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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I hope this link works, for some reason Outlook is preventing me from testing it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://m.cjonline.com/opinion/2014-10-05/bob-beatty-keen-umbehr-governor-candidate-you-dont-hear-about#gsc.tab=0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I supply this link as it represents an example (certainly not the only one) of the strategy I have been proposing for years. We need affiliates which are strong enough to attract libertarian minded, but electable, candidates to run as a Libertarian (as Kansas has done). If we and LNCC and the Kansas affiliate were financially stronger and able to back Keen Umbehr with a $500,000 grub stake, we would have a legitimate shot (one chance in ten, in a close race like this one, 35% wins it) at winning a governorship. If this is done two or three times each election cycle, the probability of winning a significant race becomes one in three. Over a couple of election cycles, you get a winner that will put a big hole in the “you can’t win” road block that has been in our way for 43 years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norman T Olsen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regional Representative, Region 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Libertarian National Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>7931 South Broadway, PMB 102<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Littleton, CO 80122-271-<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>303-263-4995<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>