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- 2:07programming. Note I'm here today, Tomorrow and Wednesday. No shows on the
- 2:12fourth of July or on Friday. I will be back next Monday. Now
- 2:15the Today's show Regatta kicks off Charleston two days. Charles Simeir Amy Schulver goodwill
- 2:21join us to talk about that a little bit later on. Plus the fault
- 2:23out continues from the presidential debate from Thursday night. I didn't get to all
- 2:27the text about that on the show Friday. I will open up that subject
- 2:30kind of in the middle of the show in around nine twenty nine, twenty
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- 2:53have him on as part of the show. Got to Andrea Garrett here who
- 2:58is the state director for the West virgin New Faith and Freedom Coalition. Andrew,
- 3:00good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave, thank
- 3:02you for having me. And I apologize in my preview I said that Curtis
- 3:06Workman was coming. But Curtis is not here, but you are here,
- 3:10and that was miscommunication on my part. That's quite right. He would have
- 3:14done a better job. Oh no, you'll You'll be fine. You'll be
- 3:16fine. Now explain to everyone what exactly is the West Virginia Faith and Freedom
- 3:21Coalition. Sure, the West Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition is about two years
- 3:24old. It was started in two thousand and nine by Ralph Reid with the
- 3:28purpose of connecting communities of faith to the political process. And so, like
- 3:34I said, just two years ago, we started here in West Virginia.
- 3:38It exists in many other states. West Virginia is one of the newer chapters.
- 3:42But we're just a national grassroots movement made up of about three million members
- 3:47nationwide to mobilize and train people of faith for effective civil action. So you
- 3:53recently had a had a conference of the national conference talk about that. We
- 3:57did, so that's the road to Madge Already conference and the Faith and Freedom
- 4:01West Virginia Chapter. We brought about forty five West Virginians who came along with
- 4:05us, and we enjoyed it was. It was a fantastic event. First
- 4:11of all, a lot of folks of faith. Where was it? Where
- 4:13was it held? It was at the Washington Hilton in DC, Okay,
- 4:15Okay. We there are some great speakers there, including the former president.
- 4:19We had several state governors and governor candidates. We have members of Congress,
- 4:25senators, just just a great group of people that spoke to us. It
- 4:29was, It was fantastic. Religion has been in the news a lot lately,
- 4:35with the Governor of Louisiana proposing that the ten command must be posted in
- 4:40every classroom and the governor of Oklahoma ordering the Bible to be taught in classrooms
- 4:45of public school. Controversial to say the least. I think I already know
- 4:48the answer to this area. But where's your group on these things? Yeah?
- 4:51Of course, so we we certainly support Christian values. Those are those
- 4:56are policies that we would that we would support. In fact, the Faith
- 5:00and Freedom Coalition as a national group, awarded the Winston Churchill Lifetime Achievement Award
- 5:04to Pastor John Hagey for his work with Troubled Youth, supporting Israel and other
- 5:12nationwide ministries. But of course we would we support all the Biblical influences and
- 5:16those values as often as we can. I noticed injury that to former President
- 5:23Trump was one of the speakers that your conference. You just mentioned that,
- 5:25and I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but i do need I feel
- 5:28they need to ask the question, and so please hear me out on this.
- 5:32Does the does the former presidents shall we say some of his ideals or
- 5:38action? It's been said by a lot of people that maybe they fly directly
- 5:44in opposition to what most most Christians believe or how they live their lives.
- 5:50I mean, you know, you've and you're folks are obviously are not the
- 5:55spokesperson for every Christian in America. I get that, but lots of people,
- 5:58including myself, I guess, kind of have a little bit of an
- 6:00issue with how with how Christians can can align with the former present. Again,
- 6:06not trying to start an argument here, just for the sake of discussion,
- 6:10how would you address that? It's a good question, Dave, and
- 6:13certainly worth asking, especially within some of the recent things that have come to
- 6:17light. I can see why a lot of Christians would would start to question
- 6:21that. But for us, we're really focusing on policy, and this is
- 6:26really a fight of good and evil. And so what we have seen and
- 6:29continue to focus on is the fact that Trump has championed issues that are important
- 6:33to faith and freedom. So for example, defending all of those traditional values
- 6:38that fall under the examples would be Row versus Way defending Israel. We need
- 6:45someone to to continue to protect those those values, and he has the proven
- 6:49track record of doing it between the two candidates. And I've heard a lot
- 6:54of people that have echoed that same sentiment that that you were saying that they
- 6:58may not totally be in love with the guy. Uh but but but they
- 7:03think it's policy. It's more policy than all about policy. It's and again
- 7:08that's that's our focus. We're educating Christian voters and to us that that has
- 7:12to be our focus. Talking to with Andrea Garrett again, who is the
- 7:15state director for the West Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition of Dave Island show in
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- 7:45Today, I want to talk about some of the some of the state
- 7:47races and not looking for endorsements or anything like that. Some of the state
- 7:53election races. A lot of people don't think that they'll be too competitive,
- 7:59talking about the for governor between Attorney General Patrick Morrissey and Democrat nominee Steve Williams
- 8:03of Huntington, in the battle for Senate between Governor Justice and Wheeling Mayre Glenn
- 8:07Elliott, who is the Democratic nominee for that seat that's currently held by Joe
- 8:11Manchin. Will you, folks, be involved in any of these races or
- 8:16we do plan to be involved in the extent of providing a voter guide and
- 8:20so these will showcase some of the different platforms that all these candidates are standing
- 8:26on and some of the ones with a track, you know, any kind
- 8:28of history. We will be showcasing some of the policies that they've been in
- 8:33support of, any bills that they have sponsored, that kind of thing.
