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11/13/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Dave Casebolt, Brian Wood, and Rich Lindsay · The Dave Allen Show

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nineteen in Chabbanville. It's Monday, which means we have a different mayor from
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the region on the show, standing by Mayor Dave case Fold of Nitro.
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We'll get to him here in a couple of moments. What's coming up a
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little bit later on. We've got current Putnam County Clerk and candidate for West
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Virginia Secretary of State Brian Wood in the House today, and a former state
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senator who wants to be a judge, but he's actually here to talk about
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something else. Although we'll probably touch on his campaign a little bit. Rich
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Lindsay is going to be stopping by the studio as well. Plus, I
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really haven't had an opportunity to give up my opinions if anyone cares what I
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think on the whole Joe Mansion situation. It was Thursday afternoon that, to
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no one's surprise, Senator Mansion announced he would not be running for his seat
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for reelection, and of course copy spent there were pretty much the entire show,
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including steam release on Friday, talking about it. I'll give you my
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two cents for what it's worth, coming up a little bit later on the
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Mayor Monday, Let's bring in Nightro Mayor Dave Casebold, Good morning, sir,
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Good morning Dave. It's a good senior Nitro. A couple of weeks
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ago, I had a good time. My buddy Joe asked me if I
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would come there and help out a little bit with the with the with the
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Chili Fest that you had there, and and it was it was a great,
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great time. It really was the chili cook Off. I'm sorry Joe
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corrected me last week on that because I think chili Fest is like trademarked or
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something, So it was whatever you call it. We had a lot of
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fun and we had we raised money for some great causes, and you guys
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did it right there. Absolutely, it is a great event. It does
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raise money for a lot of the hospice and a lot of a lot of
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the good people in town, for the Humane Society in those groups. So
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it is a good, good fundraiser. And indeed it was was a great
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day there in Nightro. And also I wanted to throw this out there and
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then we'll get into some business in the city mayor uh And listeners have heard
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me say this before. No one celebrates their veterans more than the city of
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Nitro, as far as I'm concerned, not one, but two celebrations,
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one Friday and the other on Saturday. How did everything go? It went
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fantastic. And you're right, Meyer Bog said that on her speech. We
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don't want to celebrate veterans just on Memorial Day or veterans day. We celebrate
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them year round. We have our Living Memorial Park with our bricks, we
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have flag display up front, we have our dough Boy statue. We put
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about twenty five foot dough Boy statue up on the interstate here hopefully in the
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next few months. And we have a lot of events to run for the
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wall that we were just chosen as the city to receive the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
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So yeah, we really celebrate our veterans for sure. Year wrong.
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Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. And I didn't get to a ten,
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but I understand that you also had a visit. I think it was
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on the Friday Service from an Ariad World War II veteran. Is that right?
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He was honored Bob Denny. Yes, sir, he's quite a quick
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character. He's a fantastic man. He served in the Navy in the Pacific
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Theater in nineteen forty five and he actually said a few words and he was
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just fantastic to have. And as I mentioned this on the show Friday Mayor,
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back when I was a kid growing up the nineteen seventies, there were
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World War Two veterans, including my grandfather, everywhere and because of you know,
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the march of time. We don't have as many of the Greatest Generation
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as we use to. That generation raised us. You're right, Dave.
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I mean I look back at my childhood, just about every father was a
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World War Two veteran. It was remarkable. Mayor. I was told that
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you wanted to talk about. So we got a couple of things I want
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to get to. One of those is this something called a hometown resolution.
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You can't explain what that is. Sure. City of Nicho was the first
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city in America to pass a resolution call for a permanent, once a year
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celebration of hometowns. This is an effort being put on by Dan McGinn and
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Ken Burns and many celebrities to create a national Honor your Hometown weekend. So
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Nicho had the honor to be the first city to pass that resolution. And
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since doing that, several states have passed resolution. Many cities have, including
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the state of West Virginia. So there's now a campaign out to have an
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Honor your Hometown weekend. Hometowns are very important, exactly, and of course
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ken Burns, I mean that name. People are gone with that that Ki,
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Yeah, it's that Ken Burns. The Civil War a baseball documentary,
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and that's who we're talking about here. That's correct. He is doing a
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hometown documentary now that they expect to have out, I believe in twenty five
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or twenty six, and Natrol be a part of that documentary. That's and
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that's awesome. I mean, it really really is, because you know,
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I think sometimes and everybody comes from somewhere, but I think sometimes that on
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the national level, we focus on New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and
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these places, but there's a whole lot more nitros and small towns in Texas
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and Montana and places like that than there are those metropolitan cities. Boy,
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Dave, you're hitting the nail on the head. That's what this campaign's all
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about. When you think about your hometowns. I mean, that's where you
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developed your friendship, where you went to school, where you developed your self
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concept and how you see the world. It's where you have a lot of
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memories, yeah, a lot of memories. It's where you have a place
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of belonging and connection. So hometowns are very important. And I'll tell you
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something else to day is something to meet you and I talked about a couple
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of weeks ago. It octually something to Joe Manchin mentioned his talk on Thursday,
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and that is we are not as divided as we think we are.
