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11/08/2023 The Dave Allen Show - Kayla Young, Dr. Casey Sacks and Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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areas Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, so on and so forth. We're going
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to talk about that coming up a little bit later on State Democratic Party Chair
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and Delegate Mike Pushkin wants to weigh in. He's got a bit of a
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victory life, at least to a certain extent. Going on this morning.
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I'm going to talk about that with pushing coming up. Also, doctor Katie
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Sackebridge Valley will be stopping by as well. It's my pleasure to welcome to
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the show now delegate and now candidate again for House of Delegates, Kayla Young.
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How are you. I'm doing well. Good morning, Dave, Good
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morning listeners. How are you ken? I just compliment you on these stickers.
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Now, I know you're not able to see these right now, but
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I'm gonna hold it, Jeff, if you could put the camera on the
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Oh, that's right, we don't have a camera, but we have these.
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Nice Kayla Young. And I'm sure that you've got them posted on your
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social media. I actually saw them. I thought I saw that you posted
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these on the I posted somebody that had shared them. But I will be
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posting more information about the stickers and also koozies and how everyone can get one
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this afternoon. And they say reallect Kayla Young. And they're nice and glittery.
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They are just like me. Yes, nice, nice and glittery like
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you. Okay, So anyway, welcome to the show. Good morning.
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They've been on in a while, it's been a while. Yeah, I'm
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happy to be back. I feel very enthusiastic this morning. You came in
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like bubbling this morning always all I mean, well, no, not always.
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I mean, nobody's bubbling all the time, not during sessions. But
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but but you came in just like kind of bouncing off the walls one of
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you. Are you happy about what happened last night in the in the uh
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and and let's say Kentucky, for example, are you happy about that?
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Yeah, Kentucky was what I was expecting. I'm excited about Ohio. I
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have hope and what we can do in the future, and in terms of
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constitutional amendments and letting voters decide on big issues. And that's not necessarily the
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weight it's done in West Virginia to a certain extent. I mean, I
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want to get into a Civics lcenes, but there's a little bit of a
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difference between Ohio and Virginia. West Virginia. The weight it's done, is
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that right as far as I know, Yes, yeah, we don't have
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ballot measures in West Virginia, but we do have constitutional yeah yeah, yeah,
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we vote on those from time to time. We'll get into all that
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another show. I want to talk about your campaign. And by the way,
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I just want to say, I'm accused sometimes of being too right of
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center on the show. Let the record show it. On today's show,
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I have you in the opening segment. I've got delegate and say Democrat Party
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Chair Mike Pushkin of a last segment, I do have the nonpartisan doctor Casey
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Sackviebridge Valley as a buffer. So I just want to let everybody know that
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I'm equal opportunity here. You absolutely are. That's always been what I've found.
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I am am an equal opportunity offender, you know. I mean,
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you know, as I said, the conservative Sam too liberal liberal Sam.
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Two conservatives, So I must be doing something right, all right. So
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you had a big of that last night the Delegate Young where you announced no
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one surprise you'd be running for re election to House. I think he had
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already announced it at one point, but you did it in public there last
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night, and in the words of the late Great Mountain Their football coach Bill
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Stewart, to leave no doubts that you are running for reelection. I am.
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I'm running for reelection for my third term in the state legislature. I
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represent the fifty sixth district, which is half of South Hills, a little
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bit of South Charleston and a little bit of Saint Albans. So I want
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to talk about the difficulty being a Democrat in West Virginia right now. The
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difficulties have been well documented. Yeah, eighty three years that the Democrats controlled
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West Virginia. That change was made in the teens, and it looks like
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it's continuing to go that way, not only with voters changing their their party
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registration to either Republican or in many cases unaffiliated and independent, but also office
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holders that get in. We've had some high profile with Doug scaff you know,
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not long ago of being one of those. So with all that having
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means said, why do you remain a Democrat. I don't think you're going
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to be changing anytime soon. No, I don't intend to change my party
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anytime soon. I will say it used to be independent. I switched to
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Democrat to run for office just because those values align a little bit closer with
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my own values. But I really don't care so much about party. I
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work with everybody across the aisle. I am the only Democrat that got bills
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passed last year, and one of the only ones the two years prior to
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that. So I don't care so much about party affiliation. I think we
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spend a lot of time on it, but it's really about policy, and
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I find most people are somewhere in the middle. Anyways, The majority of
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things that get passed in the legislature in West Virginia, the ones that don't
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necessarily make the headlines because they aren't the sexy topics, are done along nonpartisan
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you know lot. I would say ninety percent of the bills that we pass
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are incredibly boring. They keep the government going, and they pass overwhelmingly with
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all of our support. Absolutely. So in your time in the House,
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and you said you'll be running for your third term. Is that right?
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So what are some of the things in the previous two that you have most
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been proud of that you have accomplished. I'm happy that you asked that.
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In the first year of twenty twenty one, so it was the first year
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after COVID, I worked to create a new form of unemployment that's voluntary for
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employers. It helps people not be laid off. It's called work sharing.
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I also my first bill that was signed into law was in West Virginia.
