<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5673">Wes, </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5866"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5867">Actually at age 73, I would expect I will die any day now because of my wild hedonistic life style. Also, the mortgage has 13 years to go, so our staff will have to figure out some way to bump me off before the mortgage runs out. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5826"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5827">Hope things are going well in SD.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5828"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5834">In ND we have a fairly good slate of candidates for this year, except for the most important one of governor. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5835"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5836">After I gave up the state chairmanship for the fun of being on the LNC, the party powers are becoming much less interested in my views, but we will have a governor candidate and we will get our needed 5% and more of the November vote by one way or the other. It is an open race this year, so we are truly hoping for a strong and well financed governor candidate who would have an actual chance of winning.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5739"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455568715193_5738">Roland<br></div> </div></body></html>