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11/27/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Scott James, Steven Allen Adams, Mike Stuart · The Dave Allen Show

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have happened in the world of politics since I lasted a show, which was
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the day before Thanksgiving. We'll get into that, plus come it up a
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little bit later on to the show State Senator and guy wants to be the
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next Attorney General of the state of West Virginia. Talking about Mike Stewart will
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be in studio this morning. That field on the Republican side originally three with
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Ryan Weld, current State Auditor J. B. McCuskey, and Mike Stewart.
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Well, mister Weld, as we talked a little bit about and I
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know Hopey had him on the show one day last week. Mister Weld is
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opted not to run for attorney General. He will instead remain in his current
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position or at least attempt to as state Senator. So we're going to talk
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to Ryan Weld coming up, or actually talk to Mike Stewart about the Ryan
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Weld situation. Covering up a little bit later, Rod, it's Monday,
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and you know what that means. We welcome in a different mayor from around
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the area this morning. Ever, good friend Scott James from the City of
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Saint Albans, the land of the Red Dragons. How are you, sir?
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Doing great? Dave? Always a pleasure to be here, Man,
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always a pleasure to have you here, Sir, how's you I'm going to
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ask you because I know you're a sports guy. We'll get the sports stuff
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out of the way. How are we looking in St Albans boys and girls
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basketball? Well, the boys scrimmage Saturday at two o'clock, I think it
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was against Scott. I can get to a team. We were up visiting
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Becky's family, but I was told they looked very good. The girls teams
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got a lot of high expectations. They did very well last year and only
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lost one player. So we're excited about basketball season. Should be fun in
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St Alban. It always is in St Alban's so how overall We'll get into
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specifics in a moment. How are things going in St Alban? It's going
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great. We just keep moving on. We had a couple more ribbon cuttings
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there last weekend weekend before last what you have and Montenero, Cakrie and micaroons
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up on the east end of town. And the other one was you asked
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me too quick, brother, It's all available I'm sure on your under social
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media. Yeah, it was down on Old Main what was it. It'll
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come to me, It'll come to you here voluntarily. And we have another
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store opening up on sixth Avenue soon and so you know, we're excited.
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We just want to keep making Saint Albans the place people want to be part
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of. So we're very fortunate with our city Council, our citizens, our
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our volunteerism is way up and we need that, especially during this time of
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the year. We've got a lot of events and activities coming on. Yeah,
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I want to talk about those. Get the Festival of Lights, talk
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about that. Yes, Tuesday last week we had to walk through it rained,
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held the crowd down a little bit, still, probably had between two
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hundred and fifty three hundred people. Wednesday we had hay rides through the lights,
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and then Friday we opened up for the drive through. So numbers have
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been good over the weekend and we're always excited that people come to Saint Albans
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and visit one of the oldest and best light shows in the state of West
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Virginia. Now, for people that may not know exactly where is that,
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that is at City Park, which come down on Canal Terrace and you'll turn
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up Vine Street, go to stop signed veer right onto Valley Pike and you'll
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run right into it. I've said this on the show before. Between what's
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going on there, Chris, you know what's going on with the light the
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night over at the Go Mark Ballpark. There's I mean every community in the
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area seems like it's got some kind of a light display. If you like
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Christmas lights, there's no excuse for you to pretty much go around West Virginia
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and our part of West Virginia anyway, pretty much every night and there'd be
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a different one. I mean, there's just so many of them out there.
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There is. And you know, people were like, well, what
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do you think Go Mark Park's gonna do? That's just going to people when
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they go out, they'll visit two or three locations in one. That just
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gives them another option and it brings really I think everybody will feed off everybody
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and make everybody have more attendance. Indeed, indeed, got a text here
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for you somebody have with a question, So can you if you can get
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the potholes on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the the VFW fixed. There are five
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potholes in the road, and to avoid them, a person must drive into
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the oncoming lane or on the shoulder. Well, Pennsylvania Avenue State Road.
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That's first I heard of the potholes. I drive out Pennsylvania back in.
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I haven't hit any, but obviously there must be some there. So when
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we get off here, I will call John BOYD down Public Works. He'll
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call the state and we'll let them know they need to be patched. It's
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always going to be a good result when you call someone named John boy.
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Yeah, I've always said that, and I always said that. So I
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want to get back to the fessional lights and we'll move on to some other
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things, just real quick, approximately and a you know ballpark. Figure how
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many different how many people come through there every year? Well, base it
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on cars or however you want to. I'm just kind of curious. On
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average, we base it pretty much on cars. But on average it's around
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thirteen thousand to fourteen thousand cars. Now during the COVID, huh, it
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got all the way up eighteen thousand US. Yeah, because people will stir
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crazy. They wanted that out. They just said, look, shiny object,
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we're there for sure. So we're expecting another great season. Of course
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the weather plays rolling in it and so far, so good. And again
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the average is between thirteen fourteen thousand. That's amazing. And a lot of
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those people may or don't just come and look at lights and go home.
