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Canal Valley Mayor's Association is going to hold a candidates for them for those seeking
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office from the area and the upcoming made Primire. The forum is Monday evening
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at six of Bell Town Hall. Here to talk about it as a mayor.
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Mayor of Bell Mayor David Fletcher, Good morning, sir, How are
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you? Good morning, Dave? How are you doing today? One from
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one day to another? Yeah, one day to another. It's the best
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name, you know, that right, that's right true, is no doubt
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before we get to the forum that your town is going to be hosted on
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Monday evening. Looks like you provide me with a line of the people and
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you got to got some real heavy hitters coming there for this. Tell us
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what's going out of bail these days, what's new in the town. Actually,
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we're doing pretty well holding our own. You always say that you can
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always use more money to do more things, but with what we've got,
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we're doing a pretty good job keeping everything going, trying to keep us in
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the black and moving forward. We actually were able to after gosh ned seven
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mayors later, we're able to actually do a storm drained sewer line upgrade and
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new lines and everything in the road that had never been done in the past.
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So Phil feel pretty good about that and getting some of those things done.
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Another thing is actually the state did pave we'route sixty through bail in from
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the Palmar store and the their businesses that are in bail there, and so
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that was really pretty good. They stopped a little bit short of the town
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limits. Don't know why we've asked a couple, did you something to make
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a matter? Well, I don't think so. But we've asked them a
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couple of questions as to why, and a couple of the legislator lady people,
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and you know, haven't really gotten an answer there. But stopped short
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of the old Walker Machinery, Boyd Caterpillar area and did not go to the
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end of Bell. So I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe they'll they'll
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righttify that situation. They may. I mean, I think we've we've we've
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raised a little bit of dander with them, So we'll see see what happens
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here in the spring session. What what would you want to say to people?
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Maybe because I know in West Virginia we're always trying to attract new people
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to move to a town or to open up a business in the town.
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What's a big selling point that you've give them for the for the for the
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town of Bell. Well, I think what we've got, I mean,
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you know, everybody's got being attacked, no matter if you're in Bail or
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Night, Saint Albans or South ch Auston or wherever. The big thing is
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with us, I mean, we do have a great police department, We've
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got a great fire department, We've got a Great Street department, city services
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and everything there. We still probably offer one of the lowest price services for
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those services itself to our businesses and residents in Bail. So we're always looking
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for someone to come in and to try to bring new business to Bell.
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And you know, and then even with the announcement recently with the hydrogen hub
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and everything else, we've actually torn down some houses. So we have about
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eight or ten building lots right now that someone could come in and actually put
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a few new buildings up in Bell, new houses. So you know,
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we're pretty pleased to see that and trying to make sure that you know,
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once this hydrogen hub comes in that we've got maybe a couple of new building
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lots and so many can can come in and actually build a new home in
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doing this meet the candidates for him. It's going to be Monday evening at
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six o'clock at the Bell Town Hall and it is sponsored I understand by the
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Upper Kanal Valley Mayors Association. Talk about that organization. Okay, Yeah,
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we do have the Upper Kanal Valley Mayors Association. It is made up of
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all the eastern end mayors in the Upper Kanoal Valley, beginning at actually the
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Bell area over on the south side or north side of Route sixty and starting
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at Marmett over on the south side in sixty one and going all the way
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to Montgomery area. Got all the mayors that we bring everybody together trying to
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share ideas and different things, trying to see what we can do with that
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quorum or what we've been doing. We have done, like an Upper Canal
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Valley dog Catcher. We actually had the dog Catcher program running for guys probably
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fifteen eighteen years and then just actually looking at police services things like that.
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We're all having problems finding police officers and we've been trying to say, can
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we share some officers or anything. That's a great thing to do. I
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mean to have municipalities like that work together because, as you said, Mayor,
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most of you had the same problems, the same and it's great that
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you can all work together, network and kind of learn from each other.
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So you guys are going to do this. It's it's a it's a meat
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the Candidates forum, and it's going to be at the Bell Town Hall and
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it is on Monday evening. It starts at six o'clock, doors open at
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five. Refreshments will be served. Talk about all the kind of work that's
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that that's gone into putting this thing on, What will the format be like,
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what will people learn if they come out there? Okay, you know,
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and we've done this at Bell for many years now, usually on the
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every other year, and we'll try to do a meet the candidates anytime that
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we can. But putting this thing together, it's pretty much just working up
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with the mayors itself up in the Upper Kanal Valley trying to get this thing
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together and then actually put out a brochure that we've put together and to send
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that out to the potential candidates that are running. And then actually each one
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of us, I think is shared personally for several candidates, just trying to
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see who we can get out. Now, what candidates are you looking at?
