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01/08/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, Mac Warner, Megan Diehl, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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join us the sixty day session gets underway later this Week's State Democratic Party cheering
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delegate Might Pushkin will be stopping by for just a moment, and there's going
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Goodwill's going to join us to talk about that. So, as you can
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to welcome into the show now, Secretary State of gubernatorial candidate Mac Warner,
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Good morning, sir. How are you. I'm doing great, good to
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be with you. Thank you for being here. Now you're in today as
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part we're talking about Secretary of State stuff today. Now you've been hearing about
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it for quite a while. The twenty twenty four campaign season, believe it
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or not, those secretary doesn't officially start actually officially started. I guess what
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term of the office open at eight thirty or sold this morning, but from
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now till the twenty seventh of this off the official pilot filing period for West
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Virginia is underway and you're going to be hitting the road today. More on
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that coming up a little bit later on. Let's talk about this filing period.
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It's an exciting time to be a political follower, as I am,
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sir. It is. To put it in terms you might understand, this
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would be like your cowboys showing up at the stadium. Okay, this is
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nice. Here we go, here we go, here we go. There's
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a line outside my door right now. We've already signed up fifteen people this
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morning already, and I'm sure it'll be dozens by the time noon hits.
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Yes, at eight o'clock this morning, we started getting the paperwork together.
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It's an easy process to come through, fill out that paperwork, drop it
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off, drop your check off, and then move on out the door.
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But pick up your candidate guide. So the office is open. We are
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taking filings for official candidates to run, whether it's state wide offices you know,
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like your governor, Secretary of state, attorney general of those sorts of
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state wide, but also those offices like House of Delegates and Senators. Wherever
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a district crosses a county line, those people file through the Secretary of State's
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office. Now, your local races can be done at your county clerk's offices,
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and you can also sign up for these other offices at the county clerks
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as well. But this is the opening of the campaign season. You can
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start to apply for your Absity ballots is already underway, so that's why it's
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good to be talking about this. We want to encourage people to run for
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office. We want to encourage people to check their registrations. If you haven't
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registered, to get registered. If you want to change your registration, you
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can do that now. And all this can either be done in person at
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our office, your county clerk's office, or at go votewv dot com.
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We want to encourage people to be poll workers. So basically everything election related
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is underway. Now that the twenty twenty four years upon a selection year,
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and the season kicks off today with the filing for office. It's open opening
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day, like just like you the sports analogies like baseball season, man's it's
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opening day, Hope springs eternal for candidates. I suppose talking to it.
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Talking to Westerninia Secretary State Mic Wader this morning on the show. Now,
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as far as people coming to the capital, I know I talked to one
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gentleman earlier this morning. It was going to file for house that he planned
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to be there when you open. That turns into kind of a photo lot
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from time to time, you know, for people to kind of show up.
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And I've even seen people when I worked there, Sir, people that
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would enter different doors because they want to get the angles just right. It's
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all become part of it. It is, and that's a way with the
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rise of social media. You take a quick snapshot or a video and you
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can put that on on social media and let people know what your office you're
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running for, that you have done it officially. They see you there with
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your paperwork. It's a nice visual and as we know, that picture speaks
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a thousand words, so we encourage people to do that. We there was
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some press in here earlier this morning taking pictures and interviewing candidates. So the
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office is open. It's your office, it's the people's office. Come on
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in and be a part of it. Now. The final period runs through
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the twenty seventh of January. Do you plan on staying open late on that
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final day? Because I know that used to be a thing where stay open
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to like midnight or so, and people would kind of watch online to see
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if anybody did a last minute filing. Is that the plan this time exactly?
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That is a Saturday, and we open at nine o'clock on that Saturday,
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and we will be opened until midnight, not only here in Charleston,
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but also at our hubs in Clarksburg and Martinsburg. We will be doing that
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as well. You can also file by mail. Now, these applications do
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have to be notarized, so if you get it notarized, I want to
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drop it into mail. The key to that is making sure that that envelope
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has a postmark. It has to be postmarked by midnight on the twenty seventh.
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And again, all this information can be found on the govowv dot com
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website, So we encourage people to go to that website and all information whether
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you want to download an application to run for office, apply to be a
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poll worker, want to know the key dates when you have to change your
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registration by that sort of thing, It's all available at go votewv dot com
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and it's probably a good idea too, And Secretary you mentioned this a little
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bit earlier. Good idea. To make sure that everything's okay with your registration.
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You know that you are officially registered of them, because sometimes people hard
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to believe, but sometimes people don't know if they're active or not. Then
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you can do that on that website exactly, and you can change that registration
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up until April twenty third is the voter registration deadline. That's twenty one days
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prior to the election. That is the cutoff, so the clerks have time
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to get you know, make sure you're in the database, gets you the
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right application or the right the ballot when it comes time, send you to
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the right precinct, that sort of thing. So that's why there's a deadline.
