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01/24/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dawn Miller, Mayor Glenn Elliot, Morgan Switzer, Jeff Jenkins · The Dave Allen Show

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on the show, We Are Loaded up. So when we're one day away
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from the Red's caravan coming to the Condoseum of Convention Center, we're going to
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talk about that a little bit later on. I think Jeff Jenkins, possibly
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Dale Cooper is going to join us and talk about that. Your chance to
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hang out with the Reds free of charge at the Condalseum of Convention Center tomorrow
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evening. So we're going to have Morgan Switzer stopping by. She's a candidate
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for prosecuting an attorney in Kanawha County, as well as Glenn Elliott. Glenn
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Elliott is the current mayor of the city of Wheeling, but he's also going
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to be running as a Democrat for US Senate, so we're going to talk
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to him a little bit later on. Plus, your calls and text are
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welcome. I want to get to a program though, that's doing some great
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stuff right now in West Virginia. It's the Read Aloud West Virginia program.
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Don Miller is the executive director of Read a Loud West Virginia and she joins
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us now. Don, good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning,
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Dave, thank you for being here today. Thanks for having me.
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You and I before the show were waxing poetically and reminiscing about the days of
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newspapers, because your background is newspaper. I mean, it's one of the
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things I'm sure you've done in your life, probably done several things. And
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I remember you from your newspaper days, and you were happy to see that
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I actually have a copy of the newspaper here. That's right, bless you.
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I'm the one. I'm the one that has a copy of it.
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I gotta have that newspaper. I'm lost to account without it. So exactly
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what is Read Aloud West Virginia talk about the program as a whole? Oh
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thanks, Dave. Read Aloud West Virginia is a homegrown West Virginia organization created
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right here in Kanawan County about thirty five or so years ago that has since
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spread around the state and it exists to motivate children to read for fun.
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So we don't teach anybody to read, but we very much support the work
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of teachers and parents and people who are teaching their kids to read, and
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we motivate kids to read for pleasure. And I can tell you more about
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why that's so important. Well, tell us why is that iportant? So
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when kids read on their own time for fun. They get better at it.
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They practice the lessons that they're taught in school, they become they develop
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that habit, they build vocabulary. They also acquire the background knowledge and vocabulary
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they need in order to advance. I was at a conference just in November
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where they were talking about reading comprehension and the thousands of words a child needs
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to learn every year, and you can't do that many vocabulary lessons. It
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turns out the way we actually gain vocabulary to be a successful reader is by
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reading. We move from things that become easy to us into harder texts and
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chase our own curiosity and what we're interested in. And once the child learns
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to decode makes sense, then they read on their own. They take off.
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They'll do that if the books are magnetic. If you give them books
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they want, they're interested in, and reading is abundant and fun and celebrated,
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and that's what we do. We turn reading into fun, and that's
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what it's any time with kids, I guess I mean for adults as well.
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If you make it fun, they're more likely to be interested. Don
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in the era of modern technology and devices of all sorts and actually I was
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just reading over the weekend an article about parents or caregivers reading to kids and
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how and how important that is. And then the kids will, as you
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said, we'll kind of take off and just kind of go on their own.
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There's really not an age that's too young to read to. Is that
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Is that a fair assessment? You're exactly right. It doesn't necessarily seem logical
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to read to a baby, but actually all the talking that you do with
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your baby, talking, rhyming words, singing, all of that builds vocabulary,
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listening vocabulary. And then when you read books to children, even before
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they can completely follow the story themselves, when we read to those children,
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they're learning words, they're learning their language, they're learning that habit. They
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are discovering that reading and spending time with books is something that their people do.
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And there's actually a pediatrician in Cincinnati. His name's doctor John S.
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Hutton. He's fascinating and he's done some interesting functional MRIs scans of preschoolers while
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you read to them, and he is beginning to document in brain science.
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He and others what parents and grandparents and teachers have said for years that when
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the children get to school, they can tell which children have been read to
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since they were babies. They are better able, they're more ready to pick
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up reading skills in school. Their brains are prepared for it. And doctor
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Hutton and some others are actually documenting that in brain science. I mean it's
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and it is amazing that again in this era of devices and so on and
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so forth, and parents sometimes I'm not a parent, let me just put
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both that out there. But sometimes they put a device in the kid's hands,
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but there's nothing like old fashioned reading. And maybe they're reading on the
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devices, you know, I mean, as long as they're reading, I
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doing right now. Tell us about this promotions. Tell us what you're doing.