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Is there anything that you're I mean, we've opened to anybody. Well,
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it's pretty much opened to anybody if you're running for House magistrate, whatever.
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Yeah, we actually have a congressional candidate that's going to be there,
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and then from there we've got a government or governor candidate uh, you know,
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actually going to be on board with us. Uh and then coming down
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to the local offices, down to the Board of Education, to the sheriff,
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to the assessor you know, county commissioners, the magistrates here in Kannall
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County. So you know, we've got a variety. And I think right
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now we're close to thirty people. Wow. And that's why I'll asking you
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about how the format's gonna work, because thirty people, thirty politicians are wanting
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to be politicians. With all due respect, that's a lot of hot air.
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It is it is, And you're onna and I'm wanna I don't consider
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myself I'm kidding kidout. But but the how is this going to work?
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Man? Yeah, what we normally do is once we get everybody in,
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we usually sit them down and just say, hey, you know, we're
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giving everybody and we try to look at this early. So we've done this
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already, uh thinking right now, we're going to be probably about two to
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two and a half hours. Uh, so it actually gives each one of
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them about five minutes uh to be able to come up just state their case,
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state their political platform, you know, what they believe in, why
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they're running. Uh, just different things that you know, you want the
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voters to hear. Okay, you know, so that's really i mean pretty
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much the platform. So we're going to have some people that's going to actually
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be waving you know, hey, you get you're there for the timekeepers.
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There's always part of timekeepers and to make sure that we try to stay on
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point. Now, will the audience be allowed to ask them questions? We
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do take some questions, and then another thing we actually start out usually with
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hey, the candidates are going to stay in the room for a little while,
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you know, catch them, you know, talk to them one on
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one. Yeah, talk to them one on one, you know, and
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we try to do more than that or more of that than we do,
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just questions, just so we can keep this format going. What is the
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deadline If a candidate's listening right now, and maybe they didn't know about this,
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and they because it's Monday evening, is there a deadline? But they
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could show up Monday evening at six o'clock, you know, we all ahead
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of time, or we open the doors at five. Yeah, there is
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down on the bottom of the flyer there. We had our two clerks,
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Angelo up in Montgomery and Lynn at Bell Town Hall that we've asked everyone to
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call if they are coming, to let them know. And that way we've
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made a list so far of who all we do know is going to be
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there and refreshments will be served. Refreshments will be sort of that's what I
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want to know. What kind of refreshments you goed? Usually what they'll do
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is they'll do some finger foods, maybe a small sandwich, anything like that,
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and then from there then we'll have usually tea lemonade, water things,
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and some coffee, good stuff, good stuff, all right, good,
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all right, So it's all gonna be Monday evening at Bell Town Hall and
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starts at six o'clock. And again, if you're a candidate listening right now,
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I'm gonna give you a couple of numbers here if it's directly off the
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flyer, Angela Tackett three zero four four four two five to one eight one
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or Lynn Sizemore three zero four nine nine thirty eight forty one again, and
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or just call the town hall, so Bell down all the nine three eight
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four ones Bell town Hall, called Bell town Hall, and they'll get you
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taken care of. Was I think it's great that you're doing that, and
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you've got again. I mean, now this list that you provided me,
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is this a list of people that are coming? Or is this that's the
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list right now? Have it? So I'm gonna I'm gonna just talk about
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some of the offices. I'm gonna get individuals. We've got Canaw Candy,
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Board of Education, a couple of sheriff's candidates, family court judge, there's
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a house, a couple of House members I see or House candidates, should
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say, Congress, Kenawk County assessor, Circuit court judge, prosecuting attorney,
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secretary of state, so yeah, you got a wide range here and there's
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still time to get into this. So look, it's an opportunity for you
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candidates, and I know a lot of them listen to this show. So
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if you're a candidate, you need to contact the Bell Town Hall and say,
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hey, I want to be at this thing. That's right, all
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right, Mayor is always it's a pleasure to have you on the show.
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Appreciated, Dave. Glad to be here and glad to be able to share
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some things going on in bail and then also with the meet Candidates night.
