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09/13/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Amy Grady and Brian Wood · The Dave Allen Show

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The County Clark of Putnam County, Brian Wood is going to be running
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for Secretary of Stavy has been on the show before. He's going to join
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us in the second segment of the show. There's we haven't talked about COVID
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in a while, but I'm going to a little bit later on. So
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we got lots of stuff I want to get today. Plus rib Fest starts
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tomorrow and you're already seeing the signs of it, and Charleston with some street
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closures and things of that nature getting ready for Ribfest, and Charleston had ad
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Riverfront Park Thursday through Sunday. More on that coming up as well. But
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I want to welcome to the show now State Senator Amy Grady. Good morning,
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Senator. How are you. Good morning, Dave. I'm doing great.
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How are you today? I'm doing fine. Thank you for being here.
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I always love having members of the legislature on, especially when they could
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talk about their fields of expertise outside the walls of the capital. Though.
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You're an educator, and of course we just came off interims, so first
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of all, I want to ask you about school year House, a school
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year going so far. Oh, the school years fantastic. I have a
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whole nine kids in my fourth grade class this year, and remind people where
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it is that you teach. I'm at Leon Elementary in Mason County. We
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have one hundred and sixty kids approximately between the grades of pre k through sixth
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grade. And for some reason, this class size has been small since they've
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since they've been in school. Nobody really knows why, but it's a wonderful
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problem to have because the things you can do together with nine students is amazing.
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I mean, so is that the smallest class that you've ever taught?
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As nine? It is the smallest the for every first year that I taught
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fourth grade day I had twelve students and I was two brand new to really
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appreciate that because it was my first year in the classroom, and you know,
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twelve kids might as well have been twenty five. But as I am
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now a veteran teacher, having nine students is it's an amazing feeling. I
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mean it's the classroom is so fluid, you can just change things up as
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you need to. The one on one time that you can spend with each
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student is amazing, and you know that they can learn so much more because
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of that. Well, they're not going to be able to get by with
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a whole lot either from a discipline standpoint, because there's less of them.
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Yeah, that's true. But so far they haven't had very many issues.
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They're a pretty good kid. Well, that's good to know. So I
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want to ask you, and move away from elementary for a moment. I'll
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ask you about this high school transfer rule. I've spent a lot of time
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talking about it. I know others news organizations have as well, and I'm
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going to get into something related that a little bit later on in the show
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if I have time. What is your take on the high school transfer rule
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that has so many people up in arms? Senator Well, I I've had
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so many people ask me, does Dave? Honestly, they have asked,
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you know, jumped on to it and said we need to change this right
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away. We haven't given it time. In my opinion, we haven't given
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it time to see if it's going to work. If it's not being successful,
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one week of high school football does not do it. And as a
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matter of fact, if you look back to I guarantee if you look back
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to twenty twenty two high school football season, twenty twenty one high school football
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se and I guarantee you'll see scores just like we saw the very first weekend.
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I actually saw where somebody had posted something about that. It was somebody
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in the world of politics that had posted a list of scores from last year.
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And they said, if you saying I'm kind of paraphrasing here, I'll
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try to do it off my memory. But it was basically something that said,
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you know, these aren't scores from twenty twenty three that this person posted.
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These are scores from twenty twenty two before the transfer rule really went into
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effect, right, And we saw what last weekend. Some of those scores
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were fliplock. Some of those teams that that won by a had a marginal
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victory actually lost this past weekend. So you know, I think everybody just
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kind of jumping into that really quickly. Was it was a knee jerk reaction,
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is what we call it. You know. The reason that we did
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that and is when you look at transfers and you look at students that need
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to transfer, student athletes that need to transfer for some reason, whether they
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choose too or not. But when we if they're choosing because because they want
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to go to another school, or if their parents are moving or have a
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job somewhere, it makes it more convenient for them to go to another school.
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We have to make it easier for them. You know, having a
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student athlete set out a year isn't fair to them. Whenever a student comes
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from another state and transfers into West Virginia, they didn't have to sit out.
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They could immediately go in and start playing. But a student within the
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state would have to sit out a year. And that I was a student
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athlete growing up, and I know that if I didn't have sports, I
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don't know where I would have been because that was my life. And so
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that was the whole goal, was to make things fair and in fairness.
