I’m a geek, so I thought I’d sift through the Daylight Saving Time vote (SB 127-2005) and see who the flip-floppers were — the guys who could have killed Daylight Saving Time at one point or another, but didn’t. By my count, the big winners are Reps. Ayers, Borders, Buck, Gutwein, Heim, Koch, Lehe, Ripley, Ruppel, Ulmer, and, of course, Woodruff.
Here is the table I ginned up. Originally I was going to put the table in the post, but the formatting was so ugly it just had to be a new page. Vote #1 was a third reading vote on 4/11/05 that failed 49 in favor, 50 against. Had there been 51 against, it would have been dead for good. Vote #2 was a Motion to Reconsider the previous vote which passed 52 in favor, 46 against. Had that vote failed, the original defeat would have stuck. Vote #3 was the reconsidered third reading vote that passed 51 in favor to 47 against. Had one other person abstained or voted against it, it would have failed for lack of a majority. Vote #4 was the Conference Committee vote which failed 48 in favor, to 49 against. Had two more people voted against it, it would have been dead for good. Finally, Vote #5 was a do-over of the Conference Committee vote which passed 51 in favor to 46 against. This is the vote where Rep. Woodruff finally cracked and did what he promised his constituents he would never do — voted in favor of Daylight Saving Time. At that point, Rep. Bosma stopped holding votes on the subject because he had gotten what he and the Governor wanted.
In the table, a “Y” indicates a yes vote. A blank indicates a no vote. “No vote” indicates did not vote. “DNA” indicates “did not appear.”
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