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10/16/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor William Jones, Tim Brady, and Doug Skaff · The Dave Allen Show

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little bit later on, Tim Brady from the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau is
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going to be joining us in studio. You know, there was the big
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announcement was made last week about this. Basically the capital city is becoming the
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epicenter of bicycling, I mean kind of leading into the Olympics, and it's
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really a big deal for Charleston and Tim Brady's going to talk about that a
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little bit later on. Plus, last week he announced he is running for
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Secretary of State and he announced he's changing parties. Doug Scaff, former State
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Senator House of Delegates member, mister Scaff, will be in studio this morning
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to talk about his party change from Democrat to a Republican and about his what
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do you hopes will be his new role as Secretary of States for the great
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sit of West Virginia. That's coming up a little bit later on as well.
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Plus, as always, your phone calls and texts are welcome. It
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is Monday, which means we do a thing we call Mayor Monday, and
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every Monday we bringing a different mayor from here in the Canal Valley surrounding areas.
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Talk about things going on in their particular town this week, I'm proud
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to welcome in the mayor of the city of PoCA, West Virginia, William
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Wimpy Jones. Good morning, sir, how are you. How are you
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doing today? Thank you for being here, appreciate it. And you brought
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your I promised I wouldn't put her on the air, but you brought your
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lovely wife here with you too. We will not mention her one more time,
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I promise, thank you. We'll just put her back in the corner
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over there. Okay, Actually, I think she probably keeps you in the
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corner more than anybody, probably more than you do her. Well, it's
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just spoken like a typical married gap. So thanks for being here. You
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folks are just a couple of weeks removed from your Fall Festival. How did
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everything go there, the polk? The Fall Fest went great this year.
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We had a lot more fenders and crafters. Also, I think part of
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a lot more citizens came in to see. I mean, we was talking
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to death. I mean it really got a little bit bigger this year.
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Yeah, that's good. It's always a big event, but it gets it's
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getting even bigger or this paste one I understand the pictures I saw and what
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I talked to people that went it was a whole lot bigger. What's uh,
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we got new in the in the town, in the land of the
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dots. What do you got? Well, we finally did all rive and
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cutting open for the Poka Fall or the Poka Plaza. Of course, we've
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got the supermarket there now, Poka Supermarket, which we needed it and finally
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got everything up and running. It's doing good. We also got new businesses
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in which is the Valley Cakes Cafe and catering. She's at location across from
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Eddie's Tars Center there in Poka. She'd be moving down to the new Clausea
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here once her area is completed, which is going to be at about I
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think around seven thousand square feet area compared to what she's got now. And
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I've actually had her food before. It's really good stuff. That is good
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dessert, good food. You'd happen to bring any with you. Did you
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know they want to open the day? I guess that's you're the mayor.
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You're the mayor, tell them to open, well, I usually do.
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Don't listen. Okay, let's talk about this supermarket now. I mean it
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had set you know vacant where there was a market there went out of I
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guess it went out of business. And uh you had you had some local
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entrepreneurs that stepped up and made this happen for the community. Talk about that.
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Yes, the person stepped up was Kirk Hick and Bottom who owns Putt
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and Holding. We really appreciate everything he has done for our town. Also
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the Puttman Development Authority, uh, which would be Morgan and Ashley. As
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far as with the chambers, they all helped in getting everything set up,
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getting it run and stuff. And the new guy came in, the owner
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which is mister Jamison. I think that's how he say his last name.
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But he's understanding. It's doing real good. One thing about it. You
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can get checked out by somebody. You don't have to do self check.
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Actually, a month or so ago, my wife and I a Saturday decided
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to drive over there. Of course, the hick and botha family I know
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them very well, and we went over there and that's one of the things
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we remarked to. And this is a big old, big old supermarket.
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I mean you know the area and what was there before it was before it
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was uh it was food fair the food Fair. Yeah, okay, the
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name escaped me there from it, so it was food Fair. So this
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is a major supermarket and just another one, you know sometimes, you know,
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we have we got an abundance of supermarkets in the area, but there
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really wasn't one in PoCA, I mean not at all. I mean you
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had inconvenience stores and so on and so forth, but she didn't really have.
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And that's a full on grocery store with a great deli and everything.
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And I like about it too. If you see something that they don't have,
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you can talk to Brittany, who is the manager, and they put
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it on the list and try to get it in for you. A lot
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of places don't do that right, right, but they helped real a lot.
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I think Poka is one of the one of the great small towns in
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West Virginia. Any time I've ever had any dealings with anybody from PoCA,
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and I lived kind of, you know, on the other end of the
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county. But great people, great businesses, great events, just just a
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great place to be all around. What is it to make Pocus so special
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to you? Mayor? I think it's called where small town and everybody knows
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everybody, and if somebody needs help, there's always someone there to lean in
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a hand to help them. Yeah, it's just it's just a neat place
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to me. Have you lived in Poker your whole line raised down, Black
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Betsy and okay, you know we've been in post five miles away something like
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that. Yep, yeah, yeah, But I went to school at Poker,
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graduated Poka High School, kept up my hometown. Did you hear last
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week? I think it was the North Carolina State game. I was watching.
