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06/05/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Matt Sutton, Mac Warner, Jeff Jenkins · The Dave Allen Show

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trooper in Mingo County on Friday, and Jeff Jenkins from the newsroom is going
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to join us talk about that and some other things going on. Lots to
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talk about in the world of news. Jeff is going to join us in
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the second segment of the show to go over those things. Also coming up
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a little bit later on the show. Of course, it's Monday, which
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means it's Mayor Monday, normally the first Monday of the month. We have
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Mayor Amy good One of Charleston on the show. Amy not with us today,
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but Matt Sutton, the chief of staff for Mayor Goodnes, will be
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on the show taking your phone calls. We get to that about nine to
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forty years so this morning. But before we get to all of that,
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I want to welcome into the show West Virginia Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate
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Mac Horner. Secretary Warner, good morning, How are you. Good morning,
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I'm doing great, good to be with you. Thanks, thanks for
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you for being here now. Not so much talking about the gubernatorial campaign today
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as much as we are talking about your current roles Secretary of State. They
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say this is an off year for elections, but just looking at the figures
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that were provided by your office, sixteen elections in the state of West Virginia
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tomorrow eighty seven. That's right, eighty seven on June thirteenth and eleven others
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taking place over the next few months at various dates. Of course, I'm
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talking about city or munist elections. That's a lot of elections, sir.
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It is. That's what I love about this job is it never stops.
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We tend to think of those big presidential elections or even the congressional ones every
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two years, but these are type elections are probably the most important to people
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because these are the ones they're dealing with your local issues, you know,
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you know, it can be anything from trash pickup or utilities and that sort
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of thing. City councils. This is what controls our day to day life.
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So that's why it's important for us to be talking about it, reminding
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people that we do have some elections. I think East Bank has one tomorrow,
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and then next week Chesapeake, Clinden and Cedar Grove, Glasgow, Pratt,
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Montgomery, all those have elections next week. And then this Saturday is
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South Charleston. That's one that's off. That's not on a Tuesday, it's
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on a Saturday. So it's important to pay attention to the talk shows like
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this, newspapers, the local media that will keep people informed and if you
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have a question talk to your municipal clerk. Now this is different than the
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county clerk. The county clerk run those elections you know, every two years,
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the big elections, But these of fier elections as we call it,
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these are done by the municipality. So talk to the municipal clerk. Don't
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have the ballots. Early voting has already occurring in some places. So you
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need to talk to be tuned to your local news to know about the municipal
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elections that are upon used right now. And you mentioned some of the ones
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here in the county, and I'll go over that list again again. South
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Charleston is this Saturday. But as you mentioned, you got Chesapeake, you
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got Clendennon, you got Eastbank, Cedar Grove, Glasgow, and Pratt All
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coming up Montgomery which straddles the Canafayette County line in our listing area. Also
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you've got Barbersville, Cavol County, the city of Clay and Clay County,
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and kind of going to the outline areas, you've got Fayetville, meadow Bridge,
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oh Kill, Pack Smithers. Smithers has a levy. By the way,
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we have four in Mason County. I know We have a lot of
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listeners down there as well. So so so just a lot of elections to
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be concerned with. What exactly does your office do on election days in these
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towns. Well, we send our election team out so everybody in the elections
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division. But we also have our investigators. We have ten investigators around the
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states. We have our field representatives, So we got to our entire office
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out, you know, they're dealing with elections, to visit the localities,
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make sure everything's running smoothly, see if there are any issues, complaints,
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power outages, any of those sorts of things that we might be able to
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provide assistance with coordination. Basically, prior to this, we've been working with
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helping with poll workers and training that sort of thing. So, like I
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said, this is what I enjoyed about the job is it never stops.
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There's always something going on. We make the analogy to the duct paddling underwater.
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These clerks and municipalities might seem calm on the outside, underneath they are
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working hard to make sure all the machines are properly registered and validated, that
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the poll workers are trained and ready to go, you know, to run
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the municipal elections. It's very similar to running any of the other elections,
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so that the administration, the paple with the administration is just as busy there
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as it is with the larger elections. The issue becomes turnouts, and so
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a lot of times you don't have the large turnouts that you do and the
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other elections. And that's why there's been an effort by the legislature to allow
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municipalities to align their elections with the larger elections, so you would probably have
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a larger turnout or participation in those city elections. But it's not a mandatory
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thing. This is up to the cities themselves to decide whether they're going to
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align their elections take it out of this all puer election and put it in
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with the larger elections, and they're pros and times to it. It's not
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as easy as just say we're going to change our election. There's spot of
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the administration. Line drawing. We dealt with this with the last election,
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with the census and the redistricting, there are a lot of lines moved,
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and so what I'm talking about is the precincts, and so imagine you might
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have a ward inside a city where you're allowed to vote for that city at
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election, but a precinct for a county election may go across that ward boundary
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into the county at large, and those lines would have to be alliance to
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make it run properly. So there's a lot of issues to it. That's
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why not all the cities are jumping on board, but some cities are to
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align their municipal elections with the county elections. Well, as you said,
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again we're talking with West Virginia Secretary of State Make Warner. You know it,
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it is up to the cities to do whatever it is that they want
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to do. It's a cost savy measure if they do go along with the
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counties. But again it's it's their decision. And as you said, it's
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not easy, not as easy to just saying okay, we're going to move
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the election. I mean there's town charters have to be looked at and things
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of that nature. Let's talk about some of these elections in the past,
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Secretary, some of these around the state historically have been have been decided by
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you know, like five votes. I mean that these are really close elections.
