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Mitch Daniels
49th Governor of Indiana
Assumed office
January 10, 2005
LieutenantBecky Skillman
Preceded byJoseph Kernan
33rd Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office
January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2003
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byJacob Lew
Succeeded byJoshua Bolten
Personal details
Bornthumb
(1949-04-07) April 7, 1949 (age 75)
Monongahela, Pennsylvania
Diedthumb
Resting placethumb
Political partyRepublican
SpouseCheri Herman
Parent
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ResidenceGovernor's Residence
Alma materPrinceton University
Georgetown University
ProfessionPolitician
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WebsiteGovernor's website
Campaign website

Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr., (born April 7, 1949) is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his first four-year term as Indiana's 49th Governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush. He was formerly President of Eli Lilly and Company's North American operations, Indiana's largest corporation. He is cited as a rising star in the Republican Party.[1][2][3]

Upon becoming Governor, Daniels pressed for a series of changes that brought him into conflict with both Republicans and Democrats. During his first year in office, he proposed a number of tax increases, budget cuts, and privatization plans to balance the budget. Because of the opposition led by Republican Speaker of the House Brian Bosma, only two of the new taxes were approved. Support for a switch to daylight saving time, the privatization of the Indiana Toll Road, and the closure of many license branches brought him into conflict with Democrats; and, in 2005, his approval ratings dropped to 42%. In 2007, he began pressing for constitutional changes to cap State property taxes at 1-3% of value. The caps were approved by the Indiana General Assembly as statute, and the resulting drop in revenue was offset by an increase in the State sales tax. His support for the property tax limits, and its subsequent adoption, helped raise his popularity and secure his re-election bid.

His second term saw a large drop in State revenues, leading to major spending cuts to maintain a balanced budget. He was aided in passing the agenda by the election of a large Republican majority to both houses of the Indiana General Assembly in 2010. In an attempt to derail his agenda, the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives staged a legislative walkout for several weeks, preventing the passage of any legislation.

Early life

Family and education

Mitchell Elias Daniels, Jr., was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, to Dorothy Mae (née Wilkes) and Mitchell Elias Daniels, Sr.,[4] His paternal grandparents were Christian immigrants from Syria. Daniels has been honored by the Arab-American Institute with the 2011 Najeeb Halaby Award for Public Service.[5][6][7] Daniels spent his early childhood years in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia. The Daniels family moved to Indiana from Pennsylvania in 1959 when his father accepted a job at Indianapolis headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Pittman-Moore. As an 11-year-old boy, Daniels at first disliked the flatland of central Indiana after having become accustomed to the mountains in his youth. He was still in grade school at the time of the move and first attended Delaware Trails Elementary, Westlane Middle Schhool, and North Central High School. In high school he served as student body president.[8] After graduation in 1967, Daniels was named Indiana's Presidential Scholar — the state’s top male high school graduate that year — by President Lyndon Johnson.[9]

Daniels toured several northeastern universities, including Yale and Dartmouth, finally settling on attending Princeton University because he preferred the campus.[8] During this era, almost 3 million young men were serving in Vietnam. In 1971, Daniels earned a [Bachelor's_degree#Honours_Degrees_and_academic_distinctions|Bachelor's degree with Honors]] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His high grades allowed him to gain entry to Georgetown University Law Center where earned a Juris Doctor with Honors from Georgetown University Law Center.[6]

In 1970, while an undergraduate student at Princeton, he and two roomates were arrested for possession of marijuana, LSD, and illicit prescription drugs.[10] He spent two nights in jail.[11] In a plea bargain, he pled guilty to "maintaining a common nuisance" and was fined $350.[10] Daniels told The Daily Princetonian in 2011 that "justice was served,"[12] and has disclosed the arrest on job applications. In 1989 columns in the Indianapolis Star[13] and the Washington Post,[14] Daniels cited his personal drug history as support for his argument that "enforcement against the casual user" was an important element of the war on drugs.

Early political career

Daniels had his first experience in politics while still a teenager when, in 1968, he worked on the unsuccessful campaign of fellow Hoosier and Princeton alum William Ruckelshaus, who was running for the U.S. Senate.[8] After the campaign Ruckelshaus helped Daniels secure an internship in the office of then-Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar. In 1971, Daniels worked on Lugar's re-election campaign and then joined his mayoral staff. Within three years, he became Lugar's principal assistant. After Lugar was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976, Daniels followed him to Washington, D.C. as his Chief of Staff.[15]

Daniels served as Chief of Staff to Senator Richard Lugar early in his career.

