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02-27-2024 Wheeler on County Growth, Tunnel to Towers Heroes, Gaaserud's Campaign · The Dave Allen Show

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lot to get to coming up a little bit later on the show. We're
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going to talk to the folks for the Tunnels to Towers program. It's a
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great program at a great event that they have going on. Alexander Gasserud,
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who is a candidate for Congress, is going to be stopping by the show.
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Plus the whole town is talking about this episode of the ABC television show
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What Would You Do? One episode aired Sunday night, filmed at Black Sheet
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Burrito in Charleston, And when I was doing the show yesterday, I had
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not seen the segment, because to be honest with you, I really don't
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watch a whole lot of television shows, particularly reality based shows. Pretty much.
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If it's not sports or some kind of documentary, I don't see it.
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But I had never even watched the show. But I did go and
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watch the clip yesterday, and if I have time a little bit later on
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the show, I'm going to talk about that as well. Pleasure calls and
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text are welcome. Big Ley, Pigley Wiggily Hotline three zero four three four
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zero zero. Let's welcome to the show. Canna County Commissioner Lance Wheeler.
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Good morning, sir, Good morning Dave. How are you doing. I'm
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doing fin Did you happen to see the TV show the other night? I'm
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just like you. I don't watch TV. You got a don't You have
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a young and very a young kid. Now, I've seen a lot of
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Frozen, I've seen a lot of Cocoa Ellen. Those are my hits currently.
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Well, thank goodness you have a kid, so you have an excuse
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to h I mean, because if you didn't, that'd be really weird to
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tell me that you were watching those shows. Well, maybe I kind of
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enjoy him. Now, Oh, you are a little bit younger than I.
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We were talking about that a little bit earlier in the show. You're
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a relatively young guy, youngest Knawan County Commissioner ever. Is that right?
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Yeah, That's what I've been told. I mean, you got to be
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one of the youngest ones I would think in the history of the state.
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I mean, I would think there's a couple out there, good friends of
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mine, his estate who's recently been elected. I've one down in uh,
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you probably know this gum down to Nicholas County. Garrett Coles, a really
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good fred Line. He's a young guy, good friend of mine as well.
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He's a great guy, great commissioner. He probably beats me on that
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reck, but I'll take it here in Karnall County. Right, all right,
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So we got a lot to talk about. I guess one of the
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big stories is, and I mentioned it on the show yesterday, a commissioner,
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the Public Service District or Commission, i should say, has now granted
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West Virginia American Water's request for an increase to water and sewer bills. Now,
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the company had asked for a much bigger rate hike than it received.
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You issued you, you're the County commission issued a statement yesterday. Obviously you're
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not very happy with the rate increase, but it could have been a lot
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worse. It can always be worse. But you know, let's back up
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a little bit. Because when we first got alerted that there was going to
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be an increase submitted to the PSC from the Western your America Water, the
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first thing that I said to my staff was there they go again. It
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seems like every month there's a utility company in the recent past couple of years
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who have always came out and you're asking for more money, asking for more
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money. So historically, the Kanaw County Commission, with the Commissioner, Slango
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Karper and myself, we've always fouled in opposition to these rate heights, and
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we did so on this one. You know, the big problem with this
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is that it's getting to the point to where where is this end? You
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know, that was a question I brought up, When does this end?
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Because it seems like every six months one of these utility companies will get approval
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for an increase. They'll come back to the PSA saying we need more,
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we need more. There needs to be a plan for this because we have
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to budget as individuals, we have to budget what we're going to be spending
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for whether it's buying a new car, buying a new house. And you
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know, five dollars a month doesn't seem like a lot, but when you
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start adding in the Mountaineer gas, you start adding in the electric company,
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the water company, I mean, this is really starting to add up,
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so we opposed it. And unfortunately, I don't know why the Cannau County
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Commission was the only political entity to oppose this hike. We're proud of the
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especially that was in your press release. So but you said you don't know
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why. But I'm gonna ask you why. That's a great question, and
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I think that maybe it's because, you know, the Canall County Commission.
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We're elected officials the Public Service Commission. And let's make sure that we're clear.
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The Public Service Commission and the Cannaal County Commission are two separate entities.
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We have no power under state code regarding utility increases. So this is the
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PSC, which is appointed positions. You know, we are elected officials,
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so we have the duty to represent the citizens of Kennall County. You have
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somebody to answer to, absolutely, and that's when one of the knocks on
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entities like the Public Service Commission is that they really don't answer to anything,
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you know, And that's been a question if there needs to be the legilator
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needs to act onness and look at see if PSCs need to be elected.
