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this morning. To keep in mind. It's April Fool's Day. Okay,
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just letting you know because there's been a lot of things floating around social media
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already it's April fools Day. But I'm gonna try to avoid all that on
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the show today. All Right, I don't play those games. Actually I
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do, but just not go do it on the show. A little bit
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later on today, the chief of staff for Mayor Goodwin, Matt Sutton's going
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to be stopping by the studio. You got questions or comments or concerns anything
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related to Cidney Charleston, here's a chance to call in or to text them
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over. Chief of Sutton loves phone calls to light him up this morning.
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That's coming up a little bit later on with Steven Allen Adams from a good
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newspapers will be stopping by later on too. I'm kind of interested to get
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Steven's take on the recent legislative session just ended a few weeks ago. Plus
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it's getting downright nasty in the race for Republican nomination for governor. Some real
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shots are being fired now, mainly as of laid against Attorney General Patrick Morrissey.
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I'm going to get into that with Stephen coming up a little bit later
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on. Plus your calls and textare welcome to again Bigley Pickley Wiggley Hotline three
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nine three five five zero zero eight. I want to welcome into the show
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now, candidate for Magistrate and District eleven, Harry Carpenter, Good morning,
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sir, Welcome to the show. Hey Dave, good to be here.
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Thank you for being here, sir. So how do these old district things
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work in Kanawa County anyway? Well, a few years ago, when I
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first wanted to run from magistrate, they just threw all the names in one
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hat. Top ten survived. It's like a tournament. Yeah, so a
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few years ago, i think two elections ago, the state changed that and
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now they have They had ten districts. Now with the edition of three,
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we'll have thirteen. And basically what you do is you just pick a district.
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It's still a county county wide race, but you're just designated to a
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district and you run one on one or one or on three, you one
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on five. However, however, many people decide to pick that district Okay,
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give us a lowdown on Harry Carpenter, give us your biome. Well.
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Graduated from Sissonville High School. Retired from the Kannak County Sheriff's Office.
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Put twenty five years in over there, last fifteen with as a chief of
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the Home Confinement Division. Got two daughters or two children, a son and
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a daughter, and three granddaughters. I'm a former board member of the Klanak
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County Humaney Association. I'm the president of the Blue and Knights Law Enforcement Motorcycle
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Club, a member of the FOP Fraternal Order of the Police, and basically
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I like to perform community service, particularly as a protein to kids. I
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started a program twenty two years ago at Konskim Park. Lynn Watson and I
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wanted to do something for Christmas. So the plan was after the first couple
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of years, we would make it free and available to families that they could
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bring their kids to the park, have pictures taken with Santa Claus, get
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free cookies, free hot chalk crafts, ride the train, just spend an
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evening. And that thing blew up. Of course, I was Santa Claus
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and we were averaging three hundred kids a night. So it's a program I'm
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pretty proud of. So now with all this community service and you're to be
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committed, I think for that, why do you want to be magistrate?
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Well, it's just an extension of what I've done for the last twenty five
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years as the chief of the Home Confinement Division. I worked in the courthouse
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literally every day. I worked with every magistrate, judge, prosecutor, defense,
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criminal defense attorney, defendants, victims, you know. So I'm I'm
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My knowledge is pretty vast in that arena. So I just think it'd be
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a natural fit. So it's a nonpartisan race, of course, But do
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you mind telling us what your political party is? Uh? It's a nonpartisan
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okay, Okay, Well I asked that because I always get people that ask
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that. I don't know. You know that the Supreme Court keeps you restrained
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as to what you can and can't say publicly, So I just need to
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be careful with that. Okay, all right? What do you see is
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not ashamed of it, don't get me wrong, but just want to be
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careful. I don't want to get that phone call. Okay, what is
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uh? What's what do you see as the biggest needs of the office here.
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Well, you know, the manager the magister court is not broken,
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so you're not gonna go in and fix it. But there are some some
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tweaks that that I think I'd like to bring to the UH, to the
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bench. Uh. One of my peeves is is UH bond monitoring. Uh.
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You get these individuals charges with a crime, a bond set, they
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go home. Well, while they're home there, they'll still continue to commit
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crimes. You know, Kenall County has resources to help with the bond monitoring,
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whether it be home confinement or the day reforts center, UH, somewhere
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where big brothers watching while they're out on bond awaiting disposition. That's that's probably
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one of my biggest, biggest things. So you like to change that if
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at all possible. Well, it's not change, it's there. It's always
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been. That source has always been there and years ago. Uh, you
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know I can remember, you know, we were one. I'm training one
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hundred and eighty two hundred people. You know today it's down in double figures.
