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05/04/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Dr. Jessica Ice, Mike Stuart, Kent Carper · The Dave Allen Show

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on the show this morning, Mike Stewart's going to be here, Mike of
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Courts, state senator and representing at least a portion of Kanaan County, and
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his district actually goes a little bit south of that too, and he has
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tone his hand to the ring for Attorney General of West Virginia. We talked
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to Mike Stewart about that. That's coming up a little bit later on.
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Also scheduled to speak to Kanaan County Commissioner Kik Carper two weeks in a row
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that I may have mister Carper on the air, say may because there were
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And I want to welcome into the show doctor Jessica Ice. She's been on
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the show before. She is executive director of West Virginia's for Affordable Healthcare.
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Doctor Good morning, How are you? Good morning? Thanks for having me
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again, Thank you for being here. Let's get right to it. There's
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a lot of talk of the news about some Medicaid legislations and decisions that are
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being made. One of the group's makings Noise is the group that you are
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with, West Virginia's for Affordable Healthcare. You're the executive director of that group,
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and I was reading from your press release here and feel free to jump
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in at any time. Your group is urging West Virginia's congressional delegation to vote
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no on a Republican proposal that would your group's wards take Medicaid coverage away from
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the people who do not meet the new work reporting requirements. Now, I
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hope I got all that right if it didn't correct me. What is the
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major issue here, doctor, Well, there's a couple issues that we're looking
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at. First of all, let's talk about the debt limit. The proposal
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to really harm West Virginia families is wrapped up in the debt limit debate,
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as you, as you and your listeners are probably aware, it's been in
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the news a lot lately. We've got a month to a couple of months,
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I guess to figure out this debt limit thing before we default as a
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nation. UM, but rocked up in that we're seeing things that really don't
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belong in the debt limit debate. Specifically of concern to my organization is UM
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this backdoor attempt to add work requirements to the medicaid program, and I would
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say, like a misguided attempt at at cutting our spending. And I mean,
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and I'm trying to take all this in and I mean this on the
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service and hear me out here, there would be some including myself, that
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that seemed that there's nothing wrong in asking that people that are able to work
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for benefits go ahead and fight me on that. Okay, First of all,
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I'll I would love two days. I would say that, first of
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all, most people on Medicaid who can work actually already do work. So
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in West Virginia that's over fifty percent. And those that don't tend to have
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other responsibilities like such as a caretaker to young people or elderly family members,
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they could have health conditions, etc. So most people actually do work.
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This is and I'll push back a little bit more because Medicaid is a health
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insurance program and it's disingenuous to tie it to work in the way that we're
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trying to at the congressional level. You know, Medicaid is an health insurance
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program for low income Americans. It is not a work program. It's not
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a get back to work program, it's not a workforce development program. It's
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an insurance program for low income Americans. And if we were to, you
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know, continue with the House bill that had passed that we saw passed last
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week that proposes these work requirements, the US Department of Health and Human Services
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estimates that two hundred and twenty thousand West Virginia Medicaid expansion and roullies are at
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lists a risk of losing their coverage, not because they're not meeting the work
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requirements, but because we are putting in place a bureaucratic red tape that makes
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this more of a paperwork requirement rather than a legitimate work requirement that actually helps
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low income West Virginia. And a couple of things I will say to that,
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and I agree with you. Well, one of the things I want
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to bring up that you brought up that I think a lot of people may
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not be aware of, and you are right. When we hear the term
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medicaid, we have a tendency think, Okay, these are all people that
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are doing nothing. The majority, or at least it's about I forget the
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exact statistic that you put out there, but about is it fifty percent or
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thereabouts of the people that receive medicaid are working? Is that right? Yeah?
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Here in West Virginia, over fifty percent. Okay, it's over fifty
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it's it's over fifty percent, as you said, um and so, And
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I think that's very important to note. And also when you throw out that
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we're bureaucratic red tape. In doing a lot of the reading of the information
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that you provided, in some independent reading on my own last night, I
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learned some things about this that you're not the only group that says this,
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that this is not really it may be while people may have this idea,
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Okay, we're going to put you back to work, you're gonna have to
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do this, the way that this is being attacked, in my opinion,
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based on my research, is that it is going to just create a lot
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more bureaucratic red tape and it's probably not the best approach. Would you would
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you agree with that? I would agree with that. You know, let's
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go back to the debt limit debate itself for a moment and then tie that
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in a little bit more. Since nineteen sixty, and this is probably in
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the press release we sent you, Congress has acted seventy eight separate times to
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either permanently raise, temporarily raise, or extend revise the definition of the debt
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limit. And this has been typically non controversial. It's happened forty nine times
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under Republican presidents, twenty nine times under Democratic presidents. So sliding in Medicaid
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work requirements is really just an attack on access to quality, affordable healthcare,
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you know, with particularly devastating consequences. Like I said, up to two
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hundred and twenty thousand West Virginia and role either at risk of losing coverage.
