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05/13/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Brad McElninny, Amelia Knisley Steven Allen Adams & Amy Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 3: more information. Day after the election. Some of us a
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Speaker 3: little tired this morning, but that's okay. At least I
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Speaker 3: right now, your day after the primary Metro News meteorologist
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Speaker 3: high of a little mid sixties, shaving up to be
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Speaker 3: a great weekend if you're looking ahead. We always are
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Speaker 3: for all the weather coverage you need. Several things are
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Speaker 3: on the show today on this day after the primary.
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Speaker 3: Voters in Charleston yesterday said yes to two time a
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Speaker 3: mayor Amy Schuler Goodwin in the Democratic primary. She will
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Speaker 3: now advance to the general election to face Republican Brian Hunt,
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Speaker 3: who ran unopposed yesterday. We'll talk to me a good
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Speaker 3: one coming up a little bit later on the show.
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Speaker 3: Also a little election roundtable, as we traditionally do. Brad
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Speaker 3: mclahaney will join us along with Emelia Nicely from West
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Speaker 3: Virginia to watching Stephen Allen Adams from Ogden Newspapers as well.
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Speaker 3: If you want to weigh in on the election or
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Speaker 3: zero four nine three five five zero Zeroid Welcome into
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Speaker 3: the news room now. Actually came from the newsroom into
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Speaker 3: the Jeric Construction Studios Daniel Woods, who was my co
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Speaker 3: host last night the local coverage of the like, sh
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Speaker 3: how you doing, my friend?
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Speaker 4: I'm all right about you.
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Speaker 3: It seems like I haven't seen you in a long time.
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Speaker 3: It's been a little bit. Okay, I don't know what's
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Speaker 3: going on with that microphone, but it's not very loud.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, we try another one.
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Speaker 3: H Yeah, that might be the thing to do. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: let's try this one. How about now? There you go, Hey,
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Speaker 3: all the the always reliable mic four that goes out
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Speaker 3: on a regular basis, all right.
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Speaker 4: It's the one that's furthest away from you. Yeah, so
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Speaker 4: that's where I figured i'd start.
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Speaker 3: All right. All right, So Daniel Woods, is here been
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Speaker 3: a long night, longer for you than once for me.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully you'll be able to get a little little rest
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Speaker 3: later today. Ideally we'll see.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 4: I did the math clocked somewhere between two and a
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Speaker 4: half and three hours with my eyes closed last night,
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Speaker 4: So we'll see what the rest of the day holds.
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Speaker 3: But you know, the news waits for no one. As
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Speaker 3: I like to say, mm hmm, all right, I want
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Speaker 3: to as I said, We're going to talk to Mary A.
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Speaker 3: Goodwin coming up a little bit later on, and she's
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Speaker 3: going to move on to the general to face Republican
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Speaker 3: Brian Hunt. So we'll talk to the mayor a little
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Speaker 3: bit later on. Becheuse she beat Martize Washington in the
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Speaker 3: primary election. She moves on. Let's talking about Charleston City Council.
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Speaker 4: Sure, all right, Well, I think you saw a lot
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Speaker 4: stay the same, but but some things change still at
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Speaker 4: the same time with Charleston City Council. I mean there
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Speaker 4: was as as people have heard on this show, there's
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Speaker 4: there's been some back and forth between city council members
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Speaker 4: clashing over over the last few months over various things.
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Speaker 4: It's a it's a large city council. There's gonna be disagreements,
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Speaker 4: there's gonna be diverse groups. But I think what you
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Speaker 4: saw is a lot of entrenched city council members maintain
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Speaker 4: their positions. You saw some slip out maybe in some
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Speaker 4: of those at large positions. In particular, there are a
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Speaker 4: lot of individual wards that were uncontested races, and we'll
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Speaker 4: see some more in the general. But I do think
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Speaker 4: it is notable how competitive those at large races are
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Speaker 4: and how many folks through their hats in the ring.
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Speaker 4: You had established city council members that did not finish
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Speaker 4: in the top six of those at large primaries, and
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Speaker 4: they are not going to have the opportunity to even
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Speaker 4: run in the general election to try to keep their seats.
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Speaker 3: Well, one of those that is not going to be
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Speaker 3: in it is Joe Solomon, who was beaten a longtime
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Speaker 3: Charleston City councilmen.
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Speaker 4: Right, And we've heard from Joe Solomon a lot. And
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Joe Solomon was one of the
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Speaker 4: Charleston City Council members that I saw out campaigning the most.
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Speaker 4: I saw a lot of Joe Solomon signs, I saw
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Speaker 4: a lot of Joe Solomon social media posts. I saw
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Speaker 4: a lot of Joe Solomon throughout this campaign process. And
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Speaker 4: I think that that goes to show that, you know,
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Speaker 4: sometimes the ball just does not bounce your way when
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Speaker 4: it comes to the votes. You know, the will of
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Speaker 4: the people is the will of the people, and there
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Speaker 4: are some folks on city Council that the people of
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Speaker 4: Charleston decided the will of the people is that your
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Speaker 4: time's up.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to the Kanawh County School Board race. There
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Speaker 3: are a lot of people through their hats and ring
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Speaker 3: and we have some people that aren't returning to the
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Speaker 3: school board, but we got some folks that are. And
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Speaker 3: you got to feel bad because of the way that
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Speaker 3: it's all laid that. Kim Williams, who ran a great campaign,
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Speaker 3: interviewer on the show, very very nice lady. She got
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Speaker 3: the second most votes, but because she's in the wrong district,
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Speaker 3: she does not get elected.
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Speaker 4: Right, So three seats up for grabs on city Council,
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Speaker 4: or excuse me, on the Kanawak County Board of Education,
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Speaker 4: but you can only have so many representatives from each
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Speaker 4: of the county's districts. The top two vote getters both
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Speaker 4: came from District one. Lisa Odie is going to be
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Speaker 4: the new member of the Kanawak County Board of Education.
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Speaker 4: Kim Williams had the second most votes, but in this
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Speaker 4: particular election, you could only have one person come on
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Speaker 4: to the board from District one. So despite being the
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Speaker 4: second highest vote getter, Kim Williams, you've got to scratch
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Speaker 4: your name out and go to the next So you
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Speaker 4: have Lisa Odie, who will be new to the board,
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Speaker 4: and then two incumbents in Becky Jordan and Mike Arbagast
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Speaker 4: that will be back on the board. And for Mike Arbagast,
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Speaker 4: he was appointed to that position just last year and
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Speaker 4: was able to win reelection after a short time on
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Speaker 4: the board. Becky Jordan's been there for an extended period
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Speaker 4: of time, and Lisa Odie is somebody that knows Kanawak
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Speaker 4: County Schools inside and out with as long as she
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Speaker 4: worked in the school system.