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When we think about families and or students transfer into another high school, it's
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not an easy decision. You know, that's a there's a that's a huge
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burden that they're taking with trying to trans transport their child to the school,
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get them there. And we also have to consider why are they wanting to
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leave their community school so quickly? What's going on? Maybe administration needs to
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take a deep look into you know, why do they want to leave that
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team, or why do they want to leave that school? That could be
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a bigger issue, and they're just so many things that's surrounded. I think
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we're jumping the gun. What's saying we need to fix it, because I
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think we need to have this sometimes. I think it is going to be
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brought up at Lee. I don't know how far it'll get Senator, but
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I know there was a press conference yesterday held at the Capitol some members of
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the House and they talked about that and that it was going to be at
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least addressed. They were wondering if it could be done in a special not
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necessarily a special session, maybe in terms or whatever. But it is definitely
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according to some and again we have a story posted about at wv metronews dot
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com. It is going to be addressed, I think in the upcoming session
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which will begin in January. So my friend Dana Ferrell's there Fromkinalla County.
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He has hated this before we even passed it. He was never a fan
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of it to begin with. We had lots of discussions over it. So
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I know he'll lead that charge and that's what he needs to do if he
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feels that's what's right? You know? So I don't. I don't really
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think the Senate really takes that stand on it. I think the Senate's gonna
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wants to give it a little bit of time to make sure that we're not,
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like I said, having an jerk reaction to it. So I'll be.
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But you know, anything can happen in the legislature. You never know
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during session. It seems like sometimes the easiest things become really hard to do,
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and sometimes the hardest things fly through easily. So I will wait and
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see. Talking to was sendor Amy Grady here on five eighty five, I
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was doing some reading on something called the third Grade Success Act And for those
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who may not know about it, what exactly is this third Grade Success Act?
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And as an educator, what are your feelings on That? Was my
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number one piece of legislation that I wanted to see past last year. It
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is modeled after legislation that has been done in Mississippi, North Carolina, a
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lot of successful states. Basically modeled after the Mississippi model where it teaches science
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of reading to kids in K through three and it also places instructional aids in
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those first grade, second grade, third grade classrooms. And we are implementing
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it by doing it one year at a time, and that to save on
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costs and to make sure that we're implementing it correctly. So this year,
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all first grade classrooms have instructional aids, and next year, second grade classrooms
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will have instructional aids, in the next year third grade classrooms, and you're
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going to We're going to see a huge, a huge amount of growth in
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our students and they're learning, they're learning to read, and our test scores
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in the third grading up are going to really show improvement. I have no
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doubt following the model that Mississippi has done will make a huge, a huge
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difference. There is a published report that I had just read as I kind
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of referenced that that says, I don't know if you want to weigh in
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on this or not, that I guess there was an unintended consequence of this
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that there may be a lot of special education aids that will lose their jobs
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because of this. Well, you care to address that or is it this
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has been your experience or what absolutely day not that they're losing their jobs.
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Okay, what we're seeing is a lot of special education aids are transferring into
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those instructional AID positions. And the reason for doing that is because it is
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and I'm going to do air quotes here, you can't see an easier job,
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and you know, and it's not an easier job, it's just a
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different type of job. When you are in a classroom where you're dealing with
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special needs kids and there's a lot of there are a lot of things that
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you have to be able to do and be willing to do for those children,
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and to go into being an instructional aid, you are providing the service
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of a teacher. You know, you're sitting down and you are actually responsible
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for giving instruction to students, and that's more enticing to a lot of people.
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So we have lost I think it was forty eight percent of the positions
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of special education aids, forty eight percent of them transferred into those instructional age
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positions. So what's happened is we have new people that are hired as aids
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and they're qualified as aids are filling those special education positions. And that's not
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necessarily a bad thing. So those positions are filled, it's just that the
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person that's been in there that maybe has more experience has decided to move out,
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and so we need to see how we can make it more enticing for
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those experienced special education aids to stay in that room instead of transferring out to
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another position. One more thing before we let you go, Senator, and
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I know you've been keeping a close eye in the situation at West Virginia Universe.
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The It's Old Brad Michael Hannay yesterday and the show Different Day, twelve
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different stories come out in the Messine Morgan's own program. We note here by
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the way Hoppyhead on the show yesterday WVU President Gordon Gey. If you did
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not hear that interview, it's worth going back and listening to. For sure,
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you can find it at WV metro news dot com. Rob Alsop from
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WVU is going to be on Hoppy today. Your thoughts, Senator on the
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problems at West Virginia University. How did we get here? And uh,
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well, here's a million dollar question. How do we fix it? Well,
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I how do we fix education in general? Dave? That's that's the
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million dollar question. But I have one hundred percent a full confidence in Gorden
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Gey, I really do. I've had several conversations with the man who he
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has. He has always had a plan. He is. He West Virginia
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is important to him. West Virginia University is important to him. He would
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never do something that would that would harm the students of WVU or harm WVU
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at all. Sometimes it just, you know, it takes a little bit
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of looking at the hard numbers and and a lot of it. You know,
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I think I think it was is it nineteen graduate programs? It was
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nineteen graduate programs that were cut, which affects about four percent of graduate students.
