as things developed, i ended up running against mccovitt. jim had to drop out of haskell's -- it blew up the whole law firm, actually. the other law partner was mr. tweety and his wife had these damn horses that were winning. so tweety did say to me the difference between a horse race and a plit wall race was in a horse race, the whole horse ran. but he was a republican, yeah. so again, all these partners who were democrats running out there, so what could he do? door, dear thing. he was a very popular guy that we'd had reapportionment and they had made these districts poefl as safe as possible for them. and we had an ugly primary and stuff. i really never thought i'd win or i probably wouldn't have run. everybody kept saying -- jim was on the committee looking for someone to run and everybody they went to said, are you kidding? mcgovern's running that year, he doesn't have coattails, he's wearing a bikini! which was true. so he kind of came and said, you know, just do it, we'll tell the kids what you did when you get old be -- you know. the