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White, he's a candidate for the West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals. He'll
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be joining us a little bit later on, as will West Virginia gubernatorial candidate
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Chris Miller and Lara Van Meter, who is a candidate for Family Court judge
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at Canawa County. And as always your calls and texture, welcome to Christian
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Wells is a current member of the Putnam County Board of Education. He'd like
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to be re elected in that position. He joins us now via the Bigley
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Piggy Wiggly Hotline. Christian, good morning, Welcome to the show. Hey
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Dave, thanks for having me, Thank you for being here. Now.
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You're a current member of the board, as I said, and you hope
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to be re elected to that position. But before we get there, let's
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talk about let's talk about you. Give us the bio on Christian Wells.
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Okay, I was born and raised in Putnam County. I've listed here pretty
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much on my life. I'm a general contractor. My wife is a teacher.
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I have two kids. They both go to Winfield. My wife and
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I both graduated from Winfield. My daughter is a sophomore Winfield High School and
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my son's a sixth grader at Winfield Middle School. We are heavily involved in
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church, in sports, and don't know what to do most evenings because we're
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so busy. So a lot of parents would echo that. Talk about your
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time on the board, talk about what the experience has been like. Well,
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it's been a good experience, I think, I mean, I hope
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it's been a great experience for the teachers and students of Putnam County. During
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my time on the board, I've been part of the voting to make Putnam
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County teachers the highest paded teachers in the state. We've also voted to extend
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healthcare into retirement for our teachers. I recently received the Teachers Union, the
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AFT Putnam Teachers Union endorsement, And if everybody remember, back during COVID,
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we were the first county to get our kids back to school. So I
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felt like I feel like my time on the board has been fruitful. Really
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love to get the opportunity to get back on there again four years. You
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know, Christian Putnham County is known for some of the best schools in the
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state period, and I mean seriously. As you know, people actually moved
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to Putnham County in many cases just so their kids can go to the schools
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in Puttnham County. We're seeing it already with New Core. You're on the
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ground there. What makes Puttinham County schools so good and so appealing to parents?
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Well, I believe we've done a good job over the years of getting
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the best teachers. You know, greatness are iron sharpens iron. You get
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great teachers in here, everything gets better. Everything gets better. And as
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you know, all ships rise with the rising tide. But as we continue
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to get better teachers in here, more and more good teachers want to get
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in here. And people see that, they recognize that as a great education
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here in Putnam County, so they want to send their kids here. You
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know, one of my son's best friends is a New Core kid moved in
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here from Indiana. Now his dad drives all the way from from Rocky Step
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here in Putnam County, all the way out to Mason County for job.
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They could have gone to Mason County schools, but they chose Bututton County for
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a reason. That's because we have the best school system. Baby, I'm
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I mentioned this ye yesterday with someone who's running for election for the board in
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Kanawa County. It's not easy being a board member now, I mean,
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you had COVID to deal with. You mentioned that earlier then charter schools,
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more parents choosing either charter, homeschooling, or anything other in some cases than
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traditional public schools, high school transfer role. It's a lot to navigate as
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a school board member. Now, yeah, it really is. I mean
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I've joked about that that my time on the board has been the most tumultuous
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time ever. I mean last time in campaigning this year has been much different
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than it us four years ago because I was campaigning right in the middle of
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COVID, so you really couldn't give speeches. You couldn't visit people, You
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couldn't go to or to door, none of the things that are traditionally done
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during a campaign. We're able to be done four years ago. I've been
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able to do that this year. But yeah, well we have we have
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tons of challenges. Uh, not only that we've already faced, and I
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think we've done a pretty good job of facing them. But we've got a
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lot coming. You know, the craziness and the uh, the ideology of
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the left that keeps slapping us in the face. It's gonna it's gonna hit
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us here in Putnam County. It's going to hit our entire state. I
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think it already has, as you've seen in some places. So we have
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to keep good conservative folks on the board and uh and keep fighting the good
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fight. What do you hear from parents or grandparents when you're out on the
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campaign trail, Christian, what are they telling you? Well, you know,
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it's weird, it's mixed. You're always going to get some some complaints
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and some some issues, but mostly it's been positive. It's been keep up
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the good work. It's it's it's been pass on the back, and I
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greatly appreciate that. I mean It is a it's a tough and relatively thankless
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job. But you know, I've I've I'm invested in this county. I've
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got two kids, I've got a stake in this game, and I've got
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two kids that I got to watch out for along with everybody else's kids.
