Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 29, 1994                   TAG: 9403300144
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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SENATE RACE

Brown, who's declared as an independent candidate, says his qualifications are that he's an "average person with energy and average intelligence."

His platform, he says, are 11 "Rules for Lifestyle Changes," including wearing a seat belt, not smoking, and having "sexual relations exclusively with your marital partner (at least two or three times weekly)." Brown, incidentally, has been married to Dorothy Hinkle Brown for 40 years. They have four children and four grandchildren.

At first blush, it seems unlikely that Brown has much chance of winning the Senate seat now held by Democrat Charles Robb and coveted by a handful of better-known others. Brown has launched his campaign with only $100 - he says that's all he has - and with no campaign organization.

But his entry may make for unorthodox and interested political debates - which would be a refreshing change for voters. Instead of the candidates standing on a stage and mouthing oft-rehearsed sound bites, perhaps they could all stretch out on couches and free-associate.

Whoever passes the Rorschach test wins.

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