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09/11/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Kent Carper, Doug Skaff, and Rashaun Poore · The Dave Allen Show

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everybody had a great weekend. Coming up a little bit later on in the
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show. Else we came down on Friday that Knock County Dela Get Doug scaff
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would be resigning his seat in the House now many is speculated that it possibly
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could be to run for another office. Scaff will join us later in the
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instead we'll have a visit from Rashaun Poor, who was the Parks and Wrecks
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as well. Plus it's the anniversary of nine to eleven. We'll get some
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three or four nine three five five zero zero away, want to welcome to
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the show. Canock County Commission President Kent Carper, Good morning, sir.
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How are you? I'm just fine, Dave, good morning, And before
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we get started, dislike to mention nine to eleven today. Today is a
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somber day for all first responders. So when you see a first responder,
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whether it's a Charles, the police officer, a Canall County depinuty, sheriff,
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a firefighter, a paramedic at nine one one telecommunicator. Remember them.
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They've risked their lives and they're well being every day to protect us. So
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nine to eleven is a day we should remember nine of the victims of nine
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to eleven. That's certainly our first responders who protect us twenty four. So
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I agree one of very well, said sir, I appreciate us saying that.
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So two weeks ago today, Commissioner, folks in areas like what's your
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Creek and several others were being hit with something almost almost like from another world
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with that epic rainfall that came through that area. The cleanup is continuing and
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they'll be cleaning up for some time. That was announced last week that the
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Accounty Commission at the County Commission meeting that more time was being given for those
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who were impacted by the flooding to have those damaged items picked up. That's
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been extended down through Friday. Talk about that, well, first of all,
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why is the Canall County Commission picking up flood debris? Well, no
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one else will do it. We have to date picked up four hundred tons
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of debris. That debris would have ended up in the creeks and the streams
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and the rivers and on private property and illegal dumps. It's much cheaper for
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taxpayers to clean it up as opposed to let someone throw it over the hill.
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But it's also flood prevention, you know, if we have another bad
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flood or another water event, we want that out of there, so we'll
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try to get reimbursed. The last event we have we did not get reimbursed,
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But the county Commissioner Wheeler Commissioner Slango and I carefully budget and we have
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a contingency fund, so we've used up most of it. We've probably incurred
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now between eighty to one hundred thousand dollars of costs. We've got hundreds of
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man hours, and I cannot say enough for the county employees who frankly are
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out there this weekend. They were kind of by themselves with a private contractors
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picking up his flood debris. Why did we do it over the weekend?
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Because people have already suffered enough and it's have to sit there in eighty to
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ninety degree weather with flood debris out in front of their house. And by
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the way, Dave, I hate to call it flood debris because these are
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treasures of the folks that flooded. But it just it has to be cleaned
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up, it has to be taken away, and that's something the county does.
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We've had a lot of homes damage, a lot of homes destroyed.
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I can go over the numbers. It's only real important number is when or
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not will receive a disaster dectoration from the Feds. We did not receive one
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the last flood event. I still don't understand that this time probably will get
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it. It's not a panacea, it's not a cure all, but it'll
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help. So when when, possibly, Commissioner, would we know something about
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whether we'll get that those funds coming in here or not. If you'd have
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asked me that five years ago, I could have told you probably within a
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day or two. Lately, I don't get it from the FEDS. We
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work with them. I have to work with them, but they set up
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their own rules and we'll just do what they let us know when we do
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what they tell us. Basically, they're in charge of the money. So
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what we operate on is we know exactly how to file the proper paperwork.
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We've had about I think one hundred and ninety people apply so far, so
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we're on top of that. We'll get the paperwork in on time. We
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stay on top of it, and let's just hope. I can't say enough
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good about Senator Mansion, Senator Capitau, and now our Congressman Miller. They're
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very supportive of this. So we'll hope we'll get a disaster declaration. And
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by the way, there's no way that any of this happens about the Governor
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Jim Justice, and I will have to say this, the roads are open.
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Governor Justice had bridges fixed, ditches cleared, trash Mood went up there
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himself. Governor Justice and his team performed brillyantly. So far. Our new
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Homeland Security Director Sorsa has done a great job, so kudos to him as
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well. And there have been I'm glad you brought that up. So there
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are various groups that have answered the call to help out, and I think
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VOAD was one of them. Of course, that stands for Voluntary Organizations Active
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in Disasters of West Virginia. Yes, VOAD has traditionally had a very good
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reputation. There's some concerns lately. We'll look into that, but the Commission
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is prepared to make direct payments for damage to certain property to VOAD. We're
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allowed to do that under the law. So we're working with VOAED very closely.
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They're the only game in town. When you have people loser bridge.
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The problem with the word bridge is most people assuming to hear the word bridge,
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it's a yeah. Many of these folks are trapped still trapped have to
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when I say trap, they can get in and out, but they have
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to walk through the woods, they have to walk through a creek. So
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these structures need to be replaced. And of course there's ways to do that.
