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11/19/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - JB McCuskey, Amelia Knisely, Fred Persinger · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 3: Coming up on the show this morning, A million Nicely
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Speaker 3: about some other things as well. That's coming up a
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Speaker 3: little bit later on. Plus, Fred purs Singer is here.
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Speaker 3: Do we have any breakthroughs concerning the controversy with the
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Speaker 3: PLA in West Virginia. Well, the answer to that is no,
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Speaker 3: but maybe maybe I'm hearing something could come later today.
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Speaker 3: zero eight. The current State auditor and now Attorney General
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Speaker 3: elect for the state of West Virginia. J. B. Mccusky's here.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 6: Dave, Good morning to you, my friend. How are you.
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Speaker 3: I'm fine. I'm really a little bit disappointed. I know
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Speaker 3: you're out traveling doing the people's business today, but disappointed
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Speaker 3: that you couldn't come join us in the palatial new
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Speaker 3: You haven't seen him yet.
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Speaker 3: You can't especially during the Thanksgiving season.
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Speaker 6: Right, that's one hundred percent?
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Speaker 7: Right?
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, congratulations there on your win a couple
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Speaker 3: of weeks ago. What was it about your message in
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Speaker 3: your race for Attorney General that people seem to be
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Speaker 3: so in tune with JB? So.
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Speaker 6: I think it's a couple of things. I think if
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Speaker 6: you start with sort of my legislative career and the
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Speaker 6: eight years that we've had as auditor, it's been a
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Speaker 6: career of public service that is focused on the people
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Speaker 6: of West Virginia, and the things that I have accomplished
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Speaker 6: and the things that we have done as a team
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Speaker 6: in my office are specific to defending the values of
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Speaker 6: West Virginia, defending our natural resources industries, defending the values
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Speaker 6: of the people in West Virginia, building up our economy.
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Speaker 6: But I think importantly putting taxpayers first and ensuring that
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Speaker 6: every single person in West Virginia is an informed voter
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Speaker 6: and has the ability to make great choices at the
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Speaker 6: ballot and to be informed about what their government has done.
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Speaker 6: Because you know, for us, transparency and accountability is always
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Speaker 6: number one, because taxpayers are our bosses and they're getting
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Speaker 6: ready to be my clients. And I truly couldn't be
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Speaker 6: more excited about that.
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Speaker 3: Talk about some of your plans for the office. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you got some some pretty big shoes to fill following
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Speaker 3: now governor like Patrick Morrison in that office. What are
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Speaker 3: some of your plans overall.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. So there's a lot of people who say that
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Speaker 6: defense wins championships, but I've always sort of the mind
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Speaker 6: that the best defense is a good offense.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 6: And when you live in West Virginia, we have a
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Speaker 6: culture that is intertwined with our economy, and you have
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Speaker 6: to ensure that not only the federal government, which we
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Speaker 6: are very excited is going to be led by Donald Trump,
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Speaker 6: but other states that surround us aren't doing work our
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Speaker 6: people's ability to make money the way that they want to, uh,
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Speaker 6: and to live the lives the way that they want to.
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Speaker 6: And so we are built a team of first class
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Speaker 6: lawyers who will be able to go on offense and
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Speaker 6: continue to be the nation's leading law office. For big
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Speaker 6: challenges to the values is not just the people of
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Speaker 6: West Virginia, but everybody in this country that lives.
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Speaker 8: Like we do.
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Speaker 3: Talking again to State Auditor j B. Mcuskey, who's also
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Speaker 3: now the Attorney General like for the State of the
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Speaker 9: JB.
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Speaker 3: Talk about your work with the State Auditor's Office. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, you serve two terms there. What are some
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Speaker 3: of the things that you're most proud of that you
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Speaker 3: and the staff of the Auditor's Office were able to
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Speaker 3: accomplish in those two terms.
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Speaker 6: So I'll tell you. I was sitting in the office
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Speaker 6: yesterday and we had our Thanksgiving supper which we do
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Speaker 6: every year with you know, the front office and people
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Speaker 6: in the office, and I was sort of over overcome
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Speaker 6: with a bit of sadness, and I wasn't I don't
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Speaker 6: know what I was expecting, but you know, when I
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Speaker 6: got into that office, I was thirty three, thirty four
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Speaker 6: years old, and I was surrounded by you know, one
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Speaker 6: hundred and seventy five people who had no idea who
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Speaker 6: I was, who had worked for for essentially Glenn Gaynor
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Speaker 6: for their entire careers, and they took me in, they
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Speaker 6: bought into what was our vision for the office, and
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Speaker 6: ultimately were a family to me and through their efforts
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Speaker 6: helped not just make we'll make the ople and to
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Speaker 6: a I wanted. And so to answer your question, specifically,
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Speaker 6: making West Virginia the most transparent state in the United
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Speaker 6: States was goal number one. We accomplished it quickly, and
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Speaker 6: I think that is a lasting legacy. That is something
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Speaker 6: that taxpayers are going to demand from here on out.
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Speaker 6: It's something that we're going to demand from this new administration.
