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This is the Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live and your host.
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What we've got here is failure, new kay, He's kind of a big
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a day after the election. You hear that, that's the sound of no
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political adds. Makes for good revenue though during the season, and it makes
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for easy talk shows. Now it means I won't have anything to throw on
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the floorboard in my truck at the mailbox again today. Now I've got to
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go back to actually putting together a show again, which I did today.
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We have now our Kanawa County Commission race set Democrat and former Secretary of State
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on one side. Of the others the former legislator and insurance executive Chris Walters
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Natalie Tennant Chris Walters both will be joining me on the show today. Plus
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we know who the sheriff is going to be since there was no one in
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the ticket on the Democrat side. It'll be Joe Crawford. He's going to
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join us a little bit later on. Brad Michael Henney will be stopping by
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as well. Lots of news to get to them, you just say this
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first and foremost before we get to Chris, want to hear your reaction to
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the election. Light up the text lines. I'll read as many as possible.
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I'm happy, I'm sad, i am enraged. It's exactly what I
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do that for the Fruit Pharmacy text line three zero four nine three five five
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zero zero eight. All right, Chris Lawrence is with us right now.
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Chris, good morning. How are you sing? I'd rather talk about the
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par mar Strawberry Donuts. That's Strawberry Shortcake Donuts. Yeah, well at the
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donuts spot that too, Yeah, yeah, we're good. At the Strawberry
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Festival, I have not I've never been there before. I've never had I've
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never been invited actually, so I go. Well, but it's and it's
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amazing, it really is what it goes on Mechannan. All right, so
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we have reversed chairs from twelve hours ago. I'm now in the host chair
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and you're in the co host chair. Thanks exactly, by the way,
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hats off to you and Carrie Hoodesek, who's who burned the midnight oil,
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the midday oil. All the oil is burned. Because you two have been
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here all night. You have not left. There's just enough left in the
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tank to finish off your show here and nothing. I'm going on to bed.
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I don't blame yet, I don't blame you, all right, So
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let's just start it off. I'm just going to count on the turn you
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loose, well, Lok, let's talk. Let's start. Lookily, the
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contested races in Incanah County in the courthouse were largely on the Republican side,
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as you have mentioned, Chris Walters defeated Dwayne Duncan and on the Democratic side,
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Natalie Tennant defeated Kent Carper, who, as we have documented, resigned
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last week. So and that was a fairly heavy handed win by Tenants.
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She went one going away there. In the prosecutor's race, which was another
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one that was much talked about, Debor Rosnick defeated Morgan Switzer by about sixteen
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hundred votes. So Rosnick advances to November and we'll take on John Mitchell in
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the general election. And I have to apologize to John because we were on
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the coverage last night and I was just I had so many numbers and names
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running through my head, and I was trying on the fly to remember his
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name, and I just could not get it out. So I apologized John
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because I could see his face when I was talking to Debora last night.
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I could see John's face. I knew who he was, and I knew
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he was going to be the Democrat, and I could not remember his name.
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And You're looking at me and offering no help. Well, because I
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didn't know what he what I was trying to say. Now, we spent
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a lot of time together, but we're not married. I can't complete your
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sentences. And Chris is looking at now. You and Kerry could probably do
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that, but you're looking at me, and I'm like Toasterick, I don't
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know what. I apologize to John Mitchell for forgetting his name on our coverage
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last night. It wasn't because I forgot who he was or that he was
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going to be the Democratic candidate for prosecutor. I just couldn't get the name
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out. Joe Crawford, as you mentioned, will be the sheriff. He
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defeated Sean Krozer last night. There was no Democrat in the race, so
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he will likely be your kana County Sheriff. Now the judicial races, there
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were a couple in Kanawa County that were contested for circuit judge. Of course,
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there's a new circuit judge in Kanaan County and that was a close race,
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probably the closest race of the night, as Richard Lindsay defeated Eric Cantrell
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ninety five votes. Was the separation there, So certainly they'll be looking at
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that one pretty closely when the canvass the ballots coming up in a few days.
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Judge Jennifer Bailey won re election defeating Ashley Deem. The vote totaled there
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nineteen three hundred and seventy for Bailey. Deem got eleven eight hundred and thirty
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six votes, so Judge Bailey re elected. There there was a family Court
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judge seat that was won by Kelly Pritt. She won rather handily over Leir
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van Meter fourteen six hundred votes to eleven thousand and thirty six for van Meter.
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There that was the difference in that one. There are three new magistrates
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in Kanaha County and those seats were claimed by Lisa Good, Todd Chevalier,
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and John Luoni. There were four other magistrate races that were contested and those
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winners included Leslie Grace, Mike Farrell, Casey Moore, and Gary Scheff.