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And though adds a key essential ingredient for this. Yeah, and I
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think that's sometimes what we forget to a commissioner. I know you've got to
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run, but I think this is something that sometimes we forget. You know,
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we hear this was the big news a couple of weeks ago, and
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if it's not right in your yard or in your neighborhood, well life goes
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on. You start talking about other things. I'm guilty on this show.
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I haven't talked anything about it in a couple of days. But for these
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people that are living in that area. As you said, many cases with
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situations like this being in rural areas where you have to drive ten miles to
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be able ten miles out of your way to be able to get on the
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highway to go to work or to go to church or whatever. We have
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a tendency I think sometimes to forget that seven houses destroyed. I think these
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were numbers. I saw seven houses destroyed, twenty six suffer major damage,
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sixty one minor damage, which, Commissioner I, you've ever gone through anything
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like this? Nothing's minor in this overall about sixty houses impacted. Is that
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accurate? That's accurate. Twenty two bridges have been destroyed, sixty six homes
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with minor damage. You know what's minor damage means that means you've got a
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foot of mudd in your basement or your living room. That's not minor.
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But that's the terms that they use. Some folks refer to that as nuisance
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flooding. Trust me, I've been there, I've seen it. I've seen
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the look in these folks eyes. They're they're suffering, but they're good West
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Virginians. They're tough, they're resilient, they're working together. One thing I
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want to mention, and I'm very concerned about. We're seeing slippages on banks
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that I've never seen before in my twenty five plus years as a county commissioner.
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So we're looking at that ones Overseas or Grove. We're gonna have the
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Shaff's department to a fly over. And my last comment is I want to
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thank CWS Segment who worked his birthday it was attacked by a swarm of yellow
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jackets, and Rod Johnson for being out there making sure that these people were
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taken care of despite the fact it was a weekend. There was no weekend
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from CW. So happy birthday to Chief Segment. I hope he wasn't injured
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badly in that attack by the yellow jackets. Well, he was slotting around
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on him and he knocked his watch off, and then he had to go
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back. He said he wanted to lose a watch over. Its kind of
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funny. Now it wasn't too funny to time all right, uh kind of
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three five five zero zero. Well to welcome to the show. Now form
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remember I say former, Remember the West Virginia. How cidelegates, Doug scaff
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how are you man? Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me,
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Dave. It sounds weird to say former, it is. You know.
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I saw some boat the soccer fields on Saturday and they said, what do
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I call you now? Former for I say, what, former coach?
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Whatever? You want to call me. How about Doug, It's gonna be
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done. Let's go with that. So the news came on Friday that you'd
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be giving up your seat in the in the legislature overall, I mean,
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it's simple questions. What led to the decision? Doug? Well, you
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know, a month ago, almost exactly a month ago, I stepped down
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as minority leader, and and I contemplated just doing everything then, but he
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had a lot of unfinished business. I wanted to have a transition period.
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I wanted to help Dell get Sean Hornbuckle, who was going to be coming
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the new minority leader. And we had a lot of unfinished business. So
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I took the next thirty days really and you know, pack my office up,
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do things like that. But I've been thinking about this for a while.
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I think it's it's it's just time, you know, eleven years eleven
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years serving the great people of my district. It's been a great run.
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I enjoyed every moment of it. I've been on both sides. You know,
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I was there. I was first elected when I think seventies six Democrats
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twenty four Republicans, and now I'm leaving with ninety ten ratio, ninety Republicans
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and ten Democrats. Was the number or the disparit I guess the disparity between
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Republicans Zumocrats. The debt lead into your not at all, Not at all,
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you know. I mean, I don't get too caught up in the
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partisan thing Democrat, Republican. When we all worked together, we you know,
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we passed almost ninety percent of all the bills you know, by latter
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by bipartisans form. Anyway, So I've specifically left. There's there's no no
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other reason other than I just I just need to take a break, take
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a break, step back. Our businesses are rocking at HD Media. We
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just acquired another newspaper down in Pulaski, Virginia. We're working on that.
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We were streaming high school football games. We're doing a lot. So the
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business side of things, we have a lot going on this fall. I
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have three different kids, three different football teams, three three different basketball teams,
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three different soccer teams. We've got a lot going on, and I'm
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looking to just just take a breath over the next thirty days or so and
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just really focus and spend time with them. Well speaking, I'll get back
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to your I'm not gonna let you off that easy, but I'll get back
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to your political career in a moment. That transition was made, you know,
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now to the sat Sunday Morning paper, now the Saturday morning paper.
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They didn't hang you over that, so I guess they want not be too
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upset, you know what with it's surprising, you know that I think the
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paper is a better product now. We increase the size of the paper.
