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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Ind. Gov't. - Three Dudes for Daniels

Well, I turns out I misread it, the headline in this Bluffton News-Banner editorial actually is: "3 Duds for Daniels Dropping, Dumping and Deep-Sixing." The three "losers," according to the piece, are daylight savings time, "the proposed switch from electing the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to appointing," and "changing ISTEP testing from fall to spring."

Speaking of dudes, however, yesterday's front page story in the Indianapolis Star by Matthew Tully made a pretty compelling case for "Mitch the ordinary guy." The lead:

To many Hoosiers, he's just Mitch. The plain-spoken, almost casual new governor who seems more comfortable in jeans and baseball caps than suits and ties.

He was never far from a pork tenderloin sandwich on the campaign trail last year, and he likes to talk about the symbolic beauty of barns and his fondness for small-town high school basketball.

Today, however, a second story by the same reporter explains that:
[Daniels] has spent $600,000 on a 1.5-acre plot in Carmel's gated Laurelwood community, a woodsy haven of million-dollar-plus homes.
Apparently "he may build a home there within the next two years. For now, though, he continues to prefer his Geist area home to the governor's official residence" on Indianaplis' North Meridian Street.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 8, 2005 05:08 PM
Posted to Indiana Government