Daniels served as Chief of Staff during Lugar's first term (1977–82); and, during this time, he met Cheri Herman, who was working for the National Park Service. The two married in 1978 and had four daughters; they divorced in 1993 and Cheri married a second husband. Cheri soon divorced her second husband and remarried Daniels in 1997.[6]

In 1983, when Lugar was elected Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Daniels was appointed its Executive Director. Serving in that position (1983–84), he played a major role in keeping the GOP in control of the Senate. Daniels was also manager of three successful re-election campaigns for Lugar. In August 1985, Daniels became chief political advisor and liaison to President Ronald Reagan.[15]

In 1987, Daniels returned to Indiana as President and CEO of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.[6][16] In 1988, Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States, and Governor of Indiana Robert Orr offered to appoint Daniels to Quayle's vacant Senate seat, but Daniels declined fearing it would force him to spend too much time away from his family.[8]

Eli Lilly

In 1990, Daniels left the Hudson Institute to accept a position at Eli Lilly and Company, the largest corporation headquartered in Indiana at that time.[17] He was first promoted to President of North American Operations (1993–97) and then to Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Policy (1997–2001).[5][6][15] His promotions at Lilly were largely based on his successful strategy to deflect attacks on Lilly's Prozac product by a massive PR campaign against the drug being waged by the Church of Scientology.[18]

He was also on the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) and held $1.45 million in stock. In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated him to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It is a Cabinet-level position, and the OMB is the largest unit of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Consequently, Daniels resigned from the IPL Board and sold his stock. Later that year, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. was bought by Virginia-based AES Corporation.[5] After the stock prices dropped, the Indiana Securities Division investigated the sale and found no wrongdoing.

When nominated for Director of OMB, Daniels liquidated his various stock holdings and options for over $20 million.[18]

Office of Management and Budget

In January 2001, Daniels accepted President George W. Bush's invitation to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He served as Director from January 2001 through June 2003. In this role he was also a member of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council.

During his time as the director of the OMB, Bush referred to him as "the Blade," for his noted acumen at budget cutting.[19] The $2.13 trillion budget Daniels submitted to Congress in 2001 would have made deep cuts in many agencies to accommodate the tax cuts being made, but few of the spending cuts actually approved by Congress.[8] During Daniels' 29-month tenure in the position, the projected federal budget surplus of $236 billion declined to a $400 billion deficit, due an economic downturn, and failure to enact spending cuts to offset the tax reductions.[15]

Conservative columnist Ross Douthat has noted that Daniels "carried water, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, for some of the Bush administration’s more egregious budgets [and...] made dubious public arguments in support of his boss’s agenda." [20] Daniels was responsible for estimating the cost of the the invasion of Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom. The operation was estimated to last six months, and did not include a projection of the long-term cost of maintaining a military presence in the region after its immediate occupation.[21] In 2002, Daniels was involved in an attempt to discredit a report by Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence B. Lindsey estimating the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom at between $100–$200 billion. Daniels called this estimate "very, very high" and stated that the costs would be between $50–$60 billion.[22] President Bush ultimately requested $75 billion to finance the operation during the fiscal year, and according to a 2010 Congressional Research Service report, the first fiscal year of the war cost $51 billion.[23] The failure to provide long term cost estimates became a source of criticism of opponents of Daniels and the administration.[21][20]

Governor

Election campaign

Main article: Indiana gubernatorial election, 2004
Mitch Daniels during Indianapolis Navy Week in August 2006

Daniels' decision to run for Governor of Indiana came as a surprise to his Party's leadership, and he was initially considered a dark horse. He was challenged in the Primary Election by conservative activist and lobbyist Eric Miller. Miller worked for the Phoenix Group, a Christian rights defense group. Daniels' campaign platform centered around cutting the State budget and privatizing public agencies. He won the primary with 67% of the vote.[24]

