was his partner and he started as the campaign manager for floyd has kel's sunset race against gordon allen on an anti-war thing. that was fun and i baked cookies and we went to the opening. then as things developed, i ended up running against mccovet, so jim had to drop out -- it blew up the whole law firm, because the other law parltener was mr. tweedy and his wife had these damned horses that were winning. tweed why did say to me the difference between a horse race and political race was in a horse race the whole horse ran. he was a republican. yeah. so he had all of these partners that were democrats running out there. poor dear thing. i ended up running against mccovett, they had made the districts hopefully as safe as possible for them and ugly primary and stuff and never thought i would win. jim was on the committee looking for someone to run and everybody i went to said, are you kidding? mcgovern is wearing a bikini, not wearing coattails, which was true. he kind of came and said, just do it. we'll tell the kids what you did when you get older -- well, the rest is history, we ended