February 10, 2022 10:47 AM UTC

At Least He's Not Your Mayor

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• by: Colorado Pols

In another edition of our long running feature “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” we take you to Hudson, Ohio, where Republican Mayor Craig Shubert is warning of a slippery slope of muddled logic that ultimately leads to one place: Prostitution!

During a Hudson City Council meeting on Tuesday, a discussion took place around allowing ice fishing on Hudson Springs Lake, which is something that local residents have apparently been requesting for some time.

As The Washington Post explains, Shubert had a bizarre concern:

Mayor Craig Shubert stepped in, and the conversation took an unexpected turn. His issue with allowing people to ice fish on the lake? It could lead to prostitution, the mayor said. [Pols emphasis]

“If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens next year?” Shubert asked. “Does someone come back and say, ‘I want an ice shanty on Hudson Springs Park, for X amount of time?’ And then if you … allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem: prostitution.”

We’re admittedly not that familiar with the ins and outs of ice fishing, but perhaps it is much more exciting than we imagined.

You can watch the discussion yourself in the video below. We’re particularly fond of a point at about :30 where City Council President Chris Foster reacts with bewilderment to Shubert’s concerns:

Hudson mayor thinks ice fishing leads to prostitution! Put your poles away boys!*

*Same guy who thinks creative writing classes are child pornography. pic.twitter.com/9N0R2tVri6

— Amanda Weinstein (@ProfWeinstein) February 9, 2022