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Speaker 6: And with Patrick Morcy coming in to be the governor,
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Speaker 6: I think we're going to see an entirely new vision
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Speaker 6: and way forward that that coincides with that idea. And
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Speaker 6: I think building the fraud unit, you know, we we
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Speaker 6: have sort of turned ourselves into the pre eminent government
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Speaker 6: fraud fighting team in our states, and unfortunately, we've been very,
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Speaker 6: very successful. We've had more than fifty felony convictions, millions
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Speaker 6: of dollars recovered. When you look at the ways that
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Speaker 6: we've streamlined government, the ways that we have made it
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Speaker 6: easier for those who do business with the state, to
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Speaker 6: get paid. Our small businesses have a better interaction with
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Speaker 6: our state government now. And you know, we've spent an
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Speaker 6: enormous amount of time making our land Division a place
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Speaker 6: where taxpayers feel comfortable but as a proactive agency in
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Speaker 6: helping to eliminate blighted properties and a way for taxpayers
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Speaker 6: to stay in their houses. And so you know, over
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Speaker 6: the last eight years we have we've really accomplished a lot.
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Speaker 6: And I'm going to really miss not just the people
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Speaker 6: I work with, but the work that we got to
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Speaker 6: do because it was important. And I'm looking forward to
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Speaker 6: Market getting in there and putting his stamp on things.
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Speaker 3: Talk about Mark Hunt and he's going to be taken
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Speaker 3: over the office. What advice would you give to mister Hunt.
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Speaker 6: The advice that I would give to mister Hunt is
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Speaker 6: that the excitement that you feel on that first day
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Speaker 6: should give you the clarity to make a list of
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Speaker 6: things to do. And on the first day I sat
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Speaker 6: down at my desk within the first ten minutes and
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Speaker 6: I outlined ten priorities and every time that I accomplished
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Speaker 6: one of them, I checked it off. And nobody really
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Speaker 6: knows what that list is. Only I do. And I
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Speaker 6: remember sometime with sometime this year, we checked off the
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Speaker 6: final one of those things, and I felt incredibly grateful
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Speaker 6: for the people that helped me do it, but I
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Speaker 6: was ready to go. And I think I'm just excited
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Speaker 6: for somebody else to feel that immense weight and excitement
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Speaker 6: for that office and to really put their energy behind
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Speaker 6: their priorities.
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Speaker 3: Bo Let you, oh JB. And I've been saying this
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Speaker 3: a lot with a lot of our guests that have
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Speaker 3: been on the show. It's a pretty good time to
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Speaker 3: be a Republican in West Virginia right now, sir.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I am. My dad was in politics some
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Speaker 6: when I was a kid, and I went to a
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Speaker 6: lot of victory parties where we ended up being unsuccessful.
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Speaker 6: And for the last twelve years, I have been successful
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Speaker 6: in all of my races. And I'll tell you my
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Speaker 6: dad came up with me during my victory speech at
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Speaker 6: my victory party, and the look on his face of
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Speaker 6: not just pride in me, but I think of a
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Speaker 6: life well lived because all of us are standing on
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Speaker 6: the shoulders of those who who had to work through
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Speaker 6: times when it wasn't so good for Republicans. And so
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Speaker 6: I think there's a real gratefulness that all of us
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Speaker 6: need to look at for people like my dad and
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Speaker 6: my mom who really pushed the envelope and kept the
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Speaker 6: fight going in times when it wasn't so easy. And
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Speaker 6: so when people say it's a great time for Republicans,
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Speaker 6: I look back at people like my dad and George W.
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Speaker 6: Bush and for that matter, Shelley Moore Capito as well,
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Speaker 6: for building a party that was able to seize on
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Speaker 6: an opportunity and become as successful as we are today.
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Speaker 6: And now the people of West Virginia are looking to
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Speaker 6: us for solutions. Dave, It's time and time for us
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Speaker 6: as a legislature and an ex executive branch to start
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Speaker 6: deliver a smaller, more efficient, more effective government that educates
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Speaker 6: our children, provides first class infrastructure, and takes care of
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Speaker 6: people who have a little less of an opportunity than
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Speaker 6: we do, and gives them a real great path into
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Speaker 6: the middle class.
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Speaker 3: Before I let you go, I will give you an opportunity,
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Speaker 3: as I do with most of the candidates. Are actually
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Speaker 3: all the candidates that are on to give out thanks
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Speaker 3: your gratitude. It's your time.
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Speaker 6: So when you get to be the lawyer for the
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Speaker 6: people of the state, of West Virginia. It is an
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Speaker 6: honor that is kind of hard to describe. And so
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Speaker 6: to every single West Virginia that voted for me, and
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Speaker 6: do every single Way Virginia that took the time to vote,
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Speaker 6: even if you didn't vote for me, thank you for
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Speaker 6: caring enough about your state to get out there and
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Speaker 6: make your voice heard. I want everyone to know that
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Speaker 6: I will be representing you and I am just so
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Speaker 6: thankful for the opportunity to have grown up in West Virginia,
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Speaker 6: to have the value set that West Virginia gives you.
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Speaker 6: And I couldn't possibly be more excited to be the
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Speaker 6: advocate and the lawyer for the people that I love
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Speaker 6: the most.
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Speaker 3: Better to thank those girls in your life too, mister McCaskey, Well.
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Speaker 6: I do have a wonderful wife.
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Speaker 3: I'm just I'm trying to help you, buddy. I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to help you.
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Speaker 6: To the radio. You're doing a great job, Dave. You
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Speaker 6: know one of these days you're going to turn into
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Speaker 6: a hell of a husband too. You know, when you
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Speaker 6: do this job, it takes a real toll on your family,
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Speaker 6: and people say stuff about you and do things to you.
