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03/05/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Chief John Smoot, Kent Leonhardt, Melanie Rucker · The Dave Allen Show

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Commission Kent Leonhardt is going to stop by. They recently wrapped up had a
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couple of weeks ago the Farmer's Market Winter Blues they call it over at the
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Conlin Seem Convention Center. So we're going to talk to the state ad commissioner
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about that. And we have a candidate for magistrate here in Canawa County.
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Her name is Melody Ruckers. She'll be stopping by as well. I didn't
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get a chance to get into this whole thing with Joe Manchin that happened on
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So let's go back to the election of twenty twenty two. Voters of
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Putnam County were asked to either vote for or against a fire and Ambulance levey
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that would have change the way that fire fees are assessed in the county.
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Now voters do not approve it by a large enough margin, and now when
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they go to the ballot box this year, they'll give me asked to reassess
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the issue. John Smooth is with us right now, and he is with
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the Tays Valley Fire Department. Is that right? Yes? Sir? All
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right? And did I get the intro right on that? Yes, sir?
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Okay? All right, Well good I'm bat in one thousand. Then
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good morning, welcome to the show. Chef, Good morning, thanks for
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having so explain to us. Basically, I mean you said I set it
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up, okay in the intro there, but how does this whole thing work?
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Okay? So the last attempt that we did for the levy on the
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November twenty two ballot came in somewhere between fifty two and fifty three percent,
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and at that time the sixty percent was required, so you know it didn't
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meet that that mark. So it's up again in May, and it is
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this time it is solely going to Putnam County Fire Service, okay, and
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it will be two point five million. And the biggest thing that we have
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on our really agenda is to create a better answer for our staffing woes that
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we have in the fire service really across this country. Now, why is
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that? Why are I mean because back when you were and I know everybody
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can't have the quote unquote sexy exciting job. But back when you were a
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kid, when I was growing up, everybody wanted to be a fireman or
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a policeman or something. But why are more people not wanting to go into
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these fields. I think it's a lot of things that I think it really
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took a spiral after COVID, the demands that were placed on first responders and
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what we were walking into. And you know, a lot of people thought
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that was a lot of unknowns and they just really don't find it appealing to
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come in that kind of business anymore. So why didn't it pass in your
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opinion of Putnam County in twenty twenty two? Why did not pass a large
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enough margin? Because I mean, you know, I live in Putnham County
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and it's an area that I would think would be all about this sort of
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thing. I mean, I don't care to tell you, I'm my wife
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and I both voted for it. Why do you think it didn't get the
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numbers? I wonder if we were out early enough to get the message out
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enough. I wonder if we were in the right places to get the messages
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out, and we were working on a real tight time window, and we're
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not a whole lot different this time either, And it's just dynamics that we
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could not do anything about. But I think it had a large part to
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do it. Okay, So what is that message that's why you're here on
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the show today, John, what is this message that you want to get
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out to the residents of Putnham County. Well, Dave, you know,
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I think we can go back to some of the experiences that Tays Valley has
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had. And in twenty twelve, we realized that we no longer could do
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it as a volunteer apartment. We were running about a thousand calls a year
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at that point. We were getting out about fifty percent of the time,
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and it's just because we didn't have people to do it. And then sometimes
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even when we went out, we didn't go out with enough people to handle
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the job. And so there was really obstacles that has been into making for
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over a decade now. So our answer to it we went to seek staffing
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grants. We put people on duty twenty four hours a day, they were
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paid and we started building the system from really the ground floor up. A
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year later. After we did that, then we answered every call that came
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in. We saw fifty percent increase in calls that year. We went up
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to fifteen hundred and now we're wrestling with the four thousand mark. And you
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just can't do that without people. We have good equipment, we have good
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vehicles, we just do not have people to ride them and to work the
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equipment. And without the people, you can have all you want, but
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if you don't have the people to do the work, and AI is not
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taken over this part of the Absolutely, they haven't done that yet. Absolutely.
