Kitchen Table Liberty runs through this conversation as Peter Vazquez speaks with Summer Johnson, candidate for New York’s 130th Assembly District, about Albany’s late-night budget games, parental authority, broken schools, public safety, life, and the duty to make local voices matter again.
Then Ruth Henry carries the show from the weight of government to the lift of wonder, inviting families to FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day at the National Warplane Museum, where rockets, aircraft, history, patriotism, and children looking up remind us that restoration begins at home and rises toward the sky.
Kitchen Table Liberty: A budget drops in the middle of the night, wrapped in urgency, dressed up as relief, and handed to the people like a gift they already paid for.
Albany calls it help. Albany calls it leadership. Albany calls it putting money back in people’s pockets. But around the kitchen table, families know better. They know what the utility bill says. They know what groceries cost. They know what the mortgage feels like, what taxes do to a paycheck, what gas and electric bills do to a month that was already stretched thin.
Peter Vazquez opens the mic where the numbers stop being numbers and become life. A $200 rebate cannot hide years of broken policy. A late-night budget cannot erase the smell of political leverage. A government that spends more and delivers less cannot keep calling itself compassionate while families are forced to count pennies in a state rich with promises and poor in common sense.
Summer Johnson, candidate for New York’s 130th Assembly District, steps into that conversation from the ground level, not from the clouds of political theory. She has sat where local leaders sit.
She has worked where deadlines are real, budgets must be finished, services must function, and excuses do not keep towns running. Her voice carries the weight of local government, family law reform, public safety, parental authority, and the lived reality of being the wife of a disabled War on Terror veteran.
She does not speak about families as slogans. She speaks about the table where parents decide what they can afford, the schools where children are shaped, the towns where emergency services either show up or fail, and the communities that are too often governed by people who do not understand them.
The conversation moves through education, faith, life, liberty, and the uncomfortable truth that parents are not visitors in their children’s lives. They are the first authority. They are the first teachers. They are the first line of defense against a culture that too often tells them to step aside while institutions make decisions for them.
Then the show lifts its eyes from Albany’s machinery to Geneseo’s sky.
Ruth Henry joins Peter to talk about FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day at the National Warplane Museum, where children are invited to leave the little screens behind and step into a field of rockets, gliders, balloons, helicopters, kites, model planes, simulators, and wonder. It is a day built for families, volunteers, veterans, history, and the simple miracle of a child looking up.
There is something deeply American in that turn. One half of the show asks whether government has forgotten the people. The other reminds us that a nation can still be repaired when children are given something real to touch, build, launch, and remember.
Summer Johnson brings the fight back to the kitchen table. Ruth Henry brings the children back to the sky.
Between them stands the deeper question: what kind of people will we become if we stop defending the home, the school, the farm, the veteran, the child, the worker, and the institutions that taught us to rise?
This is not just politics. It is restoration.
A state begins to lose itself when it forgets the family and sells control as compassion. But it begins to live again when ordinary people stand up, when parents reclaim their voice, when communities protect their history, and when children are reminded that the sky is not just above them.
It is still calling.
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Show Intro:
Mira la izquierda, mira la derecha, ¿qué ves? In a world that seems to change daily, what will you do next? Welcome to The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez, a starting point for discussion y un poco de dirección.
Peter Vazquez:
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Peter Vazquez here. I hope you are having a phenomenal week so far, because I know I am.
Bob, how about you?
Bob Savage:
Listen, Peter, I am excited. I am psyched. New York has a budget, supposedly. It was issued last night after fifteen budget extenders. And do you know we are going to get some money?
Peter Vazquez:
What?
Bob Savage:
Kathy Hochul says we are getting some money.
Peter Vazquez:
That is interesting.
Bob Savage:
Absolutely. It is the “Putting Money Back in New Yorkers’ Wallets Act,” or some similarly dumb title. Everyone has noticed spiraling utility costs, electric costs, everything going through the roof.
Albany is going to help us out with that. We are going to get some relief. Every one of you out there, at least the way I understand it, is going to get two hundred dollars. And guess when we are going to get that two hundred dollars?
Right before Election Day.
Peter Vazquez:
Of course. I think she has done that before and called it some other buyout. Or maybe buying your vote. I think that is what they call it.