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Well, part of that problem we've talked about this for the last year
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or two with Gordon and with President Brad Smith at Marshall, is that,
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you know, you have all these universities that are offering online programs, online
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graduate programs. So people who are taking their graduate trying to get their masters,
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or doing doing it a graduate program, it's easy for them to access
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those courses online from home. You know, a lot of these people have
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families and that and they have a job already, and that's easier to do
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and it's a lot cheaper too. So a lot of those online programs are
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causing all of our universities to struggle with that and you know, with the
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eliminating a lot of a few of the majors and double majors. I think
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that was less than affected, less than one percent. You know, making
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cuts is never fun. It's never fun in anything you have to do.
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But you have to take a good, a good hard look at things and
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say is this needed? You know, And and a lot of times I
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think we look at the people instead of the position, and we look at
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the people instead of the program, and we really just have to look and
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say, if it's not needed, it has to go. And that's a
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really hard decision. But I think they're trying to do their best with what
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they have. So you're Grady. It's always a pleasure to talk to you,
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especially when we get into things that have to do with education, because
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that is your background. I appreciate it. We'll let you get back to
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it. Thanks a lot. We'll talk soon, all right, Thanks Daves,
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here before we get a break. A Senator Grady if she realized that an
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intelligent design is no science and that it's unconstitutional to teach it as such texts
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as the senators missing the point. People are transferring for athletic reasons. It
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has nothing to do with academics. Texas, the Republican super majority dropped the
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ball on the property tax issue, then to call a special session to correct
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something they should have had the foresight to see. They fumbled on the transfer
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rule. Let's see what you did there, which is a disaster. Republicans
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are reinforcing that they as a party aren't really good at policy. According to
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a texture, Texture says forty percent of LGBTQ kids contemplate suicide and they're moree
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calls of death for kids is suicide by gun? Well the Senator Grady done
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to address this? And what's her detailed plan going forward? Or is she
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just another right to life fraud Texas? Amy Grady is a champion for her
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Senate districts, sensible, fluent, and a great listener. Those of us
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in Putnam County strongly support her and support her for her reelection next year.
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We're gonna take a break. We have got speaking of Putnam County, the
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county clerk there, Brian Wood, who wants to be Secretary of States where
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Talking about Brian Wood, he joins us. Now, mister Wood,
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good morning, how are you sir, good morning, how are you,
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sir? Great, great to have you here, Thank you, thank you,
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thank you for having me. Uh So, first of all, I
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have to say, I'll follow you on social media and and you've you've been
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putting the miles on the on on the old truck out there. I've reached
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out to every every county and physically I've got nine more counties to hit,
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and and obviously we're revisiting those counties I've already hits. And you know,
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think about it is, Brian West Virginia is a small state, you know,
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compared to other states. But when we we I I've mentioned this to
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be before, it's a very diverse state. And what I mean by diverse
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is it's totally different world in mcdowe County than it is in Morgan County,
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Sir, Ohio County has nothing almost to do with Raleigh County. It's just
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it's it's very different depending on where you go, uh in the state.
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But I mean I've seen you, you know, a lot to various places
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you're down in in my my old stomping grounds down in Logan County. I
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saw that too, Yes, Sir, visited Logan Mingo boon and uh and
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caught the Winfield Chapman Bill game. Yeah, I'm well sure you're probably happy
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about that, right, Well, you know, I just love good football.
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I know. Yeah. You gotta say to them the politically correct they've
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been a Winfield guy. You gotta say, you don't want to make the
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people Chapmanville mad. All right, So, Brian, what are you hearing
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from the voters as you're out campaigning and what are you trying to tell them
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about Brian wood Wells. As far as hearing from the voters, once they
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hear my story, they love it. They love the fact that I have
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the experience that I have, that I'm committed to this office, that the
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dial has not moved from this office. They love the fact that, you
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know, I know the elections like the back of my hand. I've got
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twenty years experience and manage and safe, clean elections of Putnam County, and
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I wanted to do that for the state of West Virginia. So I guess
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when you're out there, what part of the thing. And I've said this
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on the show, Brian too, is when people think Secretary of State's office
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and I know something about it because I used to work there. People think
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elections, uh, and that that's what that's what gets the news. But
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but there's a whole lot more to it than just that. And I think
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sometimes you educate. I mean I found when I worked there, I had
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to educate people that didn't realize that's the secret that if you're a notary,
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it goes to the Secretary of State's office. That if you're part of a
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nonprofit organization, it goes through the Secretary of State's office. If you have
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an h o A. It goes to the Secretary of State's office. If
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you're gonna be process, yeah, all those things, and nothing becomes a
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law when you see the governor signing, you know, things on television or
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whatever. It's not that's just ceremonial. That means absolutely nothing until it goes
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through the Secretary of State's office. Right. And the Secretary of State's Office
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is a lot like the County clerk office in that we were main hats.
