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have -- I think my net worth is about $60,000; that includes the surrender value of my life insurance policies -- and spend it on the race. If people will support me and put up the money for it if they think I should be elected -- but I'm not going to be elected. I didn't have any problems with Congress simply because at this point I don't even have to spend the money that we're spending. In the last election we spent $58,000. That was ten times what the Republican spent. He only spent $5000.

In an effort to defeat you. And who was the Republican candidate last time?

John Boogaarts, a number one jerk. But you can't run a race based on what somebody else is going to spend. In my first race they outspent me three to one. In the third race they outspent me -- my recollection is that Jane Pickens Langley spent something like $125,000, and we spent around $80,000. So the fact that Boogaarts was only able to raise $5000 -- I didn't know how much he was going to raise; it means that nobody wanted to give him any money; it was like a hopeless race from their point of view. They didn't want to put money into it, and I suppose they didn't want me to have the feeling: “Why is he against me?” That's the other thing about being an incumbent. People don't want to take on incumbents with public support of the insurgent if there's no chance of winning, unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool party member, so to speak, or Republican who