The budget gets issued in the middle of the night with urgency. Like my guest today says, when they issue these things with urgency overnight, it is almost like, “Vote on it without reading it or questioning it.”
Bob Savage:
You have had twenty minutes to read this two-thousand-page bill, so what is your problem? Go ahead and vote for it, or you may never get another committee appointment.
Peter Vazquez:
Vanbōōlzalness Crisis, ladies and gentlemen.
The individual we are going to speak with today is looking forward to being able to influence those kinds of votes and maybe do something about getting the budget a little sooner, maybe on time, and maybe in a manner where it can actually be discussed with the people who put us in office.
Our guest says, “Serving at the local level has shown me both what works and what does not work when decisions are made far from the communities affected.”
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce a candidate for the New York State Assembly, 130th Assembly District: Summer Johnson. She is the former Marion Town Supervisor, former Wayne County Board of Supervisors member, former chair of the Health and Medical Committee, policy analyst, trained paralegal, family law reform advocate, and wife of a disabled War on Terror veteran.
Summer, bienvenida to The Next Steps Show.
Summer Johnson:
Hi, Peter. Hi, Bob. Thanks for having me. I appreciate your time.
Peter Vazquez:
I appreciate yours. I know you are busy. What do you think about the budget?
Summer Johnson:
Year after year, especially over the past five years, I have had a lot of opinions on our budget and our process. Pretty much since Governor Kathy Hochul took office by appointment, we have had a late budget. We have had an astronomically growing budget year after year.
The supermajority has a lot of opportunities to do really good things and streamline processes with bipartisan support, and it fails to happen every year.
Peter Vazquez:
Budgets are familiar to you. You did one or two in your position as town supervisor, correct?
Summer Johnson:
Correct, yes.
Peter Vazquez:
And the Wayne County budget as well. Was yours late and issued overnight with, “Do not look at this, just vote on it so we can move forward in an election year”?
Summer Johnson:
Absolutely not. Unlike the state, town, local, and county municipalities are held to a very rigorous deadline when it comes to budgets. We cannot surpass our deadline, which is the third day after Election Day of the fiscal year. That is when it is due. Hard stop.
Peter Vazquez:
Imagine if Albany ran like that.
Bob Savage:
The governor has to have political leverage somehow, and this is her one opportunity to do it, right, Summer?
Summer Johnson:
Yes. And I have been saying this even during my term in office: the budgets coming out of Albany are advocacy budgets. They are not fiscally smart, sound budgets needed to run the state. They are advocacy budgets dictated by lobbyists and special interests.
That is why we see so much contention with it. We need to wait until the lobbyists tell us what they need before the people can read the bill.
Peter Vazquez:
Did we elect the governor and the officials, or did we elect the lobbyists?
Summer Johnson:
Sometimes I wonder.
Peter Vazquez:
It is reported that your race is about bringing principled leadership and accountability to Albany. I guess the governor, and maybe some who vote for her, would say that a two-hundred-dollar check right before an election is good leadership and accountability.
What is your response to that money being budgeted?
Summer Johnson:
The response is simple. I am a middle-class mom. I have worked my way through the trenches. I was a teen mom. I put myself through college. At some points in my life, I relied on social programs and Pell Grants to get through college. I worked my way through and made it happen.
At the end of the day, with inflation and the cost of living in New York being so high, that two hundred dollars is not even a day’s worth of work for most people. It is a slap in the face.
Anyone who wishes to throw away their vote for a two-hundred-dollar check once a year, in my opinion, needs to be more educated in what they are voting for and how they are voting.
Bob Savage:
Summer, you are putting your finger right on the hot button of the issue. People need to be more informed and more engaged. We have had single-party rule in New York State for something like ten years now.
What can lonely voices from upstate in the opposing party do in terms of political power to try to change things? Because it is trashing the state.
Summer Johnson:
There is a solution. That is what I am running on. Our representatives, regardless of which side of the aisle they are on, need to do a better job informing their base day to day while they are in office.
Educating voters is the best way to engage voters and increase voter participation. That way, when something nefarious comes up, or there is an emergency, or we need action, they understand their role. They know to contact representatives, write letters, vote, and participate.
