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10/26/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Mike Pushkin, Natalie Tennant · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 1: The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily reflect the views and opinions of 580 WCHS, its employees,
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  Speaker 1: or WVRC Media. From the studios of WVRC Media, the country,
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America, the state, West Virginia, the city, Charleston,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Dave Allen Show on 580 Live. And
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  Speaker 1: your host.
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  Speaker 2: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
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  Speaker 3: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm all out of bubblegum.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Allen.
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  Speaker 2: later in the show, Kanawha County Commissioner Natalie Tennant is here. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to your calls and texts and some other
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  Speaker 2: things in the news to get to as well. A
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  Speaker 2: little programming note. Normally, we have Danny Jones with us
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. Danny had some medical things he had to
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  Speaker 2: take care of today. Got him rescheduled for Wednesday's show.
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  Speaker 2: Want to welcome into the show now, State Democratic Party
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  Speaker 2: Chair and Delegate from the 54th, Mike Pushkin. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: And it's an honor to be filling in for my
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  Speaker 6: friend Danny Jones this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Danny's fine. He just had some, he kind of forgot,
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  Speaker 2: I think he had some medical appointments today. So he'll
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  Speaker 2: be back with me on Wednesday. I'm having you on today, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: in your delegate role. I feel everyone knows you, frequent
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  Speaker 2: guest of the show in your role as a delegate
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  Speaker 2: and state Democratic Party chair. But we do offer interviews
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  Speaker 2: to every candidate. One free interview, you've heard me say
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  Speaker 2: it before, kind of get to know you type deal.
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  Speaker 2: And you do have opposition in this race to be elected.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll just do the standard meet the candidates segment.
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  Speaker 6: How's that?
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  Speaker 4: Great.
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  Speaker 6: I know I'm on as chair of the party, but yeah,
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  Speaker 6: this is my role as a delegate and a candidate
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  Speaker 6: for re-election.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so give us your bio.
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  Speaker 6: Well, my name is Mike Pushkin. Mike Pushkin. Born and
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  Speaker 6: raised here in Charleston. For many years, I was a
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  Speaker 6: taxi driver with C & H Taxi for a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Also a former professional musician. I will still come out
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  Speaker 6: of retirement and play on certain occasions. I currently work
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  Speaker 6: for an agency that provides care for adults with intellectual
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  Speaker 6: and developmental disabilities. I also serve as the chair of
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  Speaker 6: the West Virginia Democratic Party, and I'm a member of
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  Speaker 6: the West Virginia House of Delegates and have the honor
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  Speaker 6: of representing District 54 that we're in right now, which
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  Speaker 6: is the East End, Downtown, West Side, and North Charleston.
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  Speaker 6: I currently serve as the ranking Democrat, the minority chair
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  Speaker 6: on the House Committee on Health and Human Resources, and
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  Speaker 6: I also serve on the House Committee on Education as well.
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  Speaker 2: How long have you been in the House?
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  Speaker 1: Since 2014.
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  Speaker 2: What was it that made you first decide to go
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  Speaker 2: into politics in general? Well, I've worked on campaigns really
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  Speaker 2: for many, many years. I've either volunteered, occasionally would have
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  Speaker 2: paying gigs on campaigns, and I've always been interested in
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  Speaker 2: who represents us. I came to the conclusion a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago that if we really want to make change,
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  Speaker 2: We've got to have people in power that we can
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  Speaker 2: work with, people in a position to make these decisions
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  Speaker 2: for us that we can trust, that we know where
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  Speaker 2: they stand.
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  Speaker 6: That's important. So I would work for candidates that I
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  Speaker 6: believed in for years. Then back in 2014, when my
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  Speaker 6: friend and my predecessor, Misha Poore, made the decision to
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  Speaker 6: run for Congress in I called her and had a
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  Speaker 6: discussion with her. I said, well, who's going to represent
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  Speaker 6: our neighborhood? Who's going to represent our district? And that's
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  Speaker 6: when I decided to step up and run. That was
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  Speaker 6: a very tough primary. I had ran against some great
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  Speaker 6: people who I still consider friends and won that primary.
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  Speaker 6: I've been in the House since then. And, of course,
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  Speaker 6: that was a significant year because that is the year
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  Speaker 6: that the control of the legislature went from the Democrats
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  Speaker 6: to the Republicans. So I came in. in the first
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  Speaker 6: Democratic minority in 83 years. So that was challenging, but
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  Speaker 6: that definitely changed the way that I approached things. And
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  Speaker 6: I thought, we're really going to have to focus on
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  Speaker 6: good policy if we're going to get things across the
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  Speaker 6: finish line. We're going to have to work in a
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  Speaker 6: bipartisan manner. So one of the first issues that I
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  Speaker 6: focused on really was criminal justice reform. You can find
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  Speaker 6: bipartisan support on that. It's good policy. It saves money,
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  Speaker 6: and it also saves lives. I was able to get
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  Speaker 6: one piece of legislation that I'm most proud of, which
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  Speaker 6: was the Second Chance for Employment Act, which allowed for
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  Speaker 6: reductions for folks, for certain nonviolent offenders to get charges reduced. Later,
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  Speaker 6: that became full expungement, and we worked that into what
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  Speaker 6: was originally called Jim's Dream, but then became Jobs and Hope.