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Currently, veterans get business fees waived if they want to start a new business.
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We expanded that to active military as well as military spouses who have a
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very high unemployment rate. We change the definition of kidnapping, which was really
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important. I've worked on the alcohol laws. Somehow that's become one of my
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things, but I see it as economic development while also maintaining health and safety.
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In my second year, my biggest thing, and probably my biggest thing
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I've done so far, was working with leadership in both the House and the
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Senate to repeal the ban on nuclear energy. We talk a lot about energy
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security and energy and dependence. I want West Virginia to remain an energy leader
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in this country, and I think nuclear is one of the ways to do
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that, and I think it's completely safe. And then this last year,
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you probably all remember the child marriage band. That what made national news.
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So I worked a lot on that and just a lot of the bills that
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passed I have my hands on because I'm nosy. Well, you just want
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to you want to do good things. I did, all right, So
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let's talk about some of the major issues covered up here and there are all
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over the news headlines. You don't need me to tell you. Dhhr Ye,
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the prison crisis foster care. Do you feel Deli Young that Republicans haven't
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done enough in those areas? I would say so, yeah, we haven't
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had major, major foster care legislation since I've been there. I do think
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we did some good things with corrections during the special set this year that I
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was happy to support. I think there's a lot more work to be done.
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I don't know if you know, but I'm on TikTok and I like
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to explain the bills on TikTok because it's just a good way to teach people
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things. I try to do it in as nonpartisan as possible. If it's
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my opinion, I'll say so. But I realized during the crisis with the
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prisons that we kind of hurt the prison guards and the CEOs that have been
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there for a really long time. They kind of didn't get the great end
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of that deal. So I think there's a little bit more work to do
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there. And then what's been in the news lately with DHHR and with Homeland
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Security and the prisons is a big data crisis where we've been deleting people's data.
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People who are responsible for the lives of West Virginians their data is now
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gone because we don't have good data practices. And that's something I'm incredibly nerdy
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about, is data. I've introduced data bills all years that I've been in
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the legislature, and I'm going to keep doing it because it's really important to
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make sure that we keep these records because these are taxpayer dollars. Let's talk
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about Peia and I think Pushkin and how you want to talk about a little
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bit later on. But there's been a series of hearings held. I think
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there was already one held in Wheeling and Martinsburg, and by the way,
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Brad's get an in depth story about it at a wv metro news dot com.
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There are meetings upcoming. Your take on the issue with pie, because
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you know there's going to be some increases coming and it's typically typically the way
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it works in the world of politics. It's just the way it is.
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There's finger pointing. You know, if this person would have done this,
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that we wouldn't be here, and so on and so forth. Your take
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overall on the pie problem, because it's an issue. Yeah, it's absolutely
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an issue. And I came in at the tail end, right, and
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it seemed apparent that something had to be done. I did not support the
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bill that passed. I don't know the solution, though, and if I
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don't know, I'm happy to say I don't know, because I don't know
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the solution. I'm incredibly worried about people having to pay thirty percent more over
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the next three years and the spousal I saw the Finance report this last month,
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and all the numbers that they gave us originally when we were passing these
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bills were off by quite large margins, and so I'm concerned with what that's
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going to look like in terms of people having to pay way more for their
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insurance. I'm also concerned about utility bills going up. You know, going
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to the grocery store isn't easy for anybody right now. It's expensive, and
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so I'm worried about people's rising costs overall. I don't have the answer on
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Peia, but I'm just concerned for people. Well, and again, there's
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gonna be more hearings held and push can. I think we're going to talk
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about that a little bit later on. Let me I want to get back
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to your race for a moment in a time, dele get when the Democratic
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partly Party, mainly because of possibly the identity of the National Democratic Party.
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And let's face it, I mean, you're a realist, you know that.
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It's not very highly thought of in West Virginia, the identity of the
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National Party. When you're out campaigning door to door at different events and whatever,
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how do you combat that if somebody looks at you? And I know
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because they do it on the Republican side too. If you're a Republican,
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you're automatically a trumper yep. And if but when you're out, people are
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probably saying, well, Joe Biden this or Nancy Pelosi you know this,
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or AOC or whatever, how do you come or why do you address that?
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Yeah? Again, I try to talk about West Virginia and what's going
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on here. I don't feel too favorably about the National Party either, either
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one of them. Push Kit's probably gonna get mad at me for saying that,
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But I don't they say, you know, Democrats were in the state
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to the ground. I said, you're not completely wrong. It's a mess,
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and so they're not wrong. It's valid and I think we have a
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lot of work to do. I got involved because I care about helping West
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Virginia and I want to continue that and I just don't think the party matters
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that much. It's what people's values are and where they put their money.
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Well, this is not directly related to you, but I did kind of
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see if you wanted to weigh in on this last week, within last week
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and a half or so, Steve Williams, the mayor of Huntington, has
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announced that he is definitely going to be a candidate for governor. Done asking
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for an endorsement or anything like that, But your thoughts on Steve Williams.