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I don't know why, but you know, when you haven't askedts such
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as that, you know, the court doesn't cost the court of dime to
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use it. Okay, I understand what you're saying that, Yeah, it
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seems like that in the court system here again, we're talking with Harry Carpent,
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who's candidate for magistrate here in Kanawah County. It seems like I whenever
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I have anybody that's running from magistrate, or even when I have police officers
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on the show, which I frequently do, or I have a judge on
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the show, they always say the same thing is that if as a magistrate
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you see a lot of the same people and they call it a revolving door,
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police will tell you that, judge and so on and so forth.
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I mean, I know it's not you don't have the miracle plan to fix
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that, but just talk about that, well, you're preaching to the choir.
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I agree. I mean, we've had some defendants on our program that,
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to be realistic, they knew as much about the process as their attorneys
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did, so you know, they knew what to plead, how to make
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it work. And again, if we if we invoked a little bond monitoring,
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then maybe just maybe, you know, you might turn some of those
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people, keep them out of trouble. You know, obviously, from from
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childhood to adulthood, you know, peer pressure has a lot to do with
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how you conduct yourself, and if you get keep them away from that element,
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you know, maybe you can turn them our Drug Court. You know,
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they've been very, very successful. And I might add that I was
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one of the original board members that Judge Bailey assigned to the Drug Court twenty
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years ago. To those twenty years ago, it's been a while, is
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Mike Ruthfer's first term, so probably about six Okay, it's been a while.
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How's the campaign been? You out knocking doors? You knowing? What do
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you do in the campaign? Very very very busy. Uh, last two
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weeks especially, and this week's not too bad. But next week we get
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it back up again. Yes, we and people have been very receptive these
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campaign signs. You post them on your Facebook page and be careful what you
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ask for okay, because people want them. Oh yeah, and that's great.
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I mean I appreciate that, and we make every effort possible to get
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them out to them. I think so far I put out over four d
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or four or four signs and I'm working on three hundred plus yard signs so
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far. So and you know, a couple of meet the candidates meetings and
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and just talking to the public in general. What do you hear when you're
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out there talking to the public. What's the number one couple of things that
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you hear and talking to the public. Just what we just talked about.
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Okay, Uh, these fellows, ladies, gentlemen, whatever, defendants that
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are back out in the community commit and crime. Now understand, you can't
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put everybody in jail. You know, that's not going to happen, and
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community members need to understand that. But again, if you have some kind
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of outlet to place thement, you know, to help them get a turn,
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then you know, maybe you can succeed sometimes. But that's the biggest
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complaint, and it's usually the same people in the same neighborhoods. Do you
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have a Facebook page, website or anything like that. Garry Carpenter from just
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and uh, what I'm doing on my page. I'm not posting every news
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event that you know comes out. I'll let you do that. But I'm
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just doing a little weekly autobiographical thing about me and what what we've talked about
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today, and and uh and let the canton, Let the voters know the
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candidate that that's that's that's my message is know who you're voting for. You
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know, just because you see a name on a ballot, you know,
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try to and with and with Today just about every candidate has a Facebook page.
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Go look for it. See what's on that page. See if you
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can learn a little bit about your candidate. We final thirty wat should somebody
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vote for Harry Carpenter for magic from Cana Accounting? Well, I have the
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in my district. I'm the only one that really has any courtroom experience.
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I've testified in hundreds of cases. I've made decisions regarding, uh, whether
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people get to go home or go back to jail. So I can make
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the decisions, and I've got common sense and level headed and i can listen
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to both parties. And I just think that given the chance, I can
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do an outstanding and job. And I would encourage voters. If you know
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any prosecutors, judges or manister, just ask them about Harry Carpenter and I
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guarantee you that when you leave, that's who you're going to vote for.
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Harry. I appreciate you being here, man, Thanks a lot, nice
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to get to know you. Hey, Dave, it's a treat man.
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from Ogden Newspaper. Steven, good morning, welcome to the show. Good
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morning Dave, thanks for having me on on this April fools dey see what
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you did there? No, that wasn't planned that way, I promise much.
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Uh So, now if I would have to do something like that,
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what had Brad on so we could have the BS report? Yes, let's
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go back to the session, which wrapped up a couple of weeks ago.
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Overall, this is a very very loaded question seven. But overall, your
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thoughts on the session, It was kind of a waste of time. And
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I've said that, thank you for coming, I've said that all throughout the
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session. It was kind of a waste. It was an election year.
