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02/14/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - President Ericke Cage, Judge Maryclaire Akers, Senator Joe Manchin, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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Yesterday was World Radio Day, So a big shout out to my brothers
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and sisters of the microphone. Coming up later on in the show, Senator
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Joe Manchin is going to be here tonight that the Conlin SEEMC convention. Senator
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is going to be a public meeting helped to discuss the proposed closure of the
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postal facility out in the South Ridge area. Senator Mansion and Senator Capitot,
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for that matter, have been watching that situation closely, and yesterday Senator Mansion
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reached out to me by coming on the show to talk about that. So
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we are going to get into that a little bit later on. Delegate and
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say Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin is going to be stopping by. Plus it
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is Valentine's Day, as I said, and Judge Mary Clair Akers is performing
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marathon weddings at the Knawk County Courthouse today. Now hopefully we're gonna check in
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with Judge Jacres about that. And I say hopefully because got a text from
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her. She has a sick young in as we say in southern West Virginia.
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So hopefully now the weddings are still going to go on, but they
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may be delayed a little bit, so hopefully talk to her about thirty minutes
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so ago. Hopefully she'll be able to call in an updateus there. Plus
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your calls and text are welcome. We are loaded up this morning. But
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I do want to welcome in our good friend from the campus of West Virginia
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State University, President Eric Cage. President Cage, good morning, welcome to
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the show, and happy Valentine's Day. Well, good morning, Dave,
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and happy Valentine's Day. It's great to be back with you again. You
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know, as I start to show everyone, I always take a big swig
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out of my Marshall coffee mug here because I'm a Marshall alum. Sure,
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but you know, a West Virginia State one would go very very well,
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just saying you know, we'll definitely make sure we get you a mud.
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They just just saying absolutely, I want do you want to do this at
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the top of the same one. I want to say on behalf of a
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lot of basketball fans here in the area. Last week, the Parmar Shootout
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was held on the campus of West Virginia State University, four days, thirty
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two games in all, eight third or nine thirty in the morning until eight
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thirty at night. What a great facility that you had there, and I
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just wanted to say, you know, I was there for much of it
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last week, from mister Burton to coach Poor to everyone. Just a great
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job in pulling all that off last week. So thanks a lot. Well,
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You're welcome, Dave. We are always excited to host our community on
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campus. Our athletic facilities are of course second to none, and certainly I
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agree with your kudos to our athletic staff, let by Nate Burden and certainly
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the rest of the team do it a very very good job of making sure
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that our facilities are open and that we're welcoming people. That's really who we
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are as an institution at West Virginia State. We are an intricral part of
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the community and we like to do our part to move the community forward.
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President Cames, there's some exciting stuff going on at State recently in the news,
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including the governor announcing fifty million dollars or so being allocated to put a
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new agricultural lab on campus and plus a new doctorate program is available at the
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state as well. Let's talk about this new lab first. Absolutely, No,
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West Virginia State definitely is a university that is on the move, Dave.
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We've got lots of exciting things happening at the institution. As you mentioned,
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Governor Justice during his State of the State address did announce a fifty million
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dollar proposal which would construct a new state of the art agriculture laboratory facility on
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the campus of West Virginia State University. And of course, since the session
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began in January, we have been up at the Legislature really working of the
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hallways, meeting with our members of the House of Delegacy and Senate, really
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underscoring the importance of getting this facility across the finish line. We view putting
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this facility on our campus as a win win for West Virginia because basically,
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what you will be doing is marrying the expertise that we have at West Virginia
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State University as a proud eighteen ninety land Grand institution that has engaged in agricultural
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research, education, and extension. You'll be marrying expertise with the expertise of
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the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, who will also be co located in the
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facility. Many of our gratists go on to work at the West Virginia Department
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of Agriculture, and we're already engaged in so many partnership with the Department of
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ag This is a synergy that really makes sense again, not just for West
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Virginia State, not just for the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, but for
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the citizens of West Virginia. Very exciting and we are very very optimistic about
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this proposal making across the finish line and becoming law. President Cage, I
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don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, but what kind of timeline are
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we looking at here? Do we have a timeline yet? Is it too
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early in the process to talk about that when the thing could be up and
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running. I think it's too early day. Right now, we are squarely
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focused on getting the appropriations across the finish line. Like I said, we're
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costly optimistic about where we are. We have had very productive conversations with members
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on both sides of the House and the House and the Senate, but at
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the end of the day, we know that this is not a done deal
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until that gabble falls at the end of the session, so our focus is
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on making sure the appropriation snippens and then we can sit down with all the
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partners involved in this to start talking about the additional planning. Dave Alan Chilling
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the doctorate program. Yeah, I mean, look, we can proudly say
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that after one hundred and thirty three years, West Virginia State University is now
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a doctoral granting eighteen ninety Land Grant institution and we have brought online our first
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doctorate, a Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies. And Dave, it is
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very, very unique. It's unique in that it is a two year program
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that is designed for working professionals, completely online. It's a degree that although
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it is a doctor of education, it is not specifically limited to those in
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the education field. Because to focus is on leadership. So we want individuals,
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professionals from all walks of life who are looking to enhance their skills as
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leaders in their profession to be a part of this degree. Now, one
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of the things that I've said about this doctor's program is that because it is
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so unique, the customs a two year program, because this online, this
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is a program that will benefit not just the citizens of West Virginia, but
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frankly students across this country. We have received incredible interest already since we've gone
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live with the application process. We have folks who have expressed interests from as
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far off as California. This is West Virginia State University's first entry into executive
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education that is highly accessible and targeted towards workforce demands. And this is also
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a program I believe that's going to give West Virginia State University a national footprint.