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Yeah, I mean, and that's where you guys come in economy development.
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You encourage them to come down to Old Main, to go to Shuckers or
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the Tap or any of those other fine restaurants that are down there and have
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you a bite to eat or drink or whatever. Shop some stores, yes,
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exactly. And you know, the more events that we put on that
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brings people to Saint Albans, the better our economy gets because once people come
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to Saint Albans and visit our stores or restaurants, they keep coming back.
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Indeed, again we're talking to Mayor Scott James here from Saint Albans on Mayor
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Monday and the Voice Charleston WCCHS. This Saturday is this Saturday, that Christmas
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preade it is and your tree lighting as well. Tree lighting up out.
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Christmas Parade starts at three o'clock there at Park Street and sixth Avenue at Saint
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Francis School and it'll go down Sixth Avenue up third a block and then we
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turn on the Main Street and Old Maine and end up at the Loop.
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Always a great turnout for this. Patty Swingo does a wonderful, wonderful job
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of putting this together. And they start at the corner of Park Street and
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they line up on all the way back to the high School there Washington,
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and that's a big old parade, it is, it is. And then
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about five point thirty, when it turns dark, we're gonna have our tree
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lighting. And where's the tree on Old Main on Old Maine and Santa We'll
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be there and afterwards handlers so the children can visit. And then after that,
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of course, we got the luminaries at Cunningham Memorial Park that night.
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They'll start liking them about three o'clock. And guys, I'm telling you,
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bar and bad weather, anything that is a gorgeous event. You drive through
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the cemetery and you get up top and you look at all those luminaries that
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are lit throughout the cemetery. I mean, it's it's awesome. And we
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got a lighted boat parade that lou Wendell Marina puts on and that'll start six
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or seven o'clock, I believe, and it's right there on Canal River,
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and great place to watch it from is Roadside Park. Indeed, again,
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I mean I've said this before, Mayor, I don't know of a lot
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of towns, with all due respect to the other towns, especially the ones
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in here in the Canal of out of who do Christmas as well or as
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big as Saint Aubans does. Well. Thank you very much, and and
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and again it's a wonderful time of the year. You know, I always
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encourage people remember the reason for the season, and it's not about getting and
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given, but the greatest gift we ever received here on earth. And so
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we want to play it up. We've got some great volunteers, and you
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know, we started something new with the festival lights. We used to have
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sand up top of the hill, but you know during COVID we couldn't do
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that and it always created traffic issues. So we've got a Santa House over
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at Roadside Park that's opening the same hours that the Festival Lights goes on,
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so people can take their children their grandchildren over before they go through the lights
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or after they go through the lights, either or either or whatever works best
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for them. Yes, I got a text here about potholes again. Okay,
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this is pothole for Monday, Texas. How about the city fixes the
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pothole and then builds a state for it. Obviously the state doesn't want to
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take the time or give the effort to fix potholes. Is that something that
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you can do well? The problem is when you do that, then they
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expect you to take care of it from now on. Yeah, and you
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can't build the state. You're not gonna get reimbursed for that. But we'll
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be in touch with them. And what we've done in the past is if
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they don't get to it, we'll get it taken care of. Okay,
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we're not gonna pave the road, but we have fixed potholes the Third Street
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underpass, which is a state road. We go down there periodically and patch
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it when it gets pretty bad. And the state doesn't take care of it.
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So you know, they've got a lot to tend to. I don't
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know if they know about these potholes, but they will after today. They're
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job always gonna take care of that. John will get on talk about small
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business Saturday. How were things this past Saturday in Saint Aude. It was
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fantastic. We had great crowds down on Old Maine and throughout Saint Aubans.
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Really, Becky and I got down there to they did some shopping in and
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out of the stores down there, and uh, but everybody told me there
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were great crowds down there. And you know, I had a granddaughter playing
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basketball had to go watch at And then we went up and visited Becky's family
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for a while, and then we came back down and uh did some shopping
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on Old Maine. So, uh, the crowds were great. And you
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know, guys, this is I had this discussion with my son, you
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know, he's of the streaming era and all this and that. He said,
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why don't you just order from Amazon? And I said, well,
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Amazon doesn't sponsor the Little League teams. You know, they don't donate to
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events and charities throughout our community. You know, that's why shopping small,
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shop local is so important to our communities, because these are the businesses that
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do sponsor Little League teams, that give to events and charities and help out.
