“Colonel” Osceola Luthorne is a Kansas magazine editor and real estate agent who joins Buzz Windrip’s campaign team from the very beginning and eventually becomes Windrip’s Secretary of War. He is not a real colonel, but his friend, the Governor of Tennessee, gives him the title anyway. He eventually gets fired and replaced by Dewey Haik because he didn’t give the Corpos enough power. He retires to his Kansas farm, until Lee Sarason orders him to be murdered without Buzz Windrip’s knowledge. His career trajectory shows how fascist administrations allocate power based on arbitrary loyalties, not ability or qualifications.