Campaigning in the General Election, Daniels visited all 92 Counties at least three times. He traveled in a donated white RV nicknamed "RV-1" and covered with signatures of supporters and his campaign slogan, "My Man Mitch".[25] "My Man Mitch" was a reference to a phrase once used by President George W. Bush to refer to Daniels. Bush campaigned with Daniels on two occasions, as Daniels hoped that Bush's popularity would help him secure a win. In his many public stops, he frequently used the phrase "every garden needs weeding every sixteen years or so"; 16 was the number of years since Indiana had had a Republican governor.[24] His opponent in the general election was the incumbent, Joe Kernan, who had succeeded to the office upon the death of Frank O'Bannon. Campaign ads by Kernan and the Democratic Party attempted to tie Daniels to number of issues—his jail time for marijuana use; a stock sale leading to speculations of insider trading; and, because of his role at Eli Lilly, the high cost of prescription drugs.[25] The 2004 election was the costliest in Indiana history, up until that time, with the candidates spending a combined US$23 million.[24] Daniels won the election, garnering about 53% of the vote compared to Kernan's 46%.[24] Kernan was the first incumbent Governor to lose an election in Indiana since 1894.[24]

First term

On his first day in office, Daniels created Indiana's first Office of Management and Budget to look for inefficiencies and cost savings throughout State government. The same day, he decertified all government employee unions by executive order, removing the requirement that State employees be union members, a requirement that had been in place since Governor Evan Bayh required by executive order in 1989.[26] In 2005, he led Indiana to its first balanced budget in eight years and turned the $600 million deficit he inherited into a $300 million surplus in a single year. He used this surplus to repay hundreds of millions of dollars the State had borrowed from Indiana's public schools in previous administrations.[5]

In his first State of the State address on January 18, 2005, Daniels put forward his agenda to improve the State's fiscal situation by calling for strict controls on all spending increases and proposed a one-year 1% tax increase on all individuals and entities earning over $100,000. The taxing proposal was controversial and the Republican Speaker of the House, Brian Bosma, criticized Daniels and refused to allow the proposal to be debated.[24] Two of Daniels' other tax proposals were approved: a tax on liquor and beverages to fund the construction of the Lucas Oil Stadium and a tax on rental cars to expand the Indiana Convention Center. The new source of funding resulted in a state take-over of a project initially started by the City of Indianapolis and led to a bitter feud between Daniels and Bosma over who should have ownership of the project. The State ultimately won and took ownership of the facilities from the City.[27]

Daniels's Photo at a 2009 awards ceremony

One of the most controversial measures Daniels successfully pushed through was the state adoption of Daylight Saving Time.[27] Though in the Eastern Time Zone, the Counties had adopted their own practices. The majority of the state followed Eastern Standard Time year-round (counties near Cincinnati adopting DST), while northwestern and southwestern counties adopted Central Time, adjusting their clocks for DST with the rest of the Central Time Zone. Interests for both time zones had prevented the adoption of daylight saving since the 1930s. Daniels pressed for the entire state to switch to Central Time, but the General Assembly could not come to terms. Ultimately after a long debate, they adopted Eastern Daylight Saving Time, the measure passing by one vote.[27] A second controversial plan, to lease the Indiana Toll Road to State Mobility Partners, a joint venture company owned by Spanish firm Cintra and Australia's Macquarie Infrastructure Group for 75 years in exchange for a one time payment of $3.85 billion. The measure led to considerable opposition from Democrats.[28][29] Republicans overwhelmingly supported the measure, leading to its passage. His support for such controversial legislation led to a rapid drop in his approval rating; in May 2005, a poll showed 42% of Indiana approved of the way he was doing his job. In the following months, many of his reforms began to have a positive effect; and his ratings began to improve, reaching 47% in July 2005.[30]

During a 12-day trade mission in Asia, Daniels visited Indiana soldiers serving on the border of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. On the 56th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, he laid a bouquet of white flowers at the base of a plaque listing 900 soldiers from Indiana who died in the war.[31]

In 2006, Daniels signed into law a bill privatizing the enrollment service for the State's Welfare Programs. Indiana's welfare enrollment facilities were replaced with Call Centers. In mid-2009, after many complaints, Daniels canceled the contract and began searching for a new provider for the service and temporarily having the government resume their former enrollment service.[32]

In 2008, Daniels started the Hoosier High School Math and Science Awards, annually naming a Mr./Miss Math and Science, similar to Mr. Basketball.[33]

Daniels was named on the 2008 "Public Officials of the Year" by the Governing magazine.[34] The same year, he received the 2008 Urban Innovator Award from the Manhattan Institute for his ideas for dealing with the state's fiscal and urban problems.[35]