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Now, I want you to keep things running smoothly there and say hello to
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my old junior High and fellow Logan High class of eighty eight member John Slick
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Seiner. I know he's listening, so I got to give him a shout
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out. I'm sure he is all right. Well, it's no problem,
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but come up anytime and look forward seeing you maybe Monday night if you get
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a chance to run them see it all it sounds good. Mayor Fletcher,
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three five five zero zero A delicate. Jb Acres is here. JB.
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Good morning, Welcome to the show. How are you doing fine? Man?
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You can breathe now because it's over. You know. Actually people say
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that, and I'll be honest, it's not. It's not that I've got
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a little bit of cold, So apologize the listeners for that. I caught
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that at the Capitol. By the way, nothing good comes out of the
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Capitol. I've been told every every once in a while something good comes out
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of there. But you know, people, you know you here's some I've
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had folks say, hey, how is it? Can you decompress now?
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And I'll be honest with you. I mean, part of it's because I
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live in Charleston, so at least I got to go home every night and
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see my family. Not as much as I wanted to. I missed them,
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but I actually enjoyed the process, to be frank with you. And
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uh, you know, the section I sat in on the house floor,
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there was one hundred of us in there, but there was a group of
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about six guys who are right around me who could kind of, you know,
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turn around and talk to and just and it was a really really nice
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group of people who I sat with. So I'll be honest with you,
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I enjoyed going to work every day. So for whatever that's worth. Now,
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you were appointed, of course to the seat, and you are going
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to run for reelection. Yeah, I've already filed, already filed now.
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I think we talked about that the last time that you were here. So
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you've been around politics, you know, for a while, and certainly,
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as you said, living in Charleston and everything, I'm sure you were not
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a stranger to the capital. Was there anything that surprised you about the whole
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process? I mean, like I said, you're not a novice to this,
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although you never really been on the floor during the session. Was there
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any surprises for you, JB. No, I mean, I really I
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can say that truthfully, I was not really surprised by any things. I've
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been to the Capitol quite a bit over the years, and just some different
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legal issues because my regular job is I'm a lawyer. I represent. I've
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got my law office downtown. I represent you know, some small business and
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individuals and just different types of stuff. I've got a pretty varied practice.
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But I wasn't really surprised. I guess I would say the one thing that
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kind of maybe it was the most frustrated times was we would usually have a
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you would call them caucus meetings, either in the mornings before we start the
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regular session, or you'd have those sometimes before you have a committee meeting,
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and sometimes you go back there and everybody said they were good with particular issue.
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Then once you get in the floor, then somebody would all of a
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sudden have a problem with whatever you're discussing, and then that would sometimes take
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on a life of its own and kind of spin us off the tracks for
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a while. So that part could be could be a little bit frustrating when
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you thought everybody was okay with an issue, then they tell you that they're
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not. Once again in public, and I think you know, having TV
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cameras there sometimes makes a difference in how people approach an issue, but that's
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a small gripe. I wasn't really shocked by anything. And I'll say that
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the like the House leadership that we had was they were very easy to work
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with. But that's a tough job as well. I mean, you've got
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a hundred on the House site, you've got a hundred cats to herd,
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you've got a hundred different personalities, you've got one hundred people who have and
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everybody what's important to them is what's important to their constituents back home, or
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at least it should be. And you know, as like minded as we
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might think that the the House Chamber is because we have a super majority,
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everyone's part of the state is a little bit different. Yeah, you know,
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so what's important to somebody in Hardy County, for example, might be
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completely different to what's important to somebody who you know, is in Knall County
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or Cabal County, just depending upon where you live. So those are you
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know, the issues and making sure that everybody gets hurt up there. That
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can be tough. Talk about some of the actual legislation highlights, low lights
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things you're proud of, things that didn't get done that you wish would have
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gotten across the finish line. Well, I mean, the thing that I
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went there to focus on the most is jobs in the economy, and it's
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hard to legislate jobs in economy. You can try to do things to make
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things smoother for the folks who live here, try to attract businesses or try
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to attract people who live here. You know. Probably the biggest thing that
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I think that we did that people paid the most attention to was finally taking
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care of that the Social Security income tax we have in the state, which
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was just atrocious. I mean, I never could understand why we tack people's
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Social Security benefits as an income in this state. So thank goodness, we
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finally got rid of that one, you know, way to pay raise for
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teachers and service personnel and state police, which I think was deserved because you
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know, their PIA costs just keep going up, so you know, for
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them it's really it's almost just like a cost of living increase. But at
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least we help them with that issue. And then, you know, beyond
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that, we had you know, I wouldn't say anything earth shattering. I've
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had some people see some complaints where people said, oh, you all didn't
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get anything done up there, But I mean, we passed two hundred and
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seventy nine bills. And it's my kind of philosophy with government is probably frankly,
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the less laws you make the better. By and large, I mean,
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you want to pass good laws. You want to do things that make
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a difference in people's lives and make their lives better. The government doesn't have
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all the answers, but we passed almost three hundred bills up there, and
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a lot of them weren't more things that were going to change the world,
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but they make things a little bit better in everyday lives. And like one
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of the things that you know, kind of flies under the radar. But
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I was most proud of is we finally put together an annual funding source for
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our volunteer fire departments who were hanging on by a threat across the state,
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and those volunteer fire departments for a lot of smaller communities and a lot of
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counties, really county wide, that's the only life saving source they have.