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Goodness said it better myself, Mayor. It's always a pleasure to see
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it. I'm going to be in Saint Albans. I think Saturday afternoon,
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I'm kind of helping out with some of the because there's this Saturday is like
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Christmas Parade day. Man, there's Christmas parades like all over and all of
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our stations are going to be involved in. I think they've got me roped
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into driving one of the vehicles this Saturday in Saint Albans. So I'm looking
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forward to to hanging out there in the Land of the Red Dragons. That's
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awesome, man. We always welcome Dave Allen down to the big city.
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All right, all right, Scott James, Mayor of Saint Albans, I
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appreciate you, man. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Thank
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but I promise you he's in his vehicle listening right now. So Mayor,
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I have a question or comment for you. What happened to the Washington
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Memorial marker from nineteen thirty two that was at the same Alban school that was
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recently demolished. Will it be restored somewhere? I have some history on these
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that were uh put up in several places, So Mayor James and I'll have
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him back on again, probably sometime during the month of December, so we'll
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try to get that question answered then. But Mayor James, you got homework
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to do in addition to fixing the uh the potholes. Stephen Allen Adams from
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Ogden Newspapers is here. Good morning, sir, How are you? Good
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morning Dave? How wash your Thanksgiving? It was good? It was good.
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I hope you and the lovely Jessica had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well,
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nice and quiet. When you only have to cook for a father and a
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mother in law and your wife, it makes everything well, I can,
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I can do you one better than that. It's just me and my wife
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and the cat so so so so uh yeah we uh and and the and
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a Cowboys victory. You know that makes my that makes my Thanksgiving even even
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better. I have no dog in the fight on NFL, but congratulations if
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it means that you had a win. And do we know if Pushkin had
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a win with his name? No Pushkin? H Actually I think I read
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online he actually went up and was at the game when when when the Jets
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were playing and they got it handed to him? I think pushing He's gonna
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be on the show one day this week, so I'll have two ask him
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about that, all right, So I couldn't remember, neither one of us
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could remember whether i'd had you on since Senator meant that he wasn't going to
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run for reelection. But give me just your quick comment on that, because
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I saw over the weekend. I didn't get to see the show myself,
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but somewhere he did an interview. Maybe you know that I don't social media
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or something where Senator Mansion admitted that a run for president as a third party
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would be a long shot. And I think that's pretty much where I am
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on that as well. So you want to talk about that a little bit.
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Sure, Well, Senator Mansion's many things, but he's not an idiot.
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He's a smart guy. He's had a very successful political career. I
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think he knows this. I had to call him about this a couple of
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weeks ago, and I talked with Hoppy about it, and I called it
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his finding himself tour or an image in my head is him running across the
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country much like Forrest Scott saw that you posted that that was awesome. Yeah,
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but I don't mean that disrespectfully. ASK mean obviously he I think he.
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I think he has to go out and try to listen and figure it
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out, because I mean, he's been talked about. I think he has
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to say face a little bit and do that. But I think he knows
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it's really a tough haul. So I think he'll go off. He'll form
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his little moderate group that he's doing with his daughter. They're raising money for
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that right now. And I even have a special theory that I think maybe
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he could pull Joe Lieberman and get himself on the ballot as an independent candidate
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for you a Senate down the road, if he thinks there's a chance that
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he can do it. But that's a theory, I mean, because right
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now, let's face, with all due respect to Alex Mooney, this is
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Jim Justice's race. I mean, the poles keep going up, and we'll
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talk about that. Tom Sussman, our good friend, just came out with
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a pole and he talked. He was on Hobby talking about it last week.
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But right now, this race for Senate is without a doubt, Jim
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Justice is to lose, and there's no indication that he's going to. Brad
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and I were talking about this earlier this morning. The more it much like
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Donald Trump, the more negative that comes out, the more positive his poll
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numbers are. Well, that's it. I mean. Mooney got in nearly
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just over or under two years ago, because he literally announced for US Senate
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just days after winning in the new second congressional district in twenty twenty two,
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So he got in super early. I wrote about this in my column in
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Ogden Newspapers this week that came out today. He got in super early.
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Has that helped him? Look, Klepper Growth dedicated what up to ten million
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dollars for his campaign. They've already spent nearly five hundred thousand according to the
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FBC report. I just looked at at the end of last week. Think
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of all the headlines you would have been written by Brad by myself in regards
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to Justice's businesses, some of the issues going on in the department, at
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agencies. Nothing is moving the needle. The polls have been very consistent on
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this in voters that are paying attention are very engaged on this particular race because
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it's gotten national attention. And still Mooney can't get any traction. But Dave
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number of Winfield. Now let's go back to that polling information again.
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Tom Sussman, our friend that does a consulting business, and WMOV Radio and
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ravens Wood came out with the Polly talked about it on a hobby anything.
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Any numbers it's been well documented. But any numbers to kind of stick out
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to you on those polls, I will tell you what really sticks out to
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mean. This goes back into whether what's too early for a candidate to announce.
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And I think most of the candidates have announced have announced. I don't.