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Steve has been wonderful as I've known him, which is not terribly well,
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but I think he's done a pretty good job at Huntington and he'll more than
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likely be the nominee. But you never never know what's going to happen,
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all right, So why should somebody give Kaylee Young another shot in the house.
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It's important to me because I think there's still a lot of work to
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be done. You know, we've lost four thousand students in Kennaugh County schools
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over the past month or the past ten years, sorry, not the past
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month. Four thousand students in Kennaugh County schools over the last ten years,
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we clearly aren't doing something right and we need to change things. We need
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to increase our workforce participation. I think I have great, reasonable ways to
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do all of these things. I'd be happy to talk to anybody about them
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anytime. But I just want to keep doing the work that I've been doing
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and keep working across the aisle and working for my constituents. Also, it's
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incredibly important to me to do constituent services. When people need help with DHHR
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or the DMV or whoever they need help with, I hope they call me.
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There was a road in my district that hadn't been paved in twenty years.
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Guess what it's paved now. I called my supervisor once a week to
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make sure that road got paved, and it finally did. It hadn't been
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paved in twenty years. It's Green Valley Road in Saint Albans. It's the
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state road and it had just been completely neglected. Well, I'm on it
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and I listen to people, and if we don't agree on issues, that's
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fine. I'm sure there is something we agree on. Do you have your
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website and for social media? I know you said you're on TikTok. So
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what else you have wor can people learn more about you? Five batch you?
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My website is Young for WV dot com and social media is Kayla Young
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for WV dot com. And I think I've been known to give out myself
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a number of time or two on this it's public information. It's on the
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website. I'm happy to talk to anybody anytime, all right. And by
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the way, I think since the last time you were on the show,
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I think you got married? Did I did? I got married in September?
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Yes, congratulations? What day in September? It was September fifteenth.
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I was married by Elvis. Okay, would you like to tell that story?
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It was an Elvis wedding. It was in Las Vegas. We had
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a great time, all right. That's an a hunk of burning love for
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congratulations, Thank you, congratulations. I was married. The reason I asked
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about the day because what my anniversaries in September as well? But it's the
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nineteenth see I remembered, Oh god, you need you need to tell your
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guy to make sure that you remember the anniversary. It's very poor. You
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will he better? That's all I get to say, Kaylee Young. I
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appreciate you being here, Delegate kayly Young. We'll talk against soon. Thanks
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Sachs standing by. We'll get to her just a couple of moments. Tex
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says we are locked. We meaning the Republican Party locked and ready to throw
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Kayla Young out of office and replace her with a Republican It's happening, says
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a text textas says Democrats just need to have a rapist to lead their party.
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They'll be popular in West Virginia, tex says Democrats on the radio talking
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about how they don't like their own party. Kayla Young said it herself.
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It's a mess. According to a Texter. All right, let's sub bring
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in doctor Casey's from Bridge Valley. How are you, Doc, Dave.
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Great to be with you this morning. Thank you, Thank you for taking
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time out of your schedule to be And the last time you were here did
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Friday Funhouse you were my co host. Sorry, no fun, no dog
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adoption, no Chris Lawrence, and no ten questions today. Sorry, I
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know you're not going to be fun today at all. That's that's that's that
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hurt. That that hurt, Doctor sach Come on, all right, I
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have fun on Friday. I have fun. I live for fun. You
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great, You and I always have fun anyway when we hang out. All
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right, So I want to get to on Monday, you had a big
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announcement that came up. You had a press conference and different things went on
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to Montgomery on Monday. Talk about that doctor we did. We installed three
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CDL simulators in Montgomery. So it's for the commercial driver's license program. It
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also supports the alignment program because it turns out you have to have a CDL
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to be alignment. And so the simulators allow us to teach folks how to
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drive an eighteen wheeler without getting the wheel of an eighteen wheeler. Obviously you
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have to do both, but you need a lot of time. If you've
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never double clutched a shift of a stick shift before, you you'll burn out
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a clutch on a real truck if you're learning that for the first time.
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But the simulators allow you to learn it, and then we can put you
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behind the wheel of a real truck and really get you the hours you need
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so that you can test and get on the road. You know, It's
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kind of interesting because in the break there before, when we were transitioning from
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Delegate Young into you, she asked me, she said, what's doctor Sach's
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gonna talking about? And I said, well, And we had this announcement
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in Montgomery on Monday, and I talked about a little bit with her,
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and she said, we need to do what we can to make it easier
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to get a CDL license in the state of West Virginia. I don't know
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what goes into that, but it sounds like and I would think that would
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be a bipartisan thing. And that's what we're always trying to promote a little
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bit. I would think that I probably would agree with that. Yeah,
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I think anything we can do to get people into good paying jobs is a
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real win for the community. Right now, where we really need help is
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getting people interested in the program. And so if you're a person who's thinking
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this might be a good career for you, you can do your CDL training
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in as little as four weeks. It's not a huge time commitment in terms
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of training, but it can really be a great job that could change your
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life or could change your family's life. So it's worth checking out. And
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doctor Sachs, I think when people hear a CDL license, they automatically think,
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well, I'm gonna I'm going to go all bej and the Bear.