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They were going to play it somewhat safe. They obviously played to some legislation
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meant to show that they were more further to the right than their primary opponents
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that they're all having because most of them are being challenged. A lot of
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these elections, as you know, are going to be decided in the primary
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and which candidate is more conservative than the other. So you've had some bills
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that were pushed and a lot of them died, Which is interesting enough to
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me that you have a super majority and a lot of those bills die either
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because maybe you didn't really want them in the first place, but you wanted
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to look like you're doing them, or bad management one or the other.
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I don't know if I want to be a lawmaker to have to decide which
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is whitch on that. But it really was kind of lackluster. Were you
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surprised at the governor vetoed the immunization bill. No, I really was not.
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I kind of got the impression he was going to veto that. Keep
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in mind, he's got Sherry Young, who's a former Kanaal County health officer
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who now runs the Department of Health for the state. You have Clay marsh
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the longtime COVID czar, a friend of the governor. Knew was probably going
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to be putting pressure on him. A lot of pressure, certainly from the
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medical community, pediatricians, doctors, pharmacists. Surprisingly, as much as they
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say they want it, and there's a political movement out there for it,
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there wasn't that much of a push from I guess we'll call him the pro
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health freedom side to get the governor to sign it. There was a petition
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and a few people that showed up at the Governor's office, but not as
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much pressure on that end as you would think. So I think it's not
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a surprise to me. I think we've done such a good job of vaccinations
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in this state when it comes to longtime transmittable diseases that there's really no reason
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to keep it up. And I'm very surprised that bill even got as much
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traction as it ended up getting. Think we have a call Stephen. So
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all right, Anthony, if you're ready, we'll go ahead and we'll say
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caller. You're on with Steven Adams. Go ahead. Hello, Hello David.
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Yes, sir David, this is Emma Hendrick. I wanted to let
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everyone know that there is a meet and greet for Secretary of State Mac Warner
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Tuesday, April second, which is tomorrow Holiday and Express Civic Center, one
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hundred Civic Center Drive, which is right across the street, across Courier Street
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from the Civic Center. It will be from four until eight pm. Secretary
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of State Mac Warner will be there. He's a veteran, he's a West
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Virginia. Yeah, okay, all right now, ok we're not going to
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do political commercials here, sir. Sorry, Tell mister Warner, who's a
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good friend of mine, Anne Stevens. Tell him he's going to get a
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bill for this, just so you know that. Okay, but give us
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the details. Go ahead, Okay. When is it for four until eight
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pm, Tuesday, April second, Holiday Inn Express? All right, noted,
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I appreciate it. Nine twenty seven, so let's get back to it.
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See that with all due respect to Secretary Warner. You know, you
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got to pay for that sort of stuff. Yeah, And speaking of paid
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promotion, we actually have a big feature article this weekend on Secretary of State
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can it's the Republicans, So that'd be Chris Warner, Mackwinner's brother, Doug
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scaff Ken Reid, and Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood. So you can look
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at that in our newspapers. All right, let me get back. I
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want I want to ask you about some polls. There are a lot of
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polls out, you know, I mean this time of year, that's what
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you see. One of the things I think that kind of interested me is
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the number of people that are Republicans at least in some of these polls,
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ever, that are that are undecided, especially in the rates for governor.
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Your thoughts on that, oh, huge undecided since polls I've seen, I've
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seen an internal poll in regards to the second Congressional District tracer the undecided that's
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a really high on that. We have now the Emerson College next Star Pole
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that just came out last week, and the undecideds are high on that.
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Sure, Morrissey has what about thirty three percent in that poll, I think
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more Capital had about fourteen percent. Chris Miller seems to be coming up.
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He was at sixteen. I recall Mac kind of in the bottom of that.
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But the end decided said, I think we're somewhere around twenty eight twenty
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nine percent in that poll. And yeah, people are really just kind of
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sitting back and kind of waiting to see It says a lot. It says
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one thing. It says that Morrissey's support is sort of kind of petered out.