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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 4: Somebody that knows Kanawak County Schools inside now is Jim Crawford,
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Speaker 4: who's who's been on the Board of Education for decades
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Speaker 4: and has been part of Kanawak County Schools for a
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Speaker 4: very very long time, and he ends up being the
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Speaker 4: odd man out as the one incumbent that was not
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Speaker 4: re elected.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to the kannaw County Magistrates race.
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Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, So as far as magistrates go, these this
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Speaker 4: was interesting because you had contested races for magistrate and
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Speaker 4: three horse races for magistrate in both of these and
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Speaker 4: I think it is interesting because not only did you
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Speaker 4: have competitive races, but you had two races with sitting
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Speaker 4: magistrates that were appointed relatively recently. These were unexpired terms
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Speaker 4: and one of them wins and one of them does not.
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Speaker 4: Harry Carpenter in Division four is unseated rather handily by
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Speaker 4: former magistrate Tim Halleran, who had not been around for
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Speaker 4: a couple of years. He retired a few years ago,
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Speaker 4: decided to jump back in and he wins by about
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Speaker 4: eighteen hundred votes in a three horse race. Took nearly
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Speaker 4: fifty five percent of the vote. So Tim Hallerin will
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Speaker 4: be the magistrate in Division four. And then Delbert Rausch
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Speaker 4: was just appointed in Division thirteen in January, and he
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Speaker 4: had two challengers with Paul Noddis and Bolts Willis, and
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Speaker 4: it was not as demonstrative as the win for Tim Hallerin,
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Speaker 4: but he comfortably won that race, you know, took forty
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Speaker 4: four percent of the vote and the next closest with
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Speaker 4: Paul Natas, who took about thirty percent. So it is
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Speaker 4: going to be interesting. You get an experienced magistrate in
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Speaker 4: there in Tim Halleran, but at the same time, when
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Speaker 4: he was magistrate previously, there were some issues. There were
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Speaker 4: some some censures when he was the magistrate previously. Delbert
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Speaker 4: Rausch twenty five year Knawk County sheriff's debut. He got
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Speaker 4: his first opportunity to be magistrate in January, and he's
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Speaker 4: going to be able to finish out that term.
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Speaker 3: We know again, we're talking with Daniel Woods about last
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Speaker 3: night election. We know that Lance Wheeler chose to run
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Speaker 3: for State Senate, so that left and opening on Knawh
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Speaker 3: County Commission. Jared Page won that last night. He moves
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Speaker 3: on to face Palman Roe in the general.
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Speaker 4: That's right, and Jared Page was it a competitive race
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Speaker 4: with George Mets. Weren't necessarily sure how that one was
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Speaker 4: going to break down going into election day because Jared
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Speaker 4: Page frankly had been a much more public facing candidate
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Speaker 4: than George Mets had been. That was a competitive race.
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Speaker 4: That one came down to the I don't want to
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Speaker 4: say the last few precincts reporting for Kanawak County, but
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Speaker 4: that one was not able to be called early. Jared
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Speaker 4: Page ends up winning about fifty two percent of the
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Speaker 4: vote in the Republican primary. And he's very experienced for
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Speaker 4: a relatively young guy. I mean, he's a city councilman
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Speaker 4: in Saint Albans, vice mayor of Saint Albans, a former
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Speaker 4: municipal judge, and he's able to come out of that primary,
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Speaker 4: he's going to face paulman Roe, who was unopposed in
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Speaker 4: the Democratic primary. You know, it's not necessarily something I've
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Speaker 4: experienced firsthand, but it's something I've learned very quickly in
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Speaker 4: my time living here in Charleston in the Kanawa Valley.
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Speaker 4: That Knaw County Commission saw so little turnover for a
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Speaker 4: very long time, a long time, very long time. And
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Speaker 4: now it's what the last ten twelve years, you've seen
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Speaker 4: bens Lango come in and make an impact, and Lance
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Speaker 4: Wheeler come in and make an impact, and Natalie Tenant
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Speaker 4: come in and make an impact. Now Lance Wheeler is
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Speaker 4: looking to make an impact in the state Senate if
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Speaker 4: he can win the general election in the eighth district.
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Speaker 4: Jared Page maybe the next guy up. Paulman Roe maybe
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Speaker 4: the next guy up. If the Democrats able to win
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Speaker 4: that race, it'll be interesting.
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Speaker 3: Note on Lance Wheeler, he is going to join the
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Speaker 3: Talk Line Boys, I think at eleven thirty on the
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Speaker 3: show today. Kind of a cool story. Daniel out of
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Speaker 3: the City of Bell the first female, first female mayor
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Speaker 3: in the town's history. Melody Vickers into that role. That's
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Speaker 3: kind of a cool story, I think.
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Speaker 4: So, you know, Dave Fletcher decided he was not going
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Speaker 4: to run for reelection as mayor of the town of Bell.
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Speaker 4: Melanie Vickers has been on council. And I'll tell you what,
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Speaker 4: you know, if you're not paying attention necessarily closely to
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Speaker 4: some of the local news, you might scoff at that
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Speaker 4: and just say, oh, you know, what happens in the
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Speaker 4: town of Bell.
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Speaker 5: Things happen in the town of Bell.
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Speaker 4: I spent eight hours in a Civil Service Commission hearing
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Speaker 4: last year in the town of Bell, where they ended
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Speaker 4: up recommending to the town council to remove the chief
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Speaker 4: of police, who is now facing criminal charges for that
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Speaker 4: same situation. So things happen in the town of Bell,
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Speaker 4: trust me, and good and bad it's not you know,
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Speaker 4: but I'm.
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Speaker 5: Not saying I'm not yet.
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Speaker 4: I'm not saying a bunch of I'm not saying just
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Speaker 4: bad things happened in the town of Bell. There's a
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Speaker 4: lot of great things that happened in the town of Bell,
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Speaker 4: and one of those is the first female mayor has
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Speaker 4: been elected. Melanie Vickers, an experienced civil servant, having served
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Speaker 4: on town council and now she's going to get the
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Speaker 4: job as the mayor.