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Sometimes they really are. And that's where we always talk about every vote
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counts in the municipal elections, particularly since there's traditionally a lower turnout, your
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vote counts proportionally more than saying some of the other elections. So it's all
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that's why it's even more important to vote in these local elections. We had
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that situation out in Harper' Sterry a couple of years ago where there were four
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votes where it issued whether they should be counted or not. At first they
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weren't, and that leaned to the city council one direction. Once the West
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Virginia Supreme Court waiting said they would be counted, then that changed the outcome
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of a race or two. It changed the dynamics on city council and at
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stake was one hundred and thirty seven million dollar project that now is moving ahead,
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and it's something because, like you said, less than a handful of
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votes to determine the outcome of that race. So that's just one example.
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We've had a number of other examples where races were decided by coin flips or
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drawing strolls, that sort of thing, because the races ended up tied.
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So if you're listening to this show and you have you're in one of the
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cities that has an election tomorrow, be sure to or next week, be
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sure to vote your votes. That's going to have a have significant weight in
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the outcome of Hoover in your city. Well, and I think it is
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interesting what you said is sometimes we do get tied up on and I just
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kind of joked about the tournam. It's an off year, and it is.
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I guess if you look at it, you know from you know,
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national standing or gubernatorial or whatever the case may be. But sometimes, as
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you said, Secretary, of these use municipal elections. These are the people
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that really affect your day to day life if you live in one of these
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towns. Let's transition for a moment. You are a candidate for governor House,
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the campaign going, Oh, it's going great, to getting out all
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over the state, driving back and forth, will being Huntington, Seving and
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wheeling tomorrow. It's it's fun to travel this state. You don't realize how
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big this state is until they start traveling from Martinsburg to Huntington and wheeling at
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criss crossing state, different events on different days, and I'm just trying enjoying
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it. We're having these coalitions are being built where somebody from every county is
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representing save the veterans or women for Warner. We're going to have a Second
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Amendment coalition and then a faith group, so the people are joining off.
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It's fun to see that kind of enthusiasm. It's truly a grassroots which you
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hear all the time about a grassroots campaign. This is what we're up to,
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and I'm very pleased with Foy. Things are going well already. Secretary.
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There's been three people that I know of all Republicans so far, that
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have announced they're running for your current seat a secretary of State. Former Legislator
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Ken Reid was one, Delegate Chris Pritt, and current Putnam County Clerk Brian
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Wood. They've all been on the show and they've all announced that they are
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running for Secretary of State, the office that you currently hold. Maybe some
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Democrats that that'll come forward as well. I find it interesting that to a
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person, though, each Republican candidate Secretary that's running for the office you currently
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hold has said they want to continue running the office the way that you and
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your staff has, so that's got to make you and your team in the
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office feel pretty good. Well, it does. That's what I think everybody's
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looking for not just inside our office, but the state is looking for a
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continuation of the policies and the procedures that we've put in place. We only
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have an a team in place in the Secretary of State's office. We have
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a fine tune. We've reduced the staff significantly, so people more. People
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are doing more with less, but they're happier. I think anybody you talked
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to says they're they're pleased with the interaction that they have with the Secretary of
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State's office. That we answer the phones, we deal with the issues wanted
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at a time, and that's what we're looking to maintain, and that's what
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you want in state government. That you want to success stories and in continuation
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of that as either people not in this situation, I'm not term limited,
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but in some situations people are terminated term limited. Say that the governor's race,
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and that's why you have so many candidates stepping forward for that, and
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then that opens up other pop openings for other candidates to move into those positions.
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And change is good because each person moves into an office has their own
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style of leadership, They have their own issues that they want to address.
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When I came in. The big issue was cleaning up those registration lists.
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We tackled it. I worked with the county courts and we've taken off over
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four hundred thousand names and at the same time we've registered about three hundred thousand
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people, So we've cleaned up those roles. It's never been there's never been
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higher competence in the elections than we have right now. And indeed, that's
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what people want to do, is they want to see a continuation for West
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Virginia as being singled out among the states for its election integrity and security majors.
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That's why I have been asked to go over and testify in front of
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Congress four times now to tell about the success we've had, how we did
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it, and what recommendations we would make to other states. So it's kind
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of a neat thing to have West Virginia being recognized nationally as a leader in
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election integrity. Secretary of Satan mac Warner. Let's recap here a lot of
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municipal elections coming up, as you mentioned, many in Kada County another you
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folks could be top up. But let's say that I go out and I
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see some short of shady business going on. Somebody is electioneering or trying to
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intimidate me to vote a certain way. What should I do? We still
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have our see something, text something. This is again something that we've led
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the nation with. We're leveraging technology to make effections secure. So everybody that
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has a cell phone can take a picture of that or even a video.
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They can text it into our hotline. And that's why we have more investigators.
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Now. We can put that investigator on the scene within an hour or
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pretty much anywhere within the state, and you begin that investigation right then.
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But the main thing is first to deter it from happening in first place,
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or if it does happen, to go shut it down quickly so that people
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have confidence in those effections. You can still call our fraud hotline eight six
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six fraud WV. You can call your county clerk and call your local police.
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The main thing is just to report whatever it is you see that you
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think is toward in the elections arena and it will be dealt with so just
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real quickly. Since I've been in office, we've had eight convictions for fraudulent
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activities. We've had a number of pre trial diversions and turn ten referrals to
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prosecuting attorneys. See. See, it's not what you would say with widespread,
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but it does happen, and that's why we want people to be alert
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and let us know if there are any issues. West Virginia's turned the corner
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where you know, we used to be the laughing stock when it comes to
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election fraud. It was West Virginia in Cook County. We're kind of in
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competition with each other there in Illinois for who had the worst election integrity.
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But we've turned to that around completely, and so I think everybody can be
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proud of that. We want to continue having stay secure elections here in West
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Virginia. What's Secretary of State MIKEL. Warner. We'll talk soon. Thanks
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a lot, best of luck with all these elections. You guys get your
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work cut out for We will over a hundred elections coming up in these municipals.
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Good luck and we'll talk soon. Thanks a lot. Thanks day,
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Secretary of State Mike Warner. It's nine to twenty two five of the Life
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As you know, you you say a one time work or the Secretary of
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State's office something that people don't realize. I'm gonna I'm gonna drop a little
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knowledge on you here. Okay, it is illegal to wear a campaign shirt,
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a hat's, a button or pen or anything like that into a polling
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place. Now, in my time there, that was probably the biggest infraction
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that I saw, and most people were just ignorant of the law. You
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know, they support a particular candidate and let's say it's for mayor, and
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they just walk in with their vote for John Smith for mayor, shirt,
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hat, whatever in the polling place. That's illegal. You can't do that,
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and most people just didn't realize it. As I said, they weren't
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intentionally breaking law. They just didn't realize that's a law that's considered electioneering.
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So if you're supporting a particular candidate in one of these well over one hundred
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elections, remember you got you can't wear the T shirt or the hat or
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the pen into the polling place. Also, cell phones are illegal in the
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polling place as well, so just keep it in your car. Don't wear
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your campaign heere in the polling place. And when I was working there,
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I'd ask more than one person, Okay, if I stopped by a polling
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place to say, you need to take that shirt off. Can't wear that
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the newsroom. This tragic story out of Mingo County with the death of the
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state trip. We're going to talk about that, plus some other things in
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the world of news coming up with Jeff Jenkins, and a little bit later
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According to a tex Champions from the newsroom, Jeff, good morning, Um,
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what a tragic story out of Mingo County Friday is now really the entire
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state is morning the death of West Virginia State Police Trooper Corey Manard. You
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are on the scene, we had it covered all week. Then break down
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the story for us. Yeah it uh, you know happened with the shooting
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On Friday afternoon, Sergeant Maynard and other state police responded to a call of
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a shooting down in basically Matejan area and Beach Creek, which is generally meet
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one and they responded to a shooting there and man had been shot, and
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so we really don't know the exact and we're hoping to get some of that
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today, like exactly what happened, you know, as Sergeant Minard and others
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arrived on the scene. There are some initial reports of being ambushed, but
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I mean, we haven't we haven't seen a lot of details about that yet.
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But at some point, I mean, he responded and he was shot
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and was pronounced dead at Logan Regional Medical Center, you know, pretty short
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time later, you know, within a couple of hours, and then there
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was about a seven hour man hunt for the alleged shooter. He was taken
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into custody by about ten o'clock Friday night, and the sergeant's body was brought
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here to Charleston, initially to the State Medical Examiner's office, then Saturday taken
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to northern West Virginia. He was a tissue donor, Sergeant Maynard was.
