An Ohio mayor resigned earlier over the fact that he had made some
pretty insane remarks about ice fishing during a council meeting.
So he makes a slippery slope argument which is already pretty weak
argument to make.
But this is a slippery slope argument on steroids without further ado
let's go to the mayor of the former mayor now of Hudson Ohio.
And what he had to say about restricting ice fishing.
>> Additionally, if you open this up to ice fishing while on the surface,
it sounds good.
Then what happens next year?
Does someone come back and
say I want an ice shanty on Hudson Springs Park for x amount of time?
And if you don't allow ice fishing with shanties
then that leads to another problem prostitution.
And now you've got the police chief and
the police department involved, just data points to consider.
>> Okay, so I'm not in favor of shanties.
>> I have one more thing.
>> Okay, so that was now former Mayor Hudson Ohio.
And his name is Craig Schubert and I do want to watch the video again, but
a different version that zooms in on the gentleman next to him because as
he's making the argument that man is feeling what we're all feeling.
Let's watch.
>> Additionally,
if you open this up to ice fishing while on the surface it sounds good.
Then what happens next year does someone come back and
say I want an ice shanty on Hudson springs park for X.
Amount of time.
And if you don't allow ice fishing with shanties,
then that leads to another problem prostitution.
And now you've got the police chief and the police department involved.
Just data points to consider.
>> [LAUGH].
>> That was awesome.
My favorite part was when he okay so
that gentleman next to him like you know this is a bad argument.
But at some point the now former mayor looks at him for like validation.
He's like stop it, get off of it, get off.
You could see it in his face like stop talking.
This is ridiculous.
>> Yeah, absolutely, in fact, if you watch all the way to the end of the clip when
the other guy makes a joke about the why he's been opposed to shanties all along
this guy, then pats the mayor on the back like it's gonna be okay.
So he doesn't hate the guy at all, right?
He's not necessarily opposed to him, right?
>> He is trying to help him out.
>> I don't know their politics, but he's just like the whole time you can see his
facial expression is please stop talking.
Please stop talking.
This is madness.
There he is.
You see that like, brother brother, what have you done?
>> I mean it's the weirdest slippery slope argument I've ever heard,
especially in a political setting.
And he later tried to clarify his statements but
he didn't have to go there, right?
So the community is concerned about ice fishing in a certain area
because it's a safety risk.
And they're worried about the town having to deal with the liability of that.
Just explain that, we can't have people getting injured or
dying around here, okay?
We don't want to pay for that.
We don't want people to get hurt.
Move on, why do you have to go to prostitutes?
Like weird fearmongering out of nowhere?
>> No, no, some right wingers are obsessed with sex and
they will bring everything back to sex.
Including this guy, by the way,
given his history will come back to that in a second.
>> It's Kordell recall all day every day, totally.
>> So, but I didn't even know there were ice shanties.
I didn't know if that was a thing.
What are we in frozen 3?
>> No, come on, you gotta get with it Cenk, okay?
As someone who is familiar with ice fishing myself sometimes you want to set
up a shanty in order to find shelter as you're on an ice fishing trip.
>> Okay, I hear you but [CROSSTALK].
>> I know nothing about that I read about it.
>> No, no, I'm with you and and 110 and you can call it a shanty by itself.
Okay, that's what you do for ice fishing, no problem.
Although it has his own set of issues, right?
But he seemed to be imagining a shanty town, right?
And then obviously if you have an ice shanty town,
then prostitutes will show up on the ice, will they?
Is that obvious [LAUGH] I wore these legendary ice prostitutes [LAUGH].
>> No, so let me give you his clarification on the statement.
And by the way, the amazing thing about this story,
I guess they don't play in Hudson Ohio right?
They take their ice fishing seriously and they don't mess around
with any foolish arguments because he stepped down after this.
He stepped down.
But before stepping down,
he released a statement trying to clarify what he was saying.
He said my comment about ice fishing.
The permitting of shanties on lakes and prostitution stems stems from my
experience as a former television news report.