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Speaker 3: And Putnam County. Zach Creed will be the new county commissioner.
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Speaker 3: He won his race that included current Commissioner Doug Pearson,
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Speaker 3: who was appointed to that role no democratic composition, So
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Speaker 3: Zach Creed, businessman in Putnam County, will move on to
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Speaker 3: the Putnam County commission.
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Speaker 4: That was another close one. It was down to about
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Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty votes that decided that race. Doug
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Speaker 4: Pearson appointed to finish an unexpired term. Then it comes
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Speaker 4: up again during the mid term and Zach Creed, I
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Speaker 4: will be honest. Talking to him last night, you can
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Speaker 4: understand why the people of Putnam County decided they wanted
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Speaker 4: him on commission. He was very vocal about wanting to
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Speaker 4: be open with constituents and communicate with constituents and have
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Speaker 4: the ability to be accessible to the people of Putnam County.
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Speaker 4: And he understands that there are changes coming to Putnam County,
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Speaker 4: not just with what's going on with the data center
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Speaker 4: in Buffalo, but it's a growing area. You've got people
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Speaker 4: moving in to Putnham County that are going to be
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Speaker 4: working at new corps in Mason County and commuting, so
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Speaker 4: there's a lot going going on, and Zach Creed is
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Speaker 4: going to be one of the people trying to guide
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Speaker 4: Putnham County through that process.
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Speaker 3: And we got to quick get through the next two
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Speaker 3: things quickly. South Charleston mayor Frank Mullins been the mayors
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Speaker 3: of two thousand and seven. He will keep that seat.
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Speaker 4: Two decades of Frank Mullins. There's a lot going on
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Speaker 4: in South Charleston too, a lot of business development and
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Speaker 4: he's very excited to see it through.
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Speaker 3: And the voters in Kanah County kept the levee around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that was expected fifty year levy, no reason
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Speaker 4: to believe it wasn't going to stick around. But a
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Speaker 4: lot of important services on that Knawak County emergency levee
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Speaker 4: and it's going to stay.
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Speaker 3: With us, all right, Daniel, great job last night, and
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Speaker 3: this we did not cover all the races in the segment.
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Speaker 3: to the show. Brad, how are you my friend?
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Speaker 3: All right? Amelia?
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Speaker 3: I'm want to start with you on to get right
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Speaker 3: ask you first, brad Oney, night overall for the governor,
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Speaker 3: I guess, because but there are wins, there are losses
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Speaker 3: I have heard people say, Oh, the governor had a
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Speaker 3: great night, and other people said, oh, the governor had
17:17
Speaker 3: a bad night. I guess it depends on which side
17:19
Speaker 3: of the fence you're on. What say you, mister mac You.
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Speaker 6: Know people bring the priors to it. I would say
17:25
Speaker 6: mixed bag maybe to it. I'm a mixed bag kind
17:28
Speaker 6: of guy. But you know, I think the governor set
17:32
Speaker 6: out hard to take out Conalla County Senator Tom Dakubo
17:37
Speaker 6: as well as you know. Top of his list was
17:40
Speaker 6: Senator Vnstein's. The Greenborough County didn't get those.
17:44
Speaker 13: Uh.
17:44
Speaker 6: The Governor endorsed and his allies financially supported a bunch
17:49
Speaker 6: of other incumbents and largely that held in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 6: The Governor did notably, you know, contribute to taking out
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Speaker 6: the House Finance Chairman Vernon Chris along with another Parkershourgaria
18:03
Speaker 6: Delegate Scott Heckert. So you know, I think you notched
18:08
Speaker 6: those as wins in the governor's column. But finally the
18:13
Speaker 6: governor's you know, two appointees to the State Supreme Court
18:17
Speaker 6: didn't make it through, so he didn't nominate people with
18:22
Speaker 6: you know, we now see the ability to run statewide
18:24
Speaker 6: races in quick turnarounds. Those those guys were not the winners,
18:29
Speaker 6: and so the governor's influence on the court is lessened.
18:32
Speaker 6: So I really think mixed bag overall.
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Speaker 11: Stephen, Oh, mixed bag for sure, No doubt that the
18:38
Speaker 11: governor can claim some victories. He certainly settled some some grudge,
18:43
Speaker 11: you know, grudges that he had with a couple House members,
18:46
Speaker 11: that being House Finance n Chair Chris Vernon, Chris and
18:50
Speaker 11: Scott Delgat, Scott Heckert has Brad just talked about, so
18:53
Speaker 11: some successes there, so a handful a handful of new
18:57
Speaker 11: House members, But I mean it's a ninety one member
19:00
Speaker 11: Republican caucus. Is that enough to get more of your
19:05
Speaker 11: people through? And what do you kind of leave behind
19:08
Speaker 11: in the wake. You're gonna have a lot of Republicans
19:10
Speaker 11: over there that already were kind of upset with the
19:12
Speaker 11: governor and how he operates, and that's not going to change.
19:16
Speaker 11: And one of the people that they spent a lot
19:18
Speaker 11: of money to get rid of that, Clay Riley dug
19:20
Speaker 11: Clay Riley Harrison County. Well, he was successful and had
19:25
Speaker 11: no issues when he reelection. Who do you think is
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Speaker 11: going to be the next House Finance Committee chair? He's
19:30
Speaker 11: the vice committee chair right now. He's probably coming up
19:33
Speaker 11: and the Senate, I mean, the only person they really
19:35
Speaker 11: kind of got across the finish line. I don't know
19:36
Speaker 11: if this is a Morsey endorsement, but some of the
19:39
Speaker 11: Morse the affiliate groups, I think we're fine with us.
19:41
Speaker 11: Toby Heeney, who will succeed after the general election, depending
19:46
Speaker 11: on how that turns out. Charles Clements up there. Senator
19:50
Speaker 11: Capito had backed Robert Dopkin.
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Speaker 5: He lost, so.
19:55
Speaker 11: In short, some short term gains for the governor. But
19:59
Speaker 11: I think think he's going to have the same problem
20:01
Speaker 11: with the legislature next year as he just had this year.
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Speaker 3: Milia, Yeah, I feel the same.
