Matthew Tully has a column on Rep. Troy Woodruff (R-Vincennes) entitled Time will tell whether lawmaker can be forgiven.
Seems the folks in Woodruff’s district are mad at him for breaking his word. See, he promised that he would never vote for Daylight Saving Time. Not only did he vote for Daylight Saving Time — he was the final and deciding vote for Daylight Saving Time. Woodruff is a freshman representative who won his seat by 127 votes over incumbent John Frenz.
Sitting in his office, Frenz played a nasty GOP radio ad from 2004. While the ad slammed Frenz for breaking his word, he can now laugh at its closing sentence: “When Troy Woodruff gives us his word, we can trust him to keep it.”
Oops.
Woodruff says he’s crossing his fingers hoping that his district gets moved into the Central Time Zone. There would be a better chance of that if Governor Daniels would have followed the procedure required by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation. As it is, I’d be surprised if the U.S. Dept. of Transportation actually conducts hearings on the matter.
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