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And if we want to debate what helps people work, how we can grow
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our workforce and things, we can have that debate. That would be a
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wonderful debate to have their programs out there. There are policies out there that
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we know work. One that we know doesn't work is Medicaid work requirements.
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We've seen this in the past. We have actually a very good case study
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from just about five years ago when Arkansas imposed this paperwork requirement on people enrolled
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in Medicaid, and what we saw was not an increase in workforce participation,
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It was not higher wages, it was none of those things. What we
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saw was because of the paperwork burden, more than eighteen thousand individuals, individuals
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that's almost one and four who were you know, already working and were otherwise
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eligible for Medicaid lost their healthcare in just seven months, just simply due to
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the burdens and paperwork requirements and that additional level of bureaucracy. And like I
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said, it's the you know, these requirements are not about work, They're
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about paperwork and otherwise eligible patients losing coverage when they get caught up in this
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bureacratic red tape talking to with doctor just guys who's executive director of West Virginians
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for Affordable Healthcare here five eighty five. And I will say this, I
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know this from my time or in and around government. All the government loves
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the red tape into bureaucracy. They love it, they do. They might
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like it, but I'm not sure the people who have to really impose these
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would like it. And I don't understand that. You know, and this
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is a cost. This would be a cost to the state of West Virginia
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to even impose this. It would take time and money to even do it,
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not even to mention the hundreds of thousands of West Virginians that could potentially
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lose their healthcare coverage. Talk about your organization, as I said, you
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and others have been on the show in the past, its West Virginias for
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Affordable Healthcare. Well to tell us basically what the mission statement and what you're
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overall work is with the West Virginian's for Affordable Healthcare. Yeah, our mission
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is pretty simple. It is to promote policy that helps m West Virginians get
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access to affordable, equitable healthcare and we do that typically through the policy process
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as as advocates for good, well sounded healthcare policy, and so again kind
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of circling back here. You know your goals. You wanted our listeners to
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to reach out to their congressional delegations or just to make their voices heard if
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they if they don't agree with let's being proposed to talk about that as we
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close. Yeah, I was like, I was like, especially our senator's
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mansion and capital. Now and your your listeners can reach out and say,
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hey, it's time we put West Virginians first. If we want to talk
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about policies that actually support work and help people thrive. First of all,
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they've got to be healthy and Medicaid lets people do that. And then let's
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talk about things high quality job training, making childcare more affordable. Pastickly programs
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that have designed that have been proven to actually help people work. Cutting people
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off from their health insurance no way achieves that goal. Doctor Jessica, it's
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always a pleasure to talk to you. We will talk soon. Where can
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people learn more about your organization? Can you throw out a website or social
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media or something where they can learn more? Unically, we're on Facebook,
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just look up West Virginians for Affordable Healthcare. We're right there, or you
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can go to our website. We have a lot of resources. It is
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w v a HC SO that stands for West Virginians for Affordable Healthcare dot org.
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So w vh WVAHC dot org. Doctor Jessica Ice, executive director of
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West Virginia is Ford Affordable Healthcare. We will talk soon. Thanks a lot.
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welcome to the show State Senator now Republican candidate for Attorney General in the state
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of West Virginia, Mike Stewart, Good morning, sir. How are you
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hey great, I'm terrific. Thanks for having me, Thank you for being
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here. You made it official Tuesday night. You are now a candidate for
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West Virginia's Attorney General, in office now held by Patrick Morrissey. Why run
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for a g Well, I don't think there's anybody who's better qualified or better
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built for the job. Listen, I love serving in the State Senate.
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I took this decision very seriously. I traveled throughout my district. I spoke
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with stakeholders from Lincoln, Logan, Boone, and Kanall County, the counties
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I represent in the state Senate. I said, I'm conflicted here, right.
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I just won this landslide victory over this four term, sixteen year incumbent,
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well liked Democrat and a five to one Democrat district. I love serving
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in the state Senate. I have a big record there past more bills in
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my first sixty days than not to hit my opponent in this race, than
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has passed in six years in the state Senate. But they said, listen,
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we're glad you serve as our state senator. But you have an obligation
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to stop up right. West Virginia's under siege. And the Attorney General Patrick
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Morrisey has done this. Washington policies. Heck, we saw New York state
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band gas stoves yesterday. We see the Biden administration even going after hunters,
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let amo fishing, tackle climate crazies, fake news, gender confusion, all
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these issues that hit West Virginia. Whether you get the JAB or don't get
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the JAB, we have to have a strong attorney general that has the gumption
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and strengthen record to step up and fight for the people of West Virginia.