Indiana Economic Development Corporation

When Daniels was elected, he claimed his number one priority was job creation.[5] Daniels created the public-private Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), became chairman of its board, and ordered it to “act at the speed of business, not the speed of government,” to attract new jobs. During its first year, the IEDC closed more transactions than in the previous two years combined. In 2006, the IEDC topped its 2005 results in only 10 months while becoming the only state in the nation to land three high profile automotive investments - Toyota, Honda, and Cummins. In 2007, the IEDC announced its third consecutive record-breaking year for new investment and job commitments in Indiana. [citation needed]

In his first year as governor, he was able to get 485 businesses to commit to creating more than 60,000 new jobs and invest $14.5 billion into the Indiana economy. Unemployment has dropped during his governorship, with 100,000 more Indiana residents being employed than before he was elected. Daniels' push for clean energy has moved Indiana to become one of the leading states in biofuel with 15 plants, including the world's largest soybean bio-diesel plant.[5]

In March 2010, WTHR Indianapolis News published a story claiming that up to 40% of the jobs the corporation reported to have helped create never came to fruition. The IEDC revised the numbers in response to the report which showed only 13% of the job commitments would not come to fruition. The story cited changes in companies' plans as the primary reason for the failures and criticized IEDC's annual report for prematurely claiming credit for the job creation.[36]

Healthy Indiana Plan

In 2007, Daniels signed the Healthy Indiana Plan, which provided 132,000 uninsured Indiana workers with coverage. The plan promotes health screenings, early prevention services, and smoking cessation. It also provides tax credits for small businesses that create qualified wellness and Section 125 plans. The plan was paid for by an increase in the state’s tax on cigarettes.

In a September 15, 2007 Wall Street Journal column, Fred Barnes quoted Daniels talking about the Healthy Indiana Plan and cigarette tax increase saying, “A consumption tax on a product you'd just as soon have less of doesn't violate the rules I learned under Ronald Reagan."[37] The plan allowed for spending to assist 130,000 Indiana residents with health care costs.[5]

For the 132,000 Indiana residents eligible for the Healthy Indiana Plan, a POWER health savings account is available to help pay medical expenses. A health savings account was first offered to state employees in 2006 and thousands of workers now participate. In 2005, Daniels signed a bill allowing citizens to waive coverage for pre-existing conditions on individual and some group policies.

Property tax reform

See also: Taxation in Indiana

In 2008, Daniels proposed a property tax ceiling of two percent for rental properties and three percent for businesses. According to Seth T. Whitecotton, a journalist and analyst for the Connersville News-Examiner, "The move would be permanent, making Indiana one of the lowest property tax states in the country."

The plan was approved by the Indiana House of Representatives on March 14, 2008 and signed by Daniels on March 19, 2008, locking in lower tax rates for homeowners, businesses, and rental properties. In 2008, Indiana homeowners had an average property tax cut of more than 30 percent; a total of $870 million in tax cuts. To offset the loss in revenues the state raised the sales tax from 6% to 7% effective April 1, 2008.[38]

Fearing a future government may overturn the law enforcing property tax rate caps, Daniels and other state Republican leaders pressed for a constitutional amendment to limit the property tax rates. The proposed amendment was placed on the 2010 General election ballot, and in November 2010, voters elected to adopt the tax caps into the Indiana Constitution.[39]

Second term

See also: Indiana gubernatorial election, 2008
Mitch Daniels (left) talking to members of the Indiana National Guard.

Daniels entered the 2010 election year with a 51% approval rate, and 28% disapproval rate. Daniels' reelection campaign focused on the states unemployment rate, which had lowered during his time in office, the proposed property tax reform amendment, and the successful balancing of the state budget during his first term.[40]

On November 4, 2008, Daniels defeated Democratic candidate Jill Long Thompson and was elected to a second term as Governor with 57.8% of votes.[41] He was reinaugurated on January 12, 2009. Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza named the Daniels reelection campaign "The Best Gubernatorial Campaign of 2008" and noted that some Republicans were already bandying about his name for the 2012 presidential election.[42]

Daniels was named one of 2008's eight best public officials by Governing Magazine, citing his persistence and efficiency.[43]

On July 14, 2010 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Daniels was on hand to help announce the return of IndyCar Series chassis manufacturing to the state of Indiana.[44] Dallara Automobili will build a new technology center in Speedway, Indiana and the state of Indiana will subsidize the sale of the first 28 IndyCar chassis with a $150,000 discount.[45]

