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08/30/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Mac Warner, Tim Brady, Larry Pack · The Dave Allen Show

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days ago that the former House of Delegates member and the assistant to the governor.
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He's still the assistant to the governor. Larry Packet was going to be
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running for state treasurer and he's made that announcement a couple of days ago on
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talk line with Dave Wilson, who's in for Hoppy. I get the visit
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from a mister pack today. He's going to be joined us a little bit
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later on in the show. Also, our friend Tim Brady from the Charleston
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Convention and Visitors Bureau will stop by. A lot of folks are heading into
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Charleston over the next week or so forth. A big event that's going actually
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a couple of big events going on, but one in particular it's bringing people.
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It's volleyball and it's bringing people literally from all over the country for this
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thing. Tim's going to break that down for us. But I want to
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welcome into the show now current West Virginia Secretary of State in Canada for Governor
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Mac Warner. Good morning, Sarah, how are you? Good morning?
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How'm wonderful, great to be with you. Thank you for being here.
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I want to talk Secretary of State business before we get into your campaign for
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governor. Now you're at the Greenbrier. Understand now, preparing for the annual
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Business Summit sponsored by the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. What are you expecting
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to learn down there or what are you taking part in? Well, first
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of all, right, now I'm not asked de greed. Okay, I'm
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sorry, I'm staying in Louisburg. But yes, the summit is starting today
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at the Green Bay. Yes, yes, my fault, my fault.
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Well, that's right, and I just wanted to let you know that this
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is the first time that well, this is where a business leaders from all
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over the state. I think they're twelve hundred and twelve undred. They were
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talking about some new records perhaps in attendance. That's showing the growth of the
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economy in West Virginia. I think it's a very healthy thing. And this
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is just an indication of the growth of the economy here in West Virginia.
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I can tell you from my job in the Sect Day States Perspective, where
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we keep track of the businesses around the state. We've gone from one hundred
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and thirty thousand jobs when I first came into over one hundred and forty three
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thousand jobs and now keep businesses I keep track of in the Six Days States
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office. So yes, we are showing some improvement in the economy. Hopefully
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that chosen the number of jobs that people have around the state. And this
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is a chance for these business leaders to get together hear the latest. I
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know we've got some great speakers online from the Senatory. We've got Senate you
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mentioned in Capital speaking today. We've got the healthcare of the people from WWU
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and around the state talking about issues in acladd we're all concerned about higher education,
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what's happening at WU. There's a lot of thanks unpacker the comforts,
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and I think it's going to be a mixture of good news as well as
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how do we face these challenges they're coming West Virginia. You on a continuing
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basis. Again, we're talking with Secretary of State make Warner and Calco,
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candidate for governor. I've had you on the show in the past. I
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know a little bit about the office as well. Well. One of the
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things about the secretary of State's office that I think a lot of people don't
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realize, as you said, when you think secretary of State, you automatically
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think of voting and things of that nature. And that's a certainly a big
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part of it, but as you've often said on the show, there's actually
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more people in the Business division than what there are in the other divisions of
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the office. And a part of that is not only what goes on to
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the Capitol, but of course you get the business one stop center here in
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Charleston. You've got offices in Martinsburg, and there's going to be a new
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office in Clarksburg. The office in Clarksburgh, which was already there, is
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on the move. I understand talk about that. It is on Friday.
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We're having basically a celebration or ground opening, and that we've moved down the
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streets from the previous location. It's now in the newer federal building. And
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this is just a reflection of again back to the growth in West Virginia and
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the responsiveness here we are having government basically be like anybody would treat for business.
