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02/24/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Emmett Pepper, Harper Gardner, Caitlin Cook, Tristan Leavitt · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 2: three zero four nine three five five zero zero Right now.
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  Speaker 2: You may have recalled. We talked about this a couple
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  Speaker 2: times on the show. Should the City of Charleston have
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  Speaker 2: term limits for council members, mayor or elected officials, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Now the mayor has indicated that she's for it. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: there seemed to be a lot of people in support
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  Speaker 2: of We talked to two council members last week about it.
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  Speaker 2: Council members Shannon Snodgrass and Joe Solomon were on the show. Today,
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  Speaker 2: we have three more council members who wanted to weigh
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  Speaker 2: in on it, and we always said we have welcome
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  Speaker 2: open door policy here. Council members Harper Gardner, who I
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  Speaker 2: was harassing a little bit earlier, Welcome to show, sir,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you sir. Council Member Caitlin Cook, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, dad.
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  Speaker 2: And also council person Emmitt Pepper, thanks for having me back.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to all three. So, just for clarity, and we
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  Speaker 2: have everybody give their name and their award or at large.
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  Speaker 4: Caitlin Sure, Caitlyn Cook at large representatives.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I'm harber Gardner Ward fifteen, which is the
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  Speaker 5: backside of South Hills.
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  Speaker 6: Emmitt Pepper, I'm at large as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we get two at large as a fifteen
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  Speaker 2: here today. That just sounded all kinds of wrong when
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  Speaker 2: I spoke too. Okay, all right, all right, Bipartisan Party Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the token Republican Democrat. Okay. Well, it is interesting
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  Speaker 2: because last week when I had the other two of
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  Speaker 2: the other council people, council members on, we had Republican.
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  Speaker 7: Well what.
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  Speaker 2: I just democrat? Okay, Well, and I just said that
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  Speaker 2: because and I said this to them, I said, you
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have any council people that were any more different
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  Speaker 2: than what they are. But they were together. And look,
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  Speaker 2: I applaud anybody that's willing to work with people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, regardless of we need a lot more of
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  Speaker 2: that in my pitions. Well, I appreciate our two Democrats
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  Speaker 2: and token Republican.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's funny you mentioned working to get together
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  Speaker 6: with people. You know, that's I think that's one of
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  Speaker 6: the issues that we have with this. I at least
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  Speaker 6: I speak for myself. You know, this is not a
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  Speaker 6: serious proposal from these these two members of our council.
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  Speaker 6: This has been basically been a stunt.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 6: So if they were wanting to so you asked them
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  Speaker 6: last time, hey, you know, what is there support for this?
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  Speaker 6: But and they're kind of like like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I don't. I don't know, because this isn't about getting
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  Speaker 6: something over the line. They aren't looking to garner support.
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  Speaker 6: They reached out to me, asked me for feedback, and
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  Speaker 6: it was like I didn't even say anything to them. So,
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  Speaker 6: I mean that's ark.
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  Speaker 2: So where are you counsel person on term limits?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we can talk about the policy of it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean I think it makes sense for something like
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  Speaker 6: the mayor, But I don't think this is not They're
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  Speaker 6: not trying to This isn't about that. This isn't this
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  Speaker 6: is not about let's find a good policy that works
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  Speaker 6: for everybody, that's best for our city. This is about
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  Speaker 6: some people who have had some problems the past four
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  Speaker 6: years and have not been very successful. And so what
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  Speaker 6: they're doing is they're trying to make this last minute
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  Speaker 6: thing right before a primary election so that they can
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  Speaker 6: give votes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but now let me let me back up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit before. The first person I that I that
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  Speaker 2: ever came on our airwaves, and then maybe it's because
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  Speaker 2: she's on here more because she's the mayor is the
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  Speaker 2: mayor Amy Goodwin, and she was the first person that
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  Speaker 2: I that I heard that said that was the mayor
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  Speaker 2: for her, I think the mayor. Okay, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: Harper Gardner, where are you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so on the executive side of the city, it
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  Speaker 5: might make some sense. I don't think it makes absolutely
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  Speaker 5: any sense on the legislative side, when, like Joe Solomon
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  Speaker 5: said last time, we've got eleven uncontested seats, and that
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  Speaker 5: I think term if you limit terms for people that
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  Speaker 5: are willing to stand up and put their name on
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  Speaker 5: the ballot, you're going to wind up with an undemocratically
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  Speaker 5: appointed person. I realize I'm throwing a stone in that
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  Speaker 5: glasshouse as an appointed representative right now, But I think
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  Speaker 5: that is the one of the real dangers of this
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  Speaker 5: is the city losing some democratically elected control of the
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  Speaker 5: representation through this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And so you what I'm hearing you say is
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  Speaker 2: that on the executive side, meaning that mayor you would
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  Speaker 2: be for it or at least open to discuss it. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: for a mayor or maybe another position that doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of you for lack of a.