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That's been my record. I had a big record as US attorney. So
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the people from my district said, it's an obligation you have, and so
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I say this, and I mean this sincerely. I don't necessarily want the
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title of being Attorney General. I need to do attorney general. We need
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somebody with my record who can step in day one, get the work done
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and fight on behalf of the people West Virginia. What let me sort of
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play. I don't want to pay Devil's I because I just want to present
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another side here. So you ran for State Senates. You said you beat
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Ron Stillings, and Ron Stillings was a fixture in southern West Virginia, very
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well respected. You. You ran a race and and quite frankly, wasn't
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very close. I mean, you you beat Doc Stylings. But they told
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us I was supposed to lose it, And well, yeah, you're right,
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A lot of people did, a lot of people did. So you
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ran for that. You ran for State Senate um and and you got that
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position, and you were in the job three four months. Whatever, whatever
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the case may be. There may be those and you said that people of
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that district have asked you to run, and I don't. I don't.
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I'm not saying that they didn't. But what would you say to those people
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that that fought for you, that wanted to make you state senator now that
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you're possibly going to be switching roles and that you're I don't want to see
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you're leaving in behind, But I mean, you're going on to something else.
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The brothers perhaps no more important role in the state of West Virginia.
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You could even argue more important than governor the role of attorney general. I'm
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qualified for this job, no question, Nobody can question In fact, I'm
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probably the most qualified person in the state of West Virginia who's running or not
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running for Attorney General. And I have the record to back it up.
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Somebody said it's not bragging if you have the record to back it up.
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I have the record to back it up. Nobody in the history of West
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Virginia had ever prosecuted anybody at the Supreme Court. I prosecuted a Republican and
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a Democrat. I didn't care. If there's corruption, We're going after it.
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So here's what I say, and here's what they said to me,
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is you don't get to pick the timing of the challenges in your life.
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I didn't know the Attorney General was going to move out of that seat.
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But would you rather have and this is the question they posed to me.
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Would we rather have you as one of one hundred and thirty four in the
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legislature doing a great job force passing big bills. No first term senator has
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ever passed four major bills like I did, Or would we rather have you
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in the role of Attorney general where you can go back to that role you
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did as a US attorney and expand that at the state level and protect us
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when all this federal overreach is hitting us left and right. You need somebody
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like me who understands these challenges. And when it comes to the opiate crisis,
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the fentnyl crisis, listen, I carry it's genuine folks all the time.
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Or like it's a gimmick, it's not really. You gotta understand.
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The other night when I made the announcement, Melody Douglas and Joe were there,
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their parents of Victoria Douglas, who overdosed on a bad concoction of heroine
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and fentnyl. I carry those pictures to remind me every day of why I'm
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in this fight. It is genuine. I am from the hills and Hollers.
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I was never supposed to be At this point, I don't need another
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title. I'm doing this and the people in my district understand my passion to
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fight, to win, to make our lives better. And if we get
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a rhino or somebody who is weak, or somebody who needs to learn and
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the role of Attorney general, we're gonna step backward. We can't afford it.
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The forces against us are powerful, they're organized, they know exactly what
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they're doing. They're after our culture are a way of life. Heck,
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they're hitting our hunters. Now they want our guns. People can say these
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are just talking lines. This is real. This is real. And so
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when it came the idea of staying in the state Senate or serving as Attorney
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general, will heck, I'm gonna have to work again twenty four hours a
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day, every day of the year. That was a choice that was easy
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for me. I have to step up and assume the obligation of serving the
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people at Westford Jay and the role where my highest and best use can be
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used by the state and by my district. And I'll do great things.
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I'll work hard. Everybody knows my work ethic, and we'll continue pushing forward
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on issues like the op fentinyl crisis, federal overreach. I had some of
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the just elder abuse cases. I had some of the largest identity cases.
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I had the largest medicaid fraud case in the history of West Virginia. That's
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what the attorney general does here. This makes perfect sense. And then what
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would I do different with my background? One thing our attorney general doesn't have
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is criminal authority. In West Virginia. We need a champion who can organize
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statewide, the state effort with respect to opiates and fentanyl. Nobody better situated
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to work with our prosecutors, to work with community leaders statewide with criminal authority,
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to do the investigations that are needed and coordinate the response. Because right
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now we have fifty five efforts going on in fifty five counties. I've been
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there, I've done that. We need someone like me to do this job.
