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08/28/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor David Fontalbert, Jeff Jenkins, and Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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have Greg Thomas on the show. That's coming up a little bit later on.
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Also we got Mayor Monday and Mayor Dave von Talbert of Marmette is going
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to be joining us for that segment. Oddly enough, as Lederman used to
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say, as timely as today's headlines, we previously had scheduled the mayor of
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Marmett to be on the show of this morning, which Marmett's one of the
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areas getting hit with the flooding early this morning. And we'll get to the
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mayor at the moment, but I want to bring in Jeff Jenkins from the
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newsroom. Jeff, good morning, Welcome back from your vacation. You've been
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out and about in it this morning. Yeah, so we do have an
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ongoing flash flooding situation. This really all started, Dave on Saturday night in
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the Slaughters Creek area in Fields Creek area, so that is you know,
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those two areas are just off of Route sixty one in Eastern County State Route
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sixty one and show you and basically show you in and Winifred is where those
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areas are. And they got some flooding on Saturday night. Well, rain
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started early this morning and both of those areas again and some other areas too,
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So we've had water rescues this morning in those two areas Slaughters Creek,
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the Winterford area, which is also known as the official name is Fields Creek.
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Everybody calls it Winterford Hollow. Of course, So there's been high water
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there and gotten into some homes, and there have been water rescues there.
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And also there's been high water on Witcher Creek, so right across the river
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in Witcher Creek, which is off of US Route sixty, there's been some
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high water there. Connaw County has closed Riverside High DuPont Middle also, yeah,
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let me get that right. DuPont Middle, East Bank Middle, and
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Carver Career and Technical Center all closed today because of the And I'm going to
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make sure I'm right on that. Yes, yes, because because of the
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high water. And you know, so the good news is is that the
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rain has decreased in intensity a little bit, but some areas, according to
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the new National Weather Service, got as much as close to six inches of
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rain. That's insane this morning, over the last couple of hours. So
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of course that's going to cause a problem with over with saturated grounds, are
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you know, already a problem there. So there have been some rescues.
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We don't know the extent. I mean, we're kind of right into it,
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so as the water starts to go down, I think one owes the
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extent of damage. But I saw also saw some video this morning of the
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of the turnpike, and there's just been some rock slides and mud slides and
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some water for a period of time, at least into the slow lane of
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the turnpike as you go through that same area, so you may want to
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watch out for there. There's been high water into US Route sixty UH and
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there's also been a flood warning for the Clendenin area, but we're told from
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the Kanak County Commission that that's not a life threatening situation. They've just had
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some high water in that area. In fact, Kanau County has issued a
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state of emergency and so that just allows for more resources to to come through
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those areas in different things. So we're kind of we're kind of right into
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it. You know, the water hasn't gone down yet, the rain is
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the intensity of the rain is slowed a little bit, so we're gonna we'll
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get a better idea of the damage in a few hours as as things go
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on here, But the flood warning remains in effect until new They've also the
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latest flood warning was for Dry Branch Hollow, which is on Cabin Creek,
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Dry Branch Hollow and Wet Branch Hollow, which are both near the mouth of
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Cavern Creeks. They've had some problems there too. You know, it's such
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an odd weather situation, Jeff. You know, there was not a thing
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when I left my house in Puttnham County this morning. Fact, I heard
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your live reports with Christ and Carry this morning, and I was thinking,
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what is he talking about, because there was nothing over there. I didn't
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see any rain at all driving in from Putnham County until I got right about
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Montrose off sixty four this morning about seven thirty. And even then it was
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just a little bit of a drizzle. I mean, it's just odd odd,
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yeah, So yeah, it was raining in the South Trust started raining
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in South truston right or forty five this morning something like that county. Yeah,
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but and not you know, there's no water problems right here in Charleston.
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But just go east a little bit and the mayor can tell us.
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Yeah too. Yeah, I mean it's just just a narrow area. And
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again it's the it's the cumulative effect, yes, you know on some of
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those areas they had to high they had to high water Saturday night. If
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you looked at the map Saturday night, the National Weather Service put up,
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it's just a narrow area that we're just getting pounded. And some of those
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areas got pounded again. The same area got pounded again less than forty eight
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hours later. So that's why there's a problem. So we'll be on it
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all day. We'll be up there. We'll be able to get once that
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water goes down, we'll be able to get a better idea of the extent
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of the damage. All right, Jeff is always I appreciate it. Thanks
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a lot. May be safe out there, okay, Jeff Jenkins from the
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newsroom, and again he and Chris and Carrie and the Jarrett, the entire
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team and Cat of course will be following along with what's going on with those
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situations in eastern Kanawa County. Mayor, Monday, let's go to the Marmot
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Mayor, fontal Of von Talbert, Dave von Talbert, Good morning, sir,
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how are you? Good morning? I'm thanks are you. I'm doing
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fine? Thank you for being here. I mentioned top of the segment,
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Mayor that I had planned I talked to you and your staff last week about
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getting you on the mayor Monday segment where we have a different different marriage Monday.
