You buy the premise…

(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Aug. 18, 2014) 

Martin HawverRemember those stories that start with the “a guy walks into a bar with a duck under his arm?”

That idea can go a bunch of ways…and if you buy the premise (that duck under his arm), you’ll enjoy the story.

Well, selling an idea worked for now-Gov. Sam Brownback four years ago. He had a roadmap for Kansas and the campaign based on that premise got him elected over meagerly financed Democrat State Sens. Tom Holland/runningmate Kelly Kultala.