23:15
If something like that happens to the NFL fire through home, you can be
23:18
kind of spoil. Let me just jump in here. You can be kind
23:21
of spoiled maybe living in the canalv Oh my gosh. We don't know how
23:25
luck we are. But when you get into some of these extremely rural areas
23:30
and those volunteer firemen I mean, and they're everything as far as emergency services,
23:36
that is all you've gotten. Let's just say Caboll County had a real
23:37
bad of wreck yesterday with some fire trucks. We've got those folks in our
23:41
minds. But yeah, I mean, those volunteer fire departments, they are
23:45
the lifeline and a lot of counties in the States. So we finally put
23:48
together a source of income for them that is more dependable. So that was
23:52
something that you know, a lot of listeners probably wouldn't pay much attention to
23:55
that bill, but that one was really important to me in a personal basis.
23:57
We also did some things make sure that deputy sheriffs and municipal police officers
24:03
and firefighters, if they suffered disability on the job, we did a better
24:07
job for them making sure that their benefits are increased to where they should be.
24:12
I mean. So there were a lot of smaller, smaller bills like
24:15
that that the average person may not pay attention to, but they were good
24:18
things. I mean, we increase Medicaid coverage for dental care for people.
24:21
Again, is that a huge ear shattering bill. No, But for if
24:23
you're the dentist and you need an extra thousand dollars for dental care and you
24:26
can't afford it, that's going to matter to you. So again, Dave,
24:30
you know, the two biggest ones I think were the Social Security income
24:33
tax and the pay rays, and then the rest of them were a mix
24:37
of a bunch of things that maybe more monitor small things, but I hope
24:41
that they make a difference in people's lives, and I hope they make the
24:44
state a little more accessible and get people moving here. And again I'll say
24:47
I'm an optimist and always have them. In the past couple of years,
24:51
we've had net migration into the state, which hasn't happened for a long long
24:53
time. Now. We did technically lose people still because our death rate out
24:59
passed are ou paced our birth rate, but we've had more people moving into
25:03
West Virginia the past couple of years than leaving the state. That's a huge
25:07
turnaround. I mean, there's just certain people Delegate that I don't know why,
25:11
and I always I never discourage anybody from texting, and love my textras,
25:15
love my callers, whatever. But there's just certain people that I get
25:18
to listen to the show that will not wrap their head around that. And
25:22
it's it's fact. And I have a realtor that comes on my show once
25:26
a month to talk about real estate issues, my buddy Rich the realtor.
25:29
UH and living in Putnam County where I do, there's not enough houses.
25:33
There's enough houses in Kanaalac County for that matter, for the people that are
25:36
coming in. And I just don't know why it is people just keep beating
25:38
their head against the wall and saying it's not true. It is true people
25:41
are moving into the area. Yeah, it is true. And again it
25:45
doesn't mean things are perfect. Like I'm not looking I'm not looking through the
25:48
through rose colored glasses. But you know, I mean, one negative thing
25:53
from the session I can say personally is I thought we would do more for
25:56
childcare, which I think we should be doing. I think arest our care
26:00
system. We did pass a few bills to help foster care, but I
26:02
think that's a that's a huge heavy lift. We still got to pay more
26:04
attention to. So it's not that there aren't things that we still don't need
26:07
to fix, but overall things aren't. Things are getting better in West Virginia.