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  Speaker 5: Better judge and treasurer mayor judging treasure on the executive side, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You have many term limits? Would you support so? Ideally it?
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  Speaker 5: Ideally I'd like to see two sixes, but that introduces
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  Speaker 5: an extra vote, so I would drop that, so we
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  Speaker 5: would have to run an extra election and that would
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  Speaker 5: cost it a lot, and I don't care to do that,
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  Speaker 5: So I would do twelve. I would do three fours
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  Speaker 5: for the executive would be my preference, okay, But not
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  Speaker 5: for a council member.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 5: I think we have term limits for council and it's
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  Speaker 5: called elections. And I think again, it would be really
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  Speaker 5: dangerous to tell somebody who's brave enough and willing to
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  Speaker 5: stand up that they have to sit down just because
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  Speaker 5: they've done it, okay with Caitlin.
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  Speaker 4: So I would definitely entertain conversations about term limits. I
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  Speaker 4: think for me right now Green with Harper term limits
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  Speaker 4: for the executive branch, I think three terms is a
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  Speaker 4: pretty solid run. But more importantly, I think the worst
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  Speaker 4: time to have meaningful conversation about term limits is at
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  Speaker 4: the beginning of an election cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and this is a city election, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: the City of Charleston. All of you are running for reelection.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to turn into a campaign or everything
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  Speaker 2: like that. But I'm just but all of all your
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  Speaker 2: run do I'm just kind of curious, do you have opposition?
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  Speaker 5: So the at largest definitely do. There's fifteen total, at
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  Speaker 5: largest six it's nine and six, okay, public.
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  Speaker 2: And so you always have opposition pretty much. You do
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  Speaker 2: not have I posistion. Okay, all right, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm just trying to wrap myself wrap my
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  Speaker 2: head around the whole thing. Uh, there's there seem to be,
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  Speaker 2: based on a lot of the texts and whatnot that
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  Speaker 2: I've had to show and some of the chatter that
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  Speaker 2: I've heard, that a lot of people are in favor
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  Speaker 2: of it, But there seemed to be some disagreement on
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  Speaker 2: how you would arrive at that. And there was even
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  Speaker 2: you know, in that discussion. When I talked to council
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  Speaker 2: folks Snodgrass and Solomon last week, they said that you know,
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  Speaker 2: there was kind of some when is it staggered? Is
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  Speaker 2: it so on and so forth, Caitlyn, I think you
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  Speaker 2: want to say something, So I was going to.
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  Speaker 4: Say something more to the point of, you know, what
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  Speaker 4: needs to be done before you arrive at a policy
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  Speaker 4: and which you discuss with your fellow council members, and
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  Speaker 4: which you go to a committee with the hopes that
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  Speaker 4: they actually, you know, vote on your bill, move it forward,
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  Speaker 4: and move it to the full body. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, a bit disingenuous to say that a good
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  Speaker 4: proposal for term limits was put before the committee.
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  Speaker 2: It was not.
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  Speaker 4: And I think at the end of the day, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Imma just said it. It's not necessarily the policy that
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  Speaker 4: is the issue here. It's the procedures that were done
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  Speaker 4: or not done leading up to that policy being proposed,
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  Speaker 4: the discussions that I've had with my fellow council members,
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  Speaker 4: and first and foremost, that's what it takes. It takes
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  Speaker 4: a discussion, It takes having a conversation with somebody, looking
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  Speaker 4: at them, hearing them, listening to them, making sure that hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'm open to your feedback and it's not just one
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  Speaker 4: email and done, and then I have this expectation that
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  Speaker 4: you're going to vote in favor of my bill, and
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  Speaker 4: if there's anything wrong with my bill, you're going to
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  Speaker 4: fix it for me. No, you've come to committee prepared,
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  Speaker 4: You've already answered committee members questions. You've already asked them
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  Speaker 4: what their concerns are. You've already asked them, will you
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  Speaker 4: support my bill if it's about policy and progress and
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  Speaker 4: if it's not. I think you end up in a
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  Speaker 4: situation like we're in right now.