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I wouldn't say too early or not too early, but they've announced early
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enough to start raising money, getting name recognition, going to all the dinners
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and all the parades and that sort of thing. And the numbers that keep
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sticking out to me are the number of undecideds and don't knows, and particularly
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some of these lower races, even the governor's race to some extent, but
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it's not that bad. I think the don't know unsure somewhere in the twenty
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percent range in that one. But you've got some of these races where you've
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got forty percent, fifty percent and upwards of people that don't know in our
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sure And really, when you're looking at say the Attorney General's race, I
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know Stay Centner, Mike Stewart will be on after me. Now it's a
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two man race. When this poll came out, it had pulled well Ryan
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Weld Stay sundered ryin Weld who literally just dropped out of the race. So
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now it's between state auder JB. Mccusky and Stuart. It's a two man
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race. But even when it was a three man race, I mean,
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I think it was somewhere close to fifty ish percent that were unsigned and don't
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know. Now that's good for someone to say, like Stuart who the last
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couple of polls we've seen, he has been down, but it's so early
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you really can't freak out about that, all right, and he's down in
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money too, but that gives him time, obviously to sway a whole bunch
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of voters that just don't know. I haven't really engaged in that race.
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Insanely early, Steven, And this is what I preach about this on the
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show, and I know you talk about it as well, is that no
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one is even officially a candidate yet, I mean until January. So but
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it's just insanely early right now. It is insanely early. And I compared
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to the like putting up the Christmas tree. You know how early is too
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early for putting up the Christmas tree? We did it a good two weeks
23:12
before Thanksgiving. You know what is too early you either way, voters are
23:18
not engaged with these races, particularly pardon me down to ballot until when you
23:25
get to like April or May. Now, obviously, this US Senate race
23:29
is a high profile race. Sure there are more people in rest and state
23:32
the governor's race because it is also a high profile race. But it's gonna
23:34
take voters a while to get engaged. And I would say to the candidates
23:38
that are down in some of these polls, whether you think the polls legit
23:41
or has issues, take some heart in knowing that you've got time to get
23:45
your message out there, and you still got time to sway those voters are.
23:49
Are still a lot of time to get the votes that you need.
23:52
Especially again, what normally gets the attention are the races for Senate, and
23:57
because that's where the most he spent. You're going to see the television commercials,
24:02
you're gonna hear the radio ads and so on and so forth. Not
24:04
as much engagement for Attorney General, Secretary of State, and a lot of
24:08
these races. But speaking of the race for attorney General, you mentioned it
24:11
earlier, again, Mike Stewart's going to be on immediately after you, uh,
24:15
since we last talked. We know this that Ryan Weld State Center has
24:18
dropped out of the race. Now it is going to be a battle on
24:22
the Republican side, and let's face it, it's going to be that's going
24:25
to be the election right there, between State Auditor J. B. McCuskey
24:27
and Mike Stewart. It's already gotten a little chip with the three of them
24:32
in there. It had gotten a little chippy with the relationship that Weld had
24:36
with McCuskey. They were really good friends, and that kind of went away,
24:38
and then Stuart's kind of taken on, you know, both of them,
24:42
one way or the other. He's going to start hitting it really really
24:45
hard against JB. McCuskey. Your your thoughts on that battle, sure,
24:49
well, well Weld out of the race. Weld and mcusky, of course,
24:52
we know, are friends, but also are pretty s They were well,
24:55
yeah, they were, They may be now they may be they could
24:57
be. Well, they're very close politically, and I would say both are
25:03
either Some might conserve him traditional, some might consider it moderate. I know
25:07
Mike Stuart concerns and liberal Republicans, but nonetheless they had similarity similarities. Now
25:12
with Weld, out of the race, they won't take votes from each other.
25:15
It also frees up some votes in the north, because Well was certainly
25:18
going to take from the Northern Panhandle at least. So now, at least
25:23
for the moment, it's a two man race in the Republican primary, and
25:26
that gives Mike Stewart a real opportunity to say, here's where I am,
25:32
Here's where my opponent is, see how far to the left he is,
25:34
see where I'm at, And it really gives him an opportunity that he didn't
25:38
have before. I think it was harder for him with a three man race.
25:41
Now that he can really separate himself from JB. McCuskey, I think
25:47
the closer you get to the primary, I do think you're going to see
25:51
him try to get some votes. He can go for the political route,
25:53
and he also can go for the southern West Virginia out too. That'll help
25:56
him. So now who gets the stern Painhandle I don't know. That's that's
26:02
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the Secretary of State's race from MoMA Chris Warner, who is the brother,
26:33
as you well know, we all know, brother of current Secretary of State
26:36
Mac Warner, and remember Mac is now running for governor. Chris Warner having
26:40
a campaign announcement of some sort on December of the Is it the eleventh,
26:45
seventh seventh? I'm well, I wrote, I wrote out of my notes
26:48
here, but then my brain said, no, wait a minute's the seventh.