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And then they brought his body back yesterday to a funeral home down in Logan
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County. And there'll be there'll be a memorial server or you know, they'll
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in southern West Virginia. There'll be a more memorial service where we've been told
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we haven't seen any details on the time yet. But at Mingo Central High
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School coming up on Wednesday, you know, I have to say, Jeff,
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I've never really seen anything like it. My wife and I were driving
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to Logan Friday night from my high school reunion around six o'clock or so,
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and we were passed by one trooper, followed by another and then a convoy
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and I told her, I said, well, there must be an accident
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somewhere. And then it was just one after another and like twenty so I
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knew something really bad had happened. And then I got a call from someone
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who told me what happened. Just just a tragedy situation. And I did
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not know the trooper at all, just knew the name. But from seeing
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Jeff, the outpouring of support for him on social media, signs and yards,
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people leaving their lights on and sport of law enforcement, UM just incredible.
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And from what I gathered, he was a very very well liked guy.
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Yeah. I grew up in Belfry, Kentucky, which is basically Williamson,
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right. I mean, just tug four Week River is all that basically
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separates there and so you're you're he grew up there and was in and out
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of Williamson, his half family and Williamson, you know, and and but
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he began his career over in the Eastern Panhandle. Okay, so he was
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a fifteen year He was a fifteen year trooper. He began his career in
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the Eastern Panhandle and actually was recognized not too it was I think twenty fifteen.
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He was recognized for saving a life after a pursuit. There was a
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pursuit that was in the Eastern panhela then went into Virginia and the guy tried
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to kill himself. He was leading police on a pursuit and he tried to
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try to kill himself and Troopermaynard came up on him and actually guy was stabbing
23:25
himself in the neck and Trooper Remainder actually saved his life and was recognized for
23:30
that by with a life saving award from state police. And then eventually came
23:37
home, you know, and came to the Williamson area, and Logan too,
23:41
he was also right. Yeah, So he came home to came home
23:45
to southern West Virginia, to that general area where he grew up and was
23:51
well known like he was, you know, you see things over the weekend.
23:52
We also talked to Justin Markham, who was former state lawmaker you know
23:57
Williamson attorney, said he would just jog or walk daily in downtown Williamson begin
24:03
his day like that. One of our stories has some photos that the that
24:07
the Williamson Public Library had posted of him reading the kids. You know,
24:11
Sue just seemed like a great guy. These amount of wife and a thirteen
24:15
year old in a nine year old now, you know. On a personal
24:18
note, and I mentioned my high school reunions past weekend, one of the
24:22
people I graduated Logan High with was the wife of State Police Superintended Jack Chambers,
24:27
who was of course appointed that position following the removal resignation whatever you will,
24:30
Jen Kale Hobby last I heard was efforting to have Jack Chambers on talk
24:34
line today. Um Chambers wife, Yeah, sat at the table if my
24:40
wife and I show others under class reunions past weekend, and Jack Chambers himself
24:44
wanted to be there, but obviously cutting because he in the entire law enforcement
24:47
community right now just crushed by this, but by this entire tragedy, so
24:51
so so, what where's the story. Now what do we know. I
24:52
mean, I know the gentleman of the person to use the term gentleman was
24:59
had his arrayment, so he's in custody, so he's being held without bail.
25:03
Uh and uh, you know he's charged with murder. But also there
25:07
was another shooting, you know, the initial shooting. That's when that guy's
25:12
here and Charleston injured serious but stable condition. Right, So what I think
25:19
the next thing maybe is hopefully being able to get kind of exactly what happened
25:25
there, you know, and what the what the circumstances were of the shooting.
25:30
And then there'll be the memorial service this week and it's been since twenty
25:34
twelve. Only twelve is when the two shoot Troopers were shot and killed off
25:40
the exit there in Rome County on Ice seventy nine near the Clay County line,
25:45
the right that they exited exactly in Rome County and they were shot and
25:48
killed there after making an arrest. And then it was it was actually a
25:55
year or to the night, a year to the night that Tom Baker was
26:00
Tom Baker was killed a year ago June third, Friday night, June third,
26:04
Deputy Baker in Nicholas County and Sergeant Maynard was killed Friday night June second,
26:11
Friday afternoon June second in Mingo County. And so the exact I mean
26:19
Friday, both on that Friday, the same exact day, not the date,
26:22
but the day. And then that gives us two and a half years,
26:27
almost exactly two and a half years, three officers have been shot and
26:30
killed in West Virginia. You have a municipal officer, city officer Cassie Johnson,
26:36
You've got a shriffs deputy Tom Baker, and now you have a trooper,
26:41
Sergeant Maynard. So three and two and a half years. We also
26:45
had an off duty police officer killed in a car crash over the weekend from
26:48
the Morgantown area of this story about that at ww metro news dot com.