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What would that take to in order to do that? I mean,
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I think that's a great idea what you're talking about, bringing these fifty five
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counties together. But from a legal standpoint from somebody that's not an attorney you
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are, what would that take? Would it take any kind of change in
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law, in legislation? What would it take to bring all those groups together?
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So West Virginia is one of the states that doesn't allow its attorney general
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to have criminal authority. I'm not arguing for broad based criminal authority. I'm
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saying we need limited criminal authority, especially with opiates and fentel and to deal
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and organize and respond to this crisis. It's only getting worse every year.
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West Virginia's overdose rate twice per capita that of the next closest state. If
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you were to cut it in half, we still lead the country. It
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would take legislative authority. You're talking to a sitting state senator. That's worked
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pretty well. I've gotten four bills passed working with the Senate and the House,
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and the governor signed those bills. I know how to build teams.
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I'll make that argument. Hopefully they'll give me that authority. I have great
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respect, of course for the legislature and the governor and all those machines of
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government. But if I, for some reason would abuse that authority, they
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can remove that authority as soon as they give to me. But we need
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this coordinated response if we're really gonna try to take on this battle and make
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a dent in this crisis. That's not improving. Talking to Mike Stewart,
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who was a state senator and he announced on Tuesday night he's gonna be running
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for attorney general next year with the state of West Virginia, Senator, why
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do you think that your message has resonated so well that you were able to
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go in and knock off doctor Ron stylings, which a lot of people didn't
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see coming. Even with the Republican wave, we have in wester Ninia.
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A lot of people thought that would be a difficult task. You were able
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to pull that off and talk about that message. Why it's resonated so well,
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you think with people of that district, and now, how do you
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take that message and go statewide with him? Well, it's gonna be the
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same message basically, right, because you're you're telling me some of the same
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things I heard you say when you were run some of the same things that
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you were saying when you're running for Senate. It's basically it's basically the same
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a lot of the same message. Anyway, listen, it's it is the
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same message. Yeah. I was a former Republican Party chairman. I was
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Trump's co chair in twenty sixteen. I ended up being the US at any
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big record people know about that, I've talked about it. Don't think it's
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bragging if you can back it up, and I can back it up.
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In the state Senate past four major bills, but three of those dealt with
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the very same things that I talk about every day. Two drug bills updating
25:15
the Controlled Substances Act, putting zylazine zombie drug trenk in there. Listen,
25:19
it had not been updated in five or six years. Before I got there,
25:23
hadn't been done. But I went there, took over and worked with
25:27
the teams in both the Senate in the House. When we got it done,
25:30
passed a bill dealing with Delta eight, Delta ten, and out of
25:34
control over the counter drug market targeting our children. Now it's better. It
25:40
was great. I worked with great stakeholders across the board. We ended up
25:45
with bipartisan uniform support for where we ended up here my message. I'm originally
25:49
from Barbara County. I grew up in Morgantown. I've spent the past twenty
25:53
some years raising my kids here in Charleston. I think the reason my message
26:00
resonates is because I just am who I am. I'm comfortable in my skin.
26:03
I've got a passion to do good things, and I love the work
26:07
I've done. I don't think I'm done yet with the work I can do,
26:11
and I think people resonate to the positive, optimistic that our best days
26:15
are ahead. But we have to do the work. We have to prove
26:18
it out, and I think my record speaks for itself. People want results,
26:23
but they don't want or just politicians who are serving in these roles for
26:27
the next office. And so those folks would say, well, g Stuart,
26:32
that's what you're doing here. It's not what I'm doing here. Listen,
26:34
I'm very comfortable in the State Senate, and I stepping down for state
26:38
Oh listen, if you if something happens that you do not win, which
26:44
I know you're confident enough to say that you are going to win, and
26:45
that's fine. I like the confidence. But if something happens that you don't
26:48
win, then you're still state Senators. So you're not You're not stepping down.
26:52
I've got a four year term and I continue to fight every day for
26:56
my district. And so when I heard say, listen, you owe this
27:00
to us. Listen my district in all of US Virginia, but my district
27:03
in particular. You know this. You're from there, Lincoln Logan Boone.
27:07
We have been ravaged by the drug the overdose crisis, the poison peddlers coming
27:12
in from Detroit. We need heavy, coordinated action in this respect. We've
27:17
had great work done already, but nobody, nobody better situated, better prepared,
27:23
ready able. It's a serious job for serious person who's done serious things.