26:11
I mean, is it going to be an immediate turnaround. No,
26:14
But I mean, dad going if we ever had as many large job announcements
26:17
as we've had the past three or four years in the state of West Virginia,
26:19
I mean, there's there's no way. I mean that investment that New
26:22
Corps made, We've never had anything close to what New Corps announcing up in
26:26
that Mason County Jackson County area. I'd like to have some of that stuff
26:30
a little closer to Canall County. But you know, still that will help
26:33
this whole region. I mean, yeah, everybody wants to you know,
26:34
in their in their town obviously, but but what I mean if you can't
26:38
have it there, at least that that is still tax money that's coming into
26:41
West Virginia for these companies. Well, those people will come to Charleston to
26:45
shop and eat, I mean, and their kids will play sports here,
26:48
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I got a couple texts here for you. JB One says, of those
27:12
two hundred or whatever bills that were passed, do any of them increase revenue
27:18
for the state. Well, I mean increase revenue in terms of if we're
27:22
hopefully making our business climate better. When you say increase revenue, I mean
27:26
I think we did pass some stuff that will help with that. And you
27:27
see increase revenue. If people don't get their Social Security income tax, that
27:33
means they have more money in their pocket. I mean that'll be more money
27:34
they have available to spend in the local economy. So that will increase revenue.
27:40
So if you're talking about, you know, how can the government increase
27:44
revenue, then you make sure people have more money themselves and the businesses have
27:48
keep more of their money. So I think in that way some of the
27:51
bills did. Yes. Text says, please ask JB if you voted for
27:56
the bill to allow kids not to have to be immunized. So yeah,
27:59
I voted against the overall bill. I was actually daved. I was okay,
28:03
And that's one where that probably would take an hour to get in the
28:06
weeds in the whole bill. That's a hard when you're like, hey,
28:07
in ten seconds, tell me which thing about vaccine's bit JB or the bill.
28:11
But I was actually okay with a pure religious exemption because forty five other
28:15
states have it. A couple more states beyond that allow for just a personal
28:18
objection for no reason, and not that many people take a religious exemption.
28:22
But what that bill turned into is it actually does not have a religious exemption
28:26
in it at all. It simply carves out private and parochial schools and also
28:32
virtual schools. So now potentially an entire school could not require immunizations as long
28:38
as your kid has the money opportunity to attend there. But if your kid
28:41
is a public school student, they get treated completely differently. And I'll be
28:45
honest with you, as a lawyer, I said in the house, Flora
28:47
said, I'm not sure if this is even satisfies equal protection. I mean,
28:52
because if you're a family who lives in Clay County with no school choice,
28:55
really, but you live somewhere else where you can pay to send your
28:57
kid to private school, when you get treated diferent, really, you know.
29:00
So I'm not sure if how that's going to work after every gets challenged.
29:03
But yeah, and I believe the vaccines work are what I would call
29:07
traditional vaccines. I mean, the the COVID vaccine thing in a lot of
29:11
ways was a pr disaster for our country. But you know, you're talking
29:15
about polio vaccine for example, or going back before that smallpox vaccine. Uh,
29:19
I mean, those things worked. I mean, there's no doubt about
29:22
it. Doesn't mean the vaccine injuries aren't real. It doesn't mean that we
29:25
should be respectful of that because that happened. But the overall effect is vaccines
29:30
did make public health better. So the traditional vaccines I'm in favor of.
29:33
And I don't know if having an entire school potentially where no one has to
29:37
be vaccinated is the best idea. I understand people's freedom and they want to
29:41
make the decisions for the kids. But I do think that childhood immunizations and
29:45
again the traditional ones. I do understand some people are concerned because it seems
29:49
like every couple of years they just add something else to the schedule. Uh
29:53
yeah, And that's the quite And again, just as you said, it's
29:56
another it's subject for another entire show. We's been a now so talking on
30:00
this. But you know, you and I are roughly in the same age
30:03
group. And if you look compared the numbers of the vaccines that we had
30:07
as a kid growing up in the nineteen I had in the nineteen seventies anyway,
30:11
as opposed to the vaccines that kids have now, there's and I don't
30:15
care which side of the fenchure on, there's a whole lot more of them
30:17
now. It does seem like I saw it on paper. I don't have
30:19
the number in front of me, but I was looking at it. I'll
30:22
say, man, there's a whole lot more than there used to be.