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I didn't anticipate that that it would be this intense, though. What's
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what's going on in mar Mett right now, sir guy, It's it's it's
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crazy. Uh, We've been fairly fortunate in Marmett. Would you have a
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flooding issue on the corner of Maryland and eighty seventh Street, But all in
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all, we're in pretty good shape. Street departments taking care of the hollows
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which have been traditionally a spot you know that's very very apt to flood.
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So we're in good shape and we're actually assisting you know, some other communities
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in the Uppercanala Valley with our street department personnel and glad to do so.
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But it's it's, uh, you know, just like you reported, and
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you know, it's an event that it really has impacted a specific, uh
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swatch of area. Yeah, even as close as Chesapeake, Tomorromth they they
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experienced some issues that we have not, so you know, we're neighboring community
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and it is it's you know, just amazing how how quick this has impacted
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us. Did you have to do any water rescues that you're aware of within
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the in your jurisdiction, in your area. No, we've we've not.
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Like I said, we've been really fortunate that we have not. But being
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you know, we're prepared to assist in our fire department as well. I'm
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sure you know we appreciate the reporting from WCCHS. It helps helps keep everyone
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abreast of, you know, developments and how to react the residents. So
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we do appreciate that well, and we're glad to do it. And I
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appreciate you taking time to be on with the this morning. Also appreciate the
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effort that you're doing in the in your neighboring communities as well. That's what
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we do here in West Virginia. Mayor. One common theme that we have
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on this segment each week, no matter what the mayor, no matter what
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the town is infrastructure and many, in many cases in a lot of cities
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and towns, municipalities and West Virginia, infrastructure ain't good. How are things
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in Marmett and what are you folks doing about it there? Well, and
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you hit on a good point. We were in the same boat as many
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with the especially the hundred year old sewage lines and such, and the terra
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cotta lots of issues with that. But but all in all, we're being
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assisted by the Department Transportation with infrastructure as far as the new new bridge and
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marmat in new sidewalks and such. So very fortunate in that regard too.
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But what the infrastructure does does remain an issue. Never know when something's going
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to occur in a specific area and we have to react to to repair that,
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of course, and so it just seems like, you know, one
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thing after the other, but we are not unique in that regards, as
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you mentioned. So we're trying, you know, but it's all you can
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do. I was just saying, that's all you can do, Mayor,
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that's all you can do, you guys. I understand you've always got some
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sort of project going on there, Marmott, and I understand that you're working
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on a public safety annex and a new garage for the public Works department.
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Talk about that. Yeah, that's very exciting. You know. With the
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help and assistance, the financial assistance from the concount of Commission, we've been
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able to begin construction of a new public works garage for our street department and
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also a public safety annex that will house our police department as well as our
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Street Department training facility and Marmott and this will expand and give us the capacity
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that we've needed for quite a while to operate more efficiently in the town and
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also of course to protect our assets from the elements, the weather elements keep
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those in good working orders. So we're so so thankful to the Commission for
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their assistance and being able to do this, and have to give a shout
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out to our Street Department personnel for allowing us to interrupt their daily routine to
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get this together. But that's that's a very exciting project for us. And
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it will also address some MS four issues from the Department of Environmental Protection.
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We we will be able to eliminate some some risk of uh, some hazardous
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risks for our clean water supply. So this has been a huge plus for
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us and look forward to completing that hopefully in the in the early spring.
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Both of those projects, we're talking again with the Mayor of Marmota. Mayor
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of Monday, Dave von Talbert, You've got some renovations going on to your
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park and your community center. May you're talking about that now it's true too.
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We are renovating the community center completely. It hasn't had a facelift in
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oh I guess sixty years set this construction. So we are renovating the floor,
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new paint, new basketball goals. We're going to provide three pickleball courts
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inside as well as a meeting room for special events and kitchen area to be
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renovated. And we're just excited about that to provide a provide something for the
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residents to really be proud of and to utilize for their special events such as
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receptions or wedding, wedding and baby showers and political meetings, anything of that
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nature. You know, it will be available to rent. And our Bill
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Wells Park, which is well situated across from the gam here in Marmette,
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beautiful location on the river. We're going to renovate their forag shelters and provide
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mini kitchen kitchenettes, so hopefully those will serve the community as well. And
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just excited to be doing these things for the for the community and the citizens
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and really the surrounding area. And I know you guys go all out from
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Labor Day. It's one week from the day. What's you got going on
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here. Yea, sir, this this promises to be one of the best.
