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Brad Mcalehenny, Brad, good morning, how are you sir? Oh Hi,
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I'm doing well. I hope you are too. I am doing fine.
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Our we had lots of stuff I want to get to you with you
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this morning, Brady. Our congressional delegation are really putting the heat on the
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Biden administration to get to the table as the country has a deadline for this
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debt payment. Congressman and now Sendate Canada Alex Mooney was on talk line y
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afterday talking about a senator's Capital and Mansion are on the same page here Congressman
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McCarroll Miller as well. You get stories posted about it on the website lead
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story as a matter of fact on the website. Not too often when you
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can get people on the same page as much as they are at especially when
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one as a Democrat, albeit Joe Mansion, but again the stories posted at
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wv metronews dot com. What's your take on this whole thing? Well,
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I mean, you know, if something isn't resolved, then the potential of
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not dealing with the debt ceiling could mean just economic peril for the country and
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for the world. The West virgin Is congressional representatives Mansion, Capitol, Mooney
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Miller make the case that the federal spending is just far beyond what it needs
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to be and that it makes sense to do some negotiation now, particularly between
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President Biden and Speaker McCarthy, So you know, who knows how much sway
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they may have. M Mansion might have more than the others, just because
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of his unique position as sort of the you know, still the fiftieth vote
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in a in a deadlock Senate um. But you know they're they're you at
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least know where they stand, and they are trying to put whatever pressure that
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they can on President Biden to come to the table. Within the last couple
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of days, President Biden did invite Speaker McCarthy, the House Minority Leader Kim
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Jefferies Uh, Senate Majority Leader Schumer, and Senate Minority Leader McConnell to a
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main ninth meeting where they're going to hash the stuff out. So they are
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coming to the table. Why why May ninth? I am I am not
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sure. It seems like it seems like every moment that passes, as Senator
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Manson said, the nation gets closer to that debt limit headline, which is
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now, we believe June first, the country stops being able to pay all
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the pills. So May ninth is a key date. All right, And
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again you got the DA story posted wv metronews dot com. Let's go a
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state side here for a moment, Brad. Do we have another state led
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officeholder who is elected to state Senate last November? Mike Stewart last night announcing
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he's running for a West Virginia Attorney general. No surprise, everyone knew that
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that was coming. He was going to run. I think what is problematic
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to some people though, in fact, unlike a few others that are running
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for different offices. You know, think Governor Jim Justice, who is now
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running for Senate after serving as governor. J B. Mccusky state auditor,
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now running for Governor Macwarner, who will be on the show later who's been
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serving as Secretary of State now is going to run for governor at the current
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age Patrick Morrissey started with in that role now running for governor. In fact,
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I guess, with all due respect to Senator Stewart, he's only been
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in office for a couple of months as a state Senator, in fact,
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only one session, an interim, a couple of caucuses here there, before
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running for something else. The State Democratic Party, in fact, last night
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issued a statement after the Mike Stewart for age announcements saying, quote, the
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paint was barely dry on Mike Stewart's office. What do you what's your take
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on this? The Democrats did some math the lead statement and what they put
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out was today, after completing just eleven percent of his term in the Western
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East State Senate, Mike Stewart announced his decision to run for attorney in general.
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So eleven percent is, I mean, kind of a puny number.
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So Stewart has been high profile in a variety of other positions. He is
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a former state Party chairman. He is the former US prosecutor for the southern
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counties of West Virginia. And you know, I don't if you already had
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that background, I don't think it would be I don't think people would regard
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it as crazy to announce your campaign for attorney in general. But he really
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did just defeat incumbent Ron Stallings and did his first regular session of the legislature
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representing a newly redistricted area of Kanala, Boon, some other sort of south
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central West Virginia counties. You know, the one thing is he doesn't put
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that seat now in peril by running for this bonus. He's off years.