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You know, we we've got to provide the best possible outcome for our students
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and our teachers. So but but most of the feedback has been positive.
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I'm really appreciative of that. You mentioned that your wife is a teacher.
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What kind of insight does that give you in being married to an educator?
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Because I mean, I know, when you come home with the end of
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the day, maybe the last thing you want to speak about is education.
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But but what kind of insight do you get from your wife. Well,
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she's a preschool teacher Winfield Baptist, and she could teach in elementary schools,
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but she's she's chosen to stay. She started there and she's chosen to stay
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there. It's tough, man, I tell you, I just I have
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an appreciation for what teachers do after talking to her every day about the challenges
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she faces, and it's everything from parents to students to you have it,
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but whatever that is. But she genuinely loves it. She loves the kids.
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She would miss anything that, you know, if she ever left the
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teaching profession, she'd miss terribly what she gets from those students. There's so
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much reward in it. So the inside I get is how rewarding it can
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be, but how tough it really is. And to support our teachers right
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and teaching, whether it's on the public school level or a private school or
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whatever. I mean, teachers are asked to do so much more Christian than
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what they were when I was in school. I mean, they're now in
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addition to you know a's and b's and x's and o's whatever, they're also
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social workers, they're also dietitians. There are also so many other things because
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of society now, the way society is absolutely and then also back in our
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day when we were in school, there was no social media. So now
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I see parents going online all the time and complaining and criticizing these teachers,
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and that's awful to see in my opinion. You know, whether it's deserved
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or not, these teachers deserve our support and they're not ever going to make
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every right decision every time but we have to support them. We have to
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do whatever we can to try to help these folks because it is such a
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thankless job at times. We're talking with Christian Wells again Canada for reelection to
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the Putnham County Board of Education. Do you have a website or social media
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or anything like that you'd like to plug? I don't currently, No,
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I've never set that up. I'm on Facebook, though. I put everything
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out there on Facebook that I can and hopefully everybody will like and share it.
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All right, this is the final thirty, as I call it,
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Christian. Why should someone vote to re elect Christian Wells to the Putnam County
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Board of Education. Well, if you are a true conservative, you want
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to keep conservative values on the school board, I'm the only choice in my
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district. I would also recommend you cat Field. But if you want true
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conservative voices, those are your guys. All right, appreciate your vote well,
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Christian. I appreciate you taking time at your schedule to be here.
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Miller cover it up a little bit later on in the show, as is
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Lara Vanmeter, who is a family court judge here in Kanah County running for
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reelection Texas. Dave as a Putnam County guide, did you notice that our
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party, the Republicans, jerry mannered its own people on the north side of
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the county thanks to their redistricting. After this election, all the BOE and
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county commissioners will be from Hurricane or Winfield, except for the one ex sheriff.