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Nothing reflects that more than your hometown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're
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exactly And you and I did have that conversation along with and I'll go ahead
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and I'll just throw it out there. At the event in Nitro a couple
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of weeks ago, we had a and I don't know what your political party
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is, Mayrior, It's not important to me, but we had a conversation
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myself. We had a Republican in the conversation, and we had a Democrat
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in the conversation. And then you and I were there and we had about
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a thirty minute conversation on the street there in Nitro about politics, and nobody
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got upset, nobody yelled, nobody screamed. We just kind of course.
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Maybe the chili was a great equalizer. I don't know, but it was
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a great conversation and you're exactly right. Well, if you think about this,
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just take this weekend for example. You had all these state playoff games
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care across the care across the state, and what you saw was communities coming
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together for one common cause, and that was the cheer of their football teams
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on and nothing else mattered. I mean, we work together to see our
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schools and children do well. We support our local businesses, we support our
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local churches, volunteers out every day working to make the community better. Here's
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the key to it all, hometown city governments. In my opinion, hometown
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city governments reflect the pure essence of democracy. Decisions are made based on what
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is best for the community. I'm telling you I work with city council members
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right now that I've worked with for many years that I cannot tell you if
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they are Republican or Democrats, because it does not matter. We are there
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to make decisions based on what's best for our community, and we're hell accountable
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for that. I think that's why it reflects more in hometowns than it does
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at higher levels, because people we are either seeing things getting done earther or
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not, and when this time to vote, that's what they're going to vote.
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Hold on, yep, exactly right again, we're talking with Mayor Dave
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case Fold of Nitro here on mayor Monday. Now, you guys have had
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some some demolition style projects going on there, abandoned houses and things of that
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nature. There's been a lot of that going on to the last couple of
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years. Talk about that a little bit. You know what, I think
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Nitro is the poster child for the benefits of this deep reprogram. We are
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seeing tremendous benefit for this and in the past couple of years we received three
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars from that brief program. We have removed several dilapidated
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commercial structures and residential structures. We have a new Taco Bell. We removed
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some old structures that were dysfunctional that we're never probably ever going to house business
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again. We've removed those structures. We're now in contract on a big lot
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between the Taco Bell and the Nitro Supermarket with an investor. We have a
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lot of interest on some property down on thirty ninth Street. So we're just
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a perfect example of how this pro of them works. But I'll tell you
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this too. The state passed the law I don't know where's last year or
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year four last that allowed cities to have first shots on some of these tax
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sell properties and the City of Nitro was able to buy up some of those
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properties use this rep money to get these homes tore down and in just the
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past month we sold four of those properties and right now there's four new homes
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being built on those lots. And it's in the area of town where if
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you'd told me ten years ago we'd be seeing this type of investment, I
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would have never believed it. Not only are those new homes being built,
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but investors are swooping in, They're buying up a lot the other properties around
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that whole area of town is being is changing for the better, and it's
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a direct reflection on this rep program. And to our staff, I tell
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you, I got tremendous down on the Great lra board. Yeah, you
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got to throw those folks in there as well. It's great, and you're
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exactly right, it's a great I'm going to talk about Riding now Our Lake
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a little bit. Well, the more popular destinations around Nitro. There's been
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some talk about some expansions going on out there. Yeah, so, I
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think the last time I was on your show, I mentioned that we bought
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two hundred and fifty acres adjacent to Riding Our Lake and part of the goal
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of that property was to develop some hiking and biking trails. We were able
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to secure a land and water conservation grant and last week at work started.
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Now the contractor told me he will be a year maybe longer putting these trails
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in, but when he's finished, we will have fourteen miles of hiking and
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biking trails plus some horse trails, so it'll be a great recreation area for
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the citizens of Nitro. Speaking of which, Mayor, I got a text
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here for you that says Dave. Other big news from last Thursday, the
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City of Nitro stock riding now Our Lake with the first batch of trout for
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the season, best fishing in the area. Big things to the Mayor of
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Nitro and their city council. Yeah, trout fishing is very popular out there
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at riding Our Lake and we stock it monthly. Council Bill Javis, that's
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his uh, that's that's one of the things he really concentrates on. And
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we have uh we stock it with calffish during the summer and last uh last
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week the water temperatures were low enough to start stocking with trout. So we
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will stock it every month and the dn R will stock it a couple of
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times, so it's a great place for trout fishing, all right. One
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final thing here. I want to talk about storm water. It's always exciting,
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he said, tongue in cheek. But without in all seriouss mayor without
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proper storm water, storm storm drainings, infrastructure, major issues could pop up.