26:52
Another tragedy jet This one was on my sixty four. Yeah yesterday, folks,
26:55
if they were traveling at east you know, from cross Lanes in the
26:57
Charleston or nights you're on the Charleston, you know, there's a wreck between
27:02
Institute and Dunbar at like four thirty, right at right around four thirty eastbound,
27:07
and the interstate was closed until like ninety five, so it was closed
27:12
for five hours and over more than five hours, and it was a it
27:18
was a fatal crash. And we just got information in day from the Canau
27:22
County Sheriff's Department this was a road rage incident. So these two vehicles,
27:27
witnesses say that the road rage happen started around Nitro and they're both driving erratically.
27:34
She had two vehicles that were driving recklessly and erratically and it appeared to
27:40
be a road rage situation between the two and just passed institute. One of
27:45
the vehicles made a move like a road rage type of move and lost control
27:52
of the vehicle, hit the retaining wall and started flipping, throwing the passenger
27:57
out. She's a woman from miss Ray and she was killed. And so
28:03
no charges have been filed in this by deputies, but they do say in
28:06
the news release that they just sent out ten minutes ago, that very early
28:11
in the investigation and they're looking for more witness information and that type of thing
28:15
who may have witnessed. But they yeah, they called a road rage between
28:21
two v and that's that. Literally, just that information came out, as
28:23
you said, ten minutes before you came in here this morning. He did
28:26
one other thing and I didn't mean to hold you for the whole show,
28:29
but sometimes these things we need your expertise. This bizarre story out of bell
28:33
this last week, and I touched on a briefly. Friday guy and Belle's
28:36
mother dies and he apparently just kept the body in the house to continue to
28:41
collecting her social Security benefits. Where does that stand? Yeah, so there
28:45
was an autopsy on Friday, and so we're waiting to the results of that.
28:51
You know, the man was charged with because he told police that he
28:56
continued to take her checks after she died. He says in December that she
29:00
died his mother there in Beil. And the way the police found out about
29:04
is they're serving an eviction notice and I think quite asi they just smelled you
29:11
know, in police officers know what. That smelled him absolutely, and so
29:14
they detected the smell and then they followed up on it. That was that
29:18
was Thursday when they were serving the eviction notice, and so there was a
29:22
process server from the Sheriff's office. Then the deputies in the mbail police and
29:26
the deputies arrival scene and found the woman's body and the sun hiding in the
29:33
closet. So now he's just been charged so far with the cashing of the
29:40
checks, but they say the investigation is on going. So the autopsy,
29:45
they would hope that he said that she died in December. They hope to
29:49
find out from the autopsy when she died and how she died, and then
29:52
that's going to determine whether he faces any additional charges or not. I mean
29:59
he could probably. The least of which he could with base would be just
30:02
not disposing of a corpse, you know. I mean that just and his
30:06
story has got national attention now, I mean it's just unbelievable. Yeah,
30:10
exactly. So um yeah, So there there's more to be said about that
30:15
and about their investigation. I think is the autopsy will reveal a lot to
30:18
the officers to see what's the next step. All right, Jeff, appreciate
30:22
you stopping buying lots lots to come and kN Krper got out of the hospital.
30:26
I was going to mention that a little bit. Yeah, Ken Carper
30:27
is out of the hospital now. So now we just kind of play the
30:30
I guess the waiting. But first of all, best wishes for commissioner restricted.
30:36
The commissioner is going to be restricted for several weeks. And so yeah,
30:41
we'll see where the other goes. Yeah, all right, Jeff,
30:41
I appreciate it. Man. Thanks all right, Jeff Jenkins from the newsroom,
30:45
twenty two minutes away from ten Now. I mentioned on about Jack Chambers
30:49
being on Hoppy Today. Also on the show today, State Senator Amy Grady's
30:53
going to be on the show, plus Chris Starwaltimore talking on with Hoppy.
30:56
Kirch will come it up at ten h six brief program, I mean before
31:00
we go to break. Then we'll bring Matt Sutton and chief of staff for
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the Good One Administration. I will be away from the Palmar Store studio two
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days this week, Wednesday and Thursday, doing some traveling for one of my
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Tomorrow's show, we're gonna have Courtney Smith from Small Business Administration who's in
31:23
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Yes, we're still talking about that because people are still in need even a
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for the mayor on Mayor Monday, Chief how are you? I'm doing great?