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And you said something there that I love to hear when you say it
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is aimed or at least in part, toward workforce demands, because again,
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and my listeners have heard me talk about that over the years, it seems
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like that for so long in higher education, we just put people out there
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with degrees at all universities. But now the universities are doing a great job
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across the country, I think, especially West Virginia State, of listening to
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what the employers need, not only in this area, President Cage, but
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also, as you said, from a far as far away as California,
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absolutely you are spot on, Dave. And look, all of us in
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higher education have taken a step back. We understand that. Thirdly, post
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COVID nineteen, the world has changed. The higher education landscape has changed.
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Students and parents are demanding more from higher education. They're demanding higher education that's
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more flexible, that's more nimble, that's more affordable. And that's what we're
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doing at West Virginia State University. We're listening to what our customers in this
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case, our customers or our students, and we're adapting. We're making changes.
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We're investing in programs that meet current workforce needs, not because it's fashionable,
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but because it's what we need to do. It's the responsible thing to
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do. As the public institutions, we have to make sure that we are
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listening to what the public wants and that we're adapting ourselves, changing ourselves to
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be viable for the future. President Case before we let you go, and
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I want to keep on. I always try to end on a positive note.
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But there's one question that I did want to throw out at you.
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And we've heard a lot of this in the news, and I'll be honest
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with you, I don't completely understand the whole thing. Maybe you can help
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me understand about perhaps the government on a federal level not living up to some
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of the standards what's been required for an institution like WESTERNGINI you say to get
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by are we are we making some headway in that department? Well, I
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think you know, maybe you're talking about the under investment or the uninvestment in
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West Virginia State University. I know the Department of Education and Agriculture certainly put
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out a letter speaking to eight hundred million dollars and underfunding at West Virginia State
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and that's something that we take very seriously. We are not ignoring that.
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But what we are doing is we are working with our friends and our allies
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in the legislature, in the governor's office, and we're trying to come up
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with solutions that make sense, solutions that not only help to bring more resources
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to West Virginia State, but also clearly that meet workforce demand. So I
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am very optimistic about our ability to address those issues. And one thing I
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want to say day before we sign off is that look, on Thursday,
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we're going to have West Virginia State Day at the State Capitol, and we
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encourage everyone to come up and see the work that our faculty, staff,
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students and alumni are doing. It's our opportunity to express to our elected officials
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just how great of an impact that West Virginia State is making on the Mountain
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State. Let's close kind of following up with that, give me your elevator
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speech about West Virginia State University. Now, people around here in the Charlestity
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we all know about West Virginia State. But if you are somewhere, you're
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traveling, I know, being in education, you probably do a lot of
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traveling conferences and so on and so forth. Somebody, especially with these online
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programs, somebody reaches out to you and they will explain West Virginia State.
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What is your elevator speech? What is your selling point for West Virginia State
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President? Absolutely, what I say about West Virginia State University is our institution
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which has been around for one hundred and thirty three years is in the business
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of transforming lives. Our university has served as a pathway for prosperity and a
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beacon and hope of hope for thousands of students. We believe in meeting students
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where there are. We say fondly that it starts at State. Come to
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us with your ambition, Come to us with your desire to do hard work,
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and we will provide you with the tooth that you need to be successful
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in whatever profession which you have decided to pursue. West Virginia State University is
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an integral part of this community and surely an integral part of with Virginia's future.