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Yeah, we're talking to do John Smooth about this upcoming what's now going
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to be I guess a solely for the fire department. It will on on
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the way that the wording is going to be from what it was on the
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ballot, John, in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four, you said
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it's going to be just for the fire departments. Now, yes it is.
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Okay, Explain that the last time it was on the ballot, it
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was a three million dollar ask and at that point, one point eight million
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was to go to the fire service, one point two million was to go
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to the MS system in Putnam. And through the time between then and now,
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it was decided that the fire service would enter into this referendum by itself.
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And that's what you really need to look for on the ballot and completely
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understand that. And the biggest demand for us is like again, people m
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and it eats up most of the budget. Of course, in any business
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setting, we don't want to, you know, play the fear factor game
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here. But what if this fails this time around, John, what could
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potentially happen for Putnam County residents? Well, the same thing that happened in
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the Two Valley community in late summer of twenty three. We were running into
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funding issues. We're trained to supply emergency medical services to the community whilst providing
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funding to staff fire trucks. That is a difficult balance to reach. And
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the oddity about that is is that the money that we generate out of the
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fire service fees now cannot be used for salaries due to state statute. The
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money that volunteer and combination fire departments get from the state through our insurance premium
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surtax, we can't use any of that money for salaries. So when it
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comes to staffing, there has to be something else made available to take care
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of of the people part. And so you're hoping that voters past this this
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time around that that should hopefully take care of it, Yes, sir,
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And this will be on the may It will be on the May about So
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it's a yes or no. Yes, sir, it's a yes or no.
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And this time around, does there have to be a percentage wise like
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there was last time? We're fairly certain that it needs to be a fifty
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plus one fifty plus one this time around. I posted some information that I
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got from the Facebook page on my Facebook page Dave Allen Radio. So if
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the listeners want to go and read more about it, they can, But
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is other than that, I mean, what are you doing for educating people?
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You said, maybe you didn't get the message out last time. You've
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been out talking to civic groups, church groups. What have you been doing
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on social media? And then we will be in frontacivic organizations as well.
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Over the next time, you're'll be heading up the rotaries and the kowanas and
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things like that. I'll leave, so I'll give you the final I do
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this with my political candidates. I do something I call the final thirty where
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I give them thirty seconds uninterrupted to talk about why people should vote for them.
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So I'm going to treat you like a political candidate. Now I'm going
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to say, in your opinion, how important is this job? Well,
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it comes back to the staffing issues, and if we do not have people
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to do the work for the demand that's being presented to us, we are
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just not going to be able to offer good service. So, if you
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care about your community, if you care about your family, if you care
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about your friends, Tay's Valley experienced a loss. We went from a twenty
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four hour staffing to a twelve hour staffing on on fire apparatus, and that
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is creating obstacles. But the staffing is required. We again, we have
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really good equipment to do our work, but we do not have the people,
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and the people are not wanting to come into business. So that's it.
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It's bottom line, all right, John, I appreciate you being here.
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John Smooth, I appreciate you being here. And again with voter is
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go to the ballot box. I still call it a ballot box. It's
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not really a ballot box. And were Brian Wood wouldn't like that. When
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I say a ballot box, it's a when they go to face their computer
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screen, I guess in May they'll be seeing that. John, I appreciate
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you being here. Man, Thanks a lot, all right. The Dave
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who is a candidate for magistrate here in Kanawk County. Want to welcome into
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the show down State Agriculture Commissioner Cant Leonhard. Good morning, sir, Welcome
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to the show. Good morning, Dave. Thanks for having me on.
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It's a beautiful day out there. It looks like so far well, and
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you're a farmer, so you would know what a beautiful day is, right.
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Yeah, we worked every day of the year, but beautiful days are
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always welcome. They are indeed. So you were just on a couple of
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weeks ago, Commissioner, but I promised to have you back because I wanted
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to talk about the Winter Blues Farmers Market over the Kttle Seaman Convention Center a
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couple of weeks ago. How'd it go? Oh? It was so incredible.
