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on the show today, we got Dave Hardy with us. Mister Hardy,
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of course done a variety of different things Charles City Council. He is,
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They did that for a while. He was also currently serving as the state
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Revenue Secretary and now he wants to be the circuit judge in Canaw County.
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Dave Hardy, well, we'll join us talk about that. Coming up a
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little bit later on. There was an announcement made actually on this show yesterday
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Charleston and it was made official at the Charleston City Council meeting last night.
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Plus we'll go national for a little bit. There are some very very troubling
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poll numbers out for President Biden in a matchup against former President Donald Trump,
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and I'm going to get into that coming up a little bit later on.
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Lots to get to your calls and texts are always welcome, Bigley Pickley Wiggily
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hotline three zero four three four five fifty fifty eight. I have a text
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line for through three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight. Want
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to welcome in though. To start things off, our good friend Chris Withrow
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from the Benny Keatam Shrine. Good morning, sir, how are you?
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I am excellent day. Thank you so much. Sorry it can't be in
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the studio today, but I am happy to be here. You know what,
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do you know what, Chris, Incarceration happens to the best of us.
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I'm just glad that you were able to get that one phone call out
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this morning. So I spent my last quarter for this. This show's not
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even worth a quarter man. I'm gonna tell you that right now, all
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right, before we talk about some things coming up, and I'd like to
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give you guys and folks with the Shrine an opportunity to talk about the great
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things you do in the community before I get into things coming up. I
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want to go back a couple of weeks and you had your big truck or
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treat event. I think it was on a Friday at the temple there on
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Courier Street. Tell us how that went. Well, I'll tell you it
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was an exciting evening. There were so many children there, all dressed up
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and they had an absolute ball. We just really enjoyed giving back to the
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community, getting our face out there and shaking hands and meeting the people.
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But I'm going to throw out a really good thank you to our vendors.
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We had thirty eight individual trunks or vendors out there. People are in the
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community, you know, some of the people banks and the police department,
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Big shout out to them, Charleston, Kenall County, the ambulance, fired
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departments, they were all there. It was a wonderful event. We had
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all probably one hundred and fifty kids and parents alike and just had an absolute
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blast. It was fun. Yeah, it was. I saw a lot
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of pictures posted online and if I remember correctly, you know, for old
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people like you and I, that's kind of hard to remember two weeks ago
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or a week and a half ago. But I think the I think the
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weather was was pretty good. I think it was perfect. We had I
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mean temperature, no rain, it just everything just kind of all the stars
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aligned, I guess, and it was just a really nice evening and it
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looked like everybody was having a good time. And it was a great event
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and we hope to continue to do that every year. We had such a
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great response with that. And then of course Saturday we had two events back
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to back. We had the Broomstick Ball, which was you know, I
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dress up adult party. It was great, had a really good DJ,
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great food that was provided by Anthony Wilkins with time after time, and we've
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just had a great time. It was a lot of fun. So what's
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the future looking like? I know you guys and guys have always got something
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big coming up? What's next on the on the on the shrine radar well
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started yesterday. Big events going to be for two weeks Monday through Friday.
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We are going to be a drop off collection point for the Union Mission.
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We teamed up with them to join their food drive and we're really excited about
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it. So every day, twice a day, from eleven to two during
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the day and from four to seven every evening Monday through Friday this week and
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Monday through Friday next week. We're going to be a drop off point.
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Like I said, but it's going to be a drive through drop off point.
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You come into the lot, you open up your car, pop your
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trunk, We'll pull the non perishable foods out or cash donations, whichever you'd
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like to do. We're going to collect that and at the end of next
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week we're going to deliver all that stuff to the Union Mission to help feed
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the families during the holidays. We're really excited about it. Want everybody to
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come by one hundred Coarier Street, get twenty thirty cans of food boxes.
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You know, go through your pantries, you know, pull out the food,
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give a little bit during this holiday season. But all you have to
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do is drive through. You don't even have to get out of your car.
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We're going to take care of it for you. So we're really excited
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about that. Partnership with the Union Mission. What particular types of food,
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Chris, are you looking for? I mean, is there any restrictions?
