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That wasn't a happy occasion either. And we had the redirecting of different congressional districts also. And we had in education, boards of education, and municipalities, and some of that was very good and some of that well needed because you had a lot of people like members of the board of supervisors, maybe one of them would need 600 votes, and he could buy his way into office and perpetuate himself into office. Here's one next to him who had 6,000 votes. And you know some of them I've had to try for income tax evasion or something else. They'd come to me and say, some good lawyers and friends of mine and say, "Judge, if you won't send him to the penitentiary he won't run for reelection." I said, "That's got nothing to did with my job." I said, "It's not going to do them any good to run for election because I'm going to redirect that county and he can't buy enough votes, so don't throw that at me." But I did redirect Harrison County and he ran, he came in number five out of 10. So that's as close as he got when he had to run with the regular district there like
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER