DST was sold, got everyone worked up, by telling us that we were backwards and unenlightened, or unsophisticated, by not going to DST. Completely ignoring the fact that our being in the eastern timezone was based on politics and not geography.
Oh and I really liked Daniels argument that he couldn't attract business' to this state because we didn't change our clocks. I'm sorry, but if these supposedly intelligent people are not smart enough to figure out what time it is (we didn't exactly keep it a secret), then I'm not sure they're the type we want to attract to our state.
Since we are geographically located in the central timezone, but politically were in the eastern zone, we had a good compromize going there; esentially Central DST YEAR ROUND! (quite progressive of us, eh?) Eventually Congress will get around to mandating that, they've already expanded it starting in 07.
As for education, I guess we should brace ourselves for tax increases. I've never seen any so called education reform proposals that didn't require throwing money at it.
Ditch Daniels
To me, it's just not important -- I can think of a dozen issues that matter more.