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Obviously that's going to become an entire issue of itself. So you know,
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maybe it's good, maybe it's not. But you know, the bural concern
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here is that the Cannaal County Commission, with Commissioner of car purs Lango myself,
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we have always opposed every hike. Now we understand that with inflation in
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the last three years, prices are going up, the cost of business is
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going up, and there needs to be some type of increase for these utility
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companies so they can continue to upgrade because we are currently in a situation of
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the past twenty years that the infrastructure is falling apart, so they need this
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money now to catch up. I understand that, but what we need to
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also make sure that we're doing is we have a plan in place. What
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money does it take to get to that point. When they submitted this a
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proposal, they wanted to increase it twenty two point five percent, and as
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you mentioned earlier, they only got eight percent in this proposal. But that's
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a good thing. You know. We fought and we're going to continue to
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fight every single time. But until we actually get an answer as to where
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this money is going and why it's needed and when this increases will stop,
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we're going to continue to oppose it. Every time, because it's just not
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right for the people of Kennall County, the people of the state of West
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Virginia to be told it's going to be five dollars this time, but maybe
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six months from now we might come back and we might actually be increasing your
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bills even more. We need to have a plan before we can move forward.
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It ends up being a little over I think five dollars in something for
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the average customer a water and sewer, so that would be that's the average.
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And I will say that one of the good things of this is that
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they did look at the low income bracket for assistance and they've increased that based
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off of the new inflation numbers that we currently see with poverty lines, So
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that was increased. So somebody who you know, your little old grandma who
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is going to fixed income with Social Security and she's falls between that parameters,
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she's going to be able to get a little discount. But you know,
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I think it just comes back to we're very supportive West from America Water.
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They put a lot of investments and they're trying to catch up with their infrastructure,
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and we support that. We have six water projects in the last three
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years. The Knall County commission have moved forward to get people potent public water,
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and we're appreciative of westban America Water coming to us and working with us
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and getting these projects ahead. I think we looked at it. They've already
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put three million dollars in these water projects. But at the end of the
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day, we need to make sure that we're not passing this buck on to
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the customers and that they have the answers as to why their rates are going
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up and seeing the infrastructure actually being built. I think that's really what we
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need to get to. Talking to Gannagh County Commissioner Lance, they didn't waste
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a whole lot of time kicking it in, because it kicked in. I
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think like over the weekend, right, is that what they say it was
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immediate. It's like now you're gonna start paying five to six dollars more a
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right, so you and I were talking just before the show. Some more
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dollars are going to be coming in to get rid of some junkie buildings in
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the area. And let's talk about some good news for once. Okay,
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go ahead. You always have to come on here to talk about the bad
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things. Rate increases, things like that. Let's talk about some good Let's
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talk about some good news. Yeah, we're very excited. As you know,
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our Knall County demolition program really ramped up when I got elected. It
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was something I focused a lot of attention to. This was a project that
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was started by Commissioner Karper years ago. When I got elected. It was
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during covid era and they had stopped the demolitions. Well, we had had
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the shots at the vaccines at that point, and I said, listen,
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there's no reason we can't get this started back. And so I took an
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effort into it because I was tired of seeing dilapidated structures in communities. And
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I know my constituents agreed with that. Well, we're excited because the Western
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Legislator when it comes to Governor Jim Justice, Speaker Hanshaw, and Senate President
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Blair, they also agree, and they have allocated money state money to go
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to the counties and cities to help them with these programs. We applied it
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for a program with the Department Environmental Protection and we were granted one point five
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million dollars for this year to go to the demolition of diapotated structures. This
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is an incredible amount of money, and you know, we're just proud to
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have this money and be able to help clean up our community. I think
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we're all tired of seeing nice neighborhoods and then you see that one or two
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homes that they've been abandoned. You know a lot of times we see,
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you know, grandma and grandparents passing away, and then the family is living
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in California or New York and they're inherited this property. Sometimes I don't even
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know that they have it. They don't even know that they have it,
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and it just dilapidates and it becomes a fire issue, it becomes a blight
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issue, and you know, I think it's our job as the County Commission
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to help clean up these communities. And that's what we're going to do with
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this money. I think it's going to go a long way. I hope
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to have two hundred and fifty structures demolished just with this one point five million
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dollars. What kind of timetable are we looking at. Well, the grant
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is for one year. But when we actually got notified a little earlier that
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this money was going to come our way, we couldn't announce it yet,
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and so we immediately got to action. We've started already having our enforcement code
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officers go out into the fields of getting these referrals. And I'll tell you,
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Kennell County is a big county, and we only have so many employees
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that we can afford to pay with taxpayer money to go around looking for these
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homes. I encourage all the viewers and the listeners here that if you know
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of any structures that you believe that need to be demolished because they're uninhabitable.
