I campaigned for George McGovern in Hells Kitchen bordello in 1972
<p>At the time, Hell’s Kitchen was a pretty rough neighborhood and Jimmy McManus was the last of the old-fashioned machine politicians on the West Side of Manhattan. He had his people stationed at the polling places who kept track of who had voted and who hadn’t, reporting this information back to Jimmy.</p>
<p>At 8 PM, Jimmy gave me a list of apartments in the old-law tenements near the docks. He told me to go to those apartments and to say, “Mr. McManus needs you to come out and vote now.”</p>
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