{"id":14138,"date":"2018-02-06T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2018-02-06T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T01:00:40","slug":"14138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/06\/14138\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Should Take Part, You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>HuffPo\u00a0<\/b><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/science-candidates_us_5a74fffde4b06ee97af2ae60&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1518043353670000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTUHvc_z1o4ubjGFmnL8M9gJ-pwA\">notes\u00a0<\/a>that\u00a0<i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.314action.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">314 Action<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>has a horde of scientists running for seats during the mid-terms:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>More than 60 researchers and technologists are running for federal office in 2018 as part of a historic wave of candidates with science backgrounds launching campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>At least 200 candidates with previous careers in science, technology, engineering and math announced bids for some of the nation\u2019s roughly 7,000 state legislature seats as of Jan. 31, according to data that 314 Action, a political action committee, shared exclusively with HuffPost.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which launched in 2014 to help scientists run for office, said it is talking with 500 more people and is pressing about half of them to run. An additional 200 such candidates are running for school boards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sheer number is really astonishing,\u201d 314 Action founder Shaughnessy Naughton told HuffPost. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen anything like this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This is the largest number of scientists to run for public office in modern history. If any of them win, it could dramatically multiply the number of scientists in Congress beyond Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.), the\u00a0<a class=\"m_38761457734630341gmail-bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/142215\/phd-scientist-congress-fighting-trumps-cuts-republicans-get-cancer-well-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/minutes\/142215\/phd-scientist-congress-fighting-trumps-cuts-republicans-get-cancer-well-democrats&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1518043353671000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEWCEUap6q9yd3JsBVtUviZAD_jNA\"><span class=\"m_38761457734630341gmail-bn-clickable\">lone Ph.D. scientist, a physicist<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A waterfall of rationality? Against a sea of madness? Ah, bad poetry, it is.<\/p>\n<p>But I certainly wish them well. I don&#8217;t know if any of them are running in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo\u00a0notes\u00a0that\u00a0314 Action\u00a0has a horde of scientists running for seats during the mid-terms: More than 60 researchers and technologists are running for federal office in 2018 as part of a historic wave of candidates with science backgrounds launching campaigns. 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