Kerry's vision for the space program

[Phobos]

I suppose this topic could go into the Politics forum, but I think the interested members are mostly here.

So, what will Kerry's vision be? Here's a clue from Space.com...
http://www.space.com/news/kerry_report_040616.html

Reading between the lines, I get the impression that Kerry would (1) drop Bush's space plan and (2) be generally supportive of NASA but still cut its funding. I also suspect that he would focus on NASA's near-Earth missions (shuttle, ISS, satellites) & telescopes (Hubble, NGSTs) but would scale back things like robotic explorations of the planets/asteroids/comets. I'm also basing this on a response letter I received from him a few years ago when I wrote a request letter to save the mission to Pluto. Basically, it was a well-reasoned, but disappointing response saying that the mission was not worth the cost at that time. Maybe I can dig up that letter from my files & post it here.

I didn't find anything about his space policy on his campaign website.

Any other insights?

Note: Let's try to keep this away from a political debate. I merely want to understand what his space policy would be if he were elected president.

 

[Almsco]

That's a great question! I'm interested to see if anyone else has any insights about Kerry's space policy. It's good to hear that you received a response from him in the past, I would be interested to see the letter if you can find it. Hopefully someone else can provide some more information on the subject.