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Rhino commissioner, says a Texa. I have not study that. I
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will look in to it. The West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals the newest
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layer of the court system in the state and it's the newest position on the
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ballot. Ryan White wants to join the Courty joints us Now, Ryan,
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good morning, Welcome to the show. Morning Dave, thank you. First
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explaining the Intermediate Court of Appeals. How does it work, who uses it,
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etc. Well, the Intermediate Court is a new court that was created
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about three years ago by the West Virginia Legislature and it's been in operation for
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about two years. It takes civil appeals, it takes family law, all
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workers comp and administrative appeals. So the last three I mentioned are come directly
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from those specific courts. It doesn't go to the circuit court anymore more so
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it has it's added appeal for people that didn't want to take it to the
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Supreme Court and basically lessen the load on the circuit court so that they can
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run more efficiently. It was and I don't I hate to use the term
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controversial because that means that it that almost rings to the fact that you know,
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some people didn't wanter whatever. But I will say that there was a
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lot of discussion that went into it when this was created, correct. I
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think this is certain people didn't think it was a wise use of tax payer
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money to do. But the fact of the matter is we're the we were
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the largest state. They didn't have an intermediate court of appeals. So in
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my opinion, it's it's not a bad thing to have. Why do you
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want to be a part of it? Well, I want to be a
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part of the intermyt Court of Appeals because West Virginia needs a fair, un
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biased, balanced judge that will follow the rule of law and protect people's constitutional
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rights. And I believe I'm the candidate that can do that. I have
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the experience through my Well let me start, I was yeah, that's gonna
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be The next question is your bio. So yeah, so I was.
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I went to law school at w College of Law in two thousand and five.
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I'm a native West Virginian and i was a clerk for Judge Goodwin back
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in two thousand and five to two thousand and six down here, and then
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I was a lawyer for Jackson Kelly for six years. In that time,
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I worked for the legislature, the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Economic Development
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Committee for three sessions. And then I started a law firm with my dad
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back in twenty twelve. Since I've been working at that law firm, White
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Law Office has since then. In twenty fourteen, I ran for a school
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board and was elected school board and I ran for reelection two times since then,
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and I had to resign in order to run for this. I was
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president of the school board. I was elected president of the school board by
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my peers. I was also on the school Board Association West Virginia and was
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elected the president of that as well. I've served on many nonprofit boards throughout
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West Virginia and the state, and my law practice is primarily building West Virginia
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up and making sure West Virginia has the best success it can with infrastructure building
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bringing jobs to West Virginia, and I've practiced all throughout the state doing that.
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What were some of the things maybe that I always like to ask this
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of any political candidate that's held one office and is aspiring to get to another
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one. Were there things that you learned in your time serving on the school
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board that you think will serve you well an intermediate Court of Appeals? Oh?
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Definitely. I mean in the school board, especially the last ten years,
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there's been some difficult decisions that need to be made and I I was
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part of that, and I had to make some tough decisions. I mean,
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I didn't make everybody happy, but you're not going to make everybody happy.
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So I think I showed that I was very uh even keeled, and
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listened to people and UH and could take uh and and was not someone even
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tempered and did not uh did not try to impose my will on anybody.
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So that's something I learned. Also, UH, the court is UH is
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a governmental entity. People forget about that. They think that you only make
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decisions, but it's also a governmental entity that has a budget. And there's
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also administrative stuff. So my uh, my experience on the school board will
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also help with running the actual court and making sure that we we are within
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budget and that the employees are are are are going well. It's a well
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Dot net because what you don't know can't hurt you. What is the average
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day like for somebody that's on the Intermediate Court of Appeals. Well, from
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my discussion with the judges, the average day is you're you're reading a lot
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of briefs from the attorneys and you're you're making sure that you're working with your
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staff to ensure that you you make decisions. Now, they do have oral
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arguments, but those are once or twice a month. Only about ten percent
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of those cases go for O and so for oral argument, you're actually have
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the two attorneys argue. It's about it's about five minutes each and you listen
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to them and then you're you're also compiled with the other judges as well,
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talking with them and making sure that they have you guys are focusing on the
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right issues when you're talking about the cases. How's the campaign been so far?
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I mean, anytime that you're going for anything of a judicial type,
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you know, whether it's what you're doing or whatever, it's a little bit
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different, you know than run for house or running for sheriff or mayor or
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whatever house. The campaign been. Campaign has been great. I've been all
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throughout West Virginia and people I talk to because this is this encompasses the entire
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state. You know, this is not divided like into districts or anything like
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that. You're you know, you're serving make Wand as well as Martinsburg.