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So that runs down the races in Kanawa County. In Putnam County there was
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the one circuit judge rage that was talked about. Phil Stowers defeated John Hoover
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seventy eight hundred eighty eight votes to thirty three hundred and twenty eight. Judge
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Stowers wins reelection. There there was one magistrate race that was contested in Putnham
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County and Sarah Weaver won there. For the school board, your winners were
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Chuck Hatfield and Christian Wells and both levees that were on the ballot, and
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Putnam County one handily and the Fire and Rescue levy as well as the school
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board levee both were approved. And I think you got Brad coming on,
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so you guys can thumbnail the statewide races and of course all of those numbers
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are at our website wv matronews dot com and there will be plenty on talk
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line with Hopey coming up in the next hour reaction and analysis. And also
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I'll throw this in here, a couple of our mayor's races that we had.
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Scott James has been He won his race in Saint Albans and he was
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reelected because that was the election. And then Scott Elliott and Dunbar won his
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race over one of the council when there's actually two other candidates, thinking that
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right, yeah, and he and then in Dunbar that was a primary.
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So he's now the Democrat nominee. But there were no Republicans running, So
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now I guess that means that he unless somebody could be appointed to that seat
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by the Republican party. So that's uh so Elliott wins in in Dunbar as
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well. All right, all right, Chris, I appreciate it, man,
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thanks a lot. All right, dude, to have yourself a great
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day. And it's too bad we're not on TV yet. We will be
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in the fall because you are rocking the man Hillbillies. I I wondered if
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anybody was gonna know that notice that you got to Mike Crosby, our good
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buddy down the baseball coach at Man would be very a listener to this show.
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By the way, the former American Psycho American Psycho in his pro wrestling
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days Yeah, he hooked you up with a man hill billy gear. So
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you're rocking the left. I mean, I'm Logan and that's okay. It
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still Logan County. So everywhere I go, I wear the the man Hillbilly's
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gear. I wore it to a baseball game in uh in Miami last year
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and uh so so so the Hillbillies were rocking at what is they called Tropic
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can of Fi. Yes, yes, indeed, Chris, go get some
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sleep, all right, buddy, Chris Lawrence again. He and Carrie been
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before we go to brad Tex says no, Mike Stewart is a G craig
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hot air. Blair is done. Robert It's okay to sexually assault your wife.
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Carnes is done. One of depressing parties. Morrissey is the GOP goublatorial
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candidate now, says a Texter textasyst Thank goodness, Mike Stewart lost, Tex
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says, looks say Mike Stewart will need to get a job since he can't
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live off taxes anymore. That's a real welfare system. Well, he's still
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a state senator, is mister Stewart. Biggest election news, says A text
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in my mind was Blair is going to get ousted, a get announced rather
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than the fifteenth Senatorial district going to need a new Senate president and all new
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committee appointments. Chaos coming to the state a second straight time, that we've
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lost a Senate president. Tex says Dave. I think a lot of Conservatives
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like me were tick that Mooney decided to run for Senate after all that trouble
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to win the House seat over David McKinley. His selfish ambition to go from
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a two year cycle to a six year one has now forced him to have
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to say goodbye to DC. To other conservative politicians, this needs to be
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a reminder to think before you act. Somebody who always thinks before and after
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he acts, as Brad mcilhanney's joined us right now. Brad, good morning,
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welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave, Happy post election morning.
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And indeed it is all right. So let's start with the with the
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race for the Senate governor Jim Justice. Will move on and we'll face Wheeling
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mayor Glen Elliot. Your thoughts. You know, the polling, not just
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the Metro News poll, but others consistently showed Justice way ahead. It was
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to the point that Congressman Mooney counted his own internal polling that showed him within
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twenty points. That was favorable considering other polls showed a forty point gap.
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So you know that that showed you the lay of the land. And the
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only question to me was how quickly the race would be called by Metro News.
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And you know, this was a national profile race, so how quickly
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it might be called. It was a lead story on ABC News last night,
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and it was a lead story ons you know, to Congersman Mooney's credit,
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I think it was it was not called as soon as the poles closed,
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but it was maybe forty five minutes later, maybe Poles closed seven thirty
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race was called probably eight fifteen. And Craig Blair is out. As textures
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have mentioned, Craig Blair is out, and and so now the face of
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the Senate is going to change. Well, I was bamboozled about that,
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and bamboozled the man said, I was bamboozled because you know, Senator Blair
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had a financial advantage. I think a name recognition advantage, which can cut
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both ways. You can, you know, if everybody knows who you are,
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you can be a lightning rod for criticism. He had two primary opponents,
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both running to his right on culture issues. Senator Blair is most enthusiastic
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about economic development in the state, and he believed that that was his,
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you know, a central part of his role, particularly in the lieutenant lieutenant
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governor spot that goes with being Senate president. But he was He faced competition
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from former Delegate Mike Folk and from Tom Willis, a lawyer, a businessman,
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a military veteran, and a veteran of the twenty eighteen West Virginia US
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Senate Republican race. That one also included you probably remember Patrick Morris, Evan
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Jenkins, Don Blankenship and Tom Willis kind of came out of nowhere, and
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you know, it wasn't really among the top three finishers, but created an
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impression by being someone you hadn't heard of, and he thought, who's this
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guy. He's coming off pretty well, and he was great. Tom Willris
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was great on the Jeffersons. By the way, yes, that is a
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good point and it is now carried over and he has defeated Senator Blair.
