Comments on: Representative Boehlert Says "It’s Time" http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3766 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: kevin v http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3766&cpage=1#comment-3618 kevin v Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:05:43 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3766#comment-3618 I can hear the lamentations of the politics-aware scientists and science observers that a smart champion of science is stepping down, so it should be noted that Rep. Boehlert's tenure as chair of House Science was going to end anyway because of intraparty term limits on committee chairpersonships. Something interesting I took from Rep. Boehlert's thoughts on centrism. Since the November election candidates need to get first through a partisan primary, a body much more extreme than the agregate voting populace is always choosing the candidates. It is a fault of the system's structure that the candidates facing each other in November are often not a good blending of the political thought of the district. I can hear the lamentations of the politics-aware scientists and science observers that a smart champion of science is stepping down, so it should be noted that Rep. Boehlert’s tenure as chair of House Science was going to end anyway because of intraparty term limits on committee chairpersonships.

Something interesting I took from Rep. Boehlert’s thoughts on centrism. Since the November election candidates need to get first through a partisan primary, a body much more extreme than the agregate voting populace is always choosing the candidates. It is a fault of the system’s structure that the candidates facing each other in November are often not a good blending of the political thought of the district.

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