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He can only really go down. I think I think he will lose
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people between now and the election. But it says that there's a lot of
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room for particularly Chris Miller and more Capito to really like, work hard and
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get their name out there. We know Chris Miller certainly is. He's got
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a new ad out today and I want to get to that here in a
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couple of moments. But I will mention this on polling Stephen Hoppy. An
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informal poll on the governor's race on Friday was a Twitter poll, very informal,
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but it showed former Delegate more Capito in the lead slightly at forty one
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percent, morris thirty six, Chris Miller at fourteen percent, Secretary of State
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Warner at nine percent. Very non scientific poll, but nonetheless, that's about
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the first one I've seen that had Capito in the lead. That's the first
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one that I've seen that had capitol in the lead. I saw that over
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the weekend. I'd say, right now, I don't know about the Next
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Star poll. The thing that confuses me about that there, it's like a
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missing two percent in that vel Mark Curtis is going to be on the show
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Wednesday, so I'll have to ask Mark about that. I as to ask
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him about that because it annoys me. They're like, it doesn't add up
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to one hundred percent, and polls that don't add up to one hundred percent
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really kind of get to me. But exactly, I think Morrisey's prom lean
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the lead. I'd say more captains probably fairly high up just for the name
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recognition aspect. But Chris Miller, I have no doubt it's probably shooting up
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to the top. And I would love to see another poll to kind of
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corroborate what we just saw on a Next Star poll. Talking to Steven Adams
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Stephen, here's my take on the governor's race amongst the Republicans. Now
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we all know who many of the Republicans are backing. I'll take the Americans
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for Prosperity Group technically a nonpart of some organization, but they do lean to
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one side. And I think that if you talk to Creston, who I
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had on the show last week, and Jason Dell, they'll probably tell you
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that they are firmly behind Morrisey, as they've said any of the major players
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major players in the party are squarely behind Chris Miller, although they may not
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be quite as vocal about it. The more mainline moderate country Club Chamber of
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commerce types are seemed to be backing Capitol and mac Warner obviously, because of
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his military background, is certainly going to have a lot of support from those
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that are not only military people, but also those that are very sympathetic as
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we all are to the military folks. So everybody's starting to line up.
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I guess yeah, I think that's it for sure. I could actually wallpaper
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one side of my house with as many Americans for Prosperity and mailers as I've
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gotten in regards to the Morsy Rays very fervently in that corner, you got
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Club for Growth, he got Black Bear Pack. That's the former Morrissey advisor
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running at a lot of big money. There, a lot of big expenditures
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going on there. You've course got more Capito, who does of course have
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a lot of the same backers as his mother's US Senator Shelley Moore Capito,
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I think possibly. I think we all expect the governor at some point to
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probably endorse and probably endorse him in that. But I mean that's still kind
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of hanging out there. And then you've got, of course Chris Miller Huntington
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automobile Dealer, definitely pushing out a lot of commercials, has a lot of
25:15
support of fellow business people in similar businesses, car dealerships and things of that
25:19
nature. Probably has a lot of the social conservative support. I feel like
25:22
that's starting to grow. And then mac Warner, who I think should have
25:26
always stuck with the lane of military and veterans because he is the only veteran
25:32
in the race and that's a huge component. So I think if he keeps
25:36
focusing back on that, I think that could be helpful going forward. Now
25:41
let's get to you could sort of mention some of the advertising I want to
25:44
talk about the Primarily you talked about the mailers that you've been getting. I
25:48
have said this to political candidates with all due respect. Of course I'm going
25:52
to push radio, you know that, indigital and things of that nature.
25:55
However, Prince still alive print as well. I will say this that if
26:00
you go to your local post office, but you know, if you happen
26:02
to walk into the Charleston Saint all but Night, whatever the post office is,
26:04
go in, look at how many of those end up in the trash.
26:07
So, guys, I don't know if those really work or not.
26:11
I used to tell political candidates before I started doing this show, and I
26:14
was in the political game a little bit more. Had those candidates man that
26:18
wanted to push those mailers out had said ninety five percent of them end up
26:21
in the trash. Keep that in mind. But that's neither here or there,
26:23
all right, So let's talk about some of the negative ads that are
26:29
out there right now. There are some that are particularly brutal against Attorney General
26:34
Patrick morris and his race for governor. Well, that's right, of course.
26:37
You have the one ad put out by a independent expenditure committee that has
26:41
ran by Chris Miller's father, also the husband of US Representative Carol Miller,
26:47
that seems to be going hard after Morrisy in regards to possible connections during his
26:52
lobbyist days lobbying for pharmaceutical companies that had some connection to medication used in gen
27:00
refirming care. I think one of those ads got pulled off Way TV from
27:03
what I saw, so there may be an issue with that ad. But
27:06
Chris Miller has also now released his own ads kind of hitting Morrissey for the
27:10
same thing. Today just unveiled a new ad with a parent and daughter from
27:15
Kanall County talking about their experiences with a transgender girl or biological boy in a
27:22
locker room. And apparently Morrissey had a very kind of wishwa washy response to
27:27
it, so now they're against Morrissey. It's a very interesting ad that they've
27:32
put out today, so a lot of pressure on that we just pressed.