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And tomorrow you're gonna take over the capitol, right we are, but
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hope you'll join us. All right? Sounds good? Presidentiary cage for West
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going to go to the Kenaw County Courthouse as Judge Mary Clare Acres is getting
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a whole lot of people married today with the King of Hearts Day marathon weddings
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Court Dodnat because what you don't know can hurt you. Ryan Nicholson is our
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producer. They want to go to the Canawk County Court House now, where
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Judge Mary Claire Acerus is standing by ready to marry up some people today for
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Valentine's Day. It's the annual King of Heart ceremonies. Judge, good morning,
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How are you? Good morning? How are you today? Dave?
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I'm doing fine. And I told the folks at top of the show we
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may or may not hear from you because you had a sick kid, but
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hopefully everything is working out there. Okay. We appreciate you taking time because
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it's a busy day for you and you add on the sick kid, and
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well, I hope everything's going okay. Everything worked out fine. She is
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at home and sleeping and hopefully comfortable for a little while. All right,
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that sounds good. All right, So we had you on the show last
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week to talk about this, the annual King of Hearts ceremonies. Are we
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on schedule? I mean I know you were run a little bit behind her.
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We are we ready to go here? I am running a little bit
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behind because I'll we've been at the doctor since about seven point thirty this morning.
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But that's what happens when you're working. Parents and everybody out there that
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is knows all about that. But when we get started, we will have
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two we have two scheduled adoptions first off, and then we have pen weddings
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set throughout the day. So we've got several set around eleven and around one
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o'clock. And that does not count the people out there who will hear my
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voice and decide today's the day, because we will accommodate a spontaneous people too.
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So last year we had probably five couples that came in and just decided
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to do it that day. And they are all because they heard us talking
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about it on the radio, right, that's right, all because they listen
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to you, Dave Allen. There you go. Promo material there, Ryan
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promo. All right. So we've got adoptions first, and then you said,
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we've had people that have called in. What do people need to do
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in order to get on the schedule today, Judge, All they have to
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do is go get a marriage license of Kinwaw County Clerk's office. But actually
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we will marry anybody with a valid marriage license from any county in West Virginia
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today. Just come in with a valid marriage license. Head on up to
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the fourth floor of the Kennall County Courthouse, which is at one one one
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Court Street. That's the Judicial Annex which is across the street from the Kennaugh
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County Courthouse. Those two buildings. Get confused a lot, and ring my
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door, my secretary Kim's doorbell, and we will get you fixed up and
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ready to go. And I want to know if we have any speak now
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or forever, hold your peace moments, because you and I talked about that
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last week. That may only happen in the movies, though we're people somebody.
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I mean, hopefully that doesn't happen, but if it does, because
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I like drama, I want to know about it, all right. I
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will tell you if that happens. I hope it doesn't, but no,
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I've never had it happen, but I might have it happen today just because
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you brought it up. I do want you to know that we are all
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decorated for the weddings as well. If anybody wants a festive backdrop, we
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had balloons by Birdie. Come in and do a backdrop for us last night,
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and it's really pretty. I'll drop it in the comments of the post
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that you put up about this. Okay, all right, very good,
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and be sure and sends any pictures you have, Just ask him if they
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mind if we publicize them, because I know that Jeff and the News Sea
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would also like to use them as well. And normally we send a newsperson
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down there to cover it. So carry or somebody may be down there a
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little bit later on today, give us before we let you go, because
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I know you're really busy. Give us for people that may not have heard
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it. The history behind this whole King of Hearts thing. This started actually
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Judge Charlie King, who was my predecessor and my mentor. We've talked about
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that a lot. He started this many many years ago, called it the
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King of Heart's Day, which is why I call it. That doesn't make
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sense because I'm female, but that's why it's after him. This is my
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third annual. I didn't correctly do the math last time I was there,
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Davis, So this is the third time that I've done this since I became
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a judge, and I'll do it every year that I am one. One
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thing that's important to remember, this is a public service. One thing I
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think people don't think about judges as public servants. I think just because of
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the position and what it means. But we are public servants and we are
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here to serve the public and on This is a way that I can do
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that, I can give back. I can be here and be present for
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anybody who wants to do it today. It's a free service. You do
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have to pay for the marriage license. I don't know what it is.