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Speaker 6: And my wife has been with me for the entirety
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Speaker 6: of my time. She's been my best friend, she's been
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Speaker 6: my wife, she's been the best mother in the entire world,
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Speaker 6: and she's been the political sounding board that almost nobody
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Speaker 6: probably has access too but me. And for all of
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Speaker 6: those reasons, she's just the absolute best. And my girls,
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Speaker 6: who have every opportunity to make life harder for me
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Speaker 6: as a nine and a seven year old, never do.
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Speaker 6: They're the best two little kids in the whole world,
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Speaker 6: and they make campaigning a real joy, especially when they
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Speaker 6: get to go with them.
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Speaker 3: All right, be safe on the road, sir, have yourself
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Speaker 3: a happy holiday season. We'll probably be talking to you.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, yeah, you too.
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Speaker 6: My friend. Wonderful Thanksgiving, and everybody out there, be safe
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Speaker 6: if you're going to if you're going to kill some
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Speaker 3: All right. I appreciate you, Sarah. We'll talk again soon.
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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Thanks my friend.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe we should get together, have lunch
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Speaker 7: Good morning, How are you.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing fine, Thanks for being here. One of these
17:40
Speaker 3: stories that you reported on yesterday was the closing of
17:44
Speaker 3: the West Virginia Children's Home in Elkins. Talk about this
17:48
Speaker 3: facility what led to us? Just basically break it down,
17:51
Speaker 3: tell us a whole story.
17:52
Speaker 7: Sure, So let me start by saying, I don't know
17:54
Speaker 7: the whole story because the Department of Human Services hasn't
17:57
Speaker 7: responded to my emails. So there's that. But what I
18:00
Speaker 7: do know is that this is a residential treatment facility
18:02
Speaker 7: for children in foster care, typically kids who would not
18:07
Speaker 7: do well in a traditional foster care placement, typically teens.
18:11
Speaker 7: And I confirmed it through the Department of Education, which
18:14
Speaker 7: operated a school there, a fully accredited school, that there
18:17
Speaker 7: were a couple of kids there I think three, and
18:19
Speaker 7: that it'll be closing at the end of the year.
18:22
Speaker 7: I sat through a presentation last fall from the Department
18:25
Speaker 7: of Human Services that said this facility had a lot
18:28
Speaker 7: of structural issues, some safety issues that would cost a
18:31
Speaker 7: lot of money to repair. So it is my thinking
18:34
Speaker 7: that that probably played into the decision to close it.
18:36
Speaker 7: But still haven't heard from the Department of Human Services,
18:39
Speaker 7: and Governor Justice is having a briefing today and I
18:42
Speaker 7: plan on asking him about it.
18:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, that briefing, I think is scheduled for eleven this morning. Yes,
18:47
Speaker 3: you find it and you know I'll follow you on X.
18:50
Speaker 3: And by the way, if you don't follow Amelia nizely
18:52
Speaker 3: an X, you certainly should glad that you were able
18:55
Speaker 3: to get your van cleaned out. By the way, I
18:57
Speaker 3: read that on except so it's.
18:58
Speaker 7: Mostly journalism, but some about my life of being a
19:01
Speaker 7: mom of three small children.
19:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got you, I got you there. Okay. So
19:05
Speaker 3: one of the things that I have I have seen
19:07
Speaker 3: you write about on social media, uh and maybe in
19:09
Speaker 3: your in your in your other writing as well, is
19:12
Speaker 3: the frustration that that you and others you know, from
19:16
Speaker 3: our our news organization, the others, and sometimes getting information
19:21
Speaker 3: out of governmental agencies. And you kind of did a
19:24
Speaker 3: a big of a big almost and the meltdown is
19:27
Speaker 3: not the right word, but but no, you did, you
19:29
Speaker 3: did a big piece on that on on X, bringing
19:32
Speaker 3: in some other people that had said several similar things,
19:36
Speaker 3: talk about that frustration with sometimes getting information out of
19:39
Speaker 3: governmental agencies because it's not unique to you, it happens,
19:42
Speaker 3: happens to a lot of people.
19:43
Speaker 7: It does absolutely and hopefully not a meltdown, just hopefully
19:47
Speaker 7: word okay, it's okay, it's early, just to be trying
19:50
Speaker 7: to be transparent, right. So I think the frustration is
19:54
Speaker 7: there is a push and pull between communications people and reporters.
19:58
Speaker 7: We understand we can't get all the in for but
20:01
Speaker 7: we want to give our readers the best story possible,
20:04
Speaker 7: and in this case, we want to know how this
20:07
Speaker 7: taxpayer funded agency is treating our most vulnerable children. Specifically
20:12
Speaker 7: with this home. We want to know why is it
20:14
Speaker 7: closing because it's using money, and also what are you
20:17
Speaker 7: going to do with the kids that we're living there?
20:19
Speaker 2: Right?
20:19
Speaker 7: Those are simple questions, and also there are people that
20:22
Speaker 7: are employed there who may want to know what their
20:24
Speaker 7: future might look like. So it has been frustrating to
20:27
Speaker 7: send emails the last few years and not even get
20:31
Speaker 7: a response back. To send foya's, which are Freedom of
20:34
Speaker 7: Information Act requests, and they just get kicked down the roads.
20:37
Speaker 7: One of mine has now been delayed until December. The
20:40
Speaker 7: end of December, the end of this administration. It's extremely frustrating.