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Correct. Yeah, Yeah, it's it's a statewide election. It's the first
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election for the Interviewing Court, and a lot of a lot of me going
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around talking to people is explaining exactly what the enemy of quarter like you're doing
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today because most people don't even know what it is. So yeah, I'm
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going throughout the state. I've been to Martinsburg, UH, Morgantown, Clarksburg,
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Wheeling, we areting uh just talking to people and making sure they know
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backway and making sure they know what it is and how it is important to
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everyone's life right now, and just provide awareness of my candidacy. And people
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have been very supportive and like, what I like to say if you are
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elected to the disposition? What what do you hope to do in the position?
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What would you like to see the hobage? I mean, it's relatively
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new. It's not like you're dealing with the Supreme Court, where you know
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you have decades and decades of history. So what would you like to do
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with a complet if you if you win? Well, if I'm elected,
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I'm the first thing I'm going to do. I won't take office until January
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one, So the first thing I'm going to do is, well, I'm
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going to continue to work out my law practice and continue to wrap up my
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law practice. I'm going to go and start talking to people and to certain
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entities throughout the state and make sure that I'm aware of what they need on
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the court, for example, workers' comp and and unemployment, and I can
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go and talk to the people that do that type of stuff and make sure
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that I get a better understanding of what they what they need with the court,
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and same with family law. I'll be doing that in the meantime.
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But what I want to accomplish is I want to make sure that the court
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West Virginians will go to the polls, so they haven't already done so in
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the former of early voting, butters will go to the polls, have a
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choice to make for a publican nomination for Governor Chris Miller hopes your choice would
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be for him. He joined us now via the big Ley Pigley Whiggly hotline.
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Chris, good morning. Where are you this morning? Morning? Dave.
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I'm in Huntington now, but on my way to Bridgeport, Clarksburg and
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Morgantown for the rest of the afternoon. So moving a million miles an hour
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and having a blast. One week from today is when we'll know who will
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move on. How are you feeling about it? You know what, I've
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spent fifteen sixteen months traveling around the state get to know people, and it's
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been an absolute spectacular experience. One of the things that I've learned is is
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that people that are dying for a conservative Christian business guy to run things.
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And that's exactactly what I am. I mean, I'm a business owner,
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I'm a boxer, I'm a bison farmer and build twenty six businesses, have
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seven hundred employees. And Dave, if I ran my businesses the way the
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government spends our tax dollars, I'd be broke. And the most appealing thing
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to voters when I talk to him is that I go about this with a
31:15
plan, and it's really really simple. On day one, we're going to
31:18
audit every single dime. On day two, we're going to make sure and
31:22
implement drug testing for welfare benefits because your tax dollars should never go to make
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drug dealers rich. And it also allows us to identify problems people to need
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help, get them the help that they need, and also direct resources to
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the kids, because that really is what this is all about. And day
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three, we're going to get all the lawmakers in the room without special interest
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and without lobbyists, and we're going to get rid of the income tax.
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And then that's when West Virginia is going to take off. Because we're surrounded
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by five states Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and that
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doesn't include DC which is nearest too, and all of them are high tax
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and all of them have an income tax. We get rid of the income
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tax, we are going to take off because that gives us a competitive advantage.
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You talked about that, and again we're talking with Chris Miller, Republican
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candidate for governor. You've talked about the elimination of the income tax, and
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you say that on day three that you're going to get everybody together to work
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on that. I mean, can can that be done on? I mean,
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does I mean, is it that simple? If it's that simple,
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why hasn't it already been done? You know. So that's the reason why
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I say, day one, we're going to audit every dime because there's a
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lot of waste inside of government. You know, We're going to make sure
32:35
and find all the three hundred dollars hammers and every piece of equipment that's disappeared
32:37
out of the back door to the Department of Highways, and then we're going
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to make sure that we have a system that manages the people's tax dollars in
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a much more efficient way, debuting me, your taxpayers. Everybody out there
32:49
listening is taxpayers, and the government wastes our money, and that's one of
32:52
the definite things we got to stop. So you find all the waste and
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you get rid of the income tax. Wham, you can just take off.