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We have actually four days uh for our Labor Day fair beginning this Friday.
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We have live entertainment every evening, including the Exiles, which is a
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well known band in the area. We will have games for the kids each
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day, bingo, eating, contents, you name it, just just everything
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possible. What we think of is the best fireworks in them all Valley.
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That's what I've heard. That's what I've heard. And Mayor sounds like you
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got a lot of exciting things going on. I hate to put a damper
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no pun intended on it with this weather situation this morning, until you guess
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and like you're doing good things and again more importantly, you're out there helping
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your neighboring communities. Pleasure to have you on the show. Mayor, we'll
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talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Thanks for having me, appreciate it.
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You are certainly welcome. It's the Mayor of Marmette, Dave von Talbot,
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strategist Greg Thomas is with us. How are you, sir? Doing well?
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How are you? I'm doing fine? How you been, man?
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I haven't had yarn in a while? Uh doing right, doing right,
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just you know, and the summer of vacation stuff and chilling with the kids
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and a noo, they're back in school and back on the campaign trailer.
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I mean, got lots of lots of you know, neck deep and candidate
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recruitment, a lot of announcements that have been happening and then will be happening
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over the next coming weeks and months and exciting time. I think. What
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was your take from the Republican presidential debate minus Trump last week or the Trump
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indictment and the Trump mug shots that he's making money off of your take on
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any of that. Look, you know, with respect of the debate,
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I mean, I think there's there's three groups of Republican candidates, right,
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There's Trump, who is the you know, ninety nine percent of the groups
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there's Trump, and there's everybody else. And then of the everybody else,
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you know, half those folks there are are interviewing to be the VP,
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as Trump said that, and the other half are entires existence is based on
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being anti Trump. Look, you know, I've worked for Trump on his
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first campaign back in twenty sixteen. I like Trump. I'm nervous that he
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can win again. I want him to I want him to run. I
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want him to win. Uh. It makes me a little nervous whether he
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can or not. But you know, Biden's just so so weak, right,
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I mean, he's just old, his health is bad, he's corrupt.
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You know, everybody's starting to see how bad this is, even the
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Democrats, right, and they're sort of scurrying about. So Look, I
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don't know. I think I think it'll end up being competitive. I do
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think that, you know, the indictments though, were made to you know.
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I think there's two things with the indictments. One, I think the
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Liberals just can't help themselves, right, they're just Trump Trump, just like
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he consumes their being, which is unfortunate for their existence and their their personal
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mental health. But I think the other thing is it right, it's like
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this rallying of the troops on our side, right, because you look at
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it and you think, gosh, you know, even if I'm sort of
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not the strongest Trump person, you see what they're doing to them, and
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you see how outrageous it is and just how fake it all is and how
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corrupt it all is, and it makes you want to rally around him.
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And that's what's happening, right. I mean, you know, his his
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support among the Republicans is going up. And I mean, I you know,
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look, I come across Republicans that I know that a year ago were
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like, you know, privately, oh gosh, I really hope it's not
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Trump. And now it's like, hey, let's go get them, you
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know what I mean, Like, you know, the heck with these people.
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I mean, and if you are somebody like and I'll just throw out
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a couple names here. Let me maybe Chris Christy, Nikki Hayley, Tim
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Scott, whoever on that stage. You've got to hope that there's no more
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indictments, because every time but there is an indictment, this guy's stock goes
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up. And the mug shots, as I said, he had to love.
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I wonder if his people were pressing because there were no mug shots in
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the other I wonder if they were pressing from a marketing standpoint. Come on,
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let's do a muck shot. Let's do a much shot. Because he
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raised seventy million dollars Greg seventy million dollars on those mug shots alone since last
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week. That's not a made up figure. That's seventy million dollars. How
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long do you think he practiced that? Let look for that mug shot.
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Oh, I've read all kinds of theories about that, particular the way he
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looked into the camera. He had to practice any well, and he delivers
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on that though, right. I mean, he he obviously practiced that.
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He obviously thought about it, they obviously had a plan around it. But
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he executes that stuff, man. I mean, he's he's the best at
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it. He really is, you know, I look, I'm still hopeful,
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little nervous, but still hopeful that that that's going to go in the
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right direction. But Biden, I mean, I don't know, man,
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I mean, if you're if you're the Democrats, she just gotta be hoping
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that, you know, I don't know, not that you wish ill health
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on somebody, but you gotta hope that like something happens to where they get
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somebody else. Well, the majority of them Americans have said that they don't
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want either one of them, So so what does that take? All right,
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So we'll do this, We'll move on the next one. Next the
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next debate is going to be at the Reagan Library in California. Do you
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think that Trump will take part? And if you greg were running or affiliated
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with Donald Trump's campaign, would you have him there at the next debate,
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because it worked out pretty well him not being at the debate this time,
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it did. I mean, I think he has to do one. I
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mean, I don't know the I'm not following this debate schedule closely enough to
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know how many or planned or whatever. I mean, I think he's got
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to do one, whether it's this one or the one after or whatever.