Right now, there is no time to educate and change the systems in place because we are not doing the proactive work of educating our base. That is our responsibility as elected representatives. That is part of the job. We are supposed to educate and share information with voters.
It is more than ribbon cuttings, photo ops, and certificates. Those are good for community building, but what I plan on doing as state representative is directing my base to educational resources and giving them the knowledge they need so they can form their own opinions.
Bob Savage:
You will be in session six months of the year, and the last six months you will be back in the district. Are you going to mount an educational initiative? Do you have a specific plan for how you will spend time with constituents and get them informed?
Summer Johnson:
Yes. That is a huge issue in our district. We are seeing more people registering as independents or no party than as Republicans or Democrats. That leaves a large demographic that can be reached.
While I am in district, part of that education initiative will be hosting more town halls and open forum discussions. I see representatives all over the Finger Lakes region posting nice flyers for open office hours, but the duration of the event is one hour.
I am talking about spending two, three, maybe four hours at an event to answer questions and inform voters about what I am doing and what is coming down the pipeline. That is what we need.
Peter Vazquez:
Summer Johnson, candidate for New York’s 130th Assembly District. We will be right back right here on The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez on the Voice of Liberty, WYSL | WLEA.
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Peter Vazquez:
Muchas gracias, señor.
Ladies and gentlemen, Albany, and really any part of this nation or globe, lives when families are defended, farms are kept working, work is honored, and law means something. But I believe it all starts foundationally at home: Mom, Dad, God, country, family, education.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have Summer Johnson, candidate for New York’s 130th Assembly District.
Summer, again, I appreciate your time. Let us talk about education. As I understand it, your campaign identifies strong schools as one of the central pillars alongside good jobs and so forth.
Schools are foundational, but they also seem to have been co-opted by a progressive left bent on teaching very anti-American ideas in many cases.
Summer Johnson:
Absolutely. We are starting to see the outcome of some really poor policy choices from our public schools. I would like to lead off by saying it is not their fault. The structures of our education system in New York are very powerful.
As we could see with the recent Tier 6 retirement changes proposed for our teacher unions, it comes from the top and trickles down to our public schools. They are at the mercy of the system because of the funding formula.
I do not blame the school districts. I have been attending board of education meetings for quite some time now. We look at the policies and ask hard questions. Sometimes they do not know the answer. So this is an overall systemic issue, not so much individual schools making bad choices.
My first involvement in educational advocacy was back in 2010, when the federal government took over our education system by implementing Common Core. We can go back to then and start tracking the failures of poor curriculum that switched from phonics and civic learning to social-emotional learning.
The results are horrific. We see just under a forty percent literacy rate in our districts and in our county. Across the state, New York is falling further behind. Mississippi is doing better than us with math and literacy rates. Mississippi.
That should be a clue. We need to ask what they are doing that we could do to get our students back up to par and successful.
Being part of that system for so long and knowing how the curriculum comes down and who is involved, it is important to me, as the next Assemblywoman for the 130th District, to focus on education bills and getting back to basics and phonics. We need to reward schools for performance, not give them more money for failure, which is how the current formula is set up.
Bob Savage:
Summer, there is a lot of blame that gets passed around every time there is criticism of government schools. One recurring point that keeps coming up is the influence of teachers unions. They have become a political cudgel instead of just representing the rights of unionized personnel.
Would you be in favor of outlawing the unionization of teachers and public education officials, administrators, and faculty? Should we kick the unions out of the picture?
Summer Johnson:
I grew up in a blue-collar family, so I have always been a supporter of unionization. But a cultural shift happened. I remember my dad being part of the union for Monroe County, and it was about protecting the worker, fighting for their rights, good working conditions, good contracts, retaining good workers, and workforce development.
That is what it was about.
To your point, we have gotten so far removed from that. What I saw this year shocked me. The teachers union gathered at Blue Cross Arena here in Rochester, New York, to lobby for a lower retirement rate and more pension off the backs of taxpayers.
That was a deal breaker for a lot of people in my district. I hate to see people lose respect for teachers, and I hate to see them want to fight back. I do not believe the answer is banning unions from our public school systems. However, there need to be mechanisms in place to control their authority and power through the budget process so we can prevent last-minute, huge million-dollar or billion-dollar changes that the governor may see as votes or money.
