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04/20/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Chris Pritt, Patrick Morrisey, Mayor Scott Edwards · The Dave Allen Show

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eight Sertain things office morning by Welcome into the show. Delegate and candidate now
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for West Virginia's Secretary of State, Chris Pritt, Good morning, sir,
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How are you? Good morning, Dave, Nice to be with you,
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Nice to have you here. The beautiful weather out here, today's fantastic.
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So you're all suited and tied up today. Is there an opportunity that you
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might get to get out and enjoy some of this weather today probably not today.
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Can you look at it? You have a window where you eat.
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We have a window we can look through like otherwise I'll just be tied up
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in meetings and phone calls for the vast majority of the day. I hate
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that for you, because it could be like summer, it's like eighty eight
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degrees or something today. Man. So, but at least you got a
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window. A lot of people don't have that. At least at least you
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gotta wind all right, Before we talk about you're a candidacy for Secretary of
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State, I want to talk about your current job you are, of course,
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remember the House of Delegate Interims just wrapped up. Your take on interims.
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I think they went pretty well. I think we were able to get
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a lot of information from individuals. There was some recaps of legislation that were
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passed this past year, and I think it went pretty well. One of
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the things that's so important about interims is it gives us the opportunity to do
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a deep dive into issues that are important that are possibly not ready for prime
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time, so to speak. The legislation isn't ready to go, but it
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helps inform us because certainly, anytime you're passing any piece of legislation, it's
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a really big deal and you want to make sure that it's thought through you.
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You hear from experts and others who have important information to share on legislation.
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So it's I think interims are a very very important, an important part
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of the legislative process. And plus the regular session can sometimes be a circus.
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I mean, let's face it, where do you got everybody coming there
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and you know, the different interest groups and so on, and saying lobbyists
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and so on. Stright, it's a little bit mine and it's and I
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say that in the most respectful way possible, But but it is a time
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when you have these interims that you can actually said, do a little bit
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more of a deep dive and kind of concentrate and sometimes maybe not as many
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issues coming at you at once too. You can you can just tackle a
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couple of the big issue of course, Chris, that's been been discussed and
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discussed and discussed again, is this crisis in the correctional systems? Are we
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are we making any headway here? Because we got to do something, man,
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Because I absolutely have to do something, and my preference would be to
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call a special session. To me, it's it's fairly straightforward as to what
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reforms we can do. I think certainly increasing to pay for these individuals who
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are working in corrections, I think that goes a long way. I mean,
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individuals being compensated appropriately is a way you can certainly encourage people to go
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into a certain profession. I mean, it's just it's basic economics. The
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more you pay somebody, the more likely it is that they're going to do
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a job. I mean that's the reason. For example, individuals who oftentimes
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work in dangerous jobs get paid more. They get paid Moreno all mining,
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construction, other jobs that potentially could be dangerous. People go into these fields
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and they're compensated more because of the danger. That's that's with it. And
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you have to pay people more to do difficult jobs. That's just the nature.
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That's basic economics. Job, especially when you're taking your life in your
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own hands as you are as a correctional facility pretty much every day correctional officer.
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Absolutely so, I'm certainly, as you know, very much a small
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government kind of god. There have been several budgets that I've against since i've
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been in office, and because I didn't think it cut government enough and cut
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spending enough. But at the same time, it's not that you can't just
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completely cut your way out of everything in There are certain areas where you certainly
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do need to compensate people more to make sure that we get people into certain
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jobs. I mean, it's a crisis. My preference would be that we
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would in fact call a special session to address this. I would call on
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the leadership of the legislature as well as the governor to work together so we
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can get that done. Governor said yesterday that he was not necessarily in favor
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of a special session, but things can change, so we'll see what happens
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here. Okay, just a couple of weeks ago, you announced that you
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would be seeking the office of West Virginia's Secretary of State in twenty twenty four.