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If you have a reason to expand, you do so and the customers
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are better served. What we've done in the six day States Office is we
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have leveraged technology. It makes it easier to start a business, easier to
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grow your business, easier to access things such as a small Business Administration,
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which can help businesses either get started grow the business, to do business plans,
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or if you're already an existing business, maybe perhaps go out there and
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find some of the several funds that are available. That many times these business
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owners are so busy with their nosing the books and getting products to market and
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keeping the supply chains up, they're not looking out. They don't have that
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time or the resources to look out. And so that's what's say a small
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business administration can do for you is to say, hey, you want to
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grow your business, here a resources to do so. So in our remote
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locations in Martinsburg, you know how the east or Panhandless exploded, it is
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growing, We're doing the same thing in the Corsport Bridgeport area of Bridgeport is
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continuing to go like crazy, and so we are making government responsive to those
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needs. We're leveraging technology that makes people their access to these resources online much
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easier. And by way of example, we've just recently started SOLO that's the
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single online location that allows somebody to start the business at home and then get
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the answers that they need from I'll get technical here for a second. A
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geo fenced resource. That is, we know that the answers in the second
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Day of State's Office, from the experience that our employees have, the West
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Virginia State Code, the information technology we GEO fink that so that when you
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ask this solo a question, it gives you a consistent answer every time,
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Whereas if you were calling into the office one time you might get an employee
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who's been there for twenty years and has vast amounts of experience. Another time
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you might get an employee who's only been hired recently, and so you see
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that disparate knowledge base that they might have. But when you use the Business
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Wizard and the technology that we have, you're getting consistent answers. They're the
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right answers, the most detailed answers, and that's why people are very happy
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with the response they're getting from the second Day of State's Office. Still,
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if they want to talk to a person, they could call and they get
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a friendly voice that wants to help them with their situation. And I just
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couldn't be happier with the progress that the Sect States Office is made. In
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September is a national voter registration month across the country, and I know that
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your team will be out in the places like public schools and other public venues
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registering people to vote. We will be and we're coming upon a major Mileston.
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Since I've been in office one, we've cleaned up the vote registration lists
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and taken off over four hundred thousand names. At the same time, we've
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registered three hundred and thirty thousand new live people that are interested in voting,
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and know those three hundred and thirty thousand. This week we anticipating hitting the
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one hundred thousand high school student that we will register. So if you knew
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this week, I plan to be in Charleston and hopefully go to Capel High
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School and registered the one hundred thousand high school students since I've been an office.
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Why that's so important is because as we talk about growing the economy and
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going to population in West Virginia, we certainly want to keep the people here
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who we have educated. Our most valeable resources are people. We don't want
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to explore export them to Charlotte or some other city outside of the state.
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We want to keep them here, and so getting them involved in the political
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process is one of the ways where when they still engaged, they are engaged,
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they're more civically inclined. We might even get them to run for office.
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We have a wonderful group of young people in the House of Delegates in
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the West Virginia Senate, and so all of those are wind winds scenarios,
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and that's why I put such emphasis on getting young people registered to vote here
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in the state. Talking again with Secretary of State to Canada and gubernatorial candidate
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or Secretary of State whole office holder, I should say Macwarter and gubnatorial Canada.
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Macwarter, you just picked up a big endorsement for your goodnatorial campaigns are
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from the National Defense Political Action Committee. Talk about that. Yes, that
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was a real heartwarming thing. Of course, it's not necessarily a surprise.
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I am the only veteran in the race for governor, and this pack recognizes
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that we need people with that battle tested experienced in state government because the military
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doesn't tell you what to think, to tell you to teach you how to
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think to address the next issue. You can see that we're going with cyber
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issues and cyber attacks and drone attacks and all these sorts of things that weren't
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even around them, say ten years ago. So you always have to have
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a forward looking perspective in the defense industry, and so for a defense pack
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to recognize reach down from a national level and say we want this person and
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as the governor, that is real heartwarming for me to get that endorsement at
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this time. And Mike, before we let you go, I had Attorney
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General and Gubnatorial Canada Patrick morris again the show last week, and time he's
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on the show or in public forums, mister Morrissey makes comments by saying he's
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the only true conservative in this field for governor. And I would think that
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that would probably come as news to someone like you or even some of the
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others like like Chris Miller more capital Your thoughts on that statement from mister Morrissey,
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Well, it is misleading and obviously incorrect. So I would simply ask
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people to take that with great assault and look at the facts. There's nobody
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that is more conservative in the state of West Virginia than Mac Warner. And
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a conservatives means that you want to retain the things that have proven true over
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the test of time. And so I start back at the beginning, the
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first words of the Bible. In the beginning God, you know, when
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you get things straight from a biblical perspective, that's objective truth. It doesn't
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change over time. And that's what a conservative is versus a progressive who thinks
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that man is the solution of the problems and so that man is basically good
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and we can increase government and government rule of man, we can improve things.
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And that's not my perspective as a conservative. So I would be glad
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to debate Patrick Morrissey or anybody else at any time and to address this issue.
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So it's people, Westington. You have a true vision as to who
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is running for who's running for governor and is telling them the truth day in
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and day out and not misleading through slogans and models. Well, as part
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of the business summit, I think there is going to be if I'm correct
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on this serve, there's going to be kind of a not really a debate,
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but I think it's going to be more of a discussion or a forum
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with some of the gubernatorial candidates. Are you looking forward to that? Absolutely?