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I think it might be fifteen bucks. But otherwise you just come in and
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get married and head off and have a happy life. All right. We
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hope that's what happened. Judge Aacres, I appreciate you taking time on your
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schedule, and you'll be doing this toll how long today we will stop at
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five, stop at five o'clock, So between now and five o'clock, today's
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the day make the plunge, all right, Judge Mary Akers, I appreciate
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it. We'll talk again probably later today. Thanks a lot. All right,
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of Winfield. Senator Joe Manchin is going to join this momentarily. Also a
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little bit later on the show, we've got House of Delegates member and the
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state Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin is going to be stopping by the studio as
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well. There were some texts that came in after the show yesterday, so
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let me that happens sometimes, So let me knock out a couple of those
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texts from yesterday and then we'll go to Senator Mansion when we get him on
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the line. Tex says this one was actually ined for Chris Walters, who
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was in the studio yesterday. Chris, of course, is a Republican candidate
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for County Commission and he was talking about the response to some flooding issues that
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had happened over the last couple of years in Kanaw County and someone threw this
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out there and wanted us to mention this, says Chris. The city of
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Charleston actually shared labor, backos and trucks to Clintennon after the flood, even
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donated a free dump truck, says a texture that again in reference to the
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interview I did with Chris Walter's Republican Canada for County commission on On on yesterday's
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show, Let Me See tex says this is in reference yesterday's show, just
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a thought paid mouthpieces for industries are not inclined to be truthful. Way to
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ride inenthusiastic sidecar an unchallenged industry propaganda? Did you brush off the seats yourself?
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As a Texter Texter, this is about I was talking about the Super
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Bowl commercial that he gets me commercial that a lot of people thought was wonderful
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and a lot of other people thought was not so great. Yesterday on Super
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Bowl Sunday, Textas says, shouldn't Christians be more mad that some organizations spent
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twenty nine million dollars on Super Bowl ads and not in the community helping people,
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says a Texter. Going back to my comments from yesterday when I was
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talking about in Conway, South Carolina. Over the weekend, former President Trump
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was talking about his Republican opponent, Nikki Haley's husband not being part of her
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campaign trail. He of course, is deployed. In my opinion, yet
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another example of the former president disrespecting veterans and people that deserve that's my opinion.
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Texas. I guess Trump also forgot that he has an absent wife,
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say a whole lot of her on the campaign trail, either pot kettle hell
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or black Texas. Vilifying teachers and librarians doesn't help bring qualified teachers to West
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Virginia. That's in reference to the library obscenity bill that has been discussed in
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the legislature. I have to check the status that I can't wait to get
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Mike Pushkins take on that coming up momentarily when he will be here Texas.
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The Republican supermajority are very good at talking ad nauseum about hot button issues to
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distract from their failure to address actual problems such as jail crowding, failing infrastructure,
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public school underperformance, the public school underperformance, I should say, opioid
23:44
crisis, et cetera, etc. There are a lot of people that say
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even Republicans I talk to you that say that maybe the Republican Party does spend
23:52
a little bit too much time on the on the social issues. I would
23:56
be one of those people. There's going to be a big event happening this
24:00
weekend. I want to throw out there the Marshall Quarterback of Charleston Club and
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Out of Charleston are going to present the nineteenth annual Valentine's Dinner and Dance.
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It's called a Green and White Night. That's happening Saturday night at six and
24:14
Embassy Suites here in Charleston with dinner, dancing, auctions, games and more.
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Your MC's for the evening will be myself and Steve Animal from our sister
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24:29
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24:33
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sister station in ninety six one KWS. So I mean, you know,
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let's talk about how much fun that's going to be to spend even though it's
24:45
after Valentine's Day. A celebration of Valentine's Day with myself, Steve Animal,
24:49
Rob Reel, and Shockley. That's going to be a lot of fun.
24:52
It is really a big, big event and generally speaking nearly sells out.
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25:22
Mansion and it says, well, it's based on a tweet that says Joe
25:29
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25:33
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So we don't have a senator mansion. All right, Well I don't.
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29:42
meeting held tonight at six thirty. I think it is at Kyle Seaman Convention
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Center proposing or I'm sorry to discuss this, the proposal to shut down the
29:53
mail distribution Center at South Ridge. This has been talked about, I think
29:57
for some time, and there was a actually last night there was a demonstration
30:03
and informational picket, if you will, held at the Charleston Post Office to
30:06
get information out to people. I think we have Senator Mansion with us now.
30:10
Senator, good morning, good morning, thank you, I think David,
30:14
yes it is. It is. Welcome to the show show how you
30:15
doing? I'm doing five and you are one live on the air last night.
30:19
Right now I should say, great, David, how are you all
30:22
going? I'm back home. Everything is, everything's going fine here. I
30:26
was just kind of talking about this situation, Uh, with the postal facility.
30:30
The news came to light Senator several months ago that these jobs could be
30:34
transferred out of here. Last night there was that rally held to oppose the
30:37
shutdown to night of public meeting six thirty at the Coliseum and Convention Center.