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You know, we're in charge of pay roll, bookkeeping, the financial statements.
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We're in charge of the record room and recording deeds and so forth.
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We're in charge of the elections obviously, and so there's no other job in
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the world I can think of that mirrors the Secretary of State's office as much
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as a county clerk's office. And that was going to be my next question,
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your experience as a county clerk. You think it'll it parallels, as
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you said, with the Secretary of State, because there's a lot of different
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things at a lot of things that are that are the same. It'll absolutely
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pay dividends for State of West Virginia. It'll pay dividends for that office.
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I'm the only candidate and we'll be the only candidate in this race that can
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hit the ground running from day one. I know the team in place,
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I know the vendors, I know the equipment. I know where we're at
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in the process as far as National change of Address, you know NCA,
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the different things that we know we're moving for right national change of address.
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Where we're moving forward with the process. Everyone else is gonna have to back
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up learning and it will be two years before they get caught up too.
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And two years is too much to wait. You know, it's not on
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job training program. We need somebody needs to know it from day one,
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especially with the world we live in with elections in election or if you are
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elected, and again we're talking with Putnam County Clark Bryan Wood is candidate for
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Secretary of State. Brian, if you are elected and you go in,
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what are some of the things on day one day, two day, first
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one hundred days and say say under the capital though that you would want to
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look at. Well, right now, I think we're moving in the right
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direction. Uh, there's sometimes where we need pauls for a second, dought
22:10
eyes and cross our tees. I'd like to do what we do better.
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Know that that our our state wide voter registration is shared up. Know that
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you know, it's it's easibly usable for the clerks throughout the states, so
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they can they can provide that service to the the public. You know,
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that's where it kind of all the starts in our state wide voter registration system.
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Once we do that, you know, our different apps and stuff like
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that from military voters and disabled voters. We want to make sure that you
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know it's is there any stop gaps there that's that's hindering the voter from having
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a smooth transition into the processing their ballot. If there isn't, wonderful,
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If there is, we need to fix those once we look at that and
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do what we do well, then we'll move forward in other directions. And
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we hear Brian across America about all of these, you know, real or
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imagined problems with with voting around the country. But West Virginia, and again
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I used to work there and I'm from southern West Virginia. Double whammy there.
23:06
So I've heard all of the stories in the past about this. It
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really doesn't happen in West Virginia these days. It doesn't. It simply doesn't
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happen. Voter fraud is not a thing in West Virginia. Well, you
23:17
never can take a out off the ball and you for you know, so
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we're not gonna say no never, because we prosecute to people for fraud.
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But if you look at it, the numbers compared to other areas. I
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degree, I believe our voters are confident in our elections. I believe our
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our our kunt of clerks are poll workers. The Secretary of State's office and
23:36
the staff works hard to ensure the voter integrity in West Virginia. We have
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good election laws in West Virginia, some of us due to our bad habits
23:44
in the past, and so can you learn from your mistakes, man,
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and we do, and then we do, and then you put those laws
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in place and you correct them and you go forward. So now we also
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know that a couple others that are in the race, Delegate Chris Chris Pritt
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from here Kanag County's and on the show. Former Delicate Ken Reid has also
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been on the show. There are rumors that there may be more to enter
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the race. How do you feel that you stack up against the ones that
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are already confirmed to join the race for Secretary of State? Bran You You've
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invited me a couple of times to be on your show, and I've told
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you, I've told you, well, no or other way it out or
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other way. I'm the kind of guy that wants to know what's out there
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and know what's going on before I get on the microphone and speak. And
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because I didn't, you know, one time they're running for this, next
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time they're running for that. They're not showing up to any of the meet
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to candidates. I don't know who's running, who's not running, what they're
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running for. Today, I'm here and I've accepted your invitation only because of
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what I've heard Monday the possible rumors. Okay, and I'll go ahead and
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address that. There is a I had former Delegate Doug scaff who just resigned
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from his office on Friday as a delegate. Uh. He certainly, if
24:53
you go back and listen to the interview, certainly sounded like he was going
24:56
to be a candidate for secretary of state. You your thoughts. It's free
25:00
world. He could be a candidate for secretary of state. But shame on
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the Republican if he switches parties. Shame on the Republicans if that happens.
