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  Mitch Daniels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniels, who is in hot water over his decisions to switch some counties to new time zones and to lease the Indiana Toll Road to a foreign consortium, has an approval rating of 39%, the 4th lowest in the country.
Daniels' close ties with Eli Lilly came under scrutiny during 2002, when a mysterious rider was slipped into the Homeland Security Act shielding the pharmaceutical giant from liability for vaccine injury claims that could eventually amount to billions of dollars.
Daniels, as part of a 12-day trade mission in Asia, visited Indiana soldiers serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone on the 56th anniversary of the start of the Korean War and laid a bouquet of white flowers at the base of a plaque listing 900 Hoosiers who died in the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mitch_Daniels   (1110 words)

  
 Mitch Daniels' fuzzy math - Salon
Mitch Daniels was an unusual choice to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Bush White House.
Daniels has focused most of his spin on the costs of the Bush tax cut and its effects on the federal budget, subjects that have dominated recent economic debate.
Daniels is attempting to shift the focus of the debate to changing surplus projections and thereby obscure the cost of the tax cut.
www.salon.com /politics/col/spinsanity/2002/02/12/daniels/index.html   (696 words)

  
 Mitch Daniels - a Star Library biography
Mitch Daniels was elected governor of Indiana Nov. 2, 2004, unseating incumbent
Daniels finished his degree in 1971 but by that time the war was winding down and his lottery number -- 147 -- was high enough that he was not called.
Daniels was sworn in as governor on Jan. 10, 2005.
www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/d/daniels_mitch/daniels.html   (1144 words)

  
 Mitch Daniels - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Mitch is a Republican who has served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a Cabinet-level position responsible for overseeing the federal government’s $2 trillion budget.
Yes, Karl Rove floated the story that Daniels is leaving to run for governor of Indiana, and that may be true in the end.
George W. Bush's nickname for Mitch is "The Blade," supposed for his willingness to adhere to strict fiscal responsibility during his tenure as the OMB director.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php?title=Mitch_Daniels&printable=yes   (435 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Average guy' image worked   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Daniels, 55, who had never before run for office, showed strong campaign skills as he shook hands and promised to protect jobs.
Daniels was nicknamed "The Blade" by Bush because of his cost-slashing reputation as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Daniels was chief of staff to Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and adviser to President Reagan in the mid-1980s.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/vote2004/2004-11-03-daniels-profile_x.htm   (353 words)

  
 Mitch Daniels: Right Wing Marionette
Mitch Daniels was elected Governor of Indiana because he campaigned as a moderate, dropping the normal right-wing rhetoric and focusing on issues that Hoosiers cared about.
Now we see why the legislature is growing so chummy with Mitch Daniels after all of that fighting — Daniels has finally conceded ground to the far-right movement as political payback for blowing all of his hard-earned political capital on a tax hike that died in the House and appointments that fizzled within weeks.
Daniels’ Administration doesn’t seem to be booking flights for the thousands of jobs that now teeter on the brink of irreparable loss.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/feb/article314.html   (529 words)

  
 Mitch Daniels And His Tax Hike
When Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels campaigned for Indiana to be run “like a business,” no Hoosiers expected it to be Enron he emulated.
What Daniels is proposing would place a penalty on those Hoosiers who choose to file tax returns with their spouse instead of individually.
Daniels’ State of the State came off as a State of Confusion; a grim, stumbling attempt to address the problems of a state he did not come to know before jetting away from Washington D.C. to campaign in and govern.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/jan/article357.html   (644 words)

  
 Evansville Courier & Press Endoresment of Mitch Daniels
The endorsement of Mitch Daniels by the Evansville Courier and Press is troubling for our side, but we read the same "troubled feeling regarding I-69" from members of the Evansville newspaper's editorial board.
Daniels, a Republican, is opposed by Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan and Libertarian Kenn Gividen.
Daniels is one of the more interesting candidates to come along in many years.
www.i69tour.org /danielsendorsements.html   (831 words)

  
 CARR News - Mitch Daniels Open to Review of I-69 Route Selection
Mitch Daniels resigned last month after two years as White House budget director and formed a campaign committee to raise money for the gubernatorial race.
Daniels began a statewide tour last week, pledging to visit all of Indiana's 92 counties during the next 100 days.
Daniels said he must learn much more about the project but would be "open" to bringing the issue back up for discussion.
www.carri69.org /editorial/mitch_daniels.html   (417 words)