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What ideally would you like to have the can foods things of that nature,
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canned foods, box foods, any non perishables, stuff that could be stored
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on your shelf when you open up your pantry in the house before you go
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to work one day this week, grab via two or three Kroger bags full
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of canned food, box foods and bring it by the Shrine Temple under Courrier
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Street this week and next and we'll take it off your hands. But anything
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that's shelf stable, okay, okay. And so you're doing it twice daily,
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eleven to two and four to seven, right correct, Monday through Friday
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this week and Monday through Friday next week, all right, And it's an
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easy opportunity for people to go. And you'll take cash donations as well.
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What about holiday parties there at the Shrine Hall. I know you guys are
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always having some kind of an event there. Is it If I want to
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book a Christmas party or something like that, they're a little gathering for the
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Christmas season. Is it too late to do that? It's not too late,
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but I will warn you you need to do it quick. We're booking
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up very fast. You know, we've become a very popular venue. We've
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got a great opportunity there right downtown, great parking, great event space.
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So yes, we are booking parties and events every day, So come and
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check us out and book your next Christmas party. Speak a Christmas party,
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though, you know we've got we've got a really good thing. You know.
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Every year we do Breakfast with Sanna and it's going to be a great
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event. It's on December of the sixteenth, down down at the Shrine Center
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at one hundred quarter Street at nine am. Sanna's gonna come and we're gonna
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have a great breakfast. We've got a lot of great partners that have helped
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us. It's it's a wonderful event and it's open to the public and we
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would love for everybody to come and sat down and tell old Saint Nick what's
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on your Christmas list this year? And that's that was December the sixteenth,
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Is that right? Is that what you said, Chris, Yes, sir,
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and we'll have you on. By my calculation, we have you on
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about once a month, so we'll have you on before then we're also going
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to have you on I guess before the Christmas Parade, which is in Charleston.
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I don't want to forget to mention that how does a shrine club get
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involved with that with a Christmas brade in Charleston or any other parades or any
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other things going on, because I know you you folks are out everywhere.
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What's see what's what's the game plan looking like? Man? Well, we
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try to get to every event, every parade possible, you know. And
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it's it's one way that we are able to raise funds. It's also a
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way that we can get out and give back to the community. We are
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going to be involved in multiple uh parades. We're going to do a Veterans
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parade coming up before that. But we are so excited. It's really fun
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to go up and down the street, show everybody that the shrine is alive
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and doing well, and it to watch the kids on the on the side
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of the road and they're smiling and happy, and mom's dads, grandma and
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grandpa's, ant's uncles, everybody out there and just watching the kids enjoying the
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day. It's it's very very rewarding. Tell me about this veterans event because
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Veterans Day's coming up this week. When when is it? When and where
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is this going to happen? Well, there's several Veterans Days parades around Oh
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Okay, okay, so one that that we'll be into, So okay,
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and I you know, I would love to really tell all of your listeners
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come out and support these Veterans Day parades. Uh. These men and women
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sacrificed a lot and to recognize them is a great thing. So everybody get
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out and grab your kids and your neighbors and go out and go to one
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of these veterans parades. A wonderful way to say thank you. Well,
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let's recap again. You're doing your food drop off this weekend next at the
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uh at At at the Shrine Temple, which is right next door to the
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Kylosema Convention Center, eleven to two and then four to seven. It's a
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drive through. So look, if you can't afford to give a whole lot
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proceeds, we'll go to Union Mission. You can give a couple of cans
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a day. You can do a small cash donation, don't even have to
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get out of your car. All you got to do is just pull up
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and the folks will come out and get the things again eleven to two and
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four to seven h And also, and we'll be talking about this h next
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month a little bit more. You got your breakfast with Santa, which is
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going to be December the sixteenth at nine am. We'll get into that a
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little bit later on and I'll follow up and we'll close it here by Chris
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by saying, hats off to you folks for everything that you do, not
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only during the holiday season but also year round. I appreciate it. Man.
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Thank you so much, Dave, and you have a wonderful day,
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all right. Chris withbrow again for the Benny Keatam Shrine. Again, their
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food drop off is happening this weekend next eleven to two at the temple which
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is just beside the kytle' Semconnvention Center. Eleven to two and then they take
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a little break and then they can do four to seven. And they are
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accepting cash donations, so you don't even have to get out of your car.