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Nobody lives there. And let's be clear, we're not kicking little old grandmall
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out of her home because we're just the way she lives. Nobody lives there,
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The water, the sewer, everything's shut off. But if you have
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any of these, give our Planning and Development Office a call. Refer these
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over go on our website find my email address, Lance Wheeler at Canall dot
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us send me an email in for these That's really the best way that we
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can help clean up these communities is about the you know, the community members
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coming together and letting us know where these structures are and we get to them
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right away. What else is on the horizon for you, sir, and
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for the County Commission, Well, I'll tell you. I came on here
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and I announced that we were going to have the Hatfield McCoy dirt bike trails
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out in Tornado right across from Metalwood to our County park. I've been in
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talks with Jeff lust the director of the Hatfield McCoy, and they tell me
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that the project's on its way and we're hoping to open here in the spring.
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It's actually interesting because just yesterday I got a call from a constituent,
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well not a constituent, it was a resident out of Putnam County called my
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office to say, I'm very excited about this. Come into Connall County.
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I don't have to drive all the way to Boone County now, just so
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I can ride my dirt bike. I gave him a call back yesterday and
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I was able to talk to him for a while, and you know,
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we talked about how this is great for kids. You know a lot of
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young people who want to ride dirt bikes get out there and you know what
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they say, the idle hands or the Devil's workshop, and I think that's
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true. And I think having this available through young kids to be able to
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have recreational activities here in Kennall County, it's good for them, it's good
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for the community, and we're just excited to have this open. We can't
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wait for the ribbon cutting, and we invite everyone to come out who wants
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to ride a dirt bike, whether you've rode one for your entire life or
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you just want to learn. Dave, I'd love to have you out there
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if you want to try, I know, I'll tell you. You know,
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in the part of the world that I am originally from, I was
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there from the very beginning with the Hatfeld McCoy Trail development. I sat in
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on some of the first meetings of the nineteen nineties when they were talking about
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this thing, and I was like a lot of people thinking, Yeah,
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I don't know if people are going to come to ride these trails. They
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did forty five fifty countries. I mean, I mean literally that's and as
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you said, it's great for younger people. And now they've developed the trails
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to not only I know we're talking about dirt bikes here, but they've they've
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developed them for jeeps and for other things, and it has been it has
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meant the world to places like Mingo County Gilbert in places like that, where
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like everybody that's got an extra room is now suddenly a bed and breakfast and
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that's not necessarily a bad thing. So do we have a timetable on that.
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We're looking at the spring they're currently right now on the property trail.
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Yeah, this spring, Oh, this spring coming up? Yeah, yeah,
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I still consider this winter. Well technically, yeah, we're still in
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winter. I've got an engineer, don't even but I think the seventy degree
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temperature just to make us think it's spring. But we're talking here like in
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the next couple of weeks months or so. Yeah, probably the next couple
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of months, just to be a conservative estimate on that, but you know,
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we're excited. Actually, I went on vacation with my wife to Virginia
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and we met a young lady who told me that she likes to ride dirt
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bikes, and I got very excited to tell her about our project. I
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showed all the plans and she said, Wow, that's amazing. I'm going
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to come and ride that trail that I'd love to do that. This is
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somebody who's living in Virginia, western part of Virginia, but Virginia who's telling
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me that they're going to come to Charleston, West Virginia, to Canall County
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to ride our dart Pike trails. This is going to be great for tourism,
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it's going to be great for small businesses, it's going to be great
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for the community. Those are the three check boxes I always look for when
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a project comes together. Kadan County Commission President Lance Wheeler, I forgot to
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put the president. That's all right, you can call me Lance. It's
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very close enough. Canagh County Commission President Lance Wheeler of the show. Thanks
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Transportation Secretary jimmy Ristam. Tex says Dave, why are the other county commissioners
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not holding Kent Carper accountable for his actions? Well, because, I would
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Canada in District too, Alexander Gasserud is going to join us. I want
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to talk a little bit about the Tunnel to Towers program. And I have
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with me right now, Sophia Weigel, who's kind of a veteran to the
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show. Sophia has been on the show many many times in the past.
