Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Raymond Uno

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accountant. There was a girl named oh, gee, ! had her name on the tip of my tongue, Marilyn Purzik. She was a Jewish girl that I used to know. We got acquainted and she was a neighbor that lived on u and she worked on McCarthy campaign but we got to know each other through politics of Phil Hansen and McCarthy and when McCarthy, when Phil lost out she kind of had some time and she said she'd help me so she became sort of the secretary of my campaign. We got this little group together and got going and, of course, no one knew my name 'cause I hadn't ever run for political office, unknown and everything. I went door to door on the campaigning and when elec­tion time came, I mean the voting time came, my name got pretty good publicity 'cause all my friends put the signs up and put it on cars and things like that. Brockbank, you know, didn't feel he had to campaign because previous time he had won three to one and no one knew me. He didn't even know who I was. We had some debates at different places. When the campaign finally carne down to the election day the vote was pretty neck to neck and when I went to sleep or the election service went off I was ahead of him and then the next day when they tallyed everything up, he won by 140 votes out of 20,000 votes. So he was going, he was the Senate, I forgot whether he was speaker. Or whether he was the floor leader of the Senate. 73