CLAY: Buck, I hate to even have to say this, but even after we just teed off on how bad remote schooling was and the failures of blue state governors and blue state Democrat politicians and certainly their allies in the teachers unions, I got a text during the last commercial break that one of my friends from law school who lives in the San Francisco area, her kids have to wear masks again.
They brought masks back in California. I know we got people listening all over the country whose kids are still having to go to school in masks, and, to me, it just further epitomizes… I thought your point was a good one, Buck. I flew this past week, I was down in Orlando with my kids, and I can’t tell you how much better it felt in the airport to have no one wearing a mask.
Now, I can’t speak for what every other airport is like, but in Nashville and in Orlando — which are the airports that I traveled — nobody had masks on. I mean, virtually nobody, 98, 99% no mask wearing. And to your point, Buck, if you had to go stand in line for six hours but you knew that your kids would never have to wear a mask in school again and they currently are having to do so, that’s a small price to pay.
I would sign up to do that in a heartbeat. I would go stand in line for hours right now if you just told me I would never have to wear a mask again. The people who can make this happen, Buck, are the suburban moms. ‘Cause a lot of you out there, yes, we want you to vote.
But the people who are swing voters turning an election from a 50-50 proposition, which many of our elections these days are, to make it a run at 60-40. And those suburban women are the ones that can drive the bus here. And I think we got a couple of women calling in who want to talk about this, right?
CALLER: Oh, hi.
BUCK: Hi.
CALLER: Hello?
BUCK: Yes, you’re on air.
CALLER: I was one of those swing voters you’re talking about. I am a mom of three kids, and, thankfully, we live in a conservative suburb of Cleveland that was made evident in our recent school board elections which you guys talk a lot about, too, and our school board and superintendent got our kids back to school as soon as possible. But make no mistake: March 2020 ’til the end of that school year was miserable for our children and for my husband and me.
In March of 2020 our director of the Ohio Department of Health Dr. Amy Acton — an unelected official — was given the power to close schools, stores and even our May elections quotes something along the lines of we suspect there are at least a hundred thousand people in Ohio walking around with this virus and they don’t even know.
CLAY: I remember that.
CALLER: So all I could think was, “Well, then who cares? Who on earth cares?” I can’t… I’m still so angry and I am still not recovering from it. These liberal politicians, they damaged my kids, and I will not forget —
CLAY: How old are your kids?
CALLER: So at that time I had an eighth grader, a sixth grader, and a third grader. So now they’re —
CLAY: Sewer similar to the ages of my kids. And I’m curious. When I finish the show today, I’ll go pick up my first grader at school, and there will be tons — it’s me and a lot of moms oftentimes because I have a little bit of a different schedule so and a lot of the moms listen to the show, or they talk and obviously my neighborhood super fired up. I’m curious. You say you live in suburban Cleveland. What are the conversations like in your experience, Kate, with you and other moms? How many other swing voters are still angry about this? What sort of vibe do you get in Ohio?
CALLER: I’m getting… Well, as evidenced by JD Vance winning here in the state, yeah, I’m getting the idea that people are pretty darn angry. I just… I still try to wrap my head around it and I think, “How could this have happened? How could you have kept children out of school?”
BUCK: Yeah. I think just to give you a sense, Kate… I don’t have kids. Working on it. I don’t have kids, and if I had children, though, at this point and somebody was saying that they were gonna mask my kid up and make them eat their lunch outside, I would react to that the same way that someone saying in a school system, “Sorry, we had to just, like, take the paddle to your kid because he was late today.” You know what I mean? I view it as abuse.
BUCK: Based on the 2020 election state by state if you look at it, there are enough people listening to this show right now in states like Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, that if just the people listening right now went out there and got one more person that they know to vote against these lunatic Democrats, that red wave is gonna be glorious. We’ll all be surfing on it together. Hang 10.
CLAY: Amen. And again, I want everybody to vote, but the suburban moms — you guys that we’re talking to right now — you are the difference makers, your social networks. Talk loudly, talk angrily, and hold these awful politicians who failed you and your kids accountable.
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