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We delayed the press times when we run on Friday nights so we can get
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even more high school coverage into the Saturday morning paper. Yeah, you know
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what I talked about doing away with Sunday versus Saturday. Just think about this
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for a second. Everyone was mad because y'all gonna have a Wu and Marshall
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coverage in the Sunday paper. What happened these last couple of weeks, Well,
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we would not have had the WVU game in Sunday's paper because the game
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was delayed till well after into the wee hours of the night. Marshall game
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was delayed the last week before the Penn State game wasn't over till even o'clock,
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so that wouldn't have been in the Sunday paper. Anyways, the Pit
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game the upcoming week, so I think the decision. I stand by the
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decision to convert it and have a Saturday Sunday edition come out on Saturday rather
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than Sunday, because what we did was we enhanced our local high school sports
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coverage. And the fallout has not been that. I mean, we've had
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we've lost a few subscribers over but they've been coming back and they've been they've
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been signing up digitally. But the bottom line is, you know, as
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you know, the media industry is changing, constantly changing. We're on top
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of radio radio and you guys a wonderful job. You're streaming sports. It's
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stream different, it's all different now, it's a different world. The way
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that you consume media continues to evolve and change and we have to be a
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part of it. And wow, wow with respect to the traditional people,
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because I still love reading the print. I still love touching the paper.
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Everybody does, and it's just a different experience. I'll be I'll be your
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last subscriber problem. I'll be the last one left because I I keep that
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Logan banner as long as you chan do the online thing. But but I'm
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telling you, I just I like a hard copy of the newspaper. Normally
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I'll have one on a Monday because there's not one on Monday. But normally
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if the next to my coffee over here, there's a copy. And you
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know those weekly papers that come out once a week, there was really are
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I've said this before, those are in those news deserts. You know a
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lot of places we take for granted being in Charleston or Huntington, the big
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markets where you get a lot of media, but places like Logan and Boone
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County and Williamson Pulaski, Virginia. We're in Lebanon, Virginia. Now we're
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in Grundy, Virginia. So we're continuing to grow and look at those smaller
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markets. That's where people want their news on local sports. All right,
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let's get back to a lots of speculation about your future. You're a young
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guy relatively speaking for political purposes. Anyway, you're a young guy. I
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have a feeling, Doug, that your public service days aren't over you.
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You know, I love serving the public. I love It's a calling of
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mine. I enjoyed since ninth grade. Since ninth grade. I was class
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president, tenth grade class president. I took a break off eleventh grade.
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I thought I was gonna be a basketball star, so I played for you
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know, the Black Eagles, and I was too short, not tall enough.
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I couldn't shoot, I couldn't run very fast, so that was over.
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I was student buddy president in twelfth grade. I enjoyed just serving students
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at that time. Got the WVU, took a couple of years break,
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got to be a student, enjoyed life, got back in the public service
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being a student governor, and I ran for student body president and I was
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really blessed. And people say, why do you love it so much?
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When I was student body president, w I got a chance to work with
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legends like Senator Rockefeller, Senator Bird. I got to meet George Bush,
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President Bush at the time, we got to meet Bill Clinton. I just
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love service, and you know, the all thing that resonated is when you
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know you go to bed at night that you tried your best to make a
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difference in people's lives that would enhance their lives or make them more successful.
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That's a good feeling. It's just a calling of mine. I love it.
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I love it. People say, why you're beating your head against the
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wall, Why do you put so much time away to do that? Because
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I just love the state, I love the people. I love giving back
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wherever I am, whether it's in school, whether it's in college, whether
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it's at the state legislature or in some capacity, I will always be involved
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in giving back to the people. So continuing on with the speculation, there
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seems to be a prevalent opinion dog in many political circles that one of two
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things may happen, or both things may happen. Your continues to rumors that
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you may be looking at switching parties and perhaps a run for another office,
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perhaps Secretary of State. Care to address that, we'll all start backwards.
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The Secretary State Office has always intrigued me as an office, you know,
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safe, secure elections, business office of the state. You know, I
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deal a lot with the Secretary States Office, with all the different businesses I
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have. You know, we're renewing your business licenses and whatnot and make it
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easier for people to do business in West Virginia. That office has always intrigued
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me. I always was fascinated by it. Uh yeah, I'm not gonna
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lie. I've looked at that office. I'll continue to look at that office.
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I'm gonna take my time, Like I said, just relax, enjoy,
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you know, next weeks, months, whatever it takes to really just
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regroup focus. If I give back Secretary State's Office is office that I would
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consider running for it someday, someday, someday, someday, someday soon,
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I don't know. Like I said, we have a lot going on with
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our businesses right now, you know, we have a lot going on with
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our businesses we have. I got to get the media. I gotta get
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HD Media. We take care of I love that job. I love being
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president HD Media. It's a great gig. I love bringing news to people
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and every every facet possible. You know, And I've always know your next
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question. I've always been a conservative. I've always been a conservative. You
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know, let's talk about this for a second. Pro I'm a pro coal,
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pro business, pro life, pro pro everything guy for my whether GUARDSS.
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I was registered a Democrat or republic first election as a Republican in Morgantown
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in Monte County as a delegated that one of my first election as a Republican
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in Morgantown in Man County as a delegate. Unfortunately I had to lead the
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state and moved to Pittsburgh, so I couldn't serve and fulfill that term or
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to go into But the bottom line is this state is a conservative state.