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You just pull up and they'll come out and they'll unload it for you.
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And he also mentioned about how the shrines shiners are going to try to
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be in all the Veterans break. I want to get this event out there
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before I forget because somebody sent this to me. And by the way,
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Veterans Day will be observed in many areas, it will be observed on Friday,
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but the actual holiday is this Saturday. There's going to be a Veterans
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Appreciation dinner happening this Saturday in Putnam County over in Hurricane, and it's at
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the Commons area of Hurricane High School. And it's a full barbecue meal with
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sides and the whole thing. And it is sponsored by Toasted by rather Putnam
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County Bank, by Eleanor Barbecue, one of my favorite places in the world,
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and also by the City of Hurricane. So if you're a veteran,
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you and a guest can come there for that. Again. It's this Saturday
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from four to seven. You and one guest you eat absolutely free some of
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the most delicious barbecue you'll find anywhere, courtesy of Eleanor Barbecue. And I'll
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be talking about that a little bit more a little bit later on, but
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five zero zero eight. Wean to welcome to the show. Stay Revenue Secretary
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now candidate for Kanah County Circuit Judge Dave Hardy, Good morning, sir.
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How are you? Good morning, Dave, Good to be here from one
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Dave to another. Yes, thank you. See we always are running joke
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here in this company because we have so many Daves. You got myself,
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you got Dave Wilson up in Morgantown, you get Dave Weekly, you get
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Dave jacklind So what's another day, another day. That's a good crew right
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there. And the temperature in this studio this morning. Here's the thing about
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it, Dave, when you come in here, it's either going to be
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twenty seven or one hundred and twenty seven. Well, and today it's one
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hundred and twenty seven. I don't know why I'm on the hot seat.
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You're literally on the hot seat. And so now so you you're a state
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revenue secretary. That's kept you busy for the last almost seven years, almost
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seven years of number crunching. Any truth to the rumor that you're just tired
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of looking at numbers and you want to look at something else. I love
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numbers. I love numbers since I was in the first grade. But I'm
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coming up on seven years. I started January of twenty seventeen. I came
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in with the governor and when Jeff Sandy left in July, I looked around
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and I thought, wow, I'm the last remaining original cabinet member for Governor
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Justice. So I've lasted seven years and it's been wonderful. I love working
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with the Governor's He's easy to work with and we've been blessed with some really
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good success up there. Before we talk about your potential judgeship, I want
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to talk about Dave Hardy, the man. Now, for those who may
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not know, you've been in public service for quite some time. Variety of
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different things. We'll get into that a little bit later on. But give
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us your background, give us the basic bio in Dave Harty Okay, number
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one. I hail from the same hometown as Jeff Jenkins, Pratt, West
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Virginia, calculation four hundred and ninety. I was gonna say it's that downtown
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Pratt or one of the suburbs I lived. Jeff kind of lives in the
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suburbs, but I live right in downtown by Pratt Elementary, where Jeff and
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I both went to school. Matter of fact, Jeff took my paper out.
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When I got older and was ready to give up my paper out,
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Jeff and his brother Kevin took my pokrout. We laugh about that all the
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time. The things you learned I didn't know. Oh yeah. We were
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proud of our hometown. And it's wonderful little place. And I'm up there
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every weekend because my mother, who's ninety years old, is still living there
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and has lived there since nineteen thirty three, really in the same house,
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same house. Well, no, actually since nineteen fifty seven. That's still
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pretty remarkable. She was pregnant with me when she moved in that. Okay,
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But anyway, I'm a graduate of Eastbank High School, West Virginia Tech
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BS and Accounting BA and History and Government, University of Tennessee College of Law,
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Knoxville. And I came back here in the summer of eighty three and
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took the bar. Back then, if you went to WVU Law School,
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you didn't have to take the bar, but I had gone out of state,
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so I took the bar. And I started practicing law forty years ago
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last month, October sixteenth of eighty three. And I have been in and
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around Charleston a member of the bar for the last forty years. I started
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in public office May first, ninety five. I was elected Charleston City Council.
