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The Dave Allen Show: Election Day Special: Secretary of State Mac Warner, Commissioner Ben Salango, and Making Election Day a Holiday · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 2: the United States of America, the state West Virginia, the
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  Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure.
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  Speaker 5: Bubbling Dave Allen, Hey, folks, say good Election Day Tuesday
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  Speaker 3: dot com. Well today has finally arrived at his election
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  Speaker 3: day poles opening at six thirty opened, I should say
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  Speaker 3: at six thirty this morning that will remain open till
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  Speaker 3: seven thirty tonight. Across West Virginia, we of course have
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  Speaker 3: a comprehensive election coverage on local races as well as
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  Speaker 3: the state races. And there is that little thing called
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  Speaker 3: a presidential election. Two now all the way. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to work tonight. Danny Jones and myself will anchor the
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  Speaker 3: local election desks starting at seven tonight, with check ins
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  Speaker 3: throughout the night for the Metro News Network with Hoppy Kerchival,
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  Speaker 3: Brad mclhanney, Jeff Jenkins, Kyle Wiggs, Chris Lawrence and more
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  Speaker 3: and more and more, And of course we'll be checking
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  Speaker 3: on the presidential election from ABC tonight. We also have
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  Speaker 3: a person stationed in all fifty five county courthouses across
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  Speaker 3: the state of West Virginia to give you the most
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  Speaker 3: comprehensive coverage available on air, online, and on Metro News
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  Speaker 3: television as well. So good time to remind you if
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  Speaker 3: you've not yet downloaded the Metro News TV app, please
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  Speaker 3: make sure you do before our coverent starts at seven
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  Speaker 3: o'clock this seve Now, on this election day, should election
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  Speaker 3: Day be a federal holiday? Some say yes, some say no. Well,
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  Speaker 3: one guy who's really into Election Day being a federal
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  Speaker 3: holiday is a young writer and he's going to join
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit later on the show. Plus Canock
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  Speaker 3: Candic Commission Ben Silangos here, and we're gonna step away
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  Speaker 3: from politics just for a moment because there's a big event,
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  Speaker 3: a fashion show coming up to benefit the Children's Theater
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  Speaker 3: of West Virginia. I'll get into all that, plus your
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  Speaker 3: calls and texts too. Now, with it be an election day,
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  Speaker 3: I want to check with the Secretary of State's office.
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  Speaker 3: Originally we had wester Virginian Secretary of State Mac Warner
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  Speaker 3: scheduled for this slot. However, it is election day, so
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  Speaker 3: he's got kind of called away to do something else.
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  Speaker 3: But we have the chief of staff of the Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of State's Office, Deep Cursey, with his deeg.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, welcome to the.
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  Speaker 7: Show, morning to day. Thank you for having me, thank.
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  Speaker 3: You for being here, and I do want to mention
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  Speaker 3: programming note that Secretary Warner is scheduled to be on
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  Speaker 3: with Hoppy in the first position this morning. Hopefully he'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to keep that because you know, it is
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  Speaker 3: election day and I got a little experience in that.
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  Speaker 3: I know how it goes, Deeke. But everything, as far
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  Speaker 3: as you know, pull's been open for two and a
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  Speaker 3: half hours now. Everything running smoothly so far.
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  Speaker 7: Running the smooth across the state. You know, of course,
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  Speaker 7: we always have a little ones here, twosy here, there
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  Speaker 7: Logan County, they had a precinct go down with power
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  Speaker 7: being out, but the county clerk there got the generator
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  Speaker 7: hooked up immediately and voters were able to walk in
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  Speaker 7: and vote with some nice flashlights and the battery power
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  Speaker 7: of the voting machines and a couple of little pulling
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  Speaker 7: places across the state. The size of the ballot was
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  Speaker 7: some leftover blank stock from the primary election, so they
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  Speaker 7: had to swap those out because they're different sizes. Other
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  Speaker 7: than that, things seem to be running very smoothly.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to talk about Deacon again.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking with Deeke Kurzy and for Mac Warner today
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  Speaker 3: on the All Things Election Day. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 3: early voting numbers, Deeke, because these numbers, man were off
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  Speaker 3: the charts. I mean nationwide, they were off the charts,
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  Speaker 3: but especially it's numbers. In talking to some of the
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  Speaker 3: county clerks Vere McCormick here, Brian wood over in Putnam County,
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  Speaker 3: they say there are numbers like like they've never seen before.
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  Speaker 7: Deec it was exceptional. I mean the last election we had,
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  Speaker 7: not counting COVID with the highest number of early voting
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  Speaker 7: turnout for in person was the twenty sixteen general and
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  Speaker 7: two hundred and nine thousand people voted early in person
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  Speaker 7: that year. This year we had three hundred and ten
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  Speaker 7: thousand people vote early and in person. That's one hundred
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  Speaker 7: thousand more than we saw in twenty sixteen, and even
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  Speaker 7: still in twenty twenty, with COVID being the major issue there,
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  Speaker 7: we still beat that number by sixty thousand. So voters
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  Speaker 7: are not just turning out, they're turning out and droves
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  Speaker 7: to vote early and utilize their options here to vote
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  Speaker 7: when it's most convenient for them to.