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  Speaker 6: I was on the the House subcommittee, the Judiciary Subcommittee
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  Speaker 6: that helped create the Jobs and Hope program. And that
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  Speaker 6: is one of the things I am most proud of.
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  Speaker 6: I believe in the past decade in state government, the
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  Speaker 6: Jobs and Hope office is probably the most productive, most
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  Speaker 6: successful office that we've had in state government. It has
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  Speaker 6: broken down barriers to employment and helped people change their lives,
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  Speaker 6: save their lives. And it's a smart program. It saves
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  Speaker 6: the state a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: Talking again with Mike Pushkin, what do you think are
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  Speaker 2: the issues bringing people out to the polls this year
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  Speaker 2: in general, not just your race in general?
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's a sign at every gas station. The gas prices,
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  Speaker 6: which affects grocery prices, which affects our utility rates. I
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  Speaker 6: think people are really upset about kitchen table issues that
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  Speaker 6: affect their day-to-day lives. And they seem to be less concerned.
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  Speaker 6: about the social issues this year, because it's hard to
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  Speaker 6: be concerned about these things that don't really affect you
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  Speaker 6: when there's so many things that do affect you, like
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  Speaker 6: the price of gas. You know, it takes a lot
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  Speaker 6: of money to fill up your car, your truck when
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  Speaker 6: you're going to work. That's affecting prices at the grocery store.
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  Speaker 6: These high utility rates that are out of control. There
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  Speaker 6: have been some solutions offered by the Democrats, and it's
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  Speaker 6: fallen on deaf ears. And people are just, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it's always about the economy. It's always about affordability. I
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  Speaker 6: think James Carville said it. a long time ago, you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's the economy, stupid. And that's, what's bringing people to
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  Speaker 6: the polls this year.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you're hearing when you're out on the
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  Speaker 2: campaign trail? We got talking to people. That's the number one,
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  Speaker 2: the number one or two, or maybe the second things
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  Speaker 2: that you're hearing out there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And it's not just around this district, but I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I was out with, with the, uh, the house Democrats
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  Speaker 6: and we've gone all over the state with our kitchen
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  Speaker 6: table tour. Uh, we just had a virtual statewide, you know,
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  Speaker 6: virtual call last night for that. We had one at Huntington.
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  Speaker 6: We've been here, we've been, you know, all over the state. And, um,
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  Speaker 6: That's what we're hearing everywhere. It's about affordability. It's about
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  Speaker 6: the cost of living. And also, in many parts of
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  Speaker 6: the state, too, the issues are about clean water, about
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  Speaker 6: the people are really upset about House Bill 2014 that
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  Speaker 6: takes away local control in regards to regulating AI data centers.
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  Speaker 6: Hearing a lot about that. But yeah, people are really
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  Speaker 6: upset with the way things are going in this state
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  Speaker 6: and in this country. And they're showing up. And the
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  Speaker 6: early voting totals show that.
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  Speaker 2: We actually talked to the Secretary of State on the
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  Speaker 2: midday last week, and he said, I think we had
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  Speaker 2: him on the second day. Actually, there was a first
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  Speaker 2: day of early voting. He said it looked like the
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  Speaker 2: numbers were up. And I know a couple of county
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  Speaker 2: clerks have made that statement as well. Mike, it's not easy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and sometimes in this state for Democrats.
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  Speaker 6: To get elected.
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  Speaker 2: But the voters seem to like you because they put
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  Speaker 2: you in office every year since 2014.
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  Speaker 6: What do you attribute that to? Well, I hope I've
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  Speaker 6: earned their trust. I think people always know where I
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  Speaker 6: stand and they definitely know where to find me and
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  Speaker 6: how to find me. I pride myself on being accessible.
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  Speaker 6: I often give out my personal cell phone number, which
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  Speaker 6: is 304-989-6856. That's 304-989-6856. I think it's important for me
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  Speaker 6: to be able to hear from people so I know
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  Speaker 6: how to best represent them. And like I said, I'm consistent.
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  Speaker 6: I'm willing to work with the other side as much
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  Speaker 6: as we can. And of course, we have to. Being
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  Speaker 6: in the minority right now, we have to work with
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  Speaker 6: the other side if we're going to get things done.
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  Speaker 6: But it's also important to stand up when we have
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  Speaker 6: to as well. And there's been this new extremism that
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  Speaker 6: we've seen on the other side. And I think the
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  Speaker 6: folks in the district that I represent want someone who
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  Speaker 6: will stand up to the extremism that we're seeing on
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  Speaker 6: the other side of the aisle as well.