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And at April twenty third, so you still have plenty of time,
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but it's best just good and do it right now while we're talking about it,
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while you're thinking about it. Now you're going to be hitting the road.
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I understand what's that all about. I am. It's to do just
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what you and I are doing right here, and that's to get to the
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different parts of the state. Let people know, encourage folks to pay attention
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that the election is upon us. If you want to file for office,
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you've got about twenty days right now to get that done. If you want
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to apply to be a poll worker, those sorts of things. It's basically
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just bringing attention to the fact that the election season is upon us. Twenty
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twenty four, we all know, is the big election year, and it
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has now started. So I'll be hitting fourteen counties in the next four or
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five days to talk about this very thing. Just reminding people to update their
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registrations, encourage new people. Let's say you've just turned eighteen, or you've
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just moved into the state. We want to encourage those people to register to
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vote. And it's to educate the public on the resources that are available and
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the election process. You know yourself about the logic and accuracy testing of the
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machines. You know, the machines are not attached to the internet, that
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sort of thing. But if a person goes and pays attention to the transparent
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opportunities that the county clerks allow them to watch that process, all of that
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goes towards building confidence in our election system. And that's what this whole discussion
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is about, is building confidence and getting interest in the election and the election
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process. Nine seven c to Dave Aland showing five any line Browns you part
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by Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Well happy filing period
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sir, as someone as I mentioned that, I said, worked in that
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office, I know how hectic it's going to be between now and the twenty
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seventh. We'll check in with you a little bit later. Good luck be
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safe out on the trail, not only a Secretary State, but also in
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your candidacy for governor. Wish you the best of luck. We'll talk again
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soon. Thanks a lot, Thanks David. Great being with you. Secretary
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State Mac Warner again. The filing period is now opened to open at eight
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this morning through midnight on the twenty seventh. And it's always interesting to see
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the photo. And I was telling this story. I'm not going to mention
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the candidate's name, but when I did work in the office, there was
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actually a candidate for statewide office that came in and we were streaming the entire
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thing, you know, where you could watch in real time people coming into
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the office. This candidate and you know, I'm not following the gay for
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doing he just wanted to get the best angle. He came in literally from
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different directions. He would walk in one door and then they would say cut,
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and then he would go to the other door and he would come in
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Say Democratic par already chairing, Delli get Mike Pushkin this year, but
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now I want to welcome in make a deal from Goodwill? Megan, good
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morning. How are you? Good morning? Dave? How are you?
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I fine? Thank you for being here. Going to be a big job
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fair held in the area tomorrow ten till two. Actually two fairs going on
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at once, one us here in Charleston and the other is in the Parkersburg
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area in Vienna. Now that one's going to be held at the Grand Point
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Conference Center in Vienna, while the one in Charleston happening that's Goodwill Prosperity Center
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two of nine Virginia Street West, both again being put on by Goodwill.
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Do you want to mention that our sister station one of seven three The Beat,
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will be broadcasting live from that one tomorrow, Megan. A lot of
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work goes into these things, Yeah, a lot of work. Definitely.
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We got together a few months ago towards the end of the last year and
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said, what can we do to really kick off a great new year twenty
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twenty four. I think it's going to be a great year for this community
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and a great year for all of us. So like, what better than
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new year, new career. So think something about goodwill is that we're empowering
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people through employment. So even our own employees are going to be open to
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go to this job fair if they want to go somewhere out into the community
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and have a skill set that they have but they're current not utilizing with us,
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We're going to push them to go ahead and do that. So we
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want to jump to start them into careers, not just jobs. And we
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hear all the time making on the news about all the job openings and employers
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are having a difficult time finding people that want to work or have the proper
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skill sets or whatever. So if you are, I guess the ball is
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kind of in the court of the prospective employees at this point because they pretty
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much have their their choice of jobs that they can be looking at. Yeah.
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Absolutely, and we think that, and we think, you know,
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oh, it's just there's so many jobs of plenty out there and why is
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nobody taking them? A lot of people don't understand with West Virginia. It's
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the transportation barrier is the problem, you know. I know Delegate Pushkin is
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familiar with this as well. When you have individuals that they don't have a
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car and they get outside of that Charleston metro area and don't have the KRT,
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don't have reliable public transportation. If they don't have that, they're walking
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to work. So they've got to figure out a way that is you know,
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economical for their family and that they have the means to get to the
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job. So that's another way that we wanted to have it over there on
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the West Side. Individuals can be on Kart transit, they can drive,
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they can walk, and we can have them with a number of employers that
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are in the area or maybe close to where they need to be. Yeah,
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that's something I really hadn't thought about. But once you get out of
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Charleston Hontyton you start getting into some of these more rural areas, transportation is
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definitely an issue, right and I have to for my missions team, it
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would definitely want me to plug two programs that we have that are combating just
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that, one being Mission Mobile. We retrofitted a bus if you will,
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that has Wi Fi desk computer capabilities that we're going to take out of the
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rural areas of West Virginia, outside of the metropolitan areas, where they can
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sign up for services. We can help them with resume writing, we can
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help them register for their Snappy and Tea benefits. They can connect to the
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Wi Fi. They will have information on United Way two one one, and
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things like that. Another way, we're combating the transportation thing and then also
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with wheels to work as a program that we're helping people actually purchase vehicles,
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matching down payments, securing loans for them. You know, there's individuals out
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Maize dot com. What about for employers? Can they still sign up to
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me? Absolutely? I think that we're still having a registration open. You
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know, we're pretty understanding. We know how things just get you know,
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they scroll past the social media feed. Maybe they didn't know about it.