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  Speaker 2: And what is that situation? I mean, we're just kind
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  Speaker 2: of at a loggerhead here, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean the situation is we have some members
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  Speaker 4: of council proposing that there is this divide and there
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  Speaker 4: is this unwillingness to take up certain proposals by certain people,
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  Speaker 4: which is not true. You know, I am. We have
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  Speaker 4: two major committees in the City of Charleston, Finance, Ordnance,
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  Speaker 4: and Rules. I'm not known to either of those committees.
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  Speaker 4: Never in my time as a council member have I
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  Speaker 4: felt as though I don't have adequate access, I don't
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  Speaker 4: have the ability to represent my constituents, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: have an ability to participate in that process. That is
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  Speaker 4: so far from the truth, the good thing about municipal
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  Speaker 4: government that's still there that we're i think clinging to.
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  Speaker 4: And this is my larger concern we get away from,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Harper, he said, I'm your token Republican here.
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  Speaker 4: It really doesn't matter on the municipal level. We just
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  Speaker 4: want to get things done. But we also don't want
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  Speaker 4: a situation where you have people holding hostage our committees,
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  Speaker 4: our floor sessions for their own lack of action and
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  Speaker 4: due diligence.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Look they have They've said that last time, and at
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  Speaker 6: the end of city council. They don't care if their
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  Speaker 6: support for this, for this policy. They're going to keep
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  Speaker 6: introducing these bills, keep introducing the same policies over and
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  Speaker 6: over again, different forms, et cetera. They maybe even said
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  Speaker 6: that on your show. I mean, so it's not about
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  Speaker 6: you know, this is obviously not about anything other than
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  Speaker 6: taking up space, taking up time in our in our
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  Speaker 6: council meetings. And look, let's just let's just remind you
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  Speaker 6: know you and you probably remember, but you know your listeners.
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  Speaker 6: These are the same folks who decided that it was
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  Speaker 6: important in a requirement they wanted to force us to
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  Speaker 6: have a debate about the Middle East in city council.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody ran on that, nobody voted for that. So these
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  Speaker 6: are the you know, these are the folks. You know,
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  Speaker 6: Doug or Shannon Snodgrass has barely been in attending the
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  Speaker 6: past year.
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  Speaker 2: But not to be fair, she's and then she said,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about it on the show. She's had issues
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  Speaker 2: one of their family and some medical issues and so
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  Speaker 2: on and so forth.
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  Speaker 6: I understand that, and that's fine, but you know the
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  Speaker 6: fact that this is this is the solution for that
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  Speaker 6: is to force everyone to have a debate about something
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  Speaker 6: that ironic. I mean, somebody said that, you know, this
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  Speaker 6: is blue maga, right, this is like, you know, the
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  Speaker 6: blue version, the democratic version of maga, where it's like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, absence of facts and just a lot of show.
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  Speaker 6: But I actually think that, you know, for her, it's
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  Speaker 6: maga maggat. I mean, she's blamed. She's accusing everyone else
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  Speaker 6: of the thing that she's been in office for fifteen years,
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  Speaker 6: she's seeking for four more years right now, nineteen years,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, and then wants to limit the terms on
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  Speaker 6: everyone else. How does that make any sense?
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  Speaker 2: Have you sat down and talked about your differences.
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  Speaker 6: I sit right next to it. So it's going to
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  Speaker 6: be awkward next Monday.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay. I'll take awkward moments for two hundred
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  Speaker 2: alex So. But but I mean, have you have you
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  Speaker 2: tried one on one sitting down and talking about these
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  Speaker 2: differences with these people we talked.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they reached out to me, at least I think
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  Speaker 6: they reached out to others too about this bill. I
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  Speaker 6: gave them what I thought. I feel like like Charlie
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  Speaker 6: Brown with Lucy. I mean, I I responded thoughtfully paragraphs
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  Speaker 6: of things that I thought that the approach that we
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  Speaker 6: should take. And it was just like I never sent
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  Speaker 6: the email.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So what's next in this debate? Because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we got to wrap this up? What's what's next? Where
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  Speaker 2: do we go from here?