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He Tom Willis was interviewed by one of our metro news stations, w EPM
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in Martinsburg, and to my ears, sounded about as surprised as anyone.
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Let me Blair is you know, he's he's out, and now that that
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is going to certainly change the power structure in the State Center. And you
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know, I don't want to put words in his mouth. And I'm sure
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that Senate President Blair will be on with Hopy maybe on this show at some
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point. But I kind of got the ouda in talking to some people that
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Blair may have just been over Charleston altogether, be honest with you, because
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he was. He was kind of frustrated, especially with the far right wing
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of the party. Before we let you go, because I knew you got
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a lot to do, and I want to get some local races. I
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get some candidates in studio. Here the Board of Public Works mentioned earlier,
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McCuskey beats Mike Stewart. Chris Warner takes over for his brother Mac as the
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new Secretary of State. Mark Hunt is the new State Auditor. Cant Leonhardt
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will be I guess when they have the Board of Public Works meeting, he's
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going to be the one knows where the paper towels are because he's the only
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one that's sticking around. He was re elected as ag Commissioner, at least
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I should say he was that he won the Republican primary. And also Larry
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Pack did not have opposition his pursuit of the State Treasurer's office. So a
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whole lot of new faces there, Brad, And we'll let you go after
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that. But go ahead, man. Well, you know, McCuskey,
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as somebody know, people know from his two terms as state auditor, he's
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switching roles or could could switch roles if he wins the general election. And
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uh, you know, I just think that that name recognition and the track
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record probably helped him the race Chris Warner potentially will be would be taking over
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the role that his brother has held for the last two terms. Uh So
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people people may think, oh Warner is in the Secretary of State office,
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that it could be a different one. Uh And then you know, no
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surprise that Kent Lee and Hart successfully defended his seat. Mark Hunt a little
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bit of a surprise to me because Hunt has a long track record in wes
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Virgini legislative politics as a Democrat. But a lot of people, including the
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voters, have changed parties in recent years, so maybe that's not that surprising.
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Hunt had a Canaw Valley stronghold. Some of his opponents, including House
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Majority Leader Eric Householder, more of a base of operations in the Eastern pain
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Handle. Uh. The one of the Jackson County Commissioners, Trician Jackson right
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was was also in that race, So potentially splitting the Eastern pain Handle vote
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and clearly Mark Hunt, former Democrat, current state center. What's the beneficiary?
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All right? Well, speaking of uh, I do want to throw
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this out there, we have to give props to our boss. Uh here
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at the radio ranch, Joe Parsons. Happy Joe, as most people don't
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him out of Jackson County. Joe uh won the nomination and uh, and
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we'll be serving it looks like because I don't think there's anyone. Maybe there
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is some on the primary. I'm not sure, but he did win the
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nomination out of that uh uh that place in the Jackson County, out of
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that that district there, So I guess, uh we we refer to him
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when I passed him in the hall as as uh. At least for now
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we could say possibly Delegate Joe Parsons. Oh man, how do we treat
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him? Congratulations to him, the great guy. Uh, don't blame the
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voters for all right. All right, now you're gonna be on I know
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with a hobby coming up at ten oh six, so we'll let you go.
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I appreciate more focus on the Senate in Congress and probably have a few
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of the candidates onday. I know he was trying to see if we could
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get the governor on there. So we'll be listening to teno sex Man,
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Thanks a lot, Thank you, Brad mglhney. Text says Tom Willis did
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not come out of nowhere. He has ran for higher office before. He's
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actually a fantastic candidate. As a text Texter says the Senate shifted decidedly to
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the far right last night. Tex says women for Mayor, Williams for Governor
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got rid of one carpet backer in Mooney. Now we needed to get rid
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of carpetbager. Morrissey, head of the Woman Haters Club, says a Texter
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text says, why are all these losing Trump Republicans not crying about the election
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being stolen? Are they not truly believing? Maga Trump Republicans Texas Mike Stewart
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Tennant picked up a victory on the Democrat side and Chris Walters on the Republican
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side, both earned studio We'll start with Chris Walters coming up next. Back
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Dwayn Duncan to secure the Republican nomination for County Commission and mister Walters joins us.
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Now, Chris, good morning, congratulations, welcome to the show.
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Thanks Dave, Good morning to you, sir. It was a good race
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and an the end you pulled it out. That's right. Yeah, absolutely,
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I'm really thankful for the voters that they put their confidence in me to
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move forward to try and represent Kennwall County. Also want to thank my family,
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my wife for standing by me. I mean, anybody that puts their
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name on the ballot, they're opening themselves to scrutiny, to negative ads,
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as everyone's seen. And you know that doesn't just affect the candidate, fects
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families as well, and so you know, having that support at home is
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just absolutely amazing and invaluable to me. The entire family runs. Yes,
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in the world we live in now, in the world of politics, Chris,
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the entire family is on the ballot, you know, and it's it's
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I don't I don't like it necessarily, but it is what it is.
