Made 30,000 phone calls to raise money . Mark green yes. Once you decide you want to be the mayor of new york city it is a marathon. I have to make 80 phone calls a day reach 20 people a day get 8 commitments a day. They put up calls i have in front of me. He gave 5,000 to schumer, 10,000 to clinton. He likes waterskiing. So i call and say hey brian, hows the waterskiing . If you dont do that you cant run competitively. I didnt know that i would end up running against the richest man in World History to run for office, Michael Bloomberg. I wasnt pained making these phone calls because its the ticket eventually. Brian lamb in 2001 september 11 was the day of the primary. Give us a little bit of the flavor what that was like. Mark green i have never spoken about that because i lost an election in part because of that. 3000 people lost their lives. It sounds so whiny and selfcentered, but the statute of limitations has run. When you write a memoir you have to be candid. Two years before s