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in the Democratic primary. It meant nothing to be the Liberal party candidate against the Liberal party's desires.

At the polls Henry Stern, who was then not a friend of mine but a very active Liberal party person, at the counting of the ballot challenged four of the votes that I would have gotten and those four votes made a difference between winning and losing. They were phony challenges in my judgment, but the challenges having been made, it brought me under the number that Passannante had. Maybe he had 135 to 134, something like that -- whereas if my four votes had been correctly counted, I would have won the Liberal party. I was happy that Henry had done this even though I didn't know Henry the simply because I didn't want to win the Liberal party. But the Republican Assembly candidate, whose name was Jerry Ulman, brought an action against the board of elections to have me declared the Liberal party winner because it was to his advantage as a Republican to have a third candidate on the machine in November. And I had to go into court here bating Bill Passannante and go into court and say to the court: “Oh, no, Your Honor. The board of elections? Who would ever think that they would steal elections? Definitely not, Your Honor. I didn't win this Liberal party election.” (laughs) It was a great reversal of roles. What happened was that the court designated Passannante as the winner of that Liberal party write-in primary, in which I had run against him. All right, that's that aspect of it.