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10/26/2023 The Dave Allen Show - G Money, Emmett Pepper, Kim Mason · The Dave Allen Show

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line for through three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight. Seventeenth
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Annual Trick or Beat powered by Todd, Judy Mo tonight two sessions at Gomart
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Ballpark and they are completely sold out. Sorry, folks, that's why we
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tell you to get those tickets ahead of time. We hope you did,
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because you can't be admitted. The kids can't be without a ticket, and
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they are gone. In the words of the famed Chicago White Sox announcer the
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Hawk Ken Harrelson, they gone g money for one O seven three to beat.
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Joined us right now via the Big Lee Pigley Wiggly Hotline to talk about
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it. G Good morning. How are you sir? Hey, good morning,
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Dave. How you doing doing five man? It's Team minus. Well
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less than twelve hours. We're gonna have about three or four thousand kids over
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at Gomark Ballpark. Tonight's the big night. Yes it is, David.
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You know, I am so excited. Actually, I get excited for all
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of our events, but you know, this is one of our biggest events
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that we put on for the city. And I woke up this morning and
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I was like, Okay, I am ready to go. I'm trying to
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find out what costume I'm gonna put on tonight, because you know, I
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like to dress up for the kids. While I'm handing out candy, because
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again, this is one of our biggest events that we put on for the
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city. Yeah. Indeed, this is the seventeenth annual event. How many
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have you been involved with, Dave, I've been since day one. I
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just want to make sure yes. Seventeen years ago, you know, we
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had one of our coworkers, she had had a baby a year before and
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her child was a year old, and she was like, you know,
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she went to Woody and she went to our vice president at the time,
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and she was like, listen, you know I do the night show.
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I want to take my child to trick or treating, but I can't because
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I'm on a radio. So she came up with this idea. She was
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like, well, why don't we just get together and provide a safe environment
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for the kids to trick or treat. So for that first year, we
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just actually we went around and we went to all kinds of businesses, you
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know, asking them, hey, do you want to donate candy. We
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went to all of the piece of places and it's like, hey, can
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you donate pieces? You know, this is what we're doing. So this
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is how Trick or Beat started seventeen years ago go. You know, we
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got out there and we did the leg work and as you can see now
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from that from then until now, we have grown tremendously. I mean,
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we have a lot of businesses that's jumped on board. And of course DoD
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Judy, he's one of our biggest you know, we go to him and
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say, hey, we're doing this for the kids. Todd Judy is jumping
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on board. So you know, this thing has grown over the last seventeen
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years and you know, hopefully it will continue to grow. And of course
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the other sponsors, as you said, Todd Judy is the main note pun
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intend of, the main driver behind this whole thing. But the Charleston Dirty
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Bird Selango law Aight is the outlet. New Beginning Learning Academy, I hoped,
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the Charleston Police Department of the City of Charleston, Goodwill, West Virginia
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I Consultants' Family Care Health Centers, Doug scaff West Virginia Health, Right Norfolk
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Southern Ten and Ten Inc. Polca, Valley Bank, Charleston Childcare Learning Center,
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Kidderoo's Ace's Coalition of Charleston, all making this thing possible. Two sessions
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tonight now one is and the others of seven thirty. As we said,
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well over three thousand kids are expected to be there. Other than just the
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smiles and the fun that the kids get to have, what's the highlight for
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g Money in this whole thing. The highlight for me again if seeing the
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kids come and dressed in their costumes, seend them with that big smile on
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their face when we give them candy, because we just don't give them one
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piece. We give them handfuls of candy. And you know, to see
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them walk around the concourse at the ballpark and just get candy, I mean,
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it's so it's enjoyable. And then at the end they get to have
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pizza. So after they walk around the whole concourse that the last stop is
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the pizza stop, they give a pizza drink and then they can go home
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and enjoy their evening. Yeah, exactly. And you know the weather g
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again we're talking g Money from the beat about the night's trick or beat.
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The weather's going to be fantastic tonight. You couldn't ask for better weather because
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you never know when you're dealing with October. Because I think for the actual
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trick or treat night, temperature is going to be raining in the forties,
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I think or something like that. So it's gonna be as a start time,
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it's gonna be about seventy seventy five degrees. Couldn't ask for better weather.
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And for the ones, hopefully they got their tickets because it's completely sold
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out. Yeah, but the ticket there was zero. They're zero. But
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it's just another example. And we don't want to patter ourselves on the back
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too much do because we do it for the community. But it's just another
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example of what this company, a West Virginia based company, wv RC Media
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does in giving back to the communities. And you're right about that, David.