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So he just got elected. He sits the next election out for Senate and
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then is up again in twenty twenty six, so he retains the Senate seat
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but has this bonus of being able to run for US. Yeah, and
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if something happens he doesn't win. I mean, we know that Ryan Weld,
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also a state Senator, is going to run. So something happens to
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Stewart doesn't win the race, then he's still he's still a senator. Yeah,
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you know, I'll tell you what that's going to be interesting in the
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nuts legislative session. Weld is a member of leadership. He is sort of
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a more I guess, traditional Republican um. His score with the Chamber of
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Commerce on their scorecard was uh Stuarts. To his chagrin, he tweeted about
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this was significantly lower on that Chamber scorecard. Stewart is more in the populist
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wing of the party. And you know, you could see the fractions even
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within the supermajority in the Senate as as this most recent session played out.
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So I don't I will assume that the bos Weld and Stewart are gentlemen,
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and they will, you know, they will be polite to each other during
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the next regular session. But I sure think that there will be ways in
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which they will differentiate them. So yeah, even while serving on the Senate
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Judiciary Committee and how they went on the floor. Well, Mike Stewart will
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be on the show tomorrow. By the way, I don't want to speak
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for him. He'll actually be on the show to morn and I think if
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I if I'm not mistaken, I think he was, He's gonna be on
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Dave Wilson, who's subbing for Hoppy for the next two weeks. I think
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he's going to be on on Dave should I think I think I'm correct about
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that is true, Okay, and then Mike Stewart of course will be on
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this show tomorrow. Let's talking about Governor Justice. Um, you know you
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and I have talked about I know Hoppy has to Greg Thomas and I talked
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about it a little bit yesterday. If if Governor Justice is elected Senator m
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Brad, what s that gould look like for him? And I say that
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because you know, Greg kind of alluded to the fact that, um,
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that he wouldn't have to be there all the time, that many meetings would
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not involve him. And and I don't know, you certainly know better than
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I do, but it seems to me, maybe they're just over shivers,
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but it seems to the Senator capital is there a heck of a lot.
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It seems that Joe mansion and is there a lot? And when they're not
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in DC, there tore in a plant or or a prison or something like
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that. And you know, Greg really didn't answer that as much yesterday as
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I would like for him too. If Jim Justice is elected for Senate,
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can he handle it? You know when when he was on with the copy
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last week, the governor seemed to still be thinking through how it would actually
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work. And you know, he answered that question a couple of times about
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like what would your life be like in Washington, DC? I mean,
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surely he's not going to live in a house but the way Mounton does.
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But he alluded to the idea that his businesses have you know, planes,
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and he potentially could could use that plane to get back and forth, hopefully
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not on daily rasis. He he does seem to like the comforts of home.
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You know, he he had a court challenge about continuing to live in
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Lewisburg. He has continued to coach the girls basketball team, makes that commitment
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every winter. He loves being with his dog. I don't know if you
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know that, but he loves being with his dog. I've seen pictures.
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Yeah, Um, he is in Louisbourg still to the degree that when the
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state police superintendent quit his job under pressure, he did so on the Governor's
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Lewisburg driveway at like nine o'clock this morning. So I also am trying to
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wrap my mind around how the governor thinks he may moon is living in DC
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in Arlington, having a second home. He just really appears to love being
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home and being the coach and be with his dog, and I actually actually
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serving is something I'm still thinking through. All Right, Well, we'll see
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how that's all going to play out. One of the things before we let
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you go, Everyone's favorite subject, Brad, is power bills. Now,
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you posted a story Monday that Appalachian Power is asking for a six hundred forty
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one million dollar quote recovery cost end quote. They did that long with Wheeling
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Power and Friday that request filed with the Public Service Commission. What do you
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have on that? Well, you know, these these increases have been painful
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for people. Your your power bill, no matter what your company, has
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probably gone up over and over and over the Water Company West Virginia, americ
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from Water is asking for increased rates almost at the same time, and of
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course you know they're thinking independently. What they say they need doesn't really take
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your power bill into account at the electric at the water company. What the
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water company, though, is is sorry, what the power company, what
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Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power are suggesting be done, is either to take their
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six hundred some million dollars and spread it over three years to to sort of
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average that out over a three year span. Or what they're doing is something
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a legislature allowed with the new bills this year if the governor signed it essentially
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to take out bonds, so they basically would would take out would would would
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put out bonds for sale to bond holders, and then they would pay them
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off, serving as a cushion for the rate payers. They still to pay
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it off, but you know, it's it's a tough time because there have
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been inflationary pressures. The cost of fuel has gone up, and the companies
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are passing moves along to consumers, and so guys like Dave are paying more.