27:30
I've done those things and even the people from my districts say, you
27:33
know what, we love you as our state senator. You can't win with
27:36
the numbers I did and get the work done that I've done already, But
27:38
they said it's time to step up. Your obligation is to run for attorney
27:42
general. And I believe that. And I don't think we get to choose
27:45
the challenges when they approach us through life. We're hit with challenges every single
27:49
day. We don't pick the timing of those things. I didn't know the
27:53
Attorney general was going to run for governor, but when we see that vacancy
27:56
there, we can't afford to have someone week learning on the job, a
28:02
rhino or god forbid, a radical liberal. And the job of Attorney general
28:07
because what it does every day is protect the people of West Virginia. There
28:11
are more jobs in West Virginia today as a result of the work of Patrick
28:15
Morris in the suits that he's brought, some landmark suits. We work on
28:18
the federal level to protect West Virginians. I understand it. I've done it
28:22
before. I'm prepared to do it again. We do know that another state
28:27
Senator, Ryan Weld to Brook County, has announced he'll be running for attorney
28:30
general. Who's on the show a couple of weeks ago, could be more
28:33
entering the race. I mean, I think it's pretty safe bet to say
28:36
whoever enters the Republican's gonna win, you know, no matter what, no
28:38
matter what the office is. Between the two of you and mister Weld,
28:41
and I'm not asking you to trash him in any way, but between what
28:45
makes Mike Stewart a better candidate than Ryan Weld, Well, I think you
28:48
have to look at the voting records and who's really prepared to day of one
28:52
to be in that office. He's a fine young guy. In twenty fifteen,
28:56
when I signed onto the Trump campaign as the chair of that campaign,
29:00
he was passing the bar. Nothing wrong with that, But when you look
29:04
at voting records, right that transgender bill to let little boys play little girls
29:11
sports. He voted to allow that to happen. He refused to vote to
29:15
ban it. Campus Kerry, I was one of the folks that led the
29:18
charge on that this year. Regardless of what position you have, I don't
29:22
back away from my vote. I think it makes our schools and our states
29:25
safer. I believe in the second amendment wholeheartedly in committee in twenty nineteen,
29:30
he blocked it. He blocked it last year for the key abortion vote,
29:34
the most consequential abortion anti abortion bill in the history of the state of West
29:40
Virginia. He's a no vote. I can go through a whole host of
29:44
issues when it comes to COVID and the JAB. Last year, in a
29:49
twenty nine to five vote, he was in the five and he said that
29:52
listen, if you get fired from your employer because you refused to take the
29:56
JAB, you can't qualify for unemployment. In share there are big differences between
30:02
US form Energy, where we just gave three hundred million dollars of taxpayer money
30:07
to an unproven new company in the Northern Panhandle who stated as their goal to
30:14
end the burning of all fossil fuels, coal and natural gas. I was
30:18
strongly opposed and spoke on the legislative floor, the Senate floor and voted no.
30:23
That bill passed three hundred million dollars. You know, Arch Resources put
30:26
a long wall in for the Lear mine up in Barber County. They spent
30:32
four hundred million doing that. Nobody gave them a dollar to do that.
30:34
And there are five hundred and fifty jobs paying between ninety thousand and one hundred
30:38
and twenty thousand dollars a year today as a result of the work of arch
30:42
Resources. Listen, I'm pro coal, I'm pro natural gas. I don't
30:48
believe in this push down from the federal government. There are big differences between
30:52
us. He's a fine young guy. I just think voting records matter.
30:56
At the end of the day, I'm proud of my voting record. I'm
30:57
proud of my work as u US Attorney. But if you want to be
31:00
the attorney general representing the values and people of West Virginia, that voting record
31:06
matters. That tells you what your values are. I'm gonna go on a
31:10
fifty five county tour. We're gonna try to win fifty five counties. I
31:15
am fighting for folks like my mom and dad, my dad who was a
31:18
coal miner for fifty one plus years, and all those folks through Lincoln Logan
31:23
Boone that have been ignored, forgotten, and given no attention. Effectively,
31:30
we still have broad bases in West Virginia where there is no internet surface,
31:33
not a single bar. I just got to the state Senate past four major
31:37
bills who what's the comparative record. So I'd say this, I welcome all
31:41
comers. Let's talk about the issues. I think folks need to explain.
31:45
If you're voting to let little boys play little girls sports, that case is
31:51
pending in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Then next Attorney General is going
31:55
to have to go to the Supreme Court of the United States most likely defend
32:00
that bill that we passed, which is constitutional in West Virginia. I applaud
32:04
the legislature for standing up for women, standing up for fairness in sports.
32:08
But I would say when you elect the next Attorney general, you better know
32:13
their record. Yea, better know their record. I've got the right record.
