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It's Victor Kovner. So I didn't take the call. I said, “I'm not going to take this call because he just wants to persuade me again and unnerve me, I suppose, and who needs it? I've made up my mind. I'll call him after the show,” and I don't speak with him until I get back here to my house. And I call up Victor and he laughs and I say, “What did you think, Victor?” and he says, “Well, it's done. I wish you hadn't done it. And Sarah says I'm to tell you you are not to speak to her for at least ten days.” (laughs) Okay. My workers are upset, but they don't leave me, which was nice -- it was to their credit in a way. They wanted me to win; I am the candidate, although there's a primary that year between McKane, who is thinking of running now in 1976 for Andy Stein's Assembly seat, against Jim Capalino, who happens to be my administrative assistant in the community, who is also thinking of running for Andy Stein's seat. There's one other guy who's running and that's Paul Rao, Jr.

So McKane, who is not a nice guy -- I don't blame him for this particularly but I don't like him --, immediately seized on the McCarthy thing because that's obviously to his advantage. And so his whole poster operation was directed at his relationship with or support of McCarthy. His poster reads: “McCarthy needs McKane.” (laughs) Well, it developed that it didn't mean anything, but it worries you, and also I wanted to be sure