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Yeah, well, you know, nobody likes to pay bills, and
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I know that I was doing some rating this morning that I think the Cana
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County Commission, particularly Kent Carper, is pretty upset about some proposed rating creases
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for Western new from Western American water too. I'm gonna try to get into
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that the next a couple of days. Quickly bro at thirty seconds or so.
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What are you working on today? Well, the Governor's got a briefing
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today. Um, you know this, this will bust your ratings when I
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talk about this. One of his guests is the DHHR Acting Secretary, and
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kind of in the background. One of the big state government things that's going
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on is dividing the biggest agency, a multi billion dollar agency, DHR,
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into three separate agencies. And that is that is a challenge. It is
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a challenge from a structural agency perspective. But you know, you can imagine
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that if you were an employee at DHR, you would you would be worried
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out what is to come? What is your job security? What will it
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be like? Here's your boss going to be? Will your will your duties
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make sense? Still? And so that is one of the things that that
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Jeffrey Coban, the acting Secretary, has been attuned to also trying to communicate
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with legislators, with with the governor himself, and so Coban's gonna, I
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think go through a lot of that with us interim meetings. Also again not
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a sexy talkic, sorry about your ratings, but uh that that is the
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kind of homework the legislators do in the off season so that theoretically they're ready
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to roll during the regular session. And that's coming up this weekend already again
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in ya, okay, what happens that briefing today with the governor? Brand
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Oh it's as well, Yeah, no, scheduled for eleven am. It's
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eleven I should all right, We'll be following you to see what's up there,
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Brad. We'll talk to you man. Thanks a lot. Twenty three
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Warner's here. Good morning, sir. How are you hey? I'm great,
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good to be with you, Dave. Let's talk business, sir.
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Literally, it's national, it's it's National Small Business Week. And I understand
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you are a little north of here today tauting small business along with some other
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folks. What's going on? I am? This is a Small Business Administration
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Week where we pay tribute to those people, our neighbors, our friends,
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our family members who have started businesses and we've i'll paying homage to the fact
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that they hire. About eighty percent of the people that are employed, that
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have jobs and state are employed by small business owners and so this is the
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week to go in and talk to your local store owner, gift shop owner,
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hardware store, grocery store, or whatever. You know. The big
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boxes are nice at times, but this is a week where we say,
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hey, let's not forget the people who are providing most of the jobs and
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goods and services in our communities. And that's a small business center. So
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I'm up here. I'm wanting to be in a Fairmont to give out some
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awards to date and small business centers have been recognized by the administration and just
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begin doing things like we're doing right now. And that's talking about the importance
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of these small businesses and what they mean that the State of West Virginia and
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mister Secretary, I've talked on this show before that when many people think of
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the Secretary of State's office, they only think about elections. And yes,
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elections are a big part of what your office does, but there's there's a
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lot more than just a action business as in doing business, registering people to
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run their businesses, making sure everything's up to date with your office, offering
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services for new and existing businesses. That's really it really takes up a larger
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part of what the Secretary of State's office does larger than elections. It seemed
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to look it up the numbers, sir, and I was taking a look
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at some numbers. You actually there are a lot of people registering and doing
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business in West Virginia right now. They certainly are, and I'm glad you
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mentioned that. That was one of the surprises to me when I took over
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the office is that I only have five people in my selections division, but
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I have about twenty five people in the Business and Licensing division to keep track
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of right now, and this is news. One hundred and fifty five thousand
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small businesses in the state earned businesses in the state of West Virginia. That's
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most of it we're aware of in state's history, and probably up about ten
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thousand from a year or so ago. Before this, I've always been keep
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tracks about one hundred and forty thousand businesses. Now let's keep track of hundred
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and fifty five thousand businesses and charities throughout the state. So we attribute that
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to a number of things. And think of this, folks, This is
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coming out of COVID, and we still have this increase. During COVID,
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the businesses actually picked up, and I think that was a symbol of the
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hard working entrepreneur spirit in the Mountain State that people weren't just going to sit
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at home and sit on their hands. They wanted to start their own businesses.
