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I have so many. Really I do. Both well known and not so well known politicians. I'm in a bind with this because I'm editing the final draft of a book I'm writing on this very topic. My agent doesn't want me mentioning anything to anybody about some of the stories. Because that will be the biggest hook in selling the book. Hey that rhymes!If you rewrite me this question in six months, I'll give you numerous answers, or you can buy my book. LOL. Although maybe since you're interested in this question you would like it.I'll tell you something that nobody in the world who is living besides me knows about except for my very sick father. I won't tell you what I did, which was completely legal, but I'll tell you what happened.I first started getting involved in politics after my baseball career fizzled out when I took a required class in public administration taught by a New York State assemblyman, Dan Feldman. I had never thought of law or politics being a career. Especially politics, it was never interesting to me. But Dan was a very unique politician in is extremely admirable ethics. He was in the state assembly from 1980 to 1998. He offered more than 150 laws, some of them very important ones, such as Maegans law which after we were able to appeal the initial rolling that it was unconstitutional, all 49 states then enacted their own version.do you think it was late 1997 that Chuck Schumer and announced he was running for the U.S. Senate the following year against Al D’Amato. I remember thinking at the time that he would have a very difficult chance at the feeding him because he was well-liked. But I guess Chuck had been in the house long enough, and wanted to take a shot at moving up.NYS unlike most states, which I think all states should have this provision, does not allow you to be on the ballot for different offices during the scene election cycle. So if this was the same situation in Connecticut, Schumer could still take a shot at the Senate but also be on the ballot for his almost certain reelection in the House, so he would have an infallible back up plan. He would have nothing to lose. But in New York, once he was on the ballot for the U.S. Senate, he could not run for his seat and the ninth congressional district.Now that I think about it, it was earlier than late 1987, maybe early 1987, because when he announced that, many people were encouraging them to run for the open seat. And I remember it took him a while to decide. Eventually he decided to run for the seat, and that above law also applies so he could not have the back up of his state assembly seat. It's amazing how politics is so much like the survival of the fittest amongst fish or animals. As soon as Chuck announced his run for the Senate, there was a feeding frenzy over what would be his vacancy. And as soon as Dan announced he was running for Chuck's seat, there was a feeding frenzy over filling Dan's seat.The nine congressional district at that time was gerrymandered to be about 85% democratic. So the primary was the de facto election. It was a pretty prestigious district as well, gerrymandered to also include the wealthiest areas of Brooklyn and Queens and only two people had held the seat over the last 40 or 50 years. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Holtzman.There were four people running in the primary which then was held on the second Tuesday in September. There was another member of the assembly, the only woman in the race, Melinda Katz. And there were two City Councilman, Anthony Weiner and Noach Dear. Weiner was elected to the city Council at a very young age, and before that was a top adviser to Schumer. Which is why we were all very surprised that Schumer did not endorse someone until a week before the race and it was a casual endorsement of Weiner. We also thought that he would final a lot of campaign money his way, but we couldn't see it in the FEC filings. We looks close at every quarter and it was very hard to tell where any of this money would supposedly be coming from. The maximum donation then for a federal election was $1000 for the primary and $1000 for the general. All the campaigns were excepting $2000 donations, knowing if they did not win the primary, which was the real election, they would have to return half of that.Dear was an Orthodox Jew. He had a lot of political connections with Washington as he was a very big fundraiser for the Democratic Party, while interestingly being very socially conservative. He was also alleged to have committed many financial crimes, rerouting money donated for Jewish causes into his own bank account or campaign coffers. We girl opposition research of the other three candidates, and he clearly was the one with the most negatives.At the time we broke the record in that race, for the most money combined to be raised in a congressional primary for a House seat hrough individual donations. Somewhere around five to $6 million. I think we had raised around $850,000 by the end. Dear was well over $2 million.We always thought that he was the biggest risk because of his money in because he had the endorsement of Al Gore and maybe Bill Clinton. Gore came to campaign for him twice. In all honesty I don't think Gore really knew about his seediness, just that he was a large donor to the DNC, and a loyal Democrat.Another look at the race was that there were three men who were from Brooklyn and one woman who was from Queens. Looking at it that way, it is probably what Melinda accounts was thinking I would give her an advantage. Dan who was my original political mentor, and since then we have had a falling out, as many others have with him, was on doubted Lee the most qualified. Columbia, Harvard Law school, need to Elizabeth Holtzman and Chuck Schumer, 18 year extremely accomplished Assemblyman, I mean it wasn't even close. We never had graduated with a degree not in political science but I forget what it was, from not one of the best state schools in Plattsburgh, Dear also and accomplished very little and was much more of what we called the pothole councilman. It's not necessarily derogatory, just that it means they pay much more attention to what's going on their local district and helping their constituents directly, then working on legislation City Hall for the entire city. Dan was the opposite of that. Not that he ignored his local constituents, but his main focus was legislation and was extremely good at it.Melinda Katz never really blew me away with her intellect. She did have a law degree I think from St. John's. She would also lose her assembly see and be out of a job if she did not win this, and now is actually the Queens Borough President. It is a position that has a lot of political muscle, and gives you a bully pulpit, but you are not enshrined with a lot of actual power legally.Many people we have not worked in actual politics don't realize what goes into a lot of it. They talk about, “why doesn't X run for this seat?” Well, in New York for example, just getting your name on the primary ballot was a pretty big job. I forget the number of petition signatures we needed. But it was substantial. We had a pretty good number of volunteers, so that was what they did for us mainly until the June 1 deadline. That was interesting because to be a person witnessing the petition signatures you had to have a residence in the district. I had been living in Forest Hills with my girlfriend, and assumed I was in the district as that is where Melinda was from and that is an area that was included in the district. So we got the petitions printed, and at that time since I also myself, even though we only had four paid employees including myself, was going to spend time getting signatures. That's when we looked at A detailed map of the district and realized that I was one block outside of the ninth.I guess Annette, the campaign manager, I had counted on me getting a lot of signatures, because she went into panic mode quickly. We found another way in which I could get signatures which is if I passed the test and was certified as a Commissioner of Deeds.A Commissioner of Deeds in New York City is like a notary public with more power. I never got into exactly what other things it enabled me to do legally. Something to do with being a witness to contracts in real estate closings. Actually in New York State when you become a licensed attorney you are also a notary public. So I was sent to City Hall, where I would later work quite a bit, studied for the test on the way there or on the subway, took it, passed it, and was sworn in. A stamp was made up with my name like a notary public stamp, and then I could get signatures and there were 10 or 20 on the sheet so at the bottom when one was filled up, I would sign my name and stamp it.We had A goal of at least three or four times the necessary signatures. You