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What are you all doing on that front? Well, I'll tell you
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there's no doubt that stormwater run off is our biggest challenge. My wife would
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be to first tell you that when it starts to rain, my stress levels
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go at rains anymore are are as as most people know, It's just it
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just it doesn't rain. You don't have summer range. It's it drops two
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to four inches at a time. So we have a lot of areas that
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we are working on. We did. We were lucky to get Shelleymore.
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Capitol's Office was able to get us a grand for two point nine million,
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and State of West Virginia pitched in another seven hundred thousand dollars. So we
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are waiting for permits to put in our Walker Street drain. I keep saying
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that, but I keep thinking the permits will come in any day. Once
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they do, we will put that project out for bid. That's about a
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four million dollar project and it'll alleviate a lot of floating on the east end
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of town. But it's no doubt our biggest issue storm water. Well,
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Mayor, I know you got a lot of exciting things as we head into
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the Christmas season as well, and I'll have you on again or somebody from
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the city and to talk about that. Always pleasure talking to my friends in
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Nitro. Mayor, Dave Case what we'll talk again, Sue Man, thanks
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three five five zero zero. Wait, let's welcome to the show. Putnam
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County Clerk and candidate for West Virginia Secretary of State Brian Wood. Good morning,
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sir, Good morning, my friend. How are you. I'm doing
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fine? Was a weekend. Good to you, Yes, sir, I
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had a great time, great time. But it went down there to the
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seventy five game, uh for for Marshall pulled out a win finally, So
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we needed about that. We needed that and I'm glad it was on that
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night. Yeah, you know, look pretty cool and it was. It
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was a good, good, good game. So I know you've been out
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on the road a whole lot. I see your pictures on social media.
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You've been all over the state of West Virginia, which is required when you're
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running for state wide office. How's the campaign going so far? Yes,
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sir, Yes, sir. I think we had a great, great foundation
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to start our campaign with, always looking for volunteers and help, you know,
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uh, contributors. In any way, it's this, this election for
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the Secretary of State's office. I think it's going to be different than any
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other election, not only in the history, but also that this year as
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far as grassroots is going to make a huge difference in it. The candidates,
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all the candidates are relatively new candidates, so the people will have their
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voice, will be heard and can make a difference in this election more than
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any other election. Well, and one thing about it is. You know,
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the current West Virginia Secretary of State, Mac Warner is running for governor.
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He's not seeking reelection to secretary of State. So regardless of who the
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voters choose, we're going to have a new secretary of State, as well
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as the other constitutional office holders as well, everybody but the agg commissioner,
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who I think mister Leonhard is staying put. So after so many years Brian
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as a county clerk there in Putnham County, and how long have you served
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as county clerk, I'm going in my twentieth year, twentieth years county clerk
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of Puttenham County. After all that time there, why do you suddenly now
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want to be secretary of State? Well, if you had asked me a
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year ago, if I was run for secretary of State, I told you
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you were crazy. Uh. But you know, looking at it, for
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far too long, secretary of State's office has been used as stepping stone for
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higher offices. And I just I want to see somebody that wants that job
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for that position. Uh. When I'm out and about and talking to the
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folks, I hear a couple of things there. One you know, they're
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they want they want like term limits. They don't want the same old,
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same old. They don't want generational campaigning, different things like that. Uh.
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I'm I'm the only candidate in the race that that you know, that
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that will commit probably to to the fact that I'm not going to seek governor.