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Mac Warner, current holder of the office, is not running for reelection,
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opting instead to run for governor. First, the very broad question,
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Chris, and then will get specific, why do you want to be Secretary
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of State. One of the things that I really want to focus on a
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secretary of State is building upon the success of Secretary Warner with a lot of
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the really great electoral reforms that he's pushed through. He's done an outstanding job
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as Secretary of State. I want to build upon that and build upon the
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success of his team. I think it's very important that we continue to move
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ahead. I think ensuring and improving upon the gains that we've seen in that
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office in recent years is very, very important. And it's important because we
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want to have an assurance that everybody has complete faith in the system. And
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I'll say it this way. One of the things that was often said in
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the past is that all politics is local. And to some extent, I
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think that's true. But to another extent, I think the opposite of that
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is also true, and that I think all elections on some level have become
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national. And when I say that, what I mean is when people hear
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about things in Arizona or Georgia or in other states, it has an impact
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on us here in West Virginia. It has an impact on how things are
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perceived. So, for example, if people are hearing about problems with an
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election down in Arizona or in other places, it could really have an impact
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in terms of, for example, whether somebody actually goes out and votes.
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I think it can have an impac even though there aren't problems in West even
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though there aren't problems in West Virginia. And so that's one of the things
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that I think we really need to take into account. For example, if
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you look at what happened in a lot of congressional elections throughout the country,
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I think that Republicans probably didn't do as well as many would have thought.
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And I think part of that could be perceptions about what happened in twenty and
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twenty that a certain subset of the population has lost faith in the system as
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a whole, that we're going to have elections that operate in the correct way,
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but in West Virginia. And I understand Chris completely what you're saying.
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But if, well, if West Virginians are already in West Virginia, as
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you said, what Secretary Wander, we're actually doing things right? I mean,
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what do we need to do in West Virginia to assure people? I
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mean, is it more a this may or may not happen in other states,
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but it's not happening here. What would you do to assure West Virginia
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isay, hey, we're fine here. Well, several things and I think
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in terms of making sure individuals, for example, who may have set out
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the last election, I think there are several things that we could do.
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I think one thing that I would like to see is that I would like
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to see and this would be from the top, from the Secretary of State's
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office. I would like to see randomly selected precincts. Okay, they wouldn't
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they would be they wouldn't be hand picked. They would be randomly selected for
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a hand recount. So, for example, if a precinct in Monengalia County
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got randomly selected, there would be a hand recount, and then what people
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could do is they could compare and contrast, and they could look at what
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the official tally was versus what the hand recount said. And then if we
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have several of those, I think that would assure a lot of people that
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there aren't any kind of problems. Now, certainly we do have hand recounts
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that are are done and administered by the County Commission on that level, but
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this would be a little bit different. It would be randomly selected ones from
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the Secretary of States office. And how would those be select I mean they're
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random about how somebody's got to select them. I mean sure, well,
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for example, you could just a computer or something could have a computer,
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you could have you could you could draw balls out of okay as to what
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specific precincts are going to be selected. So that's that's one thing I would
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like to see. Okay, Um, I'm going to get away from elections
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just for a moment, because that is the sexy part of the Secretary of
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States Office, which everybody kind of factors it in. But business and licensing
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is a is a bigger part of the office. I mean that there's more
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employees in the When I worked there, it was called the B and L
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division. When you have a lot more people in B and L than what
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you do in elections and whatever. Uh. And I didn't realize this until
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I actually went to work there, Chris. The things that the Secretary of
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State's Office does, I mean, I thought it's elections, but it's business
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licensing, it's charitable things. If you want to be the person who marries
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someone, you know that the conducts the ceremony that goes through the Secretary of
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States office. If you're part of an h a homeowners association that goes through
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the Secretary of States Office, that when you see the governor sign a bill,
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that's just ceremonial. It doesn't mean anything until it goes to the Secretary
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of State's office. So are you prepared? And I know you've got time
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because the campaigns the season is not officially even here yet. Have you've done
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your homework you starting to do? Not completed yet? Are you starting to
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do your homework to get ready for all the other aspects besides elections. Absolutely.
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And I've been in communications with the Secretary of States office team there.
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They have offered for me to come and talk with them and learn more about
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the office, and I'm going to be doing that in the future, and
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I think that's certainly something that we want to do, is look at that.
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I will say this though, in terms of the business registration part,
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I mean I think the office, from what I can tell, I think
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it's operating great. I think we do an awesome job with business registrations and
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anything like that. Now, there is one small thing that I would like
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to do that I think would be very very important in it would be a
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way that we could really improve upon things in the state of West Virginia.