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You know. It was a great teaching moment for my kids too. I
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had to explain to my son in kind of sports terms that this was a
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semi final and that we head to the final instead of using primary in general,
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so he could really click on to what's going on as someone who's served
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to the legislature and has really been around politics your whole life. Of course,
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you know your family, your father, and legislature. Talk about the
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experiences you've had and how you think those will help you if you're elected to
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the county commission. Chris, Yeah, absolutely, My experience is invaluable whenever
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it comes to coming in and replacing someone who'd been on the County Commissioner commission
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for twenty eight years. You know, I was Vice Chair of Finance in
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the Senate, oversaw the finances of the whole state of West Virginia, so
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coming into the county, being able to comb through the budget find ways we
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can save money and return that money to the taxpayers. You know, we
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really have to have the onus that this is not our money, this is
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the taxpayer money. Times are extremely tough right now. It is tough to
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make your weekly grocery bills, utility rates, everything, and we need to
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return as much money to the taxpayer as we can to help them as we
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all weather this storm together. It's an interesting time, Chris in Kanawha County
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because on one hand, you've got so many great things that are happening here,
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and I think this is true of West Virginia in general. Putting on
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more broad terms, you have so many great things that are happening. You
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know, job announcements coming, I'm talking talking about statewide. You have people
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moving into certain areas, moving out of other areas. So it's kind of
23:40
an interesting contrast between the good and the bad. Let's start with the good.
23:44
What's some good things going on in Kanawha County right now that you want
23:47
to that you want to be a part of. You know, the County
23:48
Commission has been involved in like the Shawnee Sports Complex. I think bringing that
23:52
travel type of sports to Kanall County has been fantastic. It's brought more people
23:56
here to see the county that we all love. You know, we live
24:00
here for a reason. We think it's wonderful. We're in our bubble of
24:03
how great Kanaal County is, and I want to continue to spread that message
24:07
to tons of people by having them come here. You know, as a
24:11
candidate, I haven't been using buzzwords of let's just build a strong economy.
24:15
I've actually put plans forth to doing so. I think that's really important.
24:19
You know, Kanall County has so much potential. We are the capital city
24:22
of a state. We have a beautiful area, we have a great river,
24:26
and we just don't utilize it enough. There's a lot that we can
24:30
do more to improve Kanall County and I hope to do that, and with
24:33
your help, I want to hear your ideas of what you think we can
24:36
do, because I don't have all the ideas. I've got a lot of
24:38
great plans for Kanall County, but I really want to hear from everyone out
24:41
there that's what you all think we could do to do better. And one
24:45
of the things I hear a lot on this show from guests and sometimes from
24:48
callers and Texas Chris Is. People say that they think there's a division in
24:52
Kanawha County. Again, not unlike a lot of other counties. You know,
24:55
they think that maybe what's going on, that what's going on in the
24:59
Upper Kanal Valley couldn't be any more different than what's going on in downtown Charleston
25:03
or what's going on in Tornado or in St. Albans or whatever. Speak
25:06
to that, Yeah, absolutely, I mean, we we can't forget about
25:08
different areas of the county. And also when it comes to the division,
25:11
you know, I'm used to bringing people together. You know, a lot
25:15
of people don't know this about me, but my wife's a Democrat, I'm
25:18
a Republican. We have two bipartisan babies, you know, I am.
25:21
I'm used to working with everybody. I love. Have a dog. What's
25:25
the dog? I got four dogs? Okay, we actually uh we got
25:27
a mountain party one of the dogs. Oh man, they're they're just wonderful
25:32
things. I love animals. What's one of my biggest passions actually is helping
25:36
animals. We adopt, we we we do what we can to give back
25:40
to those you know, to them, they're they're amazing to us. And
25:44
you know, the eastern part of Kanaal County is extremely important, just like
25:47
the western part, and just like Charleston, Clinton and all over, and
25:52
I have plans for each region. You know, we can't just focus on
25:55
building Charleston and hoping the rest does well. We need to focus on building
25:59
Kanal County as a whole. We also need to focus on sharing things together.
26:03
If you look at the cities, you know, Dunbar's doing really great
26:06
on tearing down homes and they have the equipment to do that, whereas Clinton
26:10
and they do great on doing it too, but they may not have certain
26:12
pieces of equipment that Dunbar has, and Dumbar's not using those equipment every day.
26:17
So we really need to figure out what equipment all these cities has,
26:21
work together as a county, share resources to make the whole county better.
26:26
So, Chris, before the campaign really gets going, you have time to
26:29
exhale a little bit anything you want to say to the voters Canowa County who
26:33
have put you in this position to possibly be the next county commission. You've
26:37
still got a race to get through, but at this point, yeah,
26:40
you know, again, thank you for putting your support and confidence in me
26:44
as I move forward in this race. I am not going to go negative.
26:47
You're not going to see a negative ad paid for by Chris Walters.