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I'm not going to seek Congress. I want to be the Secretary of
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State. To be Secretary of State, and also, you know, aside
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from the politics of it, I want somebody in there that knows the position,
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that's worked with that office hand in hand, that that uh. You
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know, I was president of the County Clerks Association, so we I led
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the clerks to through the through the COVID crisis, through the through the redistrict
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team, and things like that. We can't I'm constantly working with the Secretary
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of State on making you know, Western elections better. When Mike talks about
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the four hundred thousand uhsture voters taking off, those are those are voters that
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the county clerks and their their staff have worked digitally and hard to uh to
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remove those those from the voter rolls. Mike has done a great job in
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helping us identify those voters that need to be removed, But you know,
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it all comes down to the county clerks, in their in their staff when
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it comes to uh that aspect. Talking again with Puttenham County Clerk and Canada
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Secretary of State Brian Wood Bryant. Since the last time you were on the
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show, Doug scaff former State Senator, former House member, most recently House
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Minority Leader and president of HD Media, the parent company of several media outlets,
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including the eazet Mail here locally, has switched parties and entered the Fray
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to run for Secretary of States. Any thoughts from you on that, Well,
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you know, I'll leave it to the voters as to why he switch
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parties. I think it's pretty obvious that that, you know, it looks
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as if there's going to be a red wave. Obviously that's up to the
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voters, but it's gonna looks to be the way of red wave, and
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in my mind, he feels that, you know, it's better to be
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a Republican in this election than a Democrat. The one thing about is that
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Brian Wood has always been a Republican, been Republican from day one. Uh
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So there's no question about where, you know where when it comes to politics
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where my loyalty lives when it comes to the office. Yeah, the office
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that you got to do your job basically in the law. And and it
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doesn't matter who who you're serving, whether it be a Democrat, Republican or
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independent, you got to do the right thing. And uh So, you
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know, I'll leave it to the voters as to why he switched this party.
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I don't think that it was something that just you know, I uh,
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it seems too close and too soon to the election that to be a
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true change of heart. And you know, and and what that said,
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I've got a lot of friends that have changed parties and and and you know,
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and and and truly the party has left them. Uh, you know,
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on a on a national level, the party has left them. But
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you know, they're not running for office, and it's not right before.
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It's not the Republican nomination. Talking again with Putnam County Clerk and Cannaifer Secretary
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State Brian would there was a recent poll out and there's been some questions about
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this pole legitimacy and so on and so forth. It says if Brian a
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former state Republican party chair, uh, and he's had a bunch of offices,
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offices and state government since then, non elected type governmental jobs. Chris
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Warner brother Mike Warner. There have been some polling out there that says if
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Chris Warner were to enter the race for secretary Secretary of State, he could
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be the favorite. Your thoughts on that, well, you know, obviously
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it's a it's a little late to get into the into the game here in
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my mind. You know, I've been out doing going from county to county
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and doing the parades and doing the you know, the the events in the
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ball games and different things like that, and so, uh, you know,
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he has the right to run. He needs to enter the race center
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than later, I would think, if he wants to do it. Uh,
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as far as the poll goes, you know, the only poll that
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matters is the one on election day. That's that's the one where the boats
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come in. I've seen Poles totally get it wrong. You know, this
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is probably the same poll that his brother's complaining about him being so far behind
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on too, So you know, uh, and that not being accurate.
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So I don't want to give any validity to that Pole. You know,
23:41
Poles probably should be whoever's filed for office, not necessarily who may file for
23:45
office or different things like that. I believe they had that Daniel Limville at
23:48
one time. Him there there, They've had everybody, uh, you know
23:52
that they could possibly think of. So they probably need to dial it down
23:56
and figure out, Okay, who's truly has file the pre candidacy, who's
24:00
out there asking for people's votes, and who knows the position. Well,
24:06
yeah, now we talked about Doug scaff who's into the race. We also
24:11
know that the Ken Reid who's in the legislature at one time, and Delegate
24:15
Chris Prett who serves here locally, they have both entered the race. They
24:19
are on file. Well, they will be in January. I should say
24:23
for the secretary of State, why is Brian Wood the best pick? Well,
24:29
you know, I don't think you'll find anybody in the race that has
24:33
a twenty years experience managed in the public office managing elections. I'll be the
24:40
first Secretary of State that actually knows how to run the equipment and test the
24:42
equipment if elected. So you know, I don't want to use as deputton.
24:49
I want the position to be the Secretary of State. Once I'm done
24:55
with Secretary of State, I'll move on to something else, but it won't
24:57
be in a higher position. And when it comes to the others, you
25:03
know, I'm the one that's constantly being a Republican. You know, all
25:07
the others have changed their parties from nevercrat to Republican or Independent and so forth.
25:11
So I'm the only one that is consistent there. I'm the only one
25:17
that doesn't come from Charleston, isn't related to Tarston. You know, I'm
25:19
just the outsider. You know, I put my pants on just like everyone
25:23
else. I let paycheck to paycheck. I try to raise my family,
25:27
be a good person in the community. And when looking at this this job,
25:32
you know, I know I'm I'm qualified for it. I know I
25:34
can do a good job for him the people of West Virginia. I just
25:38
wanted to give him the opportunity to vote for somebody other than the normal.
25:41
What do you see as the biggest need of the Secretary of State's office,
25:45
because you've probably got a little bit more insight, Well, actually you do.