26:51
That's not the only, but anyway, it is the seventh. It's
26:52
going to be at the Cultural Center in Charleston. Most think Steven. Most
26:56
think that he's going to use that opportunity talking about Chris Warner to formally announce
27:00
that he'll be running for the seat that his brother Mac, a Secretary of
27:04
State your thoughts. Yeah, and you know, full disclosure, we're both
27:07
veterans of the secretary of State's office, so we know this office very well.
27:11
I think it's certainly good for Chris, especially having that last name Warner.
27:17
I do think it could cause some problems down the road in confusion for
27:22
some voters to some extent in between Mac Warner running for governor and Chris Warner
27:26
running for Secretary of State. That's a concern I have. The other concern
27:30
I have two is also making the announcement on December seventh, which is also
27:33
the same day as the gubernatorial forum the Hobby is hosting with what the West
27:37
Virginia Metro News, which Patrick mortse he's not taking part in. By the
27:40
way, that's another story for another time. That's that's exactly right. So
27:42
I do kind of see kind of taking the thunder away from another person's event.
27:48
I just think there's going to be some issues going into there. And
27:52
I'm sure that you know the brothers, they love each other, they'll support
27:55
each other. And of course Max's already put out a statements saying that he's,
27:57
you know, as Secretary of State, he's going to be impartial,
28:02
and we know that he can do that. We've seen that happen. But
28:04
I do think for voters it may cause some confusion down the road, So
28:08
we'll see how that works out. But it could work great for Chris just
28:11
from having that Warner name secretary of State. You know, that could put
28:15
him above people like Brian Wood or Chris Pritt or others. Yeah, and
28:18
Chris, of course is no stranger to politics. Former State Republican Party chair
28:22
felt have very been involved in Republican politics, either in that position or others
28:26
pretty much his entire life. Probably say, Chris was probably a little bit
28:30
more politically engaged in what the other Warner family members were because you know,
28:36
Mack was serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere around around the world for so often.
28:41
Mani of course, the Mani Warner ran for governor of thousand and four,
28:45
yeah, case and the other and their late brother. Even Mac's wife,
28:49
Debbie currently serves in the House. But I think you know, she's announced
28:52
that she's not going to run for reelection. That's a lot of warners.
28:56
It's a lot of warners. And as you already know, she's not going
29:00
to run, and they are going all in, and of course Mac has
29:03
been behind on some of the polls, so we've started to see Mac actually
29:06
come up and some of the more recent polls, so he's kind of slipping
29:11
into a third place, releasing a top three for the goubernatorial candidates, so
29:15
with more Capito and Patrick Morrissey. So it's going to be really interesting to
29:19
see how that race continues to tighten up as we get closer to May.
29:23
Let's talk about your friend and mine, Governor Jim Justice. The financial woes
29:30
continue. It seems like, of course we took a little bit of a
29:33
break for the Thanksgiving holiday, but before that we get word that there's insurance
29:37
companies that have issues with the governor and the lack of Bill Payne, and
29:44
there's other companies as well. Talk about that. Yeah, I mean again,
29:48
and you mentioned this at the top of the show or top of our
29:52
conversation, that there's just no touching Jim Justice on these issues. Nothing is
29:59
sticking to him, and we shouldn't be that surprised by this. Some of
30:03
these issues came out in twenty sixteen when he was running as a Democrat,
30:04
by his Democratic opponents didn't touch him. Then this stuff was brought out in
30:08
twenty twenty. You know, by Woody Thrasher in a Republican primary. Didn't
30:14
touch him then, and it's not going to touch him now unless outside of
30:17
a federal indictment or something like that. Now he's got baby dog, which
30:19
he didn't always have. That's true. He didn't have baby dog. You're
30:22
right. Baby dog wasn't even on the campaign trail yet in twenty twenty.
30:26
That's so. Do you think he's not going to be rolling that dog out
30:29
there now? Of course he is, Oh yeah, on the throne for
30:32
sure. So yeah, I mean the governor. You've seen him in person,
30:36
You've seen him on the campaign trail. He's very personable, he tells
30:37
great story. He is a good retail politician. Whether you love him or
30:41
hate him. Folksy, he is folksy, but he will keep your attention.
30:45
He'll even make you laugh. He don't like him, and that goes
30:48
a long way. And you know, the stuff just isn't touching him.