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I'm a big herd guy and I was watching Marshall North Carolina State,
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and the announcers made reference to Poka talking about the pain Boys, you know,
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and and the color commentator and I don't remember who it was. A
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color commentator even said do you know the nickname of their school is the Dots,
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And they talked about that. Hey, any take any kind of publicity
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you can get, right, that's right. The mask Off is one of
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a kind. It is certainly for sure. It's getting national attention. There
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again, we're talking with Mayor Whippy Jones from the town of Punk. All
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right. I got to ask you where'd the nickname come from? It came
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from coach Darby and his wife Dory in nineteen sixty five eating cheeseburger. I
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was gonna say, was there a cheeseburger tie in there? Because people that
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are, you know, the the iconic whimpy character from the Popeye cartoons.
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I didn't know if that was if that was the reason why that they called
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you that, They nicknamed me that, and it just kind of grow,
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growed and stuck like glue. I guess, I guess, well, you
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know, there's I guess there's worse things to be called them, whippy.
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What do you what else you got coming up in the town. Well,
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we got glad that CMC Primary Care open up in the New Clauset also,
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and you got the looking Glass Boutique which is in there. We got another
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business which is called the AI t X, which mister Hickenball and owns ad
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it's a transport service. And then we got a construction company name, uh
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excuse me, which is King's Quality Constructing, construct Contracting. I get to
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hear beating with their upstairs and they're the one that doing most of the work
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in town there for mister hick and Bottom. So you know, a lot
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of exciting things going on. Of course, this time of year, you
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know, we started thinking about it's one after another. You got Halloween followed
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by Thanksgiving and Christmas. Anything big going on in the town for the time
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around Halloween. Well, uh, we're just normal host that we don't you
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know, really do something real big the kids and stuff, you know,
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goes around and stuff. This year we're not We don't have a trunk of
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treat because we feel it's pretty safe in the area of Coaurse. We've got
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policemens that watches the kids when they're out on Halloween. Okay, and uh,
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Christmas it's always a big deal. Yeah, with your parade and whatnot.
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Well, we're hoping to have parayed this year. Been people called being
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asked about it, and I'm going to talk to counsel about it. And
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also every year we always do the Sanna and Missus calls at the gazebo and
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one nighttime and the Poka show car always sings for us. They're there singing
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Christmas songs and stuff. So it'll be good and have hot chocolate and cookies
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for the kids. If before we let you go, mayor if if you
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know as a mayor of a small town, you know you end up having
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to be the big cheerleader for the town and nobody can. I've you know,
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it was just talking to you in the green room there you're and your
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wife and I and I can tell that you love your town. What is
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it about PoCA? Kind of touched on a little bit earlier, But if
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you had a message right now, we've got all kinds of people moving into
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the area, I mean with new core and everything. A lot of them
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are choosing to live in Putnham County. Yes, what would your selling point
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be to people that are thinking about possibly moving into the area. What is
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it that makes Poka the place that people need to be right now? Mayor?
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I think it's a friendliness of our town or a small town. And
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but yeah, everybody, like I said, everybody's real friendly and everything,
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and it's a clean area. Uh, we got good police officers that As
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far as our crime rate, it's very very low. And I don't know,
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it's just it's one of a kind. It is all right. Well,
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Mayor, I t I appreciate you taking time at your schedule to be
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here with us today. We'll have you on again. Don't let this be
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the last time you do. Mayor Monday. We'll have you on again because
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I love love to bring people into talking about their towns. And you've got
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a great town there in Poker and we'll we'll have you back on again soon.
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a now a candidate for Secretary of State in West Virginia, is going to
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in addition to being a candidate for Secretary of States, Scaff is now
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why he's running for Secretary of State. Coming up a little bit later on.
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Tim Brady though from the Charleston Convention Visitors Bureau joins us. Now,
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Tim, good morning, How are you good, Dave? How are you,
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brother? I'm fine, Thank you for being here. Big announcement last
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week, Charleston about to become the epicenter I'm told for bicycling over the next
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few years. Talk about them. Yeah. Beginning next year in twenty twenty
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four, Charleston will be the host for USA Cycling's Professional Road National Championships.
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That's going to be May fifteenth through the nineteenth here in the capital city.
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And we're excited because we have this event now for five years. We'll have
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it twenty twenty four through twenty twenty eight. And what's significant about that,
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Dave, is that it gets us two Olympic cycles. So cyclists that are
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here competing in May of twenty four, there are qualification elements. The winner
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of this event in Charleston will be seen cycling in Paris in the twenty twenty
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four Olympics. And we'll get that same situation again in twenty twenty eight.
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So that five year commitment for US is huge because it gets us those two
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Olympic cycles. And this is I mean, you know these big events are
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are you know, like a one off when you come in. Like you
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said, Tim, this is not going to be just a one off.
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This is not just a single big event. This is a major, major
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deal for Charleston. Yeah, it's a huge valley. Yeah, it's a
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huge deal for the whole metro valley. And here's why, you know,
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we we've hosted some big things this summer. We've hosted in partnership with USA
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Table Tennis, they're the International Table Tennis Federation, pan Am Games, Junior
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pan Am Games. We had athletes from twenty plus countries here. In September,
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we hosted in partnership with USA Volleyball, Men's Continental Championships, Men's Olympic
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teams from all over North America, Central America, and the Caribbean we're here.