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There's an obscure reference for you, and I'm going to be driving across country.
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That's not exactly and there's some of that. Of course, that's not
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exactly what all folks that have a CDL license do on a day to day
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basis. Absolutely, and it's true you can do long hauls and some people
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really like those. They're a really good fit for some folks, But there
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are a lot of jobs that are just local that you need it. School
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bus drivers, for example, all need there is a desperate need in West
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Virginia maybe other states as well for school bus drivers right now. I mean
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they're really, really, really is yeah, And so that's local. You
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would get up and go to work at the same time that your kids go
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to school. You would work for the school district. Anybody who drives any
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of the city trucks. I know the city of Charleston desperately needs folks who
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have a CDL who can drive all kinds of different trucks for them. AEP
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hires people who are fixing the power lines, and to be able to get
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alignment job, you have to have that CDL. All of those trucks,
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every single bucket truck that fixes the electric wires around here, all those people
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need to have a CDL. Yeah, and I mean there's just such a
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needs for Again, we're talking with doctor Casey Sachs from a Bridge Valley.
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Last time we had you on the show. In addition to getting dogs adopted
21:37
to attend questions, whatever, we also spent some time talking about some of
21:41
the Taylor Made It training program that can help, as you say, play
21:48
on words here bridge the skills gap. Talk about that a little bit more
21:51
in case people may have missed another interview. Thank you. Yes, we
21:53
design training programs to help really meet your business needs. And one of the
21:57
things that we found in the commune is that everybody has IT needs. So
22:02
you might have one IT person on your staff and they don't have the cybersecurity
22:07
expertise that you realize that you need, and they're a great employee, they
22:10
just need a few more classes to get them upskilled so that they can help
22:14
with your cyber needs. Or you might have somebody who you know is a
22:17
really good employee, but they need help figuring out how to do web design.
22:21
And so what we do is we work with businesses to figure out what
22:26
is it that you need, how do we create that opportunity for you,
22:29
and then let's get people in those training programs. So it does we'd love
22:33
for you to do an associate's degree in IT. That would be amazing,
22:36
but it doesn't have to be a two year commitment. We have lots of
22:37
short term certificates that are of real value to employers in the community. One
22:42
of the things doctor Sachs will get into last time you were on the show
22:48
is the fact that Bridge Valley is listening to employers as opposed to as it
22:52
was years ago. When you just know you put people in not I mean
22:56
Bridge Valley specifically, but no matter what the institution of higher learning is.
23:00
You get people in the classroom and then you send them out into the workforce
23:02
and say good luck. You're actually setting down with employers in the area,
23:07
many of them from Toyota on down and saying, Okay, what is it
23:10
that you need. How can we work with these students to get them better
23:15
acclimated to be ready to go to work. That's right. We really value
23:18
our employers. We can't do the work that we're doing without them, and
23:22
so anything we can do to do more cost effective training or customized training.
23:26
We have a grant program that we work with with employers. It's called Learn
23:30
and Learn, and we jointly the college and the employer go together to the
23:33
state to apply for money so that we can split wages for students. So
23:37
that if you're an employer, lets you could do this, Dave. You
23:41
might need somebody to do accounting for the radio station, then we could split
23:45
wages and you could hire a student who's working on their book keeping and so
23:49
they're not fully trained up yet. So you're taking a risk of the employer,
23:52
but we're splitting the wages with you, and so you give students really
23:56
authentic work experience and then people are more like to hire them in the long
24:00
term. Well, and again, during the last time you were on the
24:03
show, Doctor Sacks, you talked about that about how many of these people
24:06
if you and use the radio station for example, we use somebody here,
24:10
they kind of job waiting and they are they already know where the key to
24:11
the loshroom is here, you know, so they're ready to go to work,
24:15
and you already know you like them. You've had an opportunity to onboard
24:19
them. And a lot of our students need that work experience because more and
24:23
more we see in job postings, you know, you have to have a
24:26
degree or you have to have the work experience, and if you don't have
24:30
either, how do you break into that system? And so we make sure
24:33
we're getting people that work experience alongside with the skills training that they need so
24:37
that they're really prepared to work in the community. What's on the horizon since
24:41
the last time we talked, what are you looking at. What are you
24:44
working on? What do you got? We just this week submitted a grant
24:48
to help support our manufacturing program. We're trying to do anything we can really
24:52
to get people interested in advanced manufacturing technology. We are the education provider for
24:59
West Virginia's only FAME chapter. So FAME is the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education,
25:04
and it's a consortium of employers in manufacturing that are saying, we need
25:08
students who have these AMP jobs and AMP skills, and so let's figure out
25:14
how to get more students into the Bridge Valley program. So we're really looking
25:18
at lots of ways that we can expand that and get more people interested in
25:21
manufacturing. It's not quite as easy a job to pitch as commercial driver's license
25:26
or nursing because people immediately know what those are. AMT sounds a little more
25:30
foreign, but they're some of the best jobs in our community. You can
25:33
start getting paid eighty thousand dollars a year with a two year degree. I've
25:38
got some text here for you. Are you ready to go? This is
25:41
not ten questions? These are legitimate now on something I didn't make cup.