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And you know this, this is and I don't want to sound like I'm
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a Republican. If you want a friend, you got a friend of me,
25:17
whether you're a Democrat Republican. But you know me well and you know
25:19
how I run my office in Putnam County. But the party system is in
25:23
place to try to educate the voters, to let them know where a candidate
25:29
stands as far as what their priorities are. And it's it's essential, especially
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in state races where the candidate may not be able to get out to every
25:38
voter, or the voter may not have time enough to educate themselves on the
25:45
candidates. So uh, this sticking your finger up in the air and seeing
25:49
which way the wind blows and deciding which you know, Okay, I'm going
25:52
to be a Republican this time, I'm gonna be a Democrat that next time,
25:56
and essentially lying to the voters for self gain. That's not where it's
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at. I've been a Republican since I've been registered to vote. I ran
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as a Republican Punnam County when they had thousands more voters than the Republicans did.
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And one because because I went out and met the people. They know
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who I am, they know what I'm about, they know my integrity,
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so you know I Doug is the was the Democrat minority leader. You know,
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he brought bills to the floor such as House Bill twenty eight fourteen,
26:33
which was in twenty twenty one, which is the Election Elections, Security,
26:38
Access and Monetization Act of twenty twenty one. Okay, and basically what that
26:44
is is a copy of a Washington S one and hr one, which basically
26:51
is a Washington takeover of our local elections. Let me just tell you some
26:56
of the things that are in in these bills, and no SCU absentees absentee
27:03
must be mailed. Absentee ballots must be mailed to every active voter drop boxes,
27:07
uh one per ten thousand voters. Different things like that. All the
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horror stories you hear in these other states about their elections, you know,
27:18
not getting their results on election night, is in this bill. And he
27:22
was standing there on the floor promoting this bill. And so Republicans, Conservatives,
27:30
Democrats that worry about our deggery of our elections, you need to look
27:33
and investigate and educate yourself on this because this is what he's promoting. Now
27:37
he'll say, well, I'm the I was the minority of the leader.
27:40
I had to go along with the team and this and that and whatnot.
27:42
But he said on your show, you are who you are. You gotta
27:47
be who you you, you gotta be. Well, we know what he
27:52
is because he's standing up there on the floors, and I just I care
27:56
too much about it, h you know, my my, I'm not sitting
28:00
back at home deciding, well, do I want to run, do not
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want to run, don't want to be a Republican, don't want to be
28:06
a Democrat. I'm out here asking for votes because I care about the integrity
28:10
of that office. And if I'm if a not Secretary State, then I'm
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gonna be the kind of clerk of Putnam County. And my my needle has
28:17
never moved. I'm not wishy washy uh. I care about our elections.
28:22
I care about the people of West Virginia, and I care about election.
28:26
It's not just for the Republicans, for the Independence and the Democrats as well.
28:30
And once once you hit office, the politics stop and the law is
28:34
the law, and you gotta you gotta go by the law, and I
28:37
believe in that. But to get there, unfortunately, it has to be
28:41
politics. I don't like it. It's not fun. It's you know,
28:44
this is it's it. And it's fun in the sense that I get to
28:48
see the people, meet the people, and that that that's a blastemy go
28:53
through a parade and seeing kids and all that. I love it. I
28:56
love it, every bit of it. But what's not fun is the aikiness
29:00
of the politics and the akiness of a state race because you got so much
29:06
wishy wash. You got people telling people just saying what they want to say
29:10
just so that they can get a vote. And I'm not that way.
29:12
I'll tell you exactly what I think. Hopefully we can agree. If we
29:17
can't agree, I hopefully agree to disagree. But I'm not. I'm not
29:19
I'm going to stand for what I stand for, believe in what I believe
29:22
in. With that said, I have open ears and I'll listen and I'll
29:26
contemplate your concerns and stuff, and if it makes sense, I will change
29:30
my opinion of what I think. But so I'm not steadfast, and this
29:36
is I'm always right and nobody else's nobody else is wrong. But at the
29:40
same time, I'm not going to tell you something you want to hear just
29:44
to get your vote. It's still early, Brian, and they haven't happened
29:48
yet, but I'm sure they will. Debates among secretary of state candidates.
