• Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords, to run for Senate
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/mark-kelly-john-mccain-arizona-gabrielle-giffords
only seeing the first half of the title made me think he died
I'm not really sure what he can bring politically, but I am all for having some more scientifically-minded people in the government.
For clarification, his brother Scott Kelley was his twin who was also an astronaut, and spent the longest single time in orbit of any human.
i love and respect my scientist friends and i exalt the sciences, but they can vote just like everyone else and what i think we really, truly need right now is a political class that has a deep, profound affinity for the social, cultural, civic, human value of the world. i think it follows suit that such a person would implicitly care about everything the former would.
We need science and logical thought in politics right now. We aren't really in a comfort zone to push for a renaissance.
he's a very solid candidate for Arizona. He could very well be the seat the democrats need to pickup given that doug jones is probably going to loose alabama
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