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which is a lot of money. That's the most I ever got from anybody.

From any single contributor.

Yes. The average would be $100. A lot of people give less than $100. That may not be the average. That may be what you'd call the median.

The typical contributor would be the $100 contributor.

Exactly. And three or four or five $1000 contributions from very rich people who like me. It's hard to raise money. David Brown helped enormously. He knew a lot of rich people. I did not know them. I just didn't know them. It's hot hard anymore -- for Congress very hard for mayor. That's all I can tell you.

Would your finance chairman also have a small committee?

Oh, yes, he'd put a lot of people together. I'm going to tell you one more story, but then we've got to stop.

Joan Davidson. She was one of the finance committee people, and in several of my races, but she's really a horse's ass and very unkind. In one race -- the race for mayor -- she told me she wanted to help. Good. But when I called her for the money that she had pledged, which was $500, she kept putting me off, and we were in desperate straits. It's so demeaning to have