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Thank you. So we have created this little baby shirt. It's got
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snaps on the bottom. It's called a onesie, and it's we're calling it
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the book baby shirt, and it's got the birth year on it, twenty
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twenty four, and we're hoping that parents, grandparents, friends, relatives will
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see this as a good gift item. You can order it online and for
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everyone we sell read Aloud gets five dollars. And what I love about it
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is that it puts that message reminding a gentle reminder to read to the baby.
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It puts the message right on the baby's belly, so it's like it's
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like a T shirt for the baby, except it's the kind that snaps on
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the bottom, sometimes called a onesie. And we launched it just this week
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and we're hoping people give it away as a present, use it to celebrate
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the new reader in the family, and help Read Aloud with its literacy programs
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around the state at the same time. And where can you get these programs?
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Are there these onesies? I should say? If you go to our
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website Read Aloud wv dot org, there's a big picture of this shirt and
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you click on that and it'll take you to the site where you can order
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it online. It ships directly to you. Kind of buy in with these
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sorts of programs do you find with our schools in West Virginia? Great question,
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very good buy in from many many schools are We have a strong presence
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in about thirty counties right now, and then an additional presence in forty six
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counties. Not all schools choose to work with Read Aloud. They might have
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their own volunteer readers lined up and they don't really feel a need to.
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The ones who do work with us see great benefits. We put volunteer readers
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in their classrooms, work with them to recruit their parents, their business partners,
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and then that qualifies them to ask us for book distributions. And having
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books in your home. Owning books of your own is very motivating. Choosing
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your books what you want to read is motivating. And in some of our
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projects, our most involved projects, we can actually trace some reading score improvement.
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I can't show that in every school we're in, but in some of
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our are very involved book distribution programs, we can show how we're helping to
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prevent summer learning laws. It's good stuff you're doing. I mean, it
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really really is. I'm a big but people listen to the show day and
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they think there's no way this guy reads anything. I mean, but no,
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I mean, I've been a reader since I was a kid. I
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don't I wasn't the kid that necessarily sit down and read the classics all the
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time. But you give me, you know, something sports related or even
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political as a kid. And it was like the Alex P. Keaton of
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you'll get that reference. I'm sure, But I mean, at least,
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as a teacher told me one time, at least they're reading. They're reading
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something. So give us the information where people can learn more about the program,
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about what you've got going on, your promotions, good stuff, tell
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us about it. Great, Thank you. So the website is read Aloud
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WV dot org and that's where you can find the onesie. It's twenty four
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to ninety nine. It will ship directly to you. And if a school
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wants to sign up, you can also find sign up information there. You
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can reach us by phone at three oh four three four or five five two
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one two. And I don't know if it's worth mentioning. We still have
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NIP credits left. If people want a tax credit and they want to make
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a donation, Okay, can we still have those? You can call that
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number three oh four three four five five two one two and we can set
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you up all right. Well, Don, I appreciate you taking time out
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of your schedule to be here. So it's like a very very worthwhile program.
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I'm all about it. Don Miller's the executive direct I've read a loud
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start at eight thirty this morning. I'm going to try to get to Jeff
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Capitol around this so called Library Obscenity Bill, and I got my opinions on
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that. I'm going to breathe in deeply here and move on, but I'm
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going to talk to Jeff about that coming up a little bit later on.
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Tex says, before you read to your kids, you better ask the Republican
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legislature what's permitted. They are bent on thought and viewpoint control. They want
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to tell you what your kids can read. Get this, Republicans. I
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mayor of the city of Wheeling. Now he wants to be the next US
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Senator from West Virginia, spot currently held by Senator Joe Manchin, who's opting
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not to seek reelection. Talking about Mayor Glenn Elliott, and he joins us,
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Now, Mayor, good morning, how are you. I am doing
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just fine. Good morning, Dave. How you doing. I'm doing fine.
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Thank you for being here. Before we get to your run for Senate.
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For those who may not know about you, give us the bio on
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Glen Elliot. Not the political figure, We'll get to that later, but
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the person Glenn Elliott. Who are you? Well? You know I get
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that question a lot. Born and raised in Wheeling, graduated high school in
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nineteen ninety and went to college in Philadelphia. My first job out of college,
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which was actually working for Senator Byrd in his DC office as a legislative
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assistant. I worked for him for five years, went to law school,
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did the big law firm thing for about seven years. I kind of got
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burnt out, moved back home to Wheeling in two thousand and eight, and
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have been here ever since. I bought an old building in downtown that was
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vacant at the time, a sixth story building that I'd gotten for less than
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what most single family homes go for, you know, because it needed a
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lot of work. I spent a lot of time working on that, moved
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into it, I got the first floor rented out, and you know,
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then got married. I have a beautiful son, a beautiful wife. I've
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been there for the last seven and a half years here in Wheeling, and
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you know, I'm term loved and now so my final term is this year.
