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you've got three kids and that I'm single? I consider that an outrage. That's got to be removed from the literature.” He said, “That's ridiculous.” I said, “Well, I demand arbitration.” (laughs) You have to understand: there's no time for arbitration. By the time we have arbitration, the election is over, but he had agreed to it. He begins to scream. I said, “Mike, I will not permit this literature, which violates our agreement, to be published. Send it over to the arbitrators.” He had used the process of arbitration with the American Arbitration Association, as I recall it. And it's very involved. It would take months to get them to come up with a decision. So he said, “There is no time for that. I tell you what we'll do. You write your side of the literature, and we'll print it the way you think you ought to be displayed.”

You have to understand what this meant. We took his literature his column was left unchanged except I think he removed the family status, but everything else staved in there, and we wrote my credentials on his literature. So if he had 125 pieces of legislation, I had 137 community projects next to it. On election day I was handing out his literature. You have to understand: it was so good for me.

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How did you get copies of that?





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