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fresh air. Let's talk about the drug testing of welfare recipients. That's something
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that I don't think if you did a poll, I think the majority of
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people would say, Okay, I'm fine with that. But across the country,
33:36
the courts have had a tendency to say a little bit different about that.
33:38
How will you tackle that? Because it will it will go to court.
33:42
Well, you gotta have good attorneys and where you can control stuff,
33:44
in particular to the state level. And this is just one of the many
33:46
examples of all the waste of our tax dollars that people are tired of.
33:51
We don't want our tax dollars going like you and me are susceptible to drug
33:54
tests at anytime, All of our employees are susceptible to that. Anybody in
33:58
the Union has to pass drug to work. Why in the world will we
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let people that aren't working, that we're paying to stay at home have to
34:05
go through something totally different we had a whole them accountable, just like everybody
34:07
else. And it doesn't ever ever benefit people to use drugs. And I
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don't want my tax dollars days. I don't want my tax dollars to go
34:15
to make drug dealers rich. And I also don't want my tax dollars to
34:19
be soaked up by people that are using drugs as opposed to taking care of
34:22
their own kids. It is a principal thing and it's worth fighting for,
34:25
it seems Chris, the no one this election cycle likes the polls unless it
34:30
shows them in the lead. Where are you on the polls so far?
34:36
Well? So, elections are always about the people, and I think the
34:38
political class forgets that. And I'm a very, very very hard worker and
34:44
all I've done for the past sixteen months is work and work and work and
34:46
talk to as many people as many voters as I can, And that is
34:50
what elections are always about. At the end of the day, It's about
34:52
the voters, and the voters are going to speak, and we know that
34:55
voters are looking for a conservative, Christian business guy to run things. They
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the fact that we're going about it with a plan. You already heard our
35:02
three day plan, and they also like they're dying for something different, because
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Mandave, we are dead lasting everything from economy to education. The only thing
35:12
we're first placing in is the number of grandparents raising grandkids and also cancer rates.
35:16
We've got this good old boy system that's been running our state for far
35:21
too long, and people are dying to have a seat at the table.
35:23
And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make the outsiders the insiders,
35:28
and the insiders the outsiders, and make sure everybody's got a seat at the
35:30
table. And then we're gonna start running government like a business. We're going
35:35
to create an economy that thrives. Going to do everything I can to get
35:37
wokeism completely and utterly kicked out of our school systems because I've got an eleven
35:43
year old daughter and I don't want her share in a locker room with a
35:45
biological mail. And you start doing this stuff, you start speaking from the
35:50
heart and telling the truth. People are dying for that man, they really
35:53
are. And so I like where we're sitting. I like our chances,
35:57
and I have faith in the voters. It's been so chris of a nasty
36:00
campaign between the leading for yourself, Mac Warner, Patrick Morrison, more capital.