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In two years, we've almost doubled the number of vendors and doubled the
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sales. Attendance continues to grow. We're estimating somewhere between five thousand and six
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thousand people showed up this time. And I want to take a moment,
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Dave, to thank all the listeners out there that attended, and everybody in
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the Kanal Valley or traveled as far to get to this year's market. It
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was a great event. All the comments we've gotten have been super and I
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want to encourage everybody to put it on their calendar for Saturday, March first,
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twenty twenty five. We're going to do it all again. Talk about
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some of the places that people came from. I mean they came from Obviously
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you're going to pick up people from here in the Kanal Valley because of the
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location. But people, I mean, people came from all over for this
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thing. Many did, and I saw some legislators from all the eastern Panhandles
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showed ups. Well they're already in town. But the support was just incredible.
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The sales were super We had more variety. I would say, people
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came from about every corner of the state. Well that's good, that's exactly
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what we're that's what we want to see, and we want to bring them
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into town. We want them to spend some money why they're here, and
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that we want them to spend some money at the Farmer's Market, which they
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did. They did, they certainly did. I mean we had the highest
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sales ever. We had over one hundred and forty thousand dollars. It's a
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twenty percent increase from last year. And all that money goes back into the
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pockets of the vendors there. The department doesn't keep that or anything else it
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all goes to them and helps them. It bridges that gap that they have
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during that slow period from the fall leading up to Christmas and then when things
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start to pick up again in the spring. So it's welcomed by the vendors
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and it's certainly been welcomed by the citizens of West Virginia. Talking to say
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us, sir, what are you working on next? Well, we're actually
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starting to get ready for the States Fair. We're starting to do all the
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planning. We've started the planning that starts the day after the last they're in,
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right, but that's going to be in August. They've got a great
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lineup of entertainers for the evening. Those shows are always good. And then
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we also have a lot of other fairs and festivals coming up. We've got
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the Strawberry Fast coming up in May. That's one of the early ones.
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And just there's like one hundred and seventeen fairs and festivals in the state of
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West Virginia and they're all throughout the state. I wish I could go to
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everyone. I get to as many as they can as we promote agriculture throughout
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West Virginia. Everybody's got to fest everybody to go to them. Everybody's got
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a festival. That Strawberry Festival is huge. That's Buckcannon, right, that's
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in Buck Cannon. And we're getting strawberries earlier and earlier now in West Virginia
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with our high tunnel technology and all. So more and more growers are growing
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strawberries in the state of West Virginia. And I hear that there's maybe some
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others getting ready to start soon as well. So we'll look forward to some
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of those announcements in the future. Commissioner the Cavender says, technically it's still
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winter time, but you know, we're going to change the clock to this
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weekend people, I think, especially with the weather we've had here in the
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Kanaal Valley of the last couple of days, you reference it as we started
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the top of the segment, So I think I think people are now kind
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of in springtime mode. What does spring mean in the world of agriculture in
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West Virginia, Well, the spring is what you know, some of the
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old timers used to call it green up time because that's when everything, you
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know, the leaves come back out, the grass starts to grow. You
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don't have to feed your feed hay in the winters, and the animals can
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feed on more nutritious fresh green grass, not less supplements needing. It's also
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a matter of new birth. It's you know, when our a lot of
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the animals and the wildlife are born in the spring. A lot of people
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will cave in the spring to time it with what nature used to be.
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So spring is like a new birth. As the beginning of the new year,
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you come of the dolphums of winter. Attitudes improved because you know,
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the shorter days, less sunlight, gloomy doesn't always help our mental attitudes sometimes,
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but when you get longer days and you get outside in the bright sunlight,
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mental health improves, and it's just like I said early on, it's
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a time of birth and new birth and new growth. The Commission, it's
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always a pleasure to have you on the show. And again, hands off
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to you and your staff and all of the vendors really, as you said,
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the volunteers and everybody that went into making the Winter Blues Farmer Market such
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a huge success a couple of weeks ago at the Kyle Semen Convention Center.
