We need to do what Emily Lou Who did in “Horton Hears a Who”.

Mitch, we are here;

we are here;

we are here.

Fool that I am, I emailed the governor about our distaste for Daylight Savings Time for the State of Indiana. Oh, it would be okay if we were on Central Time, but we are not.

We are pseudo–Easterners. Ew!

I do not believe we will get any answer other than a form letter, but at least we are letting “that boy” know that some things just don’t go away for his constituency – especially the 81 year old one who was born in LaGrange County, whose mother was born in LaGrange County in 1881, whose grandmother was born in 1848 right across the state line in Michigan, and whose great-grandmother walked out here from New York.

Mother lived through the Depression here in LaGrange County; she sat in the Scott High School gym and listened to Roosevelt address the nation on December 8, 1941. Maybe Governor Daniels, you could take a take a moment to email, “Well, Ma’am, I have my reasons and I’m sorry you don’t agree with them.”

Say, anyone else want to email him? This is his page and this is his address: www.in.gov/gov/2310.htm

You can tell him Sarah and AmeliaJake say “Hey”.

UPDATE: Already the first phase of the response:

Thank you for emailing Governor Mitch Daniels.  The Governor appreciates
that you took the time to contact his office and play an active role in
the discussion about making Indiana a better place to live, work, and
raise a family.

Your email will be shared with the appropriate staff for a response.

Again, thank you for contacting Governor Daniels’ Office.

We used to call this fast time, back in the day. My mother and I still do; my younger son had to ask me what it meant. Of course, that may be because for a long time Indiana stayed on standard time all year, which was great considering how incredibly west we are in the Eastern Time Zone. Here we are in Indiana, getting up and going to bed with New York, Boston, and all the folks in Maine who can’t get there from here.

Then a few years back, Mitch Daniels got himself elected governor and, gadzooks, we found ourselves on daylight savings time. Mother calls it GDT – for Governor Daniels or, more likely, God Damn Time.

I have yet to move my watch forward; my mother doesn’t. I sent the governor an email back then but only got an intern’s form reply. Aha, apparently Mitch does not understand he has lost Mother’s vote – she calls him “That boy.” And while she does not have a “Ditch Mitch” bumper sticker on her car, she just might be getting there.