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They've had ideas and now as a chance to start it. And then
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with what we've done in the modernization of the office, where we've made it
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easy for people to register the businesses online, and we just launched a brand
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new leading the nation technology program here a couple of weeks ago called SOLO,
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that single online location. You go to our website, you pull that up
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and it helps. It's a chatpot that walks you through how to register your
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business. So you can do this twenty four seven. You do it in
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your pajamas on the weekend at night, sitting at home. You can register
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your business here in the state and West Virgia and this helps you through that
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process. And so it's leading the nation because we have some very smart people
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in our igh T shop in the sect to day States Office, they gathered
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over nine hundred questions that people commonly ask when they call into the office,
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and then from that it went viral basically within the office that it's not just
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nine hundred questions you might ask. But they've done this what is called geo
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fencing around four websites within the secur day States Office, and so we populated
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those websites with answers we know are correct from our expertise are from the office.
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And now those four interactive websites can talk to one another and a little
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that you can ask through this chet chetbot tens of thousands of questions about businesses,
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business registration, business licensing, and it will spit back consistent answers.
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And that's what is exciting about this, I think, and we're leading the
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nation with this concept. And this is for less than two thousand dollars in
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the sixt day States Office. Now, the maintenance is going to be the
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routine cost. But here I want to pay tribute to the legislature. We've
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taken these ideas of the legislature and they've approved these ideas both in the elections
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arena and in the business and licensing arena. So we have a good cooperative
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relationship with our legislature. They're allowing us to take on these challenges and provide
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the service people of West Virginia. And I think all of that contributes to
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this growth in the new businesses throughout the state. And that's what this week
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is all about, is to pay tribute to those people who are willing to
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step up take on those challenges. By the way, we waive the fees
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for anybody under the age of thirty, for veterans and their families, we're
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just making it as easy as possible for people to start a business in the
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state of West Virginia. Talking to West Virginia Secretary of State Mike Warner,
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let's go back to elections for a moment. You were in Washington last week.
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What was that all about? I was asked, this is the fourth
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time I've been asked to Capitol Hill to explain high West Virginia has such a
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great confidence in our elections, how we're doing things so well in the elections
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are when the rest of America is so divided, so uncertain about their elections.
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And so I felt honored. But its goal to attribute to the county
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clerks and the people who run the elections. By Elections Division has just done
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a great job of balancing access with security, so the access to the polls
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is being able to go on election day and not have the long lines to
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vote early, ten days of early voting, to vote by mail if you
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have a legitimate excuse or reason. That's where you have this balance between easy
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access to the polls but also a security component voter ID and that sort of
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thing. And I think that if the rest of America would copy what we're
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doing here in West Virginia. And again I give attribute to the legislature for
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being the ones we've got this proper balance struck. But if we do that
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throughout the US, I think the competence in elections would go sky high and
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we wouldn't have these problems that we've seen in so many of those swing state
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elections. And we seem to be doing it right in West Virginia. But
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that's not to say that there aren't problems here are They're very very limited.