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I mean, I think he's got to do one just because he is just
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so good at it though too, you know what I mean. I mean
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this like, I guess if there's you know, let's say there's three planned,
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I probably wouldn't do the next one. Maybe I do the last one.
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I'd let them sort of, you know, beat each other up and
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sort of sort itself out, and then maybe come in at the end and
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kind of come in with a steel chair at the end of wrestling. I
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think that's exactly that's a good analogy, exactly. Tech says last week you
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were talking Trump with Danny Jones. I like Trump. No what, I
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vote him in the primary. No. Do I want to vote for him
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at a general election. No, but I will because I do not want
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a Democrat running this country. Hell would have to freeze over before I would
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vote for one. Well, and I think that's not an uncommon sentiment from
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your caller there. I mean, I think there's a lot of people that
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you know, just look at Trump and and look like I like Trump.
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I don't like everything Trump did. I mean, I think he made some
24:23
you know, terrible terrible uh you know, appointments and running running up the
24:30
debt. Yet under under Trump than anyway the coast that was the COVID spending
24:36
stuff. I mean, that was you know, I mean there, you
24:37
know, there's certainly a lot of things that happened during that that you kind
24:41
of wish you could take back. But overall, you know, when you
24:48
juxtapose it with the current administration, which is to me, it's like they're
24:52
trying to ruin the country, right, I mean that you know, they
24:56
don't care about inflation, they don't care about jobs, they don't you know,
25:00
you can't. Illegal immigration is way up. Legal immigration is impossible.
25:06
Uh you know, I just literally it's like if you had a game plan
25:11
for how you would try to ruin the country's economy, they're executing it.
25:17
The Democrats are executing how to ruin Middle America. And that's just what they're
25:26
doing. So, I mean, I think there's a lot of people like
25:27
your last caller there that that you know, that see that, right and
25:32
just look at it and say, oh gosh, you know when you know
25:33
Trump made some mistakes and you know, gosh, he gets off on these
25:37
tangents or whatever. You know, maybe I kind of wish there was somebody
25:40
else, But I know, you know, I may not know who I
25:42
want, but I definitely know who I don't know who you don't want,
25:45
and that's and that's Biden, that's the Democrats. Tech says Trump is old
25:48
and corrupt also, but I agree he's a little healthier. I don't think
25:52
Trump's Look, I don't think Trump's corrupt, right, I mean, I
25:56
don't think he's trying to just like you know, personally like financially benefit for
26:00
him and his family off this stuff. I you know, his motives though,
26:07
are you know, maybe selfish shot, But I don't think they're corrupt.
26:11
Text says all those people getting Trump money. Trump has said he loves
26:15
the poorly educated. Uh. Look, I think I think poorly educated to
26:21
me means you're just not some sort of liberal elite, right, I Like,
26:26
I don't know, I don't think you know, poorly educated to me
26:30
isn't what it was probably you know, twenty years ago that might have been
26:33
like asl and now it's like, oh, you haven't been brainwashed by the
26:38
you know, liberal you know, uh universal speaking of that, because I
26:45
know you're a good little I know you're you're you're you're pretty norn good at
26:48
discrect because I know you love to talk about unions. UH lead story this
26:52
morning wv Metro News dot Com by Brad mclhenny. In stead up nancier Eric
26:56
tarr is ripping into the head of the American Federation of Teachers on a national
27:00
level. Randy Weingarten following her comments and a letter that she sent addressing the
27:06
funding crisis at West Virginia University. She Randy Weingarten called the cuts to WVU
27:11
quote draconian and catastrophic, and she went on to say that the university leaders
27:17
should advocate for increased state support to make up for the projected shortfall by some
27:22
estimates as much greg It's forty five million dollars. Now, let me give
27:26
you a guitar quotes, or at least some of them. The real reason
27:30
AFT has inserted themselves into this situation this is star talking, is they are
27:36
worried that other public universities will start to wake up and correct their own course
27:41
unbridled spending by liberal educators, he put educators and air quotes created the created
27:49
the mess, and our country's higher education institutions and what they find themselves in,
27:53
et cetera, et cetera. He went on to say West Virginia has
27:56
had enough of the AFT and the NA that's National Education Association and their social
28:03
agenda influence education, influence in education policies. All we need, this is
28:10
him talking. All we need to validate our conservative decisions as legislators is to
28:14
add the AFT, w V A, A, c U, LGBTQ or
28:19
AFL CIO complain about those decisions. In other words, Greg, not to
28:25
put words in t Our's mouth, but if you're making those groups mad,
28:27
you must be doing something right. He went on to refer to the AFT
28:32
American Federation teachers as socialist. Now you can read more about at wv metro
28:36
news dot com. Your take, Senate Finance Chairman Tar is one hundred and
28:41
ten percent correct. You know, look this whole alphabet soup group and all
28:47
the letters and stuff you just round off. I mean these, you know,
28:49
these are the same folks that wouldn't let your kids go to school during
28:53
COVID. These are the ones that are trying to let their liberal teachers change
29:00
their gender and not tell you about it. These are these are bad people,
29:06
and and I think obviously the national Unions are just trying to interject them.