20:45
Speaker 7: And one of the reasons I shared that on X
20:47
Speaker 7: This Morning is I think it's just really important for
20:50
Speaker 7: people to understand the difference between local reporters and I'm
20:54
Speaker 7: using air quotes that you.
20:55
Speaker 3: Can see on the radio, but in like two months
20:58
Speaker 3: you'll be able to see you come in here.
21:00
Speaker 7: It's important for people to see us differently from the
21:03
Speaker 7: media using those air quotes. We so many of us
21:05
Speaker 7: are working hard to try to report on the use
21:08
Speaker 7: of your money, how children are treated, how our schools
21:11
Speaker 7: are funded, and when you can't get an email back.
21:14
Speaker 7: And this is not a blanket statement. There are plenty
21:16
Speaker 7: of agencies that have wonderful communication people, but particularly in
21:19
Speaker 7: the health departments, it has been a very very frustrating process.
21:23
Speaker 3: And I think sometimes and you and I have talked
21:25
Speaker 3: about this on the show before, Emelia, sometimes I don't
21:28
Speaker 3: want to say hide behind, but sometimes maybe they use
21:31
Speaker 3: the shield of anonymity with the young with the young kids,
21:34
Speaker 3: which we completely understand. I mean, you mentioned and you
21:37
Speaker 3: post about it all the time. You know, the joy
21:39
Speaker 3: of your life are your daughters. Yes, you are the
21:43
Speaker 3: last person in the world that's going to do anything
21:45
Speaker 3: to want to put any kids in jeopardy. And I
21:48
Speaker 3: am and I'm like you. I mean nothing, nothing grinds
21:51
Speaker 3: the gears more than of Dave Allen, anymore than people
21:53
Speaker 3: say the media. I mean, what the hell is the media?
21:56
Speaker 3: You know, It's like there's a big building downtown that
21:58
Speaker 3: just says media and that's where Metro News is and
22:01
Speaker 3: the TV stations and that's where CNN or Fox or
22:04
Speaker 3: in miss you know, we're all in there together. We're
22:07
Speaker 3: just trying to tell a story of most of us,
22:10
Speaker 3: what ninety five percent of us are more are West Virginians, Yes,
22:14
Speaker 3: are from here in many times in the Kanawha Valley.
22:18
Speaker 3: In your case, you're from here, And you're just trying
22:21
Speaker 3: to tell a story and perhaps shed some light on
22:24
Speaker 3: some things to make sure that these things don't happen again,
22:27
Speaker 3: Because Amelia, it's over and over again with these stories
22:31
Speaker 3: and they're all related. In the fact, this is that
22:34
Speaker 3: kids are frequently getting screwed over in West Virginia.
22:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, I don't think I
22:40
Speaker 7: don't wake up every day thinking that everything is a
22:42
Speaker 7: nefarious plan to hurt children. I just want to tell
22:45
Speaker 7: the most accurate story. But unfortunately a lot of times
22:48
Speaker 7: when I lean into these stories and dig into them,
22:50
Speaker 7: it turns out that children aren't being taken care of.
22:53
Speaker 7: I can't tell you if that's true with this children's
22:55
Speaker 7: home situation because they haven't responded to me. But yeah,
22:58
Speaker 7: I mean, the work important and I want to keep
23:01
Speaker 7: doing it. And the thing is, many of us, you know, Brad,
23:04
Speaker 7: Michael Honey, Steve nine Adams, many of us have been
23:06
Speaker 7: here for years, so we have other ways of confirming thing.
23:10
Speaker 7: Just because you don't respond to us doesn't kill the story.
23:13
Speaker 7: But gosh, it would be so much better for our
23:15
Speaker 7: readers for transparency if we could hear why you're doing
23:18
Speaker 7: the things that you're doing. So we'll just keep digging.
23:21
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23:57
Speaker 3: million Amelia question. How do we get to the place
24:00
Speaker 3: where we have better accounting of child issues in West Virginia.
24:04
Speaker 7: We need transparency and with a new governor coming in
24:07
Speaker 7: in just a couple of months, I think that's a
24:09
Speaker 7: critical time to up that transparency. I will say what
24:12
Speaker 7: I have seen from Governor elect Patrick Morrissey's team so
24:16
Speaker 7: far is very willing to work with reporters. We hope
24:19
Speaker 7: that continues. And we you know, there's also some changes
24:24
Speaker 7: potentially in law through the legislature about how they share
24:28
Speaker 7: child welfare information and making it more timely, especially when
24:31
Speaker 7: a child dies, like in the case of Kennedy Miller.
24:33
Speaker 7: So there are some hopeful positive things on the horizon.
24:36
Speaker 7: And you know, as reporters. We're just here to listen
24:39
Speaker 7: and learn and keep doing our best reporting as well.
24:41
Speaker 3: It seems though that there has been and again I'm
24:44
Speaker 3: not picking on the Justice administration because this has happened
24:47
Speaker 3: in other administrations nationwide as well, that there seems like
24:50
Speaker 3: an almost adversarial relationship between the two. And look, I
24:55
Speaker 3: haven't done I'm not a journalist. I've said that over
24:57
Speaker 3: and over again on the show. I'm just a gap
24:59
Speaker 3: that talks on the radio. I'm not a journalist. However,
25:02
Speaker 3: I have been around this, and I've been on the
25:03
Speaker 3: other side, you know, having worked in state government, I've
25:05
Speaker 3: been on the other side, and both sides just have
25:08
Speaker 3: a job to do, and it's keeping the people informed.