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This is a great time to showcase the personalities, the experiences. You
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know, who better to run this state and somebody like me who's been battle
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tested. Literally I'm the only better in industries with that experience. Constitutional I'm
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a lawyer. I understand following the wall. You see that in my decisions
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as Secretary of State, where we don't arbitrarily change things such as using job
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boxes, or automatic voters registration or same day registration voting, all those sorts
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of things that other states have tried and have gotten them into trouble. We
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haven't done that here in West Virginia. I have followed the laws put out
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by the legislature, and that's why West Virginia has been recognized nationally as a
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leader in election security and integrity. Voter competence in elections scott has skyrocketed during
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my tenure, and people get election results on election night. So those are
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the type of things that I have done. And if you like what I've
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done, has Secretary of State think what I can do is I go across
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state government, streamlining and making speak of them more efficient and doing for the
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whole state what I've done in the secretary of State's job. Secretary of State
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and Canada for Governor mac Warner. I appreciate you taking time out your schedule
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join us. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot. Thank you,
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sixty six for QC kinetics of cross lanes. Let me knock out a couple
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of texts here, Texas make hit the nail on the head. Since Biden
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became president, the stead of West Virginia is starting to see jobs come here
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thanks to American the American Rescue Act, Infrastructure Acts, etc. Mac was
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a leader of Stop to Steal disqualified him to run How long Texas? How
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long until stop to Steal? Warner gets endorsed by Nick Fuentez Warner's alt right
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Nazis for real, let me see Texas. West Virginia's unemployment rate is the
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lowest in decades, coinciding with the lowest US rate in fifty years. If
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you think this is because of West Virginia Republicans, you're fooling yourself. Anyway.
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Here's my challenge the Republicans explain how Republican policies in West Virginia calls the
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national unemployment rate to be the best in decades. Dark Brandon rises according to
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a texture heartwarming question Marke, does Mike Warner care more about the defense industry's
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superpack endorsements or represent the people of West Virginia. No big government, just
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big military industrial complex stopped to steal. Indeed, uh Tex says, religions
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made up by man. There's no evidence God is real. I wish politicians
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would stop forcing their made up religion on people through government. Forcing religious values
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via government isn't how this country was intended to operate. And Okay, enough
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of that, and then we'll get back to those a little bit later.
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On Tim Brady, never controversial anything, he says, try not to be
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How are you man, I'm great man. You know, I think a
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planet a seed with you. Okay, had you on the show last week
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and we were relieving, kind of reliving your radio career, you know,
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radio career. Now listen a week later, you're back again. You want
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back in, you know, I'm like just itching too, not get up.
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Do you want the fun aspect of it? You know exactly? I
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want to come in here and talk to you for about fifteen then it's have
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a good time, a few laughs, and then say hi to Chris Lawrence
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on my way out and hit the door at the door and then it's like,
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you know, every time. Every time I walk out of this building,
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I'm like, uh uh, It's like Shawshank redemption, right, and
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I'm like tearing my shirt off looking up at the sky, sweet freedom.
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Right. You loved it? Come on, I did know I had a
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great at that point, at that point in my life, I had.
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I had a great time. Radio was a blast. Yeah, yes,
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it is, absolutely. Can's a ton of fun. And you know,
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I'm standing out there talking to Chris and we're telling stories about, you know,
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twenty years ago, and it's fun. The smell of deer urine emanating
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from his studio. I couldn't do what he does. Chris is the man.
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Yeah, he's the man. He's a great guy. All right.
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So of course, Tim Brady from the Charleston Convention to Visitors Bureau, we
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got a whole lot of people coming to the area in Canal Valley for a
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huge event. Let's talk about it. Yeah. So starting next week September
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fifth through September tenth, the Charleston Coliseum will be hosting the Norsica Men's Continental
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Championship. And U, you don't need to worry about what North SEKA stands
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for. It's North America Central America and the Caribbean. But what you need
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to know is it's the men's USA volleyball team against six other volleyball teams from
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around the world, or around this part of the country rather North America,
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Central America, and the Caribbean. It's the USA, Cuba, Canada,
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Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Surinam all here for five
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days playing high level, Olympic level volleyball in the Charleston Coliseum. And it's
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the last time that the men's USA volleyball team will play in the United States
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before the paras Olympics. Now, how exactly did we go about getting this
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to Charleston, West Virginia. What's the plant? I mean, how did
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you? How did this happen? You know, you just you just music
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lucky. Sometimes I would I would like to say that it's it was my
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charming charisma, but uh, you know, in the in the competitive sports
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business, the travel sports business, it's just a lot of networking. It's
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meeting people, it's going to trade shows, it's going to conveys, and
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it's talking to people and telling them about your facilities. And we were lucky
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enough a few weeks ago to host USA Table Tennis for some Pan American games.