29:11
I mean, Tar's exactly right. They're trying to interject themselves into this
29:14
fight. One for a little bit's probably relevancy, right, I mean,
29:17
right now, Like you know, I can't think of another time during my
29:22
lifetime where educators that the tar putt in air quotes there, uh, that
29:27
educators have had such a negative impression, right, I mean, you come
29:32
out of COVID and you know, all of a sudden, all these public
29:34
school kids parents were like, oh my gosh, my kids really not learning
29:37
anything, you know, like it doesn't matter if they're in school or not.
29:41
The teachers really don't care, not all of them. I was gonna
29:45
say, it's not fair to say, you know, I mean, they're
29:47
a lot of they're probably looking at like my kids, teacher doesn't care,
29:49
you know, And that's true in a lot of cases. And so I
29:52
think they looked at that right though, and said and so now, so
29:56
now you've got the situation, and I you know, I don't don't know
30:00
how much people are following the you know, there's been all these education,
30:03
you know, higher education stories in the Wall Street Journal over the last couple
30:07
of weeks, and you know, talking about West Virginia is not the only
30:10
university that sort of went for gold here and increased spending and did all this
30:14
stuff, and now we're having to roll it back. I mean, there's
30:15
a lot of other universities in this situation, WUS I think the most prominent
30:21
one that has come out and been like, we're making cuts. You know,
30:23
we're not going to go down to our legislature with our hand out.
30:26
We're not going to just keep raising tuition. We you know, we overextended
30:30
ourselves and we're going to dial it back, which is the right thing to
30:33
do. And so I think these national guys are coming in and saying,
30:37
oh my god, what happened? What happens if that catches on? Right,
30:41
saying what happens if that catches on? And all of a sudden,
30:45
you know, it's not just WU, It's it's a higher state, or
30:49
it's Penn State, or it's University of Nebraska or whatever, you know what
30:52
I mean, because all of them did it. You know, well Marshall
30:56
didn't do it. All of them did it. And they've over extended themselves,
31:00
you know, not as many people were going to college. Now there's
31:03
been all these demographic changes, and these guys were out here building these huge
31:07
universities and new dorms that were luxury and had swimming pools and everything else in
31:11
the world, and now all of a sudden, nobody's going, or you
31:15
know, not as many people are going. And so I you know,
31:18
I think tars one hundred percent right. I think the legislature is right to
31:22
not bail them out. And you know, look, the reality is Gordon
31:26
Gey and the board made some bad decisions and now they're trying to from my
31:32
perspective, now they're trying to correct it. And now you've got all the
31:36
liberals that they are like no, no, no, no, no no,
31:37
but you know, make more bad decisions because they're the ones getting paid.
31:41
You know, I think I hope, I've I've heard that this is
31:45
going to happen, and I really hope that it does. You know,
31:47
a real review of that education spending and how much these professors are making and
31:51
what they're actually doing. I you know, I think the more they ask
31:56
for money and ask for bailouts and you know, try to get the Democrats
31:59
to come down here and ask for more money from the legislature, I think
32:01
that's the more you're going to see the tars of the world, take a
32:05
deeper dive into those spending habits and into what we're actually getting out of the
32:08
money. I could see the legislatures sending less money to Morgantown after they start
32:14
to really review what their money is going for. We knock out some texts
32:17
before we go to break. Tex says the liberal media and the Democrats make
32:21
it real easy to know who to support and not, but who they are
32:23
attacking. There after Oliver Anthony, now that's the country singer. Seriously,
32:30
there's no line they won't cross. Tech says, why are we prosecuting poor
32:34
people not rich people. I went to jail for being a drunk. Trump
32:37
tried to take over the country and people told people to drink bleach. Tech
32:42
says, what I regret it You get a lot of different kind of people
32:45
to listen in. It's all different types, all kinds are welcome. What
32:49
I regret says the textures. People are so blind to the actual personality of
32:52
the man that they would give him money to pay his lawyers and that what
32:58
he's doing brags he's a billionaire, gets money to pay his bills from gullible
33:00
people. Tech says, uh, seventy five percent of Trump's donations are going
33:05
to legal phase. How is that not corrupt? Isn't he supposed to be
33:09
rich? Look, I think the legal fees argument is is I think there's
33:15
some validity to it. But I think the I think the flip side of
33:17
that is and you know, I've worked with politicians that have been involved in
33:22
some of some of these legal disputes. But the reality is is he's not
33:25
in these you know, these legal fights are because of politics, right,
33:29
I mean, this isn't like people, you know, this isn't something that
33:31
would have happened if he wasn't the president, you know what I mean.
