Eat * * * Twinkies, cupcakes and Three Mile Island Chocolate Bars? Dan White became the first person Well, bubie, you may be mentally to test California’s new special cirill. Able to murder with impunity. cumstances death penalty law: murder of a public official, with intent. Dan * * * White was all for the death penalty Take your all-American rigidly last fall; this spring, his defense lawyer moral upbringing and (shove it? No.) was not. couple it with the paramilitary backThe defense said Dan White ground of being a boy scout, cop and cracked under pressure. He didn’t fireman. Win a local election and dis- ' mean to kill anyone. He was mentally cover that the world or urban politics ill. The defense played a tape of his is unfair. Suffer stress and pressure/ anguished and dramatic confession. Eat junk food, triggering a bioPeople wept. The defense trotted in a chemical change in your brain. Quit prominent Marin County psychiatrist your job as a San Francisco Superwho said, “ It is possible to lose your visor because your wife just had a grip on basic information if you are baby, your french fry stand is failing sufficiently emotionally discombobuand you need more money. Change lated.” Yes, discombobulated. your mind and want your job back. Continue an exclusive diet of junk * * * food. * *• * The jury agreed. Voluntary manslaughter. No intent. Diminished On the morning of November 27, capacity, in fact. Aggravated by an 1978, ex-San Francisco Supervisor exclusive diet of junk food. Dan Dan White went to see the Mayor White’s just deserts? Eight years max. about a job. He took a gun and a But I know he did it. Next time you pocket full of bullets to City Hall and visit the Bay Area, I’ll take you to the crawled in a basement window to Dan White Memorial. It’s his french avoid the main entrance metal fry stand near Fisherman’s Wharf. detectors. Called the “Hot Potato." You’d better Failing his interview, Dan White come soon as the last time I passed by. maimed and executed San Francisco business was real slow. ONE MORE TIME IMAGE CONSULTANTS KyNG HARVEST NATURAL FOODS AN ALTERNATIVE CLOTHING STORE FOR MEN & WOMEN 1114 N.W. 21st 223-4167 6

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