- 8:37But I should say too that as a national organization, we have a budget
- 8:41of around sixty million dollars that will be used to knock one hundred I'm sorry,
- 8:46close to ten million doors of Christian Conservative voters. We have we're prepared
- 8:50to make ten million phone calls, twenty five million text messages, and distribute
- 8:56thirty million Faith and Freedom voter guides, and in West Virginia we planned to
- 9:00do around two hundred thousand of those. That's a lot of door knocking and
- 9:01a lot of texting and a lot of college. You don't have to do
- 9:03all of it, do you not? Me? Personally? No, it's
- 9:07uh. And these voter guides are there, I mean you're going to just
- 9:11make them available online. It's an actual hard copy that you're going to take
- 9:15to people's homes or both. Okay, yeah, yeah, both. And
- 9:18in fact, we will be deliberating over some of the specifics of the voter
- 9:20guide, and we have a board meeting later this month, so we'll discuss
- 9:24how that's going to be dispersed across the state. But we're actually looking for
- 9:28paid voter education reps to distribute these these voter guides if anybody's interested. So
- 9:31you're hiring, is that what you're saying? And where can people learn more
- 9:37about that? If they're interested and going to work for you? Thank you.
- 9:39So we have a website which is w V Faith and Freedom dot com.
- 9:45All right, I'm going to give you like the final like I do
- 9:46with my political figures, Andrew, I'm going to give you like the final
- 9:48thirty to just say anything that you'd like to about your organization. Yeah,
- 9:52well, thank you. So the Faith and Freedom at Coalition's goal is to
- 9:56protect time honored values, individual liberties, and stronger families. And so if
- 10:00that's something that aligns with you and you'd like to help join the effort of
- 10:05helping educate Christian Christian voters and help engage and mobilize these voters in our community,
- 10:11please feel free to reach out and be part of our organization. We
- 10:13are always looking for folks to help further omission, and you got a lot
- 10:16of As I said, your organization's got a lot of doorknock duty between now
- 10:20ye you ever worked it out for it. I've heard people say, and
- 10:24maybe this is a little bit of hyperbole or whatever, but I have heard
- 10:28people say that this and I'm fifty three years old, this may be the
- 10:31most important election of their lifetime, no matter. You know, other people
- 10:37said that. Do you feel that way too? I do feel that way.
- 10:39I think it's far, but you're not fifty three. But I do
- 10:45feel that as far as the trajectory of the United States is concerned, this
- 10:48is a pivotal election. And in fact, it is the goal of the
- 10:52West Virginia and the National Faith and Freedom Organization to help to help support the
- 10:58largest turnout of Christian votes and history. And we're on track to do that.
- 11:01All right, Andrew again, give us the website and the contact information,
- 11:05Sir, WV Faithanfreedom dot com. All right, well, good luck
- 11:09with everything. We'll have to have you folks back on before the election.
- 11:11I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. All right, it is
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- 14:18let's get to some text this morning. Texas, your guest lost me when
- 14:22you put Trump and Christian values in the same discussion. Christians believe in love
- 14:28for all. Don't confuse true Christians with Christian nationalists, says a Texter.
- 14:35Texter says, why do Christians have to force their religion on people via the
- 14:39government? Why do Christians try to violate the Constitution? Text says The Faith
- 14:46and Freedom Coalition is a good organization. I am happy to support them on
- 14:50all the good work they have been doing, says a Texter. Uh,
- 14:56Texas says, I'm all for Christians to promote their faith in the political realm.
- 15:00Just start rendering into Caesar that which is Caesar's and pay taxes on your
- 15:05income. Corporations are people, but churches are churches, says a Texter.