33:34
So I do think, you know, I think it's a gray area.
33:38
I certainly think that that's that's a viable argument to make. But I do
33:42
think there's a defense of it. You know, I just you know,
33:45
I don't know the right answer there. But I just don't think it's as
33:49
clear cut as what the Contstrmy Daniels was before he was president. That's trum
33:52
Daniel situation. Really not a whole lot to that. Yeah, Tech says
33:57
unemployment at an all time low as our elite goal, border cross seat Greg's
34:00
a lie, Oh my gosh, illegal boarding cross That person can't possibly believe
34:06
that that's an outrageous thing to say. The border, like the borders just
34:09
I guess you could say maybe that illegal crossings aren't down or since it's just
34:13
it's illegal now, like you're allowed to just cross the border, so I
34:15
guess they're not illegal. I mean, that's a that's an unbelievable thing for
34:19
that person to say. Right there. I mean an unemployment, I mean,
34:22
you gotta be killed, Like, I guess this person doesn't understand,
34:23
Like there's this thing called workforce participation rate and then unemployment. Unemployment means who's
34:29
looking for a job? Right like that? That means how many people are
34:32
looking for a job. The reason that unemployments at an all time low is
34:37
because nobody's looking for a job, because the government's willing to pay them to
34:40
sit at home and not have a job. If unemployment is low and workforce
34:45
participation is, they're just dropped out. They're just dropped out. They're not
34:47
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misuse of spending from Gordon Gey and private jet expenses paining three times the average
37:43
of going rate for administrations and vice presidents? Why is the legislature not calling
37:47
for an external audit? And questioned the Board of Governors More I've heard people
37:52
talking about that. I mean, I look, I think that collar.
37:54
I think that collar of their's onto something. I mean, I look,
37:58
I do think that they're doing the right thing now, but there were a
38:04
lot of bad decisions that led up to the need to do this. He
38:07
didn't get into this just overnight. No, No, this has been going
38:10
on for a decade. I mean, this has been going on for a
38:13
decade. And I think that Callers is onto something, and I hope they
38:15
do look into some of that stuff. Text says, be sure to ask
38:17
Greg Thomas why Republicans choose a sex abuser as their standard bearer. Okay,
38:24
Bill Clinton, Dude, Bill Clinton, I mean, you all gotta be
38:28
syric could come on, man, uh, text says, leave you to
38:30
Greg the twister Thomas to read find poorly educated to be a compliment. By
38:34
the way, isn't Greg educated from a fancy private college? I look,
38:38
and that's why I said that. You know, you know, ten years
38:42
ago, I would have considered that ten fifteen years ago, I would have
38:45
considered it an insult. Now it isn't. And uh, I mean,
38:49
I mean, to be honest, though, guys, I went to Hampton,
38:51
Sydney, not exactly a liberal. Greg. I hate to break in
38:53
here, but we got some breaking news we gotta get to. Chris Lawrence
38:57
joins it from the news from Chris. Good Morning, Good morning day of
38:59
Good morning Gregg. Yes, the state police have just notified us that they're
39:05
going to begin evacuation of residents living in low lying areas between Sharon and Cabin
39:09
Creek in the eastern section of Kanawa County. The high water is starting to
39:13
become a real issue there and the Gustin folks trapped. The National Guard is
39:17
getting involved as well, being activated, and they're going to be involved in
39:21
some of this as well. So this is very fluid in developing situation.