27:34
Of course, have to vet that stuff very carefully, So I would like
27:37
to kind of vet it and see how much of this is accurate and what's
27:41
not. But no doubt about it, it's negative and they think it's going
27:45
to have a big effect on point voters away from there. I just when
27:48
I sit back and you know, I hear ads on the radio or specifically
27:52
you see the ones on television, especially the ones that are coming from all
27:53
the packs, many of these, Steven, you could sit there and go
27:57
not happening, not happening, not happening, didn't happen. And that's that's
28:00
across the board from a lot of different candidates. I'm not picking on one
28:04
in particular. I'm just saying, you know, just and as voters,
28:08
you really got to do your homework, you know, on these things,
28:11
and do it yourself. You know. Well, yeah, because it's true
28:15
that the ads have to be true, that's one of the things that you
28:18
have. Well, let me I'm making a larger point on it. They
28:21
have to be true, but it doesn't mean the true things that you're putting
28:25
in the ad aren't necessarily stretched or connected to things that aren't related to something
28:30
else. So there's off a few skation always in these ads and you got
28:33
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I changed my voter registration ten years ago the Independent. Now that the
29:03
state has gotten worse under GOP control, too many social issues on the people.
29:07
We want to be free not controlled. Wow. Yeah, well,
29:11
I mean there's a lot of people that are switched to independent. And keep
29:14
in mind, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but independent
29:17
non affiliated it is pretty large. It's as nearly as large as the Republican
29:22
Democratic voter registration. So it's one of those things like people are going to
29:26
that the sort of a catch all because maybe they're not quite Democrats on that
29:29
side of things, but maybe they see the Republican side of things getting too
29:32
crazy, so it's sort of a safe harbor for them. Tech says Dave.
29:36
I'll be honest with you, the mailers and the numerous roadside signs blank
29:40
me off and I'm less likely to vote for them. I will tell you
29:44
someone that had a funny tweet the other day about how at least and I
29:48
won't say who the candidate is, but I know who they're referring to.
29:51
How they're not sure if the person's running for a judge ship or running to
29:53
be America's next top model. So there's a lot of very model esque photos
30:00
being used on some of these big signs. Texas, ninety eight percent of
30:04
all mail ends up in the trash. People don't file away their mail.
30:08
Mailers are very effective. All that's needed is a repetition, just like in
30:11
radio. As long as the repetition is there, the trash can does not
30:15
matter. Maylor's work and it's good advice to use them. Well, I
30:19
would love to see some corroborating evidence for that. I'd say this election broadcast.
30:23
I mean, I'm on a broadcast platform, so being a little bias
30:26
here, but I think broadcast is the way to go, and I think
30:30
you're seeing that with Chris Miller with some of his numbers coming up. I
30:33
mean it's moving a needle somewhere. So yeah, yeah, and exactly all
30:36
right. And you know, the thing about it is is and you can
30:40
hate on it, you can, but it's just where we are right now.
30:41
It takes a couple hundred thousand dollars to be governor AT's say, to
30:47
West Virginia, if not, if not, much more than that, and
30:51
we've gotten to a place. And I'm not picking on the governor's race.
30:52
I'm talking about it in general that outside of a simple county race, and
30:57
Kanawa County is a little bit kind of an outlier because they're such a large
31:00
county. But it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to get elected to just
31:06
about any office. I mean I'm talking about your you want to run for
31:10
assessor, and I'm just using that you want to run for a surveyor better?
31:12
Have you know about one hundred thousand dollars in the bank. Yeah,
31:15
I've never really been anti money in politics per se, because at the end
31:19
of the day, campaign science costs money. Mailers cost money, TV radio
31:23
ads cost money, newspaper ads cost money. I mean, you can't run
31:26
at a campaign on ten dollars. You just can't do it. You got
31:32
to have some money in the bank. And even congressionally that I think someone
31:34
said on average you have about have to have about three hundred thousand dollars to
31:38
even have a serious congressional campaign. All right, I think we have a
31:41
call, So let's go to Anthony. Let's go to the phones, and
31:45
you're on with Steven Adams. Go ahead, Hey Steven, this is Joe
31:49
Charleston. Let's Heyja, just about ballots in general. And I called last
31:56
week about sample ballots. And you know me, historically and a lot of
32:01
my family members used to be able to get a sample ballot. No matter
32:06
which party you're on or one of each, just to kind of vet and
32:08
see what's going on and look them over and do your own little research.
32:13
And they didn't have any ballots as they do this general ballots that should go
32:16
through. I mean, you get all this junk in the mail, but
32:20
you know, a lot of us used to see ballots. They would publish
32:22
them, you know, in the newspapers in different places, and especially if
32:25
you could get one, you know, at least a couple of days before
32:29
the election. Well, it's a little bit early, obs up in here.