- 15:11Texas says, how can Christians align themselves with Trump? Really? After crystal
- 15:15clear evidence after the Holocaust on October eighth, thwarting students on college campus's chants
- 15:20up from the River to the Sea, intimidations on New York trains, et
- 15:22cetera, the question must be how can any Jewish person be aligned with the
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- 16:06He's an up and comer in the world of politics here in Kanawa County
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- 16:15in city government in Saint Albans. He's light being ready to go on the
- 16:17show tomorrow. Brad mcilhenny's also going to be on the show tomorrow. We'll
- 16:21continue talking more things with the regatta as we get closer and closer to the
- 16:26regatta, which begins really run noon on Wednesday to get in. The mayor
- 16:30is going to join us to talk about that a little bit later on,
- 16:33and as always we talk about other things with the mayor too, So if
- 16:37you got a question or comment, welcome to call us up when the Mayor's
- 16:40on the show about ten to fifteen minutes or so from now. Bigley Pigley
- 16:42Wiggly Hotline three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight Tony the Taylor
- 16:47text three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight text says Matthew seven
- 16:52point fifteen. Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing,
- 16:56but inwardly they are ravenas wolves, says a Texter. So I watched a
- 17:03lot of the coverage on the Sunday morning shows yesterday about the debate Thursday night
- 17:08between former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden. I also heard State
- 17:15Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin comments on he was on Hoppy on Friday. I
- 17:22will say this, at least at least most Democrats are admitting that Biden had
- 17:30a horrible performance on Thursday night. I would like a little honesty from a
- 17:40lot of them, though, maybe saying the president performed horribly without bringing up
- 17:47Donald Trump. Now, did Trump lie about a lot? Yes he did,
- 17:53But we all knew that going in. That's just Donald Trump. That's
- 18:00that's who Donald Trump is, and and we all we all know. No
- 18:08one asked me, but I think that before going after Trump. And again,
- 18:15you're not speaking to a Donald Trump fan here, you know you know
- 18:18that by now, I think maybe the Democrats need to clean up their own
- 18:22collective backyards and figure out what they are going to do about President Joe Biden.
- 18:32If Biden were your grandfather, you probably would not let him live alone
- 18:38or drive a car. Period. It's it would be time to take the
- 18:41keys. Now. I will say I did see some clips of him Friday
- 18:48at a campaign event, and and he did look and sound better at that
- 18:55particular event. But but for me, I think the damage is already done.
- 19:03As they say, you cannot put the ketchup back in the bottle,
- 19:07toothpaste into two, whatever analogy you want to use. It is one thing
- 19:14to have a bad debate in the world of politics. It happens. It
- 19:18happens all the time. Outside politics, it happens. You know, most
- 19:25people would probably say that doctor Martin Luther King was one of the greatest speakers
- 19:29in the history of America. Do you think he knocked it out of the
- 19:33park every time? Of course not. I heard a comment from Raphael Warnock
- 19:37out of Georgia on the news this morning when he was saying, look,
- 19:40I'm a pastor, and all my sermons weren't exactly you know, an all
- 19:44star. It happens, people have bad nights. But in my opinion,
- 19:49this goes well well beyond that. And please don't give me this. He
- 19:56had a cold thing and he suffered from speech impediments. I mean, he's
- 20:03done that his entire life, had the speech impediment. I mean, this
- 20:07performance on Thursday night, in my opinion, was beyond that of a cold
- 20:15or a stutter or two. He was totally lost out there. And I
- 20:25think at this point, I mean, let's face it, most folks,
- 20:30I think have already decided who they're going to vote for. I mean,
- 20:34if you are in the Trump camp, you are on the Trump camp.
- 20:38And I don't think anything is going to change. I mean, the indictments,
- 20:42all this other it's all that's done for Trump is makee his poll numbers
- 20:45go up and his conviction in the case has made his fundraising go through the
- 20:51roof. And so if you are, if you are somebody who is undecided,
- 20:56and quite frankly, I don't think there is a lot of I don't
- 21:02think there's a lot of people that are undecided at there to this point.
- 21:06But for those who are undecided as to who they are going to vote for,
- 21:15did anything that you saw on Thursday night from Joe Biden? Did you
- 21:23get anything at all out there to give you the confidence to vote for him
- 21:30in November? I mean, simply put my opinion here. Only if the
- 21:38Democrats have any shot of winning in November, of remaining in the White House,
- 21:51Joe Biden's got to step aside. Period. I mean, it's got
- 21:56to happen. And again, and I'm not speaking, I'm not This is
- 22:02not about Donald Trump. For me, this is about President Biden. He's
- 22:07got to step aside. And there is you know, and again I've been
- 22:11doing a little bit of reading on this. I'm certainly not the expert on
- 22:14it, but there is a path that that could very well happen. All
- 22:17he's got to do is basically just say I'm pulling out. I mean,
- 22:19it's an open convention. You know, keep in mind, this was one
- 22:22of the one of the if not the earliest presidential debate of all time,
- 22:27so well before the convention, that's almost unheard of for the Republicans or the
- 22:33Democrats. But he he could do that, and the family could do that.