39:23
But they asked that we put out that if you live in eastern Kanawha County,
39:27
especially near a low lying stream, to try and get the higher ground
39:30
because those creeks are rising and they're starting to isolate areas that you're not gonna
39:35
be able to get out of. So those evacuations are underway again between Sharon
39:38
and Cabin Creek and low lying areas. All right, Chris, we'll continue
39:42
to follow that here on the radio as well. All Right, Chris makes
39:45
politics seem a little bit non important right now, but I do appreciate you
39:47
with that breaking news story. And again Chris, we'll have more information on
39:51
that coming up a little bit later on course. Dave Wilson, we'll have
39:53
coverage on talk line as a well. Appreciate Chris Lawrence for giving us that
39:58
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40:17
wing talking points and dog whistles this morning. Did your guests really believe all
40:22
the rhetoric rhetoric that comes out of his mouth? Do you believe what you
40:24
say? Mister Thomas? Everything I say? Uh, I mean, I
40:30
sometimes misspeak, but I mean like if I'm if I'm intending to say something,
40:34
I mean it. Greg I'm told that Huntington Mayor Steve Williams announcement that
40:37
he's going to be running for governor on the Democratic ticket, will be coming
40:40
soon. What are you What are you hearing out there? Because here's the
40:44
thing about it. You know we're hearing about that. We got at least
40:46
three candidates on the Republican side running for attorney general. One I know of
40:52
it is confirmed for state auditor Caleb Hannah. There's going to be another one
40:54
announcing over the next couple of weeks, and he's going to be running for
40:58
outer. We know about the Republicans running for governor. We got three Republicans
41:01
running for Secretary of State. When are we going to start hearing more from
41:06
the Democrats? I'm not sure if you are. Look, I think this
41:12
as we've seen over the last couple of cycles. You know, at the
41:14
state level, it's just it's becoming impossible. I don't know it's impossible,
41:20
but nearly impossible for a Democrat to win statewide. Look, Joe Manchin isn't
41:24
running for us in it again because he can't win. I mean, Joe
41:27
Manchin can't win. It's gonna be tough. Look, I think Steve Williams
41:30
is a better candidate than Stephen Smith or somebody you know, or Celango,
41:35
somebody real liberal like those guys. But I think that I think this is
41:43
the year that I mean, look, I think Republicans are even going to
41:45
pick up more seats in the legislature, which we almost have them all now,
41:47
but we're we're going to pick up even more. We'll have all the
41:52
statewides, including the US Senate seat after this election. And so to me,
41:59
this I think this election here is going to be about county stuff.
42:01
Man. I think the circuit courts, I think county commissions. I think
42:05
that's where a lot of your action is. I think you're already seeing a
42:07
lot of some of the more conservative or old time Democrats or switching parties.
42:14
Sometimes you're just having people run as Republicans that aren't really Republicans, you know,
42:17
actual rhinos that words kind of used too often to mean even like moderate
42:23
Republicans. But I don't think to me, a moderate Republican isn't a rhino.
42:27
Rhino is actually a Democrat that just switches their party to run as a
42:30
Republican. And we have a lot of those in West Virginia. We're seeing
42:34
and we're seeing more, Yeah, we're seeing more. And so I think
42:36
I think you're gonna have to be careful of that. But now, I
42:39
look, I think this is the year that you're going to see a ton
42:44
of county commissions flip Republican sheriffs, you know, and even some of these
42:50
positions greg and it kind of varies depending on the county, but even some
42:53
of these positions that are nonpartisan. I mean, all you've got to do
42:58
is I mean, I mean, all you have to do if there you're
43:00
still in order to run, you have to be registered as something, even
43:04
if it's independent. So if you want to know when you go into the
43:07
voting booth, who that judge or that magistrate or even board of education,
43:10
a simple Google search or going to the Secretary of States a web page.
43:15
Look that I think at this, I think what you're going to see here
43:17
at the circuit court level in Kanong County, you know, were they added
43:22
a seat, So there's gonna be eight circuit court races here in Kanong County.
43:25
I think the Republicans, I think not just Republicans. I think Conservatives
43:30
will win five of those eight seats this time. And I don't think you're
43:34
gonna have to google. I think there will be a campaign letting people know
43:37
who those five are, right, I think there's gonna be I don't know
43:39
if it'll be a slate, but I could see something like that, which
43:43
is essentially like, hey, when you're go voting for circuit judge and you've
43:45
got eight choices and you're a Republican, a real Republican, here are your
43:49
people, right, Here's who they are. And I certainly would expect an
43:53
effort like that, and I think it'll be successful. I mean, I
43:58
think that this primary, you know, because you gotta think about it.