35:20
Day are you doing? They haven't been in forever, man, it's
35:22
been a while. I almost forgot what to do. I guess the good
35:23
thing is it's nothing changes around here. That's that's very That's more true than
35:29
you know. Uh, let me get this in. On Friday show was
35:31
my pleasure to welcome in Chef Paul Smith ten ten and to pitch Ellen's ice
35:36
cream. The watch party to see how the chef fairs and the James Beard
35:39
Awards ceremony in Chicago is happening to night at Capital Market. The director of
35:44
the Capital Market, Evan Osborne, was on the show along with the Chef
35:46
Paul and Friday. We have a story posted about at wv metro news dot
35:51
com. Chef Paul up for the title Best Chef Southeast at the James Beard
35:54
Awards. It's night in Chicago. The folks at Capital Market are having a
35:59
watch part. The awards are not being shown on television. They'll be shown
36:02
probably at some point, and you know it'll be covered by the News and
36:06
so on and so forth. So if you want to see it live,
36:08
going to Capital Market is the only way to see it live. And Matt,
36:13
this is the Oscars, It's the Grammys or the Heisman Trophy presentation for
36:16
the culinary arts, a big deal for the Charleston area. The party is
36:21
tonight six or nine at Capital Market. Any proceeds from ticket sales would go
36:24
to the Red Cross and back to Capital Market. And I spoke with Evan
36:29
from Capital Market about ten minutes before I went on the air. There are
36:31
about fifteen tickets left. Now, that was as of an hour ago,
36:35
there were fifteen tickets left. So if you want to go tonight, the
36:38
only place that you can see it live, you better go and better contact
36:43
to folks at Capital Market. Yeah, I mean it is. It's one
36:45
of the more exciting things to happen in a long time individually for Jeff Paul
36:50
obviously, but for the city and for our state. I mean, I
36:52
have friends who literally travel around the country for to go to restaurants where James
36:59
Beard Ward nominees are at. And I've had three or four who've text me
37:01
and go, which restaurant should I go to? And they're coming to town
37:05
just to eat at his restaurants, and that's I mean, that's not only
37:07
great for the city, but it's just great for him. You can't couldn't
37:12
happen to a better person, right, He has worked as hard as somebody
37:14
who's from here. That's right, went all over and then came back.
37:17
Yeah, that's that's that's to me, that's the great part about the story.
37:20
Man. Yeah, came back and then really got hyper local with everything
37:23
that he's done. Right, So it's not just you know, having restaurants
37:27
in town, but also and now I know he's down helping some folks in
37:30
Louisburg, but also using local ingredients, hiring local people. It's just been
37:34
it's been an amazing story and certainly happy that he's getting a recognition that he
37:37
deserves. Um win or lose. We all certainly hope he wins, but
37:40
if not, this is a tremendous honor and something that's well deserved and will
37:45
only continue to grow for him. And Sydney Charleston is gonna yeah, you
37:50
know, as I said, wishing him about really all the all of this
37:52
party wishing him the best, but you're also going to plan on using him
37:55
if he wins two for marketing purposes, well, I think regardless. Actually,
38:00
at this point, all you really need is that nominee behind him say
38:06
yeah, so, I mean, yeah, yeah. You go to you
38:07
know, you watch shows like Top Chef or stuff like that, and you
38:09
know a lot of them will mention James Beard. Most of them just say
38:12
nominee, right, most of them having one because not that many people win.
38:15
I mean, it's just to your point, like Oscars, it's not
38:16
like everybody gets a trophy, right, this is you know, you you
38:19
were there only a handful of winners for the whole thing, just to be
38:22
part of it, to make it this far. It's just it's almost unbelievable
38:25
because I think we're so used to it. We all ate as restaurants,
38:29
we all see him all the time. He's out talks to everybody. You
38:30
know, he's not a Sometimes you think of these chefs that win these awards
38:34
and you think they're kind of you know, big and all over the country
38:37
and in New York and you're not attainable. But you can see Chef Paul
38:39
walking on Capital Street, right, and he is such a nice guy.
38:44
And one of the things I like about him too, as kind of a
38:46
foodie as I am. He's not a food snob, no, you know,
38:50
because I listened to him a lot. He's on on on Hotline with
38:52
the with Cooping and Dave Weekley, and he's not above I mean, he
38:55
doesn't have to necessarily, you know, be five star quality food. He's
39:00
not above talking about fast food. From time to time we're talking about a
39:02
simple hamburger or something like that. He's not a food snob. Bundy Stretch
39:07
of the imagination. Lots going on in the city, getting close to Regatta
39:09
Town. It's getting close to regattas tign Festival first, right, so festival
39:13
starts this weekend. I know McKenzie's in here last week, but we got
39:15
that going and then we got through Pride this weekend, which was a great
39:20
event. We had the State of High School Baseball tournament in town and then
39:22
we go into Festival. Then we take a deep breath, and then we
39:25
go into Regatta and then right after that we take another deep breath go right
39:30
into Multifest. So it's it's gonna be exciting. But we were out last
39:34
week with the mayor and a couple of folks from our Regatta team, just
39:37
walking around downtown trying to get everything, our eyes on everything. You know,
39:40
having done it once, now we've learned a lot. But it's still
39:44
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his past Friday or three's coming up? It should say Outdoor dining has returned
40:01
city on weekends. How's the outdoor dining thingle? It's been great. I
40:04
mean this past weekend. I came down Saturday afternoon, I think it was
40:07
when I was walking around at Pride, and then I went over and looked
40:09
and it's just jam packed. And I mean even Friday night was crowded.
