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Jews on Central Park West who will vote for me, take them away and gave me 65,000 Puerto-Ricans, who when they do vote vote Democratic but don't vote in proportion to their numbers and therefore there is a fall-off in my support which benefits the Republicans. It hasn't turned out that way. The Republicans have suffered each election more and more.

And also this part of the west side that they carved out was part of the mainstay of the Democratic reform movement, whereas what they added -- there was no reform activity to speak of.

None at all, correct. That's absolutely correct. Well, I think I've given you the lines.

You've mentioned it didn't work out the way the Republican strategists had hoped.

Well, let me break in. I was in touch always with the Republican leadership on this, the county leader's law chairman, And through him Albano because Steingut was not a friend of mine and I worried more about what Steingut and Blumenthal would do to me in terms of the lines than I worried about what Albano would do to me, because there was no chance of a Republican coming back. The real question was: would they