[美國] 茶黨領袖、參議員Jim DeMint明年一月辭職

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素來被視為茶黨領袖的南卡羅來納聯邦參議員Jim DeMint在毫無預兆的情況下，宣布
將於明年一月辭職，轉任傳統基金會主席。兩年前連任成功的DeMint參議員表示，促
成他做出此決定的原因，在於他認為前一次選舉顯示保守主義運動無法傳達給公眾，
而傳統基金會可以作為很好的媒介。

他的繼任者將由南卡羅來納州長Nikki Haley任命，直到2014年舉行特別選舉。(同州
聯邦參議員Linsey Graham將同時競選連任)


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323501404578161613763222762.html
Jim DeMint leaving the Senate
By DANIEL HENNINGER

South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint will replace Ed Feulner as president
of the Heritage Foundation. Mr. DeMint will leave his post as South
Carolina's junior senator in early January to take control of the Washington
think tank, which has an annual budget of about $80 million.

Sen. DeMint's departure means that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a
Republican, will name a successor, who will have to run in a special election
in 2014. In that year, both Mr. DeMint's replacement and Sen. Lindsey Graham
will be running for reelection in South Carolina.

Mr. DeMint was reelected to a second term in 2010. The 61-year-old senator
had announced earlier that he would not seek a third term.

Mr. Feulner, who is 71 and planned to step down, is to be named chancellor of
Heritage, a new position, and will continue in a part-time capacity as
chairman of the foundation's Asian Studies Center.

In an interview preceding the succession announcement, Sen. DeMint said he is
taking the Heritage job because he sees it as a vehicle to popularize
conservative ideas in a way that connects with a broader public. "This is an
urgent time," the senator said, "because we saw in the last election we were
not able to communicate conservative ideas that win elections." Mr. DeMint,
who was a market researcher before he entered politics, said he plans to take
the Heritage Foundation's traditional research plus that of think tanks at
the state level and "translate those policy papers into real-life
demonstrations of things that work." He said, "We want to figure out what
works at the local and state level" and give those models national attention.

Mr. DeMint, an active conservative partisan often at odds with his party's
leadership, says he will "protect the integrity of Heritage's research and
not politicize the policy component. Heritage is not just another grassroots
political group."

Still, the senator acknowledges that the political fires still burn: "This
really gets my blood going again thinking about the possibilities. This is
the time to elevate the conservative cause."

Sen. DeMint plans to join Heritage in the first week of January, before the
new session of Congress begins.

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