Tuesday, July 12, 2005
the 'blade' factor - mdaniels@gov.in.gov
Indiana's governor has a nickname given to him by Pres. Bush. A nickname one should not treasure. 'Blade' worked for Pres. Bush on the budget. Then he ran for governor in 2004. His canpaign covered up the his blade-like tactics. Now Indiana is left bleeding from all the in-fighting from the republicans and democrats all the way down to the towns and communities.
This is an expose on Mitch Daniels and his canpaign. May your eyes be open. May you find fire in the pit of your stomach. May you learn from Indiana's mistakes.
'Blade' paraded around in a painted up RV going around to all counties of Indiana to talk to the locals and get their prespective of the governor's job. He called it his job interview. Sounds all good, right? You never got a sence of who he was on a personal level. You never saw his kids or his wife. One has got to see what kind of man you are and how does one know without getting to know the man personally. The only time you saw his wife was upon his winning. Imagine all that time on the road.
How you run a state is personal. The decisions made in the capitol is going to effect the citizen's way of life. One cannot vote on a man who cloaks his personal life. Yet Indiana did. You should hear the squealing now.
Now lets talk about the time. 'Blade' softly spoke of his issue with Indiana's standard time year round. He was ademently opposed and often stated that it would be top on his agenda to push through. Yet as you brought up the topic of standard time many Indiana citizens did not know this adament push for daylight savings.
You should have seen the chaos at the end of every month from February to May 2005. There were major in-fighting between democrats and republicans in both the house of representives and senate. Major push of party agenda. Democrats and republicans both turned a deaf ear to their citizens back home. There was 'blade' behind the scences pushing his new found power to have his way. End of May the vote was half and half until Ulmer went against his word and push the majorty to daylight.
Now the time issue is pushed to the counties deciding if they want to observe Eastern or Central time.
This is an expose on Mitch Daniels and his canpaign. May your eyes be open. May you find fire in the pit of your stomach. May you learn from Indiana's mistakes.
'Blade' paraded around in a painted up RV going around to all counties of Indiana to talk to the locals and get their prespective of the governor's job. He called it his job interview. Sounds all good, right? You never got a sence of who he was on a personal level. You never saw his kids or his wife. One has got to see what kind of man you are and how does one know without getting to know the man personally. The only time you saw his wife was upon his winning. Imagine all that time on the road.
How you run a state is personal. The decisions made in the capitol is going to effect the citizen's way of life. One cannot vote on a man who cloaks his personal life. Yet Indiana did. You should hear the squealing now.
Now lets talk about the time. 'Blade' softly spoke of his issue with Indiana's standard time year round. He was ademently opposed and often stated that it would be top on his agenda to push through. Yet as you brought up the topic of standard time many Indiana citizens did not know this adament push for daylight savings.
You should have seen the chaos at the end of every month from February to May 2005. There were major in-fighting between democrats and republicans in both the house of representives and senate. Major push of party agenda. Democrats and republicans both turned a deaf ear to their citizens back home. There was 'blade' behind the scences pushing his new found power to have his way. End of May the vote was half and half until Ulmer went against his word and push the majorty to daylight.
Now the time issue is pushed to the counties deciding if they want to observe Eastern or Central time.