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My term expires on June thirtieth. Tell us about your time as mayor
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of Wheeling. What were some accomplishments that you were particularly proud of, and
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Wheeling, like a lot of cities in West Virginia, has has its struggles,
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but a lot of positive things going on there. So just talk about
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your time as mayor Wheeling. Thanks, Yeah, it is. You know,
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when I took office, Wheeling was starting to show a little bit of
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signs of progress. You know, our downtown was always sort of our crown
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jewel really for sixty or seventy mile radius up here in the in the Upper
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High Valley, folks would come to downtown Wheeling on the weekends and evenings.
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And then, you know, by the nineteen nineties early two thousands, that
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had kind of mostly dried up. The retail had moved away to regional malls,
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a lot of these storefronts had shut down. It was downtown was basically
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just a couple of banks and law firms, and it really lost its vibrancy.
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So I kind of ran on an idea to really reinvigorate our downtown.
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I also made parks and playgrounds a priority. Our playgrounds across the city had
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been ignored for years. We made that something we thought was very important,
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you know, really pushed just you know, thinking about new ways to make
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Wheeling look to the future. There's been more public and private investment in and
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around our downtown in the last eight years than in the prior thirty or almost
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forty. I think for the first time you're seeing the private sector really take
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note of what's going on. I'll be working with the state also on a
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major streetscape project to completely reshape the way downtown looks and fields and works for
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people. And you know, I don't know if you've been here lately or
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you know, if you have reference points, But in the last couple of
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years you're starting to see a lot of this product progress. Really take route.
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Talking with the mayor of Wheeling, Glenn Elliott, who is also a
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All right, Mayor, So with all that being said, why do
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you now want to go to Washington? Yeah? You know, I get
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that question a lot too, Dave. Look, this is probably the most
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divided the country's been in my lifetime. I was born, I guess right
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before Watergate. But I really it just seems like we're all we're getting further
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and further apart from each other in the way we don't even really listen to
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it to the other side. The experience I have and the temperament I bring
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to the table, I think would be a pretty good fit. You know,
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I have been there for nearly eight years. You know, we don't
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have the luxury of you know, sitting back and just playing politics and you
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know, trying to you know, play games with other side. You know,
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we got to get the streets fixed, we got to get the roads
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PLoud, we got to you know, get to sewer lines late. You
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have to get stuff done when you're mayor. I mean I've been able to
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work in Wheeling here with Republicans and Democrats and independence to get a lot of
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things done. I'm not someone who is, you know, heavily ideological.
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I certainly have my core beliefs, but at the end of the day,
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you have to be able to get stuff done. I'm not someone who always
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lets the perfect be the enemy the good. You know, We've made some
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compromises to get things sort of over the goalposts, and you know that's something
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I think I bring to the table. Also had the experience, you know,
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in the Senate working for Senator bird back when the Senate folks. It's
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hard to remember this now, but in nineteen ninety nine was the last year
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the federal government actually as the budget. You know, I was working considered
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Birds office and saw the way things work, saw the way he went about
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his job, saw he worked with people from across the ideological spectrum. Really,
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you know, he's he's someone who was furiously independent but also you know,
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a proud Democrat in the history of the traditional or whatever. But you
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know, he wasn't one who who cowed down to President Clinton at the time.
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He was actually very tough on President Clinton, and you know, took
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his job very, very seriously. I think I can bring that temperament to
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the table. I know Westercreams are frustrated with Washington right now, but you
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know, I certainly think that I have a record of being able to work
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across ideological lines and also really just be able to get stuff done and listen
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to people. I said, I forget what shows on last week. People
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asked me, you know, I mean if I've learned things as mayor,
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and and the answer is yes. I went in this office thinking had all
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the answers. And then you know, as you experienced things and reality changes
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your perception of what the actual problem is. You know, you have to
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be willing to, you know, let go of those things you I sort
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of carried into office and you know, learn on the go. So we've
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dealt with some issues here. You know that I thought I had the answers
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that we've learned, and we've adjusted, and we've I've been able to really
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to push the needle forward here in Wheeling, and I certainly think, you
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know, if you give me the opportunity, if voters give me the opportunity
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to represent West Virginia in Washington, I'll do everything I can to break through
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some of the part as the nonsense we're seeing right now, it brings some
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common sense in the equator. Talking again with the mayor of Wheeling, Glenn
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Elliot, who's a candidate for US Senate Mayor, I'm going to state the
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obvious here. As you know, West Virginia is a deeply red state.
