As a Mormon with deep roots in the Southwest and a dam-happy constituency at home in Arizona, Stewart Udall was constitutionally and politically inclined to develop natural resources, rather than preserve them.
That's counterintuitive, but consider: Few trades may indicate a less-trigger-happy constituency and excess capacity available on servers.
This gives them a difficult balancing act: to keep their constituency happy as well as fight the diversity corner.
"You make the constituency happy by signing it into law, and then the big bad courts torpedo it, and then nobody's talking about it".
"Will that be for the benefit of the program, or to keep Cuomo's constituency happy?" New York's Medicaid program, jointly financed by federal, state and local taxpayers, is the nation's largest, at $53 billion.
But he's an indispensable leader who is now almost friendless in Pakistan, unlike Zia ul-Haq, who was the indispensable leader the last time the United States was militarily engaged in that part of the world, and who at least had the ability to keep certain sectors of his constituency happy.
Last month he dispensed the man-of-the-match award at Sri Lanka's opening game of the cricket world cup, which took place in a newly built stadium in by happy coincidence his own constituency, Hambantota, in the south of the country.
He is spectacularly abrupt, and polarizing; his presidency of Harvard, a job that requires keeping many constituencies happy, ended unhappily after only five years.
But the words are harsher than the actions on each side, and the two governments seem more intent on keeping domestic constituencies happy than actually picking a fight.
Plenty of constituencies might be happy with an incomer, but as someone with an aunt who moved into this area nearly six months ago, I feel well qualified to be a champion for local people, and just as soon as I've met some, I'll prove there's lots more to the next election than rehearsing stale arguments about Nick Clegg and tuition fees.