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For years, it's never changed. We didn't have a big influx of people
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moving into our state. We didn't have all the registration has changed through the
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years, but it's those same people that were here. They just changed their
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party affiliation. So why is that for years people have been pro coal,
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pro gas, pro energy, pro guns, pro life, but they were
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registered Democrats. You know, the party of today is not the same as
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it was then. The national political scene, in my opinion, change that.
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We just can't relate to the national political scene, that national Democratic Party.
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You know, you can't defend them. There's no excuse for some of
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the things they do. And and I you know, quite frankly, times
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are changing and good leaders. They have to represent the people of their district.
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They have to represent the people of their state and their views and their
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values. So all those things that you mentioned, Doug, you know,
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you talked about pro life or pro call, pro energy, prograd they'll fly
22:25
in the face of the Democratic Party at least on the national level, national
22:30
level, but you know here so does not make it. I mean that
22:33
kind of makes you an outcast or an outlier. You know, in the
22:37
longest time we had Democrats, we had a good portion, maybe even half,
22:40
the Democratic Party in West Virginia had all those same views. You see,
22:45
they had those same as. They were called blue dog Democrats. They
22:48
were the old fastients. They were the JFK Democrats that you know they they
22:52
were. They were true and true. They were the Randolph Jennings Democrats.
22:55
You know, they just don't exist anymore. The national political scene from the
22:57
Democratic side has changed so much, and I think that's why you saw so
23:02
much party affiliation change in West Virginia. Do you think that's the big reason.
23:06
I mean, that's one of the reasons. One reason. Yeah.
23:07
I mean I get it all the time, Doug. I get text to
23:10
the show constantly, and I to you know, to be honest with there's
23:12
a lot of people, but there aren't always thrilled there than going on the
23:17
Republican Party, myself being one of those. But I get constant text at
23:19
least through three or four times a week, people saying I used to be
23:22
registered as a Democrat, the words of Reagan, paraphrasing the party left me.
23:29
That's right, party left him. I mean, look at this.
23:30
We have so many senators, delegates, commissioners, we have our current governor,
23:34
hell even President Trump at one time, I mean everyone. At some
23:37
point you chase them back to being a Democrat at one time. You know,
23:41
everybody has seen the values and beliefs change. When you get far right
23:45
far left, nobody wins. You got to come together. You got to
23:48
come together, and we're different in West Virginia. And for the longest time,
23:51
you look at Senator Joe Manchon, For the longest time, it didn't
23:53
matter what your party affiliation was. But the national political scene has finally caught
23:57
up to Joe Mansion. Now, of all people, everybody knows he's always
24:00
on his you know, stands on his own and does this. But however,
24:03
it's caught up to him. Now can no longer defend the national political
24:06
scene. Do you think Joe and totally off the record, has nothing to
24:08
do with you necessarily. I think Joe Manchin runs for Senate or do you
24:11
can run for president? Or what? Do you think? I think one
24:14
of those two things do I do? I don't think it'll run for senta
24:15
because he gets if he runs for Senate, and you know he's a smart
24:18
guy. Come on, Joe's I think he's a command He's very competitive.
24:22
He's very competitive. He's not gonna lose whatever he does. He's going to
24:25
make sure that he has a he has an advantage and a chance to win
24:27
it. So I think he'll be very calculated. It's frustrating at times.
24:30
You know, we come from a state form, but it's frustrating. It's
24:33
frustrating at times. You know, we come from a state that's rare.
24:37
You know, most Democrats in the state that were registered Democrats, they would
24:40
not have been a Democrat in any other state. You know, you can't
24:42
be a pro life, pro gun, pro conservative in other states. That
24:47
but the people of West Virginia or West Virginian's first that party affiliation. Unfortunately,
24:52
so many people want to put that label on you. But I'm the
24:53
same Doug scaff that I've always been. I'm always going to stand up for
24:56
what I believe in, stand up for being the energy depend you know,
25:00
here in West Virginia and across the nation and across the world, we have
25:03
a chance to be a leader in that. And that's different than our national
25:06
party. Quick text here says, don't your views, Doug, fly in
25:11
the face of the views of HD Media the editorial. I guess we're referring
25:14
to the editorial. We just bought three of the most conservative newspapers in the
25:18
state of Virginia, the Herald Dispatches of very moderate paper we own, the
25:22
Logan ban Or. So HD media is such a broadturn. We have thirteen
25:25
different papers that we own, thirteen different personalities, different different personalities, different
25:29
editorial pages. They're probably referring to the Charleston Gazette mail Listen. I'm not
25:33
involved in the news room, not involved in the day to day. I'm
25:34
involved in the business side. The newsrooms are all do their own thing,
25:38
and I love that. I think the different regions of the state, you
25:41
have to produce a product that best fits your readership. Here in Charleston.
25:45
You know, there's a lot more democrats here. It's the most democratic city
25:48
in the state. The views and opinions expressed or more democratic. You get
25:52
to Huntington, it's more of a pro business type paper. There's a lot
25:55
of business and more conservative paper. You go down to Logan and Boom,
25:57
they're gonna be talking more about coal related issues. You get down in the
26:00
Williamson, different type of personality. You get down the Grundy, Virginia.