36:05
Apparently apparently no one's heard of Ronald Reagan's command, but that dal shall
36:08
not speak ill of other Republicans. Are you surprised about the level of nasty
36:12
that's been in this Republican primary? Oh yeah, absolutely. And there's about
36:16
fifteen million dollars an out of state attack money that's been placed on me from
36:22
a Club for Growth, all supporting Patrick Morrisey. And this is the perfect
36:25
example of what people are sick and tired of. We're tired of being being
36:30
like sold and we've been sold down the river in the opiate settlements, We've
36:34
been sold down the river when it comes to negotiating with outside businesses, and
36:37
now we're being sold down the river to outside special interest and this is the
36:43
big deal. We need to take these outsiders like business owners, farmers,
36:49
educators, laborers, everybody, and we need to take all the insiders,
36:55
the special interest, to the lobbying and that kind of stuff and make them
36:59
the outside and make sure that everybody's got a seat at the table. And
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that's how that's how you run good government. Right there, Chris Bore,
37:07
we let you go when you were recording the famous TV commercials, and let's
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face it, your TV commercials are a big part of why your dealerships have
37:14
been such a big success over the last few years. Did you ever think,
37:17
of the back of your mind, Okay, maybe at some point these
37:21
may come back to haunt me, or was it just, hey, this
37:24
is just some guys having fun trying to sell some cars. Did you ever
37:28
think it would be used against you? Well, it's one of the best
37:30
things about people in West Virginia is everybody's got a sense of Hubert. We
37:34
have some of the best people. I begin to wonder about that sometimes,
37:36
Yeah, go ahead, Well, we got a great sense of humor,
37:38
man, and people the voters in West Virginia know that. The people that
37:42
have seen those commercials for so long, they laugh, they get it,
37:45
they understand, and it's what we do. We strive to entertain, and
37:47
so I'm not worried about that in the slightest. Now, yeah, they
37:52
do try to twist it into something that it isn't, but hey, voters
37:54
are smart. They figure this stuff out, and we always have a good
37:58
time. I strive to entertain with the automotive commercials and what I'm doing with
38:01
the political stuff is. I want to make sure and send good messages that
38:04
come from my heart to the people in West Virginia so they know exactly where
38:07
I stand. Because people are dying for the truth and they're dying to know
38:10
what really is real. And at the end of the day, West Virginia
38:15
has an incredible opportunity in front of it. We just need to run government
38:17
more like a business. Start auditing every dime, treat tax payers like customers,
38:22
get rid of the income tax. And here's the icing on the cake.
38:27
Dave, being a business guy, I think assets, liabilities equity.
38:30
When you outline West Virginia's assets, all down, all the coal, all
38:35
the natural gas, the potential for rar earth elements were uncovered in the south.
38:38
We've got more potential to produce power through geothermal heat than Saudi Arabia can
38:44
generate, and BTUs and natural gas, and we have an incredible amount of
38:46
water. You get rid of the income tax, You leverage all these resources
38:52
to drive down the cost of power by seventy percent. You use that for
38:55
the foundation of all of our economic growth and development. We're going to take
38:59
all But then you think about Jim and Susie Adkins they're on Social Security and
39:04
they're seventy years old. You cut their power bill by seventy percent. You've
39:07
done something incredibly impactful for them too. And that, in my mind,
39:12
is what good government is. There's no reason why we're not the richis state
39:15
in the country. The only reason is is because we let politicians and attorneys
39:19
and bureaucrats run things as opposed to business guys. Look at what Trump was
39:22
able to do in DC create one of the greatest economies on the history of
39:27
planet Earth and we had no wars. Business guy and knows what he's doing.
39:30
You let me get in charge of running the government. I'll work at
39:34
a relentless rate. I'll run state government like a business and I'll do something
39:37
for our people because I'm sick and tired of sitting back and watching politicians fail
39:43
us over and over again. Every problem that we face is because of politicians.
39:47
Everything. Everything can be solved if you just start creating an economy that
39:52
thrives, get rid of the income tax, drive down the cost of power
39:57
by seventy percent, audit every single time that we spend. Run government like
40:00
a business, creating a comedy that thrives, and it solves the biggest problem
40:05
we face because right now our biggest export is not our color or natural gas.
40:09
Our biggest export is our kids. And that's the problem we have to
40:14
solve at the end of the day, all right, Chris will wish you
40:15
the best of like we'll talk again soon. Man, thanks a lot,
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his plan, says the texture TEXTA says, as a registered democrat, I
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have to say I love Chris Miller's agenda plan, says a texture textas saysters
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Chris not realizes ads are part of the nasty you both are talking about.
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Tax said, why did Chris Miller not support Donald Trump in twenty sixteen?
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Texas? Is so nice for you to run cover for your best buddy.