don't want to take any chances, because a lot of your signatures can become invalidated. A lot of them will be just because people don't know for sure what district they are in, they might lie about their name or address, and a lot of other things that would invalidate their signature if it were contested by the board of elections which would be very unusual, or another campaign, which would be much more likely if there was someone contesting it.I totally forget the number of signatures we needed, but it was quite few, in the several thousands. After the four campaigns became certified after turning in the necessary signatures, any campaign was able to get copies of another campaigns petitions to verify the signatures are valid. I don't know why we picked Dear, but his signatures were a joke. His were clearly gotten by paid employees who had no interest in the campaign self, and were being paid by the number of signatures that you got, so they would have signatures on there from people who are out-of-state that's how pathetic it was.So now we had a big dilemma about whether to spend a lot of precious time going over every signature, every address, seeing if the address is in the district, seeing if that person is a registered Democrat, and then bringing a legal challenge. Maybe because I kind of had it in my head, since the beginning this is what Dan thought, that deer was our biggest opponent, that we should spend time on this. We hired an election law expert, after spending a couple of weeks just on this. Going over signature after signature. And in the end he thought it was not worth trying this out in court and wasting even more time on this issue while everyone else was campaigning. I don't know to this day whether or not he turned in a Knouff actually valid signatures, but the board of elections certified all four of us to be on the primary ballot.By the way I'm leaving out so many interesting personal details, which would make this and less, and is what makes my book very interesting.So we had a pretty good bench of volunteers. A lot of the older women from the neighborhood who like to help out and were very sweet. In the beginning when we had no volunteers, I was driving Dan all over the place. I had a brand-new Mustang which was A surprise from my father when I graduated college. Since the middle of high school they had offered to get me some kind of car and I didn't want them to pay for something like that and I think he thought that if you told me about this, I wouldn't let him buy it for me. I don't even remember mentioning how much I liked most things, but somehow he knew. It meant so much to me, far more than the car itself.Anin d during that year, well let's say I wish you gave me the car the next year. Because I put on 42,000 miles in about four months driving Dan around, and was one of many many things I never got reimbursed for. Even though I was being paid I think it was $2000 or $2500 a month, Kelly, the deputy campaign manager, who became my girlfriend, figured out with me at the end of the campaign we had actually paid to be working there were so many things we were not reimbursed for. Would be amazed at the amount of expenses occurred a campaign of 800,000 constituents.Even early in the year when we were doing subway stops, which just means getting up very early for the morning commute and meeting voters and handing out literature and then going back in the late afternoon and doing the same thing. Very taxing. Good thing I was 24 then. But I remember even then, when I was with a different girl, she would sometimes offer to come with us at 6 AM and this was right around when the MetroCard was replacing the token and I think the first time the three of us went to do it, Dan couldn't find his metro card or something and I just swiped it off mine for all of us. Well, Dan sort of expected that to be the procedure from then on, and I guess I just didn't have the balls for lack of a better word, to say anything to him when we would go to subway stops after that and he would wait for me to take out my metro card to swipe for both of us. Just a tiny example of money I never got back. And that was really I think embarrassing on his part, especially letting me also Pay for my girlfriend to be there to help who was not being paid anything.How many trips to Staples for copies, phone bills, self own bills, rent, and then we had a separate office that was just for fun raising where we were paying a firm from Chicago to run that with another employee. It was endless. And postage. Oh my God you can't imagine how much you want up spending on postage. Although it was one of the few breaks we ever got, when do you get a bulk rate which we certainly could not afford first class stamps, the mail had to be presorted by ZIP Code usually by the volunteers, and then separated in different boxes. The place to drop that off was on the South Shore of Brooklyn by the water and the Navy Yard, close to Kennedy Airport.Kelly and I started dating around my birthday which was July 7, where I basically without an hour in between was in a separate long-term relationship. And there's a whole story to how my previous girlfriend accidentally caused me to leave her for Kelly. I had been with Roni for over five years and we were technically engaged although we never set a date. And one of the few breaks we ever got was a fundraiser held by some wealthy supporter with access to a Manhattan rooftop to hold a party. I’d bring some of my friends sometimes. And I brought Roni. Kelly if I remember correctly, got involved with Dan because her father who was a career military officer, had known him or something, and she wasn't sure what you going to do at that point. She was about a year and a half older than me. But she was thinking about law school and she had worked in politics before. So this was something she wanted to do that year.I became friendly with her mom because she would drive down from Chappaqua where they lived, I'm certain occasions to help out and when we had fun raisers like this one particular one I think in late June. I don't know how it worked out this way but somehow I was driving Kelly’s Volvo after the party with her mom and Roni. So I dropped her off at the train station to go back up to Chappaqua and I still don't know why I had her car, but now it was just the two of us driving back to Forest Hills to our apartment in Kelly's Volvo, I don't remember why, and that is when she said something which is what caused me to break up with her. She said to me that she saw how I was talking to Kelly that night and how engaged we were on some topic and she wished that we had conversations like that. And I had never consciously thought of this before, and interestingly none of my friends ever said anything or my parents whoted her mother and certainly would've liked to have seen me break up with her, and I started to think about that over the next couple of days all the time.Every time I thought about it, I thought that she was so bright and how did I not see this for five years? We started dating when I was 18 and she had just turned 17. Boy to be young again. Anyway, I think she's happily married with kids right now, and I never got married and never had kids, so maybe Roni looks back at that now and thinks she probably did the right thing. I have no idea. But within the week I had thought nothing about what she said, completely agreed with her, and thought that this would be miserable spending my life with someone that I couldn't talk about sophisticated intricate things. She had a wonderful heart, very pretty, but no way could this work for a lifetime. She was 100% right. And then I remember it was July 4 weekend. Dan asked me, in a very rare break from the campaign, if I would watch his two kids when him and his wife went somewhere that night. So we watched the kids, I had known them pretty well and liked them. Got some local Brooklyn papers to print pictures of Leah In color doing things for the campaign. They were about six and four I think back then. But it was that night that I decided that I had to break this off with her and at the same time was starting to really be attracted to Callie Innoway I wasn't before chariot probably because I never cheated on her and my head never went in that direction until now because I knew this was going to be over soon.And already in my mind I had begun to cheat on her so it made kissing her or whatever very uncomfortable for me at that point. And all I really remember was that Kelly had gone down to a wedding in Washington DC or Salt Lake City, I know they're so similar, I just can't remember which because I keep remembering her talking about Mormons. So I hadn't been nervous like this, maybe ever, because I was basically simultaneously breaking up with my fiancé and hoping that Kelly would want to start dating me. I waited