30:41
Uh, talk about what you know about this situation, sir, Well,
30:45
you know this goes way back to the last election. Remember to mail in
30:48
all the problems we're having processing the mail and the mail in votes and things
30:51
of that. So what we were worried about, and he took some of
30:52
the equipment offline, and we went up there and got that back straightened out,
30:56
and we thought we were in good shape. And then all of a
30:59
sudden, we hear about this a few months ago and I call Postmaster de
31:02
Joy went over in detail with him. He called me back and we got
31:06
into it and talked about different things, and he said, Joe, we're
31:10
going to invest more money, thirty to forty million dollars more up to upgrade
31:14
the system there. And the postal workers made a point in their there,
31:22
it's very helpful of what they're concerned about. It's not that they're worried about
31:26
losing their job. They're worried about being transferred to places they can afford to
31:30
go, and then what takes them away from home, that's what we're worried
31:33
about. That means that they change the services that are offered there versus the
31:37
sourcing and and all this and that. So anyway, we're very very much
31:42
on top of that. We want that to be one of the premiere areas
31:48
as far as serving rural America. We don't only serve Virginia. That serves
31:52
into Ohio and into Kentucky and so many other rural parts of our country here
31:57
where that's out of Charleston. So we're fighting for that. We will continue
32:01
to fight for that, and there's a meeting tonight. I'm still in DC
32:07
working here, but my staff will be there and we're going to hold them
32:09
accountable and responsible for this and the joy to show that basically the quality of
32:15
work we do, the way we're able to do it, with the proper
32:16
upgrades, we can even do much more and much better and much more efficient.
32:22
Right now, they're all looking at cost and I can appreciate anything that
32:25
in government, they looked at the cost of things, costing how we can
32:30
be more effective and efficient by closing down areas and going to areas and that
32:35
aren't performing. Perfect example, if they move that to Pittsburgh and that's going
32:39
to be their main central Pittsburgh's not doing the job anywhere near to efficiencies of
32:44
what we do it. So we're going to make sure we hold them accountable.
32:46
Decision we made on the facts of who's performing and who's not, and
32:51
the expansion should be done along those lines. So that's what we're really fighting
32:53
for and what they're making they're aware of. Says, oh yeah, they
32:57
said they're not going to lay anybody off. Probably won't. If they don't
33:00
lay anybody off, they're going to make me go two hours here to relocate
33:05
here and there. That's not what we're talking about, and that's not what
33:07
we're going to accept. So we're fighting, like the difference buddy, to
33:09
make sure that doesn't happen. And again we're talking with Senator Joe Manchin.
33:15
The union representing the workers, mister Holstein among them, has been interviewed several
33:19
times and they've called out, Sir, the Postal Service for scheduling this meeting
33:22
tonight at the coliseum. And when it is Valentine's Night, a lot of
33:24
people will be out on the town. Of course, you know it's West
33:29
Virginia, Siry. You know a lot of people will do church on Wednesday
33:30
night. I am told the Coloseum a convention center was available both last night
33:36
and Monday night if they would have wanted to have it. Then the Postal
33:38
Service chose not to have that meeting at that time, opting to keep opting
33:43
to keep it tonight. Some of the said because they don't want people to
33:46
show up. But we're trying to get the word out about this, so
33:50
hopefully some people will show up tonight, sir, well, not only will
33:53
the people show up, but let me just tell you one thing. We
33:57
are on it. My entire staff is on this thing. So even if
34:00
they didn't didn't have the crowd that we want tonight, they're going to hear
34:06
them. We're speaking on behalf of these of the good workers. And also
34:10
that's a wonderful facility up there, and for them to commit, they're going
34:15
to invest the money that has to have value for the postal service. What
34:21
we're saying is, let's improve what we're doing now and make it even better
34:24
and more effective and efficient. That's what we can do because we've shown even
34:29
with what we have to work with, we're out performing the centers they call
34:32
supercenters. So that's what we're fighting for. So I can assure you their
34:37
voices will be heard. If they're there, we'd love for them to show
34:39
the strength of being there, the support that we have and my staff will
34:44
all be there, so they're going to hear from this Loudenclayer, don't worry
34:46
about that, all right, Senator. Before we let you go, I
34:50
did want to bring this up. It is Valentine's Day, I got to
34:52
ask you, how is your Valentine Gaale doing following her little accident in Alabama.
34:55
Couple of David, thank you so much. She's doing doing well.
35:00
Gil's she's bruised up. It was just a miracle. I mean, the
35:02
Good Lord was watching over her and that she got t boned and she was
35:07
riding in a car and she was going to her work of Applack's and Regional
35:09
Commission. They were going to have a work study, a work study group
35:14
in Birmingham, Alabama. She landed. It was about four o'clock her time,
35:17
five o'clock our time, and she calls me, she says, She
35:22
says, honey, I don't want you to worry. I've been a pretty
35:25
pretty tough accident here, but I'm okay. And I said, well,
35:29
where are you, Gail? She says, well, they've got me strapped
35:31
to a gurney put me in an ambulance. I'm thinking, oh, yeah,
35:34
you're really okay. That's what you want to hear when you're a thousand
35:37
miles away. That's exactly. So I took off and went down there,
35:39
and God bless her, but they really took good care. They went through
35:44
the University of Alabama medical centers, just like our wy medical centers in Birmingham.