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This is a state that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in both twenty sixteen and
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twenty twenty. Nothing to indicate that's not going to be the case again.
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In such a red state, how do you go about convincing other voters to
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pull that lever, push that button for Glenn Elliot? Because I would think
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that you're going to have you're going to have to have somewhat of a buy
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in from at least some Republicans or some independence in order to win. How
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do you do that, Well, there's no doubt you don't have to be
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a you know, highly paid polster to realize that the Democratic brand in the
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state of Western Union is at a low point. We can get into reasons
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as to why that is the case, but at the end of the day,
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you know, we have to break through. Democrats up and down the
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ballot have to kind of regain the voters trust. Uh. We've left the
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other side define us, you know, as obsessed with these a couple issues
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on the far left of the spectrum, and we forgot about what Democrats actually
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brought to the equation. You know, Democrats brought us social Security, they've
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brought us Medicare, they brought us affordable health care, They've brought us union's
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ability to collectively bargain. You know, Democrats have a really proud history,
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but they've let the other side define them in a way that really doesn't,
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uh, you know, reflect the entirety of the party and what it stands
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for. At the end of the day, Democrats need to be for the
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underdog, and you know, we have to talk to people. We have
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to meet them in the place and talk to people, and I'm gonna be
23:00
everything you can. I will visit all fifty five counties. I think if
23:03
people actually get to listen to me and talk to me, they'll realize I'm
23:06
not someone running to be, you know, an ideological, you know,
23:08
left wing person. I'm someone who is a pragmatic Democrat who knows how to
23:14
get things done. I've worked with Republicans by entire life, especially the last
23:17
eight years as mayor, and look, but it's going to be a challenge.
23:19
I'm not suggesting it's easy, but I think my experience as mayor is
23:23
one that I'm definitely going to showcase and highlight. And I think, you
23:26
know, this is the time. Mayors are like the the one group of
23:30
elected officials who don't have the luxury of getting into these political battles because you
23:34
have to just get stuff done Someday at the end of the day, if
23:37
you don't deliver results, you can't even go to the grocery store in your
23:41
hometown because someone's going to be on you. So you have to get stuff
23:44
done. I know how to get stuff done, and I'll do everything I
23:47
can and get that message out. I recognize it. It's going to be
23:48
a challenge and I'm probably going to meet a lot of folks who are very
23:52
skeptic when they see a d by my name. Well, and what happens.
23:55
And I've talked about this on the show a lot, Mayre, and
23:56
I'm sure that you've heard this before, is that politics used to be local.
24:00
That's what they used to say, All politics are local. Well,
24:03
now we've kind of gone to the opposite direction, where all politics is national.
24:07
And I have used this example. And I'm not picking on the people
24:11
of Wetzel County. It's just because I like the way Wetzel sounds. I've
24:14
said this on the air before. If you could run for assessor in Wetzel
24:17
County, somebody is going to try to tie you to Trump, or try
24:19
to tie you to Biden, Pelosi, Schumer or so on and so forth.
24:25
Your opponents and others in the general. You know, whether you're going
24:29
to face off against Governor Justice or a congressman money, they are going to
24:33
say just that, Mayor, a vote for Elliott is a vote for Biden
24:36
or Kamala Harris or fill in name here. So I'm presuming you are prepared
24:40
for that. Well, I am prepared. We're just to be frank,
24:42
I have a primary to worry about before I wor out in general election,
24:45
and of course I'm going to worry about that primary Firsus and foremost. But
24:48
you know, I've gone back and watched a while preparing for this run.
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I went back on with that. I watched all the prior debates of you
24:56
know, a statewide office in West Virginia going back into fifteenth of years.
25:00
And you know, look, even when sentator and mansion, right, I
25:03
think it was in the twenty eighteen debate. I think the word Hillary Clinton
25:06
was mentioned thirty eight times in that debate or something. So yes, I
25:08
know that. That's good. I'm going to be called this. I'm going
25:11
to be called that if I do, assuming I make it to the general
25:14
election, I will be labeled all these things. But for far too long
25:18
Democrats have let the other side label us, and we haven't really fought back.