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That's one thing that I want to speak on, you know, I
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mean me Woody dj Ac Right. We just appreciate you know, when we
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throw, when our events go on, we bring out the whole building,
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Yep, the whole Western Gini Radio Corporation, Media, The whole building comes
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out. So we get a lot of support from all of our co workers
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right there in the building along with all of our sponsors. And I got
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to say, you know, the ballpark been with us since day one,
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seventeen years. Big shout out to Andy, say over there, I'm telling
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you they do a great job and you know, providing everything that we need
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to sit up and everything. So big shout out to them, big shout
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out to Andy. He works with us like he is is great. And
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all of our stations, as you said, are going to be representative folks
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for Metro News will be there. The WCCHS Network V one hundred, our
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new country station KZ Charleston's ESPN Radio Superstar Country KWS nine eighty seven, the
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Mountain, the office staff, the sales team, management engineering, we're all
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there tonight. As what he would say, we outside, what he's working,
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what he's working with me on things like that to say it doesn't sound
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as cool as when he says, but but we outside. So hats off
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again to Woody and act Right and everyone for making this possible. And also
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I want to give a big shout out to our promotions department here headed up
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by Ashley Prows and Matt Guitar Murphy, because them and Loewen and Leah and
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the folks out front, they do a fantast a job of putting this because
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it's one thing to show up tonight, and as you know you've been involved
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in the concert business for some time. I always say the show is the
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easy party. It's the weeks leading up to it and the sponsors, and
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they were running around like crazy yesterday running to this place in that place,
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of picking up candy and so on and so forth. So hats off to
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all of the staff here. This is not something that anybody in our company
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gets paid any extra to do. We just do it for the love of
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the community. Gee, exactly, that's what we do. And like you
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say, it wouldn't be possible, you know, me myself, DJC right
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Woodie. We can't take all the credit because you know, like you say,
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Matt, he's out there running around Ashley Leah Lawrence. Now, I
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mean everybody is out here running around to make sure that this thing happens,
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and it's going to happen. Yep, indeed it is. And again it
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is completely sold out. We'll see you there tonight. Gee. I appreciate
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you taking time to You're probably happy to be able to sit down and make
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a quick phone call because I know you've got to get right back and get
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into prep mode the night. We'll see it to ballpark tonight. Man,
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thanks a lot, Thank you. Dave had g Money again from the Beat
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seventeenth Annual Trick or Beat happening tonight at Gomart Ballpark. It is powered by
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Todd Judy Motors. And again for the final time, I'll say the Dirty
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Birds, City of Charleston, Selango, law A to Z Outlet, New
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Beginning Learning Academy, I Hot, the Charleston Police Department, Goodwill, West
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Virginia, I Consultants' Family, Family Care Health Centers, Doug scaff West Virginia
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Health, Right Norfolk Southern Ten and Ten Inc. PoCA Valley Bank, Charleston
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Childcare Learning Center, Kidderoo's Ace's Coalition of Charleston and our sister station one of
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the seven three to Beat, and all of our stations make it it all
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possible to And I don't folks, I got to bring this up and then
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we'll go to break and we'll bring in Charleston Any Council, nim Oft Pepper.
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I don't want to bring any negativity into this, but I do need
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to say this. This is a free event for the kids, and up
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until yesterday we had tickets available at several locations and we told you all about
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it. We had them here at eleven eleven, but we also had a
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Todd Judy and several other locations as well. The tickets are all gone,
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and we apologize for that, but we're talking well over three to four thousand
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kids that are going to be there tonight. It's a free event, and
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the reason that we put the tickets out there is just so we have a
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head count so we can go to our sponsor and go, hey, this
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is how it is so much candy that we need for this event. So
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for the unfortunately, I got to throw this out there. For this second
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or third year, we've had reports of people taking the free tickets that we
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give out courtesy of our sponsors and trying to sell them online. So if
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you see that posted somewhere, give us a call here and we will make
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sure that that person or people's never attend another Trick or Beat or any promotions
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that we sponsor. Again, not trying to be that negative, but it's
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that simple. It just kind of pees you off a little bit, you
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know, when you sponsors donate their time and they donate their money whatever,
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and the tickets are free. But yet we have people and we again second
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or third year, we've had reports of people trying to sell the tickets online
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for a free event for the kids. So just not cool, not cool
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well noted noted Woodie g Noted Tex says, Dave only getting up solver people
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selling their tickets to make money. Dave, I thought you were an unabashed
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capitalist. One gives, well, but it's for charity, Okay, A
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good point. I always say, I'm the world's altered. What are you
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laughing at over there? As council person Emmitt Pepper's over are laughing at me?
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You know it's for charity, Okay, it's you know, there's a
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line. Tex says, there's a dead deer on Old Root sixty near the
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entrance to Charleston, has been there for almost four weeks and scavengers who've got
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him down to a skeleton. Come on, mayor as well traveled Emmitt Pepper,
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who's the director of Deer carcass Removal for the City of Charleston councilman.
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How are you, sir, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on,
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Thank you for being here. Can you make a note of that and
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get that Actually it's what they said. Yeah, it's on sixty towards the
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entrance to Charleston. It is what they said. And I know that that
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Tina and the folks at the Mayor's office listen every day, so so that
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is it's kind of a state road issue. But maybe they can make a
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phone call. One of the things I want to ask you about this when
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I got several things I want to talk to a councilanim Pepper about. The
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First of all, I me just say I was walking a couple of weeks
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last week. I think it was two weeks ago. Was last week.