40:14
A couple of friends of mine who were we're supposed to meet over at the
40:15
Levy. They said they just never left their table over at Pozzo Pint.
40:20
It's kept eating and kept drinking. So I said, well that's just as
40:22
good. So as long as you're downtown having fun. But it's been it's
40:24
really excited. I mean, obviously we've had great weather, but I think
40:29
this this Friday is the tribute band of the Who, John Ingram's Tribute band
40:32
of the Who, So that'll be another big crowd. That's been two great
40:36
crowds for Live and the Levey so far. Yeah, and the weather's been
40:37
great, and I looked at the extended forecast early in the week for other
40:40
reasons, I think it looks pretty good as we had towards the weekend.
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This one came in at the beginning of the show, so it usually means
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somebody's got something important to say. Text says question from Matt Sutton. Over
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the weekend, the city worked with Rainbow Pride of West Virginia, a prominent
41:16
LGBTQ plus special interest group, to put on an event advertise as all ages,
41:22
that included drag performances at Slack Park. Please ask why it's in the
41:25
city's interest to have a drag show which is inherently sexual by definition, and
41:30
a public area for children with no age restrictions, and what the mayor feels
41:34
the minimum age for children attending a drag show on public property should be,
41:37
if any Well, I think that it would. First of all, I
41:42
think you could describe Pride as a Rainbow Pride, the special interest group.
41:46
I think they're a group who represents people of all you know, of all
41:52
inclusivity around this state and around this country. But most importantly, it's a
41:55
community event, and it is a community for everybody. Anything that occurs into
41:59
a park is community event. And that's one of the great things about Pride.
42:02
As to the age of children, that's up to their parents. I
42:05
mean, that's up to the parents who want to come down and bring them
42:07
to the event. They know what's happening, they know what's going on.
42:10
I don't think there should be any age restriction for people who come to events.
42:14
We don't have age restrictions on any of our events. Obviously you can't
42:16
drink alcohol and things like that. But if you want to come down with
42:20
your family and enjoy a great community event, please do so. But that's
42:23
up to each individual family as to how they want to, you know,
42:28
make their make their children aware of what's going on in their community from every
42:32
instance. But that's up to the parents. It's our job to be an
42:35
inclusive city and we've done that since since the day that we took over.
42:37
I think Charles has been inclusive city long before very Goodwin took over, and
42:42
it's been one of those cities where we really want to make sure people understand
42:45
that we are here for everyone and we are a place where people can come
42:49
and feel safe. To have an event like that over the last Friday and
42:52
Saturday in our city and you know, as big as it was, as
42:55
advertised it was. You know, these are amazing events. But somebody,
43:00
you know, when you work for the city and you work in government,
43:01
sometimes you get worried because sometimes these events have had bad consequences in other areas.
43:06
Bad actors have come in and tried to cause problems from everything from just
43:09
trying to start fights to running cars through crowds to shooting people, and we
43:14
get very nervous about it. But we have such an amazing community that we
43:15
don't have those kind of kind of issues. Thankfully. People just had an
43:20
amazing time. And if you want to come down and enjoy it, enjoy
43:22
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Pappy's Er Comfort and the WCHS networking station. Matt Sutton, chief of staff
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for the Good One Administration, is here, Texas. I have a neighbor
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off Hickory Road who shows all the signs of dealing drugs. A lot of
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traffic comes and goes several overdoses from the home numerous calls to police for various
47:23
disturbances. All the neighbors will leave this to be a drug house. Isn't
47:28
there any way to stop this? Yes? I think if you continue to
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if you continue to call the police if there's stuff that's happening, if you
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can call the police when there's actually something happening you believe something's happening, that
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I'll be much more beneficial. Also understand that sometimes that your calls into the
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police are are leading into an investigation that you might not necessarily be aware of,
47:46
but that they are working. Not familiar with this exact house, but
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I believe, I actually I believe I know which one it is if it's
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the one I'm thinking of what we've gotten calls about. But continue to call
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the police and understand that they might be working on something that you might not
48:00
necessarily know. Also, if you do think there are overdoses, you can
48:02
also reach out to the Care office that they can help out, or the
48:05
Charleston Fire Department they can help out as well. Texas. So Sutton is
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saying Danny Jones wasn't inclusive. Actually, that's the exact opposite of what you
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said about what I said at all. I think Mary Jones was very inclusive
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and Charleston was on top of the list of passing inclusivity and anti discrimination laws
48:19
long before we took over office Texas inclusive question mark the Rifleman plaque was removed
48:24
that excludes part of the community. Well, I think the Rifleman plaque was.