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How are you. I'm doing pretty good. How are you? I am
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I'm doing great. And you have Mom over in the corner there. Oh
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yeah, yep, you know what Mom told me. I'm gonna go ahead
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and reveal it. Mom said that she appeared on Ropper Room. When Ropper
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Room coop was I guess filmed here? She actually appeared on ropper Room.
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Yeah, well it was just like what last year, right like that,
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We're going to give a little copple bit here. We also have with us
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again, and give us your name again, sir in Tiree Ken Tyree,
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and give us your title. I know you've been on the show before.
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But West Virginia State Fire marts West Virginia State Fire Marshal Ken Tyree. So
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now, Sophiel, let's talk about this program, and let's talk about your
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involvement and what's mister Tyree's involvement, and tell us what the program is.
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All right, So I am the volunteer race structure for The Tunnel to Towers
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run in Ripley, West Virginia. So basically, Tunnel to Towers is to
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remember nine to eleven and honor first responders and military members. So basically,
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on nine to eleven, a firefighter named Stephen Siller, he was just getting
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off of his shift when he heard what was happening, and he strapped sixty
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pounds of gear on his back and he ran through the Brooklyn Battery tunnel and
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ultimately died at the Towers. And he actually left behind multiple children with his
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wife, and so his family started this to help first responders and military members
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in their spouses. So if they pass away and leave behind a spouse and
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young children, they will pay off their mortgage and the same of if they
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are catastrophically injured, they will build them a smart home adjusted to their needs.
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And they actually just started a new program to help their trying to eradicate
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veteran homelessness. So right now what they're doing is they're going in and revamping
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old hotels and they are putting in there to help with PTSD. They're having
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just multiple people around, just a little community to people together and helping support
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them. But they're also giving them trade skills to be able to not only
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just have this as permanent housing, but to also go out into the society
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and really make a living for themselves and not be dependent on the Foundation for
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the rest of their life. And obviously if they would need to, they're
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there for that. But and basically what they're also doing, they're also coming
21:45
in and helping in our communities. So if we know of a veteran that
21:49
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21:52
everything in their power to help find them housing in this state as well.
21:56
So I just think that's amazing that they're just now starting this program. But
22:00
mister Tyree is here. He has been very instrumental in helping us just get
22:04
the information out to the state. We're very thankful for all of the help
22:08
he's given us. So you're on the spot now, Miche to talk.
22:14
Yes, sir, this is a great program. And not realizing it's only
22:18
been three years, this young lady is a wonderful advocate for Tunnel Tunnels to
22:26
Tower as a race director and she should be commended. But West Virginia's always
22:33
come to the table to help and support and they've done that in the last
22:38
few years, the last three years, and we're looking to help protect those
22:45
that protect us and our first responders. And that's something I enjoyed talking to
22:48
you about last year, Ken, And that's the fact that obviously you've been
22:52
you've been a first responder for how many years? Now, well, let's
22:56
see you a few years, yes, sir, it's a few years.
22:59
Yeah. So this is it's got to hold a special place in your heart
23:02
to get involved in this because you and I are old enough. Sophia may
23:06
not be, but you and I are old enough to remember watching the horrors
23:10
of nine to eleven and seeing what happened on that September day. And I
23:14
mean as me as a civilian, it impacted me greatly. I can't imagine
23:19
how it impacted people like you that are first responders that have been not in
23:25
that kind of a situation. But you've been in those situations. Now,
23:26
was your brothers and sisters out there? Man? Yes, So, having
23:30
served in the military for nine years and then now thirty years in the fire
23:36
service, it does hold a special place for me recognizing that those that have
23:42
sacrificed their life for us, not just civilians, but all of us have
23:48
protected us throughout this nation and internationally, and those that are here local volunteering
23:55
as firefighters, the MS workers, and law enforcement person all throughout the state.