20:05
Speaker 10: I don't think that his trajectory with the legislature has
20:08
Speaker 10: changed very much despite what happened last night. He still
20:11
Speaker 10: has some strong opponents in both the House and Senate,
20:15
Speaker 10: and I think he's made a few new enemies along
20:18
Speaker 10: the way, and so many of his proposals were DOA
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Speaker 10: and House finance this year. I don't think that will
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Speaker 10: change next year.
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Speaker 3: They're going to be deader next year.
20:26
Speaker 10: Maybe, Yeah, what's the what's next after debter? You know,
20:30
Speaker 10: it's early frusttre word people over here deadist.
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Speaker 2: But I also think.
20:36
Speaker 10: There's a high possibility of a change in leadership in
20:38
Speaker 10: the Senate. And you know, I need to sit down
20:41
Speaker 10: and really look at what shook out last night. I
20:43
Speaker 10: started a post it note last night, But yeah, I
20:46
Speaker 10: think we could see a change there and that could
20:48
Speaker 10: just make another roadblock to the governor's proposals. But on
20:51
Speaker 10: the flip side of that, it could also make it
20:54
Speaker 10: difficult for lawmaker's proposals to survive a veto. I mean,
20:57
Speaker 10: we could see stress both ways.
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Speaker 4: Next ushon of.
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Speaker 3: Course, the talk line boys are kind of more on
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Speaker 3: I want to talk aftermath right now, planning to have
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Speaker 3: on again state gopch here Josh Holstein and State Democratic
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Speaker 3: Party Chair mke Pushkin both on Midday today. Brad, if
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21:22
Speaker 3: as they say, sometimes, how do you clean this up?
21:26
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I mean, I think you can begin
21:28
Speaker 6: with the starting the base that the Republican Party, despite
21:32
Speaker 6: the divisions, is still the dominant party in West Virginia.
21:37
Speaker 6: But the court race, I'm going to go back to that.
21:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it is.
21:42
Speaker 6: It is nonpartisan. However, I think there's a strong belief
21:47
Speaker 6: this morning that the forces aligned with trial lawyers, who
21:52
Speaker 6: traditionally have been Democratic backers, won the night in those races.
21:57
Speaker 2: You know.
21:58
Speaker 6: And Bill Flanagan, who who won the two year seat
22:01
Speaker 6: up against the Morsy appointed incumbent Tom Ewing, was pretty
22:07
Speaker 6: clear on last night's election that coverage that Bill Flanagan,
22:11
Speaker 6: who had been a Republican member of the House of Delegates,
22:15
Speaker 6: really reached out to Democrats and independent voters to try to,
22:22
Speaker 6: you know, make their votes count, to not forget them,
22:26
Speaker 6: and that was a winning strategy for him.
22:29
Speaker 2: You know.
22:30
Speaker 6: I think there's a feeling this morning that even though
22:34
Speaker 6: I am absolutely not predicting a Democratic wave in West
22:37
Speaker 6: Virginia in the fall races, but there is a feeling
22:40
Speaker 6: this morning that Democrats have a lot to be to
22:45
Speaker 6: begin to be optimistic about because of some of this
22:49
Speaker 6: Republican weakness and because of greater enthusiasm on their side.
22:54
Speaker 3: Amelia was the court case the big story of the
22:58
Speaker 3: night because I had somebody tell me that earlier day
23:00
Speaker 3: of political pundit said, I, look, you know these races,
23:02
Speaker 3: you know, the legislative races were one thing, but the
23:05
Speaker 3: court case was the real story of the night.
23:07
Speaker 4: I think it's the court.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, It's hard for me to judge what is the story,
23:12
Speaker 10: but I think it was one of the more surprising stories.
23:15
Speaker 10: I certainly think Vernon Chris's loss was a shocking story.
23:18
Speaker 10: I think Jeff Kessler's loss, I think it was a
23:21
Speaker 10: shocking story. But I think what I took away from
23:23
Speaker 10: last night was kind of my question mark with Democratic voters,
23:27
Speaker 10: and I think as we go into this election season,
23:30
Speaker 10: I think, and it's a little early for me to
23:32
Speaker 10: do this steep dive analysis to bear with me, but
23:35
Speaker 10: I think where Team to Kubo failed was in messaging,
23:40
Speaker 10: and I think Democrats need to learn from that. And
23:43
Speaker 10: as you see like a John Williams or Sean Fluhardy
23:46
Speaker 10: trying to flip a seat in the Senate. Moderate week
23:49
Speaker 10: messaging will not work. Yeah, So that was kind of
23:51
Speaker 10: my takeaway from last night. But I do think the
23:53
Speaker 10: court is a very interesting look at voters, and I
23:57
Speaker 10: think the low voter turnout and closed I may really
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Speaker 10: had an effect in all of these elections.
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Speaker 3: We actually had a text and I did a little
24:04
Speaker 3: research on this from a that say, good morning day
24:07
Speaker 3: would be curious as a percentage of voter turnout and
24:10
Speaker 3: registered voters, and Mike Queen, Secretary of State's Office, tells
24:13
Speaker 3: me twenty one percent. That was the turnout.
24:15
Speaker 11: That was the turnout, you know, less than the twenty
24:18
Speaker 11: twenty two mid term primary because that was twenty three.
24:21
Speaker 3: Percent, right, And it was interesting because it moistered voters.
24:24
Speaker 3: It was so slow, you know, early on we talked
24:28
Speaker 3: to the county clerks and early voting it was so slow.
24:30
Speaker 3: And then on Saturday there was this wave of people,
24:35
Speaker 3: and then I guess on election Day the wave went
24:38
Speaker 3: back to the opposite direction because there wasn't a lot
24:40
Speaker 3: of it wasn't a lot of turnout.
24:41
Speaker 11: Well, it's one of those things where you know, I know,
24:44
Speaker 11: early voting turnout was higher than twenty twenty two in
24:48
Speaker 11: previous years. But honestly, early voting turnout gets higher every
24:53
Speaker 11: year because early voting becomes more and more popular, it
24:55
Speaker 11: becomes easier to do. And in this election, it's possible
24:59
Speaker 11: some people were just so tired of getting all the
25:01
Speaker 11: messaging they just wanted to get the vote over and
25:03
Speaker 11: done with. But I mean, I think some have dinged
25:08
Speaker 11: the press for talking about vover turnout, but that's usually
25:12
Speaker 11: what happens in the midterm, and that seems to born
25:15
Speaker 11: out here. And again, there are more registered voters in
25:18
Speaker 11: this election and they were into twenty twenty twenty two midterm,
25:21
Speaker 11: so that's pretty significant.