26:03
Oh my gosh, they're they're they're one of the most conservative areas I've ever
26:07
been in my state. We didn't go in there and change that paper.
26:08
We didn't change the views and expressions. We buy these as a business as
26:12
a business paper product to best represent that district. As a business manager,
26:18
I'm gonna do whatever it takes to make these papers successful and provide news to
26:22
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I just I like to throw things out that you Doug because you're so
26:37
easy to talk to, and I'd like to like to get your opinion,
26:38
And I think, what do you think about the speaking of Huntington, the
26:41
decision of Huntington mayor Steve Williams round for governor. What do you think?
26:44
Yeah, that's a big deal on this. Steve's contemplated that for years.
26:45
He's done a phenomenal job in Huntington. You know, this is his chance.
26:49
You know, the Republican ticket to that side is pretty full. I
26:53
think we have our four finalists there. The Democratic side is wide open.
26:57
I see Steve Williams is a great He's a moderate conservative Democrat. He's one
27:00
that I was just speaking about. He is one chance that the Democrats have
27:06
that he gets it. He's a West Virginia Democrat, former house member.
27:10
I don't know if the National Party, you know, would would would open
27:11
him with open arms. They wouldn't open their arms to me, that's for
27:15
sure. You know, I've always budded the party on numerous things. But
27:18
the bottom line is, you got to be yourself in politics. Politics is
27:22
local. You got to get to know those people. You got to be
27:26
out there, whether you're at football games or high school games. W Games,
27:29
Marshall Games, get to know the people that you represent and as a
27:32
leader. Same thing with HD Media. That was a great texture that they
27:34
said here is hey, maybe your views opinion. You're right, maybe they
27:37
don't always line up with what's printed in one of our thirteen papers. But
27:41
that's not my job. That's not up to me. It's what our readers
27:44
want in that area. My job is to be a leader leader of a
27:48
company to make sure we can print the paper every day, you receive the
27:49
paper every day, to provide them news and resources. That's what a good
27:52
leader is. So in politics, a good leader is one who can change,
27:57
adapt bring people together regardless of their party affiliation, stand up for the
28:02
people's views they believe in, and make a difference. So interims are going
28:07
on now. Would your resignation like immediate on Friday or it was on Friday?
28:11
And I thought it was important to do it before interims because I didn't
28:12
want to go up during the false pretense and then you know, on Wednesday
28:15
you sit through some meetings. We need to let the process play out.
28:18
Uh. I was elected a Democrat. I thought the honorable thing to do
28:21
was step down as a Democrat not too many people do that. I don't
28:23
know if anybody's ever done that. You know, most people switch parties for
28:26
personal gain while they're in office. I thought that was the right thing to
28:30
do. I think there's there's there's some good candidates out there that will fill
28:34
my spot and fill the district. To find the best person that will fill
28:37
that district, it's going to be my guests would be another moderate conservative Democrat
28:41
to fill that role. You do know that Mike Pushkin is over the state
28:45
Democratic Party. I've heard that. I've heard that. I think he's been
28:48
on your show once once or twice. Yeah, you know, he doesn't
28:49
actually have control. That's the Canal County Democrat. They nominate three people out
28:53
and goes to fifteen days. Now, will they reach out to you for
28:57
your input on that? Or I mean just I mean, I mean,
29:00
is that something that somebody with the Kanaka Candy Group would send you a text
29:03
or call you and just say, hey, Doug, what do you think
29:04
you have any input on? Yeah? I mean that's it. You know,
29:07
I know the district pretty well. I've served in that district for a
29:10
while. I even served in that district when it was a seven member district.
29:12
Remember there were seven Democrats in that district covered the whole Canal Valley area
29:17
pretty much. They want you got to find the right person. You can't
29:19
just put any Democrat in that role. It has to be the right person
29:22
that can relate to the people that district. South Charleston is kind of a
29:26
very conservative modern district. They've had a Republican mayor for as long as I
29:30
can remember. You have to find the right person in that role, so
29:33
I think they will. Yeah, I've of course all all for my two
29:37
cents, you know, because I want to leave that spot in the best
29:40
hands possible for the people, not only that district, but for Westrin.
29:44
And I think it's important that you have a good relationship with Speaker Hanshaw and
29:47
the Republicans in there, because as one of ten, you have to work
29:51
across the al. You have to put party politics aside to get anything accomplished.
29:56
I mean there's names out there. I mean look at look you look
29:57
at the past. There's people like Andrew Bird who served that district well,
30:00
but in between my tenure, he was great. Look at him. You
30:03
don't look at him as a as a crazy you know, left Democrat.
30:07
He was a moderate conservative. I'm making any friends among the Democratic Party here
30:11
today, Doug, you know that, right? You know what I love.