26:51
In fact, Dave, we joked about this that my campaign commercial during the
26:55
primary started with warning the following is a positive campaign commercial, because that's what
27:00
I'm trying to do. We don't need to tear each other down. You
27:03
know, my opponent, the General, Natalie, she's intelligent, she's articulate.
27:06
Her and I get along. Well, I'm not going to try to
27:08
tear her down or sling mud at her. You know, I hope that
27:11
the voters hear my plans, my ideas, hear her plans, her ideas,
27:15
and pick who they think would do best for the Well, she's in
27:17
the green room, so you know, you can start by the baby going
27:18
run up to the soda machine to buy find her soda or back of chips
27:22
or something. You know, we saw each other so much during the campaign
27:25
trail that we literally joked about we should ride together to Avent Stave. So
27:29
you know, again, I try to get along with everybody, and I
27:30
want to bring that passion, that energy, and that excitement to the County
27:34
Commission. I think I can do a lot to help our county, help
27:37
any divisions that there are in this county, and to move us forward.
27:41
Chris Walter's the Republican nominee for County Commission. Congratulations on your victory last night,
27:45
and we'll be talking to you a lot over the summer as we head
27:48
toward the General in November. Thanks a lot, ma'am, Thank you so
27:51
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because what you don't know Canhirschhell. We're talking Natalie Tenant here just a couple
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moments, let me talk and I got a couple of texts here Texas JV.
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McCuskey didn't beat Mike Stewart. JM crushed him. Now we're Stewart.
31:04
I'd quit the Senate and go home and keep Pappy's j FK head and statue
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company. It's a reference to something he always talks about. Uh Tex says
31:14
Blair last cycle, Blair last this cycle. And if he doesn't moderate,
31:19
Sumeric, Tar will be the next Senate leader to be ousted. Ours handpicked
31:22
judicial candidate to Putnam got crushed. Don't discount how many voted against Tar and
31:27
not for the winning candidate. Tar better watch out, says a Texter.
31:33
Please give us advanced notice, says the Texture when Justice will be on so
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we can turn off the radio. Well, well, Hobby was working to
31:40
have him on on the show next hour. I don't know. I haven't
31:41
checked my emails during the show, but I think he was working to have
31:44
him on the next hour. I know he's on last night, Texas Dave.
31:47
Let's hope more capital now realizes West Virginia voters see through his act of
31:51
donor grou with his politics, nor do we desire his leadership. His services
31:53
are no longer required, says a Texture. Text says it's a shame to
32:00
Chris Warner won the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. Chris is a terrible
32:04
leader. The EEDA was a terrible state GOP chair and not likely to do
32:07
any better in elected office. Texas, Walters was outvoted of the legislature.
32:14
Now I wants to be commissioner, to close libraries and allow the state to
32:15
take control of our local government. Check why he got voted out on the
32:20
state level. Final Texas Day. The first thing out of Chris Walter's mouth
32:24
was the Republican mantra of cut taxes. But wait, the next five things
32:28
he talked about. We're good ways to spend county money. I may be
32:30
naive, but if a county has less money, how do you spend more?
32:34
Just a thought? Former secretary of State, former mountaineer, former television
32:37
personality, and a whole lot more. Well, now she's going to add
32:39
Democratic nominee for county commission to her resume. Natalie Tenant is here. Good
32:44
morning and congratulations, welcome to the show. Good morning, Thank you.
32:47
I'm sure I'll get text about me next. That's cool. I'm fired up
32:52
about it. I was with the territory comes with the interesting race, for
32:54
sure. You know you now you were running your opposition on the credit ticket
33:00
was longtime county commissioner Kink Carper. You were out just running your campaign.
33:05
Then late Friday comes worthy, mister Carper would would resign, but he's still
33:08
on the ballot. It definitely looked to me like the voters of kanaw Canny
33:13
realized he wasn't going to serve, because I don't know if he did,
33:17
you know, I don't exactly. I guess I thought maybe that he would
33:22
get more votes. It's not a knock against you, don't get me wrong,
33:23
but I was thinking because he's been there for so long or whatever,
33:27
But you got a heck of a lot of votes and you won the thing,
33:30
which is not surprising. But I think the number of votes surprised a
33:34
lot of people just because that a loyalty to Carper, I think, right,
33:36
And that was my concern in going into this race also. But as
33:40
I told you earlier, you know, there were just people who were saying,
33:44
please run, please consider it, So they were feeling something before I
33:49
even realized that all this seat was going to be open. But this is
33:52
why you campaign also, and this is why you go out and ask for
33:58
votes. In asking for votes, you should be listening. So I was
34:01
listening, and I could tell by the vibe from the people, and it
34:07
truly was when I would say I'm running for county commission. Oh great,
34:09
it's time for a change. And then I might say who my opponent is
34:13
and then they were like, oh, you definitely have my vote. So
34:15
I felt it early on, and I just kept chess, kept going and
34:20
going, and you know, listening to people, there are so many there.
34:25
You talked about good and bad things with Chris. There are so many
34:29
good and bad things. You just one of your last sponsorship was about clean
34:34
air on the inside of your house. But you know, people are coming
34:37
to West Virginia because and there's the term I didn't know un till I was
34:43
listening to someone and they told me called climate refugees, and they're looking for
34:46
places. And her friend came to Sissonville because it had the best rated air.
