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and I'm really number one legislator on this whole issue. I've pre-empted it -- with Javits -- the decriminalization, and also the Oregon approach, which is a civil fine. And my secretary in Washington, Diane Coffey, sent him a letter -- I dictated it -- which said, “No, I do not go on as an advisory member on any board. I don't want it.” Because you can never tell what a board will do, and there's your name. Look at Bella Abzug. And I especially don't want to go on as an advisory member of a militant organization that's engaged in activism, because they're going to send letters out that I'm not going to agree with. But that's the nature of activism, and I'm a legislator, and I have a different role. I don't want to be on a letter that may be too militant and too activist from my point of view and take way-out positions, which is perfectly okay from an organization and an organization that I'm working very closely with, but still not necessarily reflective of my point of view.

Well, he called up Diane and he's furious. “What does Koch mean, he won't go on?” and she called me just to be sure that I still maintained that position. I said, “Fuck him! I don't go on militant organizations’ letterheads as an advisory member.” We use a facade in responding to all these groups -- I get a lot of them, requests. The response is: “I have a policy, which is not to go on the letterhead or on any board of any