in the campaign headquarters on the Sunday that I remember was July 6, the day before my birthday. The only person I told about this was a net the day before on Saturday when we were working in the office by ourselves and I really trusted her I guess because I told her about my plan. Honestly I don't think many people thought I was on the same intellectual level as Roni, but not even my best friend ever said anything like that to me. I mean it's a huge insult if you really are in love with that person, but at the same time if it's really true, the relationship is not going to work. I remember Annette saying something like, "I don't know. I think she'll either be head over heels in love with you or, I don't know.” I can't believe I was getting the most important advice of my life up until then from Annette who I only known for a couple of months. I really liked her for a while till we had a falling out also along with Kelly and her later in the year. But at that point we both really liked her so much.Wow this is bringing back memories. So on Sunday I remember Kelly saying that she was going to go to the headquarters when she got back to York and I just stayed there all day as anxious as you can get and preparing what I was going to say to her. Every minute felt like an hour. I just wanted to get it over with. And she came in A lot earlier than I expected. Dan was going to be on the beach campaigning that day but we had volunteers with him. And what happened was I think I really went overboard because without letting her see a word, when she came back in to the HQ, here I went from never showing anything but platonic friendship to basically pouring my heart out as to how she was the most interesting and amazing girl ever knew and how I want to spend time with her and how much I was thinking about her, etc.I clearly went way too far, and I think scared her off at the time. She very honestly told me that she had feelings for me but was really overwhelmed but what I said, since I did not know her really all that well. I think if I had just said to her simply that I really liked her and I didn't think things currently would work out and would she be interested in starting to go out and seeing how things went? Kelly was and I think is very independent. She had lived not visited but lived in three different Third World countries teaching English. She had done everything for herself even though she came from a fairly affluent background. So she later told me when we started having a relationship for real that I had really throwing too much of her that first day. It's hard for me not to be brutally honest about things in general, and especially with relationships. I can't lie. I've never been able to which is why I've never cheated. Well part of the reason why.So she said let's take things very slowly, and I guess the fact that she said that she had reciprocal feelings was the main thing I came away with that I was very happy about. I then had to go on the beach and this was 1998 at the beginning of cell phones, certainly before smart phones and iPhones, and back when you were being charged a lot by the minute. I had called the office a thousand times before when out with Dan or whatever and I never thought of anything the thousand times I talk to her before on the phone as it was all about business. We certainly got along and we're friends at that point, but nothing at all more than that open till that Sunday. And I remember how different it was calling her now at the office. I was calling her from the beach several times and now I was trying to interpret every tone of voice in every word, while also still trying to do campaign business. I mean I was calling her for a legitimate campaign reason although I think by dusk, I had already chipped away at some of that armor she might've put up in immediate self-defense because I think she was so shocked at what I said which probably was an overstatement. Well any guy out there who has had not a kid crush but a real crush of the person knows what that will drive you to. And to say. Not that she wasn't maybe the most interesting person I ever met, but I didn't really know that, at that point.So that evening, Annette had a few of us come over to her house. Just a pizza/beer break among the small staff is how I remember it. I think Kelly was also very wary of anything physical because she also is I think very ethical and did not want to be the person someone was having physical relations with as they were cheating, she didn't want me to be breaking up with Roni for her because that would put a lot of pressure on her I think whereas if it didn't work out either she would feel guilty or I would be upset at her or some combination that now I had no one. Which would not have happened because once Roni opened my eyes that night in the car with that statement, there was no turning back, whether or not there was a Kelly. She really had nothing to do with her. It was purely coincidental that she happened to make the remark about Kelly, and that Kelly was there with me every day and someone who I wanted to pursue a relationship with. But if she had said that same thing seeing me talking to Dan's wife, a very smart woman, it would've had the same impact on me. That I knew this would not work with Roni for a lifetime.I always wonder why it didn't hit me until that day in the car for that night in the car. I mean 5 1/2 years, I have a lot of smart friends, including my best friend who is a psychologist teaching at Princeton who I knew since 1979 and he really liked Roni. And the four of us went out often, including one of the girls he was seeing at the time, double dating. I don't know, maybe on the surface it was so apparent. I mean she wasn't an idiot. But she was just clearly on a different level of interest of things going on in the world and interesting topics that were deep and philosophical. Maybe if Jonathan, my best friend, had been dating a girl like Roni, I might not have said anything. Maybe I wouldn't have picked up on it over dinner. Maybe I would have felt uncomfortable telling that even to my best friend, possibly hurting him. Telling him that I think he's going to get tired of this vacant bimbo within a year. That's my euphemistic, politically correct way to spin it as best I can, which might be the reason I might not want to say anything. It's a really tough line to cross when you're such good friends with someone. Ironically it might be easier to say to someone that you are just casual friends with. It's kind of like an intervention of someone having a substance abuse problem or drinking too much or telling them that you think they need psychological help.Wow. I had no idea when I started this, which I still haven't gotten to the story of what I did, that I was going to detour anywhere near here. This is honestly bring up things I have not thought about in 15 years or more. This is really pouring my honest heart out here. There is a good answer to your question that's interesting and it is about Weiner so you probably do know who I'm talking about. But let me just finish this part up.So things are winding down at Annette’s, and Kelly was renting an apartment in the house about 10–12 blocks away in Brooklyn. She had had a few beers. I never drink much, I don't remember, but I wasn't drunk. And her towing the line of not wanting to be responsible for breaking us up, Roni and I, or that bit of fear I might've put into her by coming on too strong, well alcohol is a very good antidote to those barriers put up by women and men I assume but I don't know about that. We were walking back to her apartment, where I had never been. I'm not even sure where my car was. Well this is not going to be detailed, sorry to disappoint you all. I think deciphering the alcohol antidote euphemistic term, and that literally she was also inebriated, you can probably guess what happened.Well that was a life changer. I mean as I said, I had already concluded that it wasn't going to work out with Roni and I who I had been out with five and half years. But after that night, I really want to be with her, Kelly. I didn't stay over. I guess my car might've been at Annette’s and I walked back there to get it and drive home. Well there was no turning back now. And let me tell you it was not easy not cheating on her since I was 18. Not at all to glorify myself, but there were many opportunities that for whatever reason I just was pretty Morley centered in that way and I never really let it become a temp Tatian because I just wouldn't go there in my mind. It's not like after I was out somewhere with some friends in there had been a girl who is very friendly with me all night that I would be regretting it the next three days that I didn't do anything with her. I just would not have even thought about it in the first place. I don't know why I was able to do