30:12
I love friends on both sides of the house. I mean, the
30:15
bottom line is, you have to be yourself. Okay, you have to
30:18
be yourself. Yeah, you have to be yourself. It's no it's no
30:21
secret to far left that didn't like me. It's no secret to far right
30:26
won't like me. But that's okay because I do what's right for the people
30:29
of that district. Final thoughts. You're a free agent now, and I
30:32
know you're concentrating on family life and things with your with your career, with
30:36
HD media no longer in the house. When can we expect, after you've
30:40
had a little time on laying on the beach or doing whatever it is you
30:42
do. I'm kidding about that, when can we expect that there may be
30:45
some sort of announcement about your future or is it? Do you have a
30:48
timeline? I'm no, I don't have a timeline. It's great to not
30:52
be a candidate right now. It's great to just relax and enjoy life and
30:56
work on focus on your businesses, and focus on your family and friends.
31:00
I got a lot of great friends on both sides of the al. I
31:03
mean, the bottom line is, it's not it's never partisan to me.
31:04
I want to go out. I'll help people they reach out to me.
31:07
I'll help in the next few months if there's legislators that need to help on
31:11
either side of the OWL to help move their initiative forward. I'll continue to
31:14
help with my businesses and stay focused here. I'm going to take the next
31:15
however long it takes to just sit there reevaluate. One option is not do
31:18
anything, focus on the businesses, continue to focus on my kids and my
31:22
family life, and move forward. The bottom line here is I didn't I
31:26
just resign because I thought it was time and I wanted to give the the
31:30
group enough time to find a proper replacement because you, as you know,
31:34
the election seasons coming up. Let everybody get their ducks in a row.
31:37
All right. I appreciate you being on the show. You're always, You're
31:41
always. I want to text you on Friday, I said you want to
31:45
come in? You said, yep. You know. I love the show,
31:48
Dave. You do a great job. You bring both sides together,
31:49
you bring different perspectives, and I think that's what makes you, That's what
31:53
makes the show job. Duck scaff over our house of data gets member.
31:59
We'll see what the future holds for mister Scaffand to mean time, good luck
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got some text here, tex says, going back to the newspaper thing increased
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size of paper by what standard? And they also run the same articles in
35:12
Charleston and Huntington. According to a Texter, Texture said, so Scoff basically
35:17
just switches from a party to party depending on which one in power is chasing
35:22
an election. Republicans will see through his bs's record speak for itself. Definition
35:27
of a rhino a term I hate to use. According to a Texter,
35:35
Texas Scaff has always been a conservative question mark. You voted to pump nine
35:37
year old full of puberty blockers. That's not conservative, that's child abuse.
35:42
Liberal Texas the same Doug Scaff you've always been will always vote to pump kids
35:46
full of unnatural puberty blockers. The same Texter. By the way, Texas
35:51
says, I canceled my gazette subscription about a year ago due to their editorial
35:54
page and the editorial page editor because he doesn't roll honestly, Texas Scaff is
36:00
slamming the Democrats and also not winning friends in the GOP. What a sad
36:05
place to be. According to a Texter, tech says, Dave hd Medium
36:08
made a mistake in not publishing his Sunday and Monday paper. Who wants to
36:12
read old news with a paper don't make common sense? Thanks Dave. According
36:15
to a Texter text shows, thank you Doug Scaff for keeping the newspaper alive.
36:22
Thank you for thoughtful editorials that bring common sense to existing opinions. As
36:25
long as there's a newspaper, I will subscribe. According to a texture texture,
36:31
so let's call the pro life stands what it is, forced birth by
36:34
government mandate. Being pro life ends at birth, the birth child becomes lesser
36:37
priority for the pro life government. Just look at the West Virginia foster system.
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City Charleston Parks and Rec Director Parks and Rec Director Rashaan poors with us.
36:55
How are you? I'm good? How are you this morning? You
37:00
got a tough shoes to fill their following up Dutch scaff and Kent Carper.
37:04
You realize that right, I think you'll do just fine. Welcome back to
37:07
the show. You are the Parking right Director for the City of Charleston.
37:10
What do we get going on with Shawn? Oh? Wow? So we
37:13
are just now starting to wind down a little bit, getting to the end
37:16
of the summer. So we're finally seeing a little bit of breathing room from
37:21
all the activities events that we've had this summer. But so right now,
37:25
we had the opportunity to name one of our trails after a young lady who
37:30
passed away. She was twenty five years old, had leukemia and she was
37:35
actually one of our lifeguards years ago. She's an avid trail go where her
37:40
family is as well. So we had the opportunity to rename one of our
37:45
trails. Her name was Amanda Trail. Ironically, her last name is actually
37:50
spelled and I remember that story and I remember thinking, now we're going to
37:53
name it. It's I guess, not trying to make live the situation obviously,
37:57
but it's going to be the Amuta Trail trail. Yeah, I guess
38:00
exactly the amount of trail trail. And we also renamed her that trail after
38:06
her on National Trail Mixed Day, which was not planned. So that that
38:10
was pretty cool. Trails, can you have it one time? That's all
38:14
good though, It's all good stuff. So so yeah, so that was
38:17
something that I'm good that we were able to do. And we also have
38:21
the dog swim event that's coming up. I had a text waiting on you
38:23
when when you got here about about the dog swim yep. So we just
38:28
had the one over at Canal City. So the next three are going to
38:30
be at Martin Luther King, North Charleston and Cato. Next week or this
38:35
week will be the Martin Luther King from six on Friday from six am to
38:38
eight pm and Saturday from noon to four and then next week we'll be North
38:43
Charleston same time, and Cato will be from five to seven on Friday and
38:47
noon to four on Saturday. How do these dogs swims work? I know,
38:51
dogs in a pool, I get that part, but I mean,
38:52
but I mean more than that. How does logistically speaking, how does it
38:55
work? I mean literally, people just come to the pool, they bring
38:59
their dogs, and they just let their dogs come in and swim. We
39:01
also have the opportunity to raise money for the Humane Society. So if anybody
39:07
wants to bring in any dog treats, any dog equipment and toys for the
39:12
dogs, we greatly appreciate. And what are those again? The dogs win?