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But to one of those was reported yesterday there was an individual secretary who played
26:06
no contest to an election crime and it was the mother of a county commissioner
26:11
from Mingo County. Can you talk about that, Well, that's an example
26:15
of there are problems. Even in a great state lake West Virginia with good
26:18
elections, you still have election frit ory irregularias. Improprieties and we will search
26:22
those out, we will prosecute them. And that's why we've done things such
26:26
as we see something, text something, programs against something. We're leading the
26:30
nation with so everybody who has a cell phone, if you see intimidation or
26:34
an attraction taking place at polling locations, you can take a picture or a
26:38
video and send it to us. And then we have five times a number
26:41
of investigators we used to have. We have these investigators all around the states
26:45
so they can respond quickly to a situation. And so we're taking election integrity
26:51
very seriously. People know that, and hopefully that will serve as a deterrent
26:55
to keep these sorts of things from happening. That when people do decide that
26:59
they're going to tamper with the system or vote twice or intimidat a voter,
27:03
we're going to as soon as it gets reported, we're going to investigate and
27:07
take care of the situation so it doesn't occur again. And I think,
27:11
and you can correct me if I'm wrong, in this particular situation, I
27:12
think that there was somebody that was about I had to do with with an
27:15
absentee ballot from somebody that was that was sent to somebody out of state or
27:21
something that didn't no longer lived here. How did your office find out about
27:25
the crime? It was reported to us, and it was an alteration,
27:29
Uh, you know, an improper alteration on an application. So uh that
27:33
drives home the point. It isn't just like I said, double voting or
27:37
buying a vote. It's the entire process. It's important and needs to be
27:42
run properly. And part of what our testimony was last week was I really
27:48
got on the FBI and it's handling of this Hunter Biden laptop situation where we
27:53
have these spies who live These were our top officials from the CIA and DNA,
28:00
and these are the three hundred agencies who purposely put out disinformation saying that
28:03
the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian disinformation campaign, when in fact it was
28:08
their own disinformation campaign. I think our Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is in
28:12
the real trouble now because of some of the testimonies that's coming out being revealed.
28:18
And it took two years untild Republicans were in charge of the House of
28:22
Representatives before these hearings could be held to expose this. But the point in
28:27
all of this is that the whole process needs to be free, fair and
28:30
clean, and this clearly wasn't fair to the American people two weeks before the
28:36
twenty twenty election to lie to us our own agencies. I'm really incensed about
28:41
this. It's probably proper for a whole other conversation, but I'm hot about
28:45
it. I've reported that or I expressed my discomfort with that hearing the House
28:51
hearing, and we haven't heard the end of this one is this is what
28:56
allows me to say that that twenty twenty election was stolen, It wasn't fair,
29:00
and we need to make sure that it doesn't happen again. So I'm
29:02
really pleased that the House is getting after this how it's representatives and investigating what
29:07
happened there, because you know, we expect this information to come out of
29:11
Russia and China and some of these other countries. We don't expect it out
29:15
of our three hundred agencies that are responsible for the integrity of our election process.
29:21
And then to have the FBI know about it, not report that we
29:25
have some real problems to be cleaned out in the swamp in DC secret state.
29:29
Mac wonder before we let you go you are a candidate for governor.
29:32
Since you are last time, I think you haven't been on since then.
29:34
Another persons into the race, that being Attorney General Patrick Morrissey. He joins
29:38
that already crowded field with you and several others. How's it going and are
29:42
you Are you ready for the challenge? Oh, it's going great. And
29:48
I'm just I'm the candidate to trade step into the job day one. There's
29:51
no on the job training with me. I've worked with large organizations before.
29:53
People see what I've done as a Secretary of State, the advances we've made,
29:57
teaming up to voter registration list, modernizing the office, leveraging technology.
30:03
So if you like what we've done in secretary of State's office, let me
30:06
take that across the hall of do it for all of state government. And
30:10
that's the message that I'm want to send to the people of West Virginia.
30:12
And I'm looking forward. We've turned the corner in West Virginia. You see
30:17
this growing of the economy, of the businesses and so on. It's time
30:22
to put the foot on the accelerator and move it in to pass forward.
30:26
And so I've been out in Martinsburg, saw some wonderful things going on out
30:30
there. Over one hundred million dollar housing project going on to draw people in
30:33
from Northern Virginia. And then a food court that they're putting in just two
30:40
blocks away, leveraging making that quality of light, that community feeling again to
30:45
attract people who want to live in a place with a lower cost of the
30:49
little bit slow the pace of life, but having all the wonderful things that
30:55
West Virginia offers. And I think that we're willing to do that around the
30:57
state. We see it in Mordytown, we see it in the northern Panhandle.