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I served six years under Mayor Meltain and Mayor Goldman. I was lucky
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enough to chair the Finance Committee under both those mayors. And then I was
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appointed the County Commission. When Duke Bloom was elected judge in one, I
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was appointed to the Commission, and then I was re elected to the Commission
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four times and was there sixteen years. So it's been wonderful experience all the
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way across the board. So after all those things, Dave, then,
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as you said, you have been serving as the State Revenue secretary. All
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those things, why now roll on the bench. I think being on the
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bench requires a lot of wisdom and a lot of insight. And you know,
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no one wants to get old, Dave, and I certainly don't.
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But one advantage of being a little bit older, a little bit longer in
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the tooth is you have better insight and better wisdom. And I started thinking
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in twenty three and when we started this year, where could I take my
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public service because I no longer practice law full time. I haven't since I
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went to the Capitol in seventeen. And I started reflecting upon it, and
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I thought, you know, I really need to think about the judicial side
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of things. I all of my time hasn't been in the executive side,
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the legislative side, and it just seemed like a really good fit right now
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for me, and a good fit because I think I can bring a lot
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to the bench now from your time, as you said, County Commission,
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City Council, your time is the State Revenue st Secretary. What are some
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of the things that you learned in those roles that if elected to the bench,
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you feel that will serve you well and serve the people well. Okay,
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first and foremost you have to understand this is even though we are in
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West Virginia and people say West Virginia is not diverse, this is a very
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diverse county from one end to the other, from South Hills to Saint Albans
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to Clendenen to Montgomery. It's a very diverse place. And I feel like
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I have a very strong understanding of the diversity our people, the way our
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people here think, the way we respect law enforcement here, and the way
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we care about our seniors and our children as well. And one of the
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most important things that happens in these circuit courts every day is not the multimillion
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dollar lawsuits. They happen and people get hurt and they need to be compensated,
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but they deal constantly with domestic issues, and I think that I could
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bring a lot of insight into that, and I think I understand our culture
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and what causes a lot of these problems, and particularly it's been said a
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million times, a lot of it revolves around not having strong family units,
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and of course our old problem addiction, right, yeah, and it's it
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is certainly a scourge on the nation. But I don't think any state in
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the Union has been hit harder than what West Virginia have. What's the biggest
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challenges facing the courts right now in your opinion what I just brought up trying
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to resolve complicated social issues through the judicial system, And you know, our
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school systems have the very same problem when you look or challenge should probably be
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the better word, when you look at what are school you expect out of
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our schools today and what we expect even out of our preschools. Children that
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are coming to school, that are not being properly cared for, that are
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hungry, that are being possibly mistreated at home, and that child is an
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innocent victim of that, and then eighteen years later or fifteen years later,
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that child is sitting in front of a courts room somewhere charged with some sort
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of crimes. So it's a very very big societal problem. Every time a
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child goes the wrong direction, it's a failure, and I hope the courts
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play a role in that. But I hope even at the lower levels,
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from preschool forward, we can continue to attack that. You know, when
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you look at the economic numbers for West Virginia, and I've done that now
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in the last seven years, we talked to the Wall Street Banks literally set
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Standard and Poors, Moody's and Fitch. They always talk about our workforce,
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West Virginia's workforce and the fact that we don't have enough young people and our
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birth rate is lower than our death rate. That's not good now. So
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we have to figure out from the bottom up how to continue to bring have
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young people come to our state, be born or come here, and then
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how to nurture them and make them productive adults. I want to go back
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to your role, and I have you on more as a candid anything else,
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But I'll be remiss if I didn't ask you a couple of questions about
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your current role as the state Revenue Secretary of Tell we talk about that experience,
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what that's been like. You said that you enjoyed working with the ovenor
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yes, exhilarating when you know when we got there in January seventeen, it
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seems like one hundred years ago. When I think of all the things that
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have happened since January seventeen, I mean, who would have ever been a
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million years thought we'd have this pandemic. I always tell the story. You
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know, we started off, we were in a deficit position. The governor
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attacked a deficit with everything he had his first six months in office, and
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by June thirty seventeen, we were out of a deficit position and we were
23:29
into a positive position. We rolled into eighteen. Our numbers kept getting better,
23:33
our severiance, tax revenue started to improve. The governor started to hit
23:37
his stride with the leadership with the legislature, and then all at once along
23:42
comes this pandemic. And I still tell the story that the federal government just
23:48
basically, why are transferred us about six hundred and thirty million dollars one day?