39:17
They are this weekend, next weekend, and the weekend out next three
39:22
weeks, next three weekends. Okay, at the various places. So what
39:24
else you got going on? So we got Halloween coming up, So we
39:28
are in the process of planning our Halloween events. We typically try to have
39:31
one big citywide event and this year I don't know if I should let the
39:36
cat out of the bag, but I guess I will go. Well,
39:37
sure you should. So We're gonna do a haunted trail this year up at
39:42
Cato. I think it's been done years ago. And we're bringing it back.
39:45
So that's gonna be on October twenty eighth Saturday, So we're still in
39:50
the planning process. But then also the community centers will have their own smaller
39:54
Halloween events that might encompass the trunk or tree or different activities that the kids
40:01
can participate in, so we're still in the planning stage of those as well.
40:07
We had a text here about the Vandalia Pool or the Vandalia poill be
40:09
opening. So the Vandalia Pool is no longer a pool, So we have
40:14
a community organization that does planting up there, so we fill the pool in
40:20
and it's now a community guarding for that neighborhood up there. They came to
40:23
us about a year or so ago and wanted to do something with that pool
40:28
because that pool was not operational for several years, probably ten or more years.
40:31
So we've repurposed it. It's a community garden. Okay. One of
40:35
those things that always amazes me, and again we're talking with Rashaan Poor,
40:39
who's the director of the Charleston Parks and rector Barbent here on five any Live.
40:45
One of the things that always amazes me is that there's just always so
40:46
many things going on. I get at the Charleston's West Virginia's biggest city that's
40:51
going to happen, but not just in Charleston, but the surrounding areas and
40:53
the way that you folks and South Charleston and Saint Alban's and Nitro and everybody
41:00
tries to work together on these events because you just about have to exactly yeah,
41:04
you don't want to try to overlap. You want to try to get
41:07
the timing right. So we try to reach out to our you know,
41:09
sister and brother cities to see what they have going on, and we try
41:13
to we want to try to do something different as well, so that we
41:15
can bring different things to the community. I'm excited about this Haunted Trail.
41:19
I think this is gonna be gonna be a really big deal. And this
41:22
is the type of things that people, you know, I'm I'm an old
41:27
guy, and used to be Halloween was one night and it was you know,
41:30
maybe an occasional haunted house would pop up here and there, but primarily
41:32
it was you go out with a bag, you beg for candy from six
41:36
to eight, and then you go home. But now it's all these other
41:38
things. As you said trunk. You mentioned trunk retreats to everybody. We
41:42
have our own with with woody woods, you know, and with trick or
41:45
Beat going on. We have all these different things going on. It's all
41:47
part of the Halloween is almost becoming like Christmas. Rashaun, It's becoming like
41:52
a whole month of activity. It really is. It really is the last
41:54
couple of years. So we try to do different, different big events every
41:59
year. So the last two years we had the Haunted Halls over at Roosevelt
42:02
Neighborhood Center, and then last year, which was really creative, we had
42:07
the Haunted Streets of Safety City. So people got to experience the Safety City.
42:10
A lot of people aren't familiar with Safety City, but it's where there's
42:15
a firehouse. People get to learn fire safety there, and there's this little
42:19
town with these little buildings and there's these little gold carts that kids can ride
42:22
through, and so we walked the people through the town. Well, that's
42:25
that's pretty cool stuff. Where can people learn more about all these activities?
42:29
Because you've hit us with a lot of stuff today from me, So you
42:31
guys can follow us on our Facebook page, which is Charleston, w V
42:36
Parks and Recreation, and we also have our website which is get activewv dot
42:40
com. All right, very good, Well, have you back again soon.
42:44
I definitely want to have you on to talk about this Haunted Trail thing
42:46
that you just unveiled to us here. I definitely want to have you on
42:49
to talk about that and plus plenty more of the activities going on with Halloween
42:52
as we head into the fall months. Charleston. Absolutely Rashaun Poor, the
42:55
director of the Charleston Parks and Rectivision, I appreciate you stalking by the studio.