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  Speaker 3: What do you attribute that, Deeke? I mean, why were
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  Speaker 3: so many? Is it just because you know it's a
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  Speaker 3: presidential election and that more people want to early vote?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is there anything that you can look at
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  Speaker 3: that you can attribute these large numbers of early voters to.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if there's any quantifiable data right now
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  Speaker 7: that we could say one way or another, but there's
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  Speaker 7: a number of variables that could very likely have caused you. First,
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  Speaker 7: communication from our office to the media letting folks know
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  Speaker 7: all their different opportunities and dates and times to show
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  Speaker 7: up and vote when it's convenient for them. Another factor
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  Speaker 7: is on the campaign side of the world, candidates, even
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  Speaker 7: national candidates, were encouraging people to vote early. So it
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  Speaker 7: could be that the messaging is getting to the voters better.
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  Speaker 7: It could also be an adoption thing where now that
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  Speaker 7: we've had early voting for over twenty years, the number
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  Speaker 7: has increased every election, So it could just be part
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  Speaker 7: of the trend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, and this has been something that's been
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  Speaker 3: going on for some time. And I mean people enjoy it,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I mean they enjoy in West Virginia having
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  Speaker 3: that ten days of early voting, including the two saturdays.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking with Tee Kersey from the West Virginia Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of State's office. One note I wanted to throw out
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  Speaker 3: there to people and I let your office know about
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  Speaker 3: this yesterday that over in Putnam County, I was talking
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  Speaker 3: to Putnham County Clerk Brian Wood. They had a one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and four year old lady that showed up for
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  Speaker 3: early voting. Oh, but not to be outdone. In Putnham County, Deeck,
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  Speaker 3: there was a one hundred eight year old lady who
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  Speaker 3: voted by absentee ballot. That's got to be I would
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  Speaker 3: think some sort of a some sort of an age record.
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  Speaker 7: It's exceptional, and we're actually going to try and and
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  Speaker 7: grab those stories and maybe do a nice piece for them.
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  Speaker 7: But I heard from Katie Slater in Dodgers County. She
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  Speaker 7: had one hundred two year old vet who sat there
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  Speaker 7: and talked about every election he's voted in. So there's
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  Speaker 7: been a lot of folks turn up and vote who've
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  Speaker 7: been doing so for decades, and we love those stories absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Talking to with Dee Gurzy from the Secretary of State's office.
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  Speaker 3: Now, there were a couple of problems reported during early
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  Speaker 3: voting around the state. The big one that got probably
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  Speaker 3: got the most attention deep was then in Mingo County
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  Speaker 3: where apparently a candidate was a state candida for state Senate,
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  Speaker 3: was left off the ballot. They're working to correct that.
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  Speaker 3: Can you give us an update on that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely so. Mingo County officials were able to actually
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  Speaker 7: correct that error during early voting within a couple of
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  Speaker 7: hours of discovering it. That doesn't solve the problem come
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  Speaker 7: canvas when they determine the margin of the votes split
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  Speaker 7: between the winner and the second highest vote getter, But
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  Speaker 7: that'll be something they have to figure out using a
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  Speaker 7: legal process called an election contest. The good news for
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  Speaker 7: the voters is as soon as the air occurred, it
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  Speaker 7: was caught by the locals and they fixed it within
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  Speaker 7: a couple of hours. They even suspended in person voting
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  Speaker 7: to make sure they could stop the bleeding there. So
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  Speaker 7: it's an issue, but it seems to be from everything
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  Speaker 7: we're seeing, they've been very cooperative. A human error at
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  Speaker 7: the ballot proofing stage. There's three people that proof ballots
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  Speaker 7: for every county, Republican, Democrat and the county clerk, and
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  Speaker 7: they just missed this candidate. So there's no excuse for it.
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  Speaker 7: There's no good excuse for it at least, and our
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  Speaker 7: office will focus on that for the twenty twenty six elections.
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  Speaker 7: But for the voters, feel confident that it doesn't appear
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  Speaker 7: to be anything nefarious, no inside job or anything like that.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that's politics talking. When you read those kinds
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  Speaker 7: of things. It just appears to be a human error.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got people on the road from the office
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  Speaker 3: in all fifty five counties today to travel to nearly
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  Speaker 3: every precinct in the entire state to give voters a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more confidence.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Well, I don't know if we're going to hit
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  Speaker 7: nearly every precinct there's almost seventeen hundred of them.
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  Speaker 5: However, I said nearly, nearly nearly.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, you know how to do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: We'll be in every single county in the state. Eighteen
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  Speaker 7: people staffed, including the secretary who is on the road
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  Speaker 7: just now. He hit seven precincts this morning and everything
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  Speaker 7: seems to be running very smoothly here in Kanawha County.
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  Speaker 7: We've also have for this election the Fusion Centers Fusion
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  Speaker 7: Liaison officers. Over four hundred citizens have signed up to
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  Speaker 7: be Fusion Liaison officers who report intelligence from the field
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  Speaker 7: to the Fusion Center. These aren't investigators. These are every
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  Speaker 7: day citizens and folks that work for agencies who are
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  Speaker 7: reporting their experience on election day. So we can target
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  Speaker 7: any kind of immediate response to those locations and have
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  Speaker 7: somebody on the ground that had eyeballs on the situation.
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  Speaker 7: So it's a great day for us, and we're very
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  Speaker 7: excited to have such a large response team out there
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  Speaker 7: so we can get to any issues when they come
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  Speaker 7: up inevitably quickly so it doesn't impact the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, before we let you go, if people do suspect
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  Speaker 3: that there's something a little fishy going on, what do
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  Speaker 3: they need to do?
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  Speaker 7: Give us a call first of all eight seven to
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  Speaker 7: fives int us some pictures into some notes and we'll
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  Speaker 7: Investigations division. If it's a voter who needs some help
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  Speaker 7: on election day, or some pole workers that have a
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  Speaker 7: problem that they need immediate assistance with, call your county clerk.