30:52
What do you think about you know, I guess he was asked her in
30:53
a briefing last week and you were you're of course taking part in that when
30:59
whether or not he would continue to coach girls basketball at Greenbrier East, and
31:03
he didn't say he wasn't going to do it. If he's elected Senate,
31:06
he plans to fly back, you know. I mean, that's kind of
31:08
where I that's kind of what I took from it. You were there,
31:11
your take. I don't think he's going he may say that. I think
31:15
he's going to be in for a culture shock when he gets to the US
31:18
Senate, much the way Joe Manchin was, because if you remember in the
31:21
early days, Joe Manchin had some issues in the beginning and ultimately grew to
31:25
hate it. He said this famously said the Senate sucks quote. That's his
31:29
quote, not mine. And I think Justice is going to have the same
31:32
culture shock for just how much work you have to do. I mean,
31:37
if you're there, you're there every day. It's not like driving once a
31:40
week from Louisbourg from your house to the governor's office to do a briefing and
31:45
drive back. It's different. It's way different. You're going to be there
31:48
every day taking part in votes, and you got to go to the floor
31:52
and do that. And you're just another person there too. I mean,
31:55
you're I mean, and that's what kind of because you know, the governor.
31:57
And I don't mean this in a negative, Stephen, but the governor
32:00
loves to be the center of attention. He's certainly not the only politician that's
32:04
that way, but he loves to be the center of attention. And I
32:07
don't know that being among all those other people and all those other bombastic personalities
32:12
on both the right and the left. I mean, you know, he's
32:15
not gonna be the center of attention there. No, he's gonna be is
32:19
initially. I think he's gonna have a very hard time, I think,
32:22
And we'll see how he acclimates to it and if he can somehow swing coaching
32:27
basketball. Man. I mean, okay, I guess he's for now.
32:30
He has the money to fly back and forth. He might not have the
32:34
money to fly back and forth. I was talking to a friend of mine
32:36
this morning who follows politics closely, and he said, can you imagine what
32:39
it's going to be when the Washington Post picks that up. I mean,
32:43
they've already in a lot of these publications from the Wall Street Journal and down
32:45
have already commented on the governor's financial issues. But when they if indeed he
32:51
does try to coach, and they get a hold of that. I mean
32:54
they're going to be because he because he's going in as a Republican, some
32:58
of the more liberal publications are going to be looking for things anyway. You
33:01
imagine what that headline is going to look like. He is already under such
33:05
a microscope right now. And of course, you know, some of us
33:08
have been writing these stories for a long time, but the national media outlets
33:13
are going to be all over him the closer we get. And he needs
33:16
in once he's in, so he needs to be prepared for that and you
33:21
know, get your house in order if he can. That way, maybe
33:22
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it up here, but I gotta ask you, what are you What are
33:51
you looking at today? First day back after Thanksgiving for a lot of people,
33:53
A lot of news will be made today. What are you keep an
33:55
eye on today? Well, we're going to have the first, not the
33:59
first meeting of the West Virginia First Foundation. This is the group that is
34:01
going to be It's a quasi public private organization. It's going to be ultimately
34:07
determined where some of this nearly one billion in COVID not COVID opioid settlement dollars
34:14
goes. And they're going to be having their second meeting, but this will
34:17
be kind of like their first real meeting. The first meeting was organizational.
34:21
This will be them actually getting to work, figuring out their protocols and the
34:24
things that they get to do. They're not close to distributing this money yet
34:28
to communities and programs yet, so everyone will be patient. But they are
34:32
beginning to meet and work on this source of stuff. So I'll be covering
34:36
that today. All right, Steven, It's always a pleasure to have you
34:38
on the show. Where can people follow you? Follow me at Steven Adams
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WV on X Twitter, that's Stephen with a V and Parker's producing Sentinel,
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Wheeling Intelligencer. We're in Daily Times, the Inner Mountain of Elkins and the
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Journal in Martin's All right, Steven, I appreciate you. We'll talk soon.
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don't know can hurt you. I got to get this text in from my
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our good friend Scott James, the mayor. He was talking about some ribbon
37:43
cuttings in Saint Albans and he here, he couldn't remember one of them.
37:45
It was venom Pit tattoo. Is the is the new business there in Saint
37:51
Albans. So, yeah, that's what The other one was Mike Stewart's here.
37:54
Do you are you a frequent tattoo parlor? Gay? You No,
37:58
I'm not, but venom it tattoo? I mean, you can't forget that
38:01
name. Yeah. I don't do needles, you know. No, I'm
38:05
not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a needle gay. How
38:07
was your Thanksgiving, sir? It was great as always. My kids were
38:09
home, one from college, the other from working in South Florida, and
38:14
it's always a great holiday. And started putting those lights out and went to
38:19
the ballpark over the weekend, partakes of some of er what it's amazing.