31:00
We need to cross level some of this across the state, helping out
31:03
and say southern West Virginia, Christ some of the coal fields have been hit
31:07
through that on coal. We need the governors some fight for these, you
31:11
know, to build the economy, to push back against the wokeness and all
31:15
that give power to the parents and to the people, not forcing this woke
31:22
agenda on all of us. That's what we need, is the governor,
31:25
and that's what offers with people of West Virginia. So I appreciate you essing
31:26
about that day, Secretary State and Google to tour Canada. Mac Warner I
31:30
appreciate you, sir, enjoy your time up north of here doing the business
31:34
thing up there. It's always a pleasure to talk to you, and it's
31:37
always pleasure to see our elected officials out there beating the drum for small business.
31:41
We really do appreciate it. We'll talk again soon, sir. Thanks
31:44
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our sister Station V one hundred. Man, I have got a ton of
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texts to get to then I want to get into this situation with the school
35:50
closures, consolidations, whatever you want to call him in Kanau County. About
35:53
Mike Stewart, Texas, Stewart announced that with great humility, he's running for
35:58
age, says a texture any one who files to run for another office only
36:01
five months after winning one office is the furthest thing for being humble. Humility
36:06
is a remarkable thing for him to claim. And well, we'll talk to
36:09
Mike Stewart about that. He'll be in studio with us tomorrow. Let me
36:15
see here, tex says, if Mike Stewart becomes Attorney General West Virginia can
36:21
expect an ease on child marriage laws and to never ever have a hope of
36:25
legal cannabis. Mike Stewart is bad for business. According to it, I'll
36:29
let Mike Stewart defend himselves on that tomorrow. Okay, the same thing texted
36:36
twice here. Tex says one move that the GOP and Mansion as well,
36:39
if he wants to try to repair his trust issues with West Virginia's should make
36:44
is that there will be no negotiations on the debt unless this administration closes the
36:47
open southern border for good and finishes building the wall to end illegal immigration.
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Enough is enough, according to a texture. Texture says his time for a
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change in the Public Service Commission. But them on ballots, these people that
37:04
are on the board are all company people. We can't keep bailing out failed
37:07
power plants and utilities. It's time for the people to rise up. Tex
37:13
says, why is West Virginia is still so far behind in all the important
37:15
categories even after the Conservatives have been in power for so long? You know,
37:22
I guess the question. I've always been a person that says, and
37:25
I disagree with some of my Republican counterparts on this, and that's fine.
37:29
I have always said that even though the Democrats controlled West Virginia for eighty three
37:32
years, by and large, West Virginia was a conservative state by and large.
37:37
Now there's some exceptions to that, but even those that had the D
37:39
after their name tended to be more conservative. Now, I had Greg Thomas
37:44
on the show. Ye take Greg and I kind of disagree on that,
37:45
and that's He's far more knowledgeable about the stuff than I am. But we
37:49
kind of disagree on that, and that's okay. So I don't know.
37:52
I guess it all depends on what your definition of conservatism is. I mean,
37:57
yeah, but Democrats controlled West Virginia for eighty three years. I think
38:00
the majority of those folks that serve in those office were conservative. There are
38:04
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three or four four four zero one one zero one. Tex says, why
38:28
do you let Warner keep saying that the twenty twenty election was stolen. When
38:30
Trump's own at DJ, William Barr investigated this and said the election was absolutely
38:36
not stolen. Well, because that is Mike Warner's opinion. And you know,
38:40
I mean, I have candidates on the show all the time, almost
38:45
almost daily, I've a candidate for something. If they're not there will be
38:47
a candidate at some point on the show. And um, you know,
38:51
I'm gonna I'm not gonna argue back and forth with them if if that's the
38:54
opinion that they have and they've based on whatever they've looked at then and so
39:00
bim Tex says, I was surprised to hear mac Warner say that the election
39:05
was stolen. I think it's a dumb strategy, but the southern West Virginia
39:07
people eat it up like there is no tomorrow. The Cana County Board of
39:15
Education voted last night to move forward with the closing of Marmotte Elementary School and
39:20
moving those students and staff to Chesapeake Elementary. Jared Lewis as a story post
39:24
tot WV Metronews dot com. It was a unanimous vote. During the public
39:30
hearing by the Board of Education last night at Riverside High The superintendent of Cana
39:37
County Schools. Tom Williams spoke about the fidential closings and consolidations on the show
39:40
just a couple of months or so ago. He's quoted in Jared Lewis's story
39:45
on the website basically Superintendent Williams saying it's not an easy process or something that
39:53
the board wants to do, but it's necessary. The main reason to the
40:00
Knock County Board of Education, it's a decline in state funding or well that's
40:07
you know, it's the state funding. And doctor william says that over the
40:09
last ten years, and this is really a startling figure, over the last
40:15
ten years, Canaw County Schools has lost around forty four hundred students. And
40:22
he's correct. When you lose kids, you lose money as in state aid,
40:30
and losing forty four hundred kids is a kid to losing about thirty million
40:37
dollars in state funds. That's about thirty million dollars. And by closing and
40:45
consolidating these three schools, the board will save and estimated one point six million
40:51
dollars. Now, as you may expect, community members are upset about it.