25:48
Based on the fact that you've been a county clerk for so long a
25:52
Putnham County. You in the past have complimented the work of the current Secretary
25:56
of State Mac Water. But what do you see as maybe the biggest needs
26:00
or maybe something that's on your radar but not necessarily that they're doing wrong right
26:03
now, But you say, well, I'd like to see us maybe work
26:07
on this a little bit if I'm elected secretary of state. Anything you're taking
26:10
a look at. Yeah, when you're in office and you're running for a
26:14
different office, or you're trying to you know, move move on up the
26:18
ladder. Uh. And I'm talking about other people here. You know,
26:22
you're always constantly trying to think of new programs and new things like that.
26:26
And some of those programs are good, and some of those programs are just
26:29
for show for politics, and you know some of the good programs that that
26:36
Mike has put on. Uh, there's places we need to adopt the eyes
26:40
and cross the t's. They're The statewide voter registration system needs hired up.
26:45
You know, we went from a version two point zero to like version nine
26:49
or uh I believe it is eleven and UH, and that transition between the
26:56
two is not where it needs to be. Uh. There to be some
27:00
concentration on that to help the clerks do their job and make sure that these
27:03
voter rolls are seeing and secure. When it comes to artificial intelligence and things
27:11
like that, you know, we need to make sure that we don't lose
27:12
the person the person contact. If somebody wants to call you to speak to
27:17
a person rather than than than you know, artificial intelligence, we need to
27:22
be there for them and keep up with that. When it close to the
27:26
business side of things, and you know, most of the candidates are probably
27:30
going to concentrate on the business side of things or other the elections side of
27:33
things because they don't they can't hang with me when it comes to knowing the
27:37
election stuff. The business side of things is you know, probably seventy five
27:44
percent of the job twenty five percent elections. But that seventy five percent really
27:48
is a management position. You know, you need your manage in the office
27:52
you're managing and employees, and you know, it basically comes down to having
27:57
a good team and working with that team and listening to your your the citizens,
28:03
listen to the business owners as to what those needs are and what those
28:07
you know, what changes need to be made, and then and then uh
28:11
adjusting to it. Uh. The other thing I can think of is the
28:17
website. You know, the website has a lot of information and a lot
28:19
of good information, but sometimes it's hard to drill down to where you need
28:25
to find it at and so, and I know that's kind of a Hodgepodge's
28:29
Office of Technology and the Secretary of States office, you know, they we'll
28:34
need a besiage it and figure out a way of working with that other office
28:38
too, to make it better for the people, make it better for the
28:41
citizens. Brian, Where can people learn more about you, your campaign and
28:45
whatnot? Would the number four WV dot com would for w V dot com
28:52
And it's also book as well. All right, well, I know you've
28:55
been out. Like I said, I've seen your pictures on social media.
28:56
Man, you're everywhere. You've got to sleep sometimes. So when you when
29:02
you all have a whole lot of money to work with, and you know,
29:03
and like I said, I'm a average person. You you only the
29:07
only choice you got is to get out there and get it and meet the
29:10
people and be around the people. And and to be honest with you,
29:12
I'd rather have it that way. When I'm around the people, it's encouraging
29:18
because they like my story. They like that I'm you know, one of
29:21
them. They like the fact that I don't put myself on a pedestal,
29:26
that I'm not somebody from the trost and uh circle, so to speak,
29:30
and and and it gives me a breath of fresh air, I knowing that
29:34
people appreciate that and appreciate that, the opportunity to vote for not the norm.
29:40
All right, Brian, wish you the best of luck. We'll talk
29:41
again, soue man. Thanks a lot, Thank you, appreciate you.
29:45
That's again our candidate for Secretary of State and current Putnam County Clark, Brian
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here too. Somebody's also very proud to be from this series. Rich Lindsay,
33:20
how are you, ma'am? Hey, good morning? How you doing
33:22
today? Well? Do you know about dropping turkeys? Man? I know
33:24
how to put them in the oven and cook them. I don't know about
33:27
dropping you know how to put them away? Yes? Do you cook dinner
33:29
in your house? Are you a cook? Oh? Yeah? I think
33:30
we talked about this before You're you're you're a pretty good cook, right.
33:36
I learned early on that I like to eat, and if you like to
33:37
eat, you gotta learn how to cook. I need to work on that.