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I was walking down the street and I was over in the Elk City district.
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I had just come meeting from somebody from lunching and walking down and I
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saw you having lunch. Yet Now where were you having lunch at the always
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forget the name of the the first time I had been there? Okay,
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you were sitting in the window eating their ice cream plates over there. Yeah,
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okay, all right, okay, well, I was gonna say,
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you know, you could have at least offered to buy me a burger.
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I mean, ethical standards society, I can be bought for the price of
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a cheeseburg. I'd already had lunch. I'm just mass weve I already had.
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But let's talk about the size of city council. Councilman, it is
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quite large. It's one of the largest city councils in America. This is
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not something new. I'm presuming this has been that way since the beginning of
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the City of Charleston, or at least at some point. Only a couple
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of major cities have a council the size that Charleston has. And you can
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go to you know, and I'm just kind of just throwing out city names
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here. I'm you know, Vegas, Dallas, you know, Pittsburgh,
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whatever. They don't have the size of the city council that Charleston has.
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Now, you are a proponent I understand of keeping council the size that it
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is now. And how many city council people do we have? We have
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twenty six. There's twenty ward council members and six out large. I'm one
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of the six outlines okay, and you're a proponent, I think it's fair
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to say of keeping it the size that it is. Now, why is
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that? I like, I think it's good that we have a lot of
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people involved in the government. I think it's good that we have a large
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city council. There's no question we have one of the largest in the countries.
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You know, depending on how you counted, I think we're either the
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seventh or the fourteenth largest, and so so, yeah, there's no question
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that we are we are large. The question I have is to what is
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that bad? And if we think it's bad, why do we think what
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is the problem we think is created by that. I haven't really gotten great
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answers on that. The people I've heard from who are the kind of most
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adamant, like why this is ridiculous it's a large council. The people I
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hear from on that are the ones who I think are used to having easy
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access to power and and frankly are annoyed they have to talk to so many
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of us. And and so I think, you know, the people who
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live in the wards and who know their word member and who have a close
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connection with folks on city council I've heard from a lot of people that they
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really like having that they don't you know. I was at an event over
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the weekend at the book fair and there's somebody there who recognize me and started
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talking to me, and I said, Hey, what do you think about
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this council size thing? She says, Look, I live in North Charleston.
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We feel forgotten, and I would worry that if we had a fewer
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council members that we would feel even more forgotten. And and so I think
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that there's a power in being able to have, you know, easy access
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to our our members of council. And I think that's a good thing.
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By the way, a texture because both of us apparently had brain lock there.
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We couldn remember the night's Dancing Dog Caste Doug, thank you out on.
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Both of us had an opera and I apologize to folks a dancing dog,
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but we could not remember. So how much expense is this with city
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council? I mean, what do you? I mean, let's face it,
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you guys ain't ain't going to go buy a new bins or or uh
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or or retire on what you make at city council. What what do city
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council people get paid, and how much would expense factor into the number of
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council people we have. Yeah, I mean, so you know that's something
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that comes up we get. Uh, well, the total cost of council
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that's budgeted is about four hundred thousand, over four hundred th dollars. The
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last year that I think that we have numbers that were actual that I have
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numbers anyway that were actual was about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So
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it's in that ballpark. So you know, we're getting a pretty good deal
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I think to have twenty six people who you know, it is part time,
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but it's not you know, we're not it's certainly we're not getting paid
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all the time for all the work we're doing them the meeting last week,
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But if you're doing your job right, no, you're you're working far more
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than that. That's right. Yeah, which I think I needed to rupt
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you the meeting last night. Go ahead. Yeah, the meeting last night
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was about the city council size. That wasn't a paid meeting. Yeah.
