Indiana is the laughing stock of the country thanks to our Governor, Mitch Daniels, and his Lapdog, State Representative Steve Heim, who chose to spit in the faces of the majority of Hoosiers by instituting the nuttiest, craziest time zone mess ever.
When our representatives fail to follow up on their promises, and instead, just follow the leader, it's time for them to be fired.
We can make sure that at least one of these guys hit the road next month.
Here is a song that tells it like it is:
George Schricker: Lead Vocal & Rhythm Guitar
Steve DeFord: Keyboards & Backup Vocals
Bruce Bartlett: Bass & Tamborine
Produced by Bruce Bartlett
West Wind Studios
Elkhart, Indiana
for AFSCME
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Get your facts Straight. Heim voted NO on DST!
Get YOUR facts straight anonymous. I don't know how Heim can sleep at night knowing that he's lying to his entire constituency. Heim, and anyone who paid attention to the time zone debate, know damn well that Heim cast the tie-breaking vote to let DST of out committee. If he'd have voted "no"... it would have died. The language would have been dead. He kept the language alive until it was safe for him to vote "no" once the bill was on the House Floor. If Heim and his supporters have to lie to the public to attempt to keep him in office, then he is deserving of a loss.
This is probably the vote you're thinking of. That was the DST legislation in HB 1034. HB 1034 ultimately died when the Republicans and Democrats couldn't reach an agreement on a number of issues and the Democrats refused to return to the floor prior to a deadline.
The bill that ultimately passed was SB 127-2005 which was originally a transportation bill that was stripped and replaced with DST legislation. It was also notably sent to a different committee where Rep. Heim and Rep. Walorski (conveniently absent for the vote on HB 1034) wouldn't have to vote on the issue.
Off hand, I can't recall whether the passage of HB 1034 out of committee had some impact on the eligibility for consideration of SB 127.
Dude, millions of people live and work near time zone boundaries around the world... it's not that unusual!
What was goofy about Indiana before was that most of the state refused to change their clocks with the rest of the world.
Spring forward, fall back. Welcome to the 21st Century.
Doug,
With all due respect, I know exactly which vote I'm thinking of. I assume that you are familiar with the legislative procedure, so you ought to know that if language is not passed out of committee by the time bills have to switch houses, then the language is dead and cannot be reintroduced later. So had Heim not voted HB 1034 out of committee, the language would have been dead and could not have been amended into SB 127. So there is the impact of HB 1034 on SB 127 for you...
And anonymous, I don't care what state is on what time... people here liked our time the way it was, and we elected a Republican who promised to keep it that way... however he lied to us, and now he is lying about his voting record. The bottom line is that people elect Representatives to represent their will at the state legislature, and when they don't do that, and lie about it, it's time for them to go...
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