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  Speaker 2: Talking again with State Democratic Party Chair and in this
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  Speaker 2: role in this morning's interview, Delegate Mike Pushkin, the Dave
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  Speaker 2: your campaign. There have been many, many folks, Republican and Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: that come on this show in midday, and the pollsters
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  Speaker 2: are saying that Democrats are going to pick up some seats.
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  Speaker 2: And not only nationwide, which most people think it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be a kind year to Republicans nationwide, but
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  Speaker 2: in West Virginia, people are saying that Democrats are going
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  Speaker 2: to pick.
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  Speaker 1: Up some seats. Your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 6: We're cautiously optimistic. I mean, the polls that really count
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  Speaker 6: are the polls that are on election day and during
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  Speaker 6: early voting. And I would suggest, you know, Hope everybody
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  Speaker 6: gets out and vote. Voting, go vote right now. Early
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  Speaker 6: voting goes through Saturday. And then, of course, on Election Day,
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  Speaker 6: November 3rd. We're offering rides to the polls here in
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  Speaker 6: Kanawha County. You can call the Democratic headquarters over at 681-205-2626.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm doing that off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 7: 681-205-2626.
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  Speaker 2: Or you gave out your cell phone or they can
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  Speaker 2: always call you.
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  Speaker 6: They can call. I'll come pick you up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 6: Because you have experience. I have experience driving people around.
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  Speaker 6: I was a cab driver for a long time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I think we're cautiously optimistic. But the reason that we're
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  Speaker 6: seeing this is because, look, the Republicans have been in
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  Speaker 6: control of every aspect of our government for a decade,
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  Speaker 6: over a decade here in West Virginia. And people don't
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  Speaker 6: like the way things are going. The vast majority of
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  Speaker 6: West Virginians feel we're on the wrong track and they're
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  Speaker 6: placing the blame solely where it belongs. And that's on
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  Speaker 6: the Republicans. So, you know, while we have, you know,
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  Speaker 6: seen our, you know, we definitely have challenging voter registration
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  Speaker 6: numbers here in West Virginia, but what we're seeing so
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  Speaker 6: far in the early voting are Democrats are showing up
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  Speaker 6: at a greater number. So that's significant considering our voter
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  Speaker 6: registration numbers that more Democrats are showing up so far.
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  Speaker 6: So we're optimistic, but, you know, polls don't vote, people do,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll see how, we'll see where the chips fall.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a website or?
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  Speaker 6: Facebook or i do pushkin for wv.com.
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  Speaker 2: All right final 30 you know the way it works
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  Speaker 2: why should someone vote to reelect mike pushkin for house
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  Speaker 2: well i'll be very.
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  Speaker 6: Clear uh about where i stand i think that we
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  Speaker 6: need to update the school funding formula it is it
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  Speaker 6: is far uh overdue for us to do that we're
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  Speaker 6: seeing schools closed that's because the legislature failed to do
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  Speaker 6: one of the most important things we were supposed to
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  Speaker 6: do last session and that is update the full the
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  Speaker 6: school funding formula um In order to do that, we're
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  Speaker 6: also going to have to put some reasonable guardrails on
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  Speaker 6: the HOPE voucher program, the $ 300 million that was allocated
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  Speaker 6: to vouchers. We need to put some reasonable guardrails on that.
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  Speaker 6: I believe people should be able to see a doctor
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  Speaker 6: if they get sick. I believe in access to health care.
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  Speaker 6: I trust women and their doctors to make important decisions
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  Speaker 6: for themselves. I believe in a woman's right to choose.
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  Speaker 6: I think that we need to regulate the Public Service Commission,
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  Speaker 6: and I think our Public Service Commissioners should be elected.
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  Speaker 6: in answer to the people rather than the governor that
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  Speaker 6: appoints them or the industries that they used to work for.
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  Speaker 6: I support local control over AI data centers. Counties and
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  Speaker 6: municipalities should be able to regulate AI data centers. See,
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  Speaker 6: I'm for banning flock cameras. So you can agree with
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  Speaker 6: me or you can disagree, but you're always going to
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  Speaker 6: know where I stand. So Mike Pushkin running for reelection
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  Speaker 6: for House District 54, and I hope to have earned
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  Speaker 6: your vote.
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  Speaker 2: Delegate Mike Pushkin, always a pleasure having you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Best of luck to you, buddy.
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  Speaker 6: Good to see you, as always.
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  Speaker 2: And sorry about your jets. Let's not talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: Go Knicks.
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  Speaker 8: Go Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: But my team, you know, I told you earlier off
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  Speaker 2: the air, Tonight it'll probably be like 3-2 in this Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: Dak will trip and fall in the end zone, and
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  Speaker 2: Aubrey will kick a 91-yard field goal. So 3-2 will
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  Speaker 2: be the final score tonight.
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  Speaker 6: My prediction for the game is somebody might win.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody might?
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  Speaker 6: Somebody might win that game. Mike Pushkin.
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  Speaker 2: show now. Kanawha County Commissioner Natalie Tennant. Good morning, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning. It's good to be with you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry I'm coming live from the phone from the
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  Speaker 4: farm in Fairview. Um, but I still get to talk
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  Speaker 4: to you. I'll be down in Kanawha County by noon.