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And those are of great events. They're inside the coliseum. They're tough
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to see this unless you buy a ticket. Right, this is going to
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encompass the entire city of Charleston. There's three courses. There's a road course,
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that we'll have some elevation to it, so we'll be up and down
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some of the hills and throughout town. The second course will be a time
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trial course, most likely along the boulevard because it has to be flat,
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so out and back on the boulevard multiple times. And then the third component
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is what's called a criteria, and that's just a tight little one mile loop
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around town, around the center of the city, over and over and over
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and over again. So there are lots of spectator opportunities that are free.
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The community can come out, and I've watched videos of this event it's been
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in Knoxville for the last three years, just enormous crowds. If you've ever
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watched the Tour de France on TV, I have this vision of people lining
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the walkway Upbridge Road, watching cyclists climb Bridge Road as a part of this
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competition. Start finish line is going to be in front of the Sheraton by
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four points and across from Hadad Riverfront Park. It's going to be a real
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party, festival style atmosphere. There's just so much opportunity in the city for
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this event, and it's going to be so highly visible and what's the time
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frame we're looking at for this, so it's May fifteenth through the nineteenth of
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next year, and they'll set the dates for twenty five after that. The
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other thing that I want to make sure that I mentioned a couple of things.
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One, it's going to take some volunteer effort. So we are going
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to do some volunteer recruitment and I'll make sure to pass all of that information
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along to you and you can help us spread the word on volunteers. For
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now, if you want to go to Charleston WV dot com and just scroll
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down, there's a big heading for USA Cycling. If you click on that,
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it'll take you to the USA Cycling event landing page and there's volunteer sign
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up information there. But we've also had a lot of participation from the community
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and just getting to this point, you know, we put together a really
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great local organizing committee spearheaded by some guys like Ted Armbreckt and Todd Goldman,
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Eric Showalter, Bradley Schmaltz, Jacob Vetti, Greg Cook, and some of
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these guys were involved in the Old Kmart Classic. If folks have some historical
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memory of that, it's been a couple of decades but it used to be
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a big bite grace here in the city. So I just want to make
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sure I thank those guys too, because they really helped us push this across
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the finish line and get this event in the city. But none of it
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would have been possible without the the help, the assistance, and the involvement
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of the City of Charleston and specifically Marry Me Goodwin, because uh, this
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is going to involve a lot of street closure. The city is a big
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partner in this, and uh, there's absolutely zero chance this event would be
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coming to Charleston if Mayor Goodwin had not been so enthusiastic about welcoming them to
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the city. Now you talk about the need for volunteers as we get closer,
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but logistically speaking, otherwise, this is gonna be take a lot to
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pull this off. To him, it is, and I'm going to tell
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people now some streets are gonna be closed. Get ready. It may take
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you a few more minutes to get to work a couple of mornings. We're
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going to close some streets. But the nice thing about this is, generally
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speaking, especially in the road courses, the rider's kind of ride impacts so
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a lot of the street closure will just be rolling. It won't be shut
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down for like hours and hours and hours on end. But but yeah,
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I'm gonna give you guys a heads up. It might inconvenience you for a
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couple of days, and but we're all gonna all gonna get through it together.
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So from their perspective, why Charleston A couple of things. One,
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and I mean this sincerely, the enthusiastic response of the city, because it
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does take a lot of resources to get this done, and specifically, you
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have to be willing to close some streets. And as I told them when
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they came in, I said, listen, we're the kings of closing streets
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in Charlestown. But also all jokes aside the geography and the topography, you
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know a lot of opportunity for both climbing and flat level riding all within the
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city limits of Charleston. When you think about you know, Bridge Road and
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Loudon Heights on the other side of the river, You've got you know,
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Garrison and Watson, some of the stuff on the west side that I think
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will be incorporated as well. But then you've also got a lot of flat
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land. So we offered that perfect combination of rise and fall and flat level
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riding all truly, and I think it's probably going to be the first time
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in a long time they've been able to do everything within the city limits of
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one municipality, because even when they were at Knoxville, they had to take
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their time trials out to oak Ridge, which is like forty five minutes away,
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because they couldn't get the flat length of the run. So for Charleston,
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it was an ideal situation because they could get it all in one city.
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just how big tim potentially could this be, not only for Charleston, but
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for the entire region. Well, it's gonna be big for the entire region
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in a couple of ways. You know, we're not one hundred percent sure
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how many riders we're expecting, but in excess of two hundred competitors. But
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they all travel with teams, So one cyclist is probably going to bring at
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minimum five or six people with them unless they have bike mechanics and nutrition is
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and I mean these are pros, right, so they're traveling with large teams.