23:56
It was March twenty fifth, twenty twenty, and didn't even tell us
23:59
the rules on how to spend it. They just said, here's six hundred
24:03
and twenty million dollars and we'll let you know the rules later. So that
24:06
was the challenge that we had with the pandemic, and the governor had to
24:10
lead us through that, the pandemic and all the businesses being closed, and
24:14
how to comply with the federal guidelines on federal money. And then we had
24:18
to dig ourselves out of the pandemic. And it's been it's been literally a
24:22
roller coaster financially. And then at the same time, we did the Roads
24:29
for Prosperity bond program, which was pre pandemic, where we went out to
24:33
Wall Street and got one point six billion dollars worth of low interest bonds to
24:38
improve andre basically catch up all the problems with our highways. And we never
24:44
stopped working on that. And I'll tell you what Wall Street thinks of West
24:47
Virginia. We sold eight hundred million dollars worth of bonds one day in eight
24:52
seconds. That's eight seconds, we sold eight hundred million dollars worth of bonds.
24:57
And that means that Law Street likes West Virginia. They like our double
25:03
A stable credit rating. They like the fact that we've done a wonderful job
25:07
keeping our baseline budget down and keeping it flat and under control, and that
25:11
we've taken and wisely used our surpluses to do very important monumental things so that
25:18
we tomorrow, literally tomorrow, we will be doing our ratings calls with Fitch,
25:25
Standard and Poors and Moodies. And I'm looking forward to presenting West Virginia's
25:29
story one more time to Law Street. Here we're talking with Dave Hardy,
25:32
who is the state Revenue secretary now a candidate for Circuit judge here in Kanawha
25:36
County. All right, Dave, let's get back to the judges racist for
25:37
a moment. Now, I help the listeners understand the way the whole thing
25:41
works, because whoever is elected to this position, the election is in May.
25:45
Yes, it's this is very complicated. Due to the tragic and unfortunate
25:51
and sad death of Judge Tabot. The position that I'm running for is now
25:56
vacant. So there's two there's two things going on here. I have file
26:00
pre candidacy papers to run for that position, and that election will be held
26:07
on May fourteenth. And the way the judge races are, there's no Republican
26:11
or Democrat. It's a nonpartisan race. So you're elected in May of twenty
26:15
twenty four for an eight year term commencing January first, twenty five. Now,
26:19
what happens between now and January first, twenty five? Their Judicial Vacancy
26:25
Commission is going to be receiving applications for appointment to Judge Tabots seat. And
26:32
we'll be holding interviews for appointment to Judge Tabot seat on December sixth, and
26:37
then the Governor will be given three names from the vacancy commission and he will
26:41
be able to pick from those three names, and that person will hold the
26:47
seat from probably the middle of December throughout and then throughout the whole year of
26:52
calendary year twenty twenty till a new person, whoever that is, would take
26:55
it. So what you're asking for, Dave, is you're asking to be
26:57
appointed. You're one of the names to be appoint into to judge the late
27:00
judge Tabit's position. But then you're also going to be running as a camp
27:03
exactly. Dave, you're a quick study. You got that one quick.
27:07
Yeah. It's about a twelve and a half month appointment for twenty twenty four,
27:11
essentially counter youear twenty four, and then you are running for eight year
27:17
term starting January first, twenty five. So if things go right, I
27:21
hope the governor will consider me for the appointment. I tend to submit an
27:23
application, and if he does choose me, I'm really looking forward to getting
27:29
jumping in with both feet. I mean, you've been right there with him,
27:32
you would think, but you never know. I never know, and
27:34
I haven't asked h I have not asked the governor if he would pick me
27:37
for that position. I have asked the Governor's office for permission and form the
27:41
Governor's office that I would like to apply for the position. It'll be chosen
27:45
in December. Is that what you said? The interviews are Wednesday, December
27:48
sixth, and generally the names are given to the governor within a day or
27:52
two, so it would be mid December. Okay, all right, So
27:56
what's the campaign going to look like? Because regardless of whether you get the
28:00
appointment, you're still going to run. Even if you don't get it,
28:03
you're not chosen by the governor, you are still going to run. So
28:06
what's the campaign on the campaign's going to look like? Be very positive.