32:15
I've got the right values to fight for our people. Mike Stewart's state
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senator who is now a candidate for Attorney General, working people. Learn more
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about your campaign. It's makewvgreat dot Com. MAKEWV great dot Com. I
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really listen, this is a campaign. I'm gonna need parade walkers, I'm
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gonna need envelope stuffers, i need volunteers. This truly is a citizens campaign.
32:36
I'm not the good old boy running for this office. As US attorney
32:38
you make a lot of folks pretty unhappy. I'm gonna need folks who have
32:43
my back, that fight for me, that fight for West virgin I give
32:45
you this assurance, just like I have my whole career. I will fight
32:51
for the people of West Virginia. I will do so honorably. I will
32:54
do so with their participation. I've always done things with transparency. And this
33:00
guy, this kid who grew up in that haller, that little white house
33:04
with a ten rough in Barbara County that looked across at that orange creek that
33:08
ran orange from ascid mind drainage. That boy that graduated from Morgantown High Listen
33:15
that the guy who's the son of that coal miner and my mom went to
33:19
vocational school and became a nurse. I'm the most plus guy in the world.
33:22
If I want to lose, I'm the most plus guy in the world.
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I want your support. I want you to get up behind this campaign.
33:28
This is a campaign of someone from and of West Virginia. Four West
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Virginia. Gotta leave it there. Mike Stewart will talk soon. Thanks a
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of Huntington Across Lanes. Ton of texts to get to Mike Stewart always listen
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to a lot of texts. I'm gonna get to him right now. I
36:38
want to welcome in knock Kanda Commission President Kik Krper. How are you,
36:42
sir? Well, I'm just fine. But this is a high enerview shows
36:45
for me. I don't know if I got Yeah, he's fighting out here,
36:52
little a little excited. But two weeks in a row, two weeks
36:54
in a row, I've had a pleasure of having you on the show.
36:57
Well, you invited me. I did because liked to be here. I
37:00
got something in particular I want to talk to you about. We're on.
37:02
I'm gonna take about five minutes of your time here because I want I've got
37:06
tool. I've got tool. As long as you want. Well, I
37:09
don't, unfortunately, So all right, So you're normally a jovial guy.
37:14
You always got a smile on your face, but you're not happy with West
37:16
Virginia American Water Company right now. Well, this is a family show,
37:20
so I can't throw up yes, please don't please, don't get me fired.
37:24
And I know what I want to hear. It's always the same thing.
37:28
Whenever they raise their rates. The water company always run commercials making you
37:31
feel good about paying your water bill. Well, I don't know about your
37:36
listeners. I don't feel good about paying what I believe to be if not
37:39
the highest, one of the highest water bill rates in the state, if
37:44
not this whole geographic carrying. Now the water company has this table to come
37:49
out and say I'm not right on that, but look at your water bill
37:52
listeners and see if you agree with me. It's your water bill is just
37:54
too darn high already and you're get ready to raise it again. Now here's
38:00
what I think is the latest kick in the teeth by Western American Water Company.
38:07
They called my office because we're partners at the water company. We the
38:10
Canall County Commission Commissioners slanging Gun commission Wheeler and I do business with the water
38:15
company all the time. We do joint projects together. So it's been a
38:20
long standing practice. If they're going to seek a rate increase, they call
38:23
us up and give us a heads up. They did give us a heads
38:28
up before they did this. They called my office courthouse at five twenty.
38:35
Well, it doesn't matter, it's five twenty twenty and I mean, it's
38:37
a cornhouse. And then then they called back five minutes later and let the
38:43
voicemail at five twenty five. Then they sent their press release out at five
38:47
thirty. The idea of that was so we couldn't respond to it. Here's
38:52
the bottom line. They're going to say, Listen, this raise is necessary.
38:58
Our investors need a reasonable way to return. We've spent millions of dollars
39:02
fixing up the system, and someone has to pay for it. Surely we
39:07
shouldn't. Well, I think you have to take look at the whole thing,
39:12
look at the salaries, the bonuses, the perks, the profitability the
39:16
water company. And even if it's true that this money needs to be put
39:22
in their system, they let their system fall apart, fell last twenty twenty
39:25
five years, and now they're trying to make up because it leaks. Like
39:29
I said, at the end of the day, seniors people and fixed incomes
39:35
simply can't afford these bills. Now, what's ridiculous about this one? I
39:39
can't tell you now how much the increase really is. The way they did
39:43
their press release, I believe it was that Charleston Ze headline said three hundred
39:47
men. Well that's what it looks like to claim now it's only fifty million.
