John Doolittle: “I do not think I know of any harder work than campaigning in a hard fought election, and Frank Riggs has had nothing but…”

“I do not think I know of any harder work than campaigning in a hard fought election, and Frank Riggs has had nothing but a steady diet of that in the elections he has run, and it has never been easy. They have always been huge races where a million dollars was spent by both sides. Heavy negative advertising was out there attacking him, distorting his record, and I would just observe that to go through one of those races and then to lose and then to somehow be able to pick yourself back up and take up the battle again for 2 years running, getting ready for the next election, talk about the tenacity of Frank Riggs, I think that is true. That is extremely difficult. Frank is quite an athlete, but among other things is an avid jogger. I remember when we lived together, he would go for a jog at 9:00 at night out in the wonderful high Washington heat and humidity. It would be 90-plus degrees and he would be off on a jog. That is the type of individual he is. He really is just a real fighter and very, very tenacious and has stood tall for the things he believes in.”