that. Roni wasn't very pretty and honestly just based on what people said around that time, including family members and friends, that I was very good-looking. Kelly would always tell me that when we went out I would have girls during their heads towards me but I never noticed anything like that.So now in my mind I was "tainted.” I could not in good conscience do anything but just literally sleep in my bed that night with her and anything more would've been me cheating on someone. I mean obviously we didn't have sex every night, so it was not crazy I would just get home that night, be very tired, and go to sleep. Happened lots of times. Probably more often than not especially during the campaign which was grueling for a 24-year-old who is in great shape.So I woke up on Monday morning the sixth. I don't know how I remember this, probably only because I remember my birthday was on Tuesday that year. And this would not be a normal birthday. So I was up early as usual, we were working 70s a week, usually least 16 hours a day, at least I was working longer hours than most people at the beginning because I was often with Dan at night in the beginning until we had more volunteers to provide an entourage for him. Basically you don't want your candidate to be coming into an event by himself. The more people around him, the more it looks like he has a very strong and supportive staff and a good following. So I just got out of there as quickly as possible that Monday. If I kissed Roni, it was only on the cheek, and went to work. I was wearing a suit or at least a jacket and tie, for the first few months every day. Like I said as we had more volunteers to go to events with him, I didn't need to be formally dressed all the time like I was for months and just coincidently around that time I started dressing more casually, unless there was some special event that I was going to take him to. And those of you who have read my stories about my relationship with Ed Koch, I think it was that week that he was in my car a few times which was very strange because he's a very tall guy that he doesn't appear to be on television and it was a tight fit in the back of my Mustang.My Mustang. Did Kelly give me hell over that. It's so funny because, unlike probably any other person or female especially, that she went to school with which she also went to one of the best school district in the state like me, she grew up driving a manual stick. I think they had a Land Rover. And I'm skipping ahead here obviously but as she was in my car more and more she would give me hell over my Mustang being an automatic. And I forget exactly why my dad got an automatic. I wound up paying for actually half of the car because I really did not feel comfortable taking that big a gift. And it wasn't as expensive as you would've thought. In 1997 I think he paid about $26,000 in it and it had everything and it wasn't GT with the great stereo system in every option. But not a manual. I don't even remember if this is true or what I told Kelly, because it turns out there were like three times the car was supposed to be delivered and then it didn't come and it may have been that he was only able to get an automatic in the colors I liked or that I was doing a lot of driving right before then in Manhattan and that is kind of a pain to drive a stick shift with. But I had to fall in love with the only girl who could drive a stick shift and my Mustang had an automatic. We were somewhere if not the best area of Brooklyn where my car was on fumes still running and of course I didn't listen to her when we first passed a gas station and she told me to stop to get gas and we were coming back that way, I think this was after a maildrop which I want to explain more about, and the car just died. So she had to get in the driver seat all I pushed it down thankfully, a few blocks to the gas station, and thankfully there were any major crimes going on that day in that area. New York City was not quite as safe back then as it is now.When I came home that Monday I told Ronnie that I really didn't think this is going to work. You know there's nothing to say that is easy. Especially after such a long period of time. Then on Tuesday my birthday, was not usual as I really had no one to spend it with. I don't remember what happened that night. I know over the next week I took Kelly out for dinner a few nights and we went back to her apartment but I don't remember what I did on that Tuesday, July 7, 1998. It may of been the night that Roni’s mother who was very nice to me, came over to our apartment which was very nice actually, and basically tried to plead Ronnie's keys for her. And I felt so bad. Especially when they kind of broke me down as to why and I kind of said that though she reminded me of the fact that she's not interested in politics, she's not interested in the world, she's not interested in reading the New York Times, and this really probably would be the best thing in the long term. And I felt so bad when Roni started telling me that she would go back to school and she would take any classes I wanted her to and she would get smarter. I felt like such a jerk. And I didn't restate clearly the fact that it was Roni that made me think of this to begin with. I mean that's really rubbing salt in the wound. Well you women out there who hate me will get your payback eventually. And her mother, Pearl, works kind of as my mothers comanager of a medical office that my mom sister's husband works at with his part. There were only three doctors but it was actually a very large medical office with a lot of staff. Anyway for years there had been this dislike between our mothers because pearl thought that she was the one really working hard and that my mother was making as much as she was purely out of nepotism and even though it was pretty explicit that my mother was the person in charge of the office, probably used to really take advantage and push my mother as much as she could. So she would just blatantly do things, showing up late, taking days off when she didn't say she was going to take them off, and other stupid shit that always put my mom in a difficult position and she wasn't going to go running to her brother-in-law every time and it was just a very toxic environment. But my family, I'm an only child but very close to my cousins and my aunts and uncles and they treated Roni very nicely over the years, but it was also very apparent now to me that they were very happy I was no longer seeing her. My aunt who is a judge now used to talk to me about it. I don't know why said she's a judge. This is stream of conscious writing because of the nerve damage in my right hand I cannot type well so Siri has learned my voice. It's easier than going back and deleting.So I would say by the end of that week, I was kind of mostly moved out of there and moved to a apartment which my same uncle bought with his partner years ago that they planned on turning into a medical office. But they never did and it just sat there. The place was a disaster when I first moved in. There were so many roaches in the kitchen that I taped the whole room off with cellophane, I didn't even want to look in there. And as a vegetarian I've never been too happy about killing even insects. I don't know why they were containing themselves to the kitchen, especially since there was no food in there. There was a bedroom and then a very large main room. I'm having trouble even visualizing the layout now. I can't remember if the bathroom was just in the bedroom or if there were two bathrooms. Whatever. And there was something with the shower and I couldn't shower there yet, so I I would go to my old apartment in Forest Hills, a mile over, and take showers during the day when Roni was at work teaching. I didn't think she'd be able to know that I was doing that, until she said something to her mother I guess and then this whole drama with them both at the office was really bad now. And I would find out about it from my own mother.I'll tell you now that my aunt, my mother's sister named Janie, Who was married to the doctor, please a very big role in answering the original question. She was also may be the sweetest person I have ever known and she died at 51 from lung cancer, never having smoked in her life. Actually it wasn't that far off from 1998. She certainly wasn't sick then, but she died I think in my first year of law school which was 2000. I mentioned her for another reason which I will tell you about. I could write a book about the things she did for me. I was the oldest of 10 cousins and until Janie had her own son, six years after I was born, I was the only kid for all the uncles and aunts to ply attention and gifts to. And nobody did that more than her. But that wasn't what made her so special. I literally can write a separate book on that. Maybe I will. There's a picture of her