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Speaker 3: Brad Senator Capito wins her primary easily over State Senator
25:28
Speaker 3: Tom Willis and Alexander Gonslud. No surprise there, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, I don't think so. And she Senator Capito, the incumbent,
25:39
Speaker 6: who has all of the powers of the incumbency as
25:42
Speaker 6: well as a significant war chest, now faces former Morgantown
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Speaker 6: Council Member Rachel Fetti Anderson. With all due respect to
25:51
Speaker 6: Mss Fetty Anderson, I think capitol goes into that heavy favorite. However,
25:57
Speaker 6: you know, it's a six year term Capito is in leadership.
26:01
Speaker 6: She is a cautious person, but you know, I think
26:06
Speaker 6: it may be interesting over the next six years, particularly
26:10
Speaker 6: as Donald Trump's popularity across the nation appears to be
26:14
Speaker 6: at a low EBB. How will Capito behave how independent
26:19
Speaker 6: will she act? And you know, I think that's something
26:22
Speaker 6: to watch.
26:22
Speaker 11: Well, here's she is in line for Here's an important
26:26
Speaker 11: factor too, Brad that it's kind of interesting. This was,
26:28
Speaker 11: of course a closed Republican primary, so only registered voters,
26:32
Speaker 11: registered Republican voters could vote in this Republican primary. And
26:36
Speaker 11: I think some were kind of watching this to see
26:39
Speaker 11: how much that might hurt her in the margins, particularly
26:42
Speaker 11: with Tom Willis running to her right. It didn't. The
26:46
Speaker 11: Republican voters came out and supported Shelley Moore Capito. And
26:51
Speaker 11: now these are Republicans. I mean before it would have
26:53
Speaker 11: been a mix of Republicans and independents. This was strictly Republicans.
26:59
Speaker 11: And I think for her to get the strong showing
27:02
Speaker 11: that she got from voters really kind of says that,
27:04
Speaker 11: you know, she's very popular still among voters. There's a
27:09
Speaker 11: very vocal minority that doesn't like her, But it would
27:11
Speaker 11: seem most Republicans are perfectly fine with her being in
27:14
Speaker 11: the Senate.
27:15
Speaker 3: Well, now we can all take a break. Oh wait,
27:17
Speaker 3: early voting for the general starts October twenty first and November.
27:22
Speaker 3: The November general is November. The the date is November third,
27:25
Speaker 3: so get ready for all that. What are you most
27:27
Speaker 3: looking forward to about the summer, Amelia?
27:30
Speaker 7: Baseball?
27:31
Speaker 3: And I'm not covering the election.
27:34
Speaker 10: I yeah, I mean I am. Yeah, I'm a baseball person.
27:37
Speaker 10: I'm a pool person, so summer is my season to shine.
27:39
Speaker 10: So I'm looking forward to that.
27:41
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we have interims coming up here. We
27:43
Speaker 3: take a couple of weeks. Hate to rain on your
27:45
Speaker 3: baseball parade, Amelia, but we have we have interims coming
27:48
Speaker 3: up here. Else only interims are next week right this
27:51
Speaker 3: house only.
27:51
Speaker 10: Yeah. Hello, we've just blown each other's heads off, and
27:54
Speaker 10: now we're going to gather at the Capitol.
27:57
Speaker 9: It's going to be great.
27:58
Speaker 14: Yes, hello, helloo.
27:59
Speaker 10: I hope the Ovenor will probably have a presser like
28:01
Speaker 10: it's just gonna be a free for all.
28:03
Speaker 3: Just look at him like, you know, you go, just kidding,
28:06
Speaker 3: just kidding, Hey, Brad, I know you got to hop
28:08
Speaker 3: on another interview. I appreciate you being here. Man, Thanks
28:10
Speaker 3: a lot, all right, Steven Rocking to Marshall School of
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Speaker 3: Journalism Mass Communications.
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Speaker 11: I'm gonna call drop out, but my wife is a
28:21
Speaker 11: graduate of the Jay School at Marshall, so I support it.
28:24
Speaker 3: All right, Guys, I appreciate you being here this election season.
28:27
Speaker 3: I mean, this is this primary election and I've been
28:30
Speaker 3: not in the news realm, but I've been closely watching
28:32
Speaker 3: politics really my entire life, and I have never seen
28:35
Speaker 3: anything quite like it. And I'll say this and then
28:38
Speaker 3: we'll close. Last night on the local coverage, we interviewed
28:41
Speaker 3: Tom Tokubo last night and I don't know Tom well,
28:46
Speaker 3: of known him for a few years not, but I
28:49
Speaker 3: will say he ain't over it. Talking to Tom's Google
28:54
Speaker 3: last night, he was more interested. And this is I'm
28:57
Speaker 3: not throwing off at him. I'm just saying he seemed
28:59
Speaker 3: to be much more interested in talking about the dirt
29:02
Speaker 3: and all the money that was spent that he did
29:05
Speaker 3: in the fact that he actually won last night, because
29:07
Speaker 3: he's he's still a little peed off about it. Amelia, absolutely.
29:11
Speaker 10: I mean, for Charleston being our biggest city, this is
29:14
Speaker 10: still a small town.
29:14
Speaker 2: It is. And when you're on.
29:16
Speaker 10: Endless mailers that just are complete lies. How could you
29:20
Speaker 10: be over that? You have to go to church with
29:22
Speaker 10: these people, You have to see them.
29:23
Speaker 7: Those wounds don't just heal.
29:25
Speaker 10: And as I said, I don't think the Senate is
29:27
Speaker 10: a done deal. I think we will see whether it's
29:29
Speaker 10: from Takubo or someone from his team. Another challenge for
29:31
Speaker 10: Senate president.
29:32
Speaker 5: And here's the thing.
29:32
Speaker 11: We know how much money has been spent by some
29:35
Speaker 11: of these independent expensure groups, but it's probably gonna take
29:37
Speaker 11: us a few days to go through and actually see
29:39
Speaker 11: how much money just got thrown away on trying to
29:43
Speaker 11: support certain candidates. In this case, Tom Tacubo's grace, so
29:46
Speaker 11: much money spent to oust him that didn't work. And
29:50
Speaker 11: I mean, you know where could that money have gone?
29:54
Speaker 11: You know other things for sure?
29:56
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the show. Sixteen minutes away from ten.