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  Speaker 2: How many F's can you get in there? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you got, well, phone is PH Dave, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you got from the farm on the phone in Fairview.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: f sounds i should say well that's.
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  Speaker 4: What we do we had a family tenant family fall
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: festival fest at the farm i don't know for some
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: reason near fairview yeah i haven't seen i wanted to
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: say i'm sorry about your your your stepmom thank you
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: um you had some really nice things and people were
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: were um talking about that and i know it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: She was a lovely lady. And man, could she cook.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she could. All that matters, huh? She was very,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: very sweet. I'll talk about her a little bit later
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: on the show. I appreciate that. I want to get
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: into this a little deeper later in the show, but
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: this speed limit. And we have a story posted about
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: it at WVMetroNews.com. The speed limit is going down on
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the interstates around Charleston due to some deadly accidents that
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: have taken place. Talk about the county commission's role in this.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we said, and it's so interesting.
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  Speaker 7: When I come back from Fairview.
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  Speaker 4: I always take that, you know, obviously 79 south. And
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: there are two areas as I'm approaching. The one that's
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: meant shows that there's a, you know, a big slowdown
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: you have to take while it's.
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  Speaker 7: On the interstate. And then those.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Coming right in by the split. And I was driving
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  Speaker 4: last week and I thought we need to do something.
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  Speaker 4: And then lo and behold, President Ben Salinga says, we're
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: going to send this letter.
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  Speaker 7: Out if everyone approves.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: And so we approved just to say that we are
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: paying attention and we want to see something done, some
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: kind of work acknowledgement plans to help slow this down
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  Speaker 4: because we've had too many deaths in too short amount
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: of time and too many deaths anytime is bad. And
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  Speaker 4: we recognize that it's also driver behavior, that drivers need
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: to go slower. But sometimes that's why you have rumble strips.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: That's why you have extra barriers. That's why you have
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: a slow of speed because all of those things together
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: would help when a driver is unfamiliar with an area.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: And that's what it felt like on this last accident
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: that we had. And so we sent a letter asking
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: for immediate safety measures to be put into place.
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  Speaker 2: And again, the speed limit has gone down from 60
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: to 50. But, you know, I mean, I'm really hoping
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that people will adhere to that. And again, I'm going
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to talk about that a little bit later on. I
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: want to switch gears for a moment. Early voting is
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: going on through the end of the week. I have
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to ask you, are you an early voter or an
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Election Day voter?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little bit of both. Sometimes I will early vote,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: but as long as I know some of my family
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: members are going to go on election day, or if
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: they early vote, I will go on election day just
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: because I like to hear what's been happening in various locations.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: As a county commissioner, and someone who's not on the ballot,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I have a better opportunity. I will probably stop in
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: this week and and obviously can't go to the voting area,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: but back to the offices to the right of voter
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: registration and check things out. However, we have such a
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: great Saturday coming up. Valentine's Day. Halloween is on a Saturday.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Right, right.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: It's the day that we have an extra hour of Halloween,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: and you can vote on Halloween.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: And so.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, in their stroll to the polls at noon.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: And so can we all not go stroll to.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: The polls at noon dressed like in a Halloween costume?
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  Speaker 7: No one's ever done that before.
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  Speaker 2: As long as it doesn't have a political candidate on
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  Speaker 2: your person, as you well know. Other than that, you're good,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, right?
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  Speaker 7: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm thinking, but you also can't have a mask probably.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: You have to be able to show your face. People
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: will recognize me.
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  Speaker 7: By my laugh and my voice.
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  Speaker 4: But remember back in our time of Halloween when it
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: was plastic masks? sweaty mask we're on, that would be
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: awesome to go in voting like that and just flip
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: it up on your head when they need to identify me,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: then go back and put it down.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: The scariest thing about Halloween growing up in the 1970s
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: was the constant risk of suffocation inside those plastic masks.
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  Speaker 6: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, because you are a former Secretary of State
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and a county commissioner now, and the county commissioner, of course,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: you know, the county commissions in general have a big
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: part in the election process.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Impress upon people why it's important to get.
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  Speaker 6: Out and vote.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we've heard so many things happening.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, everything that you do has, I don't want
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: to say political, but does have ramifications of someone who
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: was elected who may have said, oh, we need... the
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: speed limit at 60 or at 50. Everything that has
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: taken place has been a ramification of policy.
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  Speaker 7: And so you want someone who.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Is going to represent your policy. And how are you
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: going to get that someone to represent what you think
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  Speaker 4: is important? You have to vote for them. You have
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: to find them and you have to find them on
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  Speaker 4: the ballot, support them, and then.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: Go vote for them. So that is the reason.
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  Speaker 4: If you want something done, you need to to vote
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  Speaker 4: for that person and get out and vote. I mean,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Pushkin was just on there talking about some of the
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: various policies, and it really does, the public is aware,
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  Speaker 4: the public is.
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  Speaker 7: Angry.