- 22:40And again I'm I'm not speaking and this is not partisan on my part
- 22:47because you know my feelings. You've listened to the show. You know my
- 22:48feelings on Donald Trump. It's he's got a step aside. In my opinion,
- 22:55he has to to. I mean, well, well, that got
- 23:00some text. Let me get to the text here, Texas. So many
- 23:07people are calling for Biden to drop out. Why isn't anyone calling for Trump
- 23:11to drop out? I am texture, I am, I was from day
- 23:15one. He is less qualified and just as old. I agree. Well,
- 23:21let me say about the age thing. We all know people in our
- 23:23lives that are as spry as they can possibly be at ninety years old,
- 23:30and we know people who are like me, old and decrepit when they're in
- 23:36their thirties. So I don't know that you can compare the ages. There's
- 23:40what a three to four year age difference I think between Biden. But I
- 23:42mean based on just the performance the other night. Now again, but all
- 23:48Trump's lies aside. Okay, I'm talking about just the strength of the performance
- 23:52the other night, and the and the polls have showed this, no matter
- 23:56what poll it was, that Donald Trump won that the other night. I
- 24:00mean, hands down, based on not based on content necessarily, but based
- 24:07just on performance. Texas. Speaking to Martin Luther King Junior, it is
- 24:14well documented he was a womanizer and had multiple affairs. Just saying we need
- 24:18to keep some perspective when we throw stones, let's throw them fairly. Those
- 24:23rumors have been there, and you don't even want to talk about the morals
- 24:26of John Kennedy, Okay, or FDR for that matter. So the only
- 24:30difference is is now there's a whole lot more coverage of them, I think.
- 24:34I mean, remember, if you follow this this story, you know,
- 24:38if you've done any reading on this, the press corps would not show
- 24:44for a long time FDR in a wheelchair because they didn't want to show weakness.
- 24:48I don't think that would be the case now, Okay, that's a
- 24:53question for the mayor. That's a question for the mayor, which I appreciate
- 25:00we'll get to those later. Text. So before you go in your Biden
- 25:02rant about people protecting him or deluding themselves to his abilities, Trump supporters have
- 25:07been doing that for years. Biden supporters pretend he's not a doddering dummy.
- 25:11Trump supporters pretend he is not an immoral black hole, beholden to those who
- 25:17tribute and enrichment schemes best suit him, looking to remake America in his dog
- 25:22humping leg image. Texas, for some reason, you seem to think Dems
- 25:30pretending is worse than GP pretending. Defaulting to you excusing Trump a brain dead
- 25:34Biden is not a threat to the free democracy. It's where we are.
- 25:40And I will say this if we thought we were interested. And I haven't
- 25:45seen any ratings on the debate Thursday night, but I'm sure they were through
- 25:48the roof. Other countries were watching it too, Other countries were very,
- 25:56very interesting in what was going on on Thursday night. Texans always one sided.
- 26:00For Republicans, Democrats must be honest and tell the truth. Democrats have
- 26:04to clean up their house, according to Day the self appointed Pope of Democrats,
- 26:10self appointed Pope of Democrats Ryan. Meanwhile, Republicans can run, a
- 26:15sex abuser who partied with Jeffrey Epstein while knowing he likes them young and one
- 26:19hundred percent supports the attack on the Capitol. Clean up all this, Republicans,
- 26:23and then we will listen to your advice, says a Texter Texas says
- 26:30Dave. We all know who's driving. Who is the driving force by keeping
- 26:33Joe in the race? It's Jill. She loves the power is being president
- 26:37brings with it, and she is not willing to just roll over and give
- 26:41it up. She is Edith Wilson reincarnate. All that's left for her to
- 26:47do is to hold his hand in hers and help him sign the legislation,
- 26:53says a Texter Texa, says Dave. During Trump's term, the media push
- 26:57for the twenty fifth Amendment to be invoked over six hundred times, and all
- 27:00the media's reactions to Joe Biden's debate performance last night, they have yet to
- 27:04do the same in regards to him. Text says I didn't have sex with
- 27:11a porn star. Stop apologizing for the Feller felon rapist liar. Ninety minutes
- 27:17doesn't wipe out fifty years of service. Was simply a bad Night, says
- 27:21a Texter. Texas says that debate was the first game of the season.