30:23
And maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it's a bad thing. I don't
30:26
know. Yeah, And I even said this in the house floora I said,
30:29
if we want a debate, maybe which vaccine should be required that's a
30:33
different debate. But I think if we're going to say something like the measles
30:36
vaccine isn't beneficial. And again I do recognize the vaccine injuries do occur,
30:41
But I made this distinction in the house floor. I said, look,
30:44
there are about two hundred and fifty thousand to four hundred thousand people every year
30:47
who died just from simple medical errors. Like did you just go to the
30:49
hospital and somebody makes a mistake and it kills you? I said, But
30:52
no one here in the house when I said this, no one. If
30:56
you got a phone call saying that you had a loved one who was in
30:59
a serious accident, you wouldn't say, don't take them to the hospital because
31:00
they might die from medical ware, I said, you would say, Holy
31:03
col get them, help take him to the hospital. And to me,
31:06
the vaccines are the same way, where again the traditional ones, I know
31:11
that some injuries occur, but overall, the beneficial effect I think greatly.
31:14
I don't think it does greatly outweigh the potential for harm. Now again,
31:18
if we think that maybe we're demanding kids get too many vaccines, I'd have
31:22
that conversation differently. But anyway, on that that question. Short answer,
31:26
I'd love to talk more about it. I did vote against that overall bill.
31:33
Now, if it had been crafted differently, maybe there could have been
31:34
ways. I was supporting some exceptions, but not the way it came out.
31:37
And that's what happens sometimes is people feel a certain way about certain things,
31:41
but maybe it's just not the best bill in the world. Well yeah,
31:44
and I mean people will you know, I mean, I can't tell
31:47
how many times you know this has happened. And the parties accuse each other
31:48
of this. And I'm not saying it's Democrats only or Republicans to do it.
31:52
Like, so let's say that the Democrats, just as a crazy example,
31:56
they propose put a bill out that said, let's give our teachers a
31:59
one billion dollar pay raise, and we said, you know what, we
32:01
can't afford that that's too much, and we vote against it. And then
32:05
they said, well, you Republicans vote against teachers today, right. I
32:07
mean, that's a ridiculous example. But you know, so on that something
32:10
like the vaccine bill, people might say, oh, well, you vote
32:13
against either freedom or you voted to kill children, Like that's the kind of
32:16
crazy writer care here. On either side. Welcome to twenty twenty four.
32:20
So, I mean, I do think you know, I'd be happy to
32:22
talk to you about about that issue or any other one. I mean,
32:24
some of these things are a lot more nuanced in the weeds than you think.
32:29
So anyway, it's that was one where there was a lot of discussion
32:31
and debate, a couple more texts where we let you go Texas as an
32:35
independent. I do not like social issues being forced into people. Stay out
32:37
of local sports, stop the war and women and the attacks on libraries did
32:42
not do anything changing the Public Service Commission. We want to vote who's on
32:45
that board. Well, I mean, I'll say again, you know,
32:50
not every bill that goes through there I was in favor of. I didn't
32:52
vote vote for everything that maybe was a culture issue, but it doesn't mean
32:57
that they're not important to a lot of people in the state. And again,
33:00
you know, the demographics of the constituencies are all different, so there
33:02
might be people again to use a different county, you know, maybe somebody
33:06
in Mineral County really cares about an issue that somebody in Charleston says, who
33:10
cares about that? But to the Mineral County delegation, they might say,
33:13
Look, I was sent here to deal with this particular issue, so that's
33:16
just part of the process, you know. And I voted. Look,
33:20
I voted against several Republican bills up there. I mean I don't I voted
33:23
with Republicans most of the time. I'm a Republican and a conservative. But
33:28
like that Legislative Auditor bill that went through where they were changing the powers and
33:31
duties of the legislative auditor, I voted against Republicans on that one. I
33:37
didn't think that was a good bill for some different reasons. So you know,
33:39
I've voted my conscience and what I thought was best. But you know,
33:43
if someone writes in and again, I'd like to have a conversation with
33:45
them besides just having a SoundBite. But if someone says they want to stop
33:51
a cultural issue, you know, there's a lot of people in the state
33:53
who would disagree, and you've got to come up with a compromise on those
33:57
Those things are not unimportant to a lot of other people. Before we let
34:00
you go, this will be your final thing because you are running for reelection
34:05
unopposed in the primary. In the primary probably will have an opponent of the
34:09
general. What's the message that you want to get out to people even though
34:14
you don't have opposition. But what's the message you like to talk about to
34:16
kind of sell jbacres On, Well, I mean during the session, as
34:20
busy as we were, you know, I wasn't getting to do my real
34:22
job really at all. But I was always responsive to people. I mean
34:25
I responded to emails and phone calls. You know, there were people who
34:30
called me from outside the district and I would even I would call them back,
34:32
even if they couldn't vote for against me, and even though they disagreed
34:36
with me. I'm someone who likes to talk to folks about the issues.