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So yeah, still accepting those registrations, I think up until the end of
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today. But yeah, come on by tend to two down here in Charleston,
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TENDO two up in Parkersburg at the Vienna Grand Point Center. It's going
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to be a lot of fun and I think a really rewarding day. Another
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thing that we're going to have at the Charleston one, because I just have
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a limited staff that I can send up to both areas, is we're going
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to offer complimentary headshots to people. So if they're wanting to come in and
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maybe they don't find the job that's right for them, they can come in
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and get a headshot they can use on their LinkedIn, maybe make part of
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their resume. A lot of people just don't have that nice, you know
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picture. I might be using one from a couple of years ago. I
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might need to walk over there tomorrow and get a compliment. Well, it's
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kind of cool that you're doing that, because that's something. And along those
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same lines, a big part of it is resumes too, and so we
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always tell people when you have these job fairs. I was always told a
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long time ago, you know, be prepared to go and be interviewed on
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the spot. So if you've got to, if you've got a resume,
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bring it now. Is that something that you guys can offer, like resume
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buildings. We have resume yeah, we have resume writing services. We have
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career matching services. We have something called open enrollment each week on Wednesdays where
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they can come in get matched to any of the programs that they need for
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US soft skills, if you know, if somebody needs to learn how to
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work with a computer, we have courses through Coursera and Google. We're truly
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the one stop shot for career development and workforce development for this area. Can
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you talk about or do you have a list of some of the employers you
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have signed up or do you have that available? If you don't, that's
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fine on this podcast. Actually no, We've got Charleston Property Restoration, We've
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got State Farm there tomorrow, a Goodwill themselves, a deco. I'm looking
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at all the different ones West Virginia tax divisions, so stay West Virginia is
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even coming to help find some employees for us, so we're excited. Is
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there a place where people can learn more? I know I've got that.
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I've posted the uh, I've done the poster on my social media and I'll
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make sure I do that again later today and tomorrow. But is there a
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place for people? Yeah? Absolutely, follow us on social media on Facebook.
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We're at Goodwill kV and there's an event on Facebook you can follow has
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all the information. Any employers or maybe wanting to sign up last minute,
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you can feel free to email us at Marketing at GOODWILLKAV dot com. We
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can get you signed up. But follow us on socials and I think we'll
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have some fun things going on tomorrow. We'll have The Beat will be there
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tomorrow broadcasting live, so it's gonna be a good day. Yeah. I
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think it is well now again the one in Charleston intended too with the Goodwill
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Prosperity Center, and as I said, is make it said. The Beat
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will be broad asking to go hang out with Woody and the folks. So
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I don't know if it's gonna be Woody or g money or both. But
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com hang out with me and whoever's they, that's all. That's all that
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matters right there, It's Megan's world. Pushkin, We're just living mega deal.
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I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot, and good luck with
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everything tomorrow. Okay, thanks all right, making deal again from Goodwill,
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chair Delegate Mike Pushkin is here. Good morning, sir, Good morning.
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How are you. I'm fine. It is the most wonderful time of the
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year. Session starts in two days. It does. We gavel in Wednesday
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at noon, and of course the State of the State address will be that
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evening. So, yeah, the legislature is coming back into session, and
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the House and Senate Democrats, although we are small in number, we are
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more united than ever and we have some issues that we want to bring up
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and some things that we need to do, and hopefully they can be a
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bipartisan issues and we can get some things done. Let's talk about what's on
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that Democrats wish list first and foremost. I think I think most would agree
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with me. The biggest problem we have here in West Virginia. Everything can
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be related back to a people problem, and we simply don't have enough people
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here. We have workforce issues in West Virginia. We have issues of finding
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folks to work in the public sector as well as the private sector. When
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we see we have a shortage of teachers, we have a shortage of correctional
21:41
officers, we have a shortage of the child protective service workers. We have
21:45
a shortage of people in West Virginia. So what we want to do is
21:49
make it an easier choice for people to stay here or to relocate here.