39:53
I think, Yeah, what I have here is this three hundred and
39:55
forty millions? Well, I said, I'm govern around the all right,
40:00
go ahead, But let me tell you one thing. Whenever they tell you
40:02
your bill is going to go fifteen dollars a month, that really means twenty
40:07
because what their average customer, their numbers never add up anyway. The way
40:10
they do it here is here is what I sincerely believe one of three things
40:16
has to happen. And I would encourage you everyone who's in the House or
40:22
Senate or wants to be in the House or Senate or anything else, to
40:25
answer this question. Why doesn't the legislator do what I've asked them to do
40:30
for over a decade cap utility bills? Cap utility bills? So now you
40:37
you've actually presented okay, you've actually presented to what is I mean, I've
40:40
other than none? What has been their response. They tell you about it
40:45
right now, crickets. Okay, some of them will will introduce the bill,
40:50
and I'll give them credit for that. They'll introduce the bill and it
40:52
didn't go anywhere. Remember you've got a supermajority and they can do anything.
40:58
They could. They could do something utility bills. It's the legistator wants to
41:01
number two. If they don't, then the Public Service Commission ought to either
41:07
start capping utility rate increases, denying them, or the Senate needs to hold
41:14
them accountable. Remember the Senate does the confirmation to the Public Service Commission.
41:19
Right. The third thing is you remember the great debate every what was that
41:23
failed thing of the last election day? The amendment set, Oh, Amendment
41:28
two. Remember what we were told by the leadership on AMMO two that people
41:34
have a right to vote. I agreed with that. Remember saying when I
41:38
put this on the ballot, you're you're saying we should put it on the
41:43
ballot. A legislation that would cap utility bills. Yes, okay, I
41:49
mean the utility bills run. I mean, by my calculations, conservatively in
41:55
the last twelve months and not the last week, proposals for utility rate increases
42:01
are an access now in West Virginia of one billion dollars with a beam,
42:08
correct with a b with the beach with a beam. The beach stands for
42:14
something else too, that this it is a family show, which really is
42:17
just thought it be. I mean, I respect our legislatures, and frankly,
42:22
I had a privilege of seeing UH Senator Blair and UH speaker hands off
42:28
the airport the other day. I was delighted to have them there, and
42:31
it was great what they did for Canall County, West Virginia. But it
42:36
is time to have a discussion about this. All you hear is we're never
42:39
gonna raise taxes. We're holding time. It's all good, But isn't this
42:45
a form of a tax I mean, well, I guess you could look
42:51
at it that way. But but but but it's also it's I mean,
42:53
they're what they're gonna say, and and I am sorry, I do have
42:57
to wrap this up because I got some other things to get to it.
43:00
What they're going to say is is that these bills and these raises and whatnot,
43:04
Commissioner are are needed for the infrastructure, but they have to do that.
43:07
I think that's true. In my family business, which I'm not a
43:12
part of it. We've been in business in this county for over one hundred
43:15
years. I will guarantee my brother runs it and I have no part in
43:19
it. I'll guarantee he could use a new roof right now, but he
43:22
can't go out and put a roof in. Gets to take his time and
43:24
patch it and live within these means. They don't have to live within their
43:30
means. The water companies own out of New Jersey, they don't care about
43:34
us. The power companies owned out of Ohio, they don't care about us.
43:37
They are a monopoly, and in a monopoly, they're regulated. Whether
43:42
you'll like it or not, They're a regulated monopoly, and someone needs to
43:45
start regulating these escalating bills. People can't afford it. Dave good Way to
43:52
leave it. Sarah. Is always a pleasure to have you on the show,
43:54
and we will talk soon. Thanks a lot, okay, and I'm
43:58
not running for attorney ready for Attorney general. Noted County Commission President Kent Krper
44:02
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on the show tomorrow. Another day, another school closure in Knau County.
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The board had a public meeting last night voted five zo to close Grand View
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Elementary School will close at the end of the next school year twenty twenty three
47:17
twenty twenty four. Those kids will now be split between Mary C. Snow
47:21
and Edgewood. Tuesday, of course, the vote of the board voted to
47:23
close of Marmatt. Those kids would go to Chesapeake. It was held.
47:29
That public meeting was last night at westid Midi School. About one hundred people
47:31
showed up. Complete story about it posted at WCHS network dot com and the
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final hearing on the third school slated forclosure will be tonight. That's the closure
47:42
of Wimer Elementary and consolidating those students into two other schools. That meeting will
47:45
be held at five o'clock at Saying Almans High School. I'm sorry. At
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of course have complete coverage of the meeting WCHS network dot com and on our
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47:59
to down. I'll try to get into this next week about more low income
48:02
housing coming to the Charleston area. It's gonna be where Charleston department store was.