and me I think on my Facebook page which I haven't touch the pictures and many many years. I think there's a picture of Kelly on there as well. I had thrown out everything that had to do with Kelly when we eventually broke up so I think I might've scanned those pictures to have something to remember her by. I used to work as a bartender in law school part time, and I always told my coworkers and my regulars that I could not remember the face or compare a face if my life depended on it. Meaning that if someone showed me their ID, literally unless they were of a different sex, and that still might have fooled me, or least of a different race, that is the only way I could determine it was a different person. I don't know if it's something in my brain but I cannot look at a picture of you and then look at you and look back-and-forth and have any idea that it's actually you or someone you never met. I was fortunate to be gifted in a lot of intellectual areas, but facial recognition was certainly not one of them. And I can speed read, I have a partial photographic memory, but I can't look at a photograph of somebody standing there and know remotely whether that's the same person.What was the question again? This is like an hour already. I'm not even close to answering. I hope you like the answer. Well there's actually something very interesting right before the answer. So I started spending most nights with Kelly. I talked about driving out to the postal drop off place in Brooklyn by the Navy Yard, because I am also an airplane freak. My dad in listed in Vietnam as a fighter pilot and he was always very interested in military aviation. I was really interested in commercial aviation and thought about being a pilot a few times. I have my non-instrument rated license. Have not flown in a while, it's very expensive actually. Expensive hobby which my dad promised to stop doing when I was born to my mom because she could not risk something happening to him.So we went through July and August, the real dog days to begin with and that year more than ever in my life. But it's amazing how I look back at that year and think it was fun. It's absolutel lunacy. Making $.12 an hour. Yeah but it was with Kelly. So when we went down to drop off the mail, and we were never on any kind of clock because obviously we were working ridiculous hours to begin with, there is a spot near there, near Kennedy airport, Rockaway Boulevard, where I had taken several girls before, who all thought I was nuts, where I would pull the car in this one area of the road that the fence was not aligned with the pavement and there was room to kind of park the car. And this spot was exactly over where planes coming in would be landing. I've seen on YouTube, I forget this airport which is in one of the islands, where the airport is so close to the beach that every 60 seconds another plane looks like it's about to crash into the people on the beach.We didn't have that, but when we would sit on the roof of the car you could see the trademark in the tires you were so close. Well there would've been other words by now but I just realized by spilling tires without a Y, you know that I am American. Well you know that for my other posts. And I took Kelly one day and she really liked it. Or pretended to. I remember also one time going to see Saving Private Ryan. I know this sounds stupid to remember a movie we saw, but you have no idea how intense that campaign was and how little free time we had. I don't even know how we pulled that one off. Now I'm thinking of emailing this to Kelly even though now she won't talk to me. Well that was after the false arrest and I thought I might need her testimony about what happened later at the office which she witnessed, and I will explain that also, as to why I would be nervous around police.I have a terrible habit of going off occasionally on people on emails and then regretting that I ever sent it. My uncle who one closest to things emails were the worst thing for me and for him as well. You couldn't rashly send letters before email. You would have time to think about it before you wrote it, put a stamp on it and mailed it, to change your mind. I don't think she ignored me before and I think I sent a couple dozen emails to her in 2014, telling her I might really need her help with what happened to me. One of the things we would argue, besides the absurdity that the judge said, "this is the most ridiculous arrest I have ever heard of in 42 years,” if it went to trial was the fact that I had previously been let's just say harassed by police, once is coming up in the story, and was just reason number 111 why I was very nervous that day doing the SFST. I was certain when I told her that it was a legal situation in which I was completely innocent that she wouldn't offer to help. I had to get a preliminary summons to force her appearance if it went to trial that had to go through The attorney general of New York to the Attorney General of New Jersey, where she ironically teaches at the same places Jonathan, and held there for one and if I needed it to be served. I guess you know that they dropped the charges so it turned out I didn't need her. But now there is a lawsuit of minewhere I may need to show that was part of a growing number of things that lead to PTSD when they arrested me three years ago falsely for the DUI.I'm getting to the end. So it certainly made the summer more fun. Many times when we were finished with work around seven or eight, we would go back to her apartment. Sometimes during the day, even though she would tell me that I was better looking than she was and I think I said earlier that people had told me I was good-looking my whole life, I wanted this to work so badly, because I really really liked her, are used to going to the bathroom like 25 times a day to fix my hair. And I'm a guy. And I'm not gay. I had OCD when I was younger, and some of that came back out again when I was with her, usually in respect to making sure that she would like something about me or something I did, I don't know. It was something that I kicked a long time ago, before high school, but came out a little when I was with her. Maybe she thought I was going in there to snort coke or something. I don't think so. But I told her that December about the OCD I had when I was a kid and we were already talking then about marriage and kids and I was saying how when we had kids we would have to have them tested for it because there were excellent medications now for it. For those of you who are not aware, OCD is upsets of compulsive disorder and it can manifest itself in numerous ways and two very very degrees, from just a minor part of your life to overtaking your life. I would say with me he got his hives may be a three or four at its worst. But it's not a good thing but it's also not like schizophrenia or sociopathic behavior or psychopathic behavior. And it's exactly that part, the fact that you know that no one else would understand this and they would think you were nuts to have to check your hair 20 times, that you try to do it without any attention. But the thing with the bathroom was an OCD, it was basically my obsession with the relationship working out, and clearly something I didn't need to do to impress her.I can get right now to the end and answer the question, but there really are so many other interesting things that were tangential him to our relationship which you guys would find interesting I think. Well let me get to the end of this first.I guess it was the very end of August or the very beginning of September. When there were four weeks left in the race which was mid August, Dan hired an off-duty or an on leave NYPD officer. I don't know why I know what his salary was, maybe it was Annette who hired him, but it was $1000 a week for four weeks.So on this Sunday Kelly and I were in the headquarters in the back of the office where she had a desk and Annette had a desk. I never had a desk as I was always going somewhere or doing something and if I needed to write something or sit down somewhere we had another room for that. Also remember, this is before, right before the Internet really exploded. We were checking websites to see what might be written about the race. It was probably right around this time that newspapers were starting to put stuff online. But it never occurred to anybody to Google Dan's name and see if there were any articles knew about the race. The Internet was definitely not at that point yet. Over the course of the race I think the times wrote for five articles about it. The other New York newspapers of less standing also wrote about it and did a few polls, that turned out to be very misleading. There were two televised debates. Not the carnival barker shows of the recent Republican debates, but actual ones. That was fun one day when we went to the studios of