21:56
And that means helping people, you know, first of all, keep more
21:59
of the money to live here. So whether that's supporting the pay raises to
22:04
offset the p i A rate increases for public our public workers, also doing
22:10
something to actually address the p i A issue, like find a permanent funding
22:15
source for that so we don't need to continually raise the rates on our public
22:18
workers. That includes a cost of living adjustment for our retired public workers who
22:23
haven't seen a real cost of living adjustment in far too long. That means
22:29
making it accessible for people to get childcare so young parents can can get to
22:33
work and have the time to get to work. It's a whole host of
22:37
issues all about making it easier for people to live here. That also means
22:41
it also means empowering people to make decisions for themselves. So we also strongly
22:48
support constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights. And no matter how you feel about the
22:52
issue, I think that it's important to have the people decide may have people
22:57
make those decisions for themselves, so we want it to the ballot. I
23:00
want to talk about childcare for a moment. I know Senator Wolffel, I
23:03
think it was out of cabal County is proposing or he was talking about maybe
23:08
doing some sort of a child like a like a tax credit childcare. Your
23:14
thoughts on that, Yeah, I've supported one hundred and ten percent. It's
23:18
a big we have a huge childcare crisis in this state. It's and it's
23:22
it's it makes it hard for people to uh to stay here, live here,
23:27
work here, raise a family here. Makes it hard when they don't
23:30
they don't have access to childcare. So yeah, it's a it's a crisis
23:33
that needs to be addressed, Senator, Senator Blair. I know on Friday
23:37
there was an event Mike over the Culture Center, kind of a you know,
23:41
a little we'll get together the press called the Legislative look Ahead. Yeah,
23:45
yeah, look for the prep with the Press Association, so on and
23:48
so forth over there. One of the things that he mentioned there and he's
23:49
mentioned other places too, is a possibly a reinstatement of the death penalty in
23:55
West Virginia, particularly for those that deal fentanyl your rights. I cannot conscious
24:00
support that. I find it. I cannot support that. I will never
24:04
support the death penalty. We want to make it easier for people to live
24:08
here. That's what we want, not to die here, not Yeah,
24:11
yeah, I can't. I can. I cannot support the death even for
24:15
even for those who do deal fentanyl. We don't have the death penalty in
24:19
West Virginia. No matter how horrible the crime is, the most is life
24:23
in prison. I do not support the death penalty, uh TEX says,
24:29
Ask your guest. If the legislature can address a cooperative agreement with neighboring states
24:33
for a combined governmental insurance program that addresses the cost and services for insurance or
24:40
like for p E I A, that's uh, you know, I,
24:42
you know, that's something we should be looking at everything, because uh,
24:45
I think what we have now is just a failure of of our of our
24:49
lawmakers to make tough decisions on on creating a U and designating a permanent funding
24:56
stream for that that agency. I've always said all along, we have to
25:03
It's not just about patching it up with one time funds. We have to
25:07
create a permanent funding stream for that. And there's several different ways you could
25:11
do that. Twenty eight minutes away from Tama, Dave Allen showing five eighty
25:14
live right to part by general hardware number of wind field from kitchens to paints,
25:17
the deck, straight framed, would roofie, metal and everything else you
25:21
made it. You'll find it a general hardware and number of Winfield i't want
25:22
to go back to something you said there had to do with reproductive rights.
25:26
You were saying that you would like to have the abortion issue put on the
25:30
ballot in West Virginia. Yes, okay, do you think how do you
25:33
think that will go? I think it would go like it has gone in
25:37
every other state, and I think people would would vote to return to the
25:41
rights that we had, which is basically the rights under Roe v. Wade,
25:48
even in red states when it's been put on the ballot, that's how
25:52
that's how it's gone. I don't know of a state that voted for it
25:56
that didn't do that. Now people will say, yeah, well, the
25:57
people voted on it in twenty eighteen. It was a completely different question.
26:02
What was voted on in twenty eighteen included public funding and there are some people
26:08
out there, imagine, who are pro choice but still maybe fiscally more fiscally
26:14
conservative, that would vote against that. This is a completely different question.
26:17
We're talking about is to protect a protection of reproductive rights. And it's worded.
26:22
What we're proposing is worded much the same way that the Ohio Amendment was
26:26
worded, which is really a return to protections under row. So there are
26:30
limitations, There are certain restrictions. Reason was what this country had for fifty
26:37
years. Mike. I'll be honest with you, I don't think the Republicans
26:41
want that on the ballot because I think they know which way it'll go.
26:44
Now Again, I know that there may be people listening right now that think
26:47
that maybe all Republicans are pro life for whatever it is that you want to
26:52
call it. But I don't think there's a reason why it's not been placed
26:56
in a simpler language on the ballot in West Virginia as it was in Ohio.
27:00
In my opinion, well, I think allowing people to vote on it
27:03
is the way to go. It's hard to argue against that. To simply
27:06
let the people make that decision for themselves hard to argue with. I'm for
27:11
the people making that decision for themselves. Tex says would say the circus is
27:15
back in town, but that's an insult to circuses, says the text.