34:52
So that's a positive for Kanawha County. And you just just look around.
34:58
Yeah, we're getting a lot of rain, everything green. But we
35:00
can also we can also I don't like the word take advantage of it,
35:04
but we can make it so much more valuable about what we have to offer
35:09
and get people outside dag on ninety percent of the time we're inside. I'm
35:14
a farm girl and a gen X, so we were never inside. No,
35:17
you're I was having that conversation with somebody the other day. It was
35:21
a pretty day on Sunday. I even told my wife and said, this
35:22
is the kind of day when I was a kid, I would have been
35:25
on my bike at seven o'clock in the morning and gone, maybe come home
35:28
when the street lights go out. Maybe I want to say one more thing
35:30
about the rate that this race then will move on. You've been involved in
35:34
other campaigns, but this one was a little bit different because even had Commissioner
35:37
Carper, even if he didn't had not resigned on Friday, there was still
35:42
that cloud of controversy over his head. But to my knowledge and to your
35:46
credit, all, I mean, we all knew this. This story broke
35:50
last May about the controversy with to my dogge today Tom? Was it today?
35:54
Okay? And it was last May. To my knowledge, you did
35:58
not focus on at all. You could have, you could have, but
36:02
you chose to. I mean, well, that's that I was trying to
36:06
get a sense of it, a sense of how the race would go.
36:08
And I know I didn't. I didn't do that. I respect his family
36:14
too much. You have to respect the position too, and that's that's just
36:20
the way that I felt about it, that we didn't need to do this.
36:23
There were enough questions people brought it up to me, like I didn't
36:27
have to say anything. Then there was a time I was up and quick
36:31
and in this old ninety year old Navy vet says, you know, tell
36:35
me about this, and I said, I don't really know. And then
36:37
I was like, well, it's my job to be able to tell people
36:40
what's going on? Should I be asking? And then I still didn't.
36:45
I still just wanted to take the high road. That's that's your guys' job,
36:49
is the well the meaning, And I think you're to be commended for
36:51
that. I really do. I mean this this campaign and this is just
36:55
editorializing on my part, and I'm not talking about cant commission, talk about
36:58
in general. A lot of what we saw, especially out of the governor's
37:00
race, just disgusted me. And and I'm any advertising business and we're not
37:05
going to turn down money. But if you can't do any better than that,
37:08
I just I don't know. It was disgusting. No, I mean,
37:10
that's just me though. Yeah, I mean, and that's you know,
37:13
and that'll be an interesting race. Then with Steve Williams, and I
37:15
wish Steve willis. You know, he's not running it. He didn't have
37:19
an opponent in the Democrat primary. But he's a statesman and he should have
37:23
shown that right away because people are going to forget about all those nasty commercials,
37:28
you know, come come the fall and Steve Williams can show what a
37:31
what a statesman he is or could have during that. But that's you want.
37:37
You want to be able to tell what you're going to do or just
37:40
give me plans and not say generalizations. I'm gonna make it better. Yeah,
37:46
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favorite Hustans. Let's talk about your campaign now, Like I told Chris Walters,
38:00
exhale and now maybe take a couple of days, but then you're going
38:02
to be back at it this summer and be taking on Chris Walters, former
38:07
legislator, insurance executive. He was on the show prior to you. I
38:12
know you were listening to talk about that match up with Chris Walters. Yeah,
38:14
I mean, for me, we just talked about this primary. That's
38:17
why I can't. I don't feel like I can exhale because I have to
38:22
go back. And I mean there were a lot of people who said,
38:25
I'm with you, I want you to win. I can't help you right
38:28
now until after the primary. Well they're gonna get calls from Natalie and say
38:32
it's after the primary. I need your help now. And so what Chris
38:36
and I will do is continue to be positive and come up and show everyone
38:44
what our ideas are. I mean, that's the I'm writing this down because
38:47
both of you said that. So that's for the record. Let that show
38:51
on May fifteenth and on my show. But both Chris Walters and Natalie Tennant
38:54
said they were going to run a clean race. What happens, and you
38:59
know this, unfortunately what happens to us, other people get involved, and
39:02
sometimes you know that can happen. But but well, I hope it says
39:07
that way. I really don't. Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna come
39:08
up like there are specifics you asked this question about, you know, different
39:14
parts of the county and you're exactly right. I saw you out in Saint
39:17
Albans and a couple times people in Saint Aubans be like, don't forget about
39:22
us. Kenawa County doesn't end in Charleston, don't forget about Saint Albans.
39:24
And I'm like, I'm here, I don't forget about it. My daughter's
39:28
first performance was at the Alburn Theater in twenty ten. You don't tell me,
39:34
you know, as a theater mom, just like a sports mom,
39:36
you don't know where every little store is something you got to pick up.
39:38
So I know all the little places in Saint Albans now and even beyond.