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully we can get back to actual good policy and
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  Speaker 4: what it takes.
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  Speaker 2: To get there. And that would not and that would
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  Speaker 2: in your opinion, I won't put wording about that would
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  Speaker 2: not involve a discussion about term moments, not at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: not at them.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's I really don't think it's it's a
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  Speaker 5: distraction and it's just a ploy. It's not it's not
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  Speaker 5: a helpful thing for the city to be addressing right
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  Speaker 5: at this very second.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in regardless of what the policy is, bring the
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  Speaker 4: policy to the table having done the work first, because
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you, if you don't approach a single
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  Speaker 4: committee member before that bill gets to your committee, your
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  Speaker 4: goal is not progress or policy, it's pageantry. You were
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  Speaker 4: not doing anything else, because if you were, you would
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  Speaker 4: have done work before that.
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  Speaker 2: Am it any final words from you?
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  Speaker 6: I think that that absolutely captures it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Council folks, Harper Gardner, Emmitt Pepper, Caitlin Cook, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody for being here today, and we'll see where
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  Speaker 2: it goes from here. Thanks a lot, Thank you itving.
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  Speaker 2: We all know the issue with domestic violence. Delegatristan Levitt
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  Speaker 2: is a Republican from Gnawan County District fifty three, sponsored
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  Speaker 2: to bill called the Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Acts,
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  Speaker 2: and he joins us now and presuming from the capital.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to the show, sir, Thank you so
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: much for having me, Dad, thank you for being here.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Talk about this act, where it came from, and where
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  Speaker 2: it stands now.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely. The longer background on it goes back to
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: just the last session that was my first session in
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  Speaker 9: the legislature, and the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: had some language they had worked up to strengthen laws
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: against strangulation. I did not know at the time, but
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: subsequently learnedlearned that in a situation where survives strangulation behind
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: an intimate partner, they are seven hundred and fifty percent
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: more likely to ultimately be a victim of HOMAS by
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: that same partner. And so this language created a domestic
• 17:15
  Speaker 9: strangulation charge to distinguish it to give it higher penalties
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: than just the normal you know, someone runs up to
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: you on the street and strangles you, again, you don't
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: see that same subsequent homicide rate. So that was kind
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: of the base, and then through the year I've been
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: working with the coalition on adding other provisions to it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: And then in December of just this last year, in Sissonville,
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: a community nurse there named Juanna Phillips was shot in
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: the chest in her home. Her husband called nine to
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: one one to confess the crime, and a subsequent look
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: at the case indicates that, you know, there had been
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: a history of reporting there, and you know, that individual
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: was released on a personal recognizance bond back in September,
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: even after there'd been a warrant out for his rest
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: for months before that. So this really caused a re
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: examination of those laws on bail and bond and some
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: of the other things that we do to try and
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: keep victims safe in domestic violence situations. So I introduced
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: the bill this session. It moved through committee, and just
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: last week it was unanimously voted out of the House
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: and so it now goes over to the Senate for
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: consideration there, and I'm very hopeful it will be taken
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: up and enacted into law this year.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Have you had any conversations with members of Senate? I mean,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: because obviously this is something that is very sounds like
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: it's very personal to you and you're to be commended
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: for it. I mean, I'm one hundred percent in favor
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: of this. I don't know anybody honestly that wouldn't be
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: unless there's just some specific language and that they don't like.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Have you had any conversations, Delegate with any members of
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the Senate about this?
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah. My understanding is that in the Senate Chairman Tom
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Willis Senate just shary chair has committed to bring up
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: this bill, and so you know, I have heard positive
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: feedback from those I've talked to. So again, recognizing that
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: you know, it should be able to move that said,
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: we are on the stretch when there starts to be
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: a lot of trading and a lot of you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: other things are held hostage. So you know, I definitely
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: have my fingers crossed in the prayer.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And of course again we're talking with a delegate to
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Tristan love It. I mean, the issue of domestic violence
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: should be out in front of on everybody's radar. Because
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: it seems like seemingly and maybe we're just hearing more
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: reporting about it. This was a horrific case that and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: it's been well reported by this media outlet in others,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: but it seems like we're hearing more and more. Maybe
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: we're just hearing more of it. But it's something I
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: think that affects everybody. I mean, everybody knows someone who's
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: been a victim of domestic violence, or maybe themselves has
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: been a victim. And I know a lot of your
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: constituents certainly have seen that in their lives as well.