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We get paid two hundred and fifty dollars per meeting when we have our regular
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meetings, which are twice a month and there's I think one extra one each
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year. Okay, So I think the mayor and we've talked about it on
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the show. Mayor good One has been on the show in the past and
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she said that she's open to the idea of discussing downsizing council a little bit,
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but ultimately it's up to you guys, right, is that the way
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it works? Yeah, well, it's up to us. And then it
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was interesting to learn to learn last night. You know, any any change
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to the chart, which I think would be required for most of the any
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changes to the size of council, if if we can change the charter on
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our own, but if one person, uh and the whole entire city of
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Charleston comes and says, I don't like this, then it has to It
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goes to a full vote, gets a full vote of the council of the
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of the city of the city, so every voter gets to vote on It
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would have to be like a referendum or something or like almost like a levy
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election type thing. What it would be like a special special thing there on
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the beolt. I just think it's it's interesting and I wonder and you certainly
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weren't around when the charter was written and I wasn't either, But I'm wondering
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what was their concept back then of having a council so large, And maybe
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it is, like you said, the original idea was to pretty much everybody
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and no matter where they live. You mentioned North Charleston for example. You
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have access to your own council person, per se. Not to say that
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the other that you can't, you know, take concern from somebody who's not
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in your district, because you guys are council people and you get it all
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the time. I'm sure as you mention being at a public event, and
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I will say this as somebody who I've known several people that have that have
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served on councils and various points, and not only in Charleson, but other
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places. I had a cousin who was the president of the school board in
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another county, and I can tell you you're not just if you're doing your
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job right, You're not just working on meeting night, because I can tell
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you that my cousin, I'm referring to its phone rang seven days a week
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with somebody complaining about something, which is what you're there for. You sign
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up for. But anybody that thinks, well, this is just if you're
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doing the job right, you're working doing something council related seven days a week,
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I would think, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely here from people all
22:41
the time. Yeah, So what do you hear when you talk to people,
22:45
I mean other You said that you've had people somebody the book fair but
22:48
said that they really liked it. What do you hear from other people out
22:51
there? Yeah? I mean, first off, this is not the issue
22:53
that we're hearing from people about. This is not people aren't on their own
22:57
saying oh gosh, you know every once in a while, it's against those
23:00
people who are kind of used to the access to power, I think,
23:03
but most people are this is not the top issue for them. Yeah,
23:07
it's other things that you probably talk about in the show and that you could
23:10
guess. But you know, when I ask people about it, like I
23:12
said, I you know, I've I've been reaching out to people kind of
23:15
interested in their thoughts. People are, first, I think, are kind
23:18
of surprised if they're if you're that used to a counsel this large. But
23:22
in terms of the people who live here and are used to it, again,
23:27
I think that they like being able to have access to Dave Allen shows
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brought to you probably a general hardware lumber of Windfield, from kitchens to paint,
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you'll find a general hardware number of Winfield. I want to talk about
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the scooters for a moment. You were one of the ones that brought the
23:42
scooters into Charleston. Quite a bit of skepticism bringing them in. Uh,
23:47
not sure what police or others would say, but I could tell you I
23:49
get text of every kind every day to the show, many of which I
23:53
don't have time to read on the air, or with the language you don't
23:56
want to read on the air. But I can tell you that as of
24:00
yet, I've not had a single complaint about any scooter issue in Charleston.
24:06
From your perspective, you're the guy that kind of you know, ushered the
24:08
ushered the scooters to Charleston. What's your what's your take on? Yeah,
24:11
I think it's been going fine, you know. I mean, I'm sure
24:15
there's stuff that we can work out that work better. I want to make
24:18
sure I haven't spoken with any of the folks who have been involved in running
24:21
them for a little bit, and we'll probably need to regroup over the winter.
24:25
This is mostly going to be a seasonal thing. I think. My
24:27
guess is, you know, kind of after the holidays or something, they'll
24:30
be kind of off the streets for a little while because people aren't going to
24:33
rune them in the in the cold as much. So. But but yeah,
24:37
I know, I don't think that, you know, I've been asking
24:40
the Mayor's office as well as the police department. Haven't had a lot of
24:44
issues. Most of them have been put in an appropriate place. That's the
24:48
thing I was most worried about, as people putting in in the wrong locations
24:52
or walking sidewalks and such. And generally speaking, people have been really good
24:56
about that and putting them in they're they're standing up right, et cetera.
24:59
I'm sure sometimes they get knocked over, but I think it's overall been a
25:03
pretty good success. Now, you came on a couple of times and talked
25:06
about it down to your address, city council and other members of the media.
25:08
About to explain though, for people that are listening for the first time,
25:11
how the scooters work in Charleston. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting.
25:15
So, I mean, there's no docking stations. There's no place that they
25:18
have to go back to other than there's someone whose job it is to drive
25:22
around in a truck and pick them up and go charge them and then put
25:23
them back out in appropriate locations. But yeah, so you have an app
25:29
GPS on your app, you turn that on, you look to see where
25:32
there's a scooter nearby, You walk over to it, you scan a QR
25:36
code. We all know how to use those now, and then you have
25:40
your you would already have your your credit card and show that you you know,
25:42
show your idea that you're over eighteen, and then you know, you
25:47
unlock the scooter that doing that, go on your way, go wherever you
25:51
want to go within you know, mostly within the flats of Charleston, and
25:55
then you know, scan it again or unor lock it again, and then
26:00
you're done, walk wherever you want to go. So had there been I
26:03
know, you'd be honest about had there been any issues so far that you've
26:07
heard? Not? I mean not a lot. I mean I think that
26:10
there's you know, I think I think in other places what's happened is,
26:14
you know, people who like to steal things try to figure out if they
26:18
can steal this and do something with it. And you know this is they
26:21
have this all over the country, and so there's people like that everywhere,
26:25
and so I think people were kind of experimenting with that here too. There's
26:27
been a couple, but but they probably weren't very successful and stealing these gps.