33:40
I definitely need to work on that. All right. So you are
33:44
a candidate for judge here in KANAWHK County. I want to go ahead,
33:46
and that's not what you're here to talk about, but I did want to
33:50
go ahead and mention your Canada's Canada Ship. God go ahead, candidacy,
33:54
go ahead, No, no, no. I'm running for the eighth division
33:58
seat here in Kanawh County, which is the new seat that the legislature created
34:00
last session. And so the campaign is well on its way. We're going
34:05
to reach our goals of two thousand homes or houses knocked before the end of
34:08
the year and meet our fundraising goals and looking forward to next year and when
34:13
you're out and I've interviewed a couple of different and there's all these different seats
34:16
of kind of confusing, But I've interviewed a few candidates for judge. Got
34:20
as matter of fact, one coming up on the show tomorrow. When you're
34:23
campaigning for judge and these judicial positions, the campaign itself, the playbook can
34:29
be a little bit different, yes, because there are certain rules judicial candidates
34:34
must follow. Judicial candidates can't talk a lot about political parties or political issues
34:40
all because at some point in time, if that candidate is lucky enough to
34:44
be a judge, he or she may have to confront those issues as judge.
34:47
And so the rules are pretty pretty harsh when it comes to that.
34:52
So what I do is I just tell people about who I am, what
34:54
I've done, what's important to me, my experience as a lawyer. I've
34:59
got fifteen year experience and trying cases here in Kennall County, Caboy and in
35:04
Raleigh County. So that's what I share with them. And then of course
35:06
I asked them what's important to them, what do they like to see in
35:08
a judicial candidate. Most people don't have an answer for that. But the
35:12
one thing that I've heard is, of course, what you would expect to
35:15
hear when it comes to crime and issues like that. People are concerned about
35:19
their security of themselves and their things and their homes, and so we have
35:22
good conversations in that regard. Now, for those have you been on the
35:24
show several times for the last three and a half years, I've been doing
35:28
the show. But for those who may not be familiar with your story,
35:30
your background, give me a little bio on rich Lindsay, sure, the
35:34
little bio, the shortened bio is that, ohtheres than in the fact that
35:37
you're a good cook. Well, yes, I was born here in Charleston,
35:39
West Virginia, and I've lived most of my life here. I live
35:43
on the East End with my wife and lived there for twelve to fifteen years.
35:46
I say twelve to fifteen because I for a short period of time we
35:50
were somewhere else in the area. But in any case, and I've been
35:53
practicing law for fifteen years before that, I've done just about everything you can
35:59
do as far as working here in the area, we talked about food.
36:02
One of the reasons why I think I like food is I used to be
36:05
a waiter over at Todd Water in the heart of Charleston when the Holiday Inn,
36:08
when they had the restaurant there. I've worked at the Big Lee Piggy
36:15
Wiggily formerly known as food Land when I was much much younger in high school,
36:19
and recently did a stint working for ups and unloading trucks. So that's
36:24
a little bit about me as far as my work history. But other than
36:29
that, I love sports, love my kids, try to, you know,
36:32
do as much with them as possible. Right now is basketball season in
36:35
Kanawh County and so my youngest is in the Kanawh County Basketball League. So
36:40
we started our first two games this weekend. I think that'll run all the
36:44
way util February. And my oldest son played football worse Man and so we
36:49
were there at every game. They've got a wonderful program. Coach Lee.
36:52
I've got to give a shout out to him, Coach Washington and coach Brown
36:55
for the way they coach those boys up this year. So that's who you
36:59
are. That's a little bit of it. But now, why are you
37:01
here today? You wanted to you actually reach out to me to talk about
37:04
something else. And by the way, I'm getting text about this situation on
37:07
the West Side. I'm going to get into that a little bit later.
37:08
On the gas in the water. I didn't I had to take care of
37:12
some guests today, but I do have some information on that I'm going to
37:14
get out to the people. But why are you here today? I'm here
37:16
talking about a nonprofit called West Virginia's Helping. It's a group or nonprofit that
37:21
both my parents, Pam Lindsay and Richard Lindsay, formed way back in two
37:25
thousand and The goal of the group, or the goal of nonprofit is to
37:30
get kids who are in need of shoes and school supplies and personal hygiene products
37:36
get those products and things to them every year. And so they've done and
37:39
not we've done. What we've done is instead of working through the parents,
37:45
we work through the teachers of certain schools here in the area. They identify
37:50
students in need of new shoes because we're getting up on the cold months of
37:52
the year. And for the last twenty three years that those teachers have identified
37:57
those kids helped us figure out the side of shoes, and then my office
38:01
manager at Taber Lindsay associates Christy Wegman, who does this out of volunteership to
38:07
the group, then purchases shoes and brings everything together for each of these kids
38:13
every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and each kid who so identified gets a
38:17
new pair of shoes, socks, school supplies, like I said, toothbrushes,
38:21
toothpaste, deodorant, maybe a little toy. And the schools handle this
38:29
pretty discreetly by giving the this stuff to the kids after school and again between
38:35
the holidays. So I can't be more proud of what my parents have done
38:37
in this regard and what Christy Wegman has done. And so I'm here today
38:44
to talk about the program because as the years have gone by, one hundred
38:46
percent of all money received goes to these kids. There are no administrative costs.