25:12
Speaker 3: And on the other side, I know it's not easy.
25:14
Speaker 3: I mean, and I could tell you having worked in
25:16
Speaker 3: state government, the amount of foyas that you get just
25:18
Speaker 3: pile up, and some of them are totally pointless. Some
25:21
Speaker 3: of them are and you will be willing to do it,
25:23
Speaker 3: meant that. But if it's from a reputable news source,
25:27
Speaker 3: you know, like you guys, or Steven Allen with Adams
25:32
Speaker 3: with aug Newspapers, Brad McIlhaney, there's some merit for the
25:37
Speaker 3: investigation going on, and we have.
25:39
Speaker 7: Wonderful communications people in the state that you can call
25:41
Speaker 7: up and say this is what I'm looking into, and
25:44
Speaker 7: they'll say, this is what I can do for you,
25:46
Speaker 7: and you can have a conversation that is still out there,
25:51
Speaker 7: and you know, I just hope that that improves in
25:53
Speaker 7: the next administration.
25:55
Speaker 4: For sure.
25:56
Speaker 3: I have noticed over the years with with attorney general
25:59
Speaker 3: and governor like Patrick Morrissey, that that especially when he
26:04
Speaker 3: was when he wasn't running for office and he was
26:06
Speaker 3: just I don't mean, I don't mean to downplay us,
26:07
Speaker 3: and he was just the attorney general, but he and
26:11
Speaker 3: his team seem to be very good about that about
26:14
Speaker 3: reaching out to uh to this to me, particularly in saying, hey,
26:18
Speaker 3: we'd like to have you, uh, would you like to
26:21
Speaker 3: have the ag on to talk about this? And you know,
26:25
Speaker 3: the only thing we can hope is is that with
26:27
Speaker 3: the Morrissey administration that that continues because he's kind of
26:31
Speaker 3: got a history of that of communicating pretty well with
26:34
Speaker 3: the media.
26:35
Speaker 7: I think so. And I also think a key component
26:37
Speaker 7: of that is who gets into these cabinet positions if
26:40
Speaker 7: there is a change in leadership. You know, I mostly
26:43
Speaker 7: cover the Department of Human Services, so I can really
26:45
Speaker 7: only speak to that. But you know, there are cultural
26:49
Speaker 7: things that have been in place under various Cabinet secretaries, right,
26:52
Speaker 7: So it's really going to have to be a culture
26:54
Speaker 7: shift of being willing to work with the media, being
26:56
Speaker 7: able to come to an agreement about what can be
26:58
Speaker 7: shared when it comes to children, for example. Right. So, Yeah,
27:01
Speaker 7: I think it's on both Governor ele like Patrick Morrissey
27:04
Speaker 7: and then people that he may appoint to these positions
27:06
Speaker 7: to say, how can we make this a better relationship
27:09
Speaker 7: for the good of the public.
27:10
Speaker 3: That is key? What was this? I guess I saw
27:14
Speaker 3: and I'm not on TikTok. The only thing I ever
27:15
Speaker 3: see on TikTok is what people share on other social
27:18
Speaker 3: media sites. But I guess some comments from Roger Hanshaw
27:22
Speaker 3: House Speaker Handshaw. Yeah, And I mean I'm going through
27:27
Speaker 3: X I guess yesterday and I see that House Speaker
27:30
Speaker 3: Handshall speaking. Then I see Kaylee Young, like Kaylee Young's
27:32
Speaker 3: face pop up, and I see TikTok. I'm like, Okay,
27:34
Speaker 3: I'm not going to understand this. This is TikTok. What was
27:36
Speaker 3: that all about?
27:37
Speaker 11: Yeah?
27:37
Speaker 7: So I am a newer to TikTok person to share news.
27:41
Speaker 7: I wanted to get on there, so I covered an
27:43
Speaker 7: audit subcommittee last week. Sounds boring, but it never is.
27:46
Speaker 7: Audits are amazing and that I know.
27:50
Speaker 3: Ryan, if you could roll tape for a future promo
27:52
Speaker 3: on that, you know, audits are amazing, says Amelia Isley.
27:55
Speaker 7: Yes, still twelve years into reporting.
27:57
Speaker 5: Love an audit.
27:59
Speaker 3: Nothing like a good audio.
28:00
Speaker 7: So this audit particularly was about the shortage of full
28:04
Speaker 7: time nurses at are state owned facilities, long term care facilities,
28:07
Speaker 7: psychiatric facilities.
28:08
Speaker 3: Et cetera.
28:09
Speaker 7: And one of the points of the audit that stood
28:12
Speaker 7: out to me, Now, let's just be clear, this audit
28:14
Speaker 7: was done. I think it completed in twenty twenty three,
28:16
Speaker 7: so pre DHR split. But one point that stood out
28:20
Speaker 7: to me was that the hiring process typically took six
28:22
Speaker 7: hundred and.
28:23
Speaker 3: Eighty eight days. Now, let that sink in for a moment,
28:26
Speaker 3: and that's exactly what Speaker Hanshaw said, six hundred eighty
28:30
Speaker 3: eight days.
28:31
Speaker 7: Yes, and so Delegate Young Kayla Young, Democrat from Kenock County,
28:35
Speaker 7: was the only she was the first one to say, hey,
28:38
Speaker 7: excuse me, six hundred plus days to post a job.