25:45
We do have a text here for the fruit pharmacy text line. It says,
25:48
tell President Sachs, she's awesome. Ask where the funding for the CDL
25:52
trainers come from? That thinks that's a great question, and thank you for
25:57
the compliment. I sincerely appreciate it. I know that you could talk in
26:00
text at the same time, but go ahead. Very funny. The CDL
26:06
training dollars came from a congressional earmark. Senator Manson's office helped us get it.
26:11
It actually went to the State Community College System office and then they were
26:15
able to bring us the fund so that we could put those trainers in.
26:18
All right, So I hope that answered the question where can people learn more
26:21
about all the different exciting stuff you got going on at Bridge Valley, doctor
26:26
Sacks. Certainly, our website is a great resource. It's Bridge Valley dot
26:30
edu. If you're a company that's interested in doing any of the work based
26:33
learning stuff that we mentioned today, try Bridge Valley dot edu forward slash Apprenticeships.
26:40
And then, of course we have a Facebook page and an Instagram page,
26:42
and you're welcome to contact us through those as well if that's the form
26:45
of communication you like better. All right, Doctor Sachs, keep doing good
26:49
stuff. We'll have you on again soon. I appreciate it. Thanks a
26:52
lot, Thank you so much. Dave. Great to talk to you as
26:53
well, Doctor Casey Sachs from Bridge Valley. It is twenty six minutes away
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but Trump is psychotic and just as old and as senile as JB.
27:27
According to a text. Okay, that's way too I appreciate when people send
27:34
me these texts, but something I got to read off the air. I
27:37
can't read something that is that long on the air. I will read the
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last part of it, though, Texas, David's despicable when the guy who's
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in the office does not respect the office Biden comes across as an angry old
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man. This is kind of going back to some of the things we talked
27:52
about on the show yesterday, Texas, Dave, what I don't understand is
27:59
in Potier or not, why would anyone choose Trump for anything? Americas are
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asking for trouble if mister Trump is elected again. I don't like Joe Biden
28:07
a lot either, but he's a lot better than Trump. According to a
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28:19
do a rally. Trump forgot he was in the courtroom. I tried to
28:22
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28:26
stop giving speeches and just answer the questions. And it's going back on to
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every Wednesday at five Texas says Ohio and Virginia voters voted with some sense yesterday.
32:15
Best wishes to them that the conservatives in their states don't screw up what
32:20
they voted for, like what Virginia Republicans did with legal cannabis. Too bad
32:24
us here in West Virginior SOCO politicians like Craig Blair, who wants to execute
32:28
drug dealers, bam gay marriage, and institute Christian Sharia law Texas where it
32:34
is Ohio, Republicans are going to attempt to overturn the voter choices on legal
32:37
abortion in legal cannabis. So much for Republicans respecting and representing their voters choices.
32:42
I guess voting doesn't matter in Republican states. Mister Michael Ari Pushkin,
32:51
that that is my name day. What's your middle name? Alan? Oh?
32:54
Okay, then what's your last name? You're confused. I'm just staying
32:58
I know what your last time. I was just joking. I don't way
33:00
to confuse your listeners. Yeah it's Dave. Anyway, voting does Collie,
33:06
there's an obs reference we uh we yeah, we saw last night. The
33:12
voting really does matter. And even in uh in states where there are Republican
33:16
super majorities, Democrats can still pull off a huge win over in our our
33:22
neighbor, Kentucky, which Kentucky is a barely read state, the state that
33:27
brought you Rand Paul and the state that brought you Mitch McConnell just re elected
33:31
a very good governor and and the reason Andy Basheer was re elected and by
33:36
by such a pretty comfortable margin. Is because he's a good governor and people
33:39
like him. He's done a good job. Why do I see you were
33:42
out door knocking? I did, I do you know? Ashland's not too
33:45
far from here, and I went over there on a weekend and uh and
33:47
knocked on some doors for the entire republic, well for the entire democratics late
33:52
hello, yeah, the percent democratics. The percentage was like I think fifty
33:58
three to forty eight percent. And that comfortable, pretty comfortable margin. That's
34:01
because that's that is, ah, you know, because of the job that
34:06
he has done. And I noticed that even in in in eastern Kentucky where
34:10
I went and some of the counties that were really ravaged by floods over the
34:15
past several years. Uh, he did extremely well there. And I think
34:17
it's because of of Governor Basher's response to crisis and his handling of floods and
34:23
the damage to the by the floods. You know, Unlike you know,
34:27
our governor where we had the problems with the Rise program, where the money
34:30
wasn't getting where it needed to go. Andy Basher did a very good job
34:35
with flood relief and that's what helped win him the election because he does his
34:38
job one thing in Kentucky. That's but the I believe the widest margin of
34:46
victory in any state wide race in Kentucky was I believe. His name is
34:50
Michael Adams. He's a Republican Secretary of State. And what's remarkable about a
34:53
Republican like Michael Adams, he's really pushed back against the Trump conspiracy, theorist
35:00
that claimed the election was rigged, and he's really, as Secretary of State
35:02
and chief election officer, he's pushed backed against that and he's told the truth
35:06
and he was rewarded for it. He had the widest margin. I would
35:08
say that our secretary of State might want to take some lessons from him.