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  Speaker 7: They're the ones that have direct information and then response
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  Speaker 7: capabilities and materials to fix any machine errors or anything
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  Speaker 7: like that. And really it's huge to keep in mind
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  Speaker 7: humans run elections. Things do happen, don't panic.
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  Speaker 5: And don't leave.
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  Speaker 7: Give us a call. We will resolve that we have
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  Speaker 7: people in the field and it will not be something
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  Speaker 7: that will impact your right to vote. And a reminder
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  Speaker 7: for everybody, if you're there at seven thirty when the
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  Speaker 7: polls close, don't leave. Stay in line. You will get
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  Speaker 7: to vote, but make sure you're about seven thirty. If
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  Speaker 7: you're late, you won't get to vote. So make sure
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  Speaker 7: you're there about seven thirty and just wait in.
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  Speaker 5: Line and that they'll give you a number. This is
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  Speaker 5: the way that works. And if you are in anisody
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  Speaker 5: and you will be able to vote. Dee Curzy, Chief
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  Speaker 5: a staff for Western Dean the Sick Tor State Macwarner,
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you being here, man. Have a good election day.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's going to be a long day for you.
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  Speaker 5: It's a long day for the media. It's a long
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  Speaker 5: day for everybody. So just to keep your chin up, man,
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  Speaker 5: and we'll talk soon.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks a lot, Thanks Dave, thanks for covering it.
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  Speaker 3: to start us off this morning, but again it is
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  Speaker 3: election day, so things happen, but he is scheduled to
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  Speaker 3: be on with Hoppy to start off talk Line today.
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  Speaker 3: Also Brad mclahanney on today, John Decker from Great Television,
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  Speaker 3: Early Voting, et cetera. That will all be discussed because
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  Speaker 3: this has been a thing not only in in West Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: let's say sixty five thirty five split or better, that
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  Speaker 3: I do want to mention about election day, County Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: Ben Selango's with us.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, Good morning.
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  Speaker 11: Morning, I'm great. How are you're having me? I love
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  Speaker 11: the new studio.
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  Speaker 3: Fellow Cowboys fan. We'll not talk about football.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 11: Well, the only thing that was the only thing to
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  Speaker 11: save me is that the Mountaineers had a bye week.
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  Speaker 11: Both my teams didn't lose in the same weekend. Okay,
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  Speaker 11: you know that makes for a disastrous weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do want to mention this about elections,
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  Speaker 3: about election day, and and I've told the story before,
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  Speaker 3: have been a former employee of.
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  Speaker 5: The Secretary of State's office.
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  Speaker 3: Number one problem that when we were out in the
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: field that we saw was not over. You know, if
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: you vote for this person, you're going to hell or
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: you know that kind of person or anything. It was
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: people wearing campaign material, right, and they just many times
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: a commissioner, they didn't think about it. But just so
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: you know, if you're going to vote today, you cannot
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: wear a Maga hat, you cannot wear Trump material, you
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: cannot wear vote for John Smith for county commit you
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: cannot wear that in the polling place. And technically now
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: they can't refuse you to vote, but a poll worker
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  Speaker 3: does have the right to tell you you have to
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  Speaker 3: get out of line, take the shirt, take the hat off,
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  Speaker 3: come back in, preferably put another shirt on, don't go
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  Speaker 3: in topless.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, and so my my I usually take my entire firm,
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: like we all go down and we early vote together
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  Speaker 11: as a scroll of the pole and one year I
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: forget it was in eighteen or twenty when we did it,
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: but we all walked down and somebody was wearing a
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: Selango loll jersey like a shirt Celingo. It wasn't like
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: vote for salt, it was a selangol. They made him
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: take it off. Yeah, which you know, I didn't eve
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  Speaker 11: think about it. We walked in and Vera McCormick staff
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: caught it and said, nope, go turn her inside out or.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a bowldoat and you're gonna get nothing by Vera. No,
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  Speaker 5: you don't know.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I kidder every time. I was like, this
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  Speaker 11: is you know, how's your first election going?
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  Speaker 12: Long?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's considered electioneering. And I've talked about this on
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  Speaker 3: the show before. Mainly it's not like it's I'm obsessed
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  Speaker 3: with it. It's just that's what I saw when I
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: worked out in the field on election day, and most
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: people just didn't think about it. They are passionate about
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: their candidates, and it tended not to be national candidates.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Of course, this is before Trump became a national brand
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: and you know with my maag and everything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But it was usually Sheriff Ward of Education you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: something like that. So just know, if you're going to
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: the polling place, you cannot have anything on your person
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: that says vote for a particular person or person's vote
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  Speaker 3: Republican vote Democrat. You cannot just just just be easy,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: just just take it easier on yourself. So, so are
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  Speaker 3: you typically an election day voter or an early voter?
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: I typically vote early. I've always you know, I just
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: enjoyed that convenience. I just walked down to voters registration
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  Speaker 11: and vote. Now, I think back in twenty twenty during
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: the governor's race in the in the general, I've voted
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  Speaker 11: on the day of election because I wanted to go
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: with my family because typically typically I'll go vote and
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  Speaker 11: terrible vote. And my oldest son back then he had
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: just turned eighteen, so it was his first time voting,
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  Speaker 11: so I wanted to vote with him. But generally I
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  Speaker 11: just do it early.
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember the first election that you voted in?
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  Speaker 13: I do.
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  Speaker 5: Was it a presidential election?
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  Speaker 12: It was?