39:43
But here's an example, like Nitro is starting the community is starting an appy
39:47
area with beekeepers. They're painting all of these bee boxes. So here is
39:52
a little community project that they're starting. And I'm like, you, guys,
39:55
you can start having you can start selling this high. Nitro is the
40:00
place to be. And then I know about what's taking place in the eastern
40:05
part of the county. Heck, you might be able to sell some of
40:07
that honey to some of the businesses that will be coming when the recreation plan
40:12
is in place and there's all these stores put up when we get from Marmett
40:15
to golly Bridge. So that's that's what I that's this is the specifics that
40:21
I have in listening to what everyone says. It's been a pleasure to have
40:24
you on the show. And I'm going to kind of leave it with you
40:28
to just say, give you an opportunity to thank people, thank the voters,
40:31
your family, go ahead and throw them in there and talk about your
40:34
vision. And you've talked about it a lot, but go ahead and moving
40:37
forward, and we'll be having you on of course several times during the summer
40:38
and end of the fall, but go ahead and yeah, time as you
40:42
and we have a lot going on. We still have an open seat in
40:44
the County Commission. That's a good yeah, Dave, you needed to ask
40:47
me that there is that there is that. Once a reporter, always a
40:52
reporter. So so what's going to happen with this with this open seat is
40:55
now, first of all, and you know you know this former Secretary of
40:59
State, you gotta wait for elections to be certified right on the twentieth of
41:01
May in the morning. So so then the Democratic or I guess the Executive
41:07
Committee will weigh in on what they county christof it's the county commission for first.
41:13
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's they. They may ask for applications,
41:19
do an interview, and then those true. Yeah, that comes first,
41:22
and if they can't decide on someone, then there's a new piece of
41:25
legislation. And we're all like when did this come into play? That the
41:30
county the executive committee of the party of the person left so it's a Democrat,
41:34
will choose three names, and then Commissioner Selango gets to mark one off,
41:39
Wheeler gets to mark one off, and the person left is the person
41:43
last person standing. Exactly exactly would you like to be if I'm going to
41:46
apply? Like what, yes, I mean, I want to be County
41:51
commissioner today. Let's get at it. Let's let's get started. I have
41:54
ten miles up in dutch Ridge that needs water lines. They are living out
42:00
of a cistern and if it doesn't rain, they don't have water. And
42:02
if they don't have water, they got to go get their truck in all
42:06
these big tanks. Doesn't that sound like a third world country? That's in
42:08
Kanawa County our stay in twenty twenty four exactly, So that's why I want
42:13
to be Kanah County commissioner today. So yes, I'm going to apply for
42:16
it and see how it goes. And I think, you know, the
42:21
twentieth they can announce it because they'll be in session. Then they'll have another
42:24
meeting to accept the folks. And I said this on their coverage last night,
42:30
Natalie, that one or two things could happen. They could decide to
42:32
go that route, or they could talk. And this has happened before they
42:35
get somebody who basically is a placeholder, you know, somebody who just comes
42:37
in and says, Okay, I'm not gonna run, I'm not interested.
42:39
I'm just I'm just fulfilling my civic duty by servant County commission it. You
42:44
know what, and they can, you know, their chest can boltst out.
42:46
We did a placeholder. Well that's not good because what about the people.
42:52
Do they want a placeholder or do they want someone that they've already voted
42:57
on that though I've already said we're going to lift her up to see if
43:00
she can win the general election. And we do it all the time.
43:05
You talked about more Capito. He resigned. They filled it with jb Acres,
43:09
and JB became the incumbent, same with Doug Scapin. Republicans and Democrats
43:14
both do it. So so don't give me placeholder motion. Give me let's
43:19
get it together and get to work. All right, we'll leave it there.
43:22
I appreciate you being here. I didn't get to say that and started
43:25
off, but thank you, thank you, and thank you. Family took.
43:30
Yes. You know, we're in a unique situation because my husband's serving
43:34
on active duty right now, so he can't do a whole lot. And
43:37
my daughter is an aspiring journalist who's an independent and she can't do a whole
43:42
lot. But she saw the process last night and loves it and fascinated pictures,
43:45
a big, big picture of the two. Have you in the paper
43:46
today? Oh is it? Yeah? Well good, we're gonna we're gonna
43:50
like that too. But you know, she's been in this since he was
43:52
eighteen months old, but now it's like clicking in and this poor child just
43:57
thought she was going to a reception to getting bunch of stuff to eat,
43:59
and is more to it than that? All right, Natalie, wish you
44:01
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a hobby is going to get into this more and talk line. A sad
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note from the world of politics. A long time replace we can legislature out
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of run counties passed away. Bob Ashley served the legislature for thirty two years
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and he's passed away at the age of seventy. And he was definitely a
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great public servant. Bob Ashley dead at the age of seventy Hoppy, we'll
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have more on that coming up as part of the talk line. At ten
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six this morning, Tex says, neither candidate mentioned the Upper Canall Valley.