26:33
I mean, they nobody ever said criminals were smart. You know,
26:37
that's why they don't have legitimate jobs. So, I mean there's just been
26:41
a few, I think, but uh, and I think you're going to
26:44
realize that it's not really anything. It's not going to be cost effective for
26:48
them or make them a lot of money. So it's just you know,
26:49
that'll probably fade away. Let me ask you're always good about taking questions.
26:55
I have a couple of texts here. You hoping to answer. These text
26:57
says removing some of the at large positions would provide a louder voice for actual
27:03
WARD representatives. Yeah, I mean, I think I think that we need
27:06
to have a mix there. The thing I worry about with having only Ward
27:08
and some city councils have that first. I mean, I've done a lot
27:15
of research on this. I've looked through all the different city councils that are
27:18
twenty five thousand population or more in the in the whole country, just kind
27:22
of getting a sense of where people are. You know, there's a lot
27:26
of them, and there are just all wards, and there are a lot
27:29
of them. There are, frankly a lot of them that are just all
27:30
at large. But I think having a blend is good because that way it's
27:34
not just the kind of parochial ward issues. I see myself as a very
27:40
small micro you know, mayor where I just have ideas about policies. I
27:45
don't I'm not in charge of anything, but I have, you know,
27:48
citywide ideas about things that can work with folks. And also, you know,
27:52
I end up doing a lot of the local ward stuff too. I
27:56
mean people who know me, who are in my neighborhood or there an other
28:00
parts of the city and they say, well, how do I deal with
28:00
this sign issue or whatever? You know, I take a lot of those
28:06
two. I try to communicate with the ward representative on it to make sure
28:10
that they're in the loop and so we're all working on the same page.
28:12
But those are things that I work on as well. In fact, one
28:15
of your coworkers had a question about stoplight. I'm still kind of working working
28:19
through that. Okay, Texays. I've seen more of these scooters and ditches
28:23
than people riding them. Has that been an issue? No, I mean
28:27
no, there's there's been. I mean people are using them there that they
28:32
get parked a lot of different places, and so maybe it seems like,
28:34
oh, there's they're strewn about, but that's just how it works. Texas
28:38
Kanas City, East End, Downtown Area, South Hills, North End,
28:41
and three at large. That's all we need Downside City Council and I forgot
28:45
west Side according to a textter. So there's one person that wants to Downside.
28:49
Yeah, I guess they Yeah, I mean I would. I hope
28:52
we don't forget the west Side's the largest population. Uh, Texas Dave.
28:56
Several weeks ago, I was driving downtown to the south Side Bridge almost had
29:00
one of these new scooters. When we came to a red light. The
29:02
person on the scooter kept going right through it as if they didn't slow down
29:07
at all. So it's obvious that what many said what happened with these has
29:10
already started not obeying the rules of the road as much of a dangerous nuisances
29:14
bicycles are on the street, please put them back on the sidewalks. On
29:18
the sidewalks. Well, I mean, so we heard during the they're any
29:21
of the debate that they didn't we didn't want them on the sidewalks, and
29:22
they're not alloted on the sidewalks because of you know, I had one council
29:27
member talking about head injuries, which I don't I haven't heard of any any
29:30
head injuries and actually at all with this, but so you know, we
29:37
have to they should not be on the sidewalks. That's not safe for people
29:40
who are who are walking, and people can get a ticket if they're if
29:45
they don't follow the traffic laws. All right, final text, and this
29:49
is for you. It says, if a large council is a good idea,
29:52
would you support at large delegates or senators to the state or federal government.
30:00
So would you like to see HM under the deal basically is what they're
30:02
saying. Having at large in addition to the districts. Yeah, no,
30:08
I mean I sure, I mean we kind of had that. We have
30:12
a governor, we have people who serve the entire state in different cabinet positions,
30:18
who should we elect them? We have we we actually do elect was
30:22
a five or you know, the secretary of state. All these different people,
30:23
these are at large members have specific roles. Yeah, I mean the
30:27
question I have for the people, who are you know, uh interested in
30:32
a smaller city council. Why shouldn't we have a five member or nine member
30:36
board that runs the state Senate or the House of Delegates. What what's the
30:40
difference there that? Why? Why is local government different where we need to
30:45
have h you know, a small number of people. I mean, if
30:48
the goal is efficiency, that would be way more efficient. I mean I've
30:52
spent a fair amount of time in the state capital, you know, looking
30:56
at how the sausage is made there. That's that's complicated. Man, if
30:59
we had we had a nine member board, we could just have lawyers right
31:02
everything, and we would have to worry about it. Well. And there's
31:04
a lot of people that have talked about not necessarily that, but about that
31:08
we have too many school boards, for example, and that maybe we should
31:11
you know, that there's no reason why some of these smaller counties should have
31:15
their own school board. Maybe we need to consolidate that. So who knows,
31:18
who knows? We can't solve it all here and it's always a pleasure
31:22
to have you on the show. Thanks a lot. City acc Councilman Emma
31:23
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Zoo, we have a new name apparently. I love that you asked a
34:45
hard hitting questions such as, come on, man, tell me a funny
34:47
guy tries to steal a scooter story. Just one story, okay, texts
34:53
says to make sure the scooter renners actually obey the laws of the roads,
34:57
hob but installing go pro cameras on them. According to a texture texas is
35:01
the only opinion you're getting from a council member on downsizing the person responsible for
35:06
the scooters is a biased opinion. Well, if you know, I'm an
35:09
open, open door policy here at the Dave Allen Show, So anybody that
35:15
ever wants to come on the show, they are more than welcome, regardless
35:17
of pro con I don't know if I had any cons on the show.