- 27:26Got four months left? Tex says, Where's Joe Manchin when you need him?
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- 28:22Can we make that into a promo SoundBite? Ryan, that's on you.
- 28:30Tex says I thought the early debate was a great idea. Now we all
- 28:33know he's not capable. I really thought his family would step up and tell
- 28:37him to step away. Sad they haven't, says a Texter. Texas almost
- 28:45half the audience of the twenty twenty first debate. All right, appreciate that
- 28:52while the network's biggest TV audience of the year, the count of those who
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- 32:47information. Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin will be coming up here momentarily. I believe
- 32:52I see the Mayor. I got a couple calm down there, I I've
- 32:58got to catch a breath. A couple of texts. I gotta get to
- 33:00here. Text says after Biden's performance Thursday night is clear now. It's why
- 33:07the Democrats are so determined to not release the audio of her interview so the
- 33:10public can hear his voice, says a texture. I got a gift here,
- 33:16a little housekeeping here. A big announcement came out Friday afternoon that we
- 33:21hear at wv RC Media, Charleston. Pretty happy about two of our own,
- 33:24Jeff Jenkins and Woody Woods are going into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of
- 33:30Fame, honoring television and radio broadcasters. Are going to be inducted at the
- 33:32ceremony in October and Huntington. They'll join a long, long list of broadcasters
- 33:37from this building and the company as a whole. This is not the entire
- 33:40list, by the but just from this company here. I mean, you
- 33:45know, w RC Media, Charleston. Stephen Jenning from V one hundred,
- 33:50Chris Lawrence, Fred Persinger, Joe Parsons, Hoppy kirchfill Tony CAREDI out of
- 33:53Morgantown, of late Don Cook, the late Paul Howard, just to name
- 33:57a few, and there are plenty, plenty more. What can you say
- 34:00about Jeff Jenkins and Woody Woods. I mean, two of the best people,
- 34:04forget on air staff, just two of the best people you will ever
- 34:07ever know. And I will say, had I never darkened the doorways here
- 34:13at eleven eleven, I would have ben honored just to know wood he was
- 34:15and Jeff Jenkins, and which I've known both of them for a number of
- 34:19years. Couldn't be more proud of my teammates. So congratulations Jeff Jenkins and
- 34:22Woody Woods. They're going to the Hall of Fame, well deserved hall of
- 34:27fame for mayors. Say sure, are a good one. You Sorry.
- 34:30I was running, was running. Sorry We've got because you were Well,
- 34:35here's the thing. And I looked out there and I saw you were with
- 34:37Steve Animal. I said, oh, no, this is not good.
- 34:38It wasn't Actually I will I will confirm it was. I got a nice
- 34:44little stern what for God of money. It's called a silly pint. A
- 34:49silly pint, that's what it's called. It's a glass that doesn't sweat.
- 34:52Don't ask me, okay, unlike me sweating. I got you, I
- 34:57got you. Well, you can calm down a little bit now, busy
- 34:59week. I got some things in the news and we'll talk to you about
- 35:01and plus you got text waiting one. So we were, as I said,
- 35:06we're just forty eight hours away from bringing a couple hundred thousand people into
- 35:08Capital City. But I want to talk. Let's start on a positive Let's
- 35:12talk about this Capital connector. Oh thanks, yeah, So many moons ago,
- 35:17five and a half years ago when I got into office, you know,
- 35:22I stood stacked on the floor, lots of plans, right, plans
- 35:25to develop the riverfront, plans to do more bike lanes, walk lanes.
- 35:30And we said, now, let's let's put it to put it into action.
- 35:34And so we went after some federal funding. And because of simply because
- 35:38of our relationship and the good work of Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Senator Joe
- 35:45Manchin, both of them came to bat for us and said, yes,
- 35:49we're going to give you a one point seventy five million dollar raise grant,
- 35:52the only grant two years ago, well almost three years ago now in the
- 35:57state of West Virginia. We received that. We've been planning, and last
- 36:00week we announced we have now a twenty five million dollar construction grant, all
- 36:06federal funds that are coming to the City of Charleston from Magic Island to the
- 36:09thirty fifth Street Bridge to make the riverfront what it should be, a bikeable,
- 36:15walkable playplace, lots of lights, and to use our riverfront as we
- 36:22have needed to use it. We're a river city that doesn't use our riverfront.
