Thanks for stopping by Americans for Mitch, the new home of the Draft Mitch movement. In 2003, a Hoosier named Mitch Daniels did something he never thought he would do: run for office. But the decision didn’t come easy, his fellow citizens had to convince him that he was the right man for the job.

At the time, Indiana government was awash in debt and scandal. The state lost hundreds of thousands of jobs as the nation experienced record levels of prosperity and economic growth.

A group of Hoosiers knew we could do better. Raising money $10 at a time from hardworking, every day folks, the group hoped to demonstrate to Mitch that Hoosiers wanted change. They knew Indiana could Aim Higher and lead instead of follow.

Five and half years since taking office, Mitch has led a comeback for Indiana. When Mitch entered office in 2005, Indiana had a $1 billion budget deficit, a $3 billion transportation deficit, and was the model of a government that didn’t work. Today, Indiana has a surplus, recently passed a budget that increased education funding, and Mitch has been recognized nationally as the public official of the year.

By nearly every measure, Indiana is hailed as the best state to do business, leads the nation in foreign direct investment, and is weathering the national recession with balanced budgets and the largest tax cut in Indiana history.

During his 2008 campaign, Mitch told a group of supporters in Hendricks County, Indiana, that you couldn’t send him back to Washington at gun point. Well, we’re not taking “you couldn’t send me back to Washington at gun point” for an answer.

So who are we?  We’re a group of young Republicans who aren’t content keeping our governor all to ourselves.

There has been no shortage of pundits and big shots of all kinds who have looked to Governor Mitch Daniels to lead the way to a national comeback for the Republican Party.  We hope to use this site to stay on top of the news as Mitch decides what comes next.

We hope you’ll visit often as we make the case for My Man Mitch.