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  Speaker 11: It was in nineteen ninety two, and so you know,
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  Speaker 11: I was at w and remember voting, and I honestly
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: don't remember who was on the it was a presidential election,
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  Speaker 11: but I don't remember that would have been that would
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  Speaker 11: have been Clinton. Was it Clinton in ninety two?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Clinton and Bush.
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  Speaker 11: Huh. I remember some of the candidate to not it
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  Speaker 11: was well. But also that was the year that Rossparo
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  Speaker 11: was also on the ballot. That's right, that's right. It
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: looked like a voter. I remember Rosparo. I was actually
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: impressed by I remember I loved the accent, the Texas accent. Yeah,
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: and that and that's one of the first races that
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  Speaker 11: we saw that a third party candidate really caused some issue.
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  Speaker 11: I don't want to say it was good or bad,
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  Speaker 11: but yeah, kind of kind of threw a monkey wrench.
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  Speaker 11: I forget, well, it was enough for a lot of
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  Speaker 11: people think to kind of sway it and so definitely
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  Speaker 11: shifted and uh. And Robert Kennedy is still on the ballot,
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  Speaker 11: even though he's out there campaigning for Trump, He's still
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: on the ballot. Many States Commissioner I had the two
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: candidates vine for the third commissioner's ship, if you will,
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: on the show yesterday. Of course, Commissioner Kent Carper resigned.
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: Mark Slidnik was a point to take its place. Mark
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  Speaker 11: filled in admirably but made it clear he was not
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  Speaker 11: going to.
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  Speaker 3: Stick around, So former Secretary of State Natalie Tenant did
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: run as a Democrat and former State Senator Chris Walters
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: as the Republican. Had both on the show yesterday and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: both did a great job, and I and I was
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: kind of gushing over both of them, but saying, why
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: can't we have more races like this? I mean, now
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: it may all go to hell in a handbasket for
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: the next twelve hours, but I mean, but I mean
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I even heard them off the air, and I don't
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: think one would mind me saying, hey, why don't you
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: come down to my campaign because one was having a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: campaign party one place and one was that come down
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: to mine too.
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  Speaker 5: And it was like, why can't we do this more often?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: They're a politicans, both great people. You know Chris. Chris
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  Speaker 11: actually does my commercial insurance. He writes the he's my
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: agent for all of my commercial policies. And you know,
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  Speaker 11: I've known Chris a long time, known his wife and
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: his father in law and his dad. I mean, I've
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: known the whole family. So, you know, two very good people,
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  Speaker 11: and they handled themselves well yesterday. You know Natalie, I've
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: known her forever as well, So it's it'll be an interesting,
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: interesting race. You know, Republican turn out in Kennak County
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  Speaker 11: is way up. If you look at the early voting,
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: it's substantially higher for the on the Republican side than usual.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Now what do you attribute that to?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Why do you think the Republicans are voting earlier than
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Because I saw one piece of literature that said, the
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Republicans are voting earlier than the Democrats, but the Democrats
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: are asking for more absentee ballots, which you know, Q
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the Now that's not in West Virginia, that's nationwide, so
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Q the conspiracy theorist there, but on that But but
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: but why do you think the Republicans are or choosing
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  Speaker 3: to vote earlier?
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  Speaker 11: I think two reasons. Number One, Trump's on the ballot, right,
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  Speaker 11: and so that that really energizes the Republican party. Secondly,
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  Speaker 11: I think it's now you know, I think early on
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  Speaker 11: people were cautious about early voting, particularly on the Republican side.
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  Speaker 11: They didn't necessarily trust it. They want to make sure
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: they'll vote counted, and and so they were lagging behind
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  Speaker 11: on early voting. And now if you look at the
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  Speaker 11: numbers Republicans. Actually we had about thirty one thousand early
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  Speaker 11: vote and Republicans out numbered Dems by about a thousand votes.
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: And then there were you know, five or six thousand
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  Speaker 11: no party independence but I think too. Yeah, so Trump
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  Speaker 11: on the ballot energized the base. And then also I
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  Speaker 11: think with the now, it's just it's almost normal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, early vote you know, become a thing. As you said,
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  Speaker 5: twenty years or so. Yeah, that's what Deac and I
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: were talking about it. It's just and I could see
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: eventually it become more normalized, I think over the years.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it has in the convenience of it. I mean,
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: so even if you live in elk View but you
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: work downtown, you can just walk down to voters. You know,
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: you can't do that on election day. You have to
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: go to your precinct. So I think a lot of
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: people take advantage of that convenience. And you know, honestly,
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: Peer mccormicky does a great job, just a great job
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  Speaker 11: with that and the way that's handled. And she's always
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: watching to make sure that there are enough machines for
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: early voting in the various early voting places so that
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: nobody stands in line. We upgraded the equipment this year,
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: so it goes much more smoothly. You didn't see a
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  Speaker 11: lot of people waiting, you know. When I went down,
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: I took I took eighteen people to the poll with
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: me my office and when we got there, we were
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: down on we're actually out on Courier Street, and all
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  Speaker 11: eighteen of us got through in like twenty minutes, which
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  Speaker 11: is pretty good. You know, so very runs a very
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  Speaker 11: efficient office.
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  Speaker 3: the race between Chris Walters and Natalie Tenant, you will
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  Speaker 3: Commissioner after the first of the year, I guess right,
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  Speaker 3: that's when we be sworn in and among the topics
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  Speaker 3: that they and all the other two you and mister
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  Speaker 3: Wheeler will be looking at is the judicial annex.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: So where are we what's the latest on the judicial annex?
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: You know, I was this is something we have to do.