- 36:27Now we're going to and I think I heard this morning there's going to
- 36:30be a public meeting in August. August. I think it's okay. We'll
- 36:35publicize it a lot between now that they have the morning news this morning,
- 36:37so so to get the public sandput because this is important as well. Yeah,
- 36:40and the first public input session we had is monumental, by the way,
- 36:45it's online as well. But our first meeting was in that huge,
- 36:49big conference room. I know you've been over at the public library. That
- 36:51big, beautiful public meeting room was packed with people. What do you want
- 36:55to see. This isn't an Amy Goodwin project. This is the City of
- 36:59Charleston product. I want what you want, and so the input has been
- 37:02really really great. Tonight, Mayor, there is city council meeting tonight,
- 37:07and it was reported over the weekend on our news and also in the gazette.
- 37:13The city Councilman Joe Solomon's proposing some sort of a resolution as it pertains
- 37:17to the police, I guess, not arresting as he calls them, the
- 37:22un how's here in regatta? You want to want to address that. I
- 37:27have not received any emails or phone calls from that council member, so I
- 37:31really can't speak to it insomuch as just to say that I did read it,
- 37:36and my only comment would be that our nine member care team, every
- 37:40day, with the Charleston Police Department, with the Fire Department, all of
- 37:45our city social service agencies kind of valley collective, united way, so many
- 37:50are going to continue to work with those in our community who need assistance and
- 37:53get them into services. By the way, we do that every single second
- 37:59of every single day. We do that. But what I will not do
- 38:02is tell the police, which, by the way, City Council can't tell
- 38:08the police not to do their jobs. But you just can't do it,
- 38:12Dave, And I'm not going to support that, not for one single second.
- 38:15Most of the council members who have called me concerned or confused about it,
- 38:20because there's been very little outreach on this, very little communication is I
- 38:24don't get it. I don't understand it. It seems borderline on constitutional and
- 38:30I'm not telling the police department or the municipal judge what to do. We
- 38:37can't do that, by the way, And the majority of the comments that
- 38:42I've heard back is our care team does an incredible job. They just simply
- 38:45do. We are a very compassionate administration. We take care of folks who
- 38:52need help. But if somebody has a warrant out for their arrest, you
- 38:55will be arrested. That's what the police do. And oh, by the
- 39:00way, you want me to do that, you want our police officers to
- 39:02do their job. By the way, they're very compassionate. Our police work
- 39:07so hard, Dave, day in and day out. I know you know
- 39:09this. You support our police and they adore you, But don't tell them
- 39:15not to do their job. You know. I listened to the story of
- 39:17one of our members of our care team, our director tell me that a
- 39:22couple of weeks ago, they were working with this guy who was having a
- 39:25super bad day, and one of our police officers spent an hour and a
- 39:30half two hours looking for a size twelve shoe for this guy. So don't
- 39:34tell me that our police are not compassionate people. They are, but they're
- 39:37going to do their job. But they also have compassion. And that's what
- 39:40I think people need to know about our police department. Mayor, is there
- 39:45any any truth to what was alleged that when the regatta got back that there
- 39:50was an extra effort to keep the unhoused, the homeless, whatever you want
- 39:52to call them, away from the regatta. Five and a half years ago,
- 39:55when I got here into office, we put in a plan, you
- 40:00know, and I'm sorry to say, ripping up benches and ignoring the project
- 40:04and vilifying people on Facebook does about a big goose. It does this much
- 40:07to help people. We need to take care of people. And oh,
- 40:12by the way, there are consequences when you break the law, and so
- 40:17do you want me to only enforce the law during certain times? And you're
- 40:21going to ask me not to enforce the law during REGD. We we can't
- 40:24do that. That's not what the people have elected us to do. We're
- 40:30going to be compassionate, we're going to help people, but we're also going
- 40:32to hold people accountable. Our citizens require us to do that, and we're
- 40:37going to continue to do it. So no, I think it was just
- 40:39a moment for maybe somebody to get into the newspaper. To be quite honest
- 40:45with you, Tex says, what does a refuse schedule for the rest of
- 40:46the week? In turns time, I asked that last night of Tina.
- 40:52It remains the same. It remains Yeah, it remains okay. Tex says.
- 40:57This is for the mayor. A drug house at fifty seventh and Virginia
- 41:00in Kanas City shooting. There are three weeks ago, dozens of different drug
- 41:06users in and out of the house, out of state cars parked along.
- 41:07The residents submit videos of people stumbling around out of the house and onto surrounding
- 41:12properties, passing out. Why is this place not busted, patrolled, harassed
- 41:16or to make it not worth ruining the private lives of residents in that area?
- 41:21And again, Mayor, they're talking about fifty seventh and Virginia in Kanas
- 41:24City. So I promise you that Andrew in my office is listening to this
- 41:29radio show. He's going to write it down. If you'd like to call
- 41:31me three four eight eight one seven four three four eight eight one seven four.