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  Speaker 4: In some cases, yes. Like, I'm the public who was
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: influenced from the legislature, and I'm angry about House Bill
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: 2014 that took the local control from county commissioners.
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  Speaker 7: And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: We in Kanawha County have been so public.
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  Speaker 7: We have meetings. We don't have town hall meetings.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: We don't have public hearings. We have county commission meetings
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  Speaker 4: where people can come and the public can speak. And
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: we've had that on many occasions where large groups come,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: whether they're talking about the power line, whether they're talking
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: about the plastics plant in the eastern part of the county,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: whether they're talking about data centers. And so we hear
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  Speaker 4: a lot of what the public is saying, and we
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: listen to it in.
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  Speaker 7: A professional, yes, but a.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Manner in which we do not get loud, neither side
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: gets loud, and we listen.
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  Speaker 7: To each other. You mentioned that's why voting is so important.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. Natalie Tennant here, Kanawha County Commissioner.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the Clean Seas facility in Bell. There's been
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of questions about that. There's been a little,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, Commissioner Salango was on the show on a
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: couple of different occasions and thought that there was not
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: a whole lot of transparency on behalf of that company,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: you know, not wanting to come here and.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Meet with people.
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  Speaker 2: Anything new to mention about the Clean Seas facility, the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: proposed facility in Bell?
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  Speaker 4: As you know, we met on Zoom, Commissioner Slango and
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I and our county manager. So that was the latest,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and Commissioner put out some information on that. There's been
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: nothing new since then, and it comes in the same,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you know, I want to see them because, yes, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: was the one who went to the opening in July
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: of the end of June, July of 2025, and And
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: wasn't quite sure and thought, oh, this is jobs. I'm
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: going to go support a business. I'll go to any
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: opening that you have if we're going to get jobs
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: in Kanawha County. Well, we didn't know the full extent
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: of their administration background, how the $ 15 million that then-Governor Justice.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Gave them, how that would totally work. And it just
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: comes with more and more questions.
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  Speaker 4: And the people of the eastern part of the county
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: have certainly shown up. And I'm still working to get
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  Speaker 4: maybe even the vice president. We talked to the president,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: but maybe even the vice president who can come and
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: have cordial meetings with some of the folks to really
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: hear what the... the people are concerned with and what
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: is really going to happen with the company. Because remember,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the DEP approved it, but then there's been a suit
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: that pushes things back like 60 days or so. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: so we'll learn more from that as.
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  Speaker 7: More information comes out in those pending actions.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: We had a text question here. It said, not sure
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: if this is a county commissioner question or city of
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Charleston question. But I'll just throw it out to you.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: They were talking about Lately Field, and they said there's
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: a big yellow wall that sits in one of the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: end zones that's covered with weeds, and the paint is
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: peeling away. Could we get that fixed before the state
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: high school football championships, maybe paint a mural of Charleston
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: or some evergreen stuff, hide the wall to make Charleston shine?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's in the county commission purview
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: or not.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I think that we could help tell folks about it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: It also might even be the Board of Education purview.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure who owns it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: I know that University of Charleston has a little skin
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: in the game, Board of Education, the city, but I'm
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: sure that we will be spick and span come that
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: weekend in December when the state high school football comes
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: on down.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: The flood cleanup continues in several areas in West Virginia. FEMA,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the SBA are on the ground. I actually had a
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: representative of the Small Business Administration on the show last
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: week talking about the loan process for victims. People are
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: still cleaning up. What can you tell us about that?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know that it's been on the media
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: a lot, and we've talked about.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: It and had it on our.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Social media for Kanawha County, but I just want to
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: keep reminding folks that You know.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: We're on.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: It was August 14th to the 18th when there were
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: high waters that came through. And so if you were
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: impacted in Kanawha County, Fayette County, I think Harrison County,
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: and there's another county, I think, that you can come
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: and talk with FEMA folks. bring your receipts, bring the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: work that you can show that you have done, whether
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: you had a little bit of water in your house
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: or a lot. And it's over at GoMart offices up
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: on the second floor. And go in and meet with, yeah,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the ballpark. Yeah, not the gas company, not the gasoline
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: convenience stores, but the ballpark, sorry. And go and meet
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: with folks and make sure that that you get the
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: help that you need and that you deserve. Because remember,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: we still say that, you know, right after that flooding,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: we said, please fill out these surveys, fill out these
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: surveys to tell us how bad the situation is. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: then we can take the information to the state, the
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: state can take it to the federal and.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: We can ask for female relief.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: And it's all that cooperation that made this disaster recovery
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: center possible right now.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Before we let you go, I'll just give you an opportunity.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Anything else on your mind that you want to want
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: to speak about today, Commissioner?
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. The election's on our mind.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: And that's, you know, I'm not up. I'm not up
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: until 2030. But that doesn't mean I'm not a voter
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: and I'm listening to all the folks. Heck, even up here,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: you know, there's a state Senate candidate who's running in
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Marion County, Chris Claypole, who says, you know, it's time
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: to get the the power back to the counties. And
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: he specifically said commissioners when it came to data centers.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: So I listen to candidates.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Wherever they are. I love the commercials.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I love the debates, but I don't love the negativity.
