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doesn't care and is proud of helping the party candidate. But you can't depend on that. I suspect I won't be spending that much money this time. But that again will depend on who's going to be running against me. At this moment I don't know who that is.

Was that $80,000 campaign your most expensive one?

No. In the first election we spent a total of $100,000 or maybe $98,000. We spent $80,000 plus about $12,000 for the primary. That's the most expensive we've ever had. But the total was a little over 90 because of the primary.

Could you comment a little more on your fund-raising? How do you go about it? What kind of people support you financially?

Well, I'm really not into the statistics, and what I'm saying may not be accurate, but this is my gut reaction based on what I think happens, because I don't raise the money. I'm terrible as a fund-raiser and I leave it to the campaign treasurer and the people who want to help me. David Margolis has become a very good friend of mine. He's now on that Emergency Mayoralty Board. I said to him when he was appointed: “I couldn't make it, David, but you did. You're one-seventh mayor now.” He was my chairman in one of my campaigns. has always provided funding. The maximum he ever gave was $4000,