28:10
I don't do negative campaigning. I've won six elections in this county, two
28:15
for city council, four for county. I never did any negative campaigning.
28:18
To me, campaigning is like a job interview. I want to present myself
28:22
as a seasoned attorney who had a successful private law practice for thirty three years,
28:27
who has now reached a point in his career where I think I can
28:32
impart some of that wisdom and knowledge from having practiced law thirty three years and
28:36
lived in this community for literally my whole life and that's essentially my campaign.
28:42
And then of course I will campaign on the fact that I have done I
28:47
think a very good job as a public servant, and I have been in
28:49
some sort of public capacity since May one of nineteen ninety five when I joined
28:53
Charleston City Council. And the race is for any sort of a judicial position,
29:00
Dave are a little bit different as far as the rules and what your
29:04
campaigning style and so on and so forth. It lends itself to a different
29:07
type of campaign. It very much does. I'm glad you brought that up.
29:11
There's a special canon of rules that apply to judicial candidates and you have
29:17
to follow those rules carefully. And the State Bar takes that so seriously that
29:21
they're holding a webinar on November sixteenth, a three hour webinar just for judicial
29:26
candidates. So give us an example of some of the things. For example,
29:30
a judicial candidate should cannot directly ask for a contribution, so other parties
29:37
can ask for that candidate, right, But I cannot walk in a law
29:40
firm and say I would like for you to contribute to my campaign. That's
29:44
considered to be a no known and for good reason. So that's totally different.
29:48
Than when you're run to something else. Well, basically you never stop
29:51
asking me. It's quite demeaning at times when you do it. And then
29:55
of course you have to be very careful about your statements, disparaging remarks,
30:00
negative things that you say. And again I'm reading these roles and learning them
30:03
as I go. But this is new for me too, and I'm looking
30:06
forward to it. I think. The other thing, of course, is
30:07
there's no as I said earlier, there's no Republican or Democrat. It's just
30:11
a one, one shot election on May fourteenth. But I mean, people
30:15
can do their homework and they can look into your past and you're you or
30:19
any of the other candidates to kind of see what it is you stand for
30:22
and your your party registration is is public knowledge, you know, through of
30:26
the Secretary of State's office, so they can they can go look it up.
30:29
But they they want to take that opportunity. So we'll have you on
30:33
or any in the other candidates several times between now and the campaign, and
30:37
we wish you the best of luck with everything you were telling me off the
30:40
air. It you're in the process of getting websites and all that stuff set
30:42
up so that people can learn more about you. Then, Yes, we're
30:45
just now starting to get put the campaign together and come ready. I filed
30:49
the pre candidacy papers on November first. Okay, well, Dave, I
30:53
appreciate you taking time on your schedule to be here. Now go crunch some
30:56
more numbers, because you got that, You've got, you got some.
30:59
You got, as you said, a series of phone calls you got to
31:02
take care of tomorrow and tomorrow I will be presenting West Virginia's financial picture in
31:06
front of the Wall Street rating agencies via zoom, not in person. I'm
31:08
looking forward to it. And here's something. Let me just say this before
31:11
we let you go. This is not a political state, but it is
31:15
a statement of fact. If you go back and you look where West Virginia
31:18
was twenty years ago, and everybody's got their hands raised, this was me,
31:22
This was me, This was this position that did whatever. I don't
31:25
care who did it. West Virginia is in a heck of a lot better
31:26
place than what it was, say, twenty years ago. I wish every
31:30
person in West Virginia could hear the feedback we get when we present West Virginia's
31:34
financial picture. We funded our pensions we funded our OPAB liability, we have
31:38
a balanced budget, and we have a one billion dollar plus rainy day fund.
31:44
All other states are very envious, believe me. And again, a
31:48
lot of this was you reached a lot of those goals prior to getting this
31:52
the money from the federal government from the pandemic money, he was already there.