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: And this is really interesting.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: And maybe I come back on, I guess it would
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: have to be this week. We have $ 200, 000 of hidden,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: we call it dark money because it's in the shadows
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: and we can't see it, that's going into a Kanawha
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: County race. That is unbelievable.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: That's just what we... those are what we don't know.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: The candidates themselves had tried to raise money and tout themselves.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: And that's something that you have to watch out for.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: So yes, this next, it's going to be fun time
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: over these next seven days or eight days.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: County Commissioner, Kanawha County, Natalie Tennant, always a pleasure to
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: have you on the show. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: 23.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: See you later. 23 minutes away from 10 trick or
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: beats one of the seven, three to beat back at
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: GoMart ballpark. That's coming Thursday night, two sessions, one from
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: six till seven, the other from seven 30 to eight
• 30:11
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• 30:15
  Speaker 2: must have tickets to enter. And the tickets are going quick.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: A matter of fact, during the break, I'm probably going
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: to step out in the hall and talk to Antoine,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: see how many tickets we have left because generally speaking,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: these things sell out. And by sellout, I mean, again,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: it's free, but you have to have a ticket to
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: get in.
• 30:28
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  Speaker 2: It is 19 minutes away from 10. It's a Monday morning.
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  Speaker 2: I checked with Antoine out at the front desk there,
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  Speaker 2: and he says we have about 50 tickets. left for
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  Speaker 2: trick or beat and again it's two sessions this coming
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  Speaker 2: thursday night over at go mart ballpark uh six to
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  Speaker 2: seven in the air from uh 7 30 to 8
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  Speaker 2: 30 uh if you are going to get your tickets
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you need to do so because antoine at the front
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: desk tells me we have about 50 tickets left two
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: different sessions you must have tickets all kids that come
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: through the gate must have a ticket parents don't need
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: tickets but the kids do And there's only about 50
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: tickets left. So I'm going to go ahead and say
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: that by this time tomorrow, all the tickets are going
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: to be gone. So parents, grandparents, get your tickets and
• 33:50
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• 33:53
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  Speaker 12: They do it all.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: They're looking at 516 D Street in South Charleston. Text, Dave,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I can't see politically how any real impact can be
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: made on the business who nationally decided to do these
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: drastic price increases. I'm very concerned how middle class citizens
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: can handle the current situation. You and a lot of
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: other folks. Let me see here. text, Dave, I totally
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: understand people wanting to change their vote. Just because the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: shepherd is not leading the lambs correctly doesn't mean you
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: go vote for the wolf, says a texter. Early voting
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: continues today and through Saturday in West Virginia. Now in
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Kanawha County, you can early vote at voter registration, Courier
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Street downtown at the South Charleston Community Center, the Girl
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Scouts of the Black Diamond Council over on the west side,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Marmot Town Hall, the Elk View Community Center, the West
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Sadist Community Center in Nitro, Sissonville Library, St. Albans City Hall,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Bell Town Hall, and the Crosslanes Attachment of the Kanawha
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Department of Putnam County. You can early vote
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: at the courthouse and at the Valley Park Conference Center.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: And speaking of voting and such, I do want to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: mention that if you are a candidate and you want
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: time with me, free, it's simple. Drop me an email, dave.allenwvradio.com, dave.allenwvradio.com.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Get with me like, you know, yesterday, because they only
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: have a few slots left. Election Day is Tuesday. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: give every candidate one free interview, 10-minute or so interview.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Can be done by phone or Zoom, but I prefer
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: to have them actually in person, as most of them do.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But get with me. You get one interview for free. Dave.AllenWVRadio.com, Dave.AllenWVRadio.com.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: No phone calls, please. And you can also reach out
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: to me on social media, which you should already be
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: following me on social media anyway. Dave Allen Radio on
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Facebook and at DaveA70 on X. Perhaps the state should
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: put speed bumps on the elevated sections of the interstate
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: or maybe even a roundabout to slow people down.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Well, we don't do well.