27:19
Just leave that one of the load. Mike. It was reported on Friday
27:23
that your counterpart of the Republican Party side, the chair of the GOP L
27:29
J. Mccardial possibly step me down maybe to run for another office. Won't
27:33
be official until the party meets for their winter meeting to Charleston coming up on
27:37
the twentieth of this month. Any thoughts on that for you, Well,
27:40
I wish her well and I respect her decision. I still will go back
27:45
to the I believe it was an interview she did on this show where she
27:48
said, you know, if you don't believe the same way we do,
27:51
then move. I feel exactly the exact opposite that I want people. Whether
27:55
I agree with him or not, I want people to move to West Virginia.
27:57
We need people in West Virginia. I felt that the statement by she's
28:03
still the chair, yeah es stuff down yet. So yeah, the statement
28:06
from the chair of the West Virginia GOP was really the exact opposite of the
28:11
message we should be sending out to the rest of the world, the rest
28:14
of the country. We want people to move here. We don't want just
28:17
people who agree with us. We want people. And if we're not attracting
28:21
young people to this state, and if young people are leaving this state and
28:23
droves, what kind of future does this state have. Everything we do during
28:29
the legislative session, everything we do should be run through the prism of well,
28:33
this bring young people back to West Virginia, because if we don't have
28:37
that, we don't have a future here. Well, Mike, now,
28:40
with the filing period is officially underway, opened up at eight o'clock this morning,
28:44
when can we expect to start hearing some names of those on the Democratic
28:47
Party they'll be running for some of these offices, be at House or or
28:49
the constitutional officeholders. When are we going to hear some of these names?
28:53
Well, I imagine you'll here some today and as it goes on throughout the
28:56
filing period. Actually, I'm going to go file. I don't know if
29:00
this is breaking news or not, because I don't think of it. Yeah,
29:04
when I leave here, I'm going to uh go fill out the paperwork
29:08
and I'm going to file to run for re election for the fifty fourth House
29:11
district here in Kanaw County. You had opposition last time? Uh? Did
29:17
you have opposition in the primary? Did you last time? No? I
29:19
didn't have any opposition did the general? Yeah? Yeah? Okay? So
29:25
does it ever and I mean this as uh in the best possible way,
29:29
does it ever get frustrating? Though? For you as the at the head
29:33
of the State Democratic Party Chair that the numbers just keep getting worse and worse
29:37
for the Democrats. Is there ever a time that might And I know you're
29:40
a fighter, I know you're a good dude, But I mean, is
29:41
there ever a time I might push can discuss man, I just don't know
29:45
about this. We're up it's yeah, it's no. It's no secret that
29:49
we're up against a whole lot. I think there's a real misconception of what
29:53
of what Democrats really stand for. And that part is frustrating because I know
29:57
what we really stand for. We stand for basic working class values that people
30:03
should get paid living wage, they should be safe at the workplace, we
30:08
should have good schools for everybody's kids, we should have good roads for all
30:14
of us to drive. But basically, what Democrats believe in, what we've
30:15
always believed. I think it was best stated by the late Senator Paul Wellstone.
30:22
We all do better when we all do better. That's what Democrats believe.
30:26
So yeah, it is frustrating when we get misrepresented as something that we're
30:29
not tech, says Dave. Thanks to Della get Pushkin for standing against the
30:33
death penalty in West Virginia, supporting the death penalty requires complete trust in the
30:37
justice system, which is a disaster in West Virginia. One individual loan fred
30:41
Zane proves why public death penalty is wrong. That is a very good point.
30:45
That's a great two word argument against the death penalty. That's fred Zaye.
30:51
You can't appeal something a final decision like that. There are times when
30:59
they get it wrong, and God forbid, an innocent person is put to
31:03
death by the government. I just in good conscience, I cannot. My
31:08
own religious and spiritual beliefs would prevent me from voting for that. I will
31:15
never support that. A couple of quick tests where we let you go ask
31:17
Pushkin, what do you support caning like they do in Singapore for punishment?
31:23
I don't know. Dave, No to recreational marijuana in West Virginia. Too
31:29
much addiction in West Virginia in the nation, simply common sense. Well,
31:33
okay, I'm glad that your Texter brought that up. Another thing I would
31:37
like to see on the ballot, and I think that many of the House
31:40
Democrats are going to bring up if I believe, actually I believe we're united,
31:44
and we would also like to see a constitutional amendment that would legalize cannabis
31:49
or adult use only and let them once again, let however you feel about.
31:55
Then your texter who just texted in would have the right to go out
31:57
and vote against it, but the people who support it would be able to
32:01
go out and vote for it. And then you're talking about a permanent funding
32:05
stream for pei A. That's one of the things you could do with some
32:08
of the revenue from that. Final texts before we let you go, what
32:13
rights will Republicans take away from women this session? Stay tuned. Women need
32:16
to get out and vote or risk losing your rights. I got a better
32:21
idea than I think women should get out and run. The filing period started
32:24
this morning. There was a crowd up there up at the Secretary of State's
32:29
office. I'm going to go up there later and I'm going to file.