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Speaker 3: Coming up on the show tomorrow, we'll continue our post
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Speaker 3: coming up on tomorrow's show. It's bringing now one of
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Speaker 3: the winners last night in our primary election, Charleston marror
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Speaker 3: Amy Shure a good when she joined us this morning
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Speaker 3: in the Jeric Construction studios. Good morning, Mayor, welcome to
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Speaker 3: the show.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning.
36:54
Speaker 5: Did you go to bed?
36:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually, my night wasn't bad last night. I got
36:58
Speaker 3: to hear about eleven fifteen thirty or so last night. Now,
37:01
Speaker 3: Chris and some of the others stayed all night, and
37:04
Speaker 3: I think Daniel said he left about one thirty one
37:06
Speaker 3: forty five or so this morning. So yes, I went
37:08
Speaker 3: home and I got some sleep last night. Did you
37:12
Speaker 3: get any sleep last night?
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Speaker 2: Well, as you well know, my bedtime, I'm a four
37:17
Speaker 2: to thirty five am or so, my bedtime was really late.
37:21
Speaker 2: But yes, I did. I did make it. I'm like
37:23
Speaker 2: a toddler. I mean my sleep, Yes, I did. I
37:26
Speaker 2: mean at least a little bit.
37:28
Speaker 3: I could not. I mean this, this is what happens
37:30
Speaker 3: when you get old. I'm talking about me, not you.
37:32
Speaker 3: This is what happens. And plus you understand I did
37:34
Speaker 3: morning radio for twenty years. I get it over twenty
37:37
Speaker 3: years at three am, so even now. I mean I
37:40
Speaker 3: looked at my watch at one point last night and
37:42
Speaker 3: I said, my god, it's ten thirty and I'm still awake,
37:44
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, that doesn't even happen.
37:46
Speaker 2: On the weekends, which is which is it was always
37:48
Speaker 2: a good time for me too. Not to get into
37:50
Speaker 2: too much of it, but you know, listen, I've got
37:52
Speaker 2: folks who show up also at the City of Charleston
37:55
Speaker 2: for work at four thirty. But my starting time was
37:58
Speaker 2: when I was in your neck, was two forty five am.
38:02
Speaker 2: I can get up early, but I got to go
38:04
Speaker 2: to bed at night. But it was a great night,
38:05
Speaker 2: exciting night. Listen to your broadcast. It was absolutely wonderful
38:09
Speaker 2: and thanks to all of the meeting and I don't
38:11
Speaker 2: know if we ever say thank you for doing that.
38:14
Speaker 2: I mean, between this show, your afternoon show, TJ, it
38:19
Speaker 2: just it was a It was a lot of really
38:22
Speaker 2: good information. Jeff and Chris and the entire team did
38:25
Speaker 2: such an amazing job keeping folks informed and you know,
38:29
Speaker 2: because it was a it was an interesting cycle. It
38:32
Speaker 2: was a little bit of a wacky cycle. But certainly
38:35
Speaker 2: we're thrilled about the results this morning.
38:38
Speaker 3: So you know, congratulations on your win. Now you'll move
38:41
Speaker 3: on to the general to take on Republican Brian Hunt.
38:43
Speaker 3: Voters and Charleston have chosen you. I guess when you
38:46
Speaker 3: think about it, my other shows you two and a
38:47
Speaker 3: half times. Now, I guess it's one way to look
38:49
Speaker 3: at it, right.
38:50
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but no, I mean yes, but no, And
38:53
Speaker 2: I mean that I'm not trying to be funny or
38:55
Speaker 2: cute or KOI about it. I mean I believe that
38:57
Speaker 2: people vote for Yes the Canada. But the things that
39:02
Speaker 2: folks are doing, I mean, I'm one of seven hundred
39:05
Speaker 2: and thirty plus employees, and I am a member of
39:09
Speaker 2: an outstanding community and we have literally, Dave, as you
39:13
Speaker 2: will know, hundreds of community partners that we have great relationships,
39:18
Speaker 2: great projects we're working on with them, great programming, and
39:22
Speaker 2: not to mention the relationships that we have not just
39:25
Speaker 2: in local government, not just in county government, not just
39:28
Speaker 2: in state government, but also the federal government. And I
39:31
Speaker 2: think that that is what people voted for, not particularly
39:35
Speaker 2: the person in and of itself.
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Speaker 3: One thing I've noticed, and again we're talking with Charleston
39:41
Speaker 3: Mary Amy Shuler, a good one who won her primary
39:42
Speaker 3: election last night. She moves on to the general. One
39:45
Speaker 3: of the things I've noticed when I have talked to you,
39:47
Speaker 3: either after an election or any time that something good
39:51
Speaker 3: happens in Charleston, you always go out of your way,
39:55
Speaker 3: it seems to me to thank the city workers, the team.
39:57
Speaker 3: You always say, I'm just I'm just a city employee,
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Speaker 3: I'm one of them, or whatever. Why is that important
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Speaker 3: to you?
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Speaker 2: Because it is because, by the way, it shouldn't be.
40:10
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be an anomaly. That's how every public servant
40:13
Speaker 2: should feel. I work for you. I don't work for myself.
40:17
Speaker 2: I think it's ridiculous when people put pictures of themselves
40:20
Speaker 2: on walls, and pictures with themselves with politicians lining their
40:24
Speaker 2: shelves of their office. That's just not who I am.
40:28
Speaker 2: I care about the people who work in the city,
40:31
Speaker 2: people who work for the city, as do I. You know,
40:35
Speaker 2: I think that we've you and I have been in
40:38
Speaker 2: this world for a very long period of time. I
40:40
Speaker 2: never thought, never thought I would ever run for public
40:44
Speaker 2: office ever, I like to do the work that is
40:48
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. That's just always who I am, and
40:50
Speaker 2: that's just not I'm not trying to make a campaign
40:54
Speaker 2: out or a bumper's picture here. I like the municipal government.
40:57
Speaker 2: I worked in every form of government. I like municipal government.
41:01
Speaker 2: It's where the you know, the rubber meets the road.
41:04
Speaker 2: And so this is the type of work and the
41:06
Speaker 2: people that I like to work with, and I'm just
41:09
Speaker 2: I'm honored. I'm thrilled that folks had voted for our team.
41:14
Speaker 6: To do this.
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Speaker 2: But when you start getting away from that, it's, you know,
41:16
Speaker 2: it's it's what Colin Powell, you know, the guy that
41:19
Speaker 2: I love. Colin Powell was always somebody that I look to.