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We had you table tennis players from twenty one countries through USA Table Tennis.
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I got to meet the CEO of USA Volleyball. They were looking for
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a place to host this event. He knew about the coliseum, he had
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talked to the CEO of USA Table Tennis. It's all relationship business. So
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once he came to Charleston, saw the city, saw the facility, met
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the mayor, met some of the folks in the city. They were sold
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and they were excited to come here and we'll be hosting them beginning September fifth.
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So how many people are we talking? I mean it's not just because
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obviously it's just like with any sports team, it's not just the players.
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I mean there's support staff, there's coaches. Maybe how many people are we
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talking per team? Rough ballpark figures, so ballpark figure about thirty people per
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team. So you're talking about two hundred and some athletes and staff. But
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you've also got the staff of USA Volleyball. But for us, the big
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draw is the ticket sales. West Virginia and Charleston sit in so USA Volleyball
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as a as an entity, as an organization that promotes volleyball. Amateur volleyball
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throughout the country is broken up into regions, and we sit in from a
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participation standpoint. Their largest region, which is the Ohio Valley region. So
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we're gonna get people. We've already sold tickets to people from Michigan, Ohio,
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Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana. They're all coming here because they want to
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see the USA men's team play competitively in Charleston. And when those people come,
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as we always talk about tim they're not just going to come in and
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watch the volleyball match and leave. They're gonna eat. They're going to stay
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tails. That's right. They don't park at the coliseum, go watch a
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volleyball match, the drive and drive back to Grand Rapids. Right. No,
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they're they're going to stay in the hotels. They're gonna go down to
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Capitol Street in Summer Street and and on Courier and Virginia and shop and eat
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and walk around. And you know, we've got a We've got an event
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scheduled for the sixth on Wednesday or is that Wednesday the sixth in City Center
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Slock Plaza. We've got a Latin music band and food trucks and Brian Cooper
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from Art's Amplified as helping us create this event for the players but also for
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the community. So if you're you know, if you're a fan of volleyball,
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or you just like music and food and a good time, come out
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to Slock Plaza on the sixth from six to nine because the teams will be
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down there. It'll it'll be a fun atmosphere in a great time. And
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I know, as we talked about with Regtt, I had you on a
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chill last week talking about the economic impact of Regatta. You try to forecast
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some of these things, but it's kind of difficult to do. But is
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there a place? Is there? I mean, what are you looking at
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right now? As far as economic impact? I don't necessarily mean a number,
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but this is going to be a big shot in the arm toward the
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end of summer, toward the entire Canal Valley because all these people are not
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going to stay in downtown Charleston, that's right. They're going to be spread
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out everywhere, that's right. And we always say internally, you know,
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tourists don't care about municipal boundaries. What's good for Charleston is good for South
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Charleston, is good for Putnam County, is good for Barber's Ville, is
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good for it. Like it's there's a there's a halo effect, right you
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throw the pebble and the pond and the concentric circles just sort of spread and
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it's good for everyone. Here's what I do know. I do know that
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the Charleston Marriott Town Centers their host hotel and it's going to be booked out.
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So the first thing that's going to happen is anybody that's coming to town
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that would ordinarily want to stay there is going to stay somewhere else. So
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it's compression. It's pushing that hotel business out into the other property. So
24:30
even though maybe the volleyball teams aren't staying at Hotel B, people will stay
24:34
there. So we're filling hotel rooms and that's a good thing. We're also
24:38
sending people out to eat and shop and and have some entertainment while they're in
24:44
town, and the money that they spend has a multiplying effect throughout the community.
24:48
As well as someone who doesn't know to him a lot about volleyball.
24:52
I mean, is this like a tournament type thing? Do they play more
24:55
than one game. How does it work out? What's format? So it's
24:56
pool play. There actually be over the course of the five days, fifteen
25:00
games. There's three matches a day, so it's pool play for the first
25:03
few days and then you get into elimination rounds. But every team will play
25:07
every other team at some point. And I will tell you that the match
25:11
that everyone points to that you have to see is the USA versus Cuba.