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Also, you know, it's gonna be great for the hotel community because
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we're going to welcome in all not only all of those riders and their teams,
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but also volunteers. It's also going to be good for the airbnb community
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because some of the larger team riders are going to look for houses to stay
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in so that they can put all of their people together in a more private
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sort of setting. So it's going to be good for the hotels, it's
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going to be good for the airbnbs. And anytime you bring this number of
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people to town, you know it's going to be good for the restaurant community,
22:29
the retail community. So you know, I'm trying to shy away from
22:33
putting some type of like expected number on the economic impact. I can just
22:37
look you in the eye and say this is gonna be big, and it's
22:38
gonna be big for five years in a row. I'm gonna take a break
22:41
and kind of get away from the cycling just from when we'll get back to
22:45
it. You mentioned something there that kind of put a little idea in my
22:47
head. That's about airbnbs in the Charleston area. You know, these things
22:49
have been big nationwide for some time. I don't know that people realize how
22:56
many Airbnbs that there are, not only in Charleston but the entire metro valley.
22:59
There a lot of them out there. Team yeah, there are.
23:00
It's there's a robust airbnb community here in Charleston. People are investing in their
23:07
properties and you know, we do our It's a little bit difficult with a
23:11
hotel. You know, there's a Marriott there and there's you know, three
23:14
hundred plus rooms and it's visible and you see it. With Airbnb, sometimes
23:18
it's tougher for us to get our hands around that. But if you go
23:21
to our website Charleston WV dot com and scroll down on the lodging page,
23:25
there is a link to the directly to airbnbs in Charleston, and there's way
23:30
more than people realize. And that feeds our economy as well, and it
23:33
feeds our budget because they collect the same hotel motel tax that hotels do,
23:38
so it comes back to us. But when you look at Charleston, you
23:41
know, through Putnam County into Barbersville and Huntington, through this metro Valley corridor,
23:47
there are way more airbnbs then you might realize. Yeah, and I
23:52
know a couple of people that travel for work. I mean it's been like,
23:56
you know, three hundred, three hundred and thirty days a year out
23:57
on the road and that's all they'll stay in. And with all due respect
24:02
to our hotel chains, which do a great job, this is kind of
24:04
what they do. I mean they that they actually prefer them, and to
24:07
me, that's the beauty of the airbnbs. And you know, we represent
24:11
the hotel community, but we also do represent the airbnb community because they're part
24:15
of the overall sort of lodging landscape of the city. I'm a hotel guy.
24:19
I want to stay in a hotel where it's clean. I know I'm
24:22
gonna get room service every day and my you know, clean towns and all
24:26
that stuff. Some people prefer that Airbnb experience, so for us, it's
24:29
nice that we're able to offer both in the city of Charlestown. Yeah,
24:32
exactly. You know, Tim, it's just been one big thing after another
24:36
over the last couple of months here in the capital city and the surrounding areas.
24:40
Tired day. Well, I mean, we just came off a two
24:41
day music festival at Go Mark Ballplay the I Beat, and let's also talk
24:45
about speaking the concerts. That's kind of where I was going to go with
24:48
that. You just had some major you know, Ringo and Jelly Roll,
24:51
Lauren Daego, Lana del Rey, as you mentioned, the down in Dirty
24:53
music festival, get Trans Siberian Orchestra covered up. I've been a lot of
24:57
entertainment going on in Charleston late man, just crushing it. And that's a
25:02
credit to Patrick Lahey and his team at the Colisseum and Convention Center. Andy
25:07
Sheha at Gomart Ballpark is a great partner as well. But you know,
25:11
they're just they're doing a great job of not only booking a diverse array of
25:15
acts. I mean, when you think about what you just said, just
25:18
in one week you went Jelly Roll, Lauren Daego, Lana del Rey,
25:22
and then the next week you follow that up with Ringo Star. I mean
25:25
that runs the gamut from you know, country to contemporary Christian pop, classic
25:30
rock, A diverse array of acts, and we're not even talking about the
25:33
stuff going on at the Municipal Auditorium in that same time, like RuPaul's drag
25:37
Race and some of the fun stuff over there. A diverse array of acts
25:41
doing a great job of marketing, and people are are hungry and desirous for
25:45
quality entertainment options and they're coming out and we're just setting record after record at
25:52
the Colisseum and Convention Center. And that's a testament to the team that they've
25:55
assembled over there. Can I give you a couple of texts because you have
25:57
a couple of text with question since here one says the city and the CV
26:02
be very quick to release economic impact numbers for Regatta, It's been six weeks
26:07
no numbers have been released for Multifest. Is that something that you are a
26:11
part of. Yeah, So I've I've spoken with with Tamra you Banks,
26:15
the executive director of Multifest, and we had hoped to have her Economic Impact
26:19
report ready last week. We work with a company called Zartico that provides visitor
26:25
analytics, and they're just a little backed up, I guess because it's the
26:29
summer fall season. But we anticipate having those numbers. I'd hope to have
26:32
them by Friday. We anticipate having those numbers this week, and I think
26:34
you're going to hear multifest economic impact numbers probably in the next in the next
26:41
few days. We're just waiting on some very important data that helps us compile
26:47
those numbers. And one other text before we let you go about the potholes.
26:51
There are plans to fill the potholes. That's the text. So out
26:53
there with your shovel, tam I can. I can tell you that USA
26:56
Cycling is coming in in a couple of weeks to do a final ride around
27:00
and finalize the roots. And we've already had conversation with the city about making
27:04
sure that the paving schedule has set such that we provide not only a quality
27:12
course for these guys as far as you know rise and fall and flat cycling
27:17
surface, but also smooth surface. So we're gonna we're gonna turn the grates
27:22
the right way and we're gonna fill the potholes. Sounds good. Tim.