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  Speaker 11: And there were significant security upgrades that we made in
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: the renovation. You know, that legislature added three magistrates and
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: a circuit judge. Of course that circuit judge is gonna
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: be Rich Lindsay look forward to you know, working with him,
• 24:44
  Speaker 11: and so we had to remodel. We were just confined
• 24:47
  Speaker 11: on the amount of space. So what we did was
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: we hired an architect. We gave them a budget of
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: between ten and twelve million dollars. I was hoping it
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: would be closer to ten and unfortunately, the cost of
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: everything is just aha, I mean, particularly construction. This project
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: was very unique because of its location, because of the
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: hours that we were going to have to do the
• 25:09
  Speaker 11: construction at night. That was going to drive the cost up.
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: And you know, when when the bids were unsealed, the
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: lowest bidder was sixteen point two million. So at that
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: point we had a couple options. We could reject it
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  Speaker 11: and start over. That would delay the project probably six
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  Speaker 11: months to a year.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: We could.
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: We had a certain amount of time where we can
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: negotiate with the lowest bidder to try to reduce the price.
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  Speaker 11: But you can't at that point reduce this. You can't
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  Speaker 11: change the scope of the project. Legally, you're not allowed
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  Speaker 11: to say, well, we're just gonna you know, throw a
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: trailer out back. That would change that would change the
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: scal Although it would be cool if you did, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: don't think the magistrates or the due judge would like that.
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  Speaker 11: And and the third option would be to award the
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: project and then you can change things afterwards. So that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: the route that we did. And I want to I
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: want to preface this by saying, you know, our architect
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: the art did a great job. They incorporated the design
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: that we wanted. The price was just higher than anyone,
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: including them anticipated. Now Chief Judge Mayor clear Aker sent
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: us a letter saying, hey, I know part of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: reason why this is high is because you're going to
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: be working at night. She talked to the judges and said,
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: you know what, to save money, work during the day
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: and we'll just kind of deal with it for the
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: next year, which was very kind of her and the
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: other judges, which we appreciate.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Se you're anouncing no, that wasn't a gavel, that was
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: a hammer. That was you just ended a murder trial,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: and you.
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: Know, so we're going to try to you know, not
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: cause much disruption over there, but you know, it's got
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: to happen. But we appreciate her letter and all the
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: judges that are doing that. But we're going to come in.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: We'll probably change that, maybe work a little during the day,
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: probably still the majority of the work at night, but
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: we want to save some money. There are other things
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: that we're going to do. So my goal is to
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: get this thing down within close to the budget.
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: And I tell people this, and I say that seriously.
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  Speaker 11: If you would if you were doing a project at
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: your house, or imagine doing a project at your business
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: and you come in twenty five percent over budget, I mean,
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: you're not just gonna say, Okay, you're gonna you're either
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: gonna start over. You're gonna find a way to reduce
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: the scope of the project. So that's what we're gonna do.
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: I mean, I wouldn't do it with my money. I'm
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: not gonna do it with the people's money, you know.
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: I'm not going to go twenty five percent over budget
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  Speaker 11: on any project at my house or in my business,
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  Speaker 11: So I'm not going to do it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: So what do we stand right now, Commission? What do
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: we send right now?
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  Speaker 11: I think we'll be able to reduce the cost of
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: the project. I think there might be some other money
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: that we can get in to help with the project,
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: and I think we will come close, if not under budget.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Talking to knag Antic commission Ben Silango, Texays, Dave, can
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: you ask Commissioner Silango if he got his trout from
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Pink Creek yet? Also, in all seriousness, how's the clean
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: up situation there going?
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: I think that's going very well. I have not First
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: of all, I don't fly fish. I don't have the
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: patience or the talent to fly fish. But I did
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: it many many years ago. I caught one trout and
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: that's it. I've got one trut. But I wouldn't mind
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: going down there fishing. I think it's coming along. I
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: think we've you know, we had the folks, some of
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: the folks from Paint Creek end the other day in
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: the commission meeting. We've set aside money from that settlement,
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: you know, the trucking collision that the truck accident that
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: caused the spill. All that money has been earmarked and
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: set aside for that community and particularly that watershed. So
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: you know, we've done some things to help in that area.
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: And maybe in the spring I will go down their fish.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Anything with the Capital Sports Complex dubdate, because that was
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: part of the conversation I had with Chris Walters and
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Natalie Tennant on the show yesterday.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Anything that you could update.
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and I think I think both their comments were good.
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: I know both of them are in favor of it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: Chris was a little reserved about, you know, how we're
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: going to pay the bills. You know, we've we've looked
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: at that. It's we're not taking out a forty million
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: dollar loan or forty million dollars bond. We have received
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: some federal assistance of the tune of about nine million dollars. Obviously,
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: with the pool not in the project right now, that
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: reduces the cost of the project, so it's not it's
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: no longer eighty million, it's going to be lower than that.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: And then we've got some other things that we're doing
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: as far as branding different funds.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: It's probably gonna have a name, right, It's going to
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: be the SO and so.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I mean I don't want you to
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: reveal it, but is it a fairly fairly likely that
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: it's going to be called the the Dave Allen Sports
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Center or something like that, I mean Dave On Enterprises
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: or something like that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: I think it's gonna it's gonna be very similar to
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: the Shawnee Sports Complex. We're gonna have a name, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: then it will also be there'll be a corporate brand
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: on it as well. We've had a lot of interest
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: in that. So that's one way to save money. You know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: you've got to look at two things. You've got the
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: construction calls, which are significant, and then you've got operating costs.
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: The operating costs, we believe the facility will pay for itself,
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: if not turn a small profit, not necessarily year one,
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: but year two, year three, year, for I think it will.
