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This New York Times article made public the findings of the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission, a committee that had been created specifically to investigate the MOVE bombing. While concluding that the bombing was "excessive" and "life-threatening", the Commission did not explicitly recommend charges to be filed against any city officials. The publishing of these findings reflected very poorly on Wilson Goode, who would run for re-election in 1987. His opponent, former Mayor Frank Rizzo, ran an ad that said, "Wilson Goode dropped a bomb on a Philadelphia neighborhood. Do you want him running your city?" Articles like this one made sure that the bombing would never completely leave the memory of Philadelphians.