  
 Online NewsHour | Vote 2004 | Key Races | Indiana Governor's Race | Mitch Daniels
Daniels, 55, took to the road last July in a recreational vehicle outfitted with his signature green round logo with the slogan -- "My Man Mitch." The RV has since been decorated by supporters across Indiana who have signed his mobile campaign headquarters.
When Lugar was elected chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Daniels served as its executive director from 1983 to 1984 where he played a major role in the GOP keeping control of the U.S. Senate.
Not a native Hoosier, Daniels was born in Monongahela, Pa. in 1949.
www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2004/key-races/in_daniels.html   (800 words)

  
 OMB Director Daniels leaving post - May. 6, 2003
Daniels' departure follows the resignation earlier this year of Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Daniels, in supporting the president's tax plans, has downplayed their budgetary impact, saying rising deficits are due mostly to recession and war.
Daniels was an executive at Indianapolis pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly (LLY: Research, Estimates) from 1997 to 2001.
money.cnn.com /2003/05/06/news/economy/omb_daniels/index.htm   (447 words)

  
 "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney" by Nicholas Thompson
Daniels notes that he offered Bush the option of actually freezing government spending, a drastic step given inflation, population growth, and the fact that even a 4-percent increase created the lowest federal spending level as a percentage of GDP since the '60s.
Daniels was even connected directly to the council while at Lilly, and his lobbying shop helped get the council to work to accelerate the FDA's drug approval process--bringing life-saving drugs to market quickly, along with a few life-ending ones, such as the diabetes drug Rezulin.
Daniels says this with a sincerity that is convincing--until you remember that the real point of his budget strategy is to put government on a long-term starvation diet.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2001/0107.thompson.html   (4397 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - Guest Columns - Mitch Daniels: Latest Victim of 'The Hive'
The nomination by the hive for this sinister character is one Mitch Daniels, the OMB Director for Bush 43.
Daniels came to Washington in 1976, having served as chief of staff to Richard Lugar, the Mayor of Indianapolis.
Daniels' move back here when Bush 43 got elected was somewhat of a surprise because of his devotion to family.
www.aim.org /publications/guest_columns/weyrich/2002/17jan2002.html   (1138 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Daniels wins Ind. GOP nomination for governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former White House budget director Mitch Daniels easily defeated his conservative activist opponent Tuesday to win the GOP nomination for governor, drawing on the support of President Bush and Indiana's Republican leadership in the nation's first gubernatorial primary of the year.
With 26% of precincts reporting, Daniels, who left the Bush administration to run in Indiana, had 86,162 votes — or 68% — in his victory against Eric Miller, who had 40,534 votes — or 32%.
Daniels has given many Republicans hope that their party can finally win back the top job in Indiana, a state that has voted Republican in presidential elections since 1968 but has picked Democratic governors for 16 years.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/state/indiana/2004-05-04-daniels-ind-governor_x.htm   (418 words)

  
 Salon.com Politics | Mitch Daniels' fuzzy math   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Daniels also has a penchant for using the language of political jargon to attack administration opponents.
Under Daniels, OMB is marketing some of its proposals with an often casual disregard for intellectual honesty.
Daniels may not recognize the difference from his previous job, but we must.
archive.salon.com /politics/col/spinsanity/2002/02/12/daniels/print.html   (1199 words)

  
 CCAGW Political Action Committee: Mitch Daniels
“Mitch Daniels has a strong record of fiscal discipline as the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.
While serving as OMB director from January 2001 to June 2003, Mitch Daniels worked tirelessly, often facing a lonely uphill battle, to break Washington of its wasteful spending habits.
Daniels also insisted that Congress eliminate earmarks from the federal budget.
www.ccagwpac.org /Daniels.htm   (338 words)

  
 George W. Bush's Cabinet: Director of Office of Management and Budget Mitch Daniels, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
George W. Bush's Cabinet: Director of Office of Management and Budget Mitch Daniels, Jr.
Mitch Daniels served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2002, when he stepped down to run for governor of Indiana.
At the time of his appointment as OMB director, Daniels also had stock holdings of between $50,000 and $100,000 in Citigroup, General Electric and another drug company, Merck.
www.opensecrets.org /bush/cabinet/cabinet.daniels.asp   (101 words)

  
 Governor Mitch Daniels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Governor Daniels called upon his experience in business and as advisor to then-Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar, Chief of Staff to Senator Lugar, Senior Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to President George W. Bush to closely scrutinize the manner in which the state conducts its business.
Daniels went on to earn a bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1971.
Mitch Daniels and his wife Cheri have four daughters Meagan, Melissa, Meredith, and Maggie.
www.in.gov /gov/bio/index.html   (358 words)