24:00
This is a great program to be involved in. I hope people will
24:04
participate, whether it's through participating in the run, or getting sponsorship for those
24:11
that are running, or coming out and supporting it through physically being there,
24:18
or providing donations to all these great programs that are helping those that in some
24:23
ways are not able to help themselves anymore. That made the sacrifice and did
24:29
what they could for us, and now it's time for us to be there
24:33
for them. You know, we're talking with Ken Tyree who stay fire Marshall
24:36
and also Sofia. Why go about the Tunnels Towers program? Big event coming
24:40
met up in Ripley and Sophia. You're relatively young, okay, So I'm
24:42
just gonna say you're very young. You're still a high school student, is
24:45
that right? So the high school stud Ripley High School. I am actually
24:48
homeschool home school, that's right. I remember that. That's I remember that
24:51
from last year. So, but your native of Ripley, Okay, So
24:53
why why do you and your friends and I say this because I learned this
24:56
and talking to you the last couple of years, the one on the radio,
25:00
and you're the one that we see on television talking about this. But
25:02
you've got a lot of your friends that get involved. Why is this so
25:04
important for people of your age to do this? Well, I think what's
25:07
important is, like you said, we weren't around for nine to eleven,
25:11
and you know, I think with history, it's important that we never forget
25:14
what happened. And so for us, this is an event and a foundation
25:18
that they really have a youth initiative to make sure that the generations that are
25:22
coming up. You know, more and more people are you know, they
25:26
don't really remember what happened on a nine to eleven And even people who are
25:29
older. I know my sister, she was maybe two or three when it
25:33
happened, so obviously they aren't able to comprehend what's going on. But I
25:37
will say what's important is that we teach our children in the upcoming generations about
25:41
what happened at nine to eleven. And this is what this event does.
25:44
When you bring your children to our event, because this is a family friendly
25:47
event, you can bring your dogs, you can just bring your strollers and
25:51
walk through it. But really what it does is it teaches them about nine
25:53
to eleven and the sacrifice that so many people made. But on top of
25:56
that, it teaches them to appreciate and honor our first responders and military members
26:00
because as he said, they do so much for us, and they make
26:03
so many sacrifices that we should be able to help take care of them as
26:07
well when they need the help. But I just think it's great for really
26:11
everybody in the school is to be involved, because, as I said,
26:15
it's something that you know, we need to be sure we never forget and
26:18
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let's talk about the actual event. It's going to be in Ripley.
26:45
Yes, give us the date, give us the time, give us all
26:48
the info. So it is going to be like you said in Ripley,
26:52
it's going to be on April twentieth at ten o'clock. We tried to move
26:55
it up a little bit so we could all get a little bit of extra
26:56
sleep in the morning. But basically, as I said, this is a
27:00
family friendly event. If you're a competitive runner and you want to come out
27:04
here and run your best time that you've ever done, we encourage that.
27:07
But we also encourage people who are not runners. You know, you don't
27:11
have to be a fast runner or even a walker. You know, I
27:12
can't run to save my life, so I would be walking that course and
27:15
I'd probably be the last one to finish. But you know, it's not
27:18
about competition. It's about raising money for this great event, which is something
27:22
that we're trying to really push. If you, once you actually sign up
27:26
for the run, it will ask you it will actually do a fundraiser page
27:30
automatically for you and what we ask for you to do. You know,
27:33
you don't have to be giving maybe fifty dollars, but if you go ask
27:37
people around you, maybe your family, Hey, would you donate a dollar
27:40
or ten dollars to my fundraising page? All of that money goes towards these
27:44
programs. You know, ninety five cents on the dollar goes towards the programs.
27:47
The CEO of the foundation is actually a pay unpaid volunteer, So I
27:52
just think that's great and knowing that your money is going to these programs to
27:56
help these first responders and military members and veterans. But what you can do
28:00
is you can go out, you have your fundraiser page, and all of
28:03
your friends and family can go and donate a dollar, ten dollars, whatever
28:06
they feel like donating, and it actually shows up in your thing. We
28:10
have top fundraiser awards that they are able to win, like gift cards.
28:15
Actually Planet Fitness has been able to Anytime Fitness, I'm sorry, Anytime Fitness
28:22
has been able to donate two six month free memberships. Get you're ready to
28:27
run for next year? Oh yeah yeah, so but you know, we
28:30
really want to encourage that right now. We also have we're still in our
28:33
sponsorship. The deadline has not passed for that. So if you know of
28:37
any businesses who would want a sponsorship, we are looking for that as well.
28:41
And how's my favorite Mayor and Ripley doing, Carolyn Raider. She's doing
28:45
great. She's a big help with this as well. She came down I
28:48
think with you maybe last year or the year before. I think she came
28:49
down with you one time the first year she did. Mayor Raider is one
28:53
of my favorite people in the world. She's really to get people. Now.
28:56
You know you're talking about how you couldn't run. Okay, well you're
29:00
young. I'm fifty three, so I'm not going to be running. But
29:03
Steve Bishop is from our sister station V one hundred. Steve is our designated
29:07
runner in the building. So anytime there's a race, whether it be a
29:11
bike or be whatever, we just send Bishop. And so we're going to
29:15
make sure that Steve Bishop's there for you on April twentieth. Oh yeah,
29:17
well, I'd love to see you there too. You can walk it.