25:18
Apparently they are the two best teams in this tournament, both certainly contenders for
25:25
medals at the Paris Olympics. So you want an opportunity, If you want
25:27
an opportunity to watch good volleyball, you're gonna want to see the USA in
25:32
Cuba. And I can tell you, Dave, that that match will take
25:34
place at seven thirty on September seventh. Okay, so at seven thirty on
25:38
the seventh, USA versus Cuba. But the matches actually start on the fifth,
25:41
and three matches a day, three five and seven thirty every day Saturday
25:48
through the tenth, or the fifth through the tenth. Rather and Tim,
25:52
I would think that for because volleyball is a huge sport in the public schools
25:56
here, well, I guess private schools too, I would imagine, and
26:00
that you're going to see a lot of those students student athletes come in and
26:03
want to watch, the teams from the various high schools to come in because
26:06
it's not every day that they're going to get to see something like this.
26:07
Yeah, we've actually and we actually set up some discount discounted tickets for teams
26:11
and clubs in the area. We want the middle school and high school kids
26:15
and the and the club volleyball players from around the Canal Valley and beyond to
26:19
come in, and we've actually offered it up to programs throughout the state.
26:22
There's a team discount to come in and watch as a team and participate.
26:30
We've also got a pretty robust group of volunteers from the local volleyball programs to
26:36
help us with some of the things during the tournament. So we've tried as
26:38
hard as we could to engage the middle and high school volleyball players in the
26:44
state of West Virginia, specifically in the Metro Valley to come out and be
26:48
a part of this and see it firsthand. And I know this is first
26:52
and foremost right now, this is on the front, front, front burner,
26:55
but any big, other big events coming up in the area that you
26:57
want to mention just briefly. Yeah, you know the other one that I
27:00
that I'll mention right now and hopefully you'll you'll be gracious enough to let me
27:04
come back and talk about this at a later date. But the first weekend
27:08
in December, we're hosting an international strongman competition. And anybody that lived in
27:12
Charleston back in the day when we hosted World Strongest Man and there was the
27:17
great photos of guys pulling fire trucks in front of the Capitol. This is
27:22
an offshoot of that, but it's actually a strong man and strong woman competition
27:27
that's broken down by weight class, so you have seven different weight classes of
27:32
men and seven different weight classes of women competing to be the strongest man or
27:36
woman in the world in their particular weight class. That's going to be inside
27:40
the coliseum as well. It's going to be a ton of fun. And
27:42
that is the first weekend in December, so we're looking forward to that when
27:45
we get through volleyball. Volleyball thing is a major deal, huge, huge
27:49
deal. And again I can't stress enough. Last time to see the USA
27:52
men's team play before the Olympics. Yeah, and sometimes I know that that
27:59
you read things line, you see these things that sometimes there's always negativity out
28:03
there where people say, well, how's this going to help Charleston. Somebody
28:06
referred to the table ten as things ping pong and so on and so forth
28:08
and kind of downplaying the whole thing. This is major bucks and it's the
28:12
true capitalist that I am. That's what I look at. I look at
28:15
the money, and I look at the cash that's gonna be coming. And
28:18
I would be interested to have you on after this volleyball thing, much like
28:22
we did with Regatta so and it made not to that extent, but you
28:26
should be able to have some sort of ball. But this is how much
28:27
money that this brought in, and you know, not only for the hotels,
28:32
but for the restaurants and the other businesses in the area. Absolutely love
28:33
to come back and talk about that because that's why we do what we do.
28:37
You know, we're trying to raise the image of Charleston. We're also
28:38
trying to bring in economic impact, economic growth. And before you cut me
28:45
loose, Dave, I do want to say I will offer to your listeners
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today a special discount code if you go to the Charleston Coliseum website to purchase
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tickets and use the code Spike twenty three. Spike twenty three, Ryan,
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to the Governor, now candidate for State Treasurer, Larry Pack is with us
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this morning. Good morning, Sarah, how are you wonderful? Thanks so
33:21
much for bringing me on. Thank you for being a big announcement from you
33:23
a couple of days ago. We'll get to that in a couple of moments.
33:25
But you wanted to say something about about to the people that were impacted
33:30
by this flooding a couple of days ago. Yeah, my heart's really heavy
33:36
today, my family's heart. We grew up in the eastern Inclandar Valley.