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the text. You started talking about roundabouts in
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: West Virginia and people get all upset. Look what happened
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: over in Putnam County when they started talking about it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And I understand it wasn't just a roundabout there's property
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: issues and so on and so forth. As I've said before,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: God bless our home state of which I am a resident.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: We can't successfully do three-way stops, uh, or four-way stops.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: So don't know that roundabouts are going to work. Uh, but, uh,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: That speed limit has been reduced. Again, the interstates around
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Charleston going from 60 to 50. So please make note
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of that. Dave, what's up with your buddy J.B. McCuskey
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: attacking the West Virginia River Coalition? Does he hate healthy rivers?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Does he despise clean drinking water? Is he just trying
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: to please his fossil fuel donors? The fish and the
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: turtles aren't happy. This is not the way for a
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: gubernatorial nomination, according to a texter. Uh, text, um, other,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: other fears of Halloween slicing your tongue off in the
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: mask mouth. It was as sharp as a razor blade
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: in an apple.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: That's a texture.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Indeed.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: 945, uh, on a personal note and, uh, commissioner tenant
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier, just prior to a local show, uh,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: on Friday, uh, I learned that my stepmother had passed away.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Her name was Audrey. and due to health issues, she
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: was living in Sissonville with my sister, who is a
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: nurse by trade. Audrey was 75 and just a wonderful lady,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: great cook, too. I'm talking about the good old Freewell
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Baptist cook, if you know what I mean, or as
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: my dad called him, Free Meal Baptist. My parents divorced
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: when I was five, and she married my dad when
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I was nine or so, and she was wonderful to me,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: and they had a daughter who I refer to on
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: the show is my sister, technically my half sister. Um,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: but she was wonderful to me and my wife as well.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: So we are currently planning per her wishes, a graveside service, uh,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: in Logan County on Wednesday. So I'll do the show
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, but then I'll be away from Metro news
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: midday that day. Appreciate all the calls, the text. Uh,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: she suffered a lot with her various illnesses. She was
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: a fantastic person and she certainly will be missed. Uh,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Every candidate, again, I ask for every candidate, Al Saeed,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: pro or con, Tallarico, pro or con, how you answer
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: those two things, tell me all I as a voter,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: as a citizen, and a Christian need to know about
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: who you are and where you stand. Well, I mean,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the text, and I understand where you're coming from.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I don't feel that that is appropriate to ask somebody
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: who's running for county commission or somebody running for a
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: mayor or whatever, because I don't know that they're going
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: to have a whole lot of dealings with El-Sayed or Tallarica.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: But I do appreciate the text, as always. The text says,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Board of Education owns Lately Field. Probably need to let
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: them and the CVB know, as the CVB is heavily
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: involved with state championships.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Mr.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Arbogast on, who's also a member of the Kanawha County
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Board of Education a couple of weeks ago. And we'll
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: have him on as we get a little bit closer
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to to the football championships, which will, of course, be
• 39:48
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• 40:03
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• 40:07
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• 40:11
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• 40:13
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• 40:17
  Speaker 2: vying for re-election, Walter Hall, is going to be on
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: tomorrow's show as well. Taking advantage of that one free
• 40:22
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• 40:26
  Speaker 2: will focus on the death of the Logan County deputy
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: killed in a horrific traffic accident Saturday afternoon. It was
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a collision with a coal truck. Mike Pushkin is going
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: to come back on the show. in his run as,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: or in his role, I should say, as Democratic Party Chair.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Talked to Josh Holstein, the Republican Party Chair, last week. So,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: in all fairness, we'll bring Mr. Pushkin back on to
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: talk about the Democrats. Signed a thing as we get
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• 41:06
  Speaker 6: We'll take a break.
• 41:07
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  Speaker 2: Tex says, what's up with Christians constantly trying to shoehorn
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  Speaker 2: Christianity into government functions? Have you all read the Constitution?
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Either you can't read or you don't respect the rule
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  Speaker 2: of law. Keep religion out of politics. Tex says, I
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: disagree with Pushkin. When has he ever worked with Republicans? Well,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: let me just say this. I don't want to get
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: into specific details, but as other elected folks have said
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: on the show before, The majority of things that come
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: out of the Capitol, whether it's West Virginia's Capitol or Washington,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: are bipartisan.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: They pass.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, they don't always make headlines. I mean, have
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: you ever really looked at how many bills get passed
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: during a regular session? Some would say not enough. Some
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: would say too many. But regardless, most of them don't
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: garner the headlines because they're just not sexy. you know,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: they're not about data centers. They're not about, uh, you know,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: trans issues or, or anything like that. They're just, they're
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: just not of interest to the average person. Doesn't mean
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: that they're not important, but they're, they just don't grab
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: the headlines. So I don't, I'm again, I'm not defending my,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that, you know, a lot of, there's
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: a lot that goes on behind the scenes that people
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: don't know when people do actually work together. Do appreciate
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: the text though.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: Nine at 53.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Uh, let me see here. I want to mention this. Um,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: And we talked about a little bit with Commissioner Tennant
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: a little bit earlier. If you are coming to Charleston,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: you had better let off the gas. Because we have
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: a story posted about it at WVMetroNews.com from Jeff Jenkins.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: The State Division of Highways has lowered the speed limit
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: on the interstates around Charleston. It goes from 60 to 50.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: And trust me, they are going to be out enforcing
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: this with full force. So, I'd say if you're going
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: to do 60-61, you're probably going to get a ticket.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Just saying. Because they're serious about this. So, again, it
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: has gone from 60 to 50. And, of course, there
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: have been several bad wrecks. People lost their lives, especially
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: the elevated parts around the 64-77 split, for example. Now, today,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: according to Jeff's story, WVMetroNews.com, they're supposed to start placing
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: what they're calling high-friction surface treatments in certain parts of
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: And could be some traffic impacts because of that. But again,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I can't stress it on you enough. They are going
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: to be out in full force to enforce them. Text Dave,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I early voted Thursday in St.