35:13
Tex says, women sent a big message to the GOP last night. You're
35:15
not going to take their rights away and they're not going to be silenced in
35:20
the workplace or the churches. Yeah. I agree. I think there was
35:23
overwhelming victories in Ohio for the Constitutional Amendment, the ballot initiative that protected a
35:30
woman's right to choose, and I think that I would like to see us
35:35
put it on the ballot here in West Virginia. I've urged my Republican counterparts
35:39
to let the people decide. I think that's what When Roe was overturned,
35:43
there was a lot of talk by national Republican leaders, well, this should
35:45
be decided by the states. Well, let's let West Virginians decide, like
35:49
they did last night in Ohio. I don't think they want of course,
35:52
of course they don't want that because they'll lose, just like in every single
35:53
other state, even in Montana read Montana, when the voters had had their
36:00
right to choose, to protect a woman's right to choose, they overwhelmingly won
36:04
in Montana as well. They won in Kansas, they won in Michigan.
36:07
I can go. There's any state where it's been on the ballot. People
36:10
spoke up and they don't want a complete ban on a woman's right to choose,
36:15
like the legislature did in West Virginia. And now people will say,
36:17
oh, they voted in twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen was a different question.
36:21
Twenty eighteen involved Medicare fund, Medicaid funded. You're right, different question,
36:24
you know, And did you say I was right? Yes? And
36:28
I didn't say that you're not wrong. I don't disagree. No, no,
36:31
no, no, you're right on that. I was talking this morning,
36:36
Mike, to one of the leading Republicans of the legislature, and he
36:38
asked not to be named because anything brow bows and courage. Well, he
36:44
wants to get re elected at some point, and he asked, maybe should
36:47
want to do his job. He asked me this morning. He and I
36:50
were having a discussion this morning and he said, what do the results from
36:54
last night and all have in common? I immediately said Trump. He said,
36:58
no abortion, he said, and as a this was his take as
37:01
a Republican. As you know, the Republican super duper majority copyright Dave.
37:06
Now we have to get beyond that and realize that that's the common denominator in
37:12
all It's not so. I thought it was a little more Trump. It's
37:15
not. It's not just Trump your party, Dave. The Republican Party has
37:17
been running on it for a year are well, But they've banned it in
37:23
West Virginia. It's a the exceptions don't exist in reality. There are no
37:29
exceptions that actually take place in reality. It's a complete ban in West Virginia.
37:32
Now, even in Florida, they had a debate over whether it's a
37:36
six week ban or a ten week ban. It's a zero week ban.
37:39
In West Virginia. Women have absolutely no right to choose. Uh. It's
37:45
not a decision left between them and their doctor. It was a decision that
37:47
was made for them by really a bunch of old white guys in the legislature.
37:52
I want to go to Ohio just for a moment, and we got
37:55
some other things I want to get into as well. At Ohio, voters
37:59
Mike overwhelming the past a constitutional amendment that keeps abortion legal up to twenty three
38:01
weeks for pregnancy. We talked about that, but you can now smoke your
38:07
weed in Ohio. Ohio becomes the twenty fourth state to legalize recreational marijuana.
38:12
That vote fifty seven to forty three percent. Interesting fact, the referendum on
38:16
abortion one outright in eighteen counties that Trump carried in twenty twenty. And I
38:22
keep kind of going back to the abortion thing. But your thought on the
38:25
recreational marijuana, I think I would say that Ohio voters spoke loudly on the
38:30
side of freedom yesterday, freedom to choose and freedom for adults to make decisions
38:37
for themselves. I'd say freedom won in Ohio. Now to Virginia the Democrats.
38:43
Virginia, the Democrats flipped the House and kept control of the state Senate.
38:46
Mainly according to people, but I was reading some papers and some whatnot
38:53
from Virginia this morning, mainly because of abortion rights. I would say that
38:59
has a lot to do with I think that the Republicans have gone way too
39:01
far. They're the proverbial dog that catches the car. They've been running on
39:07
this for years, and then you know, after President Trump was able to
39:10
pack the courts and an overturn row and in many states so they've they've passed
39:17
the Republicans have passed outright bands and other states where they were attempting to pass
39:23
out right bands the voters. When the voters had a chance to speak up,
39:27
they spoke up, and they spoke loudly. And I think really the
39:30
last election in Virginia was an anomaly when Republicans briefly took back the House of
39:37
Delegates. I think Virginia is trending more and more democratic. I think people
39:42
like the results that they had back when they had the democratic governor with the
39:45
Democratic legislature. They actually did some very good things in Virginia, and now
39:51
you have a really good safeguard against some of the radical policies of their Republican
39:55
governor Texas. Please ask mister Pushkin if it's possible to get an abortion and
40:00
referendum on the ballot without going through the legislature. I don't think that's possible.
