Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a popular fiscal conservative who flirted with a presidential bid, will deliver the Republican
response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced the selection of Daniels
in a statement Thursday in which they praised his "solid record of effective government and fiscal responsibility."
Daniels provides the GOP with a onetime potential White House hopeful as a counterpoint to Obama in an election year heavily
focused on the nation's economic outlook. He also governs a state that Obama won in 2008, ending a long stretch of GOP
wins in Indiana.
"As governor, he has turned deficits into surplus, reformed government from top to bottom, and created a better environment
for private sector job creation," Boehner said in the statement.
Daniels, a two-term Midwestern governor and former director of the White House budget office under President George W. Bush,
had spent months considering a White House run. But he announced last May that he had decided against a bid out of concern
over the impact on his wife and four daughters.
McConnell called Daniels an "eloquent spokesman for limited government" and the "right choice to explain the
challenges we face and to outline a hopeful, common-sense vision for moving America forward by growing the economy, not the
national debt."
Last year, Republicans tapped incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to deliver the GOP response.
Daniels has tangled with Indiana Democrats over anti-union legislation and funds for Planned Parenthood.
Indiana could become the first state in more than a decade to ban a requirement that workers pay mandatory union fees, a
move backed by Indiana House and Senate Republican leaders and, most recently, Daniels.
Last year, Daniels signed legislation making Indiana the first state to deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood because
it provides abortions.
Daniels will speak after Obama's address.
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Daniels to give GOP response to State of Union speech
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January 19, 2012
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He promised higher wages for indiana, we have in fact slipped back. What's good for mitch and his public image has been extremely harmful for the state and the people. Let it be known that pence wants to continue this legacy.......
There is an enourmous backlog in state employee retirement funds and pension benefits. He has failed to address these, leaving the costs to grow for future governors.
He has chosen to support his buddies to finance a massive coal plant operation. No matter your stance on energy, coal is a declining source. It is becoming more and more expensive to dig it and more dangerous. The environmental impacts are massive and the negative health implications are well supported, but he approves billions to this project for a dying energy source.
He has slashed hundreds of millions from education in hopes that the private sector will pick it up. Without an educated work force, citizens will be forced to move or work for low wages because serious companies will locate elsewhere. It has been well documented that the existing companies in this state simply can't find the educated and skilled people they need. These leads to enourmous tax incentives at great cost to citizens.
While other states have taken a serious look at efficient transportation, Mitch has chosen to plow through farmalnds and forests along with many people's homes to build yet mor interstate lane miles. Even with selling the toll road, he had to reduce the quality of material used which has a much lower lifespan.
The bridge boondoggle over the ohio river to kentucky is costing this state more than kentucky. While Kentucky was able to reduce the overall cost of the project, Mitch offered to pay a larger percentage of the bill so indiana tax payers can foot the bill.
His policy of allocating future funds towards his current administration have made a great political story that indiana is better off. We are actually much worse off, just delayed!
Could you provide support to back up your statement about how Daniels has cost the state huge sums of money? It would, perhaps, help our understanding of your comment.