35:22
Well maybe I have, I don't know. But anyway, Ken Mason,
35:24
who's not a con from the Westerndian Secretary of State's Office Jointes. Now,
35:29
Kim, good morning, how are you morning day? I want to need
35:31
you to definitely go into that microphone a little bit there for me. All
35:36
right, there you go, Kim. It was announced last week that the
35:39
Office of Secretary of State was creating a statewide coalition of business and others to
35:45
fight against human trafficking here in the Mountain State. Now, we've all heard
35:46
and we've seen stories about trafficking, and many people think it only happens in
35:51
other countries, or sometimes people try to get into America on the border states
35:55
whatever. This is a problem though, that's going on in every state in
36:00
the Union, including West Virginia. It absolutely is it's underreported and that's the
36:07
problem. A lot of victims are scared or don't even know that they are
36:12
a victim of human trafficking. So it's just underreported, so people don't think
36:16
that it's here, but it is, and it's very important to focus on
36:20
and bring awareness to it so that we can help eradicate it. So why
36:24
would the Secretary of State's office be involved in this, Well, that's a
36:28
good question because that's not what we're known for. But it's an opportunity for
36:31
us to educate businesses because you know, we register the businesses in the state,
36:37
and that's one hundred and forty plus thousand businesses that we can get information
36:40
to about how they can help human stop human trafficking. We partnered with the
36:46
Fusion Center on their you Can initiative to get them informations on signs and how
36:52
to report and get law enforcement involved. And you mentioned the Fusion Center there
36:59
and full discoe Jack lu Cart one of the folks that the fusuons is very
37:01
good friend of mine, a frequent listen to the show too, by the
37:05
way, we always appreciate that. So getting them in boarding this and homeland
37:08
security and all this, it's kind of a collaborative effort. And the business
37:13
aspect of it. I understand that there's signage and so on and so forth,
37:16
and some of it was already there, but there's even more going out.
37:19
You've got a host of businesses that have signed on to this across the
37:22
state of West Virginia to put signs up in restrooms and things of that nature.
37:27
You know, a number or whatever for people to contact to say,
37:30
hey, there's human trafficking going on. Talk about how that works. Yeah,
37:34
So the program is, you know, it is just released a couple
37:37
of weeks ago, so it's still new and businesses may not be aware of
37:39
it. We sent it out via email and we did certainly get some kickbacks
37:45
on email. So hopefully they're listening to your show and they you know,
37:47
reach out to our office and we can get them signed up through our website
37:52
to help get these packets out. But each packet includes a brochure and a
37:57
flyer from the Fusion Center, and we also have showcase how we're involved.
38:00
We have a little sticker that we can put in the bathrooms for victims to
38:04
call if they're away from their perpetrator, so that they can get help.
38:07
And then we also have a list of a resource page so that they can
38:12
reach out to shelters or things that they may be in need of. Kim
38:15
Mason again for the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office. And again it does
38:17
make sense to use the Secretary of State's Office because you are the keeper of
38:22
all of the records when it comes to businesses across the state of West Virginia,
38:27
and there's no other entity that every business in the state has to be.
38:30
You know, some will have some dealings at some time, limited or
38:36
on large scale with the Secretary of State's Office. So it's certainly it's kind
38:38
of a no brainer that you would be the ones to get that information out.
38:42
Yeah. Absolutely, we can be the conduit to get them the training
38:45
and the materials that they need to really be aware of this issue and help
38:50
victims. Well's switch gears here just for a moment, Kim. And you
38:53
don't hear a lot about voter fraud in West Virginia these days, thankfully.
38:58
I mean, we've come along one. It's somebody from southern West Virginia.
39:00
I can say that we've come a long way, but it does still happen.