  
 Mitch Daniels Thumbs-Down/ Thumbs-Up
We are not happy with the position of Mitch Daniels, but it is distinctly in a different class from that of Joe Kernan and deserves to be recognized for the differences.
The path Daniels endorsed is similar to the one presented last winter by the late Gov. Frank O'Bannon and endorsed by new Gov. Joe Kernan, but Daniels' route moves the highway north of Martinsville to a new interchange being built on Interstate 70 near Indianapolis International Airport.
Daniels endorses tax cuts as a means to stimulate the national economy, adding that he believed we are seeing signs of the good it is doing.
www.i69tour.org /daniels.html   (5511 words)

  
 CNN.com - Mitch Daniels: Under Bush, NASA budget up - Feb. 4, 2003
Daniels, if it doesn't include the war and it's still a $300 some-odd billion deficit, how much does a war add to that?
MITCH DANIELS: Judy, first of all, let's all hope earnestly there won't be a war.
DANIELS: Well, we have a very wide range and that would depend, as I say, on decisions not yet made and decisions that we still hope won't have to be made.
www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/04/cnna.mitch.daniels/index.html   (928 words)

  
 Bret Swanson on Indiana and Gov. Mitch Daniels on NRO Financial
Mitch “the Blade” Daniels is putting the state on the free-market cutting edge.
The chief architect of the boom is the state’s decisive Governor Mitch Daniels, President Bush’s former budget director.
Daniels’ telecommunications reform was thus a major component of his strategy to connect Indiana to global markets, to diversify the state’s economy toward services, technology, and life sciences, and to make the state’s manufacturing base more productive.
www.nationalreview.com /nrof_comment/swanson200603280801.asp   (846 words)

  
 Sirotablog: Mitch Daniels: The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Official In American History
Last I checked, Mitch Daniels as Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, personally oversaw the worst budget deterioration in American history.
Daniels was the principle architect of budget policies that, took a projected surplus of $5.6 trillion in 2000 and turned it into a projected deficit of $4.4 trillion today by the time he left the White House to run for governor in 2003.
To put it another way, in the 29 months Daniels served as the nation's top budget official, the nation's budget picture deteriorated by more than $12 million a day, every single day, 7 days a week.
www.davidsirota.com /2004/05/mitch-daniels-most-fiscally.html   (609 words)

  
 NFIB Endorses Mitch Daniels for Governor
Both Daniels and NFIB President and CEO Jack Faris participated in the rallies.
"Mitch Daniels is dedicated to working with Indiana's entrepreneurs to grow the state's economy," Faris said.
Daniels was overwhelmingly selected as the best candidate for governor of Indiana.
www.nfib.com /object/IO_17789.html   (292 words)

  
 TIME.com: Person of the Week: Mitch Daniels -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Even though nobody was mentioning him by name, only Mitch Daniels could have come up with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week.
With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus —; the "lock box" — to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity.
Bush, in his half-descriptive, half-self-promotional way, has nicknamed his budget chief "the Blade," and from the start Daniels’ mandate was clear: be the sharp, merciless business end of his boss’ conservative desire for smaller government.
www.time.com /time/pow/article/0,8599,171656,00.html   (865 words)

  
 Delayed Discharge ....mitch daniels, erskine bowles, elizabeth dole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
That was in part due to the fact that his family remains based in home state Indiana (Daniels visits weekly), and because Daniels has been touted as a 2004 gubernatorial candidate there.
Increasingly, Daniels is being counted on to be a voice of calm on the economic front now that Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's public persona isn't playing well on Wall Street or Main Street, U.S.A. Daniels has impressed the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill with his handling of the budget and appropriations debates.
"Mitch has said the president won't stand for bloated budgets there, and he has to make sure the president is held to that pledge," says the senator.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/765979/posts   (790 words)

  
 Why Did Mitch Daniels Really Resign: Allegations of Insider Trading, Of Course! - BuzzFlash News Analysis
They include former IPALCO director Mitch Daniels, a former Eli Lilly and Co. executive who is now President Bush's budget director.
Daniels, who sold about $1.45 million in IPALCO stock in January 2001, on Tuesday announced he is resigning the federal post, leading to speculation he will run for governor here.
Hey, as far as the Bush administration is concerned, an accusation of insider trading resulting in millions of dollars in personal gain doesn't make Mitch Daniels a persona non grata.
www.buzzflash.com /analysis/03/05/06_daniels.html   (408 words)

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