25:21
Look, you know, we stand for the underdog. We stand for
25:23
a lot of things that are important to West Virginians. What's more important for
25:26
I mean, we're one of the oldest states in the country you know what's
25:33
more important to people than socialcurity and medicare. And if we don't get the
25:36
budget under some control in Washington, those programs are not going to be sustainable
25:41
at current benefit levels. You know, we have to get through this,
25:44
like these things matter to West Virginians. I recognize we're going to are They're
25:48
going to try to label me as this or that or whatever. But at
25:51
the end of the day, if if we can bring the issues back to
25:53
the conversation, back to the issues that really do matter in people's hearts and
25:57
souls and pocketbooks, you know, I think that I think Democrats would be
26:02
wise to kind of you know, I not let I not let Republicans kind
26:07
of drag them into these fights on their turf. They need to talk about
26:10
issues on their own turf. And there's so many different ways the Democratic Party
26:14
has made them. Lives of people in the Western You're better. It's just
26:17
time for us to actually tell that story and not be sort of labeled otherwise.
26:21
Mayor Glenn Elliott of Wheeling, candidate for US SENNA, and I do
26:25
apologize. I forgot. Yeah, you do have a primary opponent, so
26:26
you're going to be focused on that before you focus on a battle with either
26:30
Jim Justice or Alex Moody more than likely, Where can people learn more about
26:33
your campaign? I then go to my website. It's www dot Elliott for
26:37
WV dot com. Two's and two t's in Elliott. So but I think
26:41
you either want to still get there, but yeah, go there. You
26:45
know, I'm still building out the website, but it's got a lot of
26:48
background information on me. There'll be more information coming, and you know,
26:51
I'm looking forward to a very spirited campaign, you know, spread my story
26:53
across all fifty five counties and it's going to be interesting. All right,
26:57
merrill, have you on again soon. I appreciate you being here. Best
27:00
of luck in the campaign. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot, Dave,
27:03
thank you very much. Take care. Mayor Glen Elliott of the City
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have a problem with trying to keep pornographic books with illustrations out of school libraries,
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not public libraries, not bookstores, not online. That tells you all
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Morgan Schwitzer here in a couple of moments. Text says a funny how we're
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still dealing with government overreach and freedom of expression. Excuse me, sir,
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five zero zero eight candidate for Prosecuting Attorney Kendo County, Morgan Switzer's with us.
33:01
How are you. I'm good, Dave, how are you? I'm
33:04
doing fine, Welcome to the show. Hey, thanks, I'm happy to
33:06
be back. Give us the bio in Morgan Switzer. So right now,
33:09
I actually work for Governor Jim Justice. I work for the Department of Homeland
33:13
Security for a year, and I was a prosecutor for three years. I
33:16
did a brief sent in family law. I still love it, but I
33:20
got called to be a prosecutor and was doing that and want to go back.
33:24
What's gon I have? This could be one naxt questions, Why do
33:27
you want to be a prosecutor? You know, I think some people were
33:30
just lucky enough to know what they were born to do. I was one
33:32
of those people. I decided back in high school that I wanted to do
33:36
that. Had interned since late teenage years. I was an intern at the
33:39
Kennell County Prosecutor's office, and I actually went to law school to be a
33:45
prosecutor, but not only a prosecutor, a Kannall County prosecutor. So you
33:49
know, to me, it feels like working to go home running to go
33:52
home. That's where I want to be. But what is it though about
33:55
being a prosecutor that appealed to you at even a young age. You know
34:00
it's going to sound kind of cheesy, but helping people is the reason that
34:04
I do it. You know, magistrate court is a lot of times where
34:07
criminals start their criminal career, and a lot of people kind of look down
34:13
on magistra court. I spent so much time in magistry court because I loved
34:16
it. That's where you see your domestic crimes, your animal cruelty crimes for
34:20
the most part, your petty thefts, and if you have instincts, if
34:23
you're really paying attention, that's where you see people's red flags. And you
34:28
know, I'll mentioned pretty briefly, proactive prosecution is possible. A lot of
34:34
times prosecutors will get a file and we're seeing the bad things after they happen.
34:37
But it's possible to proactively prosecute crimes, and specifically domestic violence crimes.
34:43
You know, a lot of times, if you read a file, you
34:45
see a reoccurring name, your red flag should be up and we can meaningfully
34:49
interfere. The most obvious statement in the in the world, I guess is
34:53
about is what I'm about to say, it's a drugs or the biggest problems
34:57
in all facets of life within the criminal GiB A system. If elected,
35:00
what do you plan to do as prosecuting an attorney? You know, as
35:05
simple as it sounds, pay attention. If you pay attention to the types
35:08
of crimes that you're getting, you start to see the same players, you
35:10
start to see the same names. And again you have to be aggressive.
35:14
You have to be willing to be proactive about it and really kind of get
35:19
your feet on the ground and do the work that can't be done at a
35:22
computer nine to five. You know, you have to really get involved.