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And this would require a statutory change but I would like to have a change
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in how we do documents that are foyed. So, for example, anybody
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can fo you a document just for clarification. Freedom of freedom of information is
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basically what that means. That is correct, okay, And so with a
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few exceptions, anybody can request documents from any state agency, any governmental entity.
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And so one of the things that I would like to see is in
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terms of transparency, and I think transparency is incredibly important. I would like
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to have a process in which individuals, and it would be completely voluntary.
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If documents are foyed, there could be a registration process at the Secretary of
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State's office. The Secretary of State part of its Bailey Bailey Wick and what
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it does is it's the official custodian of the definition of the office absolutely.
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And so what we would do is we would have a process in which somebody
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could voluntarily have documents registered with the Secretary of State's office, so that if,
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for example, if somebody believes that there's some sort of impropriety going on
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at for example, a city or any kind of county office or the state
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and they want those documents preserved for posterity, they could register it with a
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Secretary Secretary of States office, and it could be publicly. So being proactive
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as opposed to reactive as what you're absolutely because what happens a lot of times
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is somebody will for you some documents. There, there will be a news
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article about it, there might be a couple of lines on it, and
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then it just sort of goes away. This way we can ensure accountability going
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into the future. I mean, these are public documents. They're they're out
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there, and if somebody wants to register those documents with the Secretary of States
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Office, they should be able to do that. And again it would be
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voluntary. They wouldn't have to do it right, but if they choose to,
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they could. They could do it right. Because I think government transparency
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is incredibly important. I think it makes makes people feel more confident in this
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system. It holds people accounting me accountable, And that's what I'd like to
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see. Talker to Chris Pritt before we wrap it up. We know a
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gentleman named Ken Reid entered the race for or Now so he was going to
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run on the Republican side. A couple of days ago. Or Secretary of
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State, Putnam County Clerk Bryan Woods, and now he's going to ride.
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I'm here, and there's a few other names they're going to be out there,
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still plenty of time. What sets Chris Pritt apart from all these because
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Iain Macwarner was not going to run for reelection, so regardless, it's going
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to be a new face in the Secretary of State's office. What sets Chris
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Prett apart in your opinion? Well, two things. Number One, As
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you know, Dave, I've never shied away from any issue. I'm often
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at the forefront of major issues. People know where I stand. They know
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where I am. The people here in Kana County, in the surrounding areas
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where they've listened to me on your show, they've heard it for years.
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I tell people exactly how it is. And more important than that is the
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fact that I have a voting record that shows who I am. I mean,
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if you look at my voting record, I've never shied away from any
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kind of issues. I've always tried to do what I think is the right
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thing. And what I think sets me apart is I believe that my views
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are very consistent with the people of West Virginia, and I have a voting
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record to back that up. People don't have to wonder where I stand on
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an issue or whether I'm going to do what I say that I'm going to
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do. I say exactly what I'm gonna do. I tell people exactly what
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I think, and I think that sets me apart. I've got a record
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to back it up. All right? Where can people learn more? If
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you get your got a website? Facebook? Where you got I've got Facebook,
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It's at Pritt for the People, Twitter at Pritt for the People,
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Instagram at Pritt for the People, and the campaign website is Chrispritt dot com.
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It's pretty simple, pretty simple. All right. We should have best
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of luck. We'll talk, I'm sure several times before the election. Thanks
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a lot, Okay, thanks telling you. Chrispritt, candidate for WESTFORDIDIA,
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General and goobernatorial candidate Patrick Morrissey. Good morning, sir. How are you.
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I am doing great, David's good to be with you today. Great
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to have you here, sir. Now, of course, your candidate for
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governor. We're gonna get to that a little bit later on, but I
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want to talk about a couple of things in your office. First, you
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and a couple of other Attorney generals are going after the almighty Google machine.
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Why get involved in that and what's the story here? Sir? Yeah,
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absolutely so. I think a lot of people know that we've had a lot
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of concerns about big tech in terms of many of their activities and especially with
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respect to some of the antitrust issues that have been out there, and so
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we've been talking with a lot of our attorneys general from across the country,
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and in fact and talked a couple of years ago, but the possibility of
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really looking at what Google was doing on their key digital advertising technology chiefs and
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specifically how they're adding and a lot of publishers that depend on some of the
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ads and the advertisers. So we looked at that and we concluded that we
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thought there were allegations against Google that deserves to be pursued, and that they
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were anti competitive and exclusionary in nature in terms of eliminating some of their ad
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tech competitors through acquisitions and other tactics. And so when you do that,
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we believe the price of advertising goes up. And so we thought that this
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was an antitrust violation and we're pleased to work with a group of states on
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that to really get to the bottom of this. Now, interestingly, we
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had looked at these issues a little while ago, but we had concluded that,
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you know, we have to come together with a big group of states
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to do it, to leverage our resources. So we're part of a group
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of sixteen states going after these advertising processes because once again we think that there
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may be anti competitive in nature. Well, I can tell you're not going
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to get much argument for those in the broadcasting community and the newspaper business.
