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live in the district.” I said, “Definitely. The law requires you to be a resident in the district.” “Well, I can get this apartment, so I could have the two residences.” Because she didn't want to give up this really nice place. I said, “Listen, I'm going to give you my advice, then you do whatever you want to do. Listen to your lawyer. If you do not really move, and if the residence that you're taking is in a sense a phony residence, a technical residence, you're going to get your ass thrown off the ballot, because Goodman will go after you.” She said, “My lawyer told me that.” So I said, “Well, listen to your lawyer.”

Okay. I leave. She didn't ask me whether I would support her. I see her a couple of weeks later and she says to me at a party which is at Carol Hauserman's house, 40 Central Park South, “Ed, I've decided to run. I hope you'll support me.” And I said to her, “Who are the other candidates? I'll have to have lunch with them. And then we can discuss it.” She's a little bit taken aback, really taken aback.

She subsequently arranges to come in and see me, because she has been told, as she says to me, that “yours is the single most important endorsement in this race. And I know that you're angry, but I'd like you to know that I want your support.” So I said to her, “Joan, I'm a right up-front guy, and I'll tell you exactly what I think. I never volunteer it. But you ask me -- I tell you. In your race, I will do for you what you did for