When you fill Blue Cross Arena with tens of thousands of people, that is a lot of votes.
Bob Savage:
Would you agree that teachers unions have accumulated a level of political power that is not appropriate and does not serve the interests of kids and the education process in New York State?
Summer Johnson:
I would agree with your assessment. I believe they have reached a level of influence that is inappropriate in our education system.
Peter Vazquez:
That is a strong statement.
Education is definitely foundational. Right now, classrooms are politicized, standards have been lowered, and education systems treat parents like obstacles.
I once had a discussion with a sitting Assembly member who said education is just too complicated for regular people to understand. I do not get that, because some of the strongest people who formed this nation came from an uncomplicated schoolhouse.
How should parents be treated inside the education system?
Summer Johnson:
When legislators say education is too complicated, that is the problem.
I go back to a fundamental belief: we need more principled leadership. Parents are the ultimate authority over their children’s upbringing, and that includes education. We are to be treated as the top authority in our children’s lives and over the decisions we make for them.
That includes what movies they watch, what books they read, the field trips they go on, and the teachers they may or may not be comfortable with. All of that falls under the scope of parental authority, which is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and there is case law on that.
We brought this up a lot during COVID. Schools were saying, “We are doing this with your kid, and you cannot come in or do anything about it.” I did not think so.
We had a strong advocacy group in Wayne County, and we were very dedicated to making sure schools knew parents hold the ultimate authority over their children.
Peter Vazquez:
I want to stop for a quick second and thank you for your husband’s service as a disabled War on Terror veteran. Every veteran should be recognized for the work they do. Otherwise, these conversations would not be happening today.
Summer Johnson:
Yes. It is one thing when issues come up in politics and people can pick and choose what they want to fight for or read about. In my household, if my husband, who served in Afghanistan, brings something up, I listen.
That is how I determine what should be talked about and how we should view it. If he has an issue with something that he wants to address, that moves to the forefront of my mind because he directly influences our freedom. He gets first in line.
Peter Vazquez:
Your campaign talks a lot about life, liberty, and justice for all. Where do you stand on the issue of life and the protection of the unborn?
Summer Johnson:
To give a very human story, many years ago I was on the fence about where I stood on that issue. I did not want to take a stance.
It was not until I was recently saved by Jesus, and accepted Him through water baptism, that I realized the sanctity of life is worth protecting from the beginning.
It opened my eyes to how amazing and important life is, and how life is needed to sustain our society. That was a personal revelation for me, and it brings me a lot of joy to be able to take that stance now.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, that is Summer Johnson, candidate for the 130th Assembly District.
Do you have a website people can visit to learn more?
Summer Johnson:
I do not have a website. We are running a very lean campaign. I am not the endorsed candidate because I was not at a special private lunch where they picked their candidate here in District 130.
We are running a lean campaign. I am very active on Facebook, sharing my platform every day. You can find me at Summer Johnson for Assembly. Follow me, like photos, share my information, share my platform, and get the word out.
Peter Vazquez:
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Summer Johnson, candidate for the 130th Assembly District. There are two other candidates. Make sure you check them all out.
Summer, I appreciate your time, and may God bless you and the work that you do.
Summer Johnson:
Thank you. God bless you.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, do not change that dial. For this next segment, we will open up the lines. I want your opinion on what is going on, especially with the budget and the candidates. We will be right back on The Next Steps Show on the Voice of Liberty, WYSL | WLEA.
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Bob Savage:
There is great rejoicing in the land. Parties are spontaneously popping up all over the place. Everyone is anticipating the energy rebate we are getting from the state. Relief from Kathy Hochul.
With spiraling utility costs, gas and electric in the state blowing everybody’s budgets out, we are going to get help.
Peter Vazquez:
That is exciting to me, Bob. Two hundred dollars. Let me see my RG&E bills. That is probably going to pay a third of one of my bills somewhere.
Bob Savage:
Peter, you are ungrateful. You do not appreciate the love being showered on you by the Democrats in Albany. You need to be thankful.
Peter Vazquez:
Let us ask Keith. Keith, what are you going to do with your energy rebate?
Keith:
The question of the day, since you had on Miss Johnson, is how our country has gotten into the sad state it has. She brought up education, and we have a horribly undereducated populace.
