Sam Page protest VoKs

  “I am a mother, and I am a taxpayer. I am supporting children playing all sports.”...

  “The political tyrant Sam Page is encroaching on my right to exercise my freedom as a citizen and participate in physical activity.”...

“I’m here because we should all be playing sports of all kinds. We should be dancing, we should be playing in the band, we should be doing all the stuff that [Sam Page’s] son is allowed to do while doing cross country.” ...

“This street is privately maintained, it has been for years. They have all requested that we don’t allow the protest to come up their street and be at [Sam Page’s] house.” ...

“We just want kids to be able to create memories they are going to have for the rest of their lives. You only get one shot at high school, and [for] some of these kids this is the only way they [can] express themselves - through sports. Taking away that is like taking away part of their life.”...

“First, get Sam Page to change his mind on his ridiculous rules and hopefully after that, he gets booted out of office. We want to get rid of him.”...

“I’m here to protest [and] for Sam Page to overturn his ruling and let us play. I’m hopeful [that it will work].”...

“We are hoping that Sam Page realizes that he is taking advantage of our children and our rights as citizens of St. Louis County, and eventually, at the election [we can] get him voted out.”...

“This all started for me when they started to mandate masks. I’m an RN, [and] I don't believe they keep us safe. The basic foundation of any mandate is taking away our freedoms – our freedoms to choose, our freedoms to do what we want, our freedoms to play sports. This is America. We have the right to choose what we want to do. And Sam Page is taking that away.”...

  “I’d vote for anybody besides Sam Page because this is ridiculous. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about and the whole thing just needs to stop. We need to let them play. That’s all there is to it.”  ...

  “Really, all I want to accomplish is to play. That’s my favorite sport of all time, and I love it so much. It’s everything to me, so I just want to play.”...

  “I want Dr. Sam Page to understand that parents are smart enough to make decisions for our kids. Mental health is being stretched and strained. Many kids are turning to drug abuse, suicide, alcohol abuse and many kids want to go out there and play sports. They want to have that healthy alternative to drug and alcohol abuse. I know my kids are suffering [because] they can't play any of their...

  “I’m here to give tea to Sam Page. Two hundred forty-seven years ago we dumped tea in the Boston [Harbor]. That was us rejecting tea from a dictator, and now, I passed out tea and everyone will go around and put it in this basket. We’ll set the basket on the street near his house.”...