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12/04/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - JB McCuskey, Morganne Tenney, and Amy Shuler-Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Uh, you know, getting people back to the workforce. I'm gonna talk
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to Morgan about that a little bit later on. Plus your phone calls and
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texture Welcome big Ley Pickley Wiggly Hotline three zero four three four five fifty eight
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fifty eight through pharmacy texts three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight.
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Let's welcome into the studio this morning. State Auditor candidate for Attorney General
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JB. Mccusky. Good morning, sir, how are you, Dave.
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It's always good to be back on the big Ley Pickley Wiggly Hotline. Yeah,
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okay, well you're not technically on the big Bigley Picky unless you call
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in now. If you want to go in the green room and call in,
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you're in the Parmar store. Student, they're getting four or five extra reads
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today. Yes they are, Yes, Yes, Cindy, they are.
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How you how you man man great? You know, it's a wild world
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being a small business owner and a dad right now getting kids to school every
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day. I can't imagine why during the Christmas season. Well, and you
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know it is interesting. You know, when you watch the news, you
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can say however, they can say however they want, that the economy is
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going well. When you sell things to regular people, the answer is it's
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actually not going very well. And we got a lot of work to do
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as a country on our economy and a bunch of other stuff I want.
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I wouldn't get this out of the way. Last week I had state senator
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and candidate for Attorney General as well, Mike Stewart on the show, and
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to be honest, I'm sure you've heard the show or somebody's told you about
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it. He said some things that weren't terribly complimentary about you your campaign you
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personally, would you like to take time to address any of that? No,
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So there's two ways to campaign. Mike has his way and my way
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is to talk to the people of West Virginia about our collective future. I
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think you know, the opportunities that we have in front of us as a
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group of people as mountaineers are so incredibly bright and so important that I don't
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really want to spend any time speaking about the person running against me. I
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want to speak directly to the voters of West Virginia about my record, who
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I am, and what I'm going to do to make sure that their lives
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are improved and that our state continues to move forward. Let's talk about your
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work in the Auditor's office before we move on. We've heard a lot of
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the news JB about COVID funds being spent in all the wrong ways, and
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anytime the government gets involved and throws that many dollars at that many people,
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sadly there's going to be fraud. What are you hearing out there? What
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do you worry? Sure? So we just finished up supporting the US Attorney
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for the Southern District of West Virginia, mister will Thompson. Our office is
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a key support staff for them. They reached out to us on PPP loan
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fraud, of which everyone knows there's a lot and people on my team have
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been incredibly honored to be tasked with and asked by the US Attorney's Office in
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the Southern District of West Virginia to work on that. I think it's the
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third conviction of felony PPP fraud that we've helped convict. And as you know,
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when this money started coming out, my office, along with West Virginia,
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took a leadership role in the country about how do we instruct and ensure
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that all of this federal money that's going to local governments is spent on infrastructure
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that gets water to people's houses, that gets internet to people's houses, that
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gets floodwaters away from people's homes, you know, the things that we need
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to make West Virginia's lives better today and to attract great new businesses and young
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families to the Mountain state. You know, we really led the country and
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making sure that all of our local governments had the resources they needed, but
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importantly that the citizens of West Virginia had the transparency that's required to hold all
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of those elected officials accountable. You've served two terms. Again, we're talking
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with State Auditor JB. Mccusky, also candidate for jur Attorney General JB.
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You serve two terms at State Honor. What are you most proud of during
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your time there? Well, I mean the list is just so long,
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Dave, you know, how long do we have? But you know,
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I think to start off with the thing that I'm the most proud of is
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that I have built a staff of people who are so committed to West Virginia's
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future that every single day I wake up confident that the people that I that
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I work with are going to do the right thing at every turn, and
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they're going to make sure that our government is operating as transparently and as efficiently
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and as effectively as possible. And we have really made great strides out of
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out of the Auditor's Office in reforming so many ways that our state bureaucracy operates,
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to make it faster, to make it more attentive to taxpayers, to
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make it more attentive to small businesses, and on a macro level, you
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know, we made our office twenty percent smaller, We reduced our general revenue
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budget. We returned one hundred million dollars back to the general revenue, and
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on top of that, we've reduced audit times. We've added audits to our
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list. We've prosecuted over forty felony fraud cases out of our office. And
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when you do all that while you're also making the government smaller and less expensive,
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it's very very easy to go to bed at night knowing that the service
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that you have committed yourself to is being effective and it is positively affecting West
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Virginia taxpayers' lives every day. Talk about the numbers that you've got on the
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state checkbook system. That was one of the things that you really ran on
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was getting these governmental agency, cities, counties, whatever to do the checkbook.
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Where are we on that? Sure? So one of the campaign promises
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that I made was that we were going to make West Virginia the most transparent
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state in the United States. And I sort of got laughed at because it's
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a bold claim, But we have actually done that. West Virginia taxpayers have
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more access to how their government money is spent than any other people in the
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entire country. And that's important because we've got election day coming up. So
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I would ask every single taxpayer to use the West Virginia Chechbook wvcheckbook dot gov.