The Democrats are now a party of a true fifth column. We did not have this during World War II. If there was anything of a spy nature, German or Japanese, they were wrapped up immediately.
I will give you a quick history lesson. Eight German saboteurs came ashore in America in June of 1942. Four came ashore in Florida and four on Long Island. Just two months later, in August of 1942, six of the eight had been executed. They went before a military tribunal, not a civilian court.
That is what we need today. The Democratic Party today is as much an enemy as what we faced with the Axis powers.
Unless we do something, and I will end by quoting Glenn Beck, he said a lot of Americans saw this coming. We are now a country almost completely devoid of common sense. People stood around, saw bad ideas coming, but no one felt at ease enough to speak up. If you did, you were beaten down for any number of politically correct reasons.
That is why we are in this sad state today. Americans were beaten down, whether through COVID or anything else, and now we are feeling the ramifications. Like you said about the two hundred dollars, the Democrats are buying everyone off, and people will accept that small bounty.
It should never have been needed because energy prices should never have gotten out of hand. Everything bad in this country goes back to Democrat policy. We are in a whole heap of trouble.
Bob Savage:
Keith, I cannot disagree with a lot of what you are saying. Are the Democrats a fifth column? Yes, I think they are. I cannot remember a time in our history when we looked at the Democrats from this side of the aisle and said they are a threat to the Republic or an existential danger to our society and way of life.
Keith:
The rest of you good people, because I know both of you are good with the Jesus thing and I try to be, as the son of a deceased clergyman, but when we are asked to take the Jesus route, it is really not taking hold.
With your very good Second Amendment show on this liberty station, it is coming. If we do not get it through the Jesus route, be prepared to reach for your gun. We are going to have to fight this fifth column.
It is going to be a shooting civil war. We are not going to roll over and let these bad people take over. Something is going to pop here, and it is better that Dr. Robert Savage and Peter Vazquez take the high road and not let someone like me take the lower road.
You guys are in the majority. There are many more like you, the doctor and Peter. You better get in there and get people changed around or we are going to have another 1860s here.
Bob Savage:
I certainly hope not, Keith. I appreciate it. I want to jump in here and say I am sure Keith is not advocating a violent insurrection, so do not take it that way.
Peter Vazquez:
If it does come to civil war, there is biblical stance for that. People have to understand that the concept of peace through strength is very much biblical.
Bob Savage:
Brother against brother is not a good thing.
Peter Vazquez:
Not brother against brother.
Bob Savage:
That is what civil war is.
Peter Vazquez:
Theoretically, but civil war is usually because one of the brothers became not a brother anymore and started causing harm.
Bob Savage:
How many people who are related, good friends, co-workers, and people with longstanding emotional relationships have been ripped apart by things like masking or vaccines?
Peter Vazquez:
Not just COVID. You have people divided over Trump or those who disagree with the two-hundred-dollar check being nothing but a political vote buy.
People need to educate themselves. They need to truly understand that when someone says balancing faith, politics, and entrepreneurship, or God, country, and family, it does not mean go pick up a bat and hit somebody you disagree with.
It means you love them. But there does come a time when, to protect God, country, and family, you do have to stand up a little harder.
We will be right back on The Next Steps Show on the Voice of Liberty, WYSL | WLEA.
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Peter Vazquez:
Hey, Bob, is that a bird? Is it a plane? No. It is NationalWarplaneMuseum.com with a phenomenal event coming up.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the fun segment of the show today. It is my honor to introduce an individual who is leading an event at the National Warplane Museum that was created to introduce young people, and older people, to aviation and aeronautics in ways that feel exciting, welcoming, and hands-on.
Talk about family.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce Ruth Henry.
Ruth, thank you for joining us on The Next Steps Show today. Bienvenida.
Ruth Henry:
Thank you, Peter. I am very excited about this. I cannot wait. It is such a fun time and so exciting.
There are things going on all over the place: rockets blasting off, hot air balloons being inflated, parasailers, gliders. It is going to be crazy.
Peter Vazquez:
It sounds exciting. You already have about 170 pre-registered guests, correct?
Ruth Henry:
One hundred ninety-five now, as of today. A press release came out with the Livingston County News either today or yesterday, so we are starting to get an uptick in registrations.