27:26
I know we've got a lot of things going on in addition to this,
27:29
but as we get into the holiday season, it's like I was talking to
27:30
Bear Jones in the last segment, So we'll have you back on again.
27:33
Sim It's good stuff for Charleston, man and the surrounding areas. I appreciate
27:36
it, and David, I just appreciate you giving us a platform to come
27:38
in and talk to folks about what's happening. You know, we're excited about
27:41
this, so you know, thank you to you for having us in and
27:45
giving us the chance to talk to folks about what's going on. All right.
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32:02
Good morning, Welcome to the Chip. Good morning, Dave. Happy
32:05
Monday to you. Happy Monday. As if there is such a thing,
32:08
well that's might have been, Doug, the worst kept cigarette in the world.
32:10
The party switch and the run for secretary of State. Now, you
32:14
pretty much explained it all on Hoppy last Thursday, But just in case anyone
32:17
may have missed it, let's start with the party change. Now, you
32:21
were actually a Republican before you were a Democrat. A lot of people perhaps
32:25
did not know that. Yeah, back in my college days, I was
32:28
a Republican and actually won my first race and the House of Delegates in Bond
32:31
County, a very democratic area as a republic and it still is. I
32:35
mean primarily that I won my first race in the House for the House of
32:38
Delegates as a Republican up there. So why the change now, Doug?
32:42
You know, I left the state guy a chance to come back and be
32:44
with my family and be with my parents and get here and work here and
32:47
raise a raise, you know, my kids. It's just the bottom line
32:52
is the party left me. The Party's left so many people West Virginians.
32:54
I'm not the first and I won't be the last. The bottom line is,
32:58
we just can't relate to the national democratic scene and what's going on over
33:01
there. It's just not us. It doesn't identify us as West Virginians.
33:05
You look at the voter registrations you talk about in twenty twenty one, you
33:07
know how Republicans kind of took over the majority and our population from two thousand
33:13
and twenty ten and twenty twenty it kept declining. So it wasn't because one
33:17
hundred and fifty thousand Republicans, like I said this before, moved to West
33:20
Virginia. You know, it was those same registered voters whose values stayed the
33:24
same. They just happened to be registered Democrats who finally got so fed up,
33:29
couldn't relate, felt like the party left them, so they switched their
33:30
party affiliation to Republican because it represented their values. And so I, like
33:36
many other West Virginians, switched my party affiliation and fill them home. So
33:42
why did it take you to now to do that though, Because I mean
33:44
this change that has been going on, you know, for some time.
33:49
And as you said, you're not the first, you won't be the last
33:51
of people that have changed their party. They felt the national Party didn't identify
33:53
with their particular values and whatever. But why did it take till now?
33:58
I mean why? Why? It's the real question. You know, there
34:00
was so much, There was a it was a big tent. Republicans have
34:02
a big tent. The Democrats had a big tent, you know, that
34:05
big ten of Democrats. There was these blue dog these these moderate conservative Democrats
34:09
for so long. That's that's shrinking. Those are the one switching parties.
34:14
And I thought I could, I could, I could get in there,
34:15
I could work together, I could bring people together, help bring it more
34:19
towards the middle. But that's just not happening. It's not happening. I
34:22
tried to bring the Democratic Party back towards the middle, to alast to reflect
34:25
the true West Virginia values, but instead it kept going the other way,
34:30
It kept going towards the fo Do you think that is? Why do you
34:31
think that is here in West Virginia? Is it because of the national thing
34:36
and that they're just trying to identify I do I think you have the fringe
34:37
in both parties. Let's be honest. You have the fringe on both sides.
34:40
You have the fringe on the right, you have the fringe on the
34:43
left, and it's unfortunate that both party chairs feel like they have to continue
34:45
to cater to the fringe. You know, West Virginians just want to work
34:50
with West Virginians. We get things done. Forget about it. I mean,
34:52
you see what's going on in DC right now. We don't even have
34:54
a speaker. We don't even have a speaker right now because we can't get
34:58
that within that whole party. It should be proud that the party is in
35:00
control. You know, it's Raley behind one person and let's move. Instead,
35:04
we're fighting amongst ourselves. That's what happened with the Democratic Party. It
35:07
got so big here in West Virginia that these different facets broke apart and they
35:09
tore each other down, you know, in the Republican Party, you know
35:12
in DC, that's what's happening. Now. What kind of Republican is Doug
35:15
scaff Because as you said, there are different types of Republicans. There are
35:20
different types of Democrats too, But what kind of Republican will Doug scff?
35:22
Here's a great question. You know, I've always been a pro pro business,
35:25
pro coal, pro gas, pro energy type of guy. I've been
35:30
probably been pro life. I was raised my whole life pro life. Now
35:31
there's some votes out there, people say, oh, you've got different votes
35:34
out there. Listen, I am who I am. I vote for the
35:36
issue. I'm an issue oriented person. I'm not beholder to anyone or anything
35:39
or any organization. Bottom line is I do what's right for the majority of
35:43
West Virginians. Majority of West Virginians ask you to go out and represent them.