NY1, which is the 24 hour news station of New York City, and Dan debated Anthony Weiner and I don't remember if Melinda was there. Dear wasn't. Then Dan had some other thing on the NBC affiliate in New York. Kind of a debate I think with Weiner also.I wrote in some of my other answers that it was the debates which always scared the crap out of me, and kept me away from elected politics myself personally (I explained earlier about the congressional seat I turned down, not for that reason, but for the reason that I would have to spend two hours a day every day for the next two years raising money for my real action campaign. The average house member has to raise $10,000 a week for 104 weeks just to get reelected, and there was no way I was going to be dialing for dollars and begging my friends and family for money every two years. I told him when they fix the system, and probably finance elections, I'm in).I remember watching the debates for president and vice president when I was very young, in 1980 and 1984 and thinking to myself that this is crazy. They have no idea what they could ask when you're supposed to come up with an answer on the fly like that? As I became more politically astute, I learn to realize that there were certain questions you can pretty much predict would be asked, but it depended on the race. In this race with the Republican lunatics there we're certain questions that you could definitely project. Certainly half of the questions usually dealt with something about what Trump said, and with Hillary and Bernie, the main contentious issues were the federal minimum wage, universal healthcare single payer, free tuition at public colleges, Citizens United Decision, Hillary's emails, etc. I must tell all women out there who support Hillary that you've made a very big mistake in my opinion. She was not the face that you would want as your first female president and she is a manipulative, felonious, pathological liar. All along I never read one story about the emails because I thought it was complete GOP propaganda BS but as I read the Inspector General's report, she definitely cross the line and in the lawn it just them is really up to in this case the Attorney General as to how much she does or doesn't want to pursue it, in the case of Loretta Lynch. She is absolutely uncorrupted, but sometimes these decisions for Attorney’s General or District Attorney's, are very vague and hard to decide whether to prosecute it even. And especially in a situation like this, the pressure on her must be enormous. People of been asking me to predict what was going to happen with this situation. When I started writing on here in February, which was right after I started looking into this seriously, I thought there was maybe a 50-50 chance she would be indicted. Now I would say 25–75 against.My second grade teacher, Rochelle Stern (I have so many former teachers and professors that I stay in contact with that I finally learned to break the mold and do what they insisted and call them by their first name. I haven't been able to do that with the Judge I'm about to bring up) Who I actually spoke to a couple of months ago and is a wonderful woman, what is everyone's favorite teacher in elementary school, she called me The Devils Advocate. Of course she knew that seven and eight-year-olds did not know what that meant and she explained it to us. And she made a point of clarifying it was not an insult. So I really did like and do like to debate on issues that I know a lot about, and even more so on issues that you would social injustices I believe and feel strongly about. But that's a situation where you are prepared for the topic. I mean I don't need to know the specific questions if I'm going to debate someone on general issues such as my belief in universal healthcare or reforming drug laws or reducing or mass incarceration (4.6% of the worlds population and we incarcerate 25% of it. Probably everyone's heard of that by now which is great. I've known that number for years).My biggest difficulty with debates, the kind you would get in the very austere and serious general election presidential debates, when there is no one obvious topic or question, not be based upon what's going on in the world but basically where it's a free-for-all of farm policy, domestic policy, and everything in between, is that I would have no idea of which one of 6000 possible questions could be asked. Now a good politician can give talking points and pipit and eat up the time on their clock, but that's not the baiting and that's not even more important which is answering the question. And the second time I talked to Bernie, maybe the first time, I told him that if you loses this thing, you should hold your head up high, because it means you did not become a good politician, like her and that was a good thing and a badge of honor.And they are debates, maybe as much as the Republican side shows, pretty much had a general pool of about 20 questions that were bandied about. But when you get into a situation where the question really could be anything (and interestingly, one of the most difficult questions for someone aspiring for the presidency to answer, is, why do you want to become president? You'd be amazed at how many experience politicians get completely stumped with that one which is why told that kid who was aspiring to be president at 14 that he should have an answer for that ready now) and you want to give a good specific answer and that's what the voters deserve, not general talking points, Think about how insane the system is with the structure of the general election debates that are one-on-one.If you were to be given a very difficult question completely out of left field, I wouldn't want my president to make that decision in less than a second and then spit it out. No president would ever do that, even the pathetic ones. I like and it once to the bar exam where no lawyer would proceed with anything in the penal law for example, without first checking the penal law to make sure they got the section and code exactly right and the wording of it exactly right. So the president only in the most extreme circumstances, would ever have to make a decision or give an answer right off the top of his head. And I don't want the answer right off the top of his head. I want the thought out and well examined answer. That's why I guess the older more formal, one-on-one the debates scared me to death because back then the questions could be about anything, as they should be and not what Donald Trump said last week, but really, do you want the thing that the person can first think of or do you want a well-thought-out answer which is what would happen in real life? So I found those debates both very intimidating and very very unrealistic and misleading, because you would ask your aids for advice if you were smart. And so many other things would come into play before you decided and gave your answer or decision.I'm getting to the end but I have to throw in some other weird coincidences with what happened. Then as I said authored the Megan's Law bill. Which became law. It was the ACLU that challenged it on constitutional grounds, the main one being that it was ex post facto. We argued that this was not a punishment. Ex post facto means that after you're convicted the penalty was increased or that you did something which was not a crime on January 1 but became a crime on January 2 and were prosecuted for it. So the debate became whether or not having sex offenders register whenever they move with the local police department was a punitive action, because it was then it was ex post facto because it wasn't in place when the person was convicted or really committed the crime. And the federal court judge who ruled against us would someday be a professor of mine, a friend of mine, and if everything works out a Supreme Court justice. This is when I was talking about calling people by their first names. Well Judge Denny Chin, I don't know how to call Denny, either Judge or your honor. What incredibly my first experience with them was before law school and it was a negative one. So the law for a while was struck down. Dan appealed on behalf of New York State to the second circuit Court of Appeals, and there were three judges. There are 13 circuits of appellate courts based on geography across the country plus the District of Columbia. There can be anywhere from a dozen to two dozen judges anytime on a circuit. They only hear appeals, obviously so three are chosen at random on any case and then you argue before them. We drew a very conservative justice, very moderate justice and a very liberal justice. And since to have the ruling overturned, even though Dan is a liberal Democrat, in this case we wanted more conservative and opinions rendered, because they would be more likely to be punitive. This is one of those laws that 