# Talk:Fun Lounge police raid

The claim that Governor Ogilvie lost his 1972 gubernatorial reelection bid, in part due to gay activists advocating against him, is unsupported by the evidence provided to substantiate this claim:
The first source cited states the following: 
"The raid was ordered by Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie, who went on to become governor. When he ran for re-election in 1972, Advocates of Gay Action cited the raid in an ant-Ogilvie flyer: “… people were disgraced, reputations were ruined, jobs were lost, lives were destroyed and even suicides were committed.”
The second source cited states the following:
"Ogilvie not only escaped the taint of his close association with Cain but also leveraged his aggressive tactics as sheriff, along with his well-publicized but unsuccessful prosecution of Accardo, to vault him to higher office. A Republican, he was elected Cook County board president in 1966 and governor of Illinois in a narrow victory over Democratic incumbent Sam Shapiro in 1968. In the gubernatorial campaign and in 1972, when Ogilvie lost to Dan Walker in a reelection bid,gay activists kept alive the memory of the Fun Lounge raid in urging gay and lesbian voters to reject Ogilvie."
While the Fun Lounge raid may have prompted gay and lesbian activists to mobilize voters against Ogilvie, neither source cited in the article discusses whether these efforts influenced the outcome of the election, let alone contributed to his defeat. For these reasons, I have revised two sentences to reflect the sources linked in the article:
1. Ogilvie lost his 1972 gubernatorial reelection bid, with gay activists advocating against him for his actions as Cook County Sheriff.
2. The raid prompted gay and lesbian activists to conduct outreach efforts to mobilize voters against Ogilvie during his unsuccessful 1972 reelection bid.

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