32:30
But I think it's a good idea for women, not just to get out
32:32
and vote, get out and run, all right. One final one.
32:37
You cannot support killing of a person who has committed hideous crime. Shit.
32:40
You could support killing innocent babies and endanger the health of that mother. I
32:46
support a woman's right to choose. Well, that's not how I see it.
32:52
Well, good luck to you this as you're going to be heading back
32:57
over to the capital to sign up for office and good luck and getting all
33:00
these positions, getting people to run for all these business. Does this mean
33:02
I get to come back on as a candidate because you come on down,
33:06
you have to do the meet We're gonna start doing the Meet the Candidates segment.
33:09
You get to come on and I get to ask you questions like I
33:12
don't already know the answers to you. So tell us about Mike Pushkin.
33:15
Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to study up on that. Thank you,
33:19
I'll get back to you. I'll get back to you. Don't just
33:21
don't talk about the NFL because you know you're a Jets fan, all right.
33:24
I was happy to see that. I don't want to upset anybody.
33:27
But the Dolphins, as good of a season they had, they didn't win
33:30
the division. They lost the division last night. But the Cowboys are in.
33:34
Cowboys wondered and they were you know, you thought the Eagles had it
33:36
locked up all the It's uh, it's it's fun to watch. I like
33:39
watching football, even when my team's out of it. I think with the
33:44
Jets out that the two teams I think, and my NFC team and my
33:46
AFC team that I could I can root for without you know, without really
33:52
feeling, you know, horrible about myself. I can root for the for
33:54
the Cleveland Browns, and I can root for the Detroit Lions. I've got
33:58
I think, how can you be a I got friends and family members that
34:00
are big Browns fans, and Steve Animal, my man upstairs at the Mountain,
34:04
a big, big Detroit fan. So if the Cowboys don't win it,
34:10
then I'm one. Cowboys are looking good. They're the only team that
34:15
is not. I don't believe they've lost a game at home. No,
34:16
they're sixteen, they've won the last sixteen in a row at home, and
34:19
they're playing at home, and we play the Packers this week at h I
34:22
like their chances in that. All right, get out of here, get
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Goodwin is here. We're gonna get to her in a couple of moments,
36:52
but before I get to the mayor, I do want to pass this along.
36:55
And that is and mentioned of the passing to a very good friend of
36:59
mine and a big part of the radio community here in Charleton. Barry Wallace,
37:02
who did sales for some of our competition over at ELM Communications that would
37:06
be Rock one O five at a Mix, died suddenly over the weekend.
37:09
I worked with Barry at LM from roughly twenty sixteen twenty seventeen until I left
37:15
there in early twenty twenty Barry was just one of those guys that everyone loved.
37:19
He was life of any party, overall good guy. He died unexpectedly
37:24
over the weekend. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Barry's family and all
37:28
of his friends, and also the people over at LM Communications as well.
37:32
He was one of the good ones and he will certainly be Miss Charleton Mayor
37:37
Amy Shoulder, good one is here. Welcome to the show, Mayre,
37:38
thank you so much. Also former Senator John pat Fanning, who was actually
37:45
a very good friend of my grandmother's. THEUS Francis O'donald Blatnick. You know,
37:51
I always have to say her name in full because that's what you do,
37:55
as she served in the House and in the Senate when he was there.
37:59
And I know a lot of families at the State House lost a person
38:04
that they worked very closely with for so many years doing good work for West
38:07
Virginia and especially southern West Virginia. Did you have a good holiday season?
38:10
I did. My boys were home. It was wonderful. You forget how
38:15
much they eat, You forget how much laundry you have to do. It's
38:21
just two it's not that much. But when it turns to four and they're
38:23
you know, my boys are as. I always love to say, the
38:27
perfect size, refrigerator size. So it was lovely. It was lovely time
38:31
to reflect and you know, how could you not have a good holiday season
38:36
in Charleston. It was probably the time of year in five years, Dave,
38:43
you know, with a ball I mean, I know you've reported on
38:45
this too, but you're at the ballpark when you have one hundred and twenty
38:47
thousand people from forty plus different states come to your city writing to me,
38:53
tagging me, texting, emailing, saying hey, thanks, You're going to
38:58
do this again next year, right, this is coming back. So with
39:01
Holly Jolly Brawley and that influx, what we're seeing now is, you know,
39:07
more more interest in development around that November, December and early January,
39:13
which is great. Baron. I want to talk to you about the last
39:17
week it made news. You had the city council meeting the tabling of the
39:20
proposed resolution that someone wanted calling for a seats fire in the Israeli jimas Ward.