32:30
It's a little bit early right now. I mean they normally wait till
32:34
around the time early voting starts. And I can tell you having some experience
32:38
as Steven does while working in state government, I mean there's a lot that
32:42
goes into put it. I understand completely what you're saying, and I always
32:45
try to look over the ballot, you know, before I go into the
32:47
voting booth myself. But as of right now, it's a little bit early,
32:52
but certainly by the time early voting starts, ballots should be out by
32:54
that point. Yeah, I mean, we obviously don't have the deadlines in
32:57
front of us, but there usually are pretty solid deadlines. You should be
32:59
able to to your county clerks once the deadline has passed to go get a
33:02
copy of that. And I can't speak for the local newspapers here. All
33:06
my newspapers in the northern half of the state, but they predominantly put the
33:08
sample ballots in their newspapers, so hopefully they do that here in Charleston as
33:14
well. So just be on the lookout. But if you ever have any
33:16
questions, call your county clerk and ask. But that doesn't give you much
33:20
time when they do when they get ready for early vote and get all that
33:22
done, it only gives you a few weeks before the election, okay,
33:27
right, well, yeah, that's why I was used to seems like they
33:29
used to do them because everything's closed, they know who's running for what now,
33:32
and just somebody had had a sample ballot out there, so give a
33:37
general populace time to kind of do their own little you know, calling and
33:43
screening and seeing who they want to vote for. But there again, it
33:45
seems like everybody's kind of picking a name that they are familiar with when they
33:49
go to vote. This guy's name sounds familiar to the other guys okay,
33:52
all right, Joe, I appreciate your phone call. Thanks a lot.
33:54
It is nineteen minutes away from ten final texts before we let you go here.
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Steven said, if it cost three million dollars ROUN for Governor Chris Miller
34:01
will be set. The Miller family thanks the federal government for the or can
34:06
thank the federal government for a three million dollar grant. The only thing I
34:08
will say about PPP. I think it's right to scrutinize Chris Miller for that,
34:14
for sure. But I'd also point out that if you were a business
34:16
and you had the ability to get it and pay it back, you've probably
34:21
got a PPP loan. One of my best friends got people. I don't
34:23
know a single business owner that didn't get well that's it. So I can't
34:27
fold him for that, but I can't go ahead. But as for the
34:30
scrutiny, for sure, absolutely needs to be scrutinized. All right, quickly.
34:34
Anything you're looking at this week? Oh man, Well, I'm hoping
34:37
to talk to some commissioner candidates for AG commissioner this week. That's kind of
34:40
a quiet race or whatnot? You got, Joshua Higginbotham challenging current commissioner can't
34:45
leenhurt. So hopefully we'll be talking to them and I'll be looking into some
34:50
issues with Westervirginia Public broadcasting. So fun times and where can people read your
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stuff? Sir? Track me down on x formerly known as Twitter at Steven
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And of course it's all available online. Hey man, I appreciate you
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rights. All right, that's Sutton, chief of staff for the mayors here.
38:38
How are you. I'm doing good, budd, It's been a long
38:39
time. It's been a long time you've been on. All right, man,
38:43
I'm doing all right. You got mayor on all the time. You
38:45
invite Tim and Adam want to talk about wrestling. I don't sit there.
38:47
I'm a listener. Now. You're always welcome on this show, man,
38:51
anytime you want to come in. Uh So, a lot of exciting stuff
38:54
been going on in Huntington. What city am I in here? Let me
38:59
go back to Charleston for a moment. I'm sorry, I have a little
39:01
brain fog for some reason today. But so in Charleston, the city that
39:07
we are currently in right now, we had the Little Wayne concert last week.
39:10
I know, we had skinned and zz Top's not all about concerts.
39:14
So but we've had a lot of activity. The all white affair that went
39:17
on, Woody Woods, my man, making that happen. There's been a
39:22
lot of good stuff going on in Charleston here lately. Bro. Yeah,
39:23
I mean it's it's where the weather's getting ready to break and it's getting ready
39:28
to be the start of the of the very exciting yet crazy season in Charleston.
39:31
I mean it has been over the last couple of years we've seen this
39:35
time of year really start to be the kickoff for what ends up being extremely
39:39
exciting spring and then an amazing summer and end of the fall. But the
39:44
back to back concert server it's called seem Convention Center, were just absolutely amazing.
39:47
I think you know, I was at the Little Wayne concert with my
39:51
wife and it was just great to see everybody there having a good time,
39:53
enjoying themselves. And it seemed like and from every indication that Little Wayne himself
39:59
had a great time, And that's always very important, right because that helps
40:01
us continue to get the ax. And then the Skinner Zzy Top Show on
40:06
Saturday, Woodies Party, and then just everything else, all the Easter events.