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He's such a snowflake and he's protected from hard questions. As a test,
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my best buddy, uh takes says, everyone running for office talks about cutting
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utility bills? How is that going to be possible with the PSC constantly approving
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rate increases? As a texture TEXTA says that was the best Chris Miller interview
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I've ever heard. I'm voting Chris Miller for governor. I like when Chris
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said he wants to make the insiders the outsiders, and the outsiders the insiders,
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says a text. Let me say this before we good a break.
41:38
I did not attend last night Charleston City Council meeting, but I did watch
41:42
it online. Pretty much routine stuff until the end when it came down to
41:45
the parts where the mayor opened the Florida Council members to pretty much say whatever's
41:50
on their mind. Three spoke on the ty Hunt situation. By the way,
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Jared Lewis had ended up story posted on last night's council meeting WV Metro
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News dot com at WCCHS network dot com. Ty Hunt did return to paid
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medical leave effective yesterday. Countsilwoman Shannon Snodgrass, longtime critic of the Good One
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administration. By the way, thanks to Shannon for the shout out about the
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show on count the floor last night. Councilwoman Beth Currents Countslwoman Jeannine Fagri also
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speaking with ak seeing the whole thing is like beating the dead horse Currents of
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Snodgrass, particularly Snodgrass again with harsh words for the mayor and the administration's handling
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of the Hunt situation. Again, you can read more about it wv Metronews
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this election, the Primier election is big on the judicial front as well.
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Lera Vanmeter is a family court judge Kna County hoping to be re elected.
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She joined us now in the par of mar Storre Studio. Good morning,
45:30
welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave Allen, thanks for having me.
45:34
Thank you. Do you prefer judge or your honor or? Lira or
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Lira is fine? Judge Lira? How about Judge Lera? How about that?
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Give us your bio, give us the background you key denkey So,
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I was born and raised in Mingo County and a Mingo County girl from Williamson
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Pierre. Wait a minute, hold it you pronounced it Williamson and not Wimson
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Wimson. Okay, all right, I'm a looking gay. So make sure
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you says all right? Got it? Go ahead, go ahead, go
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ahead, of course, born down there, of course, been in Kenall
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County now for quite a number of years, and I've practiced law here.
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Of course, I went to Virginia Tech undergrad. Please don't hold that against
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me. W Nation. Everybody's got to go somewhere exactly, went to WV
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law school, practiced in Virginia for a little bit, came back to Charleston,
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been practicing here ever since I married. My husband is Mark Kelly,
46:19
who's a lawyer here in Charleston. Ray Wynn and Kelly, and we have
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four legged children rescue. We're real big into rescue animals. We have to
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rescue labs and some cats and that's pretty I'm on the Humane Society's Board of
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directors right now and involved in community and rescue when I can. And that's
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a big, big passion of mine. So that's kind of the background,
46:42
and I can do more. Let's talk about your time on the court,
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Okay, all right, So you know I've been on the court. You
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know, we were elected in twenty sixteen. I took the bench the beginning
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of twenty seventeen. I took Jude Schneider's place. He had retired and unfortunately
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passed away before he got to enjoy any of his retirement. So I have
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been on the bed ever since, Family court's tough, tough, you know,
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for a lot of people who don't know what we do in family court.
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It's all the divorces, it is all the child custody and all the
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domestic violence petitions. They start in magic Core, but they end up in
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ours. So it's tough day, but it's been It's a good experience.
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I have a lot of experience being on the bench and dealing with these type
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of cases, but overall it's a tough job. And I think about this
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yesterday. Family Court judge is one of those positions that you don't need or
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maybe even don't even think about. Correct until you do. Correct, until
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it involves you or your family member or a close friend or something like that.