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: The operating costs will it will sustain itself. The construction
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: costs is different matter. I mean, you just got to
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: put that money up. Now. How much we eventually bond
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: will depend upon how much additional federal assistance we get,
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: whether or not we get to any state assistance, but
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: it's definitely not gonna be forty million dollars, and Chris
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: is correct, we can't. We could not afford a forty
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: million dollar note, nor would I ever try. But the
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: one thing that kind of complicated matters at least on
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: the county side, and the city's ready to go, they've
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: got their sales tax and everything, they're ready to go
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: is the judicial anects. You know, we were not expecting
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: that sixteen million dollars hit, if you will. That was
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  Speaker 3: a federal election, be a federal holiday? Some say no,
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  Speaker 3: others say yes. One who definitely thinks it should be
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  Speaker 3: a federal holiday is a gentleman by the name of
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Ethan Watson. He's a writer who also studies political science.
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  Speaker 3: There's several other things in his life. He is part
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: of the Young Voices group and he joined us right now. Ethan,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: good morning, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks so much for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: Why should in your opinion, election day be a federal holiday?
• 36:36
  Speaker 13: Sir? I think there's a couple of reasons why making
• 36:39
  Speaker 13: election day is federal holiday would be a good idea.
• 36:42
  Speaker 13: The first one, which is the one you'll hear guys
• 36:44
  Speaker 13: like Bovek and Elon out there pushing, is that no
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: one has any faith in our elections anymore. Everyone on
• 36:50
  Speaker 13: either side thinks it's rigged, the other sides trying to cheat,
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: and so therefore the system needs to change and move
• 36:54
  Speaker 13: towards an in person voting model where we reduce the
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: streams by which votes are coming in, reduce the streams
• 37:01
  Speaker 13: of voting coming in by mail or abs, and see ballots.
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  Speaker 13: And that's a really good case because, regardless of whether
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: it's warranted or not, the perception is there that our
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: elections are not secure. So that tells me the system
• 37:12
  Speaker 13: needs to change. But I think what these guys are
• 37:14
  Speaker 13: missing is there's a deeper reason why it's good for
• 37:16
  Speaker 13: us to all go in person and vote as much
• 37:19
  Speaker 13: as possible, and that is it's good for people to
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: engage in displays of public civic virtue. Right, we need
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: to go out as a community together and actually engage
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: with our democracy as a reminder to us that this
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: is a really exceptional right. The vast majority of human
• 37:34
  Speaker 13: beings that have ever lived have lived under tyranny and
• 37:36
  Speaker 13: coercion and not consent. And so going out and just
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: like how we build monuments and museums and statues, holidays
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: and events are another way that we commemorate the greatness
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: of our civilization, and that's why I think it would
• 37:48
  Speaker 13: be good for us to have in person voting become
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: the norm.
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  Speaker 3: Again, have you found there's a lot of support for
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: this ethan? I mean and talking to different people. I
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: know that you go all over the country. Have you
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: talked to different people about this?
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  Speaker 13: They say, well, you know, most people that I've talked
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  Speaker 13: to seem to agree with this idea. Obviously, there's some caveats, right,
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  Speaker 13: So for example, not everyone gets federal holidays off. Not
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  Speaker 13: everyone can vote in person in their home state. A
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  Speaker 13: lot of college students are out of state, for example,
• 38:16
  Speaker 13: service members overseas, So there obviously has to be exceptions
• 38:18
  Speaker 13: and logistics to work out. But I think the core
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  Speaker 13: idea that it's good for people to get back at
• 38:23
  Speaker 13: and engage with our democracy in person is fairly popular,
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  Speaker 13: at least among people like myself who tend to be
• 38:29
  Speaker 13: a little bit more conservative in our beliefs.
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  Speaker 3: And you also, in talking to you back and forth
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  Speaker 3: we were texting last night, and you're a younger person,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: do you find that there's differences between younger and older
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  Speaker 3: people in this belief that elections should be that federal
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: election should be a national holiday.
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  Speaker 5: Does that skew along age lines in your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely. Unfortunately, my generation is like very adamized something happened
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  Speaker 13: to us during COVID, where now we value convenience above
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  Speaker 13: almost everything else, and so we like to do everything
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  Speaker 13: remote to go to class remotely, work remotely, vote remotely.
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  Speaker 13: And it's really frustrating because you know, my generation is
• 39:06
  Speaker 13: also depressed at exceedingly high rates. Right We're not happy,
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  Speaker 13: we're not doing well, we're not getting married, we're not
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: engaging with our communities like we used to. And I
• 39:13
  Speaker 13: think it's because we have just come to value convenience
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  Speaker 13: over all else and I think we need we need
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: someone to push us to get back out into our community.
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  Speaker 13: And you know, maybe for once, the federal government could
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: set a good precedent and make that happen by by
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: setting election day as a federal holiday.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think the chances of this becoming a thing?
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  Speaker 3: And is there an actually I know that you speak
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: about it, you write about it, ethan, but is there
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: actually an organized effort somewhere to make this happen that
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: federal ections would be a federal holiday.