35:49
They went through everything, did a fantastic job, and she was released
35:52
and we got her home and she's healing up and she's bruised up. But
35:57
thank god, if he'd hit five three feet up on her door, you
36:00
know, I got t boned by. It was a high speed police chase.
36:05
Heard we were chasing the criminal. They were chasing the criminal for the
36:08
streets of Birmingham and the guy just ran to the light and hit him and
36:12
hit right behind her door. She was sitting in the front seat. Did
36:15
hit her door. Lord knows, we might not have her with us today,
36:17
but it was just a miracle and to get a little watched over her.
36:21
And I'm very thankful. Thank you for all the good wishes. Dave.
36:22
Let me see a couple of things. What happened, What you're seeing
36:27
happening in Washington is just not This is not who we are as a country.
36:30
We have a chance to fix the border. The border is the most
36:34
serious thing that we have right now. It's the greatest crisis we're facing.
36:38
And to have a piece of legislation which was negotiated by one of the most
36:42
conservative Republicans, a good man James Langford from Oklahoma, and have a bill
36:46
that basically finally stopped catching release, It stopped basically parole to border. It
36:53
hired eighteen hundred I mean twenty seven hundred more agents to make sure that we
36:58
could adjudicate and when people come to the border trying to get in, they
37:00
don't go any further than there. We turn them around quick, we get
37:05
them back out of there because they don't belong in our country, they don't
37:07
qualify, and we can control that. Now I've told people are going to
37:10
blame Joe Biden. He's absolutely guilty as charged. He's allowed this to happen
37:15
and it's gotten out of hand. He can said that he did it for
37:17
humanitary reasons because the world was hurting after the pandemic and they thought they were
37:22
doing the right thing, which turned out to be horribly wrong. But now
37:27
everyone's willing to fix it, and politics raise its ugly head, and we
37:30
couldn't get it passed the other day and we've got to secure our borders.
37:36
But we did pass last night yesterdayday morning with seventy votes, Democrats and Republicans
37:42
working together, the Aid for Ukraine, which they have to have, and
37:47
Ukraine is doing a tremendous job of holding back Russia, and I believe in
37:52
all my heart they can defeat Russia from this aggression. But with that,
37:55
it's also for Israel and a horrible attack on Israel, and then humanitarian aid
38:04
for those who are suffering so badly with that war. So there's an awful
38:07
lot of good done in that, but we have got to secure the borders,
38:09
and politics cannot be playing this dangerous, horrific games, putting politics in
38:15
the party above what's needed for our country. All right, well, said
38:20
Senator Manchin. I appreciate you taking time at your schedule to be here and
38:22
we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Thanks David, It happy Valentine,
38:28
Happy Valentine's Day at all? All right? Thank you? Ninety five
38:31
Stay Democratic Party Charon Deligate. Mike Pushkin is here. Good morning, sir,
38:35
how are you? Good morning and happy Valentine's Day day. So you
38:38
text me yesterday and ask if the text was can I come on the show?
38:43
I ask when? And you said now, and that was like one
38:45
thirty yesterday afternoon, So I am going to say I missed you. Then
38:50
I'm glad to see you on Valentine's Day, and I apologize I didn't bring
38:52
you a heart shaped box of chocolates. Don't bring me anything but that let's
38:59
meet. Leave delegate State Democratic Party Chair that you were a little upset about
39:04
something. I know you, man, I've known you for four years.
39:07
I know I know when you're upset during session there's a lot to be upset
39:09
about. But this time, this time, you got it wrong. I
39:15
had a built Yesterday was the last day to introduce bills. There were two
39:20
bills that I introduced yesterday, just you know, on the last day,
39:22
and in one trying very hard to get it on with single reference in the
39:28
House, which is a good sign I still have time to get it passed.
39:30
I think it's a bill that has bipartisan support, and it's a building.