35:24
And that's something that I learned. You know, you being a prosecutor isn't
35:29
just getting a file and taking it to court. It's paying attention to who
35:32
the players are, paying attention to names, connections, you know, really
35:37
using the law in your favor, using the facts in your favor, and
35:40
really being proactive about it. That word is really important to me during this
35:44
election. Proactive prosecution is possible, But davia Ile chilling five any life is
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baseball team is the Charleston dirty Birds. I was writing more than some of
36:07
your statements online and you said your words that you don't think domestic violence and
36:12
animal cruelty cases are being prosecuted well, efficiently, and effectively. What makes
36:16
you say that, Well, I'll tell you. So. There is a
36:21
theory of prosecution, for lack of a better way to explain it, called
36:25
evidence based prosecution. A lot of people refer to that as victimless prosecution,
36:30
which is sort of true, but not really. So that is in reference
36:32
to domestic violence. A lot of time, domestic violence prosecution is not victim
36:37
friendly. So you know, we're asking somebody to testify against somebody that they
36:43
love, and that can be really difficult. So as a prosecutor, you
36:45
have to be able to effectively communicate with the victims in a way that doesn't
36:51
make them feel like they're on the defensive or they're feel like they're in trouble.
36:54
So you know, using evidence based prosecution and not so heavily rely on
37:00
the victim can more effectively prosecute crimes of domestic violence. You know, just
37:05
because a victim doesn't show up to court, what does that mean. Does
37:07
that mean you outright dismiss the case or does that mean, hey, my
37:09
red flag should go up. Let's go try to find this person and make
37:14
sure that they're not being threatened or coerce not to appear at court, which
37:17
happens a lot more often than you think when it comes to animal cruelty crimes.
37:22
You know, the people that torture and abuse animals oftentimes go on to
37:27
commit really heinous offenses. So that starts in magistrate court a lot of the
37:30
time. And if you're really paying attention to the names of the people that
37:34
come across your desk and the types of cases that come across your desk,
37:37
you can interfere and you can stop that person from you know, escalating and
37:44
committing really heinous offenses. You also said in a social media post that you
37:50
are the leader that Kanawa Accounting needs. What makes you say that, You
37:53
know, I have a couple of things that I'm really focused on and of
37:57
course one of them is to proactively prosecute cases. But another thing is to
38:00
unify the office and to open the lines of communication with law enforcement. You
38:05
know, that office is not unified right now, that's just the truth.
38:08
And being able to go into an office that's broken and not unified and make
38:14
people excited to do the job again, you know, that's the first thing
38:17
that you have to do. In my opinion, you have to get the
38:20
people there to be excited about what they do. And as a leader of
38:23
an office or a boss in any office, it's not too much to ask
38:27
that your employees feel appreciated and important. You know, we spend more time
38:31
in the office than we do at home, So somebody that's a leader in
38:35
that office should make them feel make people feel like their lives are meaningful,
38:40
that their job is meaningful, and I think it starts there, you know,
38:45
then really opening, like I said, opening the lines of communication with
38:49
law enforcement. If prosecutors are not on call twenty four to seven, especially
38:52
the elected prosecutor, you're not effectively serving the community. And I think that's
38:59
you know, going into a system that's clearly broken is going to be the
39:01
biggest challenge, but also I'm really excited about it because I know that I'm
39:05
passionate enough and aggressive enough to do it. And Morgan, I've seen you
39:10
out at about several different events around the valley of the last couple of months.
39:15
When you're out like that, what do you hear from people and what
39:19
are what are they saying to you that they wanted a prosecutor at cadd County.
39:24
People are tired of crime here. That is the absolute the message that
39:30
I'm getting everywhere I go. You know, we need somebody in that office
39:34
that's aggressive, that's strong, and that can make Kennall County feel safe again.
39:38
I've heard that everywhere I go, and that's something that I hope to
39:42
do. I want to make you feel like you can rely on your prosecutor.
39:45
A lot of people don't even know who the prosecutor is. That's extremely
39:49
important. You know, when's the last time, think about it, when's
39:52
the last time you've seen a prosecutor at a community meeting. When's the last
39:55
time your prosecutor made themselves available to take your questions? Are concerns? You
40:00
know, people don't know that there is a prosecutor on call. Twenty four
40:05
to seven in Kennall County when I worked there. That's how it was.
40:07
I'm not sure how it is anymore. You can always walk in your prosecutor's
40:10
office and talk, and you should be able to talk to your elected officials,
40:15
you know, and talk about what the concerns are. So crime is
40:19
too high here. Crime rates are too high. Prosecutions are not taking place
40:22
the way they should. Trials are not happening fast enough. Cases are sitting
40:27
for years. And I am not being over dramatic there, cases are sitting
40:30
for years. What happens when a case sits for years, Well, memories
40:35
fade, evidence fades, the case is not as strong as it once was.