39:05
Infrequently, and we just had a case and a conviction of voter fraud
39:10
in West Virginia. Tell us the story, tell us what happened. We
39:15
did, and like you said, it may not be prevalent, but it
39:17
doesn't take rampant fraud to change an election. We have a lot of small
39:22
municipal elections that can be decided by one or two votes, So it's important
39:27
to look at every election law violation that are out there. And this one,
39:30
in particular, was the first case that went to trial and that We've
39:37
had several convictions, but most of them are pleased, and this one went
39:40
to trial through a jury, and so we got to experience the whole process
39:45
under Secretary Warner's term and this came about. Everything just aligned perfectly for this
39:52
to be reported and everything was done right. The clerk's office notified us this
39:59
was in Fayett count Yes, this was in Fayette County. The clerk's office
40:02
notified us when an individual had registered to vote that was still serving a felony
40:08
conviction on parole, which they're not allowed to do, but he had actually
40:13
attempted to vote as well when he was not in the poll book because he
40:17
had been removed and he was notified that he couldn't vote for that reason,
40:22
but then he still attempted to register to vote, and we indicted him.
40:28
And once we didn't indict him, but our investigator did the investigation, and
40:30
we brought the information to the prosecutor's office and they took it to the grand
40:35
jury who indicted him. And then we set our trial and got a conviction.
40:37
Okay, And so what was the sentence of the trial. So the
40:43
sentence he was convicted on unlawful registration. He was not convicted on the charge
40:49
of illegal voting, but the judge sentenced him to the maximum penalty. It
40:53
was a year in jail and a thousand dollars fine. And so you talked
40:57
about that this was a situation where all of these systems clicked together, you
41:02
know, because the clerk's office in Fayette County, I'm presuming caught it.
41:07
And then it was this was not like it was a mistake. I mean,
41:08
the guy knew what he did and then he still tried to do it.
41:13
And so the safeguards that were put in place by the clerk's office,
41:17
starting with them through the Secretary of State's office, were able to catch the
41:21
guy in Lackey moay, Yes, they worked. They this gentleman went to
41:24
you know, prison on his felony conviction, and then he was removed from
41:29
the voter rolls because he was a convicted villain, a not eligible vote at
41:31
that time. He still attempted to vote. The clerk's office notified us.
41:37
He then went and attempted to register to vote in The clerk's office notified us.
41:42
And I should mention that his ballot was challenged and the board of canvassers
41:45
chose not to count it because he wasn't eligible. So everything worked out the
41:50
way that it should have. So if we're coming up on an election year
41:54
and fraud in the in the world of election, fraud can happen at any
41:59
point, as you said, municipal elections. Not did that to be the
42:01
every four year presidential thing. I mean, it happens all the time.
42:05
So what do you folks do with the Secretary of State's office in conjunction with
42:09
the county clerk. So that's they're the first line, you know, is
42:13
the county clerks, as you all well know. So what kind of safeguards
42:16
are in place? What do you do? I know you have training,
42:19
things of that nature. But if somebody thinks that somebody is doing something wrong,
42:22
what's the whole process. How did this whole thing work? So we
42:27
certainly have a complaint process. They can reach us through the website, through
42:30
phone, through text, through various forms just to report any suspicious activity that
42:38
they may see related to the election. Through the elections, but we train
42:44
our investigators and they are out all day long on election day. They go
42:49
and visit polling places and precincts, and they are very familiar with the county
42:52
clerks and their communities that they are in. So people know to bring it
42:58
to their attention if they see any activeivity that should be stopped and prevented first
43:01
of all, you know, or then later looked at and possibly get charged.
43:07
And the bottom line is is that you're going to get caught. I
43:09
mean if you try to do this, I mean there's just too many safeguards
43:13
in place, specifically in West Virginia through the primarily the county clerks in conjunction
43:19
with the Secretary of State's office. You if you attempt this, you're going
43:22
to get caught. Absolutely, there's no there's no question there. We are
43:25
building relationships constantly with the local prosecutors to take our cases. And there's no
43:35
there's no hiding election fraud anymore. We are proactive and out in the field
43:38
and catching it before it even occurs. And then if it does, yeah,
43:43
we're talking to prosecutors and we're getting they're getting charged. So go back
43:47
to the human trafficking thing before we let you go. Where can people learn
43:51
more about that? The program that you have for businesses to try to combat
43:55
human trafficking. Certainly go to our website please, or just call our office.
44:00
We have a person that's manning this sign up so that you can get
44:06
a response and you can get a packet melt out to you as quickly as
44:08
possible. We want to engage every business out there. Well, Kim,
44:13
I was always a pleasure to see you and a pleasure to have you on
44:15
the show today. And I know as we head into twenty twenty four again,
44:20
for the Secretary of State's office, there's never really any downtime because there's
44:22
always something going on. But twenty twenty four is the big election year with
44:27
presidential and governor and all these other and so you folks will be busy.
44:30
I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to be here with us.
44:32
Say thanks, like Kim Mason from the Western Ginian Secretary of State's Office,
44:36
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Secretary of State's office go to Georgia and Arizona to teach him how to be
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aware that's the Texas, you know. And I will say this for my
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time in the Secretary of State's office, and I don't wanted to do too
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much inside baseball here, but I was one of those folks that Kim referred
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to as going out and monitoring elections and you know, things of that nature.
