 At one point, Burdick challenged Knorr to a fistfight to prove his vitality; but the challenge, assumed to be a joke, never occurred.After being defeated, Knorr moved to Washington, D.C., where he took the position of staff vice president with Philip Morris International.One independent candidate, Anna B. Bourgois, also filed before the deadline, running under her self-created party titled God, Family, and Country.