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It's a real time accounting of every single dollar that the state of West
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Virginia spends, and we have I believe forty four counties on board and upwards
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of fifty cities on board, and every all fifty five county school boards.
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So you can see how your tax dollars are spent from bottom to top,
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local to state, and you can choose. When you're in that voting booth,
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the people that looked you in the eye told you the truth and spent
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your money on the priorities that you think West Virginia needs. Now you're running
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for attorney general. How's the campaign been fantastic? It's been just an enormous
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outpouring of support from all over the state. You know, the events we
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attend, there's tons of people are fundraising is going great. But more importantly
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than that, I just I hear so many encouraging words from people that I
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didn't know that it followed my auditor's race and followed me as the auditor,
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and just are really excited about having my vision for West Virginia and my ability
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as a lawyer to defend us against the federal governments overreach. But more importantly
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than that, to help the next governor create a bureaucracy in a government that
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is small, efficient, but importantly really effective at the things that government must
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be doing. What makes you the best candidate for a g because now there
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are only two on the Republican side mintioned Mike Stewart earlier, but State Senator
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Ryan Weld and now a couple of weeks ago he would will be attempting to
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stay in his role of state senator, not running for AG a Republican side
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at you, mister Stewart, What makes JB. Mccuwskey the better choice?
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Sure? So I have let me just talk a little bit about who I
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am, and I think that probably will a charge you. So if there's
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folks out there that don't know me, you know, first of all,
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I'm a Christian. I'm a husband. I got up my beautiful wife and
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I have been married for eighteen years this year. We have an eight and
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a six year old little girl that I get to walk to school every day.
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So I'm a father and those three things and a Christian, a husband,
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and a father inform everything that I do. And so as I go
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to work every day, the only thing that I worry about is how how
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is my effort on that day going to make West Virginians lives better, and
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so my legal practice when you combine that with with sort of who I am
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and my roots as a West Virginian. I started off working at a place
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called the American Center for Law and Justice, and I'm very, very proud
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today to be working with them on making sure that President Trump can stay on
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the ballot here in West Virginia. They have come into West Virginia because of
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me, and they are they are truly defending our voters' rights to vote for
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the person of their choice. And it's very clear that Donald Trump is the
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choice of a vast majority of West Virginians. And so I worked on First
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Amendment rights, religious freedom all the way up to the to the United States
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Supreme Court. And then I came home and I spent my private practice legal
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career in the defense industry, mostly defending coal mines and working with with gas
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companies on their land and lease deals, trying to make sure that we maximize
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our natural resources and that West Virginia's place as a leader in energy production doesn't
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falter. And then I got elected to the legislature and elected to the state
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Auditor's office, and so for the last seven and a half years, my
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practice of law has been how do we apply the Constitution and the law code
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to everyday actions of government? So there isn't a minute or a day that
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goes by that I am not actively practicing law and doing so in a way
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that makes me and helps me understand the entire state's bureaucracy and how it operates.
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And so the next Attorney general, you know, along with defending our
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Second Amendment and defending our religious freedoms and defending us against the EPA and rogue
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federal agencies that quite frankly don't like the way that we live our lives here,
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and I think it's important to know that they don't because we have to
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know who we're fighting. But they're going to have to work with the next
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governor to reform our bureaucracy. And it's at one thousand person business and every
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single time that true transformation happens in an organization that large, it's the CEO
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and the general counsel that are doing that. And I have contacts and a
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record of being able to build a first class law firm that's broken down by
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industry type that will provide the best possible resources through the entire bureaucracy to make
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sure that that reorganization happens properly, legally and in the best interest of every
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tax paying West Virginia. If you are elected to Attorney general and you go
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in day one or day sixty days, so put it down whatever number you
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want, Give me some goals, give me some things that you that are
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at the top of the list. Sure. So, I think one of
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the first things that we really need to look at is how is the federal
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government. So Patrick Morrissey has been incredibly successful attorney general and in so many
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respects, we just have to continue his legacy and continue his his footprint on
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what the Attorney General's office does. He has taken on the large federal bureaucracies
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and now they realize they can't win on those issues, and so they're using
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places like Fish and Wildlife, smaller government agencies to hold up our progress.
