Filing deadline must have put an extra bounce in Matt Bevin’s step. With potential A-list Republicans (folks like James Comer, Kelly Craft, and Brett Guthrie) all deciding to pass on the primary, Bevin decided today would be a good time to stick his foot in his mouth once again.
Appearing on Terry Meiners’ radio show on WHAS, the governor decided to take another swipe at the decisions of school administrators, while upping the ante a bit and criticizing the kids of Kentucky as well. Commenting on schools closing tomorrow for the bitter cold, Bevin said, “There’s no ice going with it or any snow. I mean, what happens to America? We’re getting soft, Terry. We’re getting soft.”
Given the chance to back the comments up a bit, Bevin, of course, decided to double down. “It does concern me a little bit that in America, on this and many other fronts, we’re sending messages to our young people that if life is hard you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard, and that just isn’t reality. It isn’t.”
According to the National Weather Service, the entirety of Kentucky is in a wind chill advisory. In the hours of normal school bus routes, it is predicted that much of Kentucky will have a wind chill of -20 degrees.
Maybe that is par for the course in New Hampshire, but in Kentucky, many children do not have the winter weather gear to combat that. For a man who was so concerned with the potential abuse of a child when schools dismissed for a day last year, we find it a bit ironic that he has no problems with the potential of frostbite or worse!
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