took a position as administrative assistant to Ohio House Minority Leader James A. Lantz. The part-time position paid $500 a month through the end of the legislative session. In May 1962, Pokorny sought the Democratic nomination for the Ohio House again. The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party declined to endorse him in the primary. Pokorny came in 14th (the top 17 vote-getters qualified for the nomination), with 32,696 votes. He won election to Ohio House again on November 7, 1962, coming in fifth (the top 17 vote-getters were elected to office) with 230,452 votes. Pokorny declined to run for re-election in 1964, instead seeking to challenge incumbent Cuyahoga County Recorder Mark McElory. McElroy defeated him in the Democratic primary election in May by about 2,200 votes. However, in June, State Senator Joseph W. Bartunek resigned from office to run for a judgeship of on the Cuyahoga County Probate Court. State Representative Anthony F. Novak resigned from Ohio House to run for Bartunek's seat. The Cuyahoga County Democratic Committee then nominated Pokorny to run for Novak's seat. He won election to Ohio House again on November 4, 1964, coming in sixth (the top 17 vote-getters were elected to office) with 320,036 votes. In June 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964) that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population. A case challenging the "Hanna amendment" reached the Supreme Court at about the same time as Reynolds v. Sims. On June 22, 1964, the Supreme Court held Ohio's method for apportioning representatives (but not state senators) to be in violation of the Constitution per the decision in Reynolds v. Sims. On remand, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ordered the state legislature to adopt a new apportionment scheme to comply with the holding in Nolan v. Rhodes. Elections under the new apportionment scheme were first held in November 1966, for terms to begin per the Ohio constitution on the first day in January 1967. Pokorny, who had been elected chairman of the Democratic caucus of Cuyahoga County state house representatives, was assigned to the new House District 57. He won the Democratic primary in May 1966 by a vote of 4,195 to 1,848 for his closest challenger, Joseph S. Cloonan, in a four-way election. Pokorny easily won reelection in November 1966, 21,127 to 14,204 for