39:25
Now you and you and council offered a table that resolution. You care
39:29
to comment on that? Well, first and foremost on December twenty second,
39:34
twenty members of Council, including myself, sent a letter to Shelley Moore,
39:37
Capitol Senator, Senator Capitol Senator Mansion, and Commerce Woman Miller asking for their
39:45
assistance. We had a wonderful group of folks from our Muslim community, inter
39:51
Jewish community come to I didn't even know they were going to be there,
39:55
but super happy to see them on that eighteenth Monday, the eighth teenth,
40:00
and had asked us to do something. There was an email that was sent
40:07
saying hey, from somebody outside of the City of Charleston, saying hey,
40:09
would you would you do a resolution or something like that? And what council
40:15
members and I felt most of the time, we don't do resolutions of that
40:19
sort, but letters, especially when it talks about things outside of our control.
40:23
You know, we've done it with the PSC and things like that,
40:25
so outside of the purview if you will, of city government. But that
40:30
a letter of support not only for our Muslim community here, our local Muslim
40:35
community and our Jewish community, saying that we wanted peace, that we love
40:39
both of these communities. We know that people are hurting, and so really
40:45
that was the reason behind the letter is to show our support in what we
40:51
believed. And when I say we, I mean the majority of council believed
40:55
that that was the best way that we could show our support through city government.
41:01
And so it was a you know, we worked a long time on
41:05
that letter and it wasn't just me. It was a lot of folks in
41:07
this community who worked on that letter to show our support. And that was
41:14
on the twenty second. Were were you surprised by the reaction as part of
41:20
the council meeting because there were some people, I mean you had to had
41:22
to go into recess and you got a little out of hand there. I
41:27
wasn't there, but I did see the coverage. I've got a little bit
41:30
out of hand, people chanting shame and things of that nature. Did that
41:32
surprise you, Well, you know, this is what I believe, just
41:36
as I believe then everybody. That's everybody's right. That's people's right to do
41:43
that. And so shame on us when we start saying no, you can't
41:46
speak, or no you can't say things. Of course you can't. Now
41:50
we have to conduct business. That's why always at the beginning of council most
41:54
folks and you know this and your reporters know this because they're there reporting or
41:59
they listen in on line, which you can now too. Five years ago.
42:02
It was the very first meeting that I started. You can see it
42:06
online, you can hear it online. Because we should be transparent and so
42:08
we always include and invite folks to come out and speak, and so you
42:13
know that is part of the process, and that is part of good government
42:17
and open government. That it doesn't matter if somebody agrees with me or not.
42:22
They have the right to speak, whether it whether I like it or
42:27
not, whether it hurts my feelings or not, whether I think it is
42:29
truthful or not. That's everyone's right. Tick says, Please inform the mayor
42:36
and ask her to inform the protesters from the city council media that there was
42:39
a cease fire until November twenty eighth that ended when Hamas attacked Israeli troops.
42:45
So those people need to contact AMASA demand that they end this, not Israel.
42:49
I'm going to kind of go along Mayor with what former Mayor Danny Jones
42:52
said on the show on Hoppy last week, and I kind of have a
42:58
tendency to agree with that, and that when it comes to city government,
43:01
no matter what the city is, fix my potholes, you know, work
43:06
on transportation, work on things of that nature. I don't know that it's
43:09
the place of city government, in my opinion, to get involved in things
43:13
like that. Yeah, I hear you. And while that is a policy
43:16
you're talking about policy, the reason why we wanted to send the letter and
43:21
that we wanted to take some bit of action, Dave, is that when
43:24
members of our community are hurting, we want them to know that we are
43:30
with them. And so, yes, well, I tend to agree with
43:32
you. This is something that our senators and are representative our congressional it's kind
43:39
of in their purview, right, It's it's in their view. Our view
43:44
is still at a local level, taking care of our family members and friends
43:47
who are hurting, and to show our support that way, not necessarily to
43:52
do resolutions demanding something on a federal or international level be done, but to
43:58
say to our families, members and our friends, which, by the way,
44:01
those folks in their crowd, they are very close friends of mine,
44:05
very close friends of mine, so many of them. I understand their pain.
44:09
I am sad with them, I'm sad for them. But again,
44:16
we just felt the best way was to do that through a letter, and
44:21
I think it was a beautiful letter and I'm glad we sent it. Nine
44:24
to fifty one. We'll take a break. We're right back after this on
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Texas, the mayor and city council did the right thing. Municipalities don't
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do foreign policy period, Texas. There was a ceasefire before the seventh of
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October, says a TEXTA Texas says, I would love that the mayor would
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encourage Brawley trees to stay decorated the entire stretch they're advertised to be up.
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It's sad when they're a few are naked early. I know, I know,
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I know. Boy, we wish we could keep them up all the
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time, but mother nature sometimes gets in the way. And speaking of mother
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nature, if you don't mind, Dave, yeah, you know, people
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ask me all the time. Listen. When I became mayor, I knew
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that I would have to do a lot of things. I did not know
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that I would have to keep my eye on the sky and focused on our
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weather patterned systems more than half the half of the time during the winter.
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But mother Nature, she put a lot of ice on our roads this morning.