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No, it's going to be a busy time for you and your staff.
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As you said, spring means rebirth and everybody's out there doing all the stuff.
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I appreciate you being here, sir, Thanks a lot, thank you.
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And I want to say thank you to our partner in this with WVU
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Extension Services. We all work together, couldn't do it without them, all
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right. I appreciate you being here, sir. We'll talk again soon.
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Thanks a lot, Thank you, Dave appreciate it. State Agriculture Commissioner Kent
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Melody Rucker is going to be here. She is a candidate for magistrate
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here in Kadan County. We are going to talk to her. A little
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programming note, because you know, I'm constantly moving things around with the show
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and so on and so forth. Just got word that we are going to
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have US Senator Shelley Moore Capito on the show tomorrow. Her office just got
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with me literally while I was on the air here, and so thanks to
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the thanks to the ability to do text team and things of that nature while
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you're on the air, you can work that out. But again, Shelley
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Moore Capito is going to be on the show coming up tomorrow. Also on
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the show tomorrow, we're going to get a check in with Brad mclhenny.
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As we start to wind down today as the sixty eight legislative session, there
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may be a special session it's looking like in May, but we're gonna talk
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to Brad about that. And he is the chief deputy in Kanawha County for
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the show now, Melody Rocker, who's a candidate running for magistrate in District
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twelve in kanahk County. Melody, welcome to the show. Thank you,
28:47
thank you for being here. Explain to the listeners, and you and I
28:49
were talking about a little bit during the break, how exactly do these districts
28:55
work in Kanawk County because it's actually changed over the years. Join that.
28:59
Yes, back in to twelve, we ran as what was called a pack
29:03
where you had the Democrats and the Republicans. So then you would have a
29:07
runoff in May, and then you would go in November to have the general
29:12
work ten. Yes, you would pick your ten. Now they changed that,
29:17
I believe it was back in twenty sixteen. They changed that to where
29:22
we have divisions, so it doesn't matter where you live or anything like that,
29:27
you just picked the division that you're running in. And then also for
29:32
the voters to know, they added three magistrate spots this time, so instead
29:37
of ten, we actually have thirteen divisions, so you got thirteen different folks
29:42
it'll be yeah. And are they all up at the same time every year,
29:47
yes, so they're not staggered in any ways. What you're saying,
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right, everybody's up at the same time. Now are you registered? And
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I only reason I asked this or is you're registered? What your party is?
29:55
Because if I don't ask, even if it's judicial, even if it's
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magisterial, I get a text somebody saying you didn't ask what their party was,
30:02
so you cared to diulgent. Oh I'm great with that. I am
30:06
a Republican, okay, all right, Again, it's one of those offices
30:10
that it really doesn't make a difference. However, However, when I have
30:12
a guest on the show, somebody always said, you didn't ask whether they
30:15
were Democrat or Republicans. So you are registered to Republican. So why do
30:19
you want to be a magistrate? Well, actually I have twenty years of
30:22
its twenty plus years as a magistrate assistant. Okay, okay, Now what
30:27
does a magistrate assistant actually do? A lot? Besides as system magistrate,
30:32
I got that party. They do everything that the mangistrate does except make decisions.
30:38
Okay. The magistrate makes the decisions and you make all the magic happen
30:42
behind the scenes. So you are in criminal, you're in civil domestic violence.
30:52
Honestly, the magistrate and the assistant if you are arrested, you are
30:56
the very first person. You're the front lines of the court system. Whether
31:02
you have a traffic ticket or you're accused of murder, you're going to come
31:07
and see the magistrate first. So and you've been doing this for how many
31:11
years? Was twenty plus years? So what made you decide Okay, now's
31:14
my time? Actually I ran in twenty twelve and a couple of other times.
