merson. allen merson. merson is the person is what they used to say.e was endorsed by all sorts of people. everyone from "the new york times" to "reader's digest." so you begin to get some kind of a view as how part of the world looked at the colorado delegation that they were a little out of touch because you didn't get the "reader's digest" real often, you know, and these things. so he -- and he did win, but he then went on to lose to jim johnson. my dear husband was in a law firm that was nice and quiet. floyd haskell was one of his partners. and jim started out as the campaign manager for floyd haskell's senate race against gordon allette. and basically on an antiwar thing. so that was fine, and i baked cookies and we went to the opening. and then as things developed, i ended up running against mccavitt. so jim had to drop out. it kind of blew up the whole law firm because the other law partner was mr. tweety, and his wife had these damn horses that were winning. tweety did say to me that the difference between a horse race and a political race was