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first return comes in, and it's from Bella Abzug's own home election district in Greenwich Village.

You had mentioned an address, East 15th Street.

No, she had moved. She had moved over to Bank Street.

She lives down on Bank Street and still does.

Right. And when they did the reapportionment, they intentionally at her request, Rockefeller changed the lines so as to include in a real gerrymander a point which went down below 23rd Street where the district really started to take in her house at Bank and 11th Street, where she lives -- somewhere in that neighborhood -- so it's a real gerrymander just to get her house into the district, although technically you don't have to live in a district in order to run, but it's better -- people like you technically to be a resident. It's from her own home election district, and she loses. That's really startling. And the press comes running over to me -- the Times and the News -- and I'm the only other public officeholder in the whole room. Ryan wasn't even there. And they say, “Congressman, isn't this unusual? How do you explain this? Isn't it