31:18
So, and everybody knows Conall County is a big county, so you
31:23
have to it's going to be magic if you win the first couple of times.
31:30
So, I mean, it's a lot of ground to cover, Yes,
31:33
there absolutely is. So I have been there. I knew from probably
31:38
the first couple of years that I was there, I wanted to be a
31:41
magistrate. And I've worked under the direction of Ward Harshbarger and Tim Howerin.
31:48
So I came back and worked with Ward when he came when he came back,
31:53
and I just I like helping people. I like that ass because you
32:00
know when people come through those doors it's very intimidating, especially when they've never
32:07
been there before and their families are in trouble. This is some people's worst
32:12
day of their life. Yeah, I mean, it's not exactly. You
32:14
don't always see the magistrate, you know, on sunshiny days. You know,
32:19
it's usually something bad has happened, or something's bad happened to you or
32:22
a family member or whatever is the reason why you were there. What to
32:28
give us some of your I mean, you talked about your background as sorts
32:30
of being in the system. But tell us about you the individual, any
32:34
information that you care to share away from the job, whatever you want to
32:37
share. I am a daughter, a wife, a mother of two grown
32:45
children, and I have lots of grandchildren. And I'm now a chicken tender.
32:52
I beg your pardon. I have five chickens, and I do a
32:59
cat rescue and I have a lab, a black lab. So I like
33:06
to make political figures seem a little bit more human from time to time,
33:08
because they're not always seen that way. I am human, and yeah she
33:13
is. I will verify she's human. She's actually in studio. Well,
33:15
so I would like to say that I stepped away from the job back in
33:22
twenty twenty two. I think it was because my mother was ill and I
33:28
couldn't do both the jobs well, so I knew that it wasn't going to
33:34
be a hard decision. I stepped away to take care of my mom and
33:37
she died back in May twenty twenty three. So now I want to go
33:45
with my dream and I want to make them. Yeah, I want to
33:47
be a magistrate. Talking with Melanie Rocker again, his candidate for magistrate here
33:52
in Canawlla County, what are some of the biggest needs in your opinion or
33:55
concerns of the office. I think the biggest need is for people to be
34:04
treated fairly. Everyone be treated fairly and with dignity when they come in.
34:10
Compassion goes a long ways, common sense goes a long ways as well.
34:15
I mean it's not everybody. There are some people that's innocent whenever they walk
34:22
in there, and you should never be treated without dignity, right well,
34:27
and you are innocential, proven guilty exactly, you know, no matter what,
34:30
no matter what. So I guess you know, the biggest thing is
34:35
is that whether you're a magistrate, whether you're a judge, whether you're a
34:37
police officer, whatever. The biggest issue that we face here in Kanawah County
34:43
and around the country for that matter, is drugs and the opioid crisis,
34:46
and now we are fentanyl and heroin and all the other things come along with
34:51
it. That's I've had people in the legal profession, from judges on down
34:55
that have told me that something like ninety to ninety five percent of every case
34:59
they see somehow involves drugs. Even if it's somebody stole a bicycle, well,
35:05
it's to get money for drugs. If there was a domestic assault,
35:07
chances are there were drugs involved somewhere. How here's the million million, two
35:13
million dollar question, Melody, how do we fix that? If you knew
35:17
that, you wouldn't be running for magistrate. I realized that. But what
35:21
can be done? What can be done? I think that we need to
35:23
have a drug court on the magistrate level. We have it in the circuit
35:30
court level, and that has shown to be very positive and it has given
35:37
positive outcome. We need to have something like that on the level of magistrate.
35:45
I also was in juvenile and I was I worked juvenile several years.
35:52
I worked. I went and helped these kids with community service, make people
35:59
be held accountable, and whenever those children were held accountable, things went into
36:06
a positive direction. We need that on magistrate level, make people be held
36:13
accountable and do a drug court. I think that's the biggest need I really
36:20
do. And you are one hundred percent right. Everything revolves around that.