34:38
I'm an accessible delegate, and my focus really as I'm making West Virginia a
34:44
better place again, my focus is on jobs and the economy and making sure
34:47
that we grow this state and we you know, not just keep as many
34:51
people here as possible, to bring as many new people here as we can.
34:54
And you want to talk about raising revenue, that's how you do it.
34:57
You get more taxpayers here, more businesses. So that's gonna be my
35:00
focus always. And I'm always someone who's going to sit down and talk to
35:01
you, whether we disagree or not Delagan Jbaker is always a pleasure to talk
35:06
to you and to Hey on a show man. We'll talk again soon.
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coming up on Tomorrow's show. Let me see, man, I got a
40:46
lot of texting it today. Dex says kids get too many vaccines. Is
40:53
the anti vax calling card and a hook to manipulate otherwise reasonable people. This
40:59
is the proper and used to push the lie that vaccines calls autism. Don't
41:02
be a useful idiot for the anti vax liars. Ask a trusted medical expert
41:07
for advice. And if you're an anti vax, cool bro. You and
41:12
those like you can go live together in an isolated area and see firsthand how
41:15
her immunity works. When you get sick, go to whatever alternative medicine guru
41:20
you follow for vaccine. I don't think that was aimed at me. I
41:22
don't think, because I have given my opinion on that I am not anti
41:28
vax by any stretch of the imagination. That is just that's just me,
41:34
all right, Okay, let me move on. So yesterday talk Line hoppyhead
41:40
on as his guests Ken Kendrick. Now, who is Ken Kendrick? You
41:45
ask? Well? He is a semi regular on talk Line, one of
41:49
the founders of Country Roads Trust, which is the group that, among other
41:52
things, facilitates the NIL program at WVU He's also a managing partner and owner
41:58
of the Arizona Diamondbacks, major league based ball team, the team that won
42:00
the National League Pennant this past year before losing in the series to the Rangers.
42:06
He's also a major major donor to West Virginia University and as a WVU
42:12
alum. Now he was on with Hoppey and was asking about the chances of
42:17
former coach Bob Huggins possibly returning to the Mountaineers as either a coach or maybe
42:24
some other role with university. Well, I'll say if Ken Kendrick has anything
42:30
to do with it, and let's face it, he does, because money
42:34
talks. It ain't happening now or ever. Now. This all comes on
42:39
a day when WVU athletic director Rin Baker said that head basketball coach Josh Eilert
42:45
was not the answer moving forward and that a national search for a new basketball
42:50
coach would begin. So let's review just a bit. Coach Huggins submitted his
42:54
resignation last June to the university following is the UI arrest. A few weeks
43:01
earlier, he was suspended and was facing a million dollar salary reduction after using
43:07
disparaging remarks about gays and Catholics on a radio program out of Cincinnati, and
43:15
in July, coach Huggins demanded reinstatement. Yes, he wasn't coach at that
43:20
point, and so you know how that story goes now now, Ken Kendrick
43:23
was on with Happy yesterday and said that, among other things, let me
43:29
give a couple paraphrased quotes here from Kent Kendrick about Huggins coming back. Quote
43:34
again, sort of kept paraphrasing for time purposes here. I think WVU was
43:38
too lenient with him. Had he worked for me, he would have not
43:43
had a job after the homophobic remarks. Continuing he lost his job as a
43:49
result of a drunken stupor, and again paraphrasing here. You can hear Hendrick's
43:53
complete statements as part of the story posted by Brad at wv Metronews dot com.
44:00
Wasn't done there, and again I'm paraphrasing. He said, it's the
44:06
second time talking about Huggins. Second time he lost his job because of drunkenness.