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: Albans.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: No line, no wait. In and out in five minutes.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: There is no reason for anyone not to vote. That's
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: pretty much, I mean, you know, as I said, we
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: talked to Secretary of State Chris Warner on midday last week,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: and he said that the numbers, I think it was
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Thursday we had him on the show.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: That's when it was.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I said Wednesday earlier. It was Thursday.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: It was the second day of early voting. And he
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: had spent some time in Fayette County and Kanawha County,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: and he talked about And just talking to people that
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: the numbers do seem to be higher than normal. I
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: did see, as I mentioned earlier, a post from the
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: county clerk in Mason County. Wonderful, wonderful lady. I had
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: the pleasure of working with Diana Crumley when I worked
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: at the Secretary of State's office. Very, very, very capable,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: very fine lady. And she had said that the numbers
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: appear to be, of course, they've got some big races
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: up there as well.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're right.
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: Get out and vote.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Get out and vote. You got the rest of the week,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: several locations here in Kanawha County, two in Putnam County.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Every county's got at least one early voting location. Some
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: have multiple ones like we have here in Kanawha County.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Get out there and vote. And again, polls will be
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: open nine to five or early voting nine to five
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: on Saturday as well. Election day, 630 a.m. to 730 p.m.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: You can vote on election day if you prefer to
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: do so. And after the election, after the polls have closed,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: we invite you to To tune us in here, WCHS
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: at the Metro News Radio Network will have wall-to-wall coverage
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: of the election. We've got folks in Morgantown. I will
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: be here with Daniel Woods manning some of the local things.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And we'll have at least one person in every county courthouse,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: all 55 counties around the state of West Virginia, to
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: bring you the most accurate information available on air and online.
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: So check us out if you want to know the
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: election results.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Dave Allen Show on 580 Live, presented in part by
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• 48:38
  Speaker 2: but the questions about supporting El Saeed and Tallarico are
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: perfectly legitimate because it tells me as a voter if
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: your core beliefs fall in line with theirs and are
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: not pro-America. They are not Christian values. They are not capitalists.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: By the way, to another texter, separation of church and
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: state is not in the Constitution. It says no establishment
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: of religion. Again, and this is a frequent texter. We
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: don't know names. We just see phone numbers when you
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: text in, by the way. Frequent Textures Show, appreciate it.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to have to disagree with you on
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: that because I don't see the relevance of it. I
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: understand the point that you are making. It's kind of
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: like when everybody was all in love with Donald Trump,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: which we still are here in West Virginia, but not
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: the rest of the country. Apparently, I use the example
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: before and being out and about with people running for office.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: You couldn't run. And I changed the county every time.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: So I don't offend everybody. You could not run for
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: assessor in Wirt County without having somebody say, are you
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: pro-Trump or are you anti-Trump? I mean, does it really matter?
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I do appreciate the text. We just have
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: to agree to disagree. I got to tell you, this
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: past Saturday afternoon, my wife and I went to the
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: West Virginia Book Festival at the newly named Vandalia Health Center,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: formerly known as the Coliseum and Convention Center. uh, the
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: signage is still not up yet. And again, people are
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: still going to call it the civic center, but, uh, uh,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: we were there regardless. And I got to say hats
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: off to the people that put it on because man,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: it was packed out. My wife likes to go for
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: the used book sale. Uh, she, she's one of them readers,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: you know? And so, uh, I went there with her
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: on Saturday afternoon. We were there two 33 o'clock, something
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: like that. Uh, And my gosh, it was packed out.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, they definitely had the folks. And for anybody,
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: big shout out to my friend Don Miller at Read
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Aloud West Virginia. Anybody that thinks that people aren't reading
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: hardback copies of actual books should have been at the
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: book festival, specifically the book sale on Saturday over at
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: the artist formerly known as the Charleston Coliseum and Convention
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Center because it was packed out. Text Christians like that, Texter,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: are ones who want Christianity established as a state religion. So, yeah,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: keep your religion to yourself. Find Jesus on your own,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: like John Prine said. Texter, you get points from me
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: for the John Prine reference. Just throwing it out there.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I want to close with this.
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  Speaker 2: Did you happen to see the speech at one of
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: the rallies that former President Barack Obama gave? Look, I
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: don't care how you feel about Barack Obama. He was
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: not my favorite president, mainly for his stance on coal.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I think Obama was a decent human being. His politics
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: differ from mine, but that's okay. The quote that he
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: gave about President Trump and the White House, the quote is,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: he got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: up a cheesecake factory. I don't care how you are,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: how you feel, what your party is. That was funny
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: right there. That was funny, so I'll give... Former President
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Obama credit for that. All right, got to go. Coming
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: up on tomorrow's show, I'll give you more about this
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Caregivers concert. I said it again, coming to Charleston and more.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: See you later today on Midday Conference Day. Until then,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: have fun and love somebody.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: We're proud to live here too.