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So there was slick and so I sound like a lot of people were
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expecting me O, No, they weren't. And I was up and out
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of the house early early this morning as I normally am at dark, and
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it was very foggy, it was very slick. But most important to let
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folks know, listen, there's a reason why we have seventeen trucks and six
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thousand tons of salt ready to go at a moment's notice, because welcome to
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West Virginia. Welcome to beautiful Appalachia. Mother Nature she has her you know,
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her thumb on what she wants to do at the time. And I
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will say starting just to give everybody fore warning is fair warning. At least.
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This is what we have right now, is a report starting at Dave
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at one a m. Upcoming here on Tuesday. We don't know how long
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it's going to last just yet, Hello weather, fifty mile hour winds,
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really heavy rains. It's going to be it's going to be a stretch,
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which means for us. We prepare now, we get the trucks ready to
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go out, debris falling power lines and so fore warning is fair warning.
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I don't know how long it's going to last, but hey, listen,
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if you're working shiftwork, if you're a nurse, if you're coming in late
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about one am, and this is not a snow and ice issue, this
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is high winds. Well yeah, I mean it's rain and high winds right
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now, which can be very treacherous and very damaging. So please, so
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please prepare, take caution. If you're sending a kid back late to school
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this week, I know a lot of kids are not going back to a
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Wednesday. If you're sending somebody back, please please be mindful of some of
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the weather that we have coming in. Tex says, why are you wasting
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so much time discussing the war? You just said it doesn't matter to local
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government. Well, in all fairness, I'm the one that brought that up,
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Texas. Let's talk about the accepts of paid employees and the chief of
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police issue. Where are we in search for a police chief? Yeah?
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Sure, so for the first time ever in the history of the city of
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Charleston that we can tell I'm actually doing interviews in an application process, so
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that application is still open online. As a matter of fact, last night
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at home, I took a stack of I want to say, thirteen fourteen
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applications, some in the department, some in the state, some out of
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state, across the country of folks who want to be the next chief of
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police. As I had mentioned many times before, I'm taking my time on
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this. I want to be thorough in this process. And you know,
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really, this is a process that we should have changed probably a long time
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ago, and I'm happy to do it. It's going to be an intensive
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process. Listen, when you're running for I don't care if it's city council
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or mayor or senator, you have that public scrutiny, and while the mayor
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ultimately gets to decide who is our chief of police. I'm putting a little
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bit more out, a little bit more, a lot more time and attention
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through this application process and this interview process. So we're right in the middle
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of it. Applications close on the fifteenth. You can do it online.
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I think it's the fifteenth, which is next Monday, Dave, and then
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the week following I'll be doing interviews next two weeks following, depending on the
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people's schedule, and then I'll make a decision, you know, right thereafter.
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But Dave alan choll on five, any, I brought to you a
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part by your hometown baseball team, the Charleston Dirty Birds. Maybe one a
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time, but we're always taking baseball over the ballpark. Take a look at
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their schedules whatnot on their website. All right, So the legislature gets going
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later this week, Mayor. I think sometimes people don't take into account that
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the decisions made under the dome and how they can impact cities, especially larger
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cities like the capital city of Charleston. What are you looking at as first
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session goes? Well, you know, by the way, somebody ask when
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are you announcing your bid for governor? I am well, I'll say this,
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My State of the city is going to be done on the sixteenth there
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and about so in January. Yes, we always look eyes to the Gold
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Dome, right, what are they saying in the State of the state.
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That always is the governor's agenda and his department. So we always make sure
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that we're looking our state of the city will be done as well. And
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you know, first and foremost and you know, just as Mike said on
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the way out the door, hey I'll call you later. Hey, I'll
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talk to you later. Having good relationships and open relationships with the folks here
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from the House and Senate who represent us, making sure those lines of communication
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are good, working with the West Virginia municipal lig on things that they're hearing,
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or senators or delegates or the Governor's office that are reaching out to them
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to say, hey, we want to we want to work with the cities
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on this issue or this issue. So always it is we are very intimately
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involved in those conversations, and but it first starts with a you know,
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an office visit. I'll tell you we've had great relationships with Roger Hanshaw,
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who has always had a wonderful open door I see, really good speaker in
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terms of listening to our municipalities. All right now, you said your state
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in the city is to come up on the y. Yeah, I think
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that I have the date right because it's Martin Luther King on Monday, and
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I think it's going to be on the sixth time. We'll be listening.
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Mayor's always, I appreciate you being here, Glad to be here. Thank
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you, miss Jill. Thanks a lot coming up on the show tomorrow.
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We've got two googlenatorial candidates on the show tomorrow. Patrick Morrissey is on the
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show tomorrow as well as the Libertarian candidate for Governor, Eric at Coolenich will
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be on the show tomorrow so well. Plus tomorrow's the tenth anniversary of the
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water crisis in Charleston. Jeff Jenkins from the newsroomalll join us and former Mayor
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Danny Jones will be on to talk about that. Hoppy is coming up.
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