33:38
We got really devastated by the floods a couple of days ago. We still
33:42
have a lot of family, particularly in the Winterford area. That's where my
33:45
wife grew up. So please keep folks in your prayers and also reach out
33:50
to organizations like a Union Mission who are really doing good work to help those
33:54
folks. So many people have lost their homes, lost their vehicles, lost
34:00
really everything, and even the ones in Himouth they've lost, you know,
34:04
their basements and so forth. So it's just a lot of devastation up there,
34:07
and those folks should really use your help. I mean, it's just
34:09
incredible. If you go to our website wv metronews dot com, Kerry who
34:13
to Sex spent the day there yesterday. Jeff posted some videos from up there
34:15
on Monday, just talking to those people and Larry, I mean, these
34:20
people and you're from that area, you know, and your wife is from
34:22
that area, they just haven't seen anything like that, And it's just one
34:25
of those weird phenomenons that no weather. Folks people a lot smarter when it
34:30
comes to you the stuff than what you and I are said. Just one
34:34
of those say, it's just basically parked over the area and you put that
34:37
much rain there was such a such a small area. The water just really
34:40
has nowhere to go. And one of the things happened here and we've seen
34:43
it before, is the water is not only coming down the creek it was
34:45
coming off the mountains. Yeah, and so there was just nowhere to hide
34:49
if you happen to be in that in that area. But it's something that
34:52
you know, the folks in the East Bank area, in the coal fields
34:53
in Klong County, we've lived with all our lives. We've seen it in
34:55
different areas. It just really hasn't happened in this area before. But mostly
35:00
the folks that really got hurt, of the folks can can at least afford
35:02
it. So let's let's all please join together and try to help them.
35:06
Absolutely. Uh, Larry, you made the announcement official a couple of days
35:09
ago. You're gonna be a candidate for treasure the great state of West Virginia.
35:13
Why the run for treasure? But my wife and up we've been thinking
35:15
about it, praying about it really for some time well over the year,
35:19
as to where and how I could continue to serve West Virginians and treasure just
35:23
is really is a really nice fit for us. I practice a CPA for
35:29
over twenty years after graduating from Westernia Attack and again growing up in eastern end
35:32
of the Valley, so I've I've represented hundreds, if not thousands of Westernia
35:37
small businesses, then went into business myself and grew to a very large business
35:42
through the blessings of the Lord. We sold a couple of years ago,
35:45
and definitely have the time to do it. But finance is something that I've
35:49
always been drawn to. I grew up with it. My family was all
35:52
in small businesses and so which is something that really interests me. And I
35:55
think being able to protect and safeguard the taxpayers money is something that it really
36:00
gets me excited. What are some of the things that you want to implement
36:02
or continue or whatever if you are elected treasure leader. I would say I
36:07
would I would lead off with saying that that I think Treasure Rilly Moore has
36:08
done a phenomenal job bringing his conservative principles and his goals to that office,
36:16
and I would want to continue to absolutely continue those. I think his work
36:20
on on ESD, on things based, and which is very very simple,
36:23
was basically saying that that we're going to invest our money and we're gonna invest
36:28
We're gonna use our investments in ways that are consistent with our values. That
36:32
we're not going to let people in multinational corporations implement their own agenda that goes
36:39
against our values or against our economy. So we're going to make sure that
36:42
our investments are consistent with our values. I think that's I think that's number
36:45
one. I think the other thing is is the taxpayers deserve a treasurer who
36:50
will will safeguard their assets, a treasurer who understands how hard that our citizens
36:54
work to raise their families and to pay their taxes. And so just making
36:58
sure that we don't waste the money that government doesn't grow, our tax vers
37:02
can affordymore government. You know, Bionomics is absolutely crust the pocketbooks of the
37:07
state taxpayer, and so the state itself needs to needs to tighten its belt
37:12
because again, our citizens cannot they just can't take anymore burden. I'm very
37:16
blissed to be been a part of the team that worked on a Governor Justice
37:20
tax plan last year, and through his leadership, we passed the greatest tax
37:23
cut in history, and I'll use my evils to advocate for more tax cuts
37:27
for West Virginians. I think finally, the third third key area is that
37:31
I'm a strong believer in school choice, and I believe we need to continue
37:36
to give parents the opportunity to pick the best learning learning situation for their for
37:39
their children. So we'll work to continue to expand school choice and also get
37:45
ready for the for the huge increase of Hope Scholarship that we will see in
37:49
twenty twenty six. What are some of the other dude, I think this
37:52
may sound like an obvious question, but you know, you don't know what
37:54
you don't know what are some of the other duties that are assigned to understate
38:00
code, to the straight treasures. It's our government is so big. It's
38:04
because it's not just you know, you're managing the check book. There's a
38:06
whole lot more to it. There's a lot more to it. So so
38:08
we oversee the h the short term investments. So so, but for every
38:13
dollar that the Treasure's Office can earn and investment income is one less dollar in
38:16
tax still dollars that we have. Again, we implement the Hope Scholarship.