40:04
It has to go through the legislature. But I'm we're going to draft
40:07
one, and we think that the people should have a right to vote on
40:08
it that How can you argue against that? Giving people the right to speak
40:15
up and make these determinations for themselves. It should be on the ballot.
40:20
Let's put it on the ballot. And I challenged my Republican colleagues in the
40:22
legislature to simply let the people decide. What's wrong with that? So America
40:28
Tech, says Governor basheer One, because of the great job he's done with
40:30
being there during the disasters. Mike, you said that interesting how the other
40:35
top officers went Republican, says a Text. Well, it's I mean they
40:38
have there's a Republican supermajority in Kentucky. Kentucky as the state. I said
40:44
before, it brought you Rand Paul, it brought you Thomas Massey. It's
40:47
brought you, Mitch McConnell. It's a pretty Republican state. The fact that
40:52
Andy Bsheer won Governor Basheer won and won by such a comfortable margin as really
40:58
it speaks to the type of job that he does. And he's not a
41:00
real political guy. If you can have a non political politician political politician,
41:06
that's Andy Basheer. He just gets the job done, and that says you
41:08
know what gives That tells me what we can do in West Virginia as well.
41:13
Yes, we have a super majority in both houses of the legislature.
41:17
We don't have any officeholders in the Board of Public Works. But we get
41:21
the right person for the job and people who someone that people can trust and
41:24
know we'll do a good job, then we can win some of these state
41:29
wide races as well. I think that that election last night could bode well
41:34
for my friend Mayor Williams from Huntington who's running for governor, and he could
41:37
also bode well for Senator Mansion if he chooses to run for reelection. Tech
41:40
says for Pushkin, please, I agree with the woman's right to control their
41:45
own healthcare. However, I can't understand abortion, and we're the rights of
41:49
the child. Explain, Please help me as a man understand, says a
41:52
Texter. Well, I mean that for fifty years women have had a right
41:58
to choose in this country, and generally people don't like when you take rights
42:01
away from them. And that's what you're seeing now. It was a hypothetical
42:06
for years when you had Roe protecting reproductive rights for years, and then the
42:10
Trump courts took that away, and now it's no longer a hypothetical. We're
42:15
talking about rights being taken away. And you know what I've heard in politics
42:20
I think might have been Senator Bird said, people will forget what you did
42:23
for him, but they'll never forget what you took away. And this Supreme
42:28
Court and the Republican legislatures across the country and especially in West Virginia have taken
42:32
rights away from women Texas. The Dobbs decision woke up the slumbering majority.
42:37
It may just revive the Democratic Party. I doubt that was the intent of
42:40
Trump, McConnell, etc. When they stole two Supreme Court seats. I
42:45
agree, Tick says, don't overlook the Loudon County Virginia school board election.
42:50
Democrats kept a majority because people hate book bands and attacks on LGBTQ lives with
42:55
TikTok Heritage Foundation, et cetera, et cetera. They are a threat to
43:01
democracy. Talking about young and youngin and some of the others there, I
43:05
think people are generally good and want to stand up for basic human rights and
43:09
generally push back against extreme policies. You know, for years the Democrats have
43:15
been have let we've let ourselves be defined by Republicans as being too extreme and
43:20
out of step with with with with regular folks here in America. And I
43:23
say nothing is further from the truth. It's the Republican policies that are now
43:29
being seen is so extreme. When you see complete absolute bans on abortion or
43:34
or or book banning. Most people are not for censorship or or attacking people
43:39
simply because of who they are, what they look like, or how they
43:42
pray. Texas Pushkin's line, why don't you call him out on it?
43:45
Don't let him get away with it. In West Virginia, you can still
43:47
get an abortion to say the life of a mother, or in cases of
43:51
rape and insects, yes you cannot. It's that the exceptions are in paper,
43:54
but they don't exist in reality, I was there when the law was
43:58
written. If they don't exist, Tech says, women have no right to
44:01
choose to killing in us a baby, and I'm proud to be on the
44:04
right side of that moral issue. We will all be judged by our creator
44:07
one day. Pushkin can't speak the rights of the baby because it harms his
44:12
argument. He avoids a question. I think that women have a right to
44:15
make the decision early in a pregnancy. They have that right to make the
44:19
decision, but with their healthcare professional and who should not be part of the
44:22
equation politicians that should not be making decisions those types of personal decisions for people.
44:29
Tech says, don't congratulate Ohioans yet on getting to freely consume cannabis.
44:32
Republicans will try their best to screw themselves out of tax money and to show
44:37
others what voting means to Republicans. You know you brought up earlier when you
44:42
were talking to Delegate Young about PIA. So what is the solution? Well,
44:46
Ohio might have found a possible solution. All right, Well, you're
44:50
going to have some extra tax dollars coming in there, which as they have
44:52
allowed adults to make that determination for themselves and legalize cannabis for adult use.
44:59
That would be way to find a permanent funding stream for PIA so you don't
45:02
have to keep raising it and putting the premium increases on the backs of our
45:07
state workers who the governor promised he would not raise their premiums and he broke
45:12
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Court dot net because what you don't know can hurt you. Text says I'm
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with Pushkin. Old men who ain't got a dog in the hunt should not
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be making reproductive decisions for young women. No uterus, no vote, says
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a Texter. Let's talk about pea or you did a little bit there.