28:42
Speaker 3: Well, if he's fair, the others may have been asleep,
28:43
Speaker 3: because not everybody shares your excitement for audits.
28:45
Speaker 7: But I'm going to give Wamaker's credit. But you could
28:47
Speaker 7: be right.
28:47
Speaker 6: I don't know.
28:48
Speaker 7: But speaker Roger Hanshaw, normally very quiet, really speaks thoughtfully.
28:53
Speaker 7: I think is an accurate depiction of him. He said,
28:57
Speaker 7: can anyone talk about this? Anyone? And said that is
29:00
Speaker 7: among one of the most ridiculous things I've heard lately.
29:03
Speaker 3: That's the reason.
29:05
Speaker 7: They said. It was something to do with the division
29:08
Speaker 7: of personnel, but they no longer work with them, so
29:11
Speaker 7: the process has improved. They couldn't really give a clear
29:14
Speaker 7: picturesque to what happened back then. They had their finance
29:17
Speaker 7: officer there, not the cabinet secretary. But yeah, you know,
29:22
Speaker 7: it hopefully has improved. They say it's improved. I noted
29:25
Speaker 7: that in my story. But it was quite a shocker
29:29
Speaker 7: there to see the six hundred and eighty eight days.
29:31
Speaker 7: And you know, beyond being a shocking statistic, the real
29:36
Speaker 7: life consequence of that is that we have been heavily
29:38
Speaker 7: reliant on contract nurses to fill these positions. They cost
29:41
Speaker 7: way more than full time nurses. It keeps West Virginians
29:45
Speaker 7: from getting jobs right when they're stuck in this government
29:48
Speaker 7: crazy flowchart. And we've had several contract nurses connected to
29:52
Speaker 7: crimes and a patient death at these hospitals because the
29:56
Speaker 7: vetting is very different for a contract employee than a
29:58
Speaker 7: full time nurse. So beyond that crazy data point, there
30:01
Speaker 7: are some real concerns about our reliance on contact nurses
30:04
Speaker 7: in West Virginia.
30:05
Speaker 3: And I'm glad you brought that up because people are
30:06
Speaker 3: sitting at home going, Okay, six hundred and eighty eight
30:08
Speaker 3: day seems to be a little bit ridiculous. But there are,
30:10
Speaker 3: as you said, and you put it out very nicely there, nicely,
30:15
Speaker 3: that there are real life consequences. I mean, we're talking
30:19
Speaker 3: in many cases sadly, Amelia. It's been life and death.
30:22
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:22
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know if we talked about on
30:24
Speaker 7: this show, but a story I did earlier this year
30:26
Speaker 7: was that an elderly man at Hopemont, which is one
30:29
Speaker 7: of our state owned facilities for long term care. I mean,
30:32
Speaker 7: he died due to significant burns that he experienced in
30:36
Speaker 7: basically a boiling whirlpool. I mean I read the report.
30:39
Speaker 7: His skin melted off and the employees who were fired
30:43
Speaker 7: in that incident at least half, if maybe all, were
30:45
Speaker 7: contact nurses for their neglige you know what I will
30:48
Speaker 7: say was alleged negligence. So yeah, I mean there's consequences
30:52
Speaker 7: to these situations. And as you know, they are considering
30:56
Speaker 7: selling the state owned facilities to a private buyer, and
30:59
Speaker 7: some of that is has it's just costing so much money.
31:01
Speaker 3: Happy did a piece on that. I think it was
31:03
Speaker 3: maybe on Friday show when he talked about that. Is
31:06
Speaker 3: that something that I mean, I've obviously something that needs
31:09
Speaker 3: to be looked at. I would think, yeah, I think so.
31:12
Speaker 7: I mean I don't have a side on you know,
31:14
Speaker 7: what's right round for sure, but yeah, I mean they
31:16
Speaker 7: are costing a lot of money, and you want patients
31:18
Speaker 7: to have their best care. I think what I've heard
31:20
Speaker 7: from lawmakers in different parts of the state where these
31:23
Speaker 7: facilities are some feel like their facility would be better
31:27
Speaker 7: off privatized. Others feel like their facilities are running great,
31:30
Speaker 7: have lots of full time nurses, are you know, really
31:33
Speaker 7: a center of their community and giving great care. And
31:36
Speaker 7: the concern with switching to private is that they could
31:39
Speaker 7: deny some of these harder to care for patients right now,
31:41
Speaker 7: being stay owned, there's minimal reasons to deny patients if
31:45
Speaker 7: any I don't know the ins and outs that right,
31:47
Speaker 7: But but private it changes. They may not want to
31:49
Speaker 7: take these seventy five year old psych patient who has
31:53
Speaker 7: a lot of things that could go wrong in a facility.
31:55
Speaker 7: So those are kind of the things to look at
31:57
Speaker 7: moving forward and circling back to our transparency conversation. In September,
32:02
Speaker 7: I filed a FOYA for the contract. That's so boring,
32:05
Speaker 7: the contract that the state is using for the broker
32:09
Speaker 7: to sell the hospitals. That's so boring, right, But I
32:12
Speaker 7: just wanted to look at the contract, and that is
32:14
Speaker 7: the FOYA that's been kicked to December, a contract using
32:18
Speaker 7: our state dollars. So it is extremely frustrating.
