Tuesday, November 29, 2005
cut throat tactics...
Today governor blade sent a letter to the DOT asking for them to revoke St Joe County's plee for central time in order to keep the metro area of South Bend to Goshen on one time. This area needs to be on one time.
St Joe is mad and is calling governor blade crazy for his flip flop behavior as he said he would keep out of this debate between the counties. His behavior was showing itself when he was running for office last year but Indiana turned a blind eye. He went full tilt on the time issue promising that all of Indiana should be central time. Now that he is in office he dropped the case for central time showing he was only using it to get the democrats in St Joe to back him.
When he found his own party not supporting him because our elected officials where doing as the voters requested, he started making phone calls strong arming those he felt where weak. In the wee hours of the night Ulmer backed out of his word to those who put him in office. The reply that Ulmer sent out was that he was supporting his party. What? He is suppose to be our voice to keep those who what to murder our state at bay!
The time issue has been total chaos for full year. You cannot conduct business this way and yet governor blade continues to bring chaos and bitterment to this once beloved state I just to love.
So no matter what it is a loss ...
St Joe is mad and is calling governor blade crazy for his flip flop behavior as he said he would keep out of this debate between the counties. His behavior was showing itself when he was running for office last year but Indiana turned a blind eye. He went full tilt on the time issue promising that all of Indiana should be central time. Now that he is in office he dropped the case for central time showing he was only using it to get the democrats in St Joe to back him.
When he found his own party not supporting him because our elected officials where doing as the voters requested, he started making phone calls strong arming those he felt where weak. In the wee hours of the night Ulmer backed out of his word to those who put him in office. The reply that Ulmer sent out was that he was supporting his party. What? He is suppose to be our voice to keep those who what to murder our state at bay!
The time issue has been total chaos for full year. You cannot conduct business this way and yet governor blade continues to bring chaos and bitterment to this once beloved state I just to love.
So no matter what it is a loss ...
Saturday, November 26, 2005
dot meetings ...
Dept of Transportation set up meetings in four locations around Indiana. I found it disturbing that the government officials still are allowed their voices to be heard. The time issue was taken away from the people by our state govenerment. The citizens of Indiana never got to vote. Our state rep Ulmer went against his own survey and voted against his own people who didn't want to go on daylight savings. We have had a year of disagreement. With this much chaos moving to daylight savings should be scraped.
Logansport, IN
Indiana officials want Indiana to be on one time. DOT said that would be nice but IN cannot seem to make up its mind.
Terra Haute, IN
Indiana should be Central Time.
Jasper, IN
All of Indiana should be Central Time or just stay Standard Time.
South Bend, IN
Basically IN should be on one time. However, here South Bend is trying to pull their weight claiming Elkhart County needs to be Central Time along with South Bend.
South Bend just wants to line up with Chicago who isn't even effected by South Bend. Elkhart County is big on the RV industry and farming. They pull workers from Lagrange and Kosciusko Counties even from MI. Elkhart County is not stupid. Sure we don't want the line between Elkhart and St Joseph Counties but Elkhart County is pretty self sufficiant now with our own resturants and shopping malls. We don't need your Grape Road.
Logansport, IN
Indiana officials want Indiana to be on one time. DOT said that would be nice but IN cannot seem to make up its mind.
Terra Haute, IN
Indiana should be Central Time.
Jasper, IN
All of Indiana should be Central Time or just stay Standard Time.
South Bend, IN
Basically IN should be on one time. However, here South Bend is trying to pull their weight claiming Elkhart County needs to be Central Time along with South Bend.
South Bend just wants to line up with Chicago who isn't even effected by South Bend. Elkhart County is big on the RV industry and farming. They pull workers from Lagrange and Kosciusko Counties even from MI. Elkhart County is not stupid. Sure we don't want the line between Elkhart and St Joseph Counties but Elkhart County is pretty self sufficiant now with our own resturants and shopping malls. We don't need your Grape Road.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
St. Joe County
It is now November and the time debate rages on. The govenor says that it is wrong to put the time zone line between St. Joseph and Elkhart counties and then he says that he isn't going to do anything about it. In his little speech he says it would be great if St. Joseph could get Elkhart county to be central time with them. Come on!
Take a little trip on the west side of St. Joseph. There is a nice buffer zone of farm country. Now go east and you have four major cities running into each other from South Bend to Mishawaka (St. Joe) to Elkhart and to Goshen (Elkhart county).
St. Joe County Commissioners have called Elkhart County 'BABIES' just because they had the guts to tell the bully to just reconsider the idea of choosing Eastern Time.
Take a little trip on the west side of St. Joseph. There is a nice buffer zone of farm country. Now go east and you have four major cities running into each other from South Bend to Mishawaka (St. Joe) to Elkhart and to Goshen (Elkhart county).
St. Joe County Commissioners have called Elkhart County 'BABIES' just because they had the guts to tell the bully to just reconsider the idea of choosing Eastern Time.
