threat the city neighborhoods were pete with pollitz mansions, the grounds that look like parks and been made water features, a large enough to bathe a small family of elephants, but up against new housing tracts that looked decidedly lower middle class. no, transition, no buffer zones, no gates, just a pronounced difference from one side or one and up the street to the other. this is the district that tierney cahill was trying to represent, a district just independent, libertarian, hard to describe it. yeah they were republicans but they were certainly taken by this teacher. ms. cahill, perhaps every story should have a happy ending. in this case, he struck up a relationship with your opponent's wife and in the end the happy ending is the opponent comes to school to celebrate with you. tell us about that. >> guest: i e-mailed my opponents why. she was a state legislator in nevada, assemblywoman and i was really looking for help. one of my students won an essay contest on what it means to be an american and she helped us with a number of issues, and we ended up being great friends. she i