35:45
That's what you should be. That's what a good leader does. My
35:49
values have never changed. I've always been there. I've been fighting for the
35:52
coal miners, the coal companies, the coal workers that call everything has to
35:54
do with coal, to keep our energy going, to keep our lights on.
35:57
I've been fighting for the gas industry, which is the future we need
35:59
to be in energy independent. I've always been that way, and sometimes it
36:01
made it tough, made it tough within the Democratic Party to go speak my
36:05
mind on how I felt about certain projects. I'm a pro business guy.
36:07
My track record small businesses, large businesses. I have businesses with five employees
36:12
and businesses with over two hundred employees. I love making people and their families
36:16
successful, helping people get back on their feet. Give them a hand up,
36:21
not a handout. That's what I'm all about. That's what my values
36:22
is. I want people to to live, work, raise their families here,
36:25
be happy, be proud to be in West Virginia. Give them the
36:29
tools and resources. So everything I voted on, everyone says, hey,
36:31
why didn't you just stay in the House of DELI gets as a Republican man,
36:35
that's a great question. Why didn't I switch parties and change? That's
36:37
great because you got to prove. You got to show some good votes out
36:40
there. I've got twelve years of votes. I've got good votes, I
36:43
got bad votes. I've got team player votes that I just went along with
36:45
the team. There's Republicans in there right now. That threw some team votes
36:49
out there that maybe they didn't dis that they didn't agree with, but they
36:51
just went along with the team votes. So that happens as a record,
36:54
and you have a record. So why what does one sixty days this next
36:58
spring do for me? A twelve year history and I thought it was important
37:01
to run for I could have switched parties, been a Republican. But you
37:05
know what, in January, I would have been doing a disservice to the
37:07
people I represented because I need to get out of Charleston, out from under
37:10
the dome and go around the state and meet people as a candidate for Secretary
37:15
State. We're going to get to that here in a couple of moments.
37:17
But I do want to ask you, and I I was texting you back
37:21
last night just to you know, verify that you were going to come in
37:22
on the show today, and you jokingly refer to yourself as a unifier because
37:27
you realize that both the heads of the parties, Doug Republican and Democrat,
37:30
but hate you equally. Maybe hates a strong term, but they have issues
37:36
with you. So yeah, you are the great unifier. We're gonna send
37:37
you to the Middle East next that's because you were able to bring these people
37:40
together. What would you say though, because the Republicans issued a statement,
37:45
I mean right afterwards, and it was negative toward I mean, come on,
37:49
it was negative toward you because it was basically saying, well, while
37:52
we welcome people and I'm very much paraphrasy, while we welcome people into the
37:55
Republican Party, be careful. And this has happened with other camp this switch
38:00
not just you be careful, make sure that they're true conservative and and and
38:06
that that was kind of a language used. Your thoughts on any of that,
38:09
well, you know, I don't know where to start, you know,
38:10
I mean where you got pushing on this show a lot. You have
38:14
a Democratic Party. I mean, you see all the comments out there,
38:16
Well, he was never a real Democrat. He was not a true Democrat.
38:20
He you know, I mean, listen, you live in a glasshouse.
38:22
I'm not gonna throw stones. I'm not gonna say anything about any particular
38:25
person. But I mean, you know, some some people feel like Pushkin
38:29
was the best thing that happened to the Democratic Party. For the Republican Party,
38:31
they celebrated when he became party chair. And you know that's where we
38:35
are today. I mean, he makes uh you know, he makes he
38:38
makes the narrative for the Republicans. So they celebrated him when he became chair.
38:42
As for the Republican Party chairwoman, you know, I'm not gonna I'm
38:45
not gonna say anything. I'm not gonna engage and in that type of behavior
38:50
or language. I don't even know her she doesn't even know me. I
38:52
reached out to her, I made a call to her, tried to get
38:53
to know her. You know, that's what's that's what's different about me.
38:57
I'm not beholding to anybody. I'm not part of the old good old boy
38:59
system, whether the old good old boy Republican system, old little boy Democratic
39:02
assistan. And that's part that's what's wrong with our system today. I am
39:06
who I am. I have a track record, I feel like I'm a
39:08
good leader. I'm just disappointed that those comments came out for people like the
39:13
chairwoman. I mean, she's our chairwoman to state party. Go over to
39:15
DC, help us find a speaker so we can move our country forward.
39:19
I mean, if she's got that much power, instead of worrying about a
39:21
Secretary of States race, I mean, the bottom line is, get to
39:23
know me first, get to know politics should be local, the state party.
39:28
I do want to say this, I kind of saw it a little
39:30
hypocritical. I mean, we've got so many Democrats that have switched over in
39:34
the past few years and didn't even give me a chance, didn't even give
39:37
me a chance to talk to me. And you have our governor, for
39:38
God's sake. He won as a Democrat, but then the Republican Party embraces
39:42
him because he then he became the governor. You have look at this.
39:45
Donald Trump went out and switched his party affiliation right before he ran for president,
39:50
and the Republican Party accepted him. Maybe it took it a little while,
39:52
but they accepted him. We embraced him here in West Virginia. We'll
39:55
embrace him again here in West Virginia. Senators delic it's county commissioners that you
40:01
can't be a hypocrite. I mean the party, the Republican Party it is
40:05
today, was made up of former Democrats who has lost their way with the
40:09
national political party and have switched to the Republican Party. That's the bottom line.