- 41:37We're happy to follow up with you directly, and I will follow up
- 41:40with Andrew when I get back to my office. Texas, please ask the
- 41:44mayor about the mccorkyl side of the river so that the city can be seen
- 41:47when driving on mccorkyl Avenue. Oh, yes, I bet you. I
- 41:51know who that text is from. Yes, working with the Army Corps of
- 41:55Engineers in the state of West Virginia. No, mccorkyl is not ours.
- 42:00Okay, one other thing and we'll go talk. We gotta, yeah,
- 42:02I promise me. That's okay. Hold on, I don't know how much
- 42:06you can say about this, but in the time that you have been on,
- 42:08former police chief Tie cunts it the last time you're on has been granted
- 42:10to his disability. I know you're very limited in what you can say,
- 42:14but I will give you the opportunity to comment if you can. Yeah,
- 42:16absolutely, this is what I will say. Boy, it's been a really
- 42:21long year. It's been a troubling year, but I will say this with
- 42:24confidence. I have the utmost confidence in our Chief of Police, Scott Dempsey,
- 42:31and our Deputy Chief of Police Jason Webb. The Pension Board, as
- 42:37I always know that they do. They take all of the information in front
- 42:43of them and make the best decision with the information that they have. And
- 42:49so from investigation to the pension board meeting, I feel very confident with the
- 42:53actions of our chief of Police and our Deputy Chief of Police and members of
- 42:59the pension Dave jay Met. It's away from Tantex, says Mayor Saturday,
- 43:02mark four years since you stole. You stole what it is? You stole
- 43:07the canall rifle and plaque off the monument. When will it be restored so
- 43:10we can show inclusiveness to all of us. Where can we view it in
- 43:15person? In the meantime, it'd be great if we could see it at
- 43:16regatta. Huh. Well, I don't have any plans to do that at
- 43:21regatta, and I'm certainly happy to speak to whomever the Texter is three four
- 43:24eight eight one seven four. You can call my office. All right,
- 43:27let's get in some regatta talk when we come back from the Break the Dave
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- 46:34Let's talk regatta. We finally got to it. Let's talk regatta.
- 46:37Let's talk regatta. So everything, I've got my nice little schedule over here.
- 46:42So everything kicks off with the vendors Wednesday at noon. But you've also
- 46:46got activities going on not only overall, but also City Center at Slack Plaza
- 46:52with a lot of things going on there. I'll just let you take it
- 46:53from here, go ahead, Yeah, sure, So we start on Wednesday.
- 46:57We've got the wheelwa wash that's going to be at City Center at Slacked
- 47:00a couple of things that you're going to see, uh, that are going
- 47:01to be a little bit more convenient. Not only is the wheelwash going to
- 47:05be in city Center at Slack Plaza, we're also going to have the Kids
- 47:07Fund Zone there as well. And you know the Kids Fund Zone it used
- 47:12to be at Magic Island. And you know the feedback which is by the
- 47:15way, big into feedback. Tell me what you want. A lot of
- 47:17parents saying, I mean, do you know how you know your boys are
- 47:21older, but you know how hard it is to have a double jog stroller.
- 47:22Somebody on this hip to go for Magic Island all the way down the
- 47:25boulevard. We hear you, we got you. Everything's gonna be for the
- 47:30kids at City Center at Slack Plaza on Wednesday, we've got Shaggy, which
- 47:36everybody is just talking about this ad nauseum. So I really feel like Shaggy
- 47:39is going to be a big night. That's right after the wheelwash. On
- 47:44Thursday, we've got not only fireworks, but we've got the premier Beetle Band,
- 47:49three costume changes. These guys are there, the career Sergeant Pepper,
- 47:55these guys are it. On Friday, it's going to be an awesome cun
- 48:00night Montgomery Gentry. And then Saturday, I have already started on the Alexa
- 48:06at home Apple Music. My boys are from school, Like Mom, you're
- 48:09such a geek. I love the nineties tone, Loag, Vanilla Ice,
- 48:14all of the young young MC not about nature. So it's going to be
- 48:17super fun on Saturday. Keeping in mind we've got the carnival going on.
- 48:22Keep in mind we've got all of the amazing vendors on Saturday. Gosh,
- 48:27what a big fire parade five o'clock on Friday. Everybody loves the fire parade
- 48:34For the past two years, Dave, there have been these two little boys
- 48:37who sit there on the west side the beginning of the fire paray, and
- 48:38they're going crazy when it starts. And so after last year I went to
- 48:43their mom and said, would they like to start the fire parade with me
- 48:45and be in the parade? She said, And they're about this all she
- 48:49said, Oh my god, Please don't mention it to them publicly until we
- 48:52get closer to the regatta, or I will never hear the end of it.