48:29
It was removed, and it was removed for a lot of variety of
48:31
reasons. But it still exists and it was trying to be donated to museum.
48:36
As we speak, tex says a drag show is not by definition sexual
48:39
in nature. Now Hooters is. Thank goodness, the den of inequity has
48:44
closed and my right prior texture, I can't watch Missus Doubtfire because Robin Williams
48:50
and drag is just too sexualized. I think that may be sarcasm, I
48:52
think so. I don't think that was directed to me. I think it
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was for I think it was sent to the previous textra Man. We get
48:59
a lot of calls and text about this anything new with the town center,
49:02
So no, I don't really have a big update. We are moving forward,
49:07
continue to move forward and talking with the county on the Capital Sports Center.
49:09
Uh And I think you'll see some action the next couple of weeks.
49:13
We do have to have we did have to have sort of setting up a
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an entity or a governing body for a joint county and city development. So
49:22
I think that you'll see you'll see movement start on that. But as for
49:24
the town Center itself, um, I haven't spoken with the whole group in
49:29
quite some time, other than what as it relates to, you know,
49:30
a while back with the Capital Sports Center, But I don't have any updates
49:34
other than we can will continue to move forward with the Capital Sports Center in
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and around them all. I mean, there's not really at this point much
49:39
that the city can do as far as the retail part of the that's that's
49:45
in the model of the whole court at this point, and they and they
49:46
have it down a whole lot since they I mean, I don't know what
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they're going on. That's not fair to say I don't know what's going on
49:52
behind the scenes, but I mean, at least on the outwardly appearances,
49:55
they haven't really done a whole lot, and the in the city at this
49:58
point on that particular part matter done pretty much all they can do. Yeah,
50:00
Well, I mean, we'll continue to work with the whole group.
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If they have any interest in working with us, I think that, you
50:05
know they. I think the inside of them all looks better than it has
50:07
in the past. But in terms of bringing in the retail, I'm not
50:10
aware of what's going on behind the scenes as well, but I do know
50:13
from our perspective, we believe that if if government at all levels invest in
50:17
and around areas which there could be strong economic development, that's what our job
50:22
isn't. We don't tell private businesses what to do, but we invest in
50:24
spaces that allow private business to grow. Texas LGBTQ, drag queens. It's
50:30
just like that old serpent. To corrupt God's natural order justified however, you
50:34
will will end up just like sodom Ingle Mora says, a texture's texture back
50:37
to the plaques. Has just restored the plaque on the site where it can
50:40
be seen and not hidden in a museum. I don't think in a museum
50:44
is hidden, but yeah, so it'll it's being nonated to a museum.
50:46
I know we're still working on it all right. To me close with this,
50:49
I want to go back to the death of the State Trooper Friday from
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Ingo County, matt law enforcement everywhere everywhere, as well as a general public.
50:54
Everybody packed by this. I know the Charleston Police Department was hit hard
50:59
as well, losing a brother like that. Yeah. Absolutely, Chief Hunt
51:02
text the Mari and myself Friday night and just you can and then we start
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talking to him. You can hear it in their voices. It's always just
51:08
you know, police officers are seen, as I know, being these very
51:13
tough and sort of bravado type individuals, but they're human meansions like everybody else,
51:16
and they're fragile, just like everybody else. And this really hits home
51:20
anytime it happens, especially when it happens on something that seems to be avoidable
51:24
and not from the police officer perspective, just from the society's perspective. And
51:29
it's really a sad situation. I know our officers went down there, and
51:31
you know, Chief Hunt went down to the hospital and as anything, is
51:35
there anything that you know when we've lost our officer here, it's not law
51:37
enforcement from just one area, it's from all across the region, across the
51:40
country that come together and support each other. And that will happen here,
51:44
I'm certain. Yeah, absolutely, Matt. It's always players to talk to
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you. Man. We didn't even get to talk old school wrestling, no,
51:49
but we'll get the We're got a championship wrestling, right, We're got
51:52
a pro wrestling coming up soon sponsored by Parmar, so we're excited. Yeah,
51:53
well yeah, we'll talk about that coming up, all right, Matt,
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thanks lot for being here. Tomorrow Courtney Smith from the Small Business Deistration
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will stop by, and also Charleston City councilant emme at Pepper talking scooters tomorrow.
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