31:56
We've been funding our pension program since ninety four. That was that's a
32:00
forty year plan. We're on year thirty two and we are very close to
32:07
reaching the promised land. Well, we will be one of the few states
32:09
in America that has fully funded all of its pension obligations, which means West
32:15
Virginia's financial foundation is extremely strong. Indeed, all right, David, we
32:19
wish you the best of luck. Hang out with me here. One second's
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Dave Hardy again, State Revenue Secretary, now candidate for Kenais County Circuit Judge
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Well, if Dave Hardy switched from a Democrat to Independent or to Republican or
36:57
whatever, he's certainly and the only one that did it in the state of
37:00
West Virginia, because a lot of people have switched and continue to move away
37:05
from the Democratic Party. We talked about talk to mister Pushkin about that tomorrow,
37:09
as was announced by Mayor Goodwin on the show yesterday and announced again at
37:15
City council last night, and Jared Lewis as a story posted about a wv
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37:22
downtown Charleston. Now. The company's name is Worley and they have over ten
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thousand employees in forty six countries. Now over two hundred of those are expected
37:32
by the time it's all said and done to be in downtown Charleston. They're
37:36
going to be moving into Laidley Tower with one hundred and seventy positions there for
37:40
sure, and at least at this point it's still early on, at least
37:45
fifty or so new jobs coming to downtown Charleston. Now, again, this
37:51
was a company that was in Elkview, and so they're moving from what I
37:54
understand, and again Jared Lewis has got an end depth story about it on
37:58
the website. They're going to actually be moving those employees from elk You to
38:01
downtown Charleston into Laidley Laidley Tower that is. And so there's expected to be
38:07
and the mayor talked about it on the show yesterday. There's expected to be
38:10
more jobs from out of state coming. So it's not just the Elkview positions
38:15
I understand, there's gonna be others coming in as well. City council last
38:20
night approved a resolution for up to one hundred and twenty parking spaces that the
38:24
city will give for free as long as the company worthy operates in good faith
38:34
and by adding new employees in that spot at Laidley Tower for at least seven
38:40
years. So that's kind of the deal. And again the mayor talked about
38:45
it on the show yesterday. That's kind of the deal. By the way,
38:47
if you missed the show, you missed the mayor's comments, you can
38:50
go back and listen to it on my social media and also on WCT justnutword
38:54
dot com. So what exactly does this company do well? They provide consulting
38:59
services to energy sectors and complex process industries. And if it sounds like that
39:05
was taken directly off their website, well it was. Now Now most of
39:08
the people coming to Charleston work in the field of engineering services, and the
39:15
free parking that they are getting will be in Municipal Parking Building Number two.
39:20
A mayor good ones set at council last night that Worley is an international company
39:24
that first chose West Virginia and now chose Charleston, specifically downtown Charleston. Not
39:32
such good news for the Lview area, which is going to be losing those
39:36
jobs. But speaking for Charleston, it does put more bodies downtown, which
39:44
is good for eateries and so on and so on. And there will be
39:46
critics, and there already have been. I read it all. Got into
39:51
a discussion about it with some folks here earlier this morning. But it's the
39:55
kind of jobs that you want, that you want downtown. And I talked
40:00
to the man and I don't know how much after the show yesterday, I'll
40:04
go ahead and say this. I don't think she would mind from me saying
40:06
this. After the show. The Mayor stuck around for a little bit yesterday,
40:09
five minutes or so after the show, and we talked about it a
40:12
little bit, kind of off the air and off the cuff, and about
40:16
about some of these jobs and some of the people that are going to be
40:19
coming to these primarily the jobs, the newer jobs, not the ones that
40:22
are currently in positioned in you, but the other ones are going to be
40:27
the kind of people that you want, you know, to come down down
40:29
Charleston. And what you mean by that is you want people that they can't
40:32
apparently, and this has been something that's been in the works for a while,
40:37
and I'm sure. The mayor would be the first to tell you that.