40:09
We had the Easter egg Hunt down to Magic Island yesterday, we had
40:14
the Lately Field. They had an almost a carnival basically Easter event. It
40:20
was just it was a really amazing weekend. Got a little bit of rain
40:22
mixed in there, but overall we couldn't have asked for anything better. When
40:25
might we see some regatta announcements coming up? I think you've probably start seeing
40:29
her God announcement. So for the next couple of weeks, yeah, we'll
40:31
start start to see those flow out as we get excited into the summer.
40:35
So yeah, it's gonna be I'm excited. I'm excited. So the next
40:38
couple of weeks, I think you'll start to see the regatta stuff come out
40:40
and that'll really build toward towards just an amazing summer with everything going on.
40:45
I do want to mention that the Home Show is going to be this weekend
40:49
to Kyle Seeming Convention Center. I say that because as I'm getting I'm talking
40:52
to my man Jim Strawn this morning, we're gonna have some folks on from
40:55
the Home Show on the show coming up tomorrow, and also I think we're
40:59
gonna have some more people on Friday. So I wanted to ask me for
41:01
an update on the municipalaudatorium situation. Where are we as far as an engineering
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report? So we have the engineering report is almost complete. The plan is
41:09
for it to be released on Thursday. I think here here soon you'll see
41:13
a meeting be scheduled sometime Thursday in order for the report to be made public
41:20
and have some discussion amongst both city council members and members of the coliseumic Vender
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41:28
we really start to discuss what the report says. All of the details in
41:30
the report a lot of the history of the Municipaladatorum, which I think is
41:35
going to be important for people to see. We won't dig into it too
41:37
much, but the report goes into that and the issues that the building has
41:42
had over the last basically since it was built. It is not does not
41:45
appear to be, you know, kind of an isolated incident over the last
41:50
you know, ten years or so it's been. It's been a while that
41:52
that building has had issues. But we'll start to see the report coming on
41:54
Thursday and then have discussions about what's next. Had a text you're wanting to
41:59
know, is the city going to be giving away composts this year? I
42:01
don't believe we're going to be giving away composts this year, but we will
42:05
check and let you know, and they will let you know for sure.
42:07
I think that we're out and I know that our machine went down, and
42:10
it's one of those machines that is very difficult to fix based on its location.
42:15
It's hard to get out of there, get to our machine shop and
42:17
get back, so they might have got that done. I'm not quite sure.
42:21
But if my answer is wrong, out we'll let you know, all
42:22
right, I do want to throw this out there, kind of get serious
42:25
here for a moment. I know that's difficult for you and I to do
42:28
when you put two of us together, but I do get nearly almost dately
42:32
taxed about this the show. Are you at liberty or to discuss any information
42:36
about the Jimmy rist and investigation? Anything new to report there or no?
42:39
I mean, the last thing I heard about it was the last thing you
42:43
heard about it, which essentially, once it hits the prosecutor's office, it's
42:45
out of the You know, the police spart will continue to help in the
42:49
investigation, but once it hits their office, that's their purview and what comes
42:52
out of that is up to them and whatever they feel to do. So
42:54
No, once Chief Dempsy announced it went over there, that's the last I
42:59
heard about it. All right, We need to take a break. I'm
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projects around the town Center? So yeah, I mean, I think earlier
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46:57
of things move probably over the next two three months. And you know,
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the we all remember what the town Center, you know, was back in
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the day. You're from this area. I'm not, but I can remember
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visiting the town Center and what it was like and uh, and we're just
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hoping to return it to something. I know that's not up to the city,
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that's up to the that's private own, private owned business. But still
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we'd love to see it returning. Absolutely. Yeah, we somewhere. Yeah.
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I mean, I think what our philosophy is is that it's the government's
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job to to prop up spaces in order for private development to succeed. And
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we saw that work with City Center. It's like Plaza. We've seen it
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work with the upgrades of the Convention Center. We've seen it work in different
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models as we get ready to do the Canal Boulevard as well, and the
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same thing's true here. We're very helpful and believe that with the addition of
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the Sports Center downtown, uh, and the addition of you know, several
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new businesses and new and the new headquarters of TC Energy that it will be,
47:52
they'll had no choice but to either develop the property or to find somebody
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who will develop the property, because it's going to be too good an asset.
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We're going to have too many people in town. And I think we've
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proven over the last couple of weeks. You know, quick aside. You
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know the Little Wayne concert. People see it as a concert. But my
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wife owns a small business that is really an appointment only business, and it's
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in the wedding business. But she had somebody come into the store on Friday
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who ended up buying a wedding dress and she asked them where they're from,
48:16
and they said, Ronoke, Virginia, So we'll how'd you end up here?