40:14
So why they're run for Secretary of State? What is it about this
40:15
office, Doug that intrigues you so much? Well, this office has always
40:21
intrigued me. You know, this is an office that the more glamorous part
40:23
is about the election side of things, you know, But the election side
40:27
and make our safe, secure, accessible, fair elections. I think we
40:30
need to be on the forefront. The current Secretary Warner, he's done a
40:32
fabulous job in his staff working with the county clerks. You know, county
40:37
clerks are backbone of our state. The bottom line is they know their politics
40:40
is all local. They know how to run an election. Give them the
40:43
tools and resources. But we need to stay on the forefront. I'm not
40:45
saying our elections aren't safe right now, but we need to continue to ensure
40:47
they are always things pop up. Partner with Marshall University and the Cybersecurity School
40:52
what we can do to ensure that our elections remain safe. But then the
40:54
three force of the office is the business side of the office. That's the
40:58
part that really intrigues me. Business background, my acumate, my working with
41:01
businesses of all sizes traveling around the country. That is really the front door.
41:07
The Secretary State's Office is literally the front door you have to register your
41:09
business, and before you become a business in West Virginia, you start at
41:13
the business portal the Secretary of State's Office. That's what really excited me working
41:16
with businesses, helping West Virginians of all businesses who are putting their families first
41:22
and one to be successful. We want to give them the tools and resources
41:25
they need. The current West Virginians to make it as easy and efficient as
41:30
possible to do business in West Virginia. Some of the other people that are
41:32
going to be running, we know the Putnham Kenny Clerk, Brian Wood is
41:36
in the race. He's been on the show card. Delegate Chris Pritt,
41:37
former legislator, can read maybe some others coming in, possibly hearing that there
41:42
could be more names in or the race. What sets Doug scaff apart.
41:45
No, that's great. You know, I have a track record of leadership
41:49
and communication. I think in this role you have to be somebody that can
41:52
bring people together. We joke about it. The Secretary States Office should be
41:55
one that doesn't wear stripes. You can't. You can't. You have to
41:59
reppers that all registered voters in West Virginia. You shouldn't wear stripes. You're
42:02
like a referee. You give the clerks the tools and resources to be successful.
42:07
But as far as a business office, it doesn't matter if you're a
42:10
Republican by trade or a Democrat. You need to support all West Virginians who
42:15
want to start a business in West Virginia, regardless of their party affiliation.
42:19
So I think I have a track record. Hey, look, we joked
42:21
about it. I brought both party chairs together to question question me running for
42:25
Secretary of State. So I think it's one of those things we're listening that's
42:29
old school politics. Quit thinking that way. We need to put the right
42:31
people in the right place at the right time. With my experience in business,
42:36
with my love for the election process, bringing people together, just get
42:38
a chance to know me. Keep it local. I may not have the
42:42
experiences that somebody would have, you know, on the clerk side, but
42:45
I probably have more experiences a lot of people have on the business side.
42:47
So I think we compliment each other and you put a good team around you.
42:52
That's what I'm I'm not going to go into this office because it needs
42:53
an overhaul. This office is functioning fantastic. They're moving forward to doing a
42:58
great job. They just need somebody that can come here and work together,
43:00
think differently, be creative, bring everybody together, and continue to move forward.
43:05
I'll close with this being that you are the president of HD Media,
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owners of the Gazette Mail, the Huntings and Herald Dispatch and other papers around
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the region. Are you worried, Doug, that there could be allegations at
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owning and media conglomerate like that would give you an unfair advantage in the race.
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No, I don't. I mean, that's my day job. You
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know. I run the business side of things. I don't mess with I
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have thirteen newsrooms. People say, y'all, you know you're in charge of
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the Gazette Mail. You're in tragedy. No. I get the Herald,
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Dispatch, the Logan Banyoner, I got the Coal Valley News. We got
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thirteen newspapers, and I am not involved in any of the day to day
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operations when it comes to news. I run the business side. I go
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out there. Commercial printing is a big deal. I focus on that.
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I go out and try to bring new assets to the table. From a
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business side. We do a lot of streaming. But no, not at
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all. You know, I think over the last five years being involved at
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the newspaper, you can see that I've kept my independence from that. There's
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been nothing, no interference as all from you could talk to anybody about that.
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I did have one question here as it relates to the paper, and
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uh the person wanted to know if I could ask mister scaff what does the
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Gazette Mail do with all their newspapers that do not sell both in their building.
44:08
What's a distribute with a distribution so on and so forth? And would
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you consider collecting all of them and donating to the animal shelters to be used
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to for the for the cages. Absolutely, we recycle. We recycle as
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many papers as we can get our hands on. We recycle everything. But
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yeah, if they need the newspapers for the amily, that's that's one thing
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I didn't think about. But we'd be happy to do any guess of that
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there, you know, we got plenty that would be great, great idea,
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bringing people together. That's what Doug scaff does, bringing people together and
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animals together. Now, so we want to help the animal shelter out,
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But no, it's it's it's been a great and I am who I am,
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Dave. The bottom line is I'm the same Doug Scaff that everybody gets.
