Merritt in the Morning Ep. 79 with guest Beau Bayh

So, all right.

So, Bobai, thank you very much for coming in and joining us.

So, we'll just start with, why do you want to be Secretary of State?

Yeah, so I was raised in a family of public servants.

Jim served alongside my dad.

And growing up around that environment, you hear stories about how they are able to serve their community, their state, their country.

And I look at our politics today, irrespective of political party, and I see too many people getting into this line of work, not to benefit our state, but to benefit themselves.

And so growing up in a family of public servants, that kind of offends my sense of what public service should really be at its core, particularly when this job, the Secretary of State's office, is so important.

In your hands is our state's, potentially our country's, most precious resource.

which is the health of our democratic process.

And so that's an extremely important job.

It's being entrusted right now to someone who I disagree with and I think is not a trustworthy individual, take his political party completely out of it.

And so that's what's compelled me to throw my hat in the ring here.

You know, you've got quite a mantle to carry on your shoulders.

Your dad, Larry Conrad, too, was Secretary of State.

Your dad, your granddad, actually wrote the 23rd Amendment.

25th and 26th.

I'm sorry.

It's

early.

What's the 23rd? I don't know, but I meant to say 23rd.

And so there's succession now.

And Gerald Ford became president because of that.

And so the family is rich in history all the way back to Shirkyville.

You know, Shirkyville.

So, all right.

So, Bobai, thank you very much for coming in and joining us.

So, we'll just start with, why do you want to be Secretary of State?

Yeah, so I was raised in a family of public servants.

Jim served alongside my dad.

And growing up around that environment, you hear stories about how they are able to serve their community, their state, their country.

And I look at our politics today, irrespective of political party, and I see too many people getting into this line of work, not to benefit our state, but to benefit themselves.

And so growing up in a family of public servants, that kind of offends my sense of what public service should really be at its core, particularly when this job, the Secretary of State's office, is so important.

In your hands is our state's, potentially our country's, most precious resource.

which is the health of our democratic process.

And so that's an extremely important job.

It's being entrusted right now to someone who I disagree with and I think is not a trustworthy individual, take his political party completely out of it.

And so that's what's compelled me to throw my hat in the ring here.

You know, you've got quite a mantle to carry on your shoulders.

Your dad, Larry Conrad, too, was Secretary of State.

Your dad, your granddad, actually wrote the 23rd Amendment.

25th and 26th.

I'm sorry.

It's

early.

What's the 23rd? I don't know, but I meant to say 23rd.

And so there's succession now.

And Gerald Ford became president because of that.

And so the family is rich in history all the way back to Shirkyville.

You know, Shirkyville.