38:21
That's a that's a really big program and it's going without a doubt. So
38:24
we've got a lot of the colleague savings plans. We we execute and implement
38:30
those. So it's a lot of stuff. We keep track of the state's
38:32
debt, so there's some mundane things, and there's some really really interesting things,
38:37
but it's really what people would think our Treasures Office will be is our
38:40
job is a safe safeguard the assets of the of the state, to make
38:45
sure that everything's been done with the utmost integrity. And now that the announcement
38:49
has been made, the campaign gets underway, and it's something you have some
38:52
familiarity with. As you said, you know, you're former member of the
38:55
of the House of Delegates, but this is not just in a specific district.
38:59
You will be running statewide, So you're gonna be here in Charleston,
39:01
but you're also going to be in Wheelan and Martinsburg and mcgow County and all
39:06
these other places. West Virginia is somewhat of a diverse state, and you'll
39:09
be out there. But in your business life, you said, I heard
39:13
you with Dave Wilson other day. You said, you're used to travel in
39:15
West Virginia because you did it when you were in business, done it for
39:17
twenty years. And one of the one of the there's a lot of exciting
39:21
parts or fund parts about my job, but one of them was to being
39:23
able to to Chris Cross, West Virginia to see all parts of West Virginia
39:27
to understand how economies are different, Reallyvan cultures are different. So I'll be
39:30
saying hello to a lot of old friends and meeting a lot of new friends.
39:32
So we're very excited about that. Travel a little bit anyway with my
39:37
job with the governor, and also has been a national committeeman for the Westerner
39:40
State Party. So we're again I'm looking forward to that and we want to
39:45
make sure that we get out there and meet as many people as we can.
39:47
We will run a very very vigorous campaign. And would you be taking
39:52
part and if they happen, we'd be taking part in debates certain things,
39:54
because I know there is at least I saw at least one other Canada.
39:59
I think that it's running for state treasure What makes you more qualified than other
40:02
folks? Anybody? I think? I think it's my background again, former
40:07
CPA for twenty plus years, businessman who concentrated on the financial area. I've
40:14
been I've been in state government, through the through the House of Delegates.
40:16
I've worked for the governor for almost almost two years now. When I was
40:21
a kid, I was a treasury quarter City of morow Matt So I understand
40:23
what it looks like from the from the municipals part, but governments something I've
40:27
always followed, and I think my experience experience with a matchup with anybody in
40:30
the race, I expect to be a number of candidates. We are the
40:35
majority party in this state of West Virginia. There are a lot of people
40:37
that want to serve and want to want to make West Virginia a better state.
40:40
So we expect to have a competitive race and we'll work really hard as
40:44
somebody this is kind off topic of a bit later before we let it go,
40:46
but it's somebody that's been around a while. I mean, would you
40:50
have dreamed it, maybe twenty years ago, that you'd have had this much
40:52
interest in people running for governor on the Republican ticket, or running for secretary
40:59
of state or atorney general. I mean that you have this many people on
41:00
the Republican I mean, I'm from southern West Virginia. It was always that
41:04
way with the Democrats in southern West Virginia. Now we're seeing that shift.
41:07
Is does that surprise even you? Oh, it's it's really it's really stunning.
41:13
I've been involved in politics most of my Republican politics, most of my
41:16
adult life, but I remember in the nineties when we put forth with Chairman
41:20
Chairman Warner, Chris Warner, at that time, we're going to feel the
41:22
ballot, and I kidd him all the time. We had two criteria to
41:27
feel the Republican vallot. You had to be Republican. You had to be
41:29
breathing, yes, yea, a pulse, Yeah, you had to have
41:31
fault. But yeah, it's just it's just phenomenal. But we have become
41:36
the Republican Party, has become the working person's party, and it really fits
41:40
well with West Virginia, and we're Washington. DC is just so out of
41:45
control law of their policies and the things there. Their values we don't understand
41:50
those in Westernia. We don't recognize as in West Virginia. So it makes
41:52
sense that we're going to revail against that. We're going to do everything we
41:54
can to fight for West Virginia values. Leave us with your mission statement,
41:59
washing people, vote for the Pack, vote for Larry Pack, to protect
42:01
your dollars. To make sure that someone, someone in the state House is
42:05
looking and is looking at every dollar spent and understands again how hard you work
42:09
for your dollars, how hard it is for you, raise your family and
42:12
to make sure that we don't put an additional burden on you. Do you
42:15
have a website or any of that stuff up and running now, Larry Pack
42:17
for West Virginia dot com. Okay, there you go, and I think
42:21
got some social media stuff out there. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
42:22
Larry, Best of luck with the campaign, best luck with all the travel,
42:25
run instead of West Virginia and we'll have you on in the future again.