38:52
Everything that we have from the website to the phone line to Christi Wegman,
38:55
who does it for free, is done for free. And so but
39:00
at the same time, we've had difficulty fundraising over the years, and we're
39:04
getting to a point now where we may lose the school. And I don't
39:07
want that to happen. And so that's what I'm here to talk about today,
39:10
all right, And where what is the website? It's West Virginia Help.
39:14
It's WV Helping h E L P I n G dot org and the
39:20
phone number is three zero four three four four four seven three nine. And
39:25
I can tell you the schools that we're in Okay, Okay, Andrew Jackson
39:30
Middle School, Nitral High School, Nitral Elementary, Piedmont Mary c snow Bridgeview,
39:37
Lakeside, and Rock Branch. And just so folks know again, in
39:42
the twenty three years that my parents have done this with Christy, over seven
39:45
thousand kids have received new shoes. So it's it's been around for a long
39:51
time, not a lot of notoriety. We kind of do things behind the
39:53
scenes and we've been able to reach our goal. But we're having a little
39:57
trouble this year. If someone out there would like to sponsor a kid for
40:00
a new pair of shoes, that's thirty dollars and so please go to the
40:04
website again, WV Helping dot org and the phone number is three zero four
40:08
three four four four seven three nine. And I know that we have a
40:12
lot of people rich that listen to this show that may be involved in civic
40:15
organizations you know, your rotary Kawanas, Lions Club, that sort of thing.
40:20
We have a lot of people listening to the show that are very active
40:22
in their church groups and things of that nature. If this is something I
40:25
mean, you need bodies out there to kind of help with this. This
40:30
would be an ideal service project for one of those service groups that I mentioned.
40:32
This would be an ideal project for a church kids. As you well
40:37
know, you're a parent, and kids in school have to do community service
40:40
projects in order to graduate. Sure you would welcome their help as well.
40:45
Absolutely the help, and you're right about that. As far as the involvement
40:49
of churches and groups in the area, and it reminds me I've got a
40:52
shout out to Chrissy Wegman's Church of Saint Paul's United Methodist and Nitro have they
41:00
have been the heart and soul of this program as well, because they have
41:01
provided volunteers and help stuff boxes, shoe boxes for kids and raising money and
41:07
getting everything together. So yes, all support would be helpful. And and
41:14
of course we're kind of getting into the holiday season, but this is really
41:16
a year round type thing. This is not necessarily a Christmas project, per
41:21
se. I mean you you guys will except help you around for this project.
41:23
Yes, absolutely, We raise money all year, yes exactly for this
41:27
big event. Right again, Every year a little over three hundred students get
41:31
get help in this regard. And and the reason why, just so folks
41:37
know, I mean the reason why we pick shoes and new shoes, not
41:38
old shoes. New shoes for two reasons. One, kids always they always
41:44
like to wear nice kicks, right, I mean good kicks. But the
41:46
more important reason is that's something that you can see. A student may not
41:51
have his or her family, may not have the resources to get new shoes,
41:54
may have beat up shoes. And it's going to get wet and cold
41:59
and snow here in the next couple of months, and so everyone should have
42:01
fresh shoes on their feet to keep their feet warm, especially our students.
42:06
All right, rich now again, give us the website again and working people
42:08
help out it. They'd like to help because it's a very very one wild
42:10
project. Yes, sir, it's w v helping dot org. That's w
42:14
V H E L P I n G dot org. And the phone number
42:19
is three zero four three four four four seven three nine. All right,
42:23
Rich, as always, it's a pleasure to have you on the show man.
42:27
We'll talk against so it's always good to see. I will say I
42:29
was waiting in the room there to get on, and it's the first time
42:31
I ever met Fred Persinger. Oh really. Oh, and you know his
42:35
voice sounds just as good and real person as it does, you know when
42:38
you when I hear on the radio, that's what they say about me.
42:40
Well, I was gonna say he's got the voice for radio, you and
42:44
I have the faces for because I've never heard that joke. I had to
42:47
do it. Fred is an institution, and Fred is in West Virginia.