44:00
Just as you just said, there's no Democrats you're going to be running for
44:04
state wider. There's not going to be a reason for Democrats to come out
44:07
in May, you know, if it's already going to be Biden, if
44:09
they don't have anybody to vote for on all these other races. And so
44:13
the independence, you know, the you know, everybody's going to be coming
44:16
out to vote because you're gonna have all of these contested Republican primaries. You've
44:21
got a big time to US Senate race, you got a big time governor's
44:23
race, You're gonna have all these other seats. So Republican turnout in May
44:29
is going to be higher than ever. Democrat turnout in May is going to
44:34
be lowest, lower than ever. And so if you're running for one of
44:38
these nonpartisan seats and you're identified as the Republican, you're gonna win. And
44:43
that's it. That's gonna happen in Kanaan, let alone. You know,
44:46
Jackson and Putnam in everywhere. And when you go to these meet the Candidates
44:51
forums, or when I have them on the show, or when Hoppy has
44:53
them on the show or whatever, they're going to be asked questions because this
44:57
is where we are right now, and they're gonna have to explain where they
45:00
stand on certain issues. I mean, that's just kind of where we are.
45:02
Text says great to hear Greg Thomas on the program. He's a man
45:06
with common sense. Thanks. I didn't realize you could text the show from
45:08
there. That's that's pretty good. You're you're talented. I think that is
45:13
quite the compliment. You know, all right, we're gonna take overly educated
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you don't know can hurt you. Tex said, I noticed Greg Thomas deflected
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on the sex of user comment. Admit that the West Virginia GOP fully backs
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and adjudicated rapist for presidents from some liberal judge and some you know, big
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liberal jurisdiction like this, it's a it's a banana republic in those places,
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it's a corrupt courts. I don't I don't recognize. I don't even recognize
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that you and I were talking there during the break that if you were,
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I mean, let's let's focus on legislature for a moment. You fully leave
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that our good friend, friend of the show, Mike Pushkin, may be
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the only Democrat from this area, from our immediate listing area in the legislature.
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By the time the new session gables, Pushkin will be the only Democrat
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left in the legislature from Kanall County. Next time, he'll be the only
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one left. Hornbuckle will be the only one in UH in the Huntington area,
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flew hard. He will probably win up in Wheeling, UH. You
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got two or three in Morgantown. That'll win again. And that'll be it.
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And and I think on the state Senate level it's going to be thirty
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three to one. I think Wolfe will be the only Democrat left. And
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let's man, let's face a wolf ain't the most Democrat Democrat. I mean
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he's a he's a right, he's an old school rational sort of Democrat with
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which looks. Look, the reality is, if they would have if they
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would have stayed that way, they wouldn't be in this nearly you know,
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uh extinct position did it to themselves and they you know, and look,
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the reality is at the end of the day here all of you know,
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after this election, when we pick up all these county seats, you know,
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the only place left for the Liberals is going to be city halls,
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right, gonna be you know, Huntington, Charleston City Hall, at Morgantown
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City Hall, Wheeling, stuff like that, and then and then the universities
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and and and you know, to Brad Smith's credit, he hasn't let the
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crazy sort of take over in Marshall. I mean, I mean they're obviously
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still there in the faculty Senate, but like you know, he's kept them
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out of those political fights, and he's focused on you know, I think
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he's got a plan that he's focused on that he's pushing forward. And then
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you got this situation in w where you know, sort of ge and the
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board dug this hole that they're now trying to dug dig themselves out of and
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then you have all these you know, crazy liberal professors that are out there,
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you know, protesting. You know, I don't have no idea what
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the protesting. Well, somebody sent me a text on picture of Barbara flesh
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Hour, who was leading the student protest at WV legislator from that area.
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You know, you know what, at least you you know she's true to
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her beliefs, right Texas. So West Virginia GOP had to vote this weekend
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and their summer meeting to permit the Republican Party to endorse conservative candidates of their
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choice for circuit judges or Preme Court judges and the intermediate court judges. We
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will let the voters know who the liberals are and help to identify conservatives.
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So I think that's a I think that's a great move. I mean,
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that's you know, that's what we did in the state Senate to win all
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of you know, we won all of our seats last time. We'll continue
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to do that again in the state Senate. And I'm glad to see the
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party doing it at the at the judicial level. Text says, dear Day.
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For the first time ever, I feel bad for Greg. It must
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be exhausting to defend Trump. Both candidates are terrible, but Trump is a
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punchline. So I'm saying this because of the uninformed, not involved people like
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the illegal crossings are down text her. More than two point six million illegal
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aliens crossed the borders in January twin twenty one. An average of over one
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one hundred and seventy one thousand migrants have sought into the US illegally per month
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during this period, with the highest monthly total reaching over two hundred and thirty
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four thousand and April twenty two. April twenty twenty two, try again,
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text you give me fifteen second screen. Hey, the governor made a great
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appointment and Stephanie Abraham for the Circuit Court judge here in Kadaw County. I
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think she'll do a great job and I think she'll be easily elected next day.
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seven convenient locations, along as sixty four. Greg Thomas, thank you so
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much. Serious biz politics aside with this flooding situation and evacuations, we'll have
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news on it throughout the day. I will see you tomorrow. Till then,
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