29:52
Is that something when that happens that you're looking forward to? Yeah? Absolutely
29:57
absolutely, And there will be no other can that knows knows the equipment,
30:02
knows the processes, you know. Hopefully the the questions won't be skewed and
30:07
they'll be they'll be into the nitty gritty nuts and bolts of what what elections
30:11
in that in that office is about. And it won't be it won't and
30:17
it won't be something where it's generically this and that and this the person who
30:22
can can say what the voters want to hear the best. You want to
30:26
talk about the specifics of the office and the races. Absolutely, and I'm
30:30
confident that there's no other UH candidate in this race that it's going to know
30:36
as much about that office as I do, and about elections as I do,
30:38
and about managing the public office as I do with multiple multiple divisions and
30:44
stuff like that. I'm I'm not in Most of these candidates are in it
30:52
too. UH. I feel in it to advance themselves, to hire high
31:00
ground, governor Congress, whatever it may be. What if I get elected
31:03
Secretary State, I'll go on the record right now I will not run for
31:07
governor on or not run for Congress. I'm in it for Secretary State.
31:11
I'll serve one or two terms, three terms, and then whatever the people
31:15
will have me, and then I will go to the House or go do
31:18
something that you know, teach coaching kids or something like that. You know.
31:22
But right now, we've still got gas in my tank. I still
31:25
care about there, still care about this process, and I want to be
31:29
UH the next Secretary State and concentrate on that, and you know, as
31:36
county clerk, you're not allowed to have any other jobs, so you got
31:38
to concentrate on And that's fine, I understand that. You know, you
31:41
got concentrate on the people you serve. These other candidates they got law firms,
31:47
pharmacies, newspapers, things like that, you know, and so they're
31:51
concentrate on that, trying to get you know, their richest through that,
31:53
and then they're also trying to serve the people West Virginia. My sole thing
31:57
will be my family, my eight and and then and then conscious in the
32:01
office, you know, and so I'm dedicated to that office. I was
32:07
I was thinking on my way up here, you know, I was like,
32:08
I can see the commercial in the paper right or the cartoon in the
32:13
in the paper right now, you know, the little Derek Queen looking boy
32:15
with a dark hair instead of blonde hair, with a figure up in the
32:19
air saying which way the wind blowing? You know, as far as but
32:22
the problem is, you know what, guess what, he owns the paper.
32:25
So I don't we'll see that that cartoon, you know it you maybe
32:30
Allden'll pick it up. I don't know. But but as far as uh
32:32
as far as that goes, I'm not and I'll fight tooth and nail to
32:38
make sure that the conservative people out there, the Republican Party, that they
32:45
get a candidate that is as like minded as them and not us, not
32:50
just somebody that's what you washed you back and forth he ran for he ran
32:55
as a Republican as at a House of elegance in Wan County in the tooth
33:00
and two, I believe it was. He wasn't on the general so and
33:02
I haven't had enough time to investigate why, and I'm not gonna say anything
33:07
about it because I don't know just yet on why he wasn't on the general.
33:10
What's to say that he gives the nomination now Natalie Tenants on the or
33:15
somebody else's on the on the Democrat side, and any withdrawals, and then
33:19
now that gives the up bridge to the Democrat and then now we have a
33:23
Democrat Secretary of State because he withdrew like he did like it possibly did in
33:31
two thousand and two as a Republican, because he's still playing for the team
33:36
that he's been with for the last ten years. Let me close with this
33:39
because somebody had asked about it about One of the things that the Secretary of
33:44
State Mac Warner kind of prided himself in his office did with the help of
33:46
the county clerks, was was cleaning up the voter rolls and taking up taking
33:51
a lot of names off the voter roles. We had a text here that
33:52
somebody said that they did not support being taken off the rolls until the person
33:58
requests to be taken off. The problem with that is is that nobody,
34:06
there's very few that come back in and say, hey, we've moved from
34:09
West Virginia to here, West Virginia to wherever or and so forth. So
34:15
at some point you've got to clean these roles. You can't keep them rolling
34:20
rolling, rolling. One, it costs the money to the counties taxpayers dollars
34:22
because you got to buy you got a program ballots. You got to buy
34:25
ballots for each and every one of those voters. Uh So, so it's
34:30
important that we have some system in place. The system in place is kind
34:35
of a federal thing, not a local thing. It takes essentially two federal
34:42
elections plus another period of time prior to that that you've been been inactive.