29:19
I can coop. You got that. We can walk it, he says,
29:22
we can walk it. Give us the details before we let you go
29:25
again. Give us the website, give us the date, give us the
29:26
time about this very very worthwhile evam. All right, so it's going to
29:30
be April twentieth at ten am in Ripley, West Virginia. If you want
29:34
to see our Facebook page that is Tunnel to Towers, Ripley, West Virginia.
29:37
We post, we try to post as often as we can. Our
29:42
website. If you want to go to tetwot dot org and then just put
29:47
in Ripley, West Virginia for finding runs. And on top of that,
29:51
if you go to run sign up, you can also click on find a
29:53
race and then you just put in Tunnel to Towers Ripley, West Virginia and
29:56
it pulls our race right up. So if you have an any questions,
30:00
you can email us at Ripley at t twot dot org and that comes directly
30:03
tested. So we'd be happy to answer any questions that you have. All
30:07
right, well, Ken, it's always a pleasure to see you as well.
30:08
Man, Thank you, I appreciate it. Will you be running in
30:11
the race. I will not be running. I will be there present.
30:15
I'll watch all you good people run, go run. And this is a
30:18
single West Virginia event. This Tunnel to Towers run is the only single West
30:25
Virginia event, so we just asked and encourage people to please support it.
30:29
Indeed, all right, guys, as always, I love talking to you
30:32
every year. I think it's wonderful this program that you're involved with, the
30:34
Tunnel to Tower Sophia Ken and Mom in the corner. Thanks. Nobody puts
30:38
baby in the corner, but we did put mom in the corner. All
30:41
right, Thank you guys for being here. Best to let to you.
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for Congress District too. Alexander Gosserud, Good morning, Sarah, welcome to
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the show. Good morning Dave. Thank you. I hope you're doing great
34:49
today on a Tuesday. I am doing fine. Little stormy weather here in
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Charleston today. I hope it's a little bit better where you are. And
34:55
you've been on the show two or three times. Am I getting closer to
34:59
pronounce it? The last name right? Yeah? We spelled it wrong on
35:02
Facebook. Oh I don't care. You're not the first one nor the last
35:07
one to misspell it. It's a hard name to read, hard name to
35:12
say, hard name to say. Well, I'll go back and correct that
35:14
after the show, Alex, I apologize for that. You can call me
35:17
Alex all right, Alex all right, Well you got it, you know,
35:21
for a district that isn't in our quote unquote listening area. Per se,
35:23
This shows we get a lot of interest in people wanting to represent Congress
35:28
in your district. And I explained though last week that with the majority of
35:30
listeners to this show streaming it, I'm not sure what a listening audience is
35:36
anymore. So we appreciate you and others coming on the show. Give us
35:39
your background now, like tell us about Alex So. I'm a thirty one
35:44
year old conservative fighter that was born and raised in West Virginia that's standing up
35:50
now to save our republic, which I believe in it's final hours. We
35:52
have got to send young, energetic leadership to Washington, d C. To
35:58
take on the left, as on the anti Mayora organism, to secure the
36:00
border, to turn on our energy independence back on, to allow you to
36:05
keep more of your money, To dramatically reduce and de scale tyrannical government that
36:10
is way too big and way too large. At this point, we have
36:15
one shot here in West Virginia, and we have to send somebody like myself
36:20
who was born and raised here but also understands the problems facing us as a
36:24
country. Let's talk about the biggest needs specifically not just for your district,
36:30
but the state of West Virginia. What you talked about there is all well
36:32
and good, and I agree with you on those things. But let's talk
36:35
about specifically for the state of West Virginia. If elected, what do you
36:37
hope to accomplish specifically for the Mountain State. Well, right now, I'm
36:42
very upset. You know, my district is really under an unemployment assault right
36:45
now. We just got terrible news for Alleghany wood products in Grant County,
36:50
which is in my district. We just lost nine hundred jobs in the Northern
36:55
Panhandle. So steel workers and wood workers are her today in my district.