41:23
Speaker 2: You know, don't tie your ego too much to your job,
41:25
Speaker 2: because when you lose both, you know, it all falls out.
41:29
Speaker 2: And I think that's where we've gotten in policy and
41:32
Speaker 2: in these positions. It's not mine, it is yours. And
41:35
Speaker 2: so that's what is so important about elections and the
41:39
Speaker 2: results of an election. It's it's about a team. It's
41:41
Speaker 2: never about one person. And when people start to think
41:43
Speaker 2: that it does, that's when everything goes south.
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Speaker 3: Talking again with Charleston, Mary Amy Schuler A good one
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41:58
Speaker 3: I want to talk about it. I want to talk
41:59
Speaker 3: about your daytime right now. And that says the mayor. Yeah,
42:02
Speaker 3: you got a lot of there's a lot of stuff
42:03
Speaker 3: going on in the city, the fun stuff we think about,
42:06
Speaker 3: which is still a lot of work, like the bicycleing,
42:07
Speaker 3: the vent and regod and so on and so forth,
42:10
Speaker 3: but a lot of you and I talked about it
42:11
Speaker 3: on the air last night. I had a lot of
42:12
Speaker 3: construction going on, a lot of a lot of business
42:15
Speaker 3: growth in the city of Charleston. So you got a
42:18
Speaker 3: busy summer coming up, Mayor.
42:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, it's the work that we like to do.
42:24
Speaker 2: And you know, after the regatta announcement a couple of
42:27
Speaker 2: weeks ago, somebody said, oh my gosh, she's so excited.
42:29
Speaker 2: It is the most fun time of the year, summertime,
42:32
Speaker 2: and we chuckled and our team members kind of looked
42:35
Speaker 2: at each other, you know, out of the sides of
42:37
Speaker 2: our eyes like it is for everyone else. And I
42:41
Speaker 2: say that jocally in a way, because you don't see
42:45
Speaker 2: what happens after you go home. We don't go to bed.
42:48
Speaker 2: We're setting up and prepping for the next day. We're
42:50
Speaker 2: making sure businesses are being notified about street closures and
42:55
Speaker 2: parades happening. And it is definitely worth it, every single
43:01
Speaker 2: thing that we do, and we continue to invest in
43:04
Speaker 2: the things that we know are going to bring people,
43:08
Speaker 2: business employees and equality of life that we know that
43:11
Speaker 2: our employers employees want in the city of Charleston. But
43:16
Speaker 2: for sure, this is our this is our sprinting season.
43:19
Speaker 2: So starting from you know, Memorial Data Labor Day, we're
43:23
Speaker 2: all hands on deck. People you know might take a
43:26
Speaker 2: long weekend before that happened, but it is, you know,
43:31
Speaker 2: we're on full blasts from here to to here to
43:34
Speaker 2: it really you know, even past we get a small
43:38
Speaker 2: reprieve and then we start firing up with you know,
43:43
Speaker 2: holly jolly and all of those things, and the construction
43:45
Speaker 2: is going to start. And so let me just pause
43:47
Speaker 2: by saying this. We're talking about all the fun things.
43:50
Speaker 2: What you also don't see is that we are getting
43:52
Speaker 2: ready to start the largest paving projects we've ever had
43:55
Speaker 2: in one cycle in the history of the City of Charleston,
43:58
Speaker 2: which sounds great, right, paving more roads until I've blocked
44:01
Speaker 2: your road day and you're angry, or when we you know,
44:05
Speaker 2: I have a literal bird's eye view of the wonderful
44:09
Speaker 2: construction going on that the commission did of the courthouse.
44:13
Speaker 2: But by the way, pedestrians and cars don't appreciate it,
44:17
Speaker 2: but it's progress. We're getting ready to rip up the riverfront.
44:20
Speaker 2: We're getting ready to repair so many of the bridges,
44:23
Speaker 2: We're getting ready to invest in a new waterfront in
44:28
Speaker 2: the city of Charleston. And so, just like when you
44:30
Speaker 2: rip up your bathroom or you do a renovation of
44:33
Speaker 2: your kitchen, growing pains. So thanks for giving me a
44:36
Speaker 2: minute to say to everybody, please be patient with us
44:39
Speaker 2: this summer. It's going to be fun, but they're going
44:41
Speaker 2: to be some roads that are going to be blocked.
44:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, Present company included in that. Everybody wants the
44:48
Speaker 3: road in front of their house paved until you're trying
44:50
Speaker 3: to get home in the evening that's blocking in and
44:52
Speaker 3: you're like, what the hell are you doing out here?
44:53
Speaker 3: I got to get home. Well, you want your road pavee.
44:56
Speaker 3: That's the way it works. No, I'm a serious ode here.
44:58
Speaker 3: What does this future sure of the How do you
45:01
Speaker 3: envision the future of the city of Charleston, the city
45:05
Speaker 3: that you chose for your home. What does the future
45:08
Speaker 3: look like to to Mayor Amy Goodwin, or even be
45:10
Speaker 3: even after Mayor Amy Gooden? What do you want Charleston
45:13
Speaker 3: look like?
45:14
Speaker 2: You know, I think I want the same things that
45:16
Speaker 2: my twenty two and twenty four year old want. They
45:19
Speaker 2: want grand opportunity, they want a quality of life. They
45:22
Speaker 2: want to live life Long Gone or the Day's Dave.
45:26
Speaker 2: And we know this to be sure that people want big, huge,
45:30
Speaker 2: fancy homes out in never Neverland. They want to be
45:35
Speaker 2: somewhere where they can work, walk to work, walk to
45:38
Speaker 2: the gym, walk to places where they host music events
45:43
Speaker 2: and things. And so that is what people want. And
45:48
Speaker 2: it's you know, I don't know if I said this
45:50
Speaker 2: on the show, but it's certainly worth repeating or doing
45:52
Speaker 2: an interview, an exit interview with some of the folks
45:55
Speaker 2: that we got to have their headquarters here, and I
45:57
Speaker 2: was saying to their recruitment director, what do people want
46:01
Speaker 2: what are they saying, who are you going after? And
46:03
Speaker 2: what do they say they want they if they move here?