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So we were at the Little Waye concert last night and we just saw
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that you had a wedding shop and they came in and bought I mean,
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so they came in from Roanoke, stayed the night, and spent money in
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town. And that's just one story. And I think those are the type
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of things that we lean on when we really look at how we drive economic
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development. Our job is to put people in the city of Charleston and then
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businesses will grow from there. Any getting serious here for a moment, Any
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common or anything about the tay Kon situation I think out right now, I
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think the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police are still doing their
48:46
investigation, and then as it relates to anything other than that, I don't
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have to leave that up to our legal team to talk about. But we
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really have seen since Chief Dempsey and Deputy Chief Web have come on, it's
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really been a three sixty or a one eighty I guess would be the upper
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term for the police department. I think we've seen a lot of things heading
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in the right direction. They've implemented a lot of policies and they've really started
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from the ground up. I know I won't step on there thunder, but
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they've really been talking to, you know, folks who have been on the
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Police ppark for six months, and for six years and for sixteen years to
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try to figure out what the direction of the police department needs to be.
49:15
And we've been very happy with how that's been working. But they've aalanced you
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golf course. So that's an interesting question. I'm learning all about this.
49:32
Cato golf course right now is under review. We brought in an expert I
49:36
think from Pennsylvania maybe somewhere to come in and to teach our to figure out
49:40
exactly what needs to happen with the greens and to teach our staff about how
49:44
they need to properly maintain and operate the greens. So I think over the
49:46
next few months you're going to see a lot of upgrades to the golf course.
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Not my area of expertise by far maintaining a golf course or playing golf
49:53
for that matter, but it is right now is a tremendous focus under the
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Mayor and director. Poor been talking about it for the last several months over
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the winter, and now we finally got an expert in who's going to tell
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us what to do. So it's going to be it's going to be exciting
50:06
for people who play. I know the disc golf goes well there and highlight
50:08
hiking trails, but we're getting ready to get that golf course. Back on
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track, I did want to mention that it is spring, which means there
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are several spring cleanups going on. This Saturday, Team Cleanup comes to the
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Kanasa City in South Hills area starting at nine o'clock. You could pick up
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supplies anything that you made into the Kanawa City Community Center. I posted some
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information about that on my social media, So hopefully by the end the rain
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will be out of here. Yeah, and those are always really well attended,
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I know, you know. It's something every year since we started the
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Councilvan Bruce King and Councilman and Chad Robinson have asked for in kanas City and
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we've been able to do them and then all the folks in South Hills.
50:45
They've been very successful and we enjoy them. It's a good community event as
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well, and I think you get to learn a lot about what's going on
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you neighborhood if you come into kanas City right now, people think it's a
50:53
lot about traffic, but there's a lot of business development going on in that
50:55
area as well, So be good for people from all across the city to
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come out and then it'll kind of culminate the last cleanup we have will be
51:02
the weekend right before USA cyclings in town, and we're going to do that
51:06
downtown in the East End, and that's really all hands on deck right now
51:08
for that. That's one of the largest events, at least I'll ever experience
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in this town in terms of how big it's, how much it spreads out,
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and how much resources is needed. And some information you released as we
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close. Some information came out last week about that. Yeah, the routes
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came out last week, and then all of the traffic and all those patterns
51:23
will come out. But I think really looking forward to what the CDB is
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doing and what USA Cycling is doing along with our team is just it is.
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It is going to be a very impressive event. We're going to learn
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as we go. We're going to ask people to bear with us as it
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relates to the street closures and all of that. But I think over the
51:37
next couple of weeks you'll see our team out talking to people who are directly
51:40
impacted by the street closures and figuring out how we can make sure that their
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business or church as well, and then working very closely to make sure that
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because that starts on election Day, so this is going to be the biggest
51:52
event. I mean, if you think about it, I've said this the
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biggest event Charleston has ever held. Because Regatta is primarily in one air,
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this is all over the city. Charles wrapping up now, It's going to
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be the biggest event, at least in my lifetime, that I've that we've
52:02
ever seen, just due to the sheer volume of area that it's going to
52:07
cover and the amount of area is going to cover in our town. But
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I tell you what, we're excited about it, and we close the whole
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town down in order to have amazing events like this. So that's gonna be
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the kick off to our season. And then then it goes in the Festival,
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Then it goes into Regatta, it goes into Multifest, it goes in
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a rip fest, and it's just gonna be an exciting summer in the city
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Charleston. All right, man, I appreciate you being here, Matt Sutton,
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chief of staff for the Good One administration. I appreciate you being here.
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Coming up tomorrow when it spent some time talking about the home Show,
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