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Jenkins with the story post to wv metronews dot com. Total of twenty five
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committee meetings are scheduled now. Over the weekend, they took a tour of
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the new Herbert Hoover High School and at the Capitol. Right now, they're
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meeting pretty much wherever they can because the chambers, especially in the sendors in
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the House, are under going in major renovation. They could always meet at
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the Governor's mansion, because no one's using that just saying there is a new
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Householder making that announcement on Friday. Marsha Kavlik with the story post at wv
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metronews dot com. He was joined by House Speaker Roger Hanshaw for that announcement.
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Congressman Alex Mooney and officials from the NRA also were there. He was
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Householder first elected to the House in twenty ten. Delegate Caleb Hannah also has
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originally said he was going to run for governor, but now I was opting
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instead to run for Attorney General. Senators Mike Stewart and State Senator Mike Stewart
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and State Senator Ryan Weld also we'll be running for the AGS spot as well.
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The current A. G. Patrick Morrissey is now running for governor and
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all day. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention of course today,
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And I would be remiss if I didn't mention of course today, And
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I would be remiss if I didn't mention. This is the anniversary of nine
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to eleven, and commemorations are being planned across the country as well as in
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West Virginia, and and you know, it's it's become I think one of
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those where were you type moments in American history and in the discussion, so
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everybody else does theirs, I will give mine. I was on the air
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at w VW Radio and Logan uh doing the morning show there when the first
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strike happened. I was doing mornings and there was no one there for the
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most part in the early mornings because I started at five thirty am. Got
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in the building about you know, four thirty. There's somebody there for the
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most part in the mornings except for myself and UH and the news guy and
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our general manager, who for some reason came in at five am every morning.
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But so the office opened it around eight, so you'd start to see
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administrative staff coming in, followed by salespeople around eight eight thirty or so.
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And we had a small TV in the sales office, which was just down
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the hall from where our control room was. So by the time the sales
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team got there, us morning people were so hyped up on caffeine. We
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talked to anybody, even salespeople. So I grabbed you had another cup of
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coffee and headed down the hall to talk to him. And we had the
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TV on CNN in the office, and I remember when that first, the
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first announcement came over CNN, and I remember going back into the control room
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trying to make sense of everything that was going on. Of course, at
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that time, we had the old not really the old ticker tape thing like
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you see in the movies, but it was a more modern version of that
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that you actually fed the paper in, and then the old fashioned printers that
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printed the Associated Press news and I'm trying to monitor that myself and the news
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guy there, and I remember putting ABC News Radio on the air at the
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top of the hour, and like a lot of folks, you know,
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thinking is this It's the world coming to an end? And you know,
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I was thirty years old. I did the math. I was thirty years
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old when nine eleven happened, about to turn thirty one, and during my
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lifetime up to that point, there really wasn't a where were you type moment
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in my life. You know, everybody talks about older folks older than I
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will talk about where they were when John Kennedy was shot, or going back
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even further when they heard about Pearl Harbor. But other than maybe the Space
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Shuttle Challenger explosion in January of nineteen eighty six, there had really never been
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in my life one of those where were you type moments? But this was
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it for me at that age. And each year as nine to eleven starts
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to fade a little bit more from memory, and sadly so I think back
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to the days to September eleventh and the days there after. Chris Lawrence in
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the Morning News this morning played what is now that famous clip of President George
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W. Bush saying, if you remember, there were some audio issues as
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he was trying to speak into a megaphone there, and he said, paraphrasing,
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the people who knocked down these buildings are soon going to hear from all
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of us, And of course it got a credible round of applause, followed
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by Chance of USA USA. Now neither Bush, We're the greatest presidents of
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the world. But w was the right president in that month and was perfect,
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in my opinion, in that particular situation. And I just remember the
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sense of solidarity that the country had at that time. And I've mentioned this
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before on the show. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if
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a heaven forbid a nine to eleven type attack, that type of attack were
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to happen today, Because it was the world was a different place in two
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thousand and one, and of course it was changed by by the events of
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nine to eleven. But if it were happening today, you know, former
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President Trump would release statements about how weak President Biden is and it would have
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never happened on his watch. President Biden would ramble something totally incoherent and social
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media, which wasn't really a thing then at least what we know it as
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now would have exploded. Would blame towards the other side. Social media influencers
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would weigh in, we've had people doing duck self. He's describing their emotions,
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etcetera, etcetera. And I'll close with this. I can't take credit
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for this, but I heard someone say we should never forget September eleventh,
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but never forget September twelfth and the days thereafter. All right, my thanks
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to all the guests today, Hollywood, Jeff Petty, our excellent producer,
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thank you so much. Coming up tomorrow, we a lot of news to
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get to, including a visit from Nicole Christian and the Folksman Charleston Are Alliance
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will be stopping by the studio Hobby coming up with the news. Follow the
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news of the day wv Metronews dot com at WCHS network dot com. From
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my producer, Hollywood, Jef Petty, thank you so much, remember nine
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to eleven. I'll see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun to love.
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