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approved by the other person as not violating this code of conduct.

Now we're two weeks before the election and Seymour sends over his literature. I don't have to send mine over because I don't mention him at all. What is his literature? It's beautifully done -- he had a lot of money. It is, as I assumed it would be, a comparison of records in very nice column form; “Seymour - Koch: legislation passed -- 125 bills. sets them all forth. Koch -- one and a half bills, street name, something like that.” Then at the bottom: “family status -- married, three children, God knows what; Koch -- single.”

I get on the phone and say, “This literature isn't fair. You cannot publish it.” “What do you mean, ‘it's unfair'?” I say, “What does your 125 bills and my one and a half bills have to do with this election? I am not running on the legislation that I enacted. I am running on my community record. You are comparing apples and oranges. I consider that to be unfair. I will not permit you to use that equation. I demand that you have in that literature all of my community services -- the tenant groups that I served on pro bono and my involvement in saving Washington Square Park.” I'd give him 137 projects that I've been involved in to compare with his 125 bills. And I said, “What does your family status have to do with this election? Why should you have in your literature that you're married and