95% the public agrees with and could care less about ex post facto, which is exactly why polls don't necessarily mean anything sometimes. We already have a country where 20% of people cannot find their own country on a map so you can't go around doing everything by polls. There are times were you have to do things based on the law which may be unpopular which is why I cringe whenever the case is dismissed because for example, the police did not have a search warrant when they found the murder weapon. And when people call that a technicality, I cannot stand it because the Constitution is not a technicality. The case being dismissed because the Clark forgot to stamp the incoming indictment papers, that is a technicality. The fourth amendment is not a technicality. The Bill of Rights is not a technicality. Now I understand how people can be upset that someone who is clearly guilty is allowed to go free. But be angry at the police for not properly doing their job and this would not have happened. Instead the judge is blamed for being a bleeding heart liberal or something else but the bottom line in a lot of cases that are dismissed where you pretty much know the defendant is guilty are on fourth amendment issues, and that is generally something that the police made a mistake about; they simply cut corners and didn't bother with a warrant.And actually, this is the 50th anniversary of Miranda v Arizona. That is the case that created the required Miranda rights to be read to anyone arrested, advising them of their fifth and sixth amendment rights. I thought it was interesting to note, because I've asked countless people where they got the term Miranda rights from, and unless I'm speaking to an attorney or someone well-versed in the law, they don't even know that Miranda is a name of a person. A really bad person. He was convicted of rape twice I think, and was in and out of jail for many years. It's incredible that his name is both a noun and a verb, as in being Mirandized. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln don't have their names in different parts of speech. But it made me think about something else that should be required for police officers to give as a warning.If you are driving a car at night and an officer pulls you over, most people are already going to feel somewhat apprehensive, especially if it's a dark road and there is nobody around. If he asks to take a look in your car, you might think that if you refuse that either he can just get a warrant because refusing a suspicious or maybe he doesn't even need a warrant or that he doesn't even need your permission but is just sort of asking rhetorically. Well let me tell you very clearly, he most definitely needs your permission in lieu of a warrant, and refusing is not grounds for any suspicion on which she can base a warrant request. It's a very common tactic where officers hope their badge and gun will intimidate you and you might forget that you have something illegal in the car somewhere, and nervously just say yes. DON’T!!! And if you make the mistake of letting them luck, know that you have the right to tell them to stop at any time. So I am advocating that whenever the police ask to search they must tell you, "you have the right to say no and you have the right to tell us to stop at anytime.” Two seconds.And did you know Ernesto Miranda, when he was out of jail made money by autographing the cards with the warning is written on them named after him, because the years immediately after the decision, cops had not fully memorized the warnings and they had to legally say those exact words so they would read it off of a card. Now most fourth-graders who watch cop shows know these warnings already by heart.So in a very bizarre set of circumstances, my first introduction to Judge Chin was adversarial, and not as a great law professor. Now he is on the second circuit Court of Appeals, which along with the DC circuit Court of Appeals is basically to use a baseball metaphor, the farm team for The Supreme Court. When I was at Fordham they were talking about it then, him being the first Asian-American Supreme Court justice. Now that he's on the second circuit, and when Obama appointed him, he was confirmed by the Senate 98–0, so I don't know how they will argue he is too liberal after confirming him unanimously.BTW, many of you have probably heard the saying, in New York they can indict a ham sandwich? Just meaning that if the prosecutor wants an indictment in New York they will get it, but most people don't even realize what an indictment is. It sounds almost like a conviction, or there has been guilt shown, but it's basically the exact same thing as an arrest really.That's why there are so many false arrests. In law, an arrest or an indictment require the lowest threshold possible which is probable cause to suspect a crime may have occurred. I can also tell you as someone who has sat on two very serious felony cases, some jurors, despite overwhelming evidence, have a very difficult time voting for conviction if they are the lone holdout for conviction actually in those two cases we came back with quick not guilty verdicts but that experience comes with a law school exercise where I spoke with over 100 jurors who many professed that exact fear of being the person basically responsible for sending this person to prison for life.If she were indicted it would be treated like an arrest. Police officers generally cannot arrest people for a felony without a warrant, unless the felony occurred in their presence. Misdemeanor arrests are allowed outside of their presence if they have probable cause.OK back on track. The cop we hired for security came into the back office where I was sitting at one desk and Kelly was at her desk. The officer, who I can't remember his name, said he needed an increase in pay. I told him that neither of us could decide that, but I don't think is going to happen because all of our remaining money is tied up. And I also reminded him that he was supposed to be working with Dan on the beach right now. So I put my head down and started reading whatever I was reading again figuring he was gonna leave the room and a couple of seconds and if you didn't I would give them about a minute and then ask him to go to the beach again. And then I hear Kelly screaming my name and to dock. My eyes look up and it all happened so quickly but I ducked and buy a nano second I missed having mine had knocked off. He had fired like a baseball pitcher, A full Snapple bottle at my head and the next thing I know is it's exploding against the file cabinet behind me as it is breaking into pieces.My memory is so foggy as to what happened after that. I remember Kelly wanting to quit the campaign right then and she had a couple of weeks before then when I wasn't in the room been physically assaulted by the fourth campaign work or on our staff who we hated to begin with and then I almost got into a fight with him. So this was the second violent incident within two weeks and Dan must of been told about what happened although I don't know who did and the fact that he didn't fire him immediately, let alone why I didn't press charges, I don't know why. You could certainly have made a case for attempted murder and at the very least aggravated assault. And I can remember all the cops names have screwed me but I cannot remember this guy. I certainly don't think Dan even said anything to him, and I don't think he fired him. It was strange that Kelly wanted to quit and not me. I just told her that we had been killing ourselves for eight months or whatever and we had to give it two more weeks. And also it could affect our future as if Dan one we would have been given top positions on his staff. That was a secondary reason for me as to why I work so hard on the campaign. The first being how much I believed in him.So I guess the next two weeks are pretty uneventful. By September I believe Kelly was living with me in my apartment in Forest Hills. Primary day had come, it was tomorrow. This one is the Monday before and Kelly's parents Who already knew about us and I had met, we're coming down for the primary and staying at her apartment in proclivity think so that night she stayed in Brooklyn and I was driving home and coming close to my apartment around midnight.We're getting to the good part. I left out that over the previous months going back to the summer, my cousin, my Aunt Janie’s daughter, and a bunch of her friends, made up all these handmade signs for Dan for Congress. And there is a mean commercial strip right off of Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills where they put up all of their signs. In store windows, on poles on light lamps, on everything for about 10 blocks. She called me a few days later and was very upset and told me all their signs were taken down and Melinda's people put up their