40:38
You know, she wasn't the only one. There's been other people that
40:40
have been working on this. But they came to Charleston and they looked around
40:45
and they said they were kind of taken in a good way by some of
40:49
the more positive things going on in the downtown area and some of the you
40:54
know, the breweries and the things of that nature, and they like what
40:58
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the states that are likely to decide the presidency, that being Pennsylvania, Arizona,
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Georgia, Nevada, New York, and Michigan. Trump is leading Biden
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in five of those six, which likely would be enough to get him to
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the two seventy mark, the number of electoral votes that the former president would
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need. Now, Trump is up by in other at least four or five
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additional states that are seen as crucial to getting the nod for president. But
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again those swing states Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New York,
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and Michigan. At least several others, he's up in those as well.
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Now West Virginia, of course, is at one of those because Trump is
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already leading by like six thousand percent or something like that. But why is
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that Take West Virginia out of the equation and focus on the states where one
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would think that Biden would have a chance, like the ones the swing states
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that I mentioned earlier. I mean, it isn't like people just suddenly fell
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in love with Donald Trump. Trump is just as unpopular, maybe more so
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than he ever was. Again not talking West Virginia. Outside West Virginia,
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the problem, as was pointed out in this piece by The New York Times
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simply put, is that taking Trump out of the equation, Joe Biden has
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lost popularity greatly. Now. The Times in this piece says that the advantages
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that Biden had over Trump last time around, mainly that he was simply more
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well liked than Trump. Those advantages have all gone away. Now these what
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I'm talking about here, This is the words of the New York Times,
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folks. This is not Dave Allen speaking. This is the New York Times.
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And why is he lost favor so much in these crucial swing states?
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Talking about President Biden, it's the perception of the handling of the economy.
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Hobby talked about this a little bit this morning in his commentary. You know,
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the economy is showing sound and signs of rebound. Inflation has actually gone
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down, but that doesn't actually mean anything when you go to the grocery store
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to buy your kids some cereal and it's still nine dollars a box. You
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know, people don't really they don't want to look at economic numbers. They
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want to look at what they're paying. And his age, his age is
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a factor. And it's not so much the number on the age. It's
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it's more about the way that President Biden, with all due respect, carries
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himself. And look, I'm a person that has respect for the office of
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the presidency no matter who the president is. You know, whether I liked
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him or didn't like him, or don't vote, didn't vote for me,
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whatever, I respect the audis I'm not that guy that says not my president.
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You'll never hear me say that. I wasn't a Barack Obama fan,
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you know, but Barack Obama was my president. Joe Biden is my president.
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Donald Trump my president. So I'm a guy that has respect for the
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office. But with all due respect, Joe Biden carries himself like a bumbling
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old man that could probably wet his pants at any given time. So in
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what groups is Biden los into most numbers? According to The Times, it's
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among blacks and Hispanics, the eighteen to twenty nine year old block, which
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has traditionally over the years back to whomever the Democrat was. Well, this
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group seems to have both Biden and Trump at about the same level. Black
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voters normally back the Democratic candidate about ninety percent of the time, it's dipped
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for Biden down to around seventy percent. Now Among Hispanics, President Biden currently
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sits at about fifty percent. That is way lower, way lower than what
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he was the last time around, and much lower than what Democrats have been
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in the past. Nearly half of registered voters, nearly half of registered voters
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and battleground states say there is almost no chance they will support Joe Biden for
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president. They say no chance in these swing states. It is. It's
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fascinating stuff, really, and the fact that it's being reported by the New
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York Times should tell you something. Trump, who was in a contentious battle
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in a New York courtroom yesterday, is gaining ground the other Republicans, and
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I think they have a debate coming up tomorrow night will be five or so
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of them on the stage. Other Republicans are losing ground. And now Biden
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is also losing ground. Interesting stuff, interesting times we live in, folks.
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Coming up on the show tomorrow, Doctor Casey Saxonbridge Valley is going to
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stop by. Add a couple of Democrats on the show tomorrow who says I'm
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not equal opportunity all right, I got Delegate Kaylee Young and State Democratic Party
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chair and delicate Mike Pushkin will be on the show coming up tomorrow as well.
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Ryan Nicholson, my producer, Ryan, thank you so much enjoying this
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beautiful weather. Once you get through the smoke, and I will see you
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