42:52
He's the best there is. And Fred and I will tell you quick Fred
42:54
Persinger story. Like a week or so ago, he and I were having
42:58
a conversation about something within the company, and he said he was talking to
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some of the higher ups in the company, like in Morgantown, and he
43:04
said he needed to talk to and one said, you're not retiring, are
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43:09
anytime said you want to talk to him about something else? But I got
43:12
a little bit of a panic because if it's not high school sports without fred
43:15
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over there. And I don't pretend to have any specialized knowledge here. I
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will say that it all started, I guess on Friday night. For what
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I've been able to ascertain, around seven hundred customers of Mountain Air Gas on
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the West Side where without service now the Red Cross was forced to open up
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a warming shelter as the temperatures. As you know, we're having pretty nice
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weather in the daytime, but as I left my house this morning, it
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was like thirty one degrees. So it's obviously not so much during the overnight
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hours. So the Red Cross opened up a warming shelter and that is that
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to Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, and a lot of these residents are without water
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as well. And again I'm not an engineer. Maybe I should get an
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engineer on the show to better explain it. But apparently some of the services.
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The water I think was restored around ten o'clock on Saturday morning, so
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from what I'm understanding, and again Jeff and Carry and the news team Chris
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have been working on this. We'll have more throughout the day. So basically,
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the water main issue caused the gas problem. They had to cancel classes
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today at Mary C. Snow Elementary School and so they're still trying to get
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things back normal. But as far as a further update at this time,
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I do not have it. We will be working on that, as I
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can tell you though throughout the day. It is kind of a mess there
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on the West Side and new citizens are outraged. I've got text from things
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here. I had all kinds of stuff I heard from actually a couple of
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elected officials and there the legislatures in session right now. They have internets going
47:54
on and Wheeling in one particular reached out to me and said, I want
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to come on and talk about this. So I said, okay, Well
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we get John a little bit later on the show. But again we'll have
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more information as it becomes available to us. Keep it, keep it here.
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de tales. Okay. On the Senator Mansion, news broke Thursday afternoon to
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really no one surprise that Senator Joe Manchin would not be running for reelection to
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US Senates virtually in my eyes and the eyes of a lot of other politicos,
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basically giving the office the Jim Justice. Now that may seem like an
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exaggeration, but Governor Justice is going to be Alex Mooney unless something major changes.
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With all due respect to Congressman Mooney, Justice is going to win that
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race as it stands right now, and not only against Alex Mooney, but
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against anyone the Democrats are going to put up with all due respect to party
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chair and a frequent guest on the show, Mike Pushkin. What I think
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is really interesting is reading the commentaries and opinions outside of West Virginia about Senator
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Manchin, those without a knowledge of West Virginia politics saying things like, well,
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finally they can get rid of Manchon, who many of these folks think
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is just a Republican and hiding. And again I'm talking about the comments I
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was reading in places like the Washington pos New York Times, things of that
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nature. I don't think that they realize that Joe Manchin is now and has
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always been a West Virginia Democrat, pro life, pro gun, pro cole.
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Now that really doesn't conform to what the National Democratic Party stands for,
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but it's who Joe Manchin is. And the Republicans, of course aren't crazy
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about him either, but because they have seen him in many ways as caving,
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going along with others. You know, Joe Manchin didn't do himself,
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and he favors by bringing Hillary Clinton out campaigning back if you go back to
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it to twenty sixteen for that and then letter Bill Clinton to campaign for Hillary
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twenty fourteen, I should say, or twenty. Well, you know,
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if Mansion were to run for his senency again again, he gets beaten badly
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in my opinion, by Jim Justice. That's just a fact. So now
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Joe is going around the country looking for people who just want middle ground and
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some sanity in the world of extremes with the MAGA movement on one side and
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the Biden agenda on the other. And I will say this, there are
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a lot of us. Note I did say there are a lot of us
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out there, some with an R after their name, some with a D
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after their name, some that are independence. They're right along with you there.
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You know, is it going to be enough? No, because a
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Mansion run probably tips the scale towards Trump. But we will see Texas.
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Mansion is unrealistic if he thinks he can unite the middle for some phantom third
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party run. He knows he can't win a West Virginia Senate race with thirty
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one percent Democrat registration and twenty four percent no party affiliation. Despite this would
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be more than enough to outweigh the forty percent Republican votes. Yet he's going
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to unite middle of the road people in other states. Question Mark, This
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is an ego trip for big, big money backers and for Joe Manchin,
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says a texter. And this is for someone who would vote for Mansion for
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Senate. That is according to a Texter. All right. The Dave Allan
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My thanks, sir rich Lind's if you're stopping by the show today, Putnam
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County Clerk, the candidate for Secretary of State, Brian Wood at Nitro Mayor
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Dave Caseball coming up on the show tomorrow. Nikki Ellis is gonna stop by.
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She's with the Secret Santa Foundation west Side developer Ty Bullock. Well,
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it can be interesting to see what he has to say about the situation going
52:34
on the West Side that we'll be following throughout the day and also candidate for
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Circuit Judge Kevin Baker is gonna be stopping by the studio as well. Hobbies
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coming up. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and
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