Florida Residents Outraged As Matt Gaetz Holds Event At High School

Matt Gaetz caused an uproar in his district on Tuesday after several days of campaigning locally for the first time in a very long time. But it wasn't his appearances at gun shops and local restaurants that left residents feeling uneasy, it was his decision to appear Tuesday evening at a local high school. Obviously someone being investigated by the DOJ for potential acts with a minor would set off alarm bells, but that didn't stop Gaetz. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz continued his tour of his district. One of the first he has done in many years, which culminated on Tuesday evening with him appearing, believe it or not folks at a high school. That's right. The man under investigation by the department of justice for possibly sex trafficking, a 17 year old was allowed to go and speak to high school students at Niceville high school here in Matt Gates's district. Now this wasn't a daytime event. This was, uh, what's called academic, uh, academy night, excuse me, academy night at Niceville high school. It is supposed to be for the J R O TC members and anyone interested in joining the armed forces after they graduate from high school, they bring in the military recruiters, they pump the kids fill, uh, full of propaganda about how awesome it is to go join the armed services.

And Matt gates was allowed to show up in spite of the protest from some parents and speak to minors, even with him being under investigation for possibly having sex with a minor. And yes, as I said, parents were in fact outraged, one candidate for Okaloosa county school board where Niceville high school is located, said she had been fielding calls all day from concerned parents. Why are we letting this guy who is under investigation, come and talk to children at school. This doesn't seem right. How can this be allowed is what these parents asked this school board candidate. And of course, everybody online was talking about this. There were I think 12 million responses on a Reddit post about Matt gates going and speaking at high school, basically everybody other than apparently the administration at Niceville high school understood that this was really, really bad optics, but I'm gonna take it a step further, right?

Okay. Obviously we know the bad optics of having a guy under investigation for possibly having sex with a minor is having an amount of high school. But how about this other angle folks what's been going on in the state of Florida for the last 12 months? The attack on education here in the state of Florida, because allegedly we have these liberals in our school systems indoctrinating our children. And so we've passed the stop. WAC we've banned things like C R T, which has resulted in us throwing out math books because they're allegedly teaching critical race theory. So we gotta get rid of all these horrible liberal things in the schools, but sure. A Republican candidate under investigation by the DOJ come on down, buddy, you're more than welcome. We'll bring you into our school with open arms so that you can talk about your campaign and your work in

Congress, and basically indoctrinate these kids. So why is it okay for a Republican candidate to walk into a Florida public school, but it's not okay for us to have math problems that might have students names in them that aren't white sounding, which by the way, is the issue with those math problems because they have ethnic sounding names. But Matt gates is allowed to go and campaign essentially in front of these children in a high school in Florida. See, I think, I think that's probably one of the bigger issues here. How is that allowed? But all of these other liberal things that don't even exist in schools, we've gotta ban those cuz we can't indoctrinate the kids.