Daniels as been recognized for his commitment to fiscal discipline. He is a recent recipient of the Herman Khan Award from the conservative think tank the Hudson Institute, of which he is a former President and CEO, and was one of the first to receive the Fiscy award for fiscal discipline.[46] A November 2010 poll gave Daniel's a 75% approval rate.[47]

Legislative walkouts

Main article: 2011 Indiana legislative walkouts

In February 2011, Republican legislators attempted to pass a right to work bill in the Indiana House of Representatives. The bill would have made it illegal for employees to be required to join a workers' union. Republicans argued that it would help the state attract new employers. Unable to prevent the measure from passing, Democratic legislators fled the state to deny the body quorum while several hundred protesters staged demonstrations at the capital. Minority walkouts are somewhat common in the state, occurring as recently as 2005.[48]

Governor Daniels stated that while he supported the legislation, he believed the Republican lawmakers should drop the bill because it was not part of their election platform and deserved a period of public debate. Republicans subsequently dropped the bill, but the Democratic lawmakers still refused to return to the capital, demanding additional bills be tabled, including a bill to create a statewide school voucher program. Their refusal to return left the Indiana General Assembly unable to pass any legislation, until three of the twelve bills they objected to were dropped from the agenda on March 28. The minority subsequently returned to the statehouse to resume their duties.[48]

Daniels was interviewed in February 2011, about the similar 2011 Wisconsin budget protests in Madison. While supporting the Wisconsin Republicans, he stated that in Indiana "we're not in quite the same position or advocating quite the same things they are up in Madison."[49]

2012 Presidential speculation

Although Daniels had claimed to be reluctant to seek higher office, many media outlets, including Politico, The Weekly Standard, Forbes, The Washington Post, CNN, The Economist, and The Indianapolis Star began to speculate that Daniels may intend to seek the Republican nomination for President in 2012 after he joined the national debate on cap and trade legislation by penning a response in the Wall Street Journal to policies espoused by the Democratic-majority Congress and the White House in August 2010.[50][51] The speculators have cited Daniels' record of reforming government, reducing taxes, balancing the budget, and connecting with voters in Indiana.[52][53][54][55] However, Daniels has expressed some positions that have ruffled feathers within the social conservative wing of the Republican Party. He "has called for a 'truce', for instance, on social issues, and expressed a willingness to consider tax increases to rectify a budget deficit."[56]

In August 2010, The Economist praised Daniels' "reverence for restraint and efficacy" and concluded that "He is, in short, just the kind of man to relish fixing a broken state – or country."[57] Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine called Daniels "a smart and effective leader who is a serious thinker about history, politics, and policy," and wrote that "Daniels, like former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, is a Republican who knows how to govern and can do it well."[58] In February 2011, David Brooks of the New York Times described Daniels as the "Party's strongest [would be] candidate" predicting that he "couldn't match Obama in grace and elegance, but he could on substance." [59]

On December 12, 2010, Daniels suggested in a local interview that he would decide on a White House run before May 2011.[60]

Different groups and individuals have pressured Daniels to run for office. A group of students founded "The Student Initiative to Draft Daniels" in early 2011 in an effort to convince him to run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.[61] In response to early speculation, Daniels dismissed a presidential run in June 2009, saying "I've only ever run for or held one office. It's the last one I'm going to hold."[62] However, in February 2010 he told a Washington Post reporter that he was open to the idea of running in 2012.[63]

On March 6, 2011, Daniels was the winner of an Oregon (Republican Party) straw poll. Daniels drew 29.33% of the vote, besting second place finisher Mitt Romney (22.66%) and third place finisher Sarah Palin (18.22%), and was the winner of a similar straw poll in the state of Washington.[64]

Electoral history

Main articles: Indiana gubernatorial election, 2004 and Indiana gubernatorial election, 2008
Indiana gubernatorial election, 2004
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Mitch Daniels 1,302,912 53.2
Democratic Joe Kernan (Incumbent) 1,113,900 45.5
Libertarian Kenn Gividen 31,664 1.3
Indiana gubernatorial election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Mitch Daniels (Incumbent) 1,542,371 57.8
Democratic Jill Long Thompson 1,067,863 40.1
Libertarian Andy Horning 56,651 2.1

See also

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Preceded by Governor of Indiana
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