37:00
So the first thing I want to do is bring focus and leadership and dedication
37:07
to trying to help these communities get better jobs and more of our heritage resource
37:13
jobs. So that's a big concern for me right now, is bringing economic
37:20
opportunity to my district. So my thoughts and my prayers, my family's thoughts
37:23
and prayers are with the many that have lost their jobs in recent weeks in
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course. The second district encompasses twenty seven counties. We have been to all
37:59
twenty seven counties. I have campaign signs out in most of all of the
38:04
twenty seven counties now. We just hit Preston County the other night, so
38:08
we were first on the ground with any sort of presence as far as there's
38:14
an election coming up on May fourteenth, which is very critical and vital to
38:17
the continuance of our republic and to the United States, and we were first
38:22
on the turf. So I think West Virginians that have been waking up in
38:27
these counties over the last several weeks have noticed that we are the first candidate
38:32
to try to earn their vote through our signs. Talking Alexander Gosserut again,
38:38
who is a candidate for Congress and District two, alex With West Virginia being
38:44
such a bright red state, chances are a lot of the races are good
38:46
to be decided in the primary. So what sets you apart from the other
38:50
Republicans? I had one on the show last week in Chris Walker. The
38:53
current state treasure Riley Moore is another one that want said position. What sets
38:58
Alexander Gossrut apart from those gay Well, first of all, I'm from the
39:00
state of West Virginia. I was born and raised here, so I'm native
39:04
to the state. So that's a big difference right off the bat. The
39:07
second difference is I don't hail from a political family. I'm not part of
39:10
a political family dynasty. Politics isn't a job that gets passed down in my
39:15
family. It's something that I have a natural, inate ability to execute.
39:19
And I believe we're in the final hours right now of this Republic. So
39:22
West Virginians have a clear choice here. Send somebody from West Virginia that is
39:27
young and that can fight for them, can fight for their right Because I
39:30
want to tell you something, what happened with Lake and Riley is coming to
39:36
West Virginia. If we allow this border to remain open, and we allow
39:40
this invasion to continue, we will see great violence. So, if you
39:44
care about your family, if you care about your mother, your father,
39:47
if you care about your sons, your daughters, your children, your grandchildren,
39:51
there is only one person that you can trust to go fight for you
39:55
in a corrupt swamp in Washington, DC, and that's Alexander Gasprout. Where
40:00
can people know, Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm the only
40:02
one that can stand up to the radical leftism. I'm the only one that
40:07
has put out in plain English how we secure the border. I'm the only
40:09
one that knows that we have to reduce these three letter agencies and defund government,
40:14
have less people working in government. We're at a critical juncture in American
40:17
history. We're at a critical juncture in the state of West Virginia and the
40:21
people of the West Virginia Second Congressional District have a real chance to help our
40:25
nation, and sending anybody other than myself to fight for them is not going
40:30
to work. I'm the only one that can be trusted to go fight for
40:32
them because of my ability and my knowledge of what's going on in this nation.
40:37
And where can people learn more about your campaign. Alex. You can
40:40
reach me at Gassirude g AA S E r U D the number four WV
40:46
dot com. And you can also email me at Gasaru for WV at gmail
40:53
dot com. All right, Alex, it's always a pleasure to have you
40:57
on the show. Alex Gasaru or gas Route or or Alex or Alexander uh.
41:01
And I'll correct a spelling on the Facebook page. Man, I promise
41:05
you're all good. Dave, heye, you know what the name. The
41:07
name stands out a little bit. It might be hard to say, but
41:09
they'll recognize it on the South. They're not gonna get it mixed up with
41:14
anybody named Smith on the ballot. I can tell you that no, they're
41:16
no, they're not they're not. All right, Alex, I appreciate you
41:20
being here. Man. We'll talk Sue, best of luck in the campaign
41:22
you. Alex Gaserud again, he's a Republican Canada for Congress and District two.
41:28
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41:31
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Tex says love the Jerry Reid references, says the Texter. Anytime that I
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can put over this cinematic masterpiece that is smoking the bandit, I will do
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that. What today if the legislature yesterday? And I know I got calls
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to get to him here momentarily what today was a legislator yesterday? Today promises
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to be even more lively as we approach Crossover Day tomorrow. Hobby coming up
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a ten oh six with talk line from the Encovia Studios in Morgantown. Brad
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will be stopping by Brad mclhendy's joining Hobby to review yesterday under the Dome in
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at preview Today's Thrill them inted action, including the proposed ban on mug shots
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in the media, which is up for passage in the House. Plus more
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on the vaccine exemption bill. No word now on whether GOP no longer stands
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for Grand Old Party but now stands for Grand Old Polio doctor KLAYE. Marsh,
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there's a name we haven't heard in a while, is now the chancellor
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and executive dean of WVU Health Sciences. He's going to weigh in on the
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immunization discussions. Evan Brown of Fox News. We'll talk about the outbreak of
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measles in Florida, coincidence with that state loosening the vaccine requirements. Jared Halpern
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going to preview the Michigan primary plust, more of the struggle for border funding
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and funding packages for Ukraine, and more of the amount of their basketball teams
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comeback that came up just short against Kansas State last night at stalkline to ten
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oh six from Morgantown. Hopping back at the Capitol tomorrow and Thursday. So
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this TV show What Would You Do? Aired on ABC Television Sunday night.