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I can tell you that, Attorney David, I think there's local lawsuits from
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some of the newspapers on very similar issues that there's been anti competitive conduct,
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and I'm curious to see how all this is going to play out. I
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agree with that. I mean, all all people in the media want in
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that respect is a level playing field, and it's simply not the way it
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is now. The big story, I guess from your offices weeks are had
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to be the Women's Health Center of West Virginia dropped its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality
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of West Virginia's abortion law. Why did they drop that, in your opinion,
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and what's the story here? Well, they dropped this apparently we received
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the notice, and we think it may very well be because one of the
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doctors is not going to be working with the clinic anymore. So they're probably
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going to be soon out shopping for another doctor who can work at the clinic.
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But when we see this usually in order to file a lawsuit, you
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need to have standing in order to pursue arguments, and so I'm not going
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to predict what will ultimately happen, whether they will reinitiate a lawsuit, but
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we're pleased that they voluntarily dropped it because I think the way that the complaint
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is structured right now, they wouldn't be able to allege the harm that they
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were originally contending. So you know, this is not over. We have
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multiple lawsuits. We're gonna have to continue to defend the state laws. But
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it's certainly a relief. Every time someone offers to voluntarily dismiss a case and
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it's stopped being challenged, that means that we're saving precious life, and I
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think that's a great thing. So we wanted to make sure we let people
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know about that that happened earlier in the week. There are a couple other
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issues that are going on now. We have the lawsuit from the abortion manufacturer,
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and so we're going to have an argument in court coming up on that
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very soon. There are also some issues pending at the US Supreme Court,
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and I think that's critical that that's going to get resolved probably the next week
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as well. Talking about Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, who is now a candidate
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for governor of the state of West Virginia. Patrick Morrisey, you're officially in
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now broad question do you want to be governor? You know, Dave,
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part of the reason I want to be governor is that I'm the only proven
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conservatives with a record of getting big things done for West Virginia, moving the
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needle or the things that West Virginians care about. So I want to make
24:15
sure that we're going to put more take home pay in people's pockets, supercharge
24:22
our economy and our revenues. I want to make sure that we're really going
24:27
after a workforce participation in growing those numbers. I think about the challenges in
24:33
West Virginia with our standard of living and ensuring that we're going to have more
24:40
dollars in people's pocket, and I say, who's the best person to take
24:44
on the big challenges, whether they be issues pertaining to education, they're issues
24:49
relating to taxes, or just generally keeping the woke ideas out of West Virginia.
24:55
And you have to look at the only person of the group who's been
24:57
able to get big things for West Virginia, and so I believe it's a
25:03
natural transition to move from attorney general to governor because no one else is going
25:08
to be able to say they've been there, they've done that, and they're
25:12
prepared for the fights ahead. We've taken on a lot of the big national
25:18
folks when they try to come in and hurt West Virginia, and no one
25:22
else can say that. So when they're going to be big fights on the
25:26
horizon to help West Virginia grow and help her reach of potential, to ensure
25:30
that we're driving that workforce participation rate up and driving that population up and keeping
25:37
the bad ideas out of our state. Only one person's been able to do
25:40
that successfully in the past, and I want to build on my record as
25:45
age as the state's next governor. And I agree with you on the workforce
25:48
participation. I mean, it's just absolutely pathetic what we have in West Virginia.
25:53
We're talking about able bodied people that can go to work that for one
25:57
reason another choose not to and then want everyone else to support them. I
26:00
get that. What can a governor do about that, though, sir,
26:04
you know it's interesting. A governor, I think to do a lot.