- 48:55So they're going to join me in the bucket truck on Friday at five.
- 48:59I hope they're not listening this morning. No, my gosh, Oh
- 49:01yeah, I didn't think anyway. And then I'm not big among you know,
- 49:06the small people, the children's the children's so. And then on Saturday,
- 49:10another fun thing. This is all for the all for the kids.
- 49:14Yes, we have the wien or dog races. That's so fun. At
- 49:15Magic Island the funeral parade. A physician in town said to me, Amy,
- 49:20I'm so angry with you. The funeral parade last year made us late
- 49:23for our beach vacation. I said, Oh my gosh, was at the
- 49:27traffic he said no, it was my daughter who said I want to be
- 49:30in the parade. We said, no, we're leaving for vacation. Then
- 49:34we're not. So he said, we compromised with her. She's going to
- 49:37be able to be in the parade this year, and I said, well,
- 49:42she'll lead it with me. And so we have our costumes already organized
- 49:45ready to lead the funeral parade, and right after the funeral parade we go
- 49:49right into Slamberree, which the wrestling thing last year was just a moans packed
- 49:57I didn't realize and this is a new thing that we started to last year
- 50:00with Adam Harris and Matthew Sutton and Tim Brady and so many other wonderful folks.
- 50:06It's it's such a neat addition to what we've done with Regatta, so
- 50:09super fun, A crazy, crazy four days, crazy four days, which
- 50:15is the reason why I don't have my hair dried this morning. Day.
- 50:16A couple of quick texts here not related to Regatta, Texas with the worst
- 50:21time, with the worst time of stray cats and dogs we've ever seen.
- 50:24Would it be possible for the city to speak with veteran areas and ask them
- 50:28if they'd be willing to volunteer their time rescue groups to trap strays and use
- 50:32the Civic Center to do a large scale, span newter operation that would make
- 50:37a huge depth of the problem. Sure, I can always ask, no
- 50:38doubt. Tex says, why aren't all day passes available for the carnival rides
- 50:43after five? This seems to be a time that all day passes would be
- 50:46most appropriate. I don't know, I'll ask. I actually don't know.
- 50:51There, I don't know. There you go, so you campaign on bringing
- 50:54Regatta back. I did one one of the that was one of the things.
- 50:59And because I walked to Eve two and nineteen doors, No, I
- 51:02did not first hundred and nineteen doors all by myself. And I will say
- 51:07this, that was it was a consistent theme. But we didn't just bring
- 51:12it back because Amy thought it was a great idea. Yes, I missed
- 51:15it and I thought it was a great idea, but everybody else wanted me
- 51:16to. And so what we said was and I said year one, and
- 51:21I know I said it on this show, We'll bring it back and we're
- 51:22going to see We're going to see how it goes. I'm a big believer
- 51:25in the Year of three. This is year three. This is three.
- 51:28That's the most important. It was at the right time. Is it the
- 51:30right location or the right ax? What's the mixture look like? Because we
- 51:35throw a lot of things at the wall, some sticks, some don't.
- 51:38This is sticking. I mean, this is really sticking. We've made adjustments
- 51:42that nobody else would see because it's mainly operations. When you host a party
- 51:45for a quarter of a million people, there's an ebb and flow to how
- 51:50you run things, where you park things, how you set up things,
- 51:52and so nobody would notice the changes that we've made. But we're getting better
- 51:55at it. We can't do the Charlestons and Will Regatta without our sponsors,
- 52:01especially in COVID, God blessing COVID. They're just amazing Moses, our hospitals,
- 52:09great great folks, and our Charleston stern Will got a board of directors.
- 52:14They it's a full time job and the regatta wouldn't happen without one person.
- 52:21And her name is Jane, Jane Bostona. It's just that simple.
- 52:24It doesn't happen without Jane. She's the heart of the regatta. All right,
- 52:28Mayor, we gotta go. I appreciate you being here on the show
- 52:31Enjoy Regatta. This is probably the only time for the next couple days you're
- 52:35going to be sitting down, so I'm going to get my steps in man,
- 52:37so Enjoy. We've had you all over the ability today. I love
- 52:39it. Thanks a lot, may Or a good one. We'll be talking
- 52:43Regatto the next couple days. Of course, as it kicks off on Wednesday
- 52:45tomorrow on the show, Jared Page from the City of Saint Albus. Brad
- 52:47mclhenny will be on the show too. Hoppy Covin are actually Dave Wilson in
- 52:51for Hoppy with talk line see tomorrow. So then have fun and love somebody
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