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As I mentioned earlier, there's been these hearings across the state of West Virginia.
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They were in Wheeling Monday night, in Martinsburg last night, Tomorrow night,
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Morgantown Monday. Here in Charleston Old Field Tuesday, and virtual hearing next
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Wednesay. Where's the one in Charleston Gonna be hell at the Culture Center Theater
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on the Appital Complex. Unfortunately they scheduled it while the Legislature will be in
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Wheeling for interims. And I always make it a point to attend those hearings,
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even as public hearings, even in years where there are no premium increases
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like in the past several years. But this year I believe it'll be much
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I believe it'll be well attended because there's quite a substantial premium increase on our
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on our public employees this year. And this is just you know, a
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couple of short years after the governor said in a press conference he would absolutely
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there would absolutely be no premium increases on his watch. He even said that
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a meteor would have to strike the Earth in order for him to sign a
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bill raising premiums on our on our state workers. Well, I missed it
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when the media hit because he signed it. The legislature pushed it and he
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signed it. Now people are starting to see they're getting paid less. And
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now the legislature did this to add insult to injury. The very same week
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that they voted to increase health costs on state workers, they voted to give
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themselves a significant pay raise. So they took money away from state workers and
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gave it to themselves. They're saying of arrogance. What a lot of the
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legislators are saying is that the current plan simply is not sustainable because of a
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lack of prior and I will answer the question, because of a lack of
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priorities, and they don't fund it. That's why, because you have to
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make tough decisions when you're in when you're in a position of power, and
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sometimes you have to you have to create permanent funding streams for something that's important,
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like taking care of the people who take care of us. You know,
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when you go into a job in the public sector, often you're told,
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you know what, the pay is not great. And you know why
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you're told that, Dave, because the pay is not great, but the
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benefits always made up for it. Now they don't. The benefits are not
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that great and the pay is not that great, And then we wonder why
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we have a shortage of teachers in this state. We wonder why we can't
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find people to work for child protective services taking care of the most vulnerable members
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of our society. We wonder why we can't find actional officers at our prisons.
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It's because we continue to treat them like this and instead of making tough
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decisions and creating a permanent funding stroom for Peia like Ohio might have done yesterday
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when the people spoke up and leed adults to legally purchased cannabis, that could
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be sales tax that could go to something like PIA. Right now, we
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charged for severance tax on natural gas. It's less than the sales tax that
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we charge people when they go buy clothes. It could be a slight increase
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of that. The consumer would never feel it, and you could take care
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of the people who take care of us our state work. We got a
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text here about Department Highways. It's something that you have talked about on the
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show in the past. Tell mister Pushkin. I called the DH to talk
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to an engineer that I know and found that he had left the Department of
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Highways. There won't be a Department of Highways soon. Your Texter is absolutely
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correct. A lot of engineers are leaving there in droves because of the mismanagement
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and the corruption at the top at the Department of Transportation, and we're hearing
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more and more about it each week. All right, So Texas for Pushkin,
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at what stage of pregnancy do you feel abortion should be banned? I
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feel that I'm not a medical professional. I'm an elected official, and I'd
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like for us to stay out of it and allow that to be a decision
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between a woman and her doctor, because there's a lot of other things that
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can go into It's not an easy decision that people make, but sometimes things
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go wrong in the pregnancy, and that should be a personal decision that's left
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between the woman and her doctor. Tex says our country was founded on Christian
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values and joyce sodom, I mean America. Why at last, tick talk
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TikTok. According into a texture, those who think abortions the sin should read
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numbers five eleven thirty one. According to a text or final text, it
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takes two people to make a baby. Why don't men have a saying abortion?
51:43
I have a friend who was with a woman for years. She just
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went and got an abortion. Didn't tell him about it till it was too
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late. I think that the parents should have a say so, I said,
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who shouldn't have a say? So? Are are politicians? All right?
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What's on your agenda? What are you looking at it? You got
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interims next week? What do you get? I would love to be here
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for the public hearing. I would urge people to attend the public hearing.
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I believe the sign up for the speakers is at five o'clock. The public
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hearing starts at six and that's at the Culture Center theater next month on the
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Beautiful Capital Complex on the east end of Charleston. And that's next Monday at
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six o'clock. Is the here? All right? Mike ols A pleasure,
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Thank you so much. Thanks for having me on. Delegate Kaylee Young,
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I appreciate hering Doctor Casey Sachs as well. Coming up on the show tomorrow,
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we talk about some Veterans Day activities going on the air. Plus Fred
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Pursinger, mister high school Sports, is going to join us with a little
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preview of high school fotball playoffs coming up this weekend on Hoppy. Coming up,
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I think he's got Brad mclahanny on the show today also former Charles Mayor
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Danny Jones will be on Hoppy today as well. I will see you tomorrow,
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till next time, Till tomorrow, have fun. Love somebody at six
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