Peter Vazquez:
What inspired the creation of FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day at the National Warplane Museum?
Ruth Henry:
Like so many museums, our volunteer base is aging. We were looking around the table thinking, “We are getting old,” and trying to figure out some way to attract younger families to the museum to experience not only the airplanes, but the history and patriotism. Those are important components that help keep a community and a nation together.
We wondered how we could reach out. Maybe we needed to build a classroom, but that is static.
We came up with this idea because we already had some groups coming in to use the grounds. We had the Monroe Astronautical Rocket Society coming in. We had other groups doing model airplanes and remote control activities. We thought, “Let us just put it all together, and anything that flies counts.”
We invited a helicopter from the National Guard. We have paramotors, which are like motorcycles of the sky. They look like something from The Jetsons, and they are coming from Lyndonville.
It is a collection of people who enjoy their own hobbies, and they are excited to display them and help educate kids and families.
Peter Vazquez:
You have a lot of people working with you to make this happen. You have Liberty Balloon Company, Lunar Lander, an F-16 scale model. When I got the press release and flyer, I sent it to all my kids, because I have kids and grandkids who fit that age range.
But from what I understand, it is not just built for kids. There are things for the entire family to do.
Ruth Henry:
Absolutely. It is really a family event.
One thing we did last year that was a lot of fun was a paper airplane contest. The president of our organization is Austin Wadsworth, and I do not think he would mind if I confess that he is over ninety years old.
He is like an expert at paper airplanes. He considers himself the incumbent champion of the National Warplane Museum paper airplane contest.
Families came in and challenged him to create a paper airplane with the correct design that could outdistance what he could throw. It was a lot of fun.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, that is Ruth Henry, coordinator for FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day. This is taking place this Saturday, May 30, and you have a couple time slots, correct?
Ruth Henry:
Yes. It is this Saturday, May 30. We have two sessions. The morning session runs from 10 a.m. until noon, and the afternoon session runs from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.
You asked about volunteers. We have about forty volunteers coming forward to help. They are working craft tables, demonstration tables, and STEM activities.
We have a couple of volunteers from Moog coming over who are aeronautical engineers to help with experiments. It is good to register early because we are capping each session at one hundred fifty kids. We do not want to overrun the tables, and we want to make sure everyone has a good time.
Peter Vazquez:
Is there a cost?
Ruth Henry:
There is. For children it is six dollars. For adults it is ten dollars. We are deliberately trying to keep it inexpensive so everyone can afford to come.
Peter Vazquez:
Again, ladies and gentlemen, FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day is this Saturday, May 30. The morning session is from 10 a.m. to noon. The afternoon session is from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
You can go to NationalWarplaneMuseum.com or EventSprout.com, correct?
Ruth Henry:
Yes. Go to EventSprout and type in Flying Objects 2026, and you can pull up the tickets there.
Bob Savage:
Ruth, Bob Savage here. Are you still looking for volunteers?
Ruth Henry:
I think we are all set for volunteers for this event. But while I have you on the line, the air show is coming up in July, and they definitely need volunteers for that. If anybody wants to volunteer, that would be a great place to do it.
Bob Savage:
NationalWarplaneMuseum.com, and they can volunteer there as well?
Ruth Henry:
Yes. They can get all the information they need from that website.
Peter Vazquez:
Ruth, I know you are very busy, so I will not keep you too long. I would like to give you an opportunity to speak directly to listeners, parents, and grandparents who are deciding whether they want to come to this event.
What is the appeal?
Ruth Henry:
Thank you for that opportunity.
It is a great opportunity for the family to come together. Put your phones away, put your computer screens away, get outside, and romp the fields together.
Kids can make and fly their own kites. It is something you may think about doing but never have the time to do. Here is an opportunity as a family to come out, do something together, make memories, have fun, and learn something.
Not only kids, but adults will learn as well. There will be sophisticated displays. We have a couple simulators coming in where you can work with remote planes and simulators.
It is just a fun time. You will laugh. There are a couple experiments that are a little tricky. You might be fooled, but you will learn something about aviation.
You will also support the National Warplane Museum, which is dedicated to honoring veterans and keeping history and patriotism alive.