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think if there are those who feel like
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: they don't know anybody who's impacted, they're just unaware. Right.
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: So many have called this an invisible epidemic, and in
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: part that's because it is an uncomfortable topic for many people, right,
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: So it is a hard conversation, and even when those
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: close to you are victims, sometimes it's something that they
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: shy away from talking about. And sometimes that's because of
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: the difficult you know, the dangerous situations that they continue
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: to be in. But this definitely impacts so many individuals.
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: There are statistics out there. It's very difficult because of course,
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: domestic violence is underreported. So many people who are victims
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: do not go to law enforcement. Even when they go
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: to law enforcement, because of the pressures there in a
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: you know, in a domestic relationship, they may feel like
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: either for financial or emotional or other reasons that they
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: continue to go back to their visers. But studies suggest
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: that as many as you know, fifty five percent of
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: women in West Virginia will be victims of domestic violence
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: at sometime in their lives. It's a slightly lower number
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: for men, but it's still a much higher number than
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: it should be. And even in terms of homicides, the
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: last year that we have data collected, you know, they
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: have to wait for cases to be all appeals to
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: go through, and everything else. So the last year that
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: that's all settled as twenty twenty two, and there were
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: thirty three domestic violence related homicides in the state. So
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: this clearly clearly impacts people, has potential to end, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: in the worst way possible. And so although this bill
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: is named for Joanna Phillips and her family has been
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: very supportive and they were here at the Capitol of
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: today that we passed the bill. Both her mom and
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: her sister and brother. But of course Joanna just wanted many, many,
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: many victims of domestic violence, and we want to do
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: everything we can to protect them.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Moving forward, Talking again with Deli Gat Tristan Love at
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  Speaker 2: starts here. How do you think the session otherwise is gone? Delian?
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: I think there are a number of good bills that
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: have come through here and I feel very positive about that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: Like I said, we're getting to a stage when tempers
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: kind of start to rise. We'll vote on the budget
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: built today and I know the governor is doing a
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: briefing this morning and a press conference this afternoon. You know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: there are questions out there about things like the Hope Scholarship,
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: which I I've been a fan of, but you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: and also am a very big proponent for our public school.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: So we're kind of getting down to the to the
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: you know, where the ruver meets the road here to
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: the to the final wire, and so that that is
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: always a hard time of the session for everybody.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Where are you on and I know this is a
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: very broad question, but when it comes to the budget,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, the governor has floated various tax, tax rate proposals.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Others have said, well, we don't have the money. Do
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: you have an opinion on any of that.
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: I'm still going through the amendments for today. I mean,
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: when you're not on the Finance Committee, you're kind of
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: in a stage right of you know, waiting to see
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: what happens to an extent with with amendments. But obviously
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: everybody you know believes, you know, any anybody's happy when
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: they have fewer taxes. You know, figuring out which priorities
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: remain for the money that we have, I think is significant.
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: So I've I've heard a lot about you know, the
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: five verses ten percent, about where we would get traditional money.
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: You know, I personally, you know, think that there are
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: some areas that we could create some offsets by taxing
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: things like you know, our vape industry is pretty robust
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: here in the state, and I think even those for
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: proponents of that industry are willing to see increased taxes there. Similarly,
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: some of our gambling, for instance, are in state. You know,
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: the machines in local buildings right, those local machines are
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: taxes a certain rate, and it's it's much higher than,
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: for instance, out of state gambling, online gambling. And you know,
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: I don't vape and I don't gamble. But again, those
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: that I have talked to recognize that those could be areas.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: Even those who do say, you know, these could be
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: areas that we could raise some more money and could
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: help support a change overall. So I'm hopeful that we
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: will be able to get a substantial tax cut across
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: the finish line, and you know, whatever's left on the table,
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: we'll be able to look to come back to next year.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Before we let you go, because I know you're you
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: have a busy schedule, I do want to ask you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the Hope Scholarship, and you also said you're
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: a proponent of that, but you're also a proponent of
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: public schools as well, And I think that's a admirable
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: position because I think sometimes people think that you can't
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: do both, and you can. As you just said, where
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: are you on the Hope Scholarship As far as because
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: that was the hot button topic last week, what would
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: you like to see happen with the Hope scholarship.