32:20
Speaker 3: I mean, that should be just a simple black or
32:22
Speaker 3: white here's the contract.
32:23
Speaker 7: I mean, and I've gone to the auditor, I've gone
32:25
Speaker 7: other ways to get it. But when we split DHHR,
32:27
Speaker 7: we exempted this agency from purchasing, so they are the
32:31
Speaker 7: holders of the contract and they will not give it
32:33
Speaker 7: to me. So here we are.
32:35
Speaker 3: You mentioned that the governor has a presser at eleven yes,
32:38
Speaker 3: this morning. He's kind of busy day for the governor.
32:40
Speaker 3: I was going to talk about it a little bit
32:41
Speaker 3: later on. He's also going to be on the campus
32:42
Speaker 3: of West Virginia State and they're going to have the
32:44
Speaker 3: groundbreaking I think for their egg yes a center. And
32:46
Speaker 3: then for those of us that live in in Putnam County,
32:50
Speaker 3: the I sixty four project is open, has been for
32:53
Speaker 3: a week a couple of weeks now, but not open
32:56
Speaker 3: till Big Jim says it's open. And so they're going
32:58
Speaker 3: to have a little ceremony I think around two this
33:00
Speaker 3: afternoon in Nitro Uh to dedicate that that that that
33:05
Speaker 3: stretch of highway. So what else are you working on today?
33:09
Speaker 3: I mean other than the government? It was well, I
33:10
Speaker 3: don't want to scoop myself yourself, but what do you got?
33:13
Speaker 7: I am looking at legislation that we could see next year.
33:17
Speaker 7: So I am calling lawmakers and looking at some of
33:20
Speaker 7: the bigger bills that we saw die. Last year was
33:23
Speaker 7: kind of a crazy session, right, so whether it's limitations
33:28
Speaker 7: on women and how do I say it was men
33:31
Speaker 7: and women's sports, vaccination bills, et cetera. All the kind
33:34
Speaker 7: of high profile bills that didn't really make it across
33:36
Speaker 7: the finish line, just kind of circling back and saying
33:38
Speaker 7: what we see these next year.
33:40
Speaker 3: All right, and people can read yourself West Virginia Watch
33:43
Speaker 3: and follow. I've talked about your role on X the
33:46
Speaker 3: artist wo Man known as Twitter, but it actually comes
33:49
Speaker 3: from somewhere else. So talk about West Virginia Watch briefly.
33:51
Speaker 7: Yes, West Virginia Watch is a nonprofit news source. Here
33:54
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33:57
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34:00
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34:02
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34:05
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34:08
Speaker 3: All Right, Millie, I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot,
34:10
Speaker 3: have a happy Thanksgiving. If I don't talk to you
34:12
Speaker 3: YouTube now, then all right, thanks a lot. We're going
34:13
Speaker 3: to take a break. Maybe you could do something about
34:15
Speaker 3: the high school playoff situation.
34:17
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I would love to.
34:19
Speaker 3: I's going to say you might have better luck getting
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Speaker 3: the hall this morning with paper in hand, saying we
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Speaker 3: got a breakthrough, right right, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: We did.
37:28
Speaker 4: Okay, has nothing to do with football, although I was
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Speaker 4: talking about something else. You know, they always say news,
37:34
Speaker 4: something's always happening. Nothing's happening, nothing is happening. And yesterday
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Speaker 4: the SSAC and the Wood County and Mason County Powers
37:45
Speaker 4: to Be got all their stuff into the West Virginia
37:48
Speaker 4: State Supreme Court. And that's where it sits right now.
37:51
Speaker 4: When the Supreme Court will act on it.
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Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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Speaker 4: I talked with David Price yesterday, and David is in
37:58
Speaker 4: the same boat as everyone else. Just hurry up and
38:00
Speaker 4: wait or just wait and hurry up about it. He's
38:04
Speaker 4: already passed. Yeah, really, just wait. He said something that's
38:07
Speaker 4: kind of surprised to me, because what was the deadline
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Speaker 4: of knowing everything can play this weekend?
38:15
Speaker 3: What would be the drop dead date? He said, Thursday.
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Speaker 3: That's close, that's very close.
38:22
Speaker 4: He did also say that it would be they would
38:25
Speaker 4: be willing to allow teams to play on Sunday if
38:29
Speaker 4: they so desire. So I have to wait and see.
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Speaker 4: Hopefully it comes down today. Games are scheduled Friday and
38:35
Speaker 4: Saturday or game night. Hopefully it's all Friday, but we'll
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Speaker 4: see how it goes well.
38:41
Speaker 3: And again I think that Thursday deadline or the timeframe
38:45
Speaker 3: that he put out there, because I always think about
38:46
Speaker 3: it from a journalism standard and a media standpoint. I
38:48
Speaker 3: always think, well, you're trying to get people in place
38:50
Speaker 3: and making sure people get but you know, we'll be okay,
38:55
Speaker 3: we'll adapt immediately. Fine, we'll be fine. But I go
38:59
Speaker 3: back to okay, coaches, and we gotta and now we're
39:02
Speaker 3: gonna factor weather into us in certain areas of the state,
39:05
Speaker 3: not so much here, but it is definitely gonna be colder.
39:08
Speaker 3: But I think by the weekend it's gonna warm up
39:10
Speaker 3: a little bit. But yeah, I mean that's that's not
39:12
Speaker 3: a heck of a lot of time. Even if you
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Speaker 3: play on Sunday, Fred and I.