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Correct, and everybody's touched by it. What's interesting is is the a
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lot of the focus is on is on the big races, like the circuit
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court, particularly because that's where a lot of the money cases are and people
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that's in the public. A lot people don't think about family court, but
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Dave Allen, it matters. It matters who's on that bench because we deal
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with your children and your property, and sometimes it's not always in that order
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of importance to people, but that's what we deal with. So those are
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important issues. And I think the experience matters on the bench and having the
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knowledge and the experience to be able to listen to the cases, hear what
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people have to say, and make decisions within the law. And I would
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think in family court there's one, two, three, four, five sides
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to every possible story. Absolutely, And what people also don't realize is we
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don't make the law. You know, the legislature makes the law, and
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a lot of people don't like our decisions. And I get that nobody's happy
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walking out of family court, Dave Allen, I mean, no, it
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really isn't. So I think that they always say if everybody's mad, you're
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doing your job. Well, it's not your goal to meet people mad,
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but you know it is. It's tough decisions you have to make. But
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the legislature makes the law on what we have to do. So if you
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don't like what the law is, you got to go somewhere else and get
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that change up with the legislature, not us. So we do the best
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job we can. But again but you also have to remember our places arehesaus
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are closed, so you can't walk in my courtroom. You can't anything about
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my cases. I can't even defend myself to you about a case about something
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that maybe somebody's mad at me and they're talking about me in public. I
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can't even defend myself and say that's not what happened. And you have to
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remember I can only make my decisions based on what you tell me and what
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you bring in my court. And if you don't tell me and you don't
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give me all the facts, then I don't know, and I can only
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make my decision on what I hear in court. What is the biggest misconception
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in the public about family court? Oh gosh, the biggest misconception, Oh,
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you know what we hear a lot is well, Jane Doe, you
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did this in Jane Doe's case. How come you didn't do it in my
49:37
case? What? Dave Allen? Every facts are different, So you think
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everybody thinks that they should get the kind of the same outcome, if you
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will, But the facts in every single case are different, and what they
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don't tell you is all the backstory. So I think there's all that big
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misconception of, well, everybody's going to you should get the same thing as
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John as your neighbor got. Well, your neighbor's facts are different than your
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facts and what evidence they bring the judge, so it's not the same.
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Do I think that's a big misconception as well in your time on the court,
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and maybe this predates you a little bit, but we can I know,
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I'm sure you study the history of the courts. What's the caseload,
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like I mean, compared to what it used to be, I would imagine
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with all the problems we have in society, that it's doubled or tripled.
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I could be wrong about that, Oh, Dave Allen, you couldn't be
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more wrong, And I do know, so I'll give you for instance,
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and I believe this has to be due to the decline in population half so
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like for have been more so like I would say, like say, I'm
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looking at a twenty fourteen fourteen d two thousand and something. We're barely hitting
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a thousand new cases a year. That totally surprises me. And that's why
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I learned things on this show every day, because I thought it would have
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been more with the event of drugs and all these others. So it's it's
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not no, not as far as new cases Now that doesn't mean people aren't
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coming back in their old cases, okay, and so we have mods and
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contempts. That's huge case load as well. But again, as far as
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the number goes of new cases, it's it's half. And that means modification
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modifications, like maybe you need to modify your child custody because remember anything with
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kids can be modified until the child is eighteen and out of the out gone.
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So you might want to modify your parenting plan. You might need to
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modify child support, or maybe somebody's not doing what they're supposed to be doing
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and you have to have a contempt. So we still have those ongoing all
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the time. You mean, he, do you have an email or social
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media? People can Facebook, it's reelect Judge van Meter. Judge Lira van
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Meter is on the Facebook and I think there's a website attached to it as
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well. All right, final thirty. Why should someone vote for Lira van
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Meter for reelection to Family Court because Lira of van Meter has the experience.
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I've been on the bench over seven years and Dave, I haven't always gotten
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it right. I've grown as a judge over the last seven years. I've
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changed and I think that comes with experience and knowledge, and I will continue
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to always do the best job I can. I will always try my hardest
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to get it right and do the best I can. But I am human.
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But when I lay my head down at night, I'll promise you I
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will have done the best job I can. All Right, I appreciate you
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being here. Hang out with me just one second a week close the show.
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Thanks a lot, Thanks Dave Allen Shir appreciate Ruch. We Gotta go.
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