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As I said, I don't watch a lot of other television other than sports
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or biographies or documentary or maybe a comedy show or something, so I've never
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even heard of the show, sadly, until it was announced it would be
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filming in Charleston. They filmed it at Black Sheep Burrito and at the Purple
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Onion at Capital Market and again. Our sister station V one hundred yesterday posted
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a list of the shows and when they would air. I shared it on
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my social media as well. I watched a clip yesterday via YouTube. So
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basically they had an actor pretending to be a bartender there and an actress pretending
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to be homeless to come in and asking for a meal. Well, the
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actor asked her to leave. The whole idea, I guess, was to
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see how many patrons would stick up for her, and a few did.
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Really only one guy, and poor guys getting crucified on social media seemed to
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be the only one taking issue with her not being served there, And I'm
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not sure how the other patrons as I was watching yesterday, not sure how
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the other patrons could not think this whole thing was a work because it did
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not seem to me to be real at all as as I was watching it.
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But I'm the natural cynic. The whole thing just seemed to me to
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be very, very forced, and a woman certainly didn't look like a homeless
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individual, especially the one you see in Charleston. I don't know. I'm
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not gonna judge the whole thing because they have a network television show and I'm
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just a lowly radio host in Charleston, Westerngaia. But the whole thing seemed
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completely staged and unnecessary to me. Let's go to the phones. Is this
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my friend, Jim? Jim? Are you there? Hellose days? He
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is back, but he's not in Charleston anymore. Jim, how are you,
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buddy? Well? I'm doing okay. I've had some medical problems that
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had to have a my big two AFT to tell you on my left foot.
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But I hope that Amanda and Mike Christian's achieving you up to day to
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what's going on. I am currently in Richie County, and let me tell
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you what. The second progressional race is hot and heavy. Alex Mooney is
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doing more TV advertising than I have seen in my lifetime. Well, Alex
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Moone's running for Senate. But but you're talking about the other congression race pretty
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hot up there in Richie County Gym. Yeah. Yeah, Richie County is
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a nice little county and I miss everybody in Charleston, but I will still
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will be in touch and hope people don't forget. We never will forget you.
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Jim, I appreciate you. Call it man, be careful and keep
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it keep a lockdown there in Richie County. Man, I appreciate you.
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and Meal and Charleston serves about twenty thousand a month, plenty of food for
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the homeless. It's a texture, all right. So I'm going to close
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with this. I don't normally like to preview my show's too far in advance
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because things can change, schedules change, breaking news, so on and so
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forth. However, I do want to put this one on your radar next
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Monday, one week from yesterday. You may want to set the reminder for
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this one. Of course, Dave Nation, listening to the show, either
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live or be a podcast, should be part of your daily routine. Any
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Way, next Monday, I'm going to have on the show. Are you
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ready for this candidate for Congress, Derrick Evans. Do you know that Derrick
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Evans, the Derek Evans is in the Capitol, Derrick Evans, the January
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sixth prisoner, Derrick Evans. Well, he's out and he's running and he
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is his people, he's got people ask if he could come on the show,
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and I said yes. Now, look, I have made my feelings
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known about Derreck Evans, and he has made his feelings known about me via
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social media, via the Twitter machine. It's all good. Though. I
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mean, they reached out and I said yes. And as a talk show
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host during a political campaign season, I can get in a lot of trouble
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by not allowing candidates the same access to the airwaves that their political opponents have.
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Okay, I'll have him, but I'll say this and I'll close to
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this. I would probably have him on any way because I'm a fan of
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this thing called free speech. And free speech means giving the green light the
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voices you like and some that you don't necessarily agree with. So when his
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folks emailed me yesterday and said he'd like to come on the show, I
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said yes, so it could be next Monday. And he's following Fred Persinger
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on the show next Monday. So that out, and we got Amy good
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one after that on the show next Monday. Should be fun, all right.
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I gotta go. Thank you to all my guests today, Thanks to
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the Boss Deel Coober for producing the show. Hoppy coming up at ten oh
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