40:38
And it's really important to take the job seriously and to make people feel
40:44
safe again. Where can people learn more about your campaign? Yeah, it's
40:46
www dot Morgan Switzer dot com. I'm also really active on Facebook and you
40:52
can visit Switzer for Prosecutor. And I recently took up TikTok. It's sort
40:57
of embarrassing because I don't like to record myself, but I love of it.
41:00
So you can go to the TikTok Switzer for Prosecutor, Instagram, Switzer
41:04
for prosecutor and Facebook. Okay, as somebody who I have seen TikTok from
41:07
time to time, somebody will send me one. I'm not on TikTok myself.
41:12
I'm my face is better on radio than it is on video now.
41:15
But but what how does one campaign on TikTok? I mean, just tell
41:20
me about it. So I'm just learning, honestly. But you just I
41:22
think you just talk. Go get a twelve year old and tell them that
41:24
they explained to you how to do it exactly. Yeah, I just talk,
41:28
and I'm just really honest, and you know, I think that it's
41:30
really important for people to not only see my picture online and read my post,
41:35
but to see me talking about what I love to do. Give me
41:37
thirty seconds. Why should somebody vote for Morgan Switzer for prosecuting attorney. I
41:40
am the only choice in the Republican Party. I am the one that has
41:45
no allegiance to any powerful officials. I do not have, you know,
41:51
lawyers in the community or powerful families in the community bank rolling my campaign.
41:54
I am somebody that will go into the office and do what is right all
41:59
the time. I'm gonna make you feel safe again. That's why you should
42:00
let me all right, Morgan, I appreciate you being here. We'll talk
42:04
soon. Thanks a lot, best luck in the campaign, Morgan Switzer again
42:07
a candidate prosecuting attorney here in Kenaw County, eleven minutes away from ten.
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By the way, there's no pornography in school libraries. Pornography is on
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some people blame Trump for January six. We'll take a look. Well,
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okay, that text for some reason just disappeared because the person sent me in
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anti American bunch refuses to all because they want ten million new voters. They
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are traders. You Trump, Paters has a text, need to get your
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facts straight before you run your traps viewing lies. He was asked by Sean
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Hannity at the town hall, You're not going to be a dictator, are
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you. Trump's answer, no, no, No, Other than day one,
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we're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that,
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I'm not a dictator, he did not say from day one. Try
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again, says a texture quick news note. We have a new school board
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member in Kanawa County. She's the wife of the guy who just resigned.
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Her name is Kate White. She replaces her husband, Ryan, who resigned
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to run for a spot on the state's Intermediate Court of Appeals. Sixteen people
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I understand applied to board shows her she'll serve as a board member through the
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first of July. Than whomever is elected, we'll take that spot. Of
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course, she can still run for that. Well, there's actually a story
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posted about that at WCHS network dot com. I'm bringing Jeff Jenkins from the
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newsroom. Jeff, good morning. How are you hey, Dave going Well,
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we're to talk a little baseball here in just a couple moments, but
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before we do that, Hobbies back at the Capital ten oh six with talk
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line from the AARP broadcast that brad as a cover story at w Metronews dot
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comis public hearing at eight thirty this morning on House Bill forty six fifty four,
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which has gotten a lot of chatter here on the text line this morning.
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That bill could open public and school libraries to fevity charges for displaying so
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called obscene material. What happened during the hearing last hour, Well, it
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was a hearing that lasted about an hour and there were a lot of speakers.
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There's speakers on both sides. There are more speakers against it than in
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favor of it, and you know the bill. What the bill does is
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it removes public library, school libraries, museums from the exemption list. So
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there was there is a in code there are certain things that are exempt from
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showing certain kind of materials. And Brandon Steele, who's introduced this bill before
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but it's never really gotten on an agenda until this year, says that he's
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been asked by people in his district who say that that people are taking advantage
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of the exemption. You know, they're putting things that miners are seeing,
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young people are seeing that that they shouldn't be seeing. I mean, this
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is, according to him, that some may consider obscene things. And so
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it's time to remove these who are beginning a free pass I showing these things,
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remove them from from the exemption list, and so they would be liable
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if some things are found to be in violation. So you're saying that at
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the Capitol doing the public here, and there were more people that spoke against
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it than for it. Yeah, against the Let me just use you the
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case. Yeah public here. Well, and I know that the libraries have
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been really involved. They're concerned, they're concerned about liability and sure, yeah,
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yeah, I mean absolutely, and I know the things are concerned about.
