(Three candidates are on the ballot: the machine candidate Joe Harrison (Earle S.Dewey), McMurphy, and Willie Stark.)During whistle-stop campaigning for the position, Willie speaks to the people about a "balanced ax program," but urns off potential voters by his wooden and leaden style and reliance on facts and statistics." Daggett had employed Bane and the mercenaries to secure diamond mining rights in West Africa before bringing Bane to Gotham City, to help take-over rival Wayne Enterprises.He criticized the zealous Ensign Keith""s dismay at serving on the broken-down ship, and expressed his expectations:DeVriess: Disappointed they assigned you to a minesweeper, Keith?Keith: Well sir, to be honest, yes, sir.]In many ways, the film has become prophetic and mirrors he violence of contemporary news headlines.Notoriously, the film is linked to and may have triggered the political assassination (copy-cat) attempt by inconspicuous John Hinckley on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, illuminating his dangerous fixation on actress Jodie Foster, and resulting in the assassin""s infamous media-hero status.