I'm sure it does covering law enforcement agencies which have made arrests for
acts of prostitution and ice fishing shanties.
When discussing proposed legislation it is wise to discuss the potential for
unintended consequences.
My statement was to enlighten counsel that the future
permitting of ice shanties may lead to other issues.
>> But wait a minute.
If the process is gonna show up in the middle of an ice shanty Clinton,
wouldn't they also show up anywhere else.
Is it like, no, I can't go to the local corner or two or online.
The only place I can sell my wares it's in a ice shanty.
>> No I love the argument.
No, everyone, we need to implement vaccine mandates because if we don't,
it could lead to prostitutes.
>> There you go, okay.
>> I mean, look, it does start with drilling holes, but I don't know [LAUGH].
I don't know if that's where his mind went. >> Come on Cenk [LAUGH].
>> Nobody's mind is constantly there, right?
>> Yeah, he's in an official government setting.
Thinking about prostitution on his mind.
It's insane.
>> Yeah, so tell us about his former comments,
because it gives you a sense of how this guy is constantly going towards,
in the words of Charlie Kirk sexual anarchy.
>> Sexual anarchy.
So in the past, he had fearmongers about high school
seniors reading a book that talks about human anatomy and
thus he thought that it was like an obscene book, right?
So I want to go to that.
He said this, it has come to my attention that you're educators are distributing
essentially what is child pornography?
No, Jesus.
>> It was not child pornography, okay?
It was literally a book that talked about human anatomy.
I've spoken to a judge this evening.
She's already confirmed that that wasn't true.
So I'm going to give you a simple choice.
You either choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged.
Well, no board member was charged.
No board member resigned over child porn because that child porn didn't actually
exist.
Summit county prosecutor Sherri Walsh said that Schubert didn't understand child
pornography laws and that he wants to create a public battle over censorship.
She also called his actions reckless and said they lead to threats to the school
board members making some too frightened to leave their homes.
Like it is amazing to me that he didn't resign after making those insane comments.
>> Because that's now become normal in the Republican Party.
>> It is, yeah.
>> Yeah, because so I looked at the examples and it's a textbook that
has a lot of different exercises and some of them are a little racy and weirdly so
if you ask me, but it's not the end of the world, but in this district,
they weren't teaching any of those.
So he went and found in a problem that doesn't exist.
>> Yeah the book by the way, it wasn't assigned to the seniors.
Yeah, so that it's like a sexual problem solution in search of a problem, right?
He's like, okay, look, you gotta watch out for the ice prostitutes and
the child born in the in the books that aren't being taught.
And so why are you always constantly buying them?
Because it's in his mind and and that's why this is, we'll talk about later in
the show, Charlie Kirk, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Drains like sexual anarchy.
What are we doing, right?
And so cuz they're obsessed with it, and
that's why they're always trying to like say, don't do that,
you're not allowed to do this, you're not allowed to do it in that position.
We don't want to, you know the republicans fairly recently.
It's a guy that worked in the trump administration were still trying
to ban sodomy, that's anal and oral sex for every American.
I mean they're right up in your bedroom, okay?
And in your privacy and they're constantly thinking about sex as they pretend
that they're the ones trying to protect you from the evils of sex.
>> It's interesting because I just remembered when I was in high school, one
of the programs that my high school had was instead of like an elective on campus,
you have the option of either interning somewhere or they would drive you
to the local community college so you could take classes there.
And when I was in high school I took a human sexuality class at
Los Angeles Valley College and we literally,
I remember watched porn is like one of the classes and like look at how I turned out,
I have the most boring life I'm married, like, everything's okay guys.
All right, it's not going to be the end of the world if a high schooler learns about
sex, I guarantee you they've already learned about it.
It's better to learn in like a more educational environment if you ask me.
>> Yeah, no, it was college for me too, but
you happen to be in high school taking a college class,
but I took human sexuality, you know what the topic was, sexuality, okay?
Which we have as human beings, everything's gonna be all right,
You need to just stop freaking out, okay?
In other words, let it go, let it go.
>> My God.