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I mean, I completely understand that. We'll get into that a little
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bit later. All right, let's talk a little baseball. As I said,
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hobby is gonna be the capital ten o six. We got the Reds
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caravan coming to town tomorrow. Are even talking about five thirty Seven's in the
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same place it was last year and our listeners, of course, we are
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the red Station and have been for fifty years, maybe minus a few years
48:07
in or there. But you know, this is the place where you can
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listen to the Reds. But our listeners always turn out for this and it
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was held in them all for years. Last year it was moved to the
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Coliseum and Convention Center just up on the second level. And this is a
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chance to meet some young stars. You can also meet Andrew Abbott, who
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was a rookie pitcher for the Reds last year. Had a great year until
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he just kind of tailed off at the end just because it got tired.
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But he's a bright young star for the Reds. You have three three players
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that are prospects that are really good. Cam Collier who is a third baseman,
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Reese Hines, who is an outfielder in South Stewart also, and so
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those guys will be here, and also Sam Grossman, who is an assistant
48:52
general manager with the Reds. So what they'll do, they'll come, they'll
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they'll be kind of interviewed to the crowd and then they'll sit down and sign
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autographs and so fans go through and the REDSI very accommodating, and what we
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have been able to do over the years is we kind of get in the
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autograph line, so to speak, at the end of the line. So
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when the autographs start, then we kind of shuttle these guys in and we
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interview them on the air as they're signing autographs, so we don't disrupt that,
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you know, because that's one of the reasons why they're there. So
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we'll be able to talk to them tomorrow night. And so we go in
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there at six. They get there at five thirty, so it takes a
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little while to get their interviews and do so by six o'clock they'll probably be
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close to start to sign autographs and that's when we can start interviewing. And
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this is I mean, I went to this event years ago, long before
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I ever worked here. I went as a Reds fan over to the Town
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Center when it was over there, And last year was my first year.
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Coop and I did the live broadcast last year and that was the first time
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I've had an opportunity, you know, to be there on that end of
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it, and I love it because again it's an opportunity, free charge.
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Just come out and get your stuff signed and talk to these p And I'm
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looking for to Benzinger being there too. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about
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Todd Benziger. Yeah, yeah, former First Basement nineteen ninety World Series caught
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the final out of the nineteen ninety World Series, Todd Benziger did against the
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A's as the Reds won the World Series and swept the A's in four games.
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So yeah, to be kind of neat. Yeah, it's always neat
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to talk to these guys too. You know. Over the years, we've
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talked to you know, guys that were just up and coming in the say
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like Tucker Barnhardt who became a Red Red's gold glove catcher, Uh you know,
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uh Sinzel, you know, who's now no longer with the Reds,
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but you know he Cozart came down the logan when we did a couple of
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years Cozart was here, all those young guys coming up through the system.
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So it's really cool. And we'll be on the air beginning at six o'clock
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tomorrow night. I'll talk to you about a little bit more tomorrow. I
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appreciate it. Jeff, thanks a lot. All right again, Jeff Jenkins
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from the newsroom, And again, Hoppy's going to be at the Capitol Complex
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and the AARP broadcast location starting at ten o six this morning. Again,
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the Reds caravan tomorrow starts at five thirty one. Go live from there at
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six free. Great opportunity to hang out with future Red Stars, the Exacts.
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Todd Benzinger is going to be there. Of course. We are your
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home with the Reds and have been forever almost Let me see texts all right,
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My text isn't loading for some reason here, okay, Texas. Of
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course, there were mostly people against the bill. Those of us who support
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it are all at work, says a texture. Texas Steel is lying guaranteed.
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Have them swear under oath that people are taking advantage of the exemptions and
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provide specific examples. He's just like every alt right loon. Lives and fear
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on the show today. Don Miller from Reed Loud West Virginia, Wheeley Mayor
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Glenn Elliott, who is also a candidate for US Senate, Morgan Switzer,
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candidate for prosecutor in Kanah County, and Jeff Jenkins the Red's Caravan again tomorrow
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Red's Caravan, kdle seem convince consider we'll talk about a little bit more on
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the show tomorrow. Also on the show tomorrow, candidate for Kanawh County Commission
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Dayne Duncan is going to be stopping by Button County Judge candidate John Hoover is
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on the show tomorrow. Candidate for Secretary of State Brian Wood and more on
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the Red's Caravan. All right, got all that, Ryan good? All
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right, that's why I write it down, all right, hobbies coming up
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from the Capitol at ten o six final the news of the day, wv
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Metronews dot com and Wcchsnetwork dot com for my producer, Ryan Nicholson. Thank
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you so much. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun.
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