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There were far more problems then, and I haven't been with the office
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in a couple of years, three years, to be exact. There were
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far more problems on the local, local municipal elections than there ever were when
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it came to larger I mean, people would fight like cats and dogs to
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be the mayor orun city council of some very very small town in West Virginia.
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And I try to diminish it by saying it's not important, because obviously
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all elected officials and public servants are important. But you know, we didn't
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spend a whole lot of time dealing with issues in Charleston, Huntings and Morgantown.
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It was always in the smaller towns, the very very very small towns
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is where all the problems seemed to take place for some reason. Serious bus
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Now a big story this morning nationally course, is the shooting in Maine.
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Now as of now, the shooter is still on the loose as of the
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time I started the show this morning. ABC News will have more and Hoppy
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will cover it as well coming up at ten oh six. And for the
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first time since I think the Roosevelt administration, we have a House speaker in
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d C. Mike Johnson is his name. He's from Louisiana. Both congress
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people from West Virginia, Carrol Miller Alex Moody, voted for him. So
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we move on, at least for now. One Republican senator said she had
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no idea who he was, would have to google him, and she was
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a Republican that said that, which is something you always want to hear from
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your elected officials. According to one writer, they talked about mister Johnson as
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he this is a quote. He combines hardline views with a general with a
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gentle personal style. He is far right, make no mistake about it.
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Someone said he's the most conservative speaker in the history of the House. He
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of course, opposes abortion in same sex marriage, and has been a hardcore
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Trump supporter and an election denier. So, as The New York Times pointed
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out this morning, a good quot question is why would more mainstream Republicans,
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the more mainstream folks vote for this guy. Well, because basically they felt
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they had no choice. As one moderate congressman said, there are places where
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we differ, but we have to get back to governing for the country.
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with this. So apparently I created quite a stir on the interwebs yesterday with
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the picture that I posted a State Democratic Party chair in delicate Mike push Get
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along with Senate financi cher Eric tar The two were on the show in separate
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segments yesterday, and I was able to get them together in the Hallway yesterday
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during a commercial break, as Tar was leaving at Pushkin was coming in.
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Now the picture, if you want to see it, if you think I'm
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lying that I got the two them to post together, is posted on Dave
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Allen Radio on Facebook and The Dave Allen Show on Axe. The Artists formally
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known as Twitter. Now. I'm not saying that two are hanging out and
51:19
having lunch together, okay, but it was a nice moment to prove that
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two people who are polar opposites on everything can at least be cordial. And
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of course there were those and I heard from them saying, how could he
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and you can fill in Ryan your favorite he here, pose with him and
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fill in your favorite him. And to those people, I would say,
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get over it. Neither one of them is evil. I'm good friends with
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both of them. They just have differing political opinions, so just get over
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it, all right. My thanks to Kim Mason from the Secretary of State's
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Officer being here today, Council Emitt Pepper and Ulso g Money from the Beat.
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We will see you goar Ballpark tonight for the now sold outs. Trick
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or Beat powered by Todd Judy motors six and seven thirty The Star Times tonights
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tomorrow. Coming up on the show, Chris Lawrence talking a little high school
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football, more on Guys' Night Out this weekend, and my guests host tomorrow,
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Doctor Ksey Sachsonbridge Valley. We'll see you then. Until then, have
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fun. I Love Somebody c hs A W two four three d r FM,
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We're proud to live here too that I posted a State Democratic Party chair in
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delicate, Mike push Get along with Senate financier Eric Tar. The two were
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on the show in separate segments yesterday and I was able to get them the
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post together in the hallway yesterday during a commercial break, as Tar was leaving
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at Pushkin was coming in. Now the picture if you want to see it,
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if you think I'm lying, that I got the two them to post
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together. Posted on Dave Allen Radio on Facebook and The Dave Allen Show on
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AXI. The artists formally known as Twitter. Now, I'm not saying that
53:17
two are hanging out and having lunch together, okay, but it was a
53:22
nice moment to prove that two people who are polar opposites on everything can at
53:31
least be cordial. And of course there were those and I heard from them
53:37
saying, how could he and you can fill in Ryan your favorite he here,
53:42
pose with him and fill in your favorite him. And to those people,
53:45
I would say, get over it. Neither one of them is evil.
53:52
I'm good friends with both of them. They just have differing political opinions,
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So just get over it. Get over all right. My thanks to
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Kim Mason from the Secretary of State's Officer being here today, Council Emitt Pepper,
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and also g Money from The Beat. We will see you gobar Ballpark
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tonight for the now sold outs. Trick or Beat powered by Todd Judy Motors
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six and seven thirty The Star Times tonights tomorrow. Coming up on the show,
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Chris Lawrence talking a little high school football, more on Guys' Night Out
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this weekend, and my guest host tomorrow, doctor Ksey Sachsonbridge Valley. We'll
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see you then. Until then, have fun. I Love Somebody. W
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