46:06
Speaker 2: And he said to me, well, we're competing with cities
46:08
Speaker 2: like Pittsburgh and Cincy and Columbus. And when we brought
46:11
Speaker 2: this last group in, they said, oh man, we loved
46:14
Speaker 2: it last summer, all those things you had down on
46:17
Speaker 2: the riverfront and that really cool walkway where they have
46:20
Speaker 2: the lights and stuff. My wife loved it down here. Well,
46:24
Speaker 2: that's not a party. When people say, oh, well, you're
46:27
Speaker 2: just doing events, No I'm not. I'm doing quality of
46:30
Speaker 2: life things. You don't have to travel to see some
46:34
Speaker 2: of the best concerts in the country. You know, we
46:37
Speaker 2: have totally reimagined the way that we do sports and
46:41
Speaker 2: entertainment and activities. And again it's not just us. We
46:44
Speaker 2: have great partnerships with the county and the state as
46:47
Speaker 2: well to make these good things happen.
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Speaker 3: What do you want to say to the voters who
46:51
Speaker 3: chose you mayor in the primary, or to the city
46:53
Speaker 3: of Charleston people overall will close.
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Speaker 2: With that, thanks for believing in us, Thanks for standing
47:00
Speaker 2: with us. This is a really difficult job. Our folks
47:05
Speaker 2: are out there seven days a week, twenty four hours
47:08
Speaker 2: a day. That is what municipal government is, and that
47:11
Speaker 2: you believed in us, and you said you want us
47:14
Speaker 2: to keep moving forward. By the way, this isn't my playbook,
47:17
Speaker 2: this is your playbook. Thanks for allowing us to execute
47:21
Speaker 2: these plays on your behalf.
47:23
Speaker 3: Charleston, Mary Amy Shulder good Ones the primary and now
47:25
Speaker 3: we'll roll on to November. Appreciate you being here. Thanks
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Speaker 3: a lot, Thank you so much, sir. Five away from ten.
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Speaker 3: I want to invite you to join me every Friday morning,
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Speaker 3: Text says, Dave just wanted to thank the independence that
48:07
Speaker 3: got out and voted for Democrats. It was a great
48:10
Speaker 3: It was great looking forward to November there was there
48:15
Speaker 3: was as many or more votes than what Republicans got. Okay,
48:20
Speaker 3: I think I read that right. Text says, as I
48:22
Speaker 3: listened to your fabulous show this morning, I don't wonder
48:25
Speaker 3: that's sarcasm. I ponder about voter turnout. If only twenty
48:30
Speaker 3: one percent of those registered to vote actually voted, who
48:34
Speaker 3: are these voters? I asked that question because we see
48:37
Speaker 3: how wonderful the high schools are doing in registrate eligible
48:42
Speaker 3: students to vote, But are they actually voting? Maybe our
48:45
Speaker 3: focus is not the right message, not on the right message.
48:48
Speaker 3: Registering is important, but voting is just as important as well.
48:52
Speaker 3: Just my thoughts. Well, I appreciate the text. You know,
48:56
Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time in a former life
48:58
Speaker 3: registering the young to vote, going into high schools all
49:03
Speaker 3: over all of the state of West Virginia, myself and
49:05
Speaker 3: others when I was employed in the Secretary of State's office,
49:08
Speaker 3: and we spent a lot of time registering kids to vote.
49:13
Speaker 3: But we at that time, and I'm sure that they
49:16
Speaker 3: still do this, tried to. We didn't just show up
49:19
Speaker 3: and register people to vote, all right. Our goal was
49:22
Speaker 3: to get in front of a classroom or an assembly
49:25
Speaker 3: and talk to them about the importance of voting. Matter
49:27
Speaker 3: of fact, the way I did it, and some of
49:29
Speaker 3: the others did as well. I did that first. I
49:31
Speaker 3: wanted to talk to them first before I ever talked
49:33
Speaker 3: about registering to vote, because we want to talk to
49:35
Speaker 3: them about the importance of voting. And sadly, what has happened,
49:39
Speaker 3: and this is not the fault of anybody in the
49:41
Speaker 3: Secretary of State's office or with the county clerks that
49:44
Speaker 3: are actually the ones who are doing the registring, we
49:47
Speaker 3: found that a lot of those kids one reason or another,
49:51
Speaker 3: and I say kids, many younger people, they just simply
49:53
Speaker 3: don't vote and something happens. They're you know, tuned in
49:58
Speaker 3: too TikTok, or they're tuned into something else and they're
50:02
Speaker 3: just not that plugged in. And I agree, but that,
50:07
Speaker 3: you know, at the risk of sounding ages, there are
50:10
Speaker 3: a lot of older people that also aren't plugged in.
50:14
Speaker 3: And I think this is just depending on my part,
50:17
Speaker 3: I think we've spent so much time over the last
50:19
Speaker 3: you know, ten years or more, focusing on the guy,
50:23
Speaker 3: the person in the White House, which is important, don't
50:28
Speaker 3: get me wrong, but the person I was having this converse.
50:30
Speaker 3: I did an interview on the on the Woody Wood
50:32
Speaker 3: Show yesterday as a matter of fact, on their sister
50:34
Speaker 3: station one of seven three to beat, And we spend
50:37
Speaker 3: so much time talking about the people in the White House,
50:40
Speaker 3: that the people at the Board of Education of your
50:44
Speaker 3: county actually have more impact on your daily life than
50:47
Speaker 3: what the people in the White House do. The people
50:51
Speaker 3: that serve as your mayor your city council actually have
50:56
Speaker 3: more impact on your daily life than what the President
50:58
Speaker 3: of the United States does. And so maybe we need
51:01
Speaker 3: to focus on that. Just say, hey, you may not
51:03
Speaker 3: like the choices at the top or whatever, but you know,
51:06
Speaker 3: vote for county Commission, vote for mayor vote for shaff,
51:08
Speaker 3: vote for board. These are the people that actually shape
51:11
Speaker 3: your life day to day. Every day. Texas Independent voters
51:16
Speaker 3: to the message yesterday that they will vote and it
51:18
Speaker 3: was great for the DIMS. Text Glad Morrissey's hand pick
51:22
Speaker 3: candidates went down in flames. He's next, Well, that's not
51:25
Speaker 3: entirely true because some of them did pretty well yesterday.
51:28
Speaker 3: I think it's maybe fifty to fifty. All depends on
51:30
Speaker 3: what race you're looking at and the perception. Wilson and
51:34
Speaker 3: Meadows will get into that a little bit more Coming
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