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That's Upper Canall Valley. Well, they did the abbreviation. There a third
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world area from a government to Campbell's Creek at both sides of the river,
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same as has been for seventy five years, says a text. Let me
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bring in now the presumptive nominae for sheriff as there's no candidate field on the
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Democratic side. Current Chief Deputy Joe Crawford. Joe, good morning, Welcome
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to the show. Dave, thank you so much for having me. Appreciate
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you talk about the race. Hey, we started his journey back in June.
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It was a great race. We were in a good campaign. More
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proud of what we did, and you know, at the end of the
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day, the hard work paid off. We're very blessed and fortunate, and
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you know, we had a great team. We I think we did it
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kind of the old fashioned way, getting out and talking to people, uh
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and winning, winning and winning votes. Over we'll talk about working for the
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current sheriff, Mike Rutherford. He is now term limited out and he'll be
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going off in the I don't see he's gone off in the pasture because he
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could still with me. But uh but uh, but but he's certainly earned
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it. Uh. So talk about your time working for for sheriff brother.
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It's been it's been a joint of pleasure. You know, he and I
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were friends before he asked me to come on as his chief deputy. And
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we've known each other for thirty some years. And a lot of people don't
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know this, but he started his career out at Saint Auban's PD. Uh
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where you know where I was. So I lived in Saint Aubans, so
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we knew each other. But Dave, you don't get elected four terms as
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a sheriff here in Kanall County and not be doing things right. Uh.
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They've they've set the Sheriff's Apartment up for success. I want to continue that
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success. You know, the equipment, the specialized units, the training,
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the technology. Uh, you know, sky's a limit. But and I
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will take take my hat off to the County Commission. They know it's a
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team effort, I think in county government or city government, but it's working
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together to accomplish things. You get people moving in the same direction, with
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the same goals, same vision moving forward. And the County Commission has been
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very good to the Sheriff's office. You know, recruiting and retention. We
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talked about that earlier when we were on here previously. It's an issue facing
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not only here in Kanaw County in state of West Virginia, but it's across
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the nation. But we were very fortunate the first year and a half I
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was there to gain a fourteen percent pay increase for our deputies and that helped
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us not lose people to other agencies such as the state police or federal agencies.
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So I think that was a key part of us. And then you
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look at the projects that we're right in the middle of now, the body
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camera body one camera project, the in car cameras, and the radio upgrade
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for all public safety, police, fire and the MS. So we want
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to contend that's the things we want to continue moving the county forward and make
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sure our citizens are well protected in our employees or well taken care of and
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have what they need to do their jobs. But Dave Island showing five any
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life is brought to you apart by Morgan then Morgan with more than twenty billion
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dollars recovered. They believe when you're injured, you deserve more. Morgan and
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Morgan in America's largest injury law firm. What did you hear out on the
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campaign trail? I had you on just a couple of weeks ago, kind
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of a meet the Candidate's type segment. You told me some of the things,
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but as you were traveling, I know you were out knocking on a
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whole lot of doors and things of that nature. What did you What did
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you hear out on the campaign trail? I think the one thing that resonated
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they appreciated how we did our campaign. You know, we kept it based,
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I think, focused on the issues. I think a lot of people
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didn't want to hear a lot of the rhetoric, so to speak, and
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that's that's what I focused on. I focused on you know, where been,
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what I've done, some people get to know me, but to where
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we're going in the future and what I see as far as the future here
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at the Sheriff's Office, and we tried to maintain that throughout the campaign.
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I think it was very successful. I think that was the right right way
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to go. So the next couple of months, in the next several months,
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you know, you're going to continue to service the chief deputy here in
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Kanah County, and not that you need any more on the job training,
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but it's an opportunity for more on the job training. I guess right,
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yeah, absolutely. I mean I've learned a lot of these first three years,
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and we've been busy. I mean, you look at some of the
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major credit coincidents we've had here recently. But it just goes to show how
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resent our people are. You know, our best resources are our employees are
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the people go out every day and do the job. And it's our job,
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I think, as leaders, to make sure we give them the tools,
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the training, and the technology to do their job better, safer,
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and deliver quality service to the sistans, Kennall County and We're very proud of
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that. I'm proud of our people. I'm gonna give you the final thirty
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seconds to thank whoever you need to think, family, friends, co workers,
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What do you got? Dave, thank you so much. I couldn't
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have done this without my family, you know. Yeah, yesterday I told
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you this last night. I think yesterday it was my twenty fifth wedding anniversary.
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Yes, it was hag A way to spend my anniversary. My wife
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of twenty five years, Kathy, She's just been great. And the family
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support and the support of all the citizens. You know, I think I
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could go on over and over again about all the support, but so thankful
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for all the people that voted and the people just thank you for getting out
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and voting and selecting me in. I promise I won't let you down.
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All right, Joe, I appreciate you being here to Dave allan show brought
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information. Gotta go. Thanks to all the candidates for siping by the studio
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this morning. Hot you coming up at ten oh six programming Note. I
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will be away from the show tomorrow. Dale Cooper will be host to the
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show tomorrow. I will be back on Friday. Enjoy your Wednesday till next
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