26:07
And let's start with a basic premise right now, there are so many different
26:11
entities that badly need workers. You hear about it in the context of the
26:17
state corrections officers, you hear it in the context of private sector. So
26:22
many people are looking for individuals who to help them with their employment. I
26:29
look at this and I say, we have sixty five thousand open jobs here
26:33
in West Virginia. One of the things we can do is better let people
26:37
know in state and outside the state about those jobs, and we can begin
26:44
to better place people in all the jobs around West Virginia. And that's not
26:48
been done at the best possible level in the past. So I think we
26:52
can change that. And imagine if we could fill ten thousand of those sixty
26:57
five thousand jobs. Let's happens economically, We're going to grow aggressively, and
27:03
we're going to be able to take that added tax revenue that comes in for
27:07
more people being on the payrolls, and then we can reinvest it backs for
27:12
additional lower taxes, or to make sure that we have a broader school choice
27:18
program, money following the child. These are incredible things we can do just
27:22
by literally being effective at how we're advertising and marketing and letting people know about
27:30
these jobs, and also putting other systems in place to make it easier to
27:34
fill those jobs. Some of the regulatory changes that we can make will make
27:38
it easier for people to come in and to get jobs that today might require
27:44
much more onerous licensing requirements. So I'm going to be gathering a list of
27:48
every single regulation that exists in the state right now. That's one of the
27:52
things I'll do as governor. We're going to look through which ones are reasonable,
27:56
which ones we can do without. And I think that's also going to
28:00
help a lot because that tends to attract more people to the next And of
28:04
course, you know, you're somebody in the in your role as Attorney general,
28:10
UM and I have you on, you know, to talk about the
28:11
different things that you've got going on in your office that has worked with in
28:15
many many cases. When we hear you talk about you've joined a coalition with
28:19
other states as attorney general to fight this or to go against that or whatever.
28:23
A lot of times these are bipartisan, you know they're not. These
28:26
aren't just Republicans. These are Democrats that you're having to work with now.
28:29
Granted, under the Gold Dome in Charleston, we don't have a heck of
28:32
a lot of Democrats. We were now down one more effective on Tuesday,
28:36
I get Monday or Tuesday of this week, I guess. But but you
28:38
started to work with a lot of people. And one of the problems with
28:41
the Republican Party, and it doesn't matter who the party is, when you
28:45
have that many people, eventually you're gonna have divisions within the party. Are
28:48
you prepared to work with people um in the legislature that maybe you've had an
28:53
issue or with or has had an issue with you at some point, Well,
28:57
well, most certainly we want to work with people who want to move
29:00
West Virginia hoards and want to make the state successful. Right, So,
29:04
if you're talking about someone who wants to bring West Virginia back, or who
29:08
is trying to advance socialist ideas, or they're trying to harm our citizens,
29:15
no, those are not people that you're going to work with. But most
29:18
of the people who come to Charleston, I think, are trying to do
29:21
positive things for the state. And so you want to identify at the beginning,
29:26
what are the principles that bind us? And I know those principles,
29:32
but what you want to do is articulate them to the legislature when it comes
29:36
in and then the positions that you have as the governor, and work with
29:41
them to come up with a common agenda. And I think that's really important
29:45
and you're going to see that happen a lot more when I become governor,
29:48
that we're going to bring people in, we're going to work to have that
29:51
agenda, and then we're gonna go off and we're going to make sure that
29:55
agenda passes. And when people try to diverge from the agenda after they originally
30:00
agreed upon what's going to be moving, we're not going to let that happen.
30:04
We're going to be pushing very aggressively, but it's going to be collaborative
30:08
with the legislature after you go through the principles. Now, look, they're
30:14
eight eighty nine people right now. I'm sure that there could be real divergence
30:19
in the positions that people have, but I think it's critical to talk about
30:25
the issues up front and try to get consensus. That doesn't mean all eighty
30:30
eight people have to agree, but it means you're going to be bringing them
30:33
in. They'll be part of the process and You're going to outline what are
30:37
the best things to advance to help West Virginia improve its standard of living,
30:42
to grow in terms of educational attainment, to increase workforce participation and population in
30:49
West Virginia, to protect our West Virginia conservative values. And if people are
30:55
on the same page on that, we can get even more done than we've
30:59
been able to see over the last few decades. Attorney General and candidate for
31:03
Governor, Patrick Morrissey, good luck, sir, and we will talk soon.