40:55
It's the normal concerns from parents and grandparents all one hundred percent completely understandable
41:02
about kids getting the attention that the kids deserves. You know, one parent
41:08
at the hearing said she may, she may choose to homeschool her kids.
41:14
And I do think it is worth noting that when you talk about losing forty
41:20
four hundred kids, these aren't in every case just kids that their parents or
41:25
guardians moved away. In some cases it's kids who went into private schools,
41:34
homeschools, charter schools, etc. It's it's not over. It's not over
41:40
yet. Well it is from Marmett, but but more hearings are coming Marmette.
41:46
By the way, we'll close at the end of the next school year.
41:50
That's the twenty three twenty twenty four school term. Now next up to
41:53
be discussed Grandview Elementary. A hearing on that consolidation will be held tonight at
41:59
west Side Middle School starting at six. The final public hearing will be about
42:02
closing Wimer Elementary. That hearing to be held tomorrow night at six at Saint
42:07
Albanside. Of course, our team will be covering those just as we did
42:10
last night. And I know parents and grandparents don't like hearing this, but
42:19
these closures are necessary, and it happens hundreds of times, if not thousands
42:25
of times per year, and no one likes losing community schools. As I
42:31
said, when news of these closures of these schools first service a few months
42:35
ago, it all came out and and it really is sad. But I
42:44
guess I can kind of ride the fence here, and I can, I
42:45
can I understand both sides. You know, the school is, or at
42:49
least in small communities especially, is the gathering place, the centerpiece of the
42:54
community. It's where your scout meetings were held. You're hearing and everything from
43:00
water issues to road closures, you know, woman's club meetings, you know
43:06
whatever that the school was where it happened, and no one likes to see
43:09
that happened in these school closures and consolidations happens, but you know, it
43:15
is what it is. If it costs more to operate these schools, those
43:19
schools are going to close. And get used to it, because I'm sure
43:23
there's going to be a lot more, possibly within your neighborhood. And again
43:31
worth noting, it's not just population loss. You know, parents and grandparents
43:36
and guardians in some cases they are choosing other options other than public schools for
43:40
one reason or another. There's a whole lot more. There's a whole lot
43:44
more ways to educate kids out there. What there were when most of you
43:46
and I were in school, I mean it was public school where maybe the
43:50
occasional you know, religious institution, that was pretty much. Yet now you
43:54
got home school, you got several I mean my home county I think now
43:58
has got like four different something like the county ad that I'm from, Logan
44:01
County, I think has got something like three or four different Christian schools in
44:06
the county. Had one when I was there, and that was a kindergarten
44:08
through twelve. Now they have I think three or four. So you got
44:13
more of those options available in charter schools and things of that and homeschooling and
44:17
sadly, these are the times in which we live, Texas. I can't
44:22
wait for Mike to peddle that stuff with Hoppy talking about stolen election. Hoppy
44:25
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the Supermajority's way to eliminate public schools. Now, I don't see that.