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: I think it's really important that we both recognize that
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: parents should be empowered to do what's best for their kids.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: You know, it does really strike me that, you know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: what the Hope Scholarship does is take the amount of
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: tax dollars that are allocated from the state, So these
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: are taxpayers dollars. When a student is pulled out, as
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: one of my five kids, is because she has this alexia,
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: she's able to receive very specific tutoring, you know, out
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: of micro school that she was not able to receive
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: in the public schools. The federal dollars remain with the school.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: So I think to some extent, the Hope discussion is
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: a little bit of a proxy for a far broader
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: discussion we need to have that our public education system
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: and the fact that our state population is shrunk. That said,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: it's really hard if you're in a local school. Obviously
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: It'sana County is is proposing to cut a bunch of
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: Canada positions. You know, these put these put teachers and
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: schools in a hard position. But I do think that
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: there are harder conversations we need to have. They're and
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: they're not directly attributable just to Hope in any way.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: I would love to see much more discussion surrounding the
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: Third Grade Success Act, which was passed a few years
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: ago that also creates is supposed to create things like
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: dyslexia support and services and schools and further things to
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: improve the quality of education. But there are districts out
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: there that just really oppose implementation of that bill. So
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: I think it's difficult to say, hey, our schools are
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: struggling in some ways and outcomes. Some schools are unwilling
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: to do what it takes to change, and then to
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: be surprised when people want to look for other education alternatives.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: So it's a very difficult topic. And being able to
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: listen to both the teachers and the public schools and
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: the parents who are beneficiaries of Hope and figure out
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: ways to find outcomes that work for everybody is a
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: very difficult proposition.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Delly, Contristan Lovett will let you get back to work.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, appreciate you taking time many schedule to
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: join us today. Thanks a lot, my pleasure.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: I thanks so much, Dave.
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  Speaker 2: text says on the city council issue, I'm confused as
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  Speaker 2: to why these three council members opposed to term limits
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  Speaker 2: when it doesn't even start till twenty thirty, which means
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  Speaker 2: they could have an additional sixteen years. Also, why would
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  Speaker 2: it take lobbying to six members when it's straightforward question
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  Speaker 2: up or down three term limits for city council? Says
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: a Texter. I just, I mean, I agree with one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that Councilman Harper Gardner said, and Robert
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Byrd was probably the most famous person who have said this,
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  Speaker 2: and that is that the ballot box should be term limits.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree with that. But I also understand in
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  Speaker 2: a body like like a city council or a mayor
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  Speaker 2: in a municipal types of county, municipal type city, I
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  Speaker 2: can I can see where term limits could be needed.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's that's just me. And I live in an
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  Speaker 2: area that is unincorporated. Despite what TJ. Meadow says, I
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: am not the mayor of Tays Valley. Uh, it's unincorporated.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't this, and I don't. I work in Charleston,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I'm here six days a week, but I don't live
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  Speaker 2: in Charleston. But but I understand the discussion about it,
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  Speaker 2: and especially if it's staggered, it is an interesting discussion. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I will say this and uh we'll see where it
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: goes from here, Tex says Dave, I will not watch
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  Speaker 2: a convicted sexual predator give a speech about what he
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  Speaker 2: about what he knows. Let me chart this again, Dave,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: I will not watch a convicted sexual predator give a
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  Speaker 2: speech about what he has. We know what he's done.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: I stand for Christian values, says the text. So tonight
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the President will give his State of the Union speech.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: We'll have coverage, as I mentioned earlier, via the ABC
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Radio network, starting at nine o'clock tonight. New polling data
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  Speaker 2: shows the president's approval rating has dropped a lot, especially
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: among working class voters, many of whom are the ones
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: who helped put him in office. Now, most people say
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: that they do approve of what he's done at the border.