Peter Vazquez:
Ladies and gentlemen, Ruth Henry, coordinator of FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day happening this Saturday, May 30, at the National Warplane Museum, located at 3489 Big Tree Lane in Geneseo, New York.
Ruth, I truly appreciate your time today and everything you all do to keep history alive and education going.
Ruth Henry:
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Bob Savage:
Thanks, Ruth. Be well and have a great weekend.
Bob Savage:
One of the things Ruth alluded to is how amazing it is to have a resource like the National Warplane Museum here in our community.
Some people may think it is just a bunch of old guys with old planes, living in the past, cranking up old machines, getting greasy and oily, and hopefully not running into anything. But it is so much more than that in every possible way.
It is education. It is togetherness. It is getting your eyes off little screens and getting outside to appreciate history and the machines that safeguarded our freedoms, along with the incredibly intrepid men who flew them in armed conflicts and in peacetime.
It is also a monument to American individualism and innovation. These are amazing historical artifacts, and they are like living, breathing things. They still function the way they were supposed to function eighty years ago, thanks to the love and dedication of the people at the National Warplane Museum.
Peter Vazquez:
When one of my kids was little, we signed him up for one of those programs, and he spent the summer hanging out with those guys and flying. It was not an overnight camp. We took him every day.
The kid learned an appreciation not just for aviation, but for the role it played in this nation. He still talks about it to this day.
Bob Savage:
How old was he when he went to that program?
Peter Vazquez:
He had to be fourth or fifth grade, maybe ten or eleven years old. I had never seen him so excited for any other program.
When you look at the Bible, Isaiah 58:12 says, “Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will rise up the old age foundations. You will be called to repair the broken walls.”
The way you do that is by bringing your family together and going to events like this.
We had Seabreeze on not long ago. It is the same concept: over a hundred years of history in this great city, history that saw growth and prosperity when race did not matter as much as family and work. We see it, but some leaders choose to focus on the negative or focus on two hundred dollars.
I call that Vanbōōlzalness. That is what they do.
Bob Savage:
Yes, and such a nakedly political move. We are talking again about Kathy Hochul’s gift to us. She is bestowing two-hundred-dollar rebates on us because they have spent fifteen years enacting energy legislation and policy that is almost bankrupting a large number of families and companies in New York.
Then they throw this pittance at us and say, “Here.” Let them eat cake.
Peter Vazquez:
I would almost rather see the state fix our policies and reduce our taxes so we have more spending power. I would rather see the state use our tax dollars, even if it is cash, to go to places like the National Warplane Museum, Seabreeze, or other parks, but without tethers other than accountability and making sure it is spent correctly.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you again for your time today. I love talking to you.
Be a leader. Be a leader. Be a leader.
Do not let a second go by where you are not a voice for liberty.
God bless these United States of America.
Republican Candidate for New York’s 130th Assembly District
Summer Johnson is a Republican candidate for New York State Assembly in the 130th District, bringing a rare combination of local executive experience, county-level leadership, policy analysis, and lived family conviction to the race.
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Ruth Henry, FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day Coordinator
Ruth Henry is the coordinator of FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day at the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York, and a dedicated museum volunteer helping introduce families and young children to the wonder of aviation, aeronautics, history, and hands-on discovery.
Through her work with the National Warplane Museum, Ruth is helping bridge generations by bringing children face-to-face with the machines, stories, and patriotic legacy that helped shape America.
Her leadership behind FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day reflects a clear mission: to invite younger families into the museum, spark curiosity, and give children a meaningful experience beyond screens, classrooms, and passive entertainment.
Ruth helped shape the event around a simple but powerful idea: anything that flies can inspire a child. From rockets, gliders, hot air balloons, drones, paramotors, kites, model planes, and National Guard aircraft to paper airplane contests, simulators, STEM activities, and hands-on crafts, she has helped create a family-centered day where learning feels like adventure.
Her work brings together volunteers, aviation clubs, engineers, sponsors, exhibitors, families, and museum supporters in a shared effort to keep history alive and imagination moving forward.
Under Ruth’s coordination, FLYING OBJECTS Kids Day has become more than a museum event. It is a community invitation to honor veterans, preserve aviation history, strengthen family connection, and remind the next generation that the sky is still worth reaching for.
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