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I see that as maybe a sign that they am a lot of people maybe
47:46
aren't happy with public schools. I don't know. I'm not a parent,
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I don't know, just throwing it out there. Tech says the Public Service
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Commission PSC is really the SPC screwed the Public Commission. According to a Texter,
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texta says, when will the GOP drop the word woke b asked to
48:04
do something that really matters? In my humble opinion, Backwater's a joke,
48:07
and a poor one at that. All about opinions, man, everybody's got
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one or two or five Texas Day, Mike Stuart will be a great choice
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for attorney in general. He's a man of integrity and common conservative sense.
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for an office. The AG job just became available. It's not like he
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doesn't have the background to handle the job. According to a texting a game,
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we'll talk to Mike Stuart about that tomorrow. Tex says, the old
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West Virginia Democrats were physically liberal and socially conservative. They liked government spending tax
48:36
money and didn't want gays to marry. West Virginia GOP is physically and socially
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conservative. They don't want tax money to be spent except for corporate subsidies,
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and they don't want gays to marry. The only thing that's changing is West
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Virginia citizens are getting duped by the GOP and to being happy with less.
48:52
According to a text, what was it that led to Tucker Carlson getting the
49:00
acts at Fox? Well, it looks like a variety of things. One
49:04
of the big issues is coming to light today. I text message sent by
49:07
Tucker Carlson to one of his show producers in the hours after January sixth.
49:15
Apparently he and he's some of his staff had watched a video of some Trump
49:22
supporters. His words, it's Tucker Carlson's direct quote here. This all came
49:24
out in the Dominion case attacking an Antifa kid end quote now. He later
49:30
texted he felt badly that the attackers were white. Again, quoting jumping a
49:35
guy like that is dishonorable. Obviously, it's not how white men fight.
49:40
I suddenly find myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit
49:45
him harder kill him. I really wanted them to hurt that kid. I
49:49
could taste it. Then something deep in my brain and alarm went off.
49:51
This isn't good for me. I'm becoming something I don't want to be.
49:54
The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says
49:58
and does, I'm sure I would also hate him personally if I knew him.
50:02
But I shouldn't gloat over his suffering And how am I better than he
50:07
is? And quote. Now, of course, all this, as I
50:07
said, came out as part of the Dominion lawsuit. That text and this
50:14
all is according to New York Times, by the way, was seen by
50:16
the board at Fox just one day before they were set to defend themselves in
50:22
the case with Dominion. Now, apparently the board became concerned that the text
50:29
would go public during the trial with Tucker Carlson was on the stand, and
50:35
that that would again raise broader questions in the eyes of the public. Now
50:39
you add this with all the other issues within the company that were being lobbed
50:44
at Tucker Carlson from Sexism on Doubt and Fox simply had to cut their losses
50:50
even though he was the number one guy at what he does in the entire
50:53
industry. You can love the guy, you can hate the gap, but
50:55
you can't argue with the numbers. He had numbers like nobody had ever seen
51:00
in that genre, and those quickly bottomed out when he was fired, and
51:06
they have continued to bottom out in the days following. Now, now that
51:09
doesn't mean that it's going to remain that way, but I mean, it
51:14
just it just crapped out, you know, totally so. And again all
51:16
this came out during the dominion trial. And so when I said it was
51:21
reported by the New York Times, you know Q people saying fake news.
51:22
No, those were the actual texts that they were able to get. Those
51:25
were actual texts from from Tucker Carlson. And you know, people say taken
51:30
out of context or well, I don't know how you take that out of
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context, but that apparently was the reason five Vity Lives brought to you,
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com. All gotta go. Thank you to Western New Secretary of State in
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Gooble, Torre Keida mac Warner for being on the show today and also Metro
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New State by correspondent Brad mclahanty. Governor's got a briefing scheduled for a round
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eleven o'clock schedule be the keyword. Brad will be following that and you can
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follow Brad on social media and all of the Metro News and w c HS
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Network team as well WCHS Network seventy on Twitter. Coming up on the show
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tomorrow, Doctor Jessica Ice from West Virginia's for Affordable Healthcare so here, plus
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state senator now candidate for Attorney General Mike Stewart is here as well. Enjoy
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this rainy Wednesday. I will see you tomorrow. Until next time, have
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