• 39:41
  Speaker 13: Well as far as an organized effort goes I'm not
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: too sure. I might be the organizer here, the low organizer,
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  Speaker 13: but but you know, I think I think there's probably
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: a pretty low chance that this happens, at least on
• 39:53
  Speaker 13: a federal level, just because I think I think people
• 39:56
  Speaker 13: have come to view anything to do with elections is
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: such a part as an issue. I mean, something that
• 40:00
  Speaker 13: seems as obvious to you and me as you should
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: present a valid idea when you go to vote, is
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: somehow become a controversy, and for reasons that I'm as
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: yet unclear on as to why anyone would want people
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: who can present an idea to vote. So I think
• 40:14
  Speaker 13: it's unlikely. But I really wrote this article just to
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: bring attention to the fact that something does need to
• 40:18
  Speaker 13: change for us to have faith in our elections, and
• 40:20
  Speaker 13: also to remind everyone that, hey, a little bit of
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: civic virtue is a good thing. It's good for us.
• 40:25
  Speaker 13: Just like we go out on fourth of July and
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: celebrate how good our country is, another day to do
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: that is something that I would absolutely be behind.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Is there a place where people can read this article
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: that you're referencing or any of your other stuff.
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: Certainly, Yeah, So I've got a couple of articles out
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: on Real Clear Politics. I've got one on Free the People.
• 40:41
  Speaker 13: But if you want to connect with me on social media,
• 40:44
  Speaker 13: you can find me on ex at E. R. Watson thirteen.
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: That's where I retweet all my articles, and also on
• 40:48
  Speaker 13: the Young Voices program website. All of my hits are
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: published there as well.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: All right, Ethan, It's an interesting concept and it's already
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: listened to a couple of texts, so you'll have to
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: either listen on the app or go back and listen
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: to it when we post the podcast version of this later.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you being here, man, thanks a lot.
• 41:05
  Speaker 13: Thank you so much for the opportunity. You really appreciate it.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: All right, Ethan Watson Again on the question is should
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: elections be a federal holiday? A couple of texts here
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: text says what's the deal with elections a federal holiday?
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Who's getting the day off? Are we going to shut
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: down Walmart, grocery stores and hospitals for the day or
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: it will be a holiday for government workers, bankers, lawyers
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: and know the jobs that recognize as federal holidays. Twelve
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: days of early voting and one day of election day
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: is plenty of opportunities to vote, says a Texter. Text
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• 41:34
  Speaker 3: holiday or not. Unless you work for the government, most
• 41:37
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• 41:42
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• 41:44
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  Speaker 5: election day across West Virginia. Polls open six thirty this morning.
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  Speaker 5: They closed at seven thirty tonight.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have complete coverage locally and via the Metro News
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  Speaker 3: Radio network and ABC News starting tonight at seven oh six.
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  Speaker 3: Danny Jones and I will handle things on a local level.
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  Speaker 3: Hoppy Brad, Jeff, Chris Morgan, Kat Aaron, Dave Wilson, Kyle Wigs,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera handling all the rest. We have
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  Speaker 3: reporters stationed in all fifty five courthouses across West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: You can follow us on air and online WVS and
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  Speaker 3: Metro News Television. And let me just say this about
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  Speaker 3: the election. This is a daviatorial by the way, we
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  Speaker 3: will elect mayors, commissioners, legislators and other offices. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: as we always do, we all know we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have at least one new congressman from West Virginia. We'll
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  Speaker 3: have a new US Senator, a new governor, Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 3: state auditor, attorney general. But at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: night and over the next couple of days, everyone's going
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  Speaker 3: to be watching the presidential race between Harris and Trump.
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  Speaker 5: And depending on.
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  Speaker 3: Which side you fall on, one side says, if the
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  Speaker 3: other side wins, we're doomed as a nation. Let's keep
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  Speaker 3: something in mind here. Our forefathers were a heck lots
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  Speaker 3: smarter than the people running for office of the presidency,
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  Speaker 3: and probably smarter than all of us. They put in
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  Speaker 3: a system of checks and balances, So no matter who
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  Speaker 3: wins the White House, he or she not even going
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  Speaker 3: to accomplish even half of what they said they will
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  Speaker 3: do along the campaign trail. In fact, you're more likely
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  Speaker 3: to see get nothing done because of gridlock in Washington
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  Speaker 3: over the next four years. This old girl that we
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  Speaker 3: call a country has been around for two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: forty eight years. She has survived wars, Civil War, Pearl Harbor,
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  Speaker 3: nine to eleven, floods, natural disasters of all kinds. The
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  Speaker 3: Kardashians we no comments out of you Tube. We we'll
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  Speaker 3: get through this if we all keep our collective heads.
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  Speaker 3: Let's remember we're probably not going to know tonight, maybe
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  Speaker 3: even tomorrow night, who the next president is gonna be it.
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  Speaker 3: And either way, half the country is gonna be upset,
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  Speaker 3: and some were gonna say it was rigged one way
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  Speaker 3: or the other.
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  Speaker 5: And just relax. It's not going to be at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the country as we know it.
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  Speaker 3: If either Harris or Trump is elected, we'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Personal note here, I've made my feelings on Donald Trump known.
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  Speaker 3: I'm no Kamala Harris fan either, But like it or not,
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  Speaker 3: one of these people is going to be called president
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  Speaker 3: come January, and that person, Trump or Harris will be
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  Speaker 3: my president. God bless all God bless the USA. But
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  Speaker 3: dot com. All right, do you mind off the election
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  Speaker 3: for a moment to tell you about an event that's
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  Speaker 3: happening Thursday night at Astrogatta in Charleston. It's called the
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  Speaker 3: Chill Coutur fashion Show and it's a fundraiser for Children's
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  Speaker 3: Theater Charleston. Lisa White a Morgan Deal, Morgan Megan Deal.
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  Speaker 3: I've only known you for twenty years. On the why
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  Speaker 3: I said, Morgan Megan Deal here to talk about ladies.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 14: Good more morning.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: And anything that gets me off politics just for a
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  Speaker 3: moment is a good thing. I guess so much better.