36:25
I went through the meth lab area or era. Sorry, when the meth
36:31
labs were everything, that's nothing compared to what we are battling right now.
36:38
And you don't realize that every family out there is connected certain way a dead
36:46
oh, and it doesn't matter your socioeconomic status. Everybody, if you think
36:51
about it, can think about somebody in their family, maybe somebody married into
36:54
your family, or whatever the case may be. That this has been an
36:57
issue for And it's a good point. I think you up about what we're
37:00
dealing with because drugs go in cycles. You know, it was it was
37:04
cocaine, it was crack cocaine, and now and now with your scene with
37:07
fentanyl, this is a totally different ballgame because we've never seen in law enforcement
37:12
people and medical professionals Melody will tell you that we've never seen anything quite like
37:16
this. And and and they're getting trying to get out in front of this
37:19
by saying one pill can kill. And now whereas people would go down to
37:23
the corner and hit up their local drug dealer for something, they can order
37:28
a lot of the stuff on the internet and it delivered delivered directly to their
37:30
homes with no no middleman required. That's pretty scary stuff. Absolutely, And
37:37
I think that we forget about another victim in all this, and that's the
37:42
children. Yes, the children are a big victim of this. And do
37:46
we want the generation to keep going? No, we need to solve the
37:52
problem for the children as well. Yeah. Again we're talking Melody Rockers,
37:55
a candidate running for magistrate here. And some times I think that people may
38:01
be in general public could be maybe ignorant the way that the system works,
38:06
because anytime there's a crime, they'll say something like that, well, why
38:09
was he or she back out on the streets. Again, Well, a
38:10
lot of times, as a magistrate or judge for that matter, your hands
38:15
are tied. There are sentencing guidelines for judges. There are things that you
38:17
can do and that you can't do that it is correct. And again magistrates,
38:23
I mean they can only do so much. Magistrates can only do so
38:30
much with bonds. They have the right to bond hearings within three days.
38:35
I mean, you're going to have a tough way to keep them in jail.
38:39
And again, if we have more resources and more help for people,
38:44
then we wouldn't see the crime as we do. Yeah, and you see,
38:49
my friends in law enforcement melody have told me that that they see a
38:52
lot of the same people, and I would assume that that's that's the exact
38:57
case for a magistrate. Oh, Johnny's back again. He's back again.
39:00
Yes, sadly, that's what. How's the campaign been so far for you?
39:04
It's doing well. You mentioned Knawk County's a big county. You've been
39:07
out doing some door knocking and as best you can, as the best I
39:10
can door knocking, you will be seeing me holding a sign and waving in
39:15
the areas. I mean it is. It's a big county and you just
39:21
My big thing is if you want to talk to me, reach out to
39:24
me. I am available anytime to talk. I would love to talk to
39:29
people. I just had a few people call me last week and do interviews
39:32
with me because they are voters. Like how you and I are talking.
39:37
I would love to talk to voters like that, okay. Well, and
39:40
there are various organizations I do that do meet the candidates type things and things
39:45
of that nature, so you'd be open to those things absolutely. So how
39:47
many people are are we looking at when the Canaw County voters go to the
39:51
ballot booth? I remeard it as a ballot box earlier, and it's not
39:55
really a ballot box anymore. I'm old school that way. But so,
39:59
how many people are running? Approximately? Do you have any idea how many
40:01
people? Just for a lot of people? Oh? Yeah? So what
40:07
makes you the best? What makes you the best or the most qualified?
40:09
Misqualified? I only have three other candidates that I'm running again, okay,
40:15
okay, And what makes me the best candidate in that area is my experience,
40:22
my twenty plus years experience. I have also ran for that office before,
40:29
and I feel like that I want to help people, and I know
40:35
how to be compassionate as well as hardcore, if you will, And I
40:40
know how to treat people with dignity and be fair. All right, my
40:46
final thirty, as I do with all our political candidates, why should somebody
40:50
vote for Melanie Rocker for magistrate in District twelve in Canon County again, you
40:53
should vote for Melanie Rucker because I have the experience, I care about the
41:00
Canawan County area. I am a lifetime I'm a lifetime resident here and I'm
41:08
just like you. I have family, I have grandchildren that I want to
41:14
see grow up in this community and it be a safer community for everyone.
