S. F. ELECTION AFTERMATH

THE CONVINCING 50,000 PLURALITY BY WHICH THE SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS RE-ELECTED MAYOR GEORGE CHRISTOPHER WOULD INDICATE THAT RUSSELL L. WOLDEN "QUEERED" HIS CHANCES WITH HIS MISGUIDED ATTEMPT TO BRING SEX DEVIATION FORWARD AS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE.

REGISTRAR OF VOTERS THOMAS A. TOOMEY NOTED THAT APPROXIMATELY 9,000 VOTERS WHO CAST BALLOTS IN THE ELECTION ABSTAINED WHEN IT CAME TO THE MAYORALTY RACE.

TWO OF ASSESSOR WOLDEN'S PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN AIDES EXCHANGED ANGRY VERBAL BRICKBATS IN THE WAKE OF THEIR CANDIDATE'S THUMPING DEFEAT. ADOLPH SCHUMAN, WEALTHY DRESS MANUFACTURER AND A TOP FINANCIAL BACKER, DECLARED HE WOULD "NEVER AGAIN PARTICIPATE IN A CAMPAIGN IN WHICH MR. HARRY LERNER IS CAMPAIGN MANAGER."

MR. SCHUMAN FAILED TO SPECIFY WHY THOUGH IT WAS KNOWN THAT BOTH HE AND HOTELMAN BEN SWIG WERE "DISMAYED" WHEN VOLDEN CHARGED THAT SAN FRANCISCO IS A "HAVEN FOR HOMOSEXUALS".

LERNER WAS QUICK TO RETORT, "I HAD NO CHANCE TO RUN A CAMPAIGN, NR. SCHUMAN AND MR. SWIG STARVED THE CAMPAIGN. BOTH WERE DEFINITE LIABILITIES."

TAKING OF DEPOSITIONS FROM MR. WOLDEN AND WILLIAM BRANDHOVE BY WALTER WINTER, ATTORNEY IN THE NATTACHINE SOCIETY'S $1,103,500 SLANDER SUIT, HAS BEEN POSTPONED,

THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY AND DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS HAVE IN NO WAY SUFFERED AS ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE ELECTION "SMEAR". ACTUALLY THE PUBLICITY BROUGHT THE GROUPS TO THE ATTENTION OF POTENTIAL MEMBERS WHO HAD NOT OTHERWISE BEEN AWARE OF THEIR EXISTENCE.

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