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  Speaker 3: So talk about what's going on over there? What exactly
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  Speaker 3: is this? Lisa Morgan Megan.
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  Speaker 14: My alter ego.
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  Speaker 17: So this is a super exciting event Thursday night at Astrogatto.
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  Speaker 17: This was actually Lisa's baby, So I'm not even going
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  Speaker 17: to try to even pretend like I came up with
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  Speaker 17: this with this idea.
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  Speaker 14: Lisa came to the Children's Theater board with this idea.
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  Speaker 17: We wanted to do something that was completely off the
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  Speaker 17: regular fundraiser that we've seen throughout Charleston and a fashion show.
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  Speaker 14: We all jumped to the chance.
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  Speaker 17: We have so many great local boutiques and so Thursday
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  Speaker 17: night at Astrogatto, we are going to have the Chill
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  Speaker 17: Couture Fashion Show benefit the Children's Theater of Charleston, So
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  Speaker 17: very exciting.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Lisa, what do you want to add to that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the show's Thursday. The doors will open at six
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  Speaker 4: o'clock at storg Auto. The retailers, the local retailers that
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  Speaker 4: are participating, are going to be showing holiday fashion. So
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  Speaker 4: if you are looking to get ready for your holiday parties,
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  Speaker 4: you'll want to come and see what the latest trends are.
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  Speaker 5: So this is an actual fashion show, how I mean,
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  Speaker 5: what's the what's the format, what's it going to look like? People?
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  Speaker 17: This is a fashion show, but with an elevated twist.
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  Speaker 17: So this was another great idea that came from the
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  Speaker 17: planning committee is that we're actually going to have a
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  Speaker 17: live auction after the fashion show with different great prize packages.
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  Speaker 17: We have Charleston has shown up this year and well
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  Speaker 17: Charleston and beyond for this. For this event, we have
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  Speaker 17: so many end condonations, whether it's a stay at the
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  Speaker 17: Charleston Marriott, whether it's tickets to a great show at
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  Speaker 17: the Clay Center, an amazing SPA package that Lisa was
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  Speaker 17: able to track down, a pet package, I mean, pretty
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  Speaker 17: much something for everything. So after the fashion is done,
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  Speaker 17: then we're going to get into an old fashioned bidding
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  Speaker 17: and Lisa, do you want to tell.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we also have several nice vacation homes on the
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  Speaker 4: on the list, we have a home at the Greenbrier
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  Speaker 4: Sporting Club along.
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  Speaker 5: With a v an actual home. Yes or night.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's like three nights three nights there. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can go ahead and buy home. We would that
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  Speaker 4: would be like a major, major bush for the Bush
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  Speaker 4: for the CTOC. But we have a vacation home also
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  Speaker 4: at Deep Creek Lake. And what we have decided to
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  Speaker 4: do to auction off these packages, it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a live auction with Jimmy Strawn who will be our
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  Speaker 4: MC for the night, and we are going to do
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  Speaker 4: theater skits for each package.
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  Speaker 14: So it's going to be very entertaining.
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  Speaker 5: Talk about Children's Theater of Charleston, talk about this this group.
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  Speaker 17: So, the Children's Theater of Charleston is an amazing, amazing
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  Speaker 17: organization based here. The name is not exactly accurate because
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  Speaker 17: children from all over West Virginia participate in the children
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  Speaker 17: absolutely based in Charleston, the largest children's theater in the
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  Speaker 17: state of West Virginia, and it is something that is
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  Speaker 17: one percent and I want to I want to definitely
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  Speaker 17: hone in on this free for children.
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  Speaker 14: There is no cost to the parents, there's no cost
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  Speaker 14: to the children.
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  Speaker 17: They can come, they can participate in professionally produced theater shows.
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  Speaker 17: So right now, our show coming up the third week
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  Speaker 17: ind of December is Frozen Junior. Mine and Lisa's daughters
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  Speaker 17: are both featured in the show. But we are passionate
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  Speaker 17: about this because we have two daughters that are into theater.
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  Speaker 14: And it's undoubtedly a lot of times.
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  Speaker 17: The arts takes the backseat to organize sports, and it's
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  Speaker 17: it's nationwide. It's no fault to anyone around here. So
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  Speaker 17: the children's theater is just one of those things that
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  Speaker 17: truly untaps into that creative mindset that some of these
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  Speaker 17: kids struggle to really express. So this fundraiser will help
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  Speaker 17: make that more.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got information posted on my social media on
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  Speaker 3: Dave Onland Radio. You can check that out on Facebook,
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  Speaker 3: time and place. Again, as we wrap up the show, ladies.
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  Speaker 4: Ask Torgado out at South Ridge. The doors open at
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  Speaker 4: six o'clock and get your tickets. And we also have
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  Speaker 4: a Facebook page Children for your so you can get
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  Speaker 4: the link there.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Megan, Lisa, I appreciate you being here and
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  Speaker 5: giving me a break from politics at least for like
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  Speaker 5: four or five minutes. Thanks a lot, Thank you so
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  Speaker 5: much for all right, speaking of politics, our coverage will
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  Speaker 5: begin tonight live after ABC News at seven o'clock, Myself
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  Speaker 5: and Danny Jones handling all the local stuff, Hoppy and
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  Speaker 5: the entire crew in Morgantown, Chris Lawrence, everybody involved in this,
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  Speaker 5: plus ABC News as well, back tomorrow to review it all.
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  Speaker 5: Anthony Harmon the A Train, our producer. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Till tomorrow, Have fun and love somebody you see.
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