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Just get a chance to know me, and I think you'll realize that
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I love this state, I love the people, and we can work together.
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Whether you're a Republican or Democrat or independent or anything in between. This
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office needs to function for the people in West Virginia. I believe I have
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the leadership and skill sets to help continue to make it grow Doug scaff now
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Republican candidate for Secretaries. Say appreciate you being here man. We'll talk soon
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I got a ton of text to get to from the scaff interview, as
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you may imagine, but I did want to get this in there. This
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was sent to me the there's a new poll out and it has to do
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with with the governor's raised. Now, this is from West Virginia Statewide dot
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Com. This has Patrick Morrissey in at forty seven percent, Mac Warner,
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current Secretary of State, seventeen point eight percent, Chris Miller fourteen point eight
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percent, More Capito the the current delegate, thirteen percent, and JB.
48:00
Mccusky, the current state auditor, at four point nine percent. That is
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according to West Virginia Statewide dot Com. The legislature back in town for interims,
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and well, I'll tell you what Brad and I Well, I'll have
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Brad mclahanny and the show. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Let me try
48:19
to knock out some texts here. Texas. Dave scaff beets all I've ever
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seen in and out of state politics for years, and always a DEM.
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Now the same day he announces a run for secretary of state, he switches
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parties. I guess your bud Pushkin will be next to switch. I'm gonna
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go ahead and write that down as a note that Pushkin's probably not gonna switch.
48:36
He's gonna throw that out there. Probably not. Text says Doug railed
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against GOP platform issues on the floor for years. Does he renounce those comments
48:45
today on the air? Well, we'll have him back on again several times
48:47
between now an election to see about that. Scaff's is a TEXTRAI is a
48:52
political opportunist. It's demeaning and offensive to West Virginia citizens that would fall for
48:58
Scaff's excuses. We know exactly what he's doing. Tex says, worry about
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a Secretary of States race? Are you kidding me? We and the Republican
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Party are very worried about it. We don't need the president of the Gazette
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running our elections in West Virginia. That's a disaster in the making, Texas,
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Scaff just agreed on the radio toil I was product to be pooped on
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by talks and cats appropriate according to it. I'm sorry. It takes a
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lot to make me laugh, but that was actually that was actually pretty funny.
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Tex says. Is the Charleston newspaper going to switch parties too? I
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don't see that happening, Tex says, Doug knows he can't win an election
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with a d The real reason he switched just to be honest, well,
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let me just say this, on a state wide level, there's not going
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to be any Democrats are gonna win. I'm sorry, but that's just kind
49:50
of where we are right now. Though they'll pick up some House seats and
49:52
maybe a couple other seats here, but it's just not gonna happen. I
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mean that that you're going to see on state wide level any Democrat win.
50:00
With all due respect to Honetyton mayor Steve Williams who was in the race for
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governor. Mister Williams is a good man, but one of those people I
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mentioned earlier, the Republicans are going to be your next governor at the state
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of West Virginia. Tex says, if West Virginian values are found in today's
50:16
Republican values, then West Virginians must value sex, abuse of enabler's clan,
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sympathizers, seditionists, fraudsters, corporate welfare and conspiracy theorists. West Virginia politics
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makes me feel embarrassed to live in this beautiful states Texas. Scaffs pointed the
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just joined I'm sorry, the women haters club. Glad he is gone,
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Texas. What sets Doug apart? He is the only Democrat running as a
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Republican and rules over liberal newspapers. According to a Texter Texas, Trump registered
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as a Republican in Manhattan in nineteen eighty seven, switched the Reform Party in
50:54
nineteen ninety nine, the Democratic Party in two thousand and one, and back
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to the Republican Party in two thousand and nine. Question from mister scaffold,
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it's a mailed Okay, we already covered that one. I'm sorry. Every
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elected official is to represent both the West Virginia and the US constitutions. According
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to a texture, TEXTA says you had to protect your boy from tough questions.
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He's my boy now. Next time he lies about the National Democrats making
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him switch parties, ask him why he's drawn to a party controlled by a
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rapist. According to a texture, politics are local according to scaff but he
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allegedly was national politics and made to switch parties. Can we all agree that
51:37
scaff isn't consistent and has no principles? Tech says, I suppose Doug Staff
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doesn't agree with healthcare for veterans, infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, voting rights,
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broadband investment, major energy products, The lowest unemployment in fifty years, and
51:52
fourteen million jobs. All this from Democrats in the past two years. All
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right, we got to get Oh I did not get to all the texts.
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I'll do my best to try to make him up a little bit later.
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I knew that was gonna happen. I knew it was gonna happen.
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Jeff, I'll blame Hollywood. Jeff Ptty, my producer. Coming up on
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the show tomorrow. Oh, get ready for this. Tom Mentor from Chick
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fil As going to stop by the Chick fil A out at South Rage is
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going to be closing, not permanently, but it is going to be closing
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for a while. Tom Mener from Chick fil A is going to join us
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talk about that. Brad mclahenny is here on the interims and Secretary of State
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and candidate for Governor Mac Warner on the show tomorrow as well. Talk lines
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coming up next. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun
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