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  Speaker 2: I mean opinion on your host here. What went on
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: during the Biden administration at the border could not continue.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, it could simply could not continue. So even
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: folks that aren't necessarily fans of President Trump agree at
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  Speaker 2: least somewhat with what he's done at the border. The
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  Speaker 2: border is pretty much cure right now.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 2: What they don't agree with is the ice enforcement or
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the economy. There was one poll done by s SRS
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  Speaker 2: for CNN, and yes, I know it's done with CNN,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: which means it'll be called fake news, as everything the
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  Speaker 2: president doesn't like is. But according to this poll, thirty
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  Speaker 2: two percent of all Americans, only thirty two percent believe
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  Speaker 2: the president has the right priorities, sixty eight percent saying
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  Speaker 2: he simply isn't paying attention to the most important problems.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: This isn't new polling data just released yesterday. Now, his
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: overall approval rating among adults is thirty two percent. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's thirty thirty two percent. And I'm sure tonight he'll
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  Speaker 2: he'll talk about how great the economy is, how stupid
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  Speaker 2: this the Preme Court is, et cetera, et cetera. So
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock start time for you, boy here is is
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit late, to be honest with you. So
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: because I did morning radio, you know, for over twenty years,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'm still on that get up at three am schedule,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: although I do sleep into like four thirty or five now.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I will I will be watching it, probably
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• 38:24
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• 38:30
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  Speaker 2: it of course tomorrow as well. Texas Dave, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to know who's staying up till midnight to listen to
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  Speaker 2: Trump for four hours bragging on himself, thanks true text,
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  Speaker 2: says Dave. Some hockey gossip. The team captain Austin Matthews
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  Speaker 2: is son of a Mexican immigrant. He's what the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: so he will be on the show from the Capitol
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  Speaker 2: take away their cushy benefits and see how many of
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  Speaker 2: them run, says a texture. You know, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: I work here. I I am for the discussion anywhere
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  Speaker 2: that they should be staggered. One of the things that's always,
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  Speaker 2: I guess interested me about the City of Charleston. And
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  Speaker 2: this is not obviously on this administration. This goes back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ever since the ever since there was a city,
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  Speaker 2: I guess is the number of council people that we have.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had this discussion in the in the past,
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  Speaker 2: but you may not be aware of this. Charleston has
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  Speaker 2: twenty six city council people. Twenty six, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: divided into wards and then some are at large. And
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: as I said, it's always been that way. I'm presuming
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  Speaker 2: city charter. But for comparison, Charleston has more city council
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  Speaker 2: members than Columbus, Ohio, a lot more. They have a
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  Speaker 2: lot more than Pittsburgh, a lot more. And those are
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  Speaker 2: get it, biggest city in West Virginia, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: Columbus and it's not Pittsburgh. And the fact that somebody
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  Speaker 2: years ago, again not on this administration, this goes back,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: you know, for a long time thought that Charleston needed
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: twenty six council people. I just look at the cost
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  Speaker 2: of that, because they get paid for the meetings. And
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  Speaker 2: you may not be aware that city council people also
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  Speaker 2: get benefits, as in full benefits for being on Charleston
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  Speaker 2: City Council. And I don't know. I mean I think
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  Speaker 2: that at some point, I mean, Charleston, I would think
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  Speaker 2: is going to have to look at that at some
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: point that the fact that it has twenty six council people.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, you know, until I started doing
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  Speaker 2: this show, which was to be six years ago in May,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 9: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I just I was done to the fact that Charleston's
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  Speaker 2: twenty six city council people a lot more than a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other cities, a lot more than a lot
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: of other cities. New York's fifty one. I get that. Okay,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: don't necessarily get Charleston at twenty six city council people.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Tex says Trump was convicted in a court of law
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  Speaker 2: on thirty two felony counts. Now, look where he is
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: this proof someone is above the law hymn while body
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: preaches no one is above the law. We already lost
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: our country as a texture, you know, I hear that
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: people say that a lot, that we've lost our country.
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  Speaker 2: I had people said it about the last administration too,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: that we've lost our country. I am very interested to
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: see where our country goes after Donald Trump. That's assuming
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: he leaves. I am very I'm very interested to see
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: where we go because you know, when when when Trump
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: lost and he did lose in twenty twenty and Joe
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Biden took over as president. Trump never really went away,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: you know, he was constantly in the news with the
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: court cases and constantly on social media, so on and
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: so forth, so he never really went away. But when
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Trump does go away at some points, I am interested
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: to see where the Republican Party will go, specifically because
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, let's face it, on a national level, On
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: a national level, Trump equals my I mean, I'm sorry,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Trump equals Republican Party. MAGA equals Republican and that's not
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: I don't see that changing, you know, anytime soon. I mean,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: I'm very interested to see where where our country goes
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: and where the where the party goes from there.