34:47
So essentially it's like six to eight years before you actually can be removed from
34:53
the roles if you're inactive so U and then at that time we must send
35:00
you an NCOA card and we talked about that, or a national change of
35:04
address and we send you a card to the the address that you were currently
35:08
at. And and once once you get that card, you can melt it
35:13
back and say, hey, no, I'm still here, I want to
35:15
still be right, or no, I've moved, take me off the rolls,
35:20
or if we don't hear from you, we put you in an active
35:22
status. Was still can vote if you're still there, and that will put
35:27
you back active again. But if it's not. If you go to an
35:30
active status and you miss those two federal elections, that's the only time we
35:34
take you off. So there's this long period of time between now and then,
35:37
and if that I feel sorry, you know, if that voter missed
35:39
an opportunity to vote, I'm sorry for that. There's no kind of clerk
35:44
in the state or in the Secretary of State's office that wants a voter not
35:46
to be able to have their voice heard. But at the same time,
35:50
we have to keep the roles clean and secure. We gotta wrap it up
35:54
where can people learn more about your campaign? They can learn more about it
35:59
at wood WOD four, WESTFORDWV dot com, wood FORTWV dot com. Okay,
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also, you're vitible on social media to face well, yes, all
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Got a lot of texts to get to and I'm I got several things.
39:08
I need more time, Jeff car Hopey tell him I need more time,
39:12
okay, Uh. Anytime that I have somebody on, with all due respect
39:16
and I love my Texters, but anytime I have somebody on that is running
39:22
for statewide local office, we always get these national questions and I'm sorry,
39:24
but I'm not going to ask them. If if like the text says,
39:29
is Brian would a pro sex abuser, meaning a Trump Conservative. You know
39:32
that's we're gonna concentrate on West Virginia. We're not going to concentrate on national
39:37
things. When I have these folks on U. Text says one of these
39:39
politicians who quit their current job or after being elected, announced Candida to see
39:44
for another position, think that people will vote for them. I was unaware
39:47
that quitting h the acquitting the commitment was a West Virginia value. According to
39:53
a texter, A texture says, I will be voting for Brian Wood for
39:58
Secretary of State. He's an honorable man with no ulterior motives. He is
40:00
one of us. According to a texture, texas Dave, I don't believe
40:07
it would reflect well on West Virginia if a media mogul such as Doug scaff
40:12
was given the reins the state level office that controls are voting systems and procedures,
40:16
much different conflicts of interest in his prior role as a delegate. Let's
40:21
just keep in mind. No that you know, with all due respect,
40:23
Doug Scaff, who I considered to be a friend, had him on the
40:25
show on Monday. He did not say he was running for secretary of State.
40:30
He sounded a heck of a lot like he was going to run for
40:31
secretary of State. But that's not you know, he's look at it.
40:36
He said, the office has intrigued him. As far as the changing parties,
40:38
those rumors have been around with scaff for some time. I don't know.
40:43
He didn't want to answer it right now. He doesn't know what he's
40:45
gonna do. He told me off the air that there's going to be some
40:47
announcements made in the coming weeks and we'll just kind of wait from that.
40:51
A couple of programming notes. First of all, coming up on talk line
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with Hoppy Teno six delegate and candidate for governor More Capital, and I am
41:00
told told there's gonna be announcement of some sort from Delegate Capital that we don't
41:05
want to miss. That's first up on talk Line. Also More as I
41:08
mentioned earlier WVU News with Rob Alsoft on the show This show tomorrow. Judge
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Stephanie Abraham, who was recently appointed by Governor Justice to be the judge for
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the thirteenth Judicial Circuit serving Kanawa County, will be on the show tomorrow.
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my guest host this Friday on Friday Funhouse. Definitely looking forward to that.
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I understand we have a call, so let's go to the phones and let's
42:35
talk to Kenny. You're on the air. Go ahead, Yes, Dave,
42:39
you're talking about the Secretary of State's office. I noticed there's still one
42:45
person and hasn't decided whether she would run again, Okay, and that would
42:52
be Madly Nat Lieutenant former Secretary of State. And I don't know what her
43:00
ands are politically or anything like that, but I think it'd be a good
43:05
time for her to jump back in there since she knows basically everything there is
43:08
to know about that. And but uh, like I said, that's up
43:16
to her. I know she's had some medical issues and stuff like that during
43:20
the last year or so. Yeah. Well, and she's also been doing
43:23
some things I think on the national front, to uh, with the with
43:29
the Brennan Institute, and she's been doing some things with that. I don't
43:31
know, I have not I don't know. I don't know what what her
43:35
future plans are. I mean, the bottom line is it would be hard
43:37
for at this point, With all due respect of Miss Tenant or anybody else,
43:42
it's gonna be hard for any Democrat to be elected statewide and West Virginia
43:45
at this point. But hey, you know what, I think the more
43:46
people that you have running and the different parties the better, so best electacyccess
43:52
run. I would agree with what he said about being elected one party and
44:00
the switch and then I think we had a governor. Yeah, we've had
44:07
a few that seems to be that seems to be quite common. The governor
44:10
probably be the biggest of them. I meant that I'll leave it alone,
44:15
but yeah, No, you're right, and there have been several some members
44:17
of the legislature that have that have done it as well. There's a lot
44:21
of folks that think that that shouldn't be allowed to happen, that if you're
44:23
elected, you should have to serve and stay at least in that office.
