The Indy Star has an article entitled Clock has expired for DST replays which says that now that the pro-DST forces eked out a victory, the rest of us should just shut up about it for the rest of eternity. The General Assembly, they say, should resist the temptation to reopen the issue.
Any compromise of a clear-cut identity for the state in the matter of time would dishonor the vote to spring forward.
“Dishonor the vote to spring forward?” Would that they had such concern about the votes not to spring forward. The State voted long ago to remain on Eastern Standard Time year round. There was no concern about dishonoring that vote. Prior Daylight Saving Time bills over the past 30 years died death after death after death. There was no concern about dishonor when new DST legislation was brought to the floor. The original Daylight Saving Time bill in the 2005 General Asssembly died in the House of Representatives. No concern about dishonor then. The Second Daylight Saving Time bill was defeated 50 to 49. No concern about dishonoring that vote. The DST bill had been defeated again 48 for and 49 against while Representative Bosma held the vote open long enough to get Representative Ulmer and Representative Troy “I’ll never vote for it” Woodruff to switch their votes. Certainly no concern about dishonoring the original vote on that one.
No, it would only be dishonorable to switch the vote now that the “business community” (which I take to mean executives who are movers and shakers in the Indiana Chamber of Commerce) got what they want. After all, according to the Star, it matters not a whit what us peons might desire for ourselves, only what the business community overlords dictate:
[T]he Indiana General Assembly early this year finally decided something the business community has long accepted: This state must get in step with the nation by following daylight-saving time[.]
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[The details of Indiana time] must be worked out on the basis of business, not politics or sentimentality.
I guess the help should beg forgiveness for being too noisy.