44:13
He was let go by the University of Cincinnati for exactly the same reason
44:17
I think, says Kendrick. He has no place in the lives of young
44:23
men who deserve quality leadership, and I would wonder about the mental capacity of
44:30
any leader who would consider hiring Huggins for a coaching position. Now, this
44:37
was all on hoppy yesterday. You can go back and read it on Brad's
44:39
story w metronews dot com. But he wasn't done there. The hits kept
44:44
coming, Kendrick continued. Instead of being in the Hall of Fame, Bob
44:49
Huggins should be in the Hall of shame. Alcoholism is a disease, and
44:55
it's a disease he's had for a long time. His future with WVU Sports
45:01
is totally at an end, and anyone who thinks Huggins should be considered for
45:06
a coaching position or a return to WVU should seek counseling. This Ken Kendrick
45:15
heavy duty stuff yesterday on talk line. I didn't get to cat. I've
45:20
heard some to beginning to the interview that I got busy and went back.
45:22
But I went back and listened the whole thing this morning, and it is
45:25
some heavy, heavy duty stuff from a heavy heavy hitter. When I have
45:30
more on this, I do need to take a break though. Text to
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the lifeboat and God send to the man stranded in the ocean. Parable.
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I guess it's par for the course that the religious would turn their backs on
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the lifeboat and expect God to help them. Tex says it's ironic how Republicans
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Instead, they cut taxes and increase spending. They're more like vultures than business
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people, says a Texture. And I was going to address this, text,
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says Dave, you say you never talked sports except when it's a negative
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about WVU and a positive about Marshall. The WV win in baseball against Marshall.
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I got that text yesterday because I had predicted on Tuesday. I said,
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I said something to the effect of as as my Marshall thunder and Herd
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beats West Virginia, Universe, it didn't happen. Of course, I didn't
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get a chance to read the text about it yesterday, because when you have
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Greg Thomas on the show, you don't get a lot of opportunity to read
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all the text I had about thirty unread texts yesterday that were pertaining to what
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he was talking about, not pertaining to what he was But yes, West
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Virginia University did beat Marshall my thundering Herd on Tuesday at Go Ballpark better Team
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one. And you know, I'm one of those people, can you can
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you can be a fan of both. I mean I went to Marshall,
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I'm gonna lean Herd, but you can be you can be both, all
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right. So getting back to this Ken Kendrick thing, though no punches were
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pulled at all during this interview. And when it comes to Huggins, I
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mean he did it. He entered a twelve month alcohol diversion program, and
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if you've seen him lately, I mean he's lost a ton of weight and
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quite frankly, looks great. And it was being floated around yesterday that he
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may may be in the run for the head coaching job at Louisville. Their
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head coach, Kenny Payne was fired after two seasons as head coach there,
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and there were some reports that Huggins could be considered for that job. One
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thing I learned and what I took from yesterday, he ain't coming back in
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any form or fashion, to quote the governor to West Virginia University. I
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agree that Huggins should not coach there again, but once again, if he's
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proven that he's sober and can be trusted, I have no I would have
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no problem with seeing him come back in some sort of an ambassador role with
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the university after some time, not right away, but in a couple of
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years. And whether you like it or not, Coach Huggins will forever be
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associated with West Virginia University, even if he even if he never sets foot
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on campus. You know, I don't pretend to know Bob Huggins well personally.
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I've been at a few events where he was. All I'll say about
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that is is I wish him the best in going forward. I really really
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do so. But go back and listen to that interview if you get a
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chance. Bradstorywv Metronews dot com, Texas. Ken Kendrick is one of those
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guys who have so much money that they can say whatever they want little consequences.
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Ken Kendrick is the one who needs counseling. He was way too harsh
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towards Bob Huggins. Ken Kendrick needs needs rains on this slander's attitude. Also
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him not having to disclose the value of Country Road trust should be illegal since
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it's being used to prop up athletics at a public university. Well you know
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again the other story for another time. No matter how you feel about NIL
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and college sports, it ain't going anywhere. It's not. And you know,
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full disclosure. I'm involved with some interest outside of this company that involve
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NIL with some universities, you know, as they say, and Hollywood,
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Jeff Petty would love this quote. Don't hate the play or hate the game
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because it's just part of where we are right now. All right, gotta
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go. Thank you so much to do get Jbacres for stopping by, and
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also to Mayor A. Dave Fletcher if you need more information about that candidate
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for over thirty candidates are expected Monday night at Bell Town Hall. I mean
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everything from Congress to Secretary of the State to governor, delegates, magistrates,
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sheriffs, whatever. I got information posted about it on my social media on
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at ten oh six with talk line final the state tournament at all the news
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at wv Metronews dot com from my producer Hollowoo Jeffattny, thank you so much,
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