31:06
Thanks a lot, Hey, thanks so much, Dave for you all
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tech says Dave, we are going to miss Mike Warner in the Secretary
31:33
of State's office. That is, according to a Texter, text says,
31:37
Patrick Morrissey lost my vote as soon as he started blowing the woke whistle.
31:41
Let's elect a grown up politician for governor of West Virginia. According to a
31:48
Texter, text says if Morrissey is Morrissey all for completely getting rid of the
31:55
state income tax and keeping the inventory tax, he says he is for us
31:59
Joe's I need proof, says a Texter. Okay, I don't have any
32:07
idea what that means. Texture says there's not very many good jobs in the
32:10
States. Well, I would disagree. I think I think there are.
32:15
Text says we have the worst economy in the country. That's not true.
32:20
More people have died from drug overdose in to Morrissey than any other time in
32:22
our states history, and people are still dying at record levels. That part
32:25
is true, But I don't know how much you can blame Patrick Morrissey for
32:30
that. Just to be fair, text says A. G. Morrissey will
32:35
create jobs and improve education with advertising and fighting. There is no clue how
32:38
to run state. According to a Texter, textas to day. I used
32:44
to have a job where I came in contact with a lot of coal mine
32:45
foremants and supervisors. They all told me that the real problem of hiring for
32:50
the minds was that they would hire one hundred and end up with thirty after
32:53
the drug test. That's unfortunately true of a lot of jobs. All right,
32:59
we're gonna take it. When we come back after this, a hurricane.
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guard shortage. Why doesn't someone talk to Shelby Moore capita at her connections to
35:55
the private prison industry. They donate to her, so she should have the
35:59
ability to get them to the table. After all, West Virginia is Republican
36:02
and private industry does best according to Republicans and their theories. Tech says Morrissey
36:07
will go after tech companies for unfair practices, but we'll let oil and gas
36:12
companies gounds the lives out of customers. Wonder who he gets donations from.
36:16
Hurricane. Mayor Scott Edwards is with us. Good morning, sir, how
36:19
are you? Good morning? How are you doing today? Well? I'm
36:22
doing fine, may now, Okay, earlier we had on Chris Pritt,
36:24
who's attend a candidate for secretary of State. We had Attorney General Patrick Morrissey,
36:28
who's running for governor. Now is the opportunity for Mayor Scott Edwards to
36:31
announce that he is running for president? Well, I think I'll just run
36:37
from mayor again. Okay, right, fair enough. You're happy there in
36:40
Htown, right, you're not ready to be watching again? Absolutely happy and
36:45
Hurricane I'm extreme. We have here and taking care of take care of ourselves.
36:49
Normally we reserve Monday for our Mayor's but because it's you and because we
36:52
have some good things we wanted to talk about in Hurricane, I thought i'd
36:53
give you the opportunity this morning. Several things going on in Hurricane. One
37:00
of those is, uh you're this new fire station. You're about to open
37:02
this and you're having an open house to talk about the fire station. Yeah.
37:06
So, uh so, we we just opened our rand new fire station.
37:09
It replaced a forty eight year old fire station. It was on Main
37:12
Street and Hurricane and you know, with the with the area growing like it
37:15
is, you know, we wanted to go ahead and build something that would
37:19
that would you know, last a long time. You know, this is
37:21
one hundred year build to six million dollars fire station. Um, you know,
37:25
it's bigger than what we need today. But in ten years, twenty
37:29
thirty, forty years, it's you know, it's gonna take care of us
37:31
with the growth and everything. So we're having an open the Saturday from two
37:37
to five pm. And this is station tours. There will be you know,
37:40
bounce houses and we're giving away free Scraggle pop fun for kids and families
37:46
and just take a tour of the station. Uh, you know, talk
37:50
to the firefighters, you know, get on the fire truck to do everything.
37:54
Just learn a lot fire department and and also you know we are a
37:58
paid, a volunteer fire department, so there will be people there to talk
38:02
to you if you if people want to want to volunteer, hey, that's
38:07
great and no experience necessary. Well, and we all know that our fire
38:10
departments across America, specifically you're in West Virginia, are struggling with numbers right
38:15
now. So if you're interested in this sort of thing, would be a
38:17
good opportunity to come down. Where is the fire station to physically located?