48:07
Again, big story in the gazette mail this morning. I'm going to
48:08
try to get into that in the coming weeks. So it's just so much
48:13
to get to. But I want to get to all these texts because Mike
48:15
Stewart's interview elictit to a heck of a lot of texts. Bear with me,
48:19
rapid fire, Rhino. We're gonna go through these as quickly as I
48:22
can to try to get into these texts. A text says, this man
48:24
talking about Mike Stewart sounds very, very, extremely bigly humble. I think
48:29
that was supposed to be sarcastic. Texas, Mike, if you like an
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attorney general, please keep recreational marijuana illegal, Texas. Mike Stewart's gonna wipe
48:37
the floor with liberal Ryan Weld. According to a texture, Texas says some
48:43
quotes from Mike Stewart who fail to give any credit to the team that supports
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him or his co senators. He's not a one man show. The quote
48:51
is humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will zig Ziggler and humility is
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nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but Lyne Saint Vincent de Paul.
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According to a text or textas and Mike Stewart is built for the AG job.
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No one else has the resume, experience record, or pedigree to compare.
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West Virginia cannot afford to hire an ineffective amateur for the AG role.
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Text says Dave. Mike Stewart will be a great choice for Attorney General.
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He's a man with integrity and common Conservative since texts says blah blah blah blah,
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good job regurgitation, far right talking points won't be voting for this one.
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Talking about Mike Stewart, tex says Senator Stewart has been an amazing advocate
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for West Virginias. He stood up for the workingman and will do a great
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job as AG of West Virginia. Text says Mike quit using the death of
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people from drugs to promote yourself and then turn around and claim some people's way
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of life is wrong. You're part of the problem, not the solution.
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Disgraceful. According to a texture texture says Berkut, Stewart doesn't have the guts
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to ad met that he that the disgraced Trump will that Vice President Pence could
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unilitedly declare who won the presidency, or that the fake ellector's plot was an
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attempt to steal an election. He's blank pathetic. He had a cup of
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coffee in the Senate and now already wants a power grab in the AG's office
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to give him criminal authority. As to the bureaucrat, Steward to name the
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specific groups that ask him to abandon his Senate seat. He's lying that any
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voter asked him to ask him why it's important to fight to save bump stocks
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like those used by the Nevada shooter to kill fifty eight people. According to
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a text or texture says, Mike Stewart has proven he is effective and has
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the people of West Virginia in his best interest. This isn't time. There
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isn't time in our state donation for voters to hire someone that needs to learn
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the robes. Mike Stewart a true conservative candid. Why do I feel like
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I should be charging money for all of these for all of these texts,
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I'm rady. Text says I want to know that whoever takes over the AG
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and Treasurer's offices that they will continue to fight against ESG and the World Economic
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Forums, global overreach and destruction of the US Constitution. According to a texture,
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textus says, appreciate your passion and conviction, Stewart, but I would
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prefer that your team skipped the extremism and the social freedoms. And you're whistleblowing.
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It makes you sound less intelligent than I suspect you are. According to
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a texture, Stuarts has a texture pushed for guns on school campuses, that
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pushed for child marriage. I'm for Stewarts Senate District, and I would like
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for him to step away from West Virginia politics and disappear from public life.
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Stewart is bad for business and bad for the people of West Virginia. Tex
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says, all I'm hearing from Mike Stewart is me, me, me only.
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I'm qualified only I could do this and me me me, just by
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listening to Stewart. I know who he's all about. Texas. West Virginia
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is undersieged by religious nut john crazys like Mike Stewart. Will Stewart, says
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a texture go after the price gallaging oil companies is ag shelb Oil made nine
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point six billion dollars in profit and gets billions and subsidies also known as free
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taxpayer money. So gas shouldn't be close to four dollars of gallot. Some
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of the billions of profit and subsidies should be passed along to the consumer via
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lower prices. Isn't that part of your job? Mike Stewart makes me physically
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ill. Please stop people reading breakfast according to a taxter, All right,
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gotta leave it there. My thanks to Attorney General candidate and say Senator Mike
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Stewart for being here. Also doctor Jessica Eyes for West Virginia's affordable healthcare and
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Kanah County Commission President Kent Carper coming up on the show to mark guest so's
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Travis Willard is here. Uh and uh we'll have our adopt me please.
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Pett of the week as a well five and helive brought to imparted by husbands
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Pizza We appreciate those folks as well. Gotta go see you tomorrow. Until
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next time, have fun and love somebody. Sam six point five, then
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Charleston one four point five Cross Lanes, w VRC Media Station. We are
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proud to live here too,