39:34
You would think that it should already be in code. But it is
39:37
in response to what happened over in my neighborhood on the West Side back in
39:42
October with the gas outage caused by the water leak. And it would simply
39:47
require public utilities to have a notice public notice system, you know, in
39:53
place that they can contact the rate payers when there is a planned outage or
40:01
an accident, whatever it may be. It's something you would think that that
40:07
would already be the law. Apparently it was not. Because we weren't notified
40:10
of our gas being out that morning. People just knew that their houses were
40:14
cold. So that bill was introduced. It was single reference to the House
40:19
Committee on Technology and Infrastructure. And the good news is there's bipartisan support for
40:23
it. The Speaker has said that he likes the bill, that the committee
40:28
chair who's been on this show many times. I believe that Chairman Lynbull,
40:32
he has expressed support for it. So hopefully we get the bill run and
40:36
we get it through the House and through the Senate and to get it on
40:37
the governor's desk. I think it's a bill that'll protect the rate payers out
40:43
here and people who were just paying their utility bills and deserve to have better
40:47
communication with their utilities. What about some of the other things that's going on
40:52
this session, it's been a little contentious. I mean, as I know
40:54
you folks on your side have been upset about several things. You've been a
40:58
little infighting between the party in power, which is common. Uh So,
41:01
where are you on some of these hot button the rest of the time,
41:05
I think that there are too many hot button issues. I think there are
41:07
a lot of issues that we should be working on that that we're that we're
41:12
ignoring. I could go on and on. I'm gonna start with the foster
41:15
care crisis. Eight thousand children in state custody and there hasn't been anything done
41:21
this session to address those issues, whether it's the staffing at Child Protective Services
41:25
or simply providing services to families so they don't find themselves in that situation to
41:30
begin with, that should be front center. You know, not enough teachers
41:34
in the classroom specifically and especially teaching aids in special education classrooms that that situation
41:42
is at a crisis level right now. Also, of course, are our
41:45
jails and our prisons, the understaffing theirs we have. We have staffing issues
41:49
all across the board and state government. We're not doing nearly enough to address
41:52
that. There was a proposed pay raise, pay raise billsers as right now
41:55
are not moving and nothing to offset this p i A increased from last year.
42:01
Nothing to address our our retired state workers and the cost of living.
42:07
Just there as a lot of things we could be doing we should be doing.
42:09
But instead of doing what we should be doing, the Republican supermajority tends
42:14
to focus on just things that they want to do because it's an election year,
42:16
and that's you know, the divisive, hot button culture war type issues
42:21
that I personally just don't have any patients for. Go locking up librarians.
42:25
Yeah, I don't think that's u we should be focused on. You know,
42:30
they bought this battle in Kanall County fifty years ago, years ago this
42:35
year actually, right, yeah, fifty years ago exactly, and it was
42:38
wrong then, it's it's wrong now. I think I believe in freedom of
42:43
thought and expression, and and I think that you know, parents should also
42:45
be more and more involved in what their children read or don't read. Hopefully
42:50
they're they're reading period. But no, I don't believe in locking up librarians
42:54
for contents of a book. Well, wrong headed bill, it's not the
42:58
way to go. A strong opposed that bill. But talk about all the
43:01
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43:04
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43:09
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Slis five to eighty w HS State Democratic Party chairing Delicate. Mike Pushkin
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is here Texas for real though, going back to Joe Mansion, what kind
46:19
of influence does lame duck Joe have these days? Tex says, what happened
46:22
with the water and gas crisis investigation was it deemed at an accident and a
46:28
whoop see given from the companies and life goes on. Well, there's an
46:30
ongoing class several class action suits. I'm sure that the will wind up in
46:36
court and we'll get to the bottom of it. Tex says they will lock
46:39
up librarians but support a sexual harassment person on the presidential ballot. Something is
46:45
wrong here. Talk about the women's Bill of rights that's been uh I knew
46:50
i'd get you going at some point, all right, So so go ahead,
46:52
just you can talk it at your show. We'll talk about whatever you
46:54
want. Women's Bill of Rights first of all, does absolutely nothing for women.
46:58
It's not a bill of rights. I wanted to call it a bill
47:01
of wrongs, but I got overruled by my caucus they yeah, but it
47:07
is wrong and it it it's basically just a bill that it's an electioneer bill.
47:13
It creates this you know, perceived threat, and it's a distraction to
47:17
the real issues that the Republicans supermajority just isn't addressing, not addressing right now.
47:24
But the what we tried to do it led by uh, you know,
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one of the hardest working, smartest delegates up there, Kayla Young and
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and one of our newest delegates who has done a just hit the ground running
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a Nietzsra Hamilton. Uh. They introduced a strike and Insert amendment to this
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that actually would have created a real women's bill of rights. It addressed childcare
47:45
issues, you know, it addressed equal Pay Act that it added the Equal
47:50
Pay Act and equal pay for women doing the same job as their male counterparts.