41:21
And again, everyone is faced with these same obstacles and I want to have
41:30
the compassion and the fair treat everyone with compassion and fairness. You can go
41:39
to my website. I have a Facebook page Melanie Friends to Elect Melanie Rucker.
41:45
And also if you get one of my business cards, you just aren't
41:52
going to throw it in the trash. It's actually seed paper and you can
41:55
plant it and you can have flowers and grow other business cards or what it
42:04
just grows flowers. That's unique. Give us the Facebook page again, it
42:08
is Friends to Elect Melanie Rucker. And again I would love for someone to
42:15
reach out to me and I would have a talk with him, just like
42:17
I'm talking with you. I have a feeling that after today you're gonna probably
42:21
get some direct message you said to there, and so we wish you the
42:24
best luck with the campaign. Nice to get to know you and thanks for
42:28
being here. Thanks a lot. Having Yeah, absolutely Melody Rucker again as
42:30
a candidate who's running for magistrate in District twelve in Kanaha County. But Dave
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this Joe Mansion thing that broke over the weekend, Hoppy talked about it
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barge in, and that's what I called him. I'm going to borrow that
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term from Rush Limbaugh in getting all up in Senator Mansion's face about fossil fuels,
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pipelines, etc. One getting up in Mansion's face saying, quote,
49:49
you sold our futures and you got rich doing it. You sick effort.
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Now, to be honest, if you've seen the video and I posted it
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50:06
Senator Manchin was about ready to clock the guy when his aid Jonathan Cott,
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threw the guy out literally and it was it was hilarious. It was hilarious
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to me to watch. Of course, now this group Climate Defiance claims that
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their guy was the victim in all this. Go watch the video. I
50:32
mean, it's a closed door meeting and these people basically barge in, get
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up in Joe Manchon's face, call him a sick F word. Mansion jumps
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up and is restrained, and then Jonathan Cott, who is Mansion's long time
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made literally picked the guy up and threw him out on his can. And
50:58
I will say this, I have never been more proud of Joe Manchin in
51:05
my life than what I was and watching that video, he's lucky that Jonathan
51:09
Cott got to him because Mojo was about to activate the guy's dental plan if
51:15
you know what I mean. And this group Climate Defiance is a radical organization.
51:22
Look him up, read about him. Protests are one thing, but
51:25
these are the type people who splash paint on artwork in museums and his hoppy
51:36
I think so well pointed out in his commentary. Do they think that the
51:42
average American is going to look at the childish crap that they do and say,
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you know what, They're right? And I'll close with this, I
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think earth boy there probably need to realize he wasn't confronting a feeble old man
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like Joe Biden or Donald Trump. I think Manchin could have kicked the guy's
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ass himself, with or without the aid. And I'll say something I haven't
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said a long time, but Joe Manchin, go Joe Amen for Senator Manchin
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says a Texter all right, did not get time to read these texts.
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I will get to them tomorrow, gotta go. Thank you to Ryan Nicholson
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and my guests for being on the show today. Coming up tomorrow on the
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show. Senator Shelby Moore Capital is gonna be on the show tomorrow. Joy
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Crawford, who's the chief deputy for Kanaha County Sheriff's Department, he is gonna
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be on the show. He's running for sheriff. He's gonna be on the
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show tomorrow. Plus we're gonna check with Brad mclahanny as well. We got
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the news of the daw metrodews dot com thought along all the state tournament action
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as well as the girls state tournament is now underway. I will see you
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tomorrow. Enjoy this nice weather today, so then have fun and love somebody
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