39:15
Speaker 4: Think, what's gonna happen. You're gonna see some teams that
39:18
Speaker 4: think they're playing one team and they're gonna play another team,
39:21
Speaker 4: and you have to get ready for that team. I mean,
39:23
Speaker 4: you just don't throw them out there and say go
39:25
Speaker 4: get them boys. You know, even though the boys ready
39:27
Speaker 4: to go, I guarantee you they're wanting to play. So
39:29
Speaker 4: I don't know, I hopefully it won't come to that.
39:32
Speaker 4: It shouldn't come to that. I don't know what would
39:35
Speaker 4: make the Supreme Court want to wait so long to
39:37
Speaker 4: make a decision. I was hoping optimistically for yesterday afternoon.
39:42
Speaker 4: That certainly passed. So I'm hoping today before two o'clock.
39:46
Speaker 4: That would be nice. It would be great, it would
39:48
Speaker 4: be nice, and we'll see, maybe it comes down even
39:50
Speaker 4: sooner than that. I know they have replaced State Supreme
39:55
Speaker 4: Court Justice Wooton because he accused himself and they put
39:58
Speaker 4: Tom Tom Yeah, talking from Fayette County, and so they
40:03
Speaker 4: do have a five full court justice.
40:04
Speaker 3: So was Wooden was he was recused or recused himself?
40:08
Speaker 3: I guess because his family had done some work with
40:11
Speaker 3: the lawyer. He was the lawyer.
40:14
Speaker 4: Okay, see a long time ago, I would have thought
40:16
Speaker 4: that would have passed been now. But still if he
40:18
Speaker 4: thinks there's something he you know, that's the right thing
40:20
Speaker 4: to do, that's the right thing to do. So against
40:23
Speaker 4: Steve Gandhi now and that loss is out of Clarksburg
40:26
Speaker 4: is now the attorneys for the WVSSAC. So again, we
40:29
Speaker 4: have nothing right now at this very moment, at what
40:32
Speaker 4: is it, nine seven, nothing's going on right now, all is.
40:36
Speaker 3: There's nothing to report at this time, but when there is,
40:39
Speaker 3: we'll have fingers crossed. Later today, we'll have it on air,
40:42
Speaker 3: we'll have it online, we'll have it on all the socials.
40:44
Speaker 3: We'll have it and you'll be right there.
40:45
Speaker 4: And hopefully you have association with the WSSA c our
40:48
Speaker 4: partnership with them. Metro News has been told. I have
40:52
Speaker 4: personally been told that we will know first, so we
40:55
Speaker 4: will know as soon as they know, and you will
40:57
Speaker 4: know when we know.
40:58
Speaker 3: That's right. Right now, we don't know.
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Speaker 4: We don't know.
41:02
Speaker 3: So it reminds me.
41:03
Speaker 8: I don't know.
41:04
Speaker 3: It's just the ad.
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Speaker 4: Courts and in the high school sport man, you get
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Speaker 4: courts and the high school sports involved.
41:10
Speaker 3: Nothing good can come, nothing good, nothing all right, that's say, Well,
41:13
Speaker 3: hopefully the good thing will be a little news later
41:15
Speaker 3: in the morning.
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Speaker 4: Fred, I think if we don't know by this afternoon,
41:19
Speaker 4: then I think we know.
41:22
Speaker 3: Okay. If we don't know, then we know, I think
41:23
Speaker 3: we do.
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Speaker 8: Okay, do you know?
41:25
Speaker 3: I think we'll know that? Got it?
41:27
Speaker 7: You know?
41:28
Speaker 4: Talking about I don't I don't know, Fred Persauge, that
41:32
Speaker 4: was that was Saturday, n A gun I missed it.
41:34
Speaker 3: You're in Morgantown. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, A big
41:37
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Speaker 3: took the overall brand prize there for the judges choices,
41:42
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41:45
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41:47
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Speaker 3: all that on. No, I mean when you judge Fred,
41:53
Speaker 3: you just have one bite, you know, so, uh, I
41:56
Speaker 3: just you never judge the ad judge. Well, you don't
41:58
Speaker 3: want to fill up, you know.
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Speaker 4: You know, if I find something good, yeah, I made
42:02
Speaker 4: my decision, I might as well enjoy it.
42:04
Speaker 3: They were all good. Oh yeah right, yeah that's the
42:06
Speaker 3: political right. He had a winner. Yeah, that's exactly right.
42:08
Speaker 3: Get out of here. Go wait by your computer and
42:11
Speaker 3: wait and wait by your phone, waiting by my phone. Okay,
42:14
Speaker 3: all right, sounds good, Fred person. Get the voice of
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Speaker 3: the school building authorities fielding requests for the nearly thirty counties.
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Speaker 3: since nineteen fifty. Voters in Putnam County a couple of
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Speaker 3: which would be built next to Hurricane High School. They
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Speaker 3: have about forty million dollars about another twenty five from
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Speaker 3: what I understand from the SBA to complete the projects.
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Speaker 3: And those are just some of the requests that are
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 3: The decisions are expected to be announced on December sixteenth,
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Speaker 3: when the SBA has their meeting in Charleston. As I
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Speaker 3: mentioned earlier, and we'll close with this, the governor is
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Speaker 3: I sixty four upgrade project, which I believe started somewhere
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Speaker 3: like in nineteen twenty three or so. I'm not sure,
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