38:22
For those that may only vaguely be familiar with Hurricane, what's the best way
38:24
to describe where it is? Yes, if you know where Hurricane Middle School
38:28
with, it's a couple of hundred yards past the Hurricane Middle School on the
38:30
right, so it's on Midland Trail, easy to find, easy found.
38:34
We're talking with the Hurricane Mayor, Scott Edwards here on five AD Live.
38:37
Now, you're also doing something I understand called a Sensory Friendly First Responders Night.
38:42
What is that all about? Yeah, so this month is Autism Awareness
38:45
Month and we've we've declared that as well and Hurricane and so it's a Sensory
38:51
Friendly first Responder meet and greet which is April the twenty fifth, from six
38:55
to eight pm at the new fire station. So that evening we'll have you
39:00
know, we'll have police, firefighters, other first reports will there and they
39:05
will meet and Greek kids, you know, those with autism and their families
39:09
and and and it's all century friendly. It's very important that those with autism,
39:15
you know, are able to know, you know, what a firefighter,
39:19
what a police officer or what ems you know, what look like,
39:22
how they would act to them, you know, in an emergency. It's
39:25
extremely important that they learn, you know, learn and see this early.
39:30
And that's what we'd like to do. And I also understand you got your
39:32
big Spring Festival coming up on May six. That's always a big deal in
39:37
Hurricane. Yeah, main Street Springs Festival is huge. It's one pm to
39:40
five pm on Main Street. Lots of vendors will be there, carnival theme
39:45
games, inflatables, all kinds of stuff will be there. Main Street will
39:49
be shut down. It's a free event for everybody. And big shout out
39:52
to a man to Ramy. She coordinates uh the Spring Festival and all of
39:57
our events and Hurricane and and it'll it'll be an other hit, just as
40:00
it always has been. And a couple other things where we let you go.
40:02
This um Meeks Mountain Trail. I think the last time you were on
40:06
the show you may have talked about that. I've had other folks on the
40:07
show talk about the Meeks Mountain Trail. This trail is getting national attention.
40:13
I know Senator Joe Manchin was in the area not long ago and U and
40:16
actually had a chance to toward the trail. I mean people are literally coming
40:20
from all over the country and probably some cases all over the world to Putnham
40:23
County for the Meeks Mountain Trail. What exactly is it and why are people
40:29
so excited about it? Well, you know you mentioned Senator Manson's He's been
40:32
here a few times now talking specifically about that trail system. So it's around
40:38
thirty miles of trails on about eight hundred acres that the Meeks family have donated
40:45
for this use, and shout out to the Meeks family. But it is
40:47
a trail system from mountain bikes, hikers, runners, walkers, and you
40:53
are absolutely right. We get people from not just not just Hurricane and Putnham
40:58
County, not just West Virginia, but all over the country will come by
41:01
to see Meeks Mountain Trails. Um. It's it's absolutely wonderful. You get
41:07
out in the woods. Uh, there's different trail systems you can get on.
41:10
You know, you can, you can do something. I just a
41:13
couple of nights ago, I did the Red White Trail, which was three
41:15
point two miles of five K No big deal. There's some other trails that
41:21
man, these bikers, mountain bikers absolutely amazing. A lot of technical aspects
41:25
of the trail system. But what's unique it's all hand done. There's been
41:30
thousands and how many thousands and thousands of hours of volunteering over the last four
41:37
four or four and a half years UM. So it's all done by hand.
41:40
So these these volunteers and it's all volunteer. They built the trails,
41:45
they maintain the trails. It's just a phenomenal it's really a gem of Hurricane.
41:50
You know, we have a gym that sits right here in Hurricane and
41:53
we see people from all over all. Indeed you do. And that's gym
41:58
with a with a G, not when ye. Yeah, well it's gee
42:01
and not g y. That's what I'm trying to correct. You have a
42:06
couple of gyms too, though, I mean around the area. All right,
42:07
let's go back and let's wrap it up here by going back and talking
42:10
about this open house that you got going on on Saturday with the fire station.
42:13
Communities invited out to talk about them. Absolutely, the whole community's invited
42:17
out. Bring your kids, if you don't have kids, just the adult
42:20
come. But it's station tours and we'll have some giveaways that type of thing.
42:24
Bounce out to the kids and scraggle pop. You had me at scragglepop.
42:29
Man, Yeah, scraggle pop. Yes, we'll save you back.
