Mitch Still in the Dark over Time Zone Issue

Check out some of the quotes from this article in the IndyStar.com.

Seems Mitch has made a few enemies with his Daylight Savings Time promise.

Time zones put counties on defensive - Indystar.com

Battered by proponents of both sides in Indiana's time zone debate, Michael Yoder says he and a number of county commissioners across the state are becoming "time zone piñatas."

Yoder said the people in his county are angry the time issue ever came up at all. "Overwhelmingly people want to be left alone," he said.

A Republican in a strongly Republican county, Yoder said Daniels' popularity is hitting bottom in his part of the state. "I don't think I've talked to anybody in the last two months that had anything good to say about the governor. I don't think he could get 10 votes in this county now."

County commissioners in both parties, and in all areas of the state, said they are angry that the state legislature, Gov. Mitch Daniels and the federal government have stuck them with this issue.

Daniels said he doesn't think most county commissioners feel that way.

"Oh no, they don't," Daniels said. "The most irresponsible thing we could have done is to try to dictate an answer from here. Some of these folks would rather not be forced to deal with an issue of local importance, but in that case they shouldn't have run for the job."

Daniels said the debate has been worth the angst.

For too long, he said, Indiana has had three time zones: "Central Time, Eastern Time and the Twilight Zone."

Now, he said, the whole state will be on daylight-saving time, with two time zones.

"The era of total confusion will be over."

Now Mitch... there you go again making stuff up. There was no Twilight zone. Just Central and Eastern. And people knew what time it was. But then you had to go and open up the Daylight Savings Time Pandoras Box, claiming that the entire state needs to be on the same time... Central Daylight Savings time... to end the confusion. By calling in favors from all over the state, you forced the issue past both the Senate and House.

And you knew all along that the US Dept of Transportation couldn't rule on behalf of an entire state. It was a county issue. Yet you never portrayed it as such. Once Mineta sent you a letter, you ran away from the issue as fast as you could leaving it in the laps of County Commissioners who never asked for this nightmare.

And now you come back and claim that those County Commissioners aren't pissed with you? Nice try... but WRONG! I was up in Kosciusko County over the weekend and the issue is a HOT one up there. And they blame you Mitch! Just wait until next spring when people start realizing their problems when they are required to change their clocks. The pressure will really come back at you in Spades. Hope you weren't counting on a second term. Cause you aren't going to get one.

Oh and the "era of confusion" won't end next Spring... it will only get worse! Just another issue upon which you are so far off base it isn't even funny.