44:27
What would your your take on that? If you're elected as an office to
44:31
an office, Kenny, as a Republican, I'll say, should you have
44:34
to remain a Republican? Yes, throughout that term and then you need to
44:38
run again as a Republican. That's what you want okay, all right,
44:43
well, Kenny, I appreciate your phone call. Thanks a lot. It's
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the high school transfer rule. Jeff Jenkins, Lead STORYWV Metronews dot com.
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You heard Delicate Data Farrell last week on this show and others have spoken out
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against it. Well, yesterday, Delicate Ferrell others at the Capitol announced their
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support of what's being called the High School Sports Integrity Act. Now you can
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read about it again and during a part of Jeff storywv Metronews dot com.
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It was announced during a press conference yesterday at the Capitol. Delicate Walld Hall,
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who represents an area around Saint Alban's, alluded to the fact that that
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Port Saint Alban's High School a triplate school based on enroll, but may not
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even be able to finish the seasons. How bad it is. Getting back
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to the Delicate Farrell, he believes that there is the support there to reverse
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it. However, if you heard Senator Amy Grady in the first part of
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this show, he says it's a no go in the Senate. So I
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suppose we are going to see what happens. DA text says mistake of the
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last text. I hear. The problem with DOH is Jimmy Riston and his
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leadership. According to a Texter, Texture says pretty weak that chucaddle these poor
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Republicans. You can't be asked to answer whether they support a sex abuser.
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If the candidate claims to be of good moral character, then whether they support
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a sex abuser is relevant. Are you ready to talk COVID again? Kariy
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Uta Sek has a story on the website remember states coronaviruses are Dr Klay Marsh,
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well, he was on. He's been talking vaccines again. Now the
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of the new Maderna Advisor boosters have been approved by the FEDS. The updated
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vaccines will be available for those eight six months and older now. Doctor marsh
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says that the new vaccine is designed to offer increased protection against the new omicron
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variant, which is spreading quickly as they say. There was a interview with
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doctor Fauci. Yeah, he's back in the news these days. I think
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he's a professor now at Georgetown University. Faucci urging people to get the booster
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but it's stopping short in fact of all, not saying there will be and
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he said there will be no need in his opinion, no need for lockdowns,
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mask mandates, et cetera, like we saw going back to twenty twenty.
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Of course, none of this matters in the world of social media or
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people are already posting that they will not comply with mandates, which not going
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to happen. So calm down, Karen's. But I do think a lot
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was learned from the last round of lockdowns, mask mandates, etcetera, etcetera.
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The experts seem to think that the masks may have helped, and we
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know the vaccines did. But as for the lockdowns, you know, I
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continue to ask the question was it all worth it? Talking about the lockdowns
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of what it did to this country, crippling and entire economy that we're gonna
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be a long time recovery ring from. And I think this story and the
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way we handled COVID is going to be studied for hundreds of years. I
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mean, you know, this is something of Courtunately, I don't have time
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to get into it right now, but I'm wondering, how how concerned are
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you about about COVID right now? I mean, it's out there, it's
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happening again, but it seems to be a whole lot milder. A lot
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of that is because of the immunity that people have gotten. A lot of
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people have already the majority of people I know I had it. I had
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at August of last year. This was after having the vaccine and the booster,
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And I mean to be honest with you. Had I not gone to
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a medical facility, which I rarely do, to be tested for it,
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I would have never even known I had COVID. I had a runny nose.
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That was it. I was lucky, and I'm not downplaying it because
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I lost one of my best friends at fifty years old who died of COVID.
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Was was very mild. Thankfully, other people weren't. Weren't so lucky.
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My thanks to all our guests today. Coming up on the show tomorrow,
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we're gonna have the new judge here in Kanna County. Stephanie Abraham is
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going to be on the show tomorrow. Ad rib Fest starts tomorrow. Hadad
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Riverfront Park and Charleston. We're gonna spend some time talking to the organizing,
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some of the people behind ripest Hobby coming up with a big enough it is
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from Dellinghamore Capito. That's top of the show with Hoppy, see you tomorrow
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till then for Hollywood, Jeff Petty, thank you so much. Till next
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