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: I really am.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Tech says Council. People want career politicians, toad of public servants.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Why do we have to have at large take those
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: away first? Tex says, So whenever someone references CNN, MSNBC,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: New York Times and all the other Marxist media formats
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: is a source, you have a problem with the label
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: fake news. Yeah, when someone mentions Fox News, they're mock
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: dismissed and lectured that they're not a news network. F Yi,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: the view is actually listened under an ABC News platform,
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: not entertainment what's the difference, Well, fair point. Fox News
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  Speaker 2: admitted in court that they aren't a aren't a legitimate
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: news source. They admitted that in one of the lawsuits
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: there is that also. I would agree with MSNBC or
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: what is it called ms I think it's called now,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I would I would probably agree with that. CNN went
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: way downhill from what they used to be my opinions,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: my opinion only. I I am a fan of News Nation,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean I am. It's what's on in the
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  Speaker 2: studio when I'm here. I like News Nation. I don't
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: know if anybody's completely fair and balanced, but it's about
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: as balanced as it gets my opinion. Texas, Dave, look
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: forward to our president's speech night. This country has become
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: much stronger because of his policies. Best president in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: It's common sense, says a Texas. Our country was saved
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  Speaker 2: the last administration. Fact Okay, by that, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where you the last administration. I'm presuming you mean Biden
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  Speaker 2: on that. I'm presuming that's what you mean by that.
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  Speaker 2: That's not right, you can correct. Let's send things to
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: the Capitol right now and talk to our good friends
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  Speaker 2: Wilson and meadows. Morning, fellers.
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  Speaker 10: What's up?
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  Speaker 12: What's up?
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: How are we doing?
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: I just I just caught the tail end of that.
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: You said, really gone downhill? Are you talking about your show?
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  Speaker 2: No, my show was never on the hill to begin with.
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  Speaker 4: You.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: In order to go downhill, boys, you have to attain
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the position of being on the hill. And I was
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: never on the hill, gotcha?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: So it can't.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: There's nowhere nowhere to go, you know, from this point on.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: So there you go.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: What you guys up to?
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: Oh, just trying to fill a couple of hours.
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: Well, we've been up to. There are things happening here
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: at the Capitol, Dave, and mainly over in house finance,
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: and that is where most of the actions.
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: In the last couple of days has been.
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: They got a whole ton of bills to get through today.
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: Some of them are kind of run of the mill.
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: Most of them are run the mill. But that's where
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  Speaker 7: most of the people we've been trying to track down
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  Speaker 7: today are TJA.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, and it's not on the agenda this morning. That's
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  Speaker 10: originating bill around scholarship. But they have to have evening
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  Speaker 10: sessions now because the agendas are so lengthy. Will it
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  Speaker 10: up here this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they met last night, didn't They did in the
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  Speaker 2: house for quite a bit of time.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, they have a laundry list and really, Dave Wilson,
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  Speaker 10: to your point, it's all about the budget.
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  Speaker 2: Now, can you pay for it or not? Then how
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  Speaker 2: are they going to reconcile everything?
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  Speaker 7: So we're going to talk about all that. Amelia nicely
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  Speaker 7: and Brad mclhenny will join us in the first segment. Later,
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  Speaker 7: Stephen Allen Adams, Senator Eric Tarr will drop by, and
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  Speaker 7: Republican strategicist Greg Thomas will joined us today as.
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  Speaker 2: Well, with a fresh haircut. We're told, Yeah, oh Thomas
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  Speaker 2: got a haircut. Okay, all right. I mentioned him earlier
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: just because I like to tee him up whenever he's on,
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  Speaker 2: just so I can so people can get all mad
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  Speaker 2: about it, you know when he's on.
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  Speaker 12: So did you make him mad?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean people get upset when Greg Thomas is on,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's mostly you.
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  Speaker 7: No, I love Greg.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I mean they're upset at you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, well that goes without saying. All right, Alan,
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  Speaker 2: I got a quid question for did you get this
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  Speaker 2: whole term thing settled? Term limits and now did you No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we got nothing.
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  Speaker 12: So we got enough.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you know whatever? All right, Wilson and Meadows
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  Speaker 2: coming up at talk line at the Capitol, coming up
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  Speaker 2: a ten oh six. I will be back tomorrow. Charleston
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  Speaker 2: Mayor South Charleston may Or Frank Malin Junior, join us
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  Speaker 2: on the show tomorrow. Later today Metro News Midday with
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: thirteen News and to Not Live anchor Manda Baron and me.
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  Speaker 2: We will see you then. My producer Ryan Nicholson, thank
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