42:29
Thanks a lot, Thank you day, appreciate you. Larry Pack again.
42:31
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Texas says, if packets elected, what office will he leave for next?
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Seems as a pattern for Republicans to get elected then leave for another position Texas
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Larry Packet. Republicans complained about ESG, but are more than willing to let
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out of sight oil and coal investors to take all the wealth generated from mineral
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extraction out of the state that is rather part of their West Virginia values.
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Texas Day to the texture denying our creator, congratulations, you make your father
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proud. Who needed to get a couple of greyhounds routed up and give a
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couple of indoctrinated god denying liberals left in our state a one way ticket to
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Portland, Oregon, says a texture Texas. We cannot invest taxpayers money based
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on beliefs, religion and feelings able to have retirements. It's being invested,
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according to texture. Lots of business folks as I mentioned earlier in the interview
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with mac Warner are at the Greenbrier for the business summit starts today. Over
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twelve hundred people are expected there. It's the eighty seventh year for this business
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summit. Jeff Jenkins story posted about a WV metro news dot com, including
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comments from the Chamber of Commerce President Steve Roberts. The Governor is expected,
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I understand to have another economic announcement at some point during the business summit.
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Add the Red Carpet Lounge. D cared that one text says rule of law.
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Question mark stopped the Steel. Warner blame the US Supreme Court for January
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six violence because the court didn't give him the result he wanted. He refused
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to accept the ruling of sixty three courts of the election. This is Trump
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they're talking about. He wanted to disenfranchise lawful voters in other states. He
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wants state courts to have no authority to review election laws. Tex says Larry
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Pack does math, Huh? The Republicans are at the majority party. Thirty
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nine percent of registered voters in West Virginia or Republican. How is less than
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fifty percent a majority. I think what he was referring to is those that
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are in office. I think that's what he means, and absolutely no sign
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that that's going to change in West Virginia. And I get a text and
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I got it the other day and I apologized for not reading it. I
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get a text from time to time from someone, and I appreciate all the
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textures, whether I agree with him or not. But I got a text
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her who texts frequently, and said that they think and I can't pull it
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up right now, apologize I didn't read it the other day. But they
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basically say, if they think that West Virginia women are are really going to
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turn out in the selection, it, maybe folks are a little bit more
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progressive because they are upset at some of the things that happen. You know,
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it's not gonna matter. I mean, God bless him. I believe
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everybody should vote only once though. I think everybody should vote, and I
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want all voices to be heard. But there's absolutely zero signs, zero that
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this Republican surge that started around ten years ago is going away. A matter
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of fact, it's going to get even greater. And again, with all
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due respect to my good friend Mike Pushkin and who's state Democratic Party chair,
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he's got his work cut out for him because I don't know, and I
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know it's early, and back in the old days, you didn't even have
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people announcing they were running for offices until at least Labor Day, which is
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coming up. But I don't know how they're going to fill the ballot.
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I really really don't. I mean, I want them to because I think
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that the more people that we have out there the better because it gives people
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choices. But I don't even know how they're gonna fill the ballot. I
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really don't. That's how far it's coming. West Virginia for the Republicans five
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continues. Will close with this from the flood in eastern Kanah County. Cary
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we talked about earlier, just total devastation in those areas are continued. Thoughts
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and prayers to those folks. Now. A lot of people are involved trying
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to help out. There's various I don't have an entire list in front of
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me, but there are various groups. Donations of cleaning supplies whatnot are being
51:45
taken in at several places, including the town Hall in bell And Chesapeake and
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a Green's Feeding Seed and those folks I think are distributing them to other folks
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we close, texts, as long as Larry Pack supports Trump, my vote
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will go elsewhere. According to a texture, all right, Uh did not
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get to all the texts. I'll try to do better on the show tomorrow.
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And as I said, tomorrow's show is absolutely loaded up, folks.
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Dave Wilson is in for Hoppy Kirchiville on talk Line as Hoppy continues. His
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time of Hoppy will return next week, but Dave Wilson is in the host
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