47:52
They should be getting paid the same. Uh. It had health freedom
47:57
innutes said adults should be able to make health care decisions for themselves, period,
48:00
all health care decisions. There was a lot of really good stuff in
48:04
that in that bill, in the strike and Insert amendment. Of course,
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the Republicans voted down a long party lines, but the one element of that
48:13
amendment that did make it into the bill is something that we should have addressed
48:15
a long time ago. And there's this archaic language in the criminal Code that
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exempts exempts people in a marriage from being charged with sexual saw. So if
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your victim is your wife, then you can't be charged with sexual assault.
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I think everybody would agree that that is I would think everybody would agree that
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that is wrong. It's archaic language left over from the from the eighteen hundreds,
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but that's in code, and that did make it into the bill to
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remove that archaic exemption. And because of that, unfortunately, some of the
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Republicans had a hard time voting for removing that exemption, and the bill was
48:52
parked on the House calendar. But I'm hearing that it's going to rear its
48:55
ugly head again today on Valentine's Day, of all time days. Yeah,
49:00
they're gonna pull that bill off the calendar, off the House calendar and put
49:04
it on the special calendar, which means it'll probably be voted on. From
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from what I'm hearing, it will be voted on this morning in the in
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the House of Delegates. So and I will be voting no because it's a
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what that's the rest of the bill, it's just basically a bill that Uh
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it's a it's a it's just an anti trans bill. I don't I'm not
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running. I didn't go up there to pick on people. And that's all
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it does. It just picks on people. It creates a uh, perceived
49:30
threat and and it actually what the the real harm that the bill does is
49:35
that it's it's almost like straight out of George Orwell book. In the definitions
49:38
it says equal does not mean the same. Well, that applies across the
49:43
board to state code, including the Human Rights Act. So that could do
49:45
some real damage if you're saying equal no longer means the same, equal is
49:50
the same. And uh, it's the bill's got a lot of problems.
49:52
There's absolutely no need for it, and it's just more ugly election year red
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meat type bills aimed to get people upset with each other and cause division and
50:02
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I'm going to ask you a questions about being State Democratic Party chair. Filing
50:23
period is over, you haven't been on since then. How have you done,
50:27
how's the party done? And getting people in these positions to run for
50:30
We have a lot of great candidates across the board. We had a lot
50:32
of people step up, and we're gonna be right there with our candidates every
50:37
step of the way. It's very difficult to recruit, you know, when
50:40
you're the party that's out of power, and in a lot of these gerrymander
50:45
districts, you know, people are starting off thirty or forty points behind before
50:47
they even put their name on the ballot. So it's very difficult to recruit.
50:51
But in spite of that, we were able to find some great candidates
50:53
in many parts of the state, and I think we're going to surprise a
50:58
few folks here in Kanaan County. We actually have two Democrats running for county
51:00
Commission. Now there's a primary on the Democratic side and the primary on the
51:05
Republican side, and people deserve choices and the democracy works better when people have
51:10
choices, that's for sure. So what else are you looking at over the
51:14
next I know you said that there could be some things popping up. Today,
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we're over the halfway point. Now, what would you on Mike Pushkin's
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wish list give me about a minute or so, what you'd like to see
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done for the rest of the session. Well, I think we need to
51:23
address the childcare issue. There are a lot of people don't just can't,
51:29
not that they just can't afford it, but also there's no access to it
51:30
in their areas. And we see childcare agencies shutting down across the state because
51:36
of the way that they reimburse them. It's whether it's based on attendance or
51:40
enrollment. Should be based on enrollment. You know, toddlers often come,
51:45
you know, they get sick, or they go on vacation with their family
51:46
or whatever. You can't do it based on attendance. Had the reimbursement has
51:51
to be based on enrollment. That seems like it should be an easy bipartisan
51:53
bill. For some reason, Republicans are holding that bill up. But we
51:57
have a childcare crisis in this state. We have a faught stick care crisis
52:00
in the state. We need to do we can to expand the amount of
52:02
placement we have for these kids so they're not being dumped off at hotels or
52:07
motels or state parks even across the state. Here's the music playing. There's
52:10
a whole lot of issues we need to be Unfortunately, Republicans are just doing
52:15
what they want, and that means they're running bills to weaken childhood immunization laws.
52:17
I think that's a big mistake. Raw milk is coming back. There's
52:21
a raw milk bill moving to allow for the sale of it that I don't
52:24
have as much of a problem with. The problem I have is there's blanket
52:27
immunity from a liability for any sellers or of raw milk. So I've never
52:32
heard of any other food product that they feel deserves this blanket immunity. Can't
52:37
get sued for it. Lots so safe. Why are they protecting it like
52:40
that? Lot too unpacked? Here delegated state. Never to day Dalla children
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be brought to you by a bridge valley. I will see you tomorrow till
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