signs. They were upset and they wanted to do the same thing back. So for about six weeks it kept going back-and-forth every week. And it was crucial for Melinda to win this area, not just Queens but especially get a big turnout in Forest Hills because that was by far where she was best known. I forget exactly but sometime in the beginning of September both sides just gave up on this whole sign thing.So it's just after midnight, technically the day of the primary, and I think I'm seeing things as I have this long stretch of Queens Boulevard which I believe is the whitest thorough fare in the country, that is completely overtaken by hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of Melinda Katz posters. And to this day I have never seen campaign posters this big. Most of them or at least 6' x 3', life-size. All down Queens Boulevard for miles. I really thought I was hallucinating. You would've thought that I don't know it snowed or something Melinda Katz. Maybe it just rained Katz and dogs. Bad joke. So I did not know what the hell to do. This was ridiculous and could definitely why didn't her turn out in that area in which the more turned out she got they would all vote for her. I had told Dan a couple of weeks ago to spend more time in Forest Hills Who is originally he decided to write it off and I didn't think she was doing much of a get out the vote operation so he did spend time campaigning there on my suggestion along with Mark Green who was another New York City politician who ran for mayor. But here I was desperate for five hours of sleep because primary day or election day usually there is an a lot to do but in the early morning you want to be as many polling places as possible to make sure they have been opened and everything is running OK. And that's one of the things I was going to do the next morning or that morning.All I can tell you is this. I did something, completely legal that night and early morning until about 6 AM, which wound up handing the election to Anthony Weiner. And there are some chili hysterical things that we laughed about it until we were crying later that day over some things that we saw several of the candidates talking to their staff about, rather yelling.obviously, I will be given tons of free copies of the book which toll lot of stories just like this, also a lot of stories of corruption, a lot of stories of police ineptness and point corruption, all dealing with specific people, which is why I have honestly had to take out a security detail on the advice of my agent. While no conversations I had with anybody I was working for, whether we were both lawyers or he was a lawyer or whatever, would fall under attorney-client privilege, I don't intend to backstab politicians for same things that may sound stupid but were not corrupt. Dan who disappointed me the most at the end of our relationship of 20 years, there are many things I could reveal that I will not because I just don't have it in me to be a totally cool person and I think it will hurt his kids who I like very much. Same thing with some other officials that were not the best politicians and did some pretty embarrassing things, but they were not corrupt, so there is no need to betray them, especially since many are still in office. It does open the door to allow me to speak about things like what the speaker of the assembly, Shelly Silver, just about every honest legislator in the state disliked because of his amends power and how he held it over people that now that he has been convicted and will likely spend the rest of his life in jail, I don't see a reason why I have any duty ethically not to release any of those conversations.Kelly was present during some of this but really after that year she decided she wasn't going to law school and probably not going to politics, so there isn't much that year that she didn't witness also that I did that I did. The only thing I have to be wary of is liable suits. One of the first thing you learn in law school is that the truth is a 100% defense to libel or slander or claims. I have no interest in making up things about people, and hurting them, and I don't need to because I have a wealth of things that actually happened. And since my credibility in this area is beyond reproach, I really don't see how anyone would want to sue me and then just bring this into the news again. It's going to be interesting to see exactly the press attention this gets. I am not as excited about it as my agent is in several other people or they think some of the teasers I have which I have not mentioned here, Will be enough to make the book go viral and me being flooded for interviews. But maybe I'm wrong. The agent I'm dealing with has dealt with many of these types of political books.I think the most interesting things in it will be from my 22-year-old book I've been carrying around of all of my ideas for legislation, with which very few actually got even drafted let alone passed into law. Some are actually still stuck in committee. But so many people have told me that these are really brilliant ideas and that it's crazy that these are not laws, I think that might be more interesting.so me new rated Congressional powers that are in the Constitution,And, I don't know if I mentioned above but there will be a good 50 pages on some truly hard to believe real-life stories. I'm lucky I can back them up with official documentation such as police reports, news articles, very trusted people who were with me when they happen who will verify. I'm picking this up after I started about two weeks ago. Just to give you three headlines: my best friend tonight or accused of trying to blow off the plane when we were stopped over in Phoenix coming back from Las Vegas to New York. Half the federal police agencies in the United States were there with us. That was a story that was so funny and amazing that was picked up by AP, although they know nothing about the really funny part that happen on the plane after we took off, maybe one of the funniest stories and surreal stories you may have ever read or heard of. I remember when I I was trying to impress Kelly very early on I told her I had the most amazing story she had ever heard. And she said to me that I should preface it with that because I built it up too much. But after hearing it, she said you were right. And she had quite a few of her own very interesting experiences, particularly when traveling and living in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Another one deals with after being a first responder to the 9/11 attacks in New York along with one of my roommates, the FBI later interrogated me and they had some pretty good reasons I think I might be involved. I can't give too many more out here, but they're all pretty much on levels of those. One very harrowing incident in Nepal outside of Kathmandu when I was thought to be a CIA during the Maoist insurgency. I'll just tell you this, even though Nepal now is very see if country, anybody who ever travels overseas, keep the $100 bill folded up and in your shoe. Best advice I can give you other than keeping $200 folded up. And always US cash. Not because it's a hard currency, but it is the number one hard currency in the world and any place where you would probably need it in an emergency would want that over anything. There are a lot of stories about tangential things like coming out of Albany fun raisers and seeing have to state legislators get in their car completely bombed and driving away. For a very long time the federal government was pushing states to lower the BAC level for drunk driving from .10 to .08. Since my skepticism about Paul six runs from the lowest municipal level to the presidency, I'm still not quite sure why the federal government cared so much about drunk driving, because it's very unlikely that they cared about it for Public Safety reasons. They have no ability, basically Congress does not, to change State laws on this issue. Many people don't realize that Congress cannot pass laws about anything they want. In fact they are extremely limited in their domain. There's something called the commerce clause in the Constitution and besides some enumerated powers, in the Constitution, they can only pass laws that affect interstate commerce. It's something that few people know about and I didn't know about until law school. I always assumed, if Congress wanted to pass a law saying that oranges could only be grown in Florida, they had every right to pass a law like that. Susan's Congress could not pass laws for states vehicle and traffic area, which lA when I was clerking for a in Belfast for a lawyer who say, “doing other things at the time.Since New York State is cleverly like others define driving mile impaired from drugs is not automatically crime. You do have to show her the drugs affect your ability to operate a motor vehicle safely.q