42:31
We'll save you back, you scraggle pop. But it's two pm to five
42:34
pm after Neue fire station located just past Creak in middle school on the right.
42:37
Can't visit all right, May are always good stuff going on there in
42:40
Hurricane. I appreciate you taking time out of schedule. We'll talk soon.
42:44
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46:53
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46:58
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47:00
he's considering a run for secretary. But I mean again, you got to
47:02
understand that when you got State Auditor J. B. Mccuski, who is
47:06
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47:09
You got our treasure Riley Moore is seeking a higher office too, That all
47:15
these offices except for the ad Commissioner and Kent Leonhardt actually did consider a run
47:20
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47:22
unless some of them change their mind, which could happen. I mean,
47:28
come, January twenty twenty five. Other. I mean, mister Leonhardt is
47:31
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47:39
But some of those people may not run. That's what I'm being told.
47:43
I have been told by several people a lot more knowledgeable than I am,
47:47
that it's all about I mean, as I said earlier this week, and
47:51
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of course I've not even talked about Senator Joe Manchin and what he's going to
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Well, they're everywhere, They're everywhere, But the problem is a lot
48:14
of people they want to they're not willing to start at the bottom and work
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their way up. Now, I know, if you're fifty five years old
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and you're getting that age like I am, that it is a little hard,
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you know, to say, I'm going to start at the bottom at
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fifty five. But there there are jobs of plenty everywhere. Text says,
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West Virginia economy is forty eighth. We are not the biggest loser. According
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to a text or, well there is that Texas, one of the great
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mayoral jobs in the state has been done by Mayor Edwards of Hurricane. He's
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evolved in every aspect of the community. Texts tech says, note that Hurrican
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Mayor Scott Edwards doesn't lie about fighting for you, but instead talks about actual
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services and amenities offered in his city. To all, that's what a public
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servant sounds like, according to a text, are right, Let's go back
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to state politics for a moment. To a story posted the website by Brad
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mcahenny, the governor is going after Congressman Alex Mooney for all intensive purposes,
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who will more than likely be Jim Justice's primary opponent next year. If well,
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we know Mooney's in if the governor decided you're run quote from our governor
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quote, I am glad that some of our legislators know that Alex Mooney is
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somewhere remotely connected to West Virginia. I mean, who in the world and
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the state of what Virginia knows that Alex Mooney is a West Virginian. I
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mean, the truth of the matter is Alex Mooney is from Maryland and absolutely,
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teetotally in every way connected to Maryland. End quote. As a quote
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from your Governor Jim Justice were going on to say, quote, I've seen
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him one time in the meantime end quote. So he says I've seen him
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one time now in the meantime. For his part, now, Congressman Mooney
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fired back with photographs and dates were he and the governor we're in meetings and
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even appeared on stage together. So I one hand, the Governor Justice is
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saying, I don't know the guy. I've never never met him or only
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been around h a couple of times. And Mooney's people fireback, what oh,
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here, here's a picture. Here, here's us together, here's us
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in a meeting together, Here's where we were. So I don't know.
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I will say this though, this one is definitely going to get ugly.
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It's already gotten ugly. We ain't even to January twenty twenty four yet.
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Should Governor Justice decide to run and quite frankly, I think he will.
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One of the many interesting aspects of this race is going to be and I'm
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just talking about Republicans now, let's put Senator Mansion on the sidelines for a
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moment. It is my suspicion that a lot of Republicans will not support Jim
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Justice. So that could divide the part somewhat because a primary battle between Governor
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Justice and now Congressman Alex Mooney, as I said earlier, is going to
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be ugly, make no mistake about it. So then whomever wins there,
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you got to get the team back together again for the general to run against
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Senator Manchett. That's if Joe Mansion runs. So there's a lot of bad
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blood between the governor and certain members of the Republican Party. And it's not
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because Governor Justice was a Democrat that switched to Republican. It angered a lot
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of Democrats, of course, but a lot of it has to do with
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the amendment battle, of the tax battle and so on and so forth.
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And I feel there are going to be some prominent Republicans in West Virginia that
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will not support Jim Justice if he beats Alex Mooney in the primary. I'm
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not saying they're necessarily going to go out and support Joe Mansion, but it's
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gonna be interest. Five Ready Live has been brought to you, parted by
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