38:24
It's amazing, and so I want to see the revenue numbers at the end
38:29
of the season. Though, yeah, right, it's going to be pretty
38:30
sweet. It is. It is indeed, Mike. Since last time we
38:34
talked, the field has gotten smaller on the Republican side in the race for
38:37
Attorney General, State Senator Ryan Weld announcing last week he will not run for
38:42
a g opting instead to run for re election to State Senate. As of
38:45
now, the Republican side is going to be you and current senator, our
38:49
current state auditor. I should say, JB. McCuskey, square enough,
38:52
let's start with Ryan Weld. He's out your thoughts. Well, I told
38:55
you it was going to be out what three four weeks ago? I said
38:59
it was a two man race. But I have a lot of respect for
39:01
Ryan Weld. Listen, he served our country in the military. He's been
39:06
almost eight years in the State Senate. He's worked awfully hard, and so
39:09
I have a lot of respect for him. I thought, I still believe
39:13
I'm the better candidate to be attorney general, but I didn't run for attorney
39:16
general because he didn't like Ryan Weild. We disagreed on position issues. I
39:21
do believe that the choice between Ryan Weld and JB. McCuskey was the difference
39:24
between BlackBerry pie and BlackBerry cobbler. I still believe that I don't know if
39:30
the cobbler or the pie dropped out, but we're left with BlackBerry something.
39:36
But I respect Ryan Weld a great deal and best wishes to him and his
39:40
race first state Senate. So how do you see the battle with the current
39:44
state auditor JB. Mccusky shaping out? I think it's Stuart myself who has
39:49
a big record. It's almost twenty five years practicing law at the highest levels,
39:53
a big record as US attorney prosecuted two Supreme Court justices, took enough
40:00
off the street to kill more than forty million people, versus someone who frankly
40:05
hasn't practiced law in more than eight years, somebody who has taken in tens
40:10
of thousands of dollars from liberal Democrat personal injury attorneys. And where was the
40:15
state auditor during all this misspending of COVID dollars that happened all across West Virginia.
40:22
We just saw where from an education standpoint, Upshore County Schools, Loking
40:27
County Schools been taken over by the state because of incredibly outrageous spending things for
40:35
like pool passes and park purchases and food and other crazy things. What was
40:42
the State Auditor to put together was something called a COVID committee to advise local
40:46
and state governments in terms of proper spending of COVID dollars our money. And
40:52
it turns out all that was completely misspent, tens of millions of dollars that
40:57
were on the hook for. And so I'd like to here from the State
41:00
Auditor exactly what happened and why it happened. And it's just not education spending
41:05
where we know there's tens of millions of dollars. What about all that PPP
41:07
spending? What about all that unemployment front? Who's track and who's watching the
41:14
chicken coop here? And somebody ought to be making sure all that money was
41:17
spent correctly or that there's accountability from miss spending. Are you worried, Mike
41:24
that a tough and ugly, nasty battle between you and JB may do harm
41:30
to the Republican Party. I don't think so. Listen. I'm not going
41:32
to campaign on anything that's not the record, and so I think it's fair
41:37
when you're looking at two different candidates running for an office, you need to
41:39
look at the record. Folks are really busy, families are working hard every
41:45
day, just to get their kids through school. The record matters. Here's
41:49
what I can tell you is that if you're a listener to this show right
41:52
now, you're going to hear from candidate after candidate after candidate that says I'm
41:57
the conservative. Well, the record may say nothing close to being conservative.
42:02
I think it matters. People need to know the record. Part of my
42:06
job, especially when personal injury attorneys are funding up my opponent either because they
42:13
definitely don't want Steward because I'm going to be an aggressive I'm gonna be a
42:16
tough minded prosecutor style attorney general, going after CPS, going after fraud and
42:25
corruption. That's just my record. That's what I've done. I have a
42:30
proven record. But you're gonna hear folks come forward to say, hey,
42:32
I'm a conservative. I'm a conservative, and the record doesn't prove it at
42:37
all. Part of my job, when I'm outfunded as much as I'm gonna
42:40
be outfunded in this race, is to let voters know the difference between me
42:45
and my opponent. I'm a real conservative. My record shows it proves it
42:51
seven days a week. My opponent not even close, not even close.
42:55
He's voted four times against concealed carry in the Second Amendment four times. He
43:01
voted against religious freedom when that was on the ballot. He's not endorsed President
43:07
Trump in a state we're over eighty percent of our people Democrat and Republican support
43:12
President Trump versus what we have happening today. So part of my job,
43:17
I think, as a candidate is to let folks know there is a clear
43:21
distinct choice somebody with a real record as a proven lawyer and somebody who hasn't
43:27
even practiced law for a really, really long time. Give you a story
43:30
about JB. And I love Jbau like I've saying this. He's a good
43:35
young guy. Used to work for me at a different law firm, and
43:37
we were headed somewhere in twenty sixteen. I was the coach of the Trump
43:42
campaign at the time. He was running for state auditor. I thought he
43:45
was gonna win, and we're headed to Huntington and I just said, hey,
43:49
JB, have you ever balanced your checkbook before? And he said no,
43:52
why? And I said, well, it doesn't matter. Just when
43:57
you win that seat, turn on the light, sit down in the chair,
44:00
and surrounding yourself with good people. And he's done that. He surrounded
44:04
himself with some really good people in that office. I just fundamentally disagree from
44:08
the standpoint of some of his positions on various issues. I'll tell you this.
44:14
He had a bill last session. It was thirty three to one in
44:16
the state Senate. Just to show you my backbone, I was the one.
44:20
I was the one that voted against everybody in the state. So that
44:23
bill, this bill was to take the State Auditor's Office from transparency to obscurity.
44:30
It was to exclude and exempt the State Auditor's Office from the purchasing division
44:35
requirements in West Virginia. It just didn't make sense to me. I used
44:38
common sense for a lot of my analysis on things. I don't have advisors
44:43
telling me what to do. It's just common sense. And when you're taking
44:46
the state offics from transparency to obscurity not following the purchasing division requirements, it
44:54
just doesn't make sense to me. I think that if the purchasing division requirements
44:59
don't work, we need to look at the purchasing division requirements and modify them
45:02
or fix them so they do work. But the idea of exempting departments from
45:07
being included in state requirements from the purchasing division. It just doesn't make sense.
45:14
It doesn't pass the smell test. And of all departments, of all
45:17
offices, the state Auditor being excluded from complying with purchasing division requirements. It
45:23
just makes no sense. That office ought to be one hundred percent about transparency.
45:29
That's what it ought to be, from soup to nuts, transparency,
45:31
transparency, transparency. I'm going to look into the crystal ball here before we
45:36
wrap it up, and that is that whoever the next attorney general, as
45:39
I said to West Virginia, there's all likelihood that they're going to be looking
45:44
into what happened on the West side with this gas situation. I'm not trying
45:46
to politicize it. I'm just saying it is what it is, is that
45:50
there's going to be heads are going to roll with West Virginia, American Water.
45:54
You know, the amount of gas has done a great job as far
45:58
as being out there in front of people, but there's gonna be a lot
46:00
of investigations into this. This is something that you have said that the next
46:04
attorney general is going to be looking into. I tend to agree with you
46:07
on that. Why does it concern you if it's JBM. Oh my goodness,
46:10
How in the world can you be a referee if you're assigned to one
46:14
team, if you work for that team. What I mean by this is
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he's taken tens of thousands of dollars from Democrat personal injury attorneys, the same
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folks running advertisements saying we want to sue, we want to sue, call
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us if you've eaten fast food. On top of that, we've got folks
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on the West side going through a tremendous challenge, two utility companies that are
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undoubtedly going to end up at the PSC. Who runs the PS? JV's
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godmother. So between the personal injury attorneys and between who runs the PSC,
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how in the world can you be a neutral arbiter. I think we need
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an Attorney General that will be tough in terms of dealing with the PSC and
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issues that affect people's pocketbooks. The challenge with JV when it comes to the
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issue on the West Side, it crystallizes perfectly the problem with JB becoming the
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Attorney general. It's a Schmorgas board of conflict of interests. How in the
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world could you do it? How do you do it when you've got conflicts
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from personal injury attorneys that are flooding your campaign with cash, and you've got
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relatives, very very close relatives running the PSC. In addition, you've got
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huge utilities. These are massive issues that are going to affect folks. I
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can tell you this. My record has proven those two Supreme Court justices,
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one Republican, one Democrat, and I didn't care. I was going to
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prosecute where the corruption was found. That's exactly what we did as Attorney General.
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I'm going to be the same neutral arbiter. I'm going to be fair
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with one champion that I'm working for. That's the people of us one hundred
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percent of the time, regardless of who it may make mad or may make
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Let's see Mike sure to be on the radio. The same Mike Steward
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who professes to be a Christian, the same Mike Stewart who thinks sixteen year
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about fifteen minutes of auditory garbage. Six Texas. Don't forget that Mike's daddy,
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Here's the thought, how about each GP candidates stop worrying about smearing each
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trust Mike Sewart than anything. He'll turn on anyone. Yikes. According to
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a text, all right, I got to get this in here real quick
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because you know, I'm completely out of time. I appreciate my guest today.
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Also appreciate Ryan Nicholson. If you go over to my Facebook page Dave
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Allen Rady, or my Twitter page or my ex page. You're gonna see
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the a little video this morning. Over the weekend, I ran into my
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kindergarten teacher and yes, Ryan, she's still living. Yes she is still
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living. She does ceramics. Now. She made me a beautiful ceramic coffee
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mug that I'm drinking out of this morning. So I got a video posted
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about on my Facebook and on my X page. So Miss Heatherman, thank
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you so much. All right, coming up on the show tomorrow at the
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candidate for the Intermediate Court of Appeals, Michael Schultz, will be on the
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