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And so we need you know, I'm going to hire a first class set
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of people who understand how to sue and win in federal court against the federal
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government. And we're going to find every single way that our manufacturers and our
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coal miners and our gas companies and our small businesses and our churches are being
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infringed on by the federal government. And we're going to be very, very
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aggressive and making sure that West Virginia is continuing to lead the country and defending
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against federal overreach. But we're doing so in a West Virginia way. And
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I think the reason that that is so important is that West Virginia's on the
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move and there are people looking at West Virginia and the reason people want to
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live here is because of who we are. You know, other states can
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build stuff. We have something here that you cannot buy and that is natural
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beauty. Obviously, great location, obviously, but the thing that's the most
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important is that West Virginians are humble and kind. They're hard working. And
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there are people that live in Baltimore, Dallas, DC, you name the
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big city. They move down there because they thought they had a Trader Joe's
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or something, who have a couple of little kids and they're saying, you
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know what, I want to raise my children's where I know the value set
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of those people, and so West Virginia has that. So we need to
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grow the right way, but we need to be able to grow our way
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and to do that, we have to defend ourselves against you know, what
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you and I were talking about earlier is as a civilization that is in some
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ways crumbling around us. And these are people here that aren't glued to their
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phones, they're not trying to impress their neighbors, they're not spending outside their
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means, and they're going to church every Sunday, right, and so these
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this is a place where an entire generation of young families are going to look
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to to live a lifestyle and to have a community that surrounds them that they're
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proud of. Where can people learn more about the campaign at GB mccuske for
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Attorney General. Yeah, you can go to mccuske for WV dot com.
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You can shoot me an email, you can find me on the campaign trail.
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You can come listen to me speak at all the events that we attend.
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And I'm just I'm so excited to get back out on the campaign trail.
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You know, I've been to every fifty five county four or five times,
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and this place is just so special, and the love and respect I
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have for the people here is beyond belief, and I'm just I'm incredibly grateful
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for the opportunity I've had to serve, and I'm very much looking forward for
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the opportunity to serve in a different capacity moving forward, say Dotor. JB.
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Mccusky, also candidate for Attorney General. Appreciate you being here man,
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five eighty wchs. Let me not out A couple of texture before we go
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to Morgan tenty, Texas, does mister McCuskey support those West Virginians who don't
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go to church on Sundays too? Or does he only want the right kind
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of people moving here? According to a texture TEXTA says mccusky goes to church
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every day worship being a rapist. All Hail Orange Jesus, says a texture
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textas said JB could help make West Virginia better by keeping this religion out of
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governance Texas. On the Second Amendment, does JV support West Virginia medical cannabis
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users keeping the right to legally bear arms because as of now, it's illegal
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for West Virginia medical cannabis users to own a firearm Texas. JV makes West
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Virginia sound like the Andy Griffith Show. I guess it must be Mayberry in
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South Hills. According to a tester nine twenty seven, Morgan tenty is with
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us from the Putnam County Development Authority. Morgan good More, how are you,
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Good morning, Dave, I'm great, Thanks for having me on this
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morning, Thanks for being here. Welcome to the show. Now I want
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to talk about this program. It is called Canaw Valley Fame and it's a
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collaborative effort I'm presuming from the Putnam County Development Authority and Bridge Valley is that
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right, Yes, it's a workforce development program. And FAME is an acronym
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because we love acronyms apparently in all things. But SAME is actually a national
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model. It stands for Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education. It was actually developed
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by Toyota a little more than a decade ago, and Twyota actually brought it
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to Bridge Valley first, and it is a post secondary apprenticeship model where you
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can go to school at Bridge Valley and earn an associate's degree in advanced Manufacturing
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Technology, but you actually get hands on training with a local employer while you're
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going to school. And Putnam County Development Authority stepped up this last year and
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became the non profit supporter of a Canaw Valley chapter, so we're really focusing
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on the Canaw, Putnam, Kavala, and Mason areas. And we are
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really excited because we had so much interest in this program that we actually got
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to add more employers this year and right now we're in the middle of recruitment
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and we're super excited and I'm happy to talk a little bit more about what
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that means for our region. Let's before we do that, let's talk about
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some of the companies that are involved here. You mentioned Toyota. This is
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kind of a national thing that you're doing. Who are some of the other
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companies that are involved in this to help out? Yeah, absolutely, So
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Toyota is accepting folks for now. This is skilled maintenance, Dave. So
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these are the folks that are going to be actually working on machinery in and
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advanced manufacturing the plant. So some of the other employers that have joined us
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this year are New Course Feel of West Virginia, Skills and Systems, Service
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Wire, AEP's plant and Mountaineer Plant in Mason County, as well as Natara
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or most people firm know them as formerly in Gkspark Plugs. So we now
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have six employers covering a multitude of counties that are looking for skilled advanced maintenance
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technicians and that's what this program is going to allow students to gain knowledge in.
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So let's talk about how this whole thing came about and how it came
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to West Virginia. You mentioned that it's kind of a national program, but
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now it's going more local here in the Kanal Valley. How did this whole
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thing come about? Sure, So Toyota recognized that they were seeing a retirement
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wave of their skilled maintenance technicians, so they actually developed an apprenticeship program and
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they first took it to their plant in Kentucky and then they brought it here
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in West Virginia. So we have actually had an Advanced Manufacturing Technology degree at
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Bridge Valley for about a decade, but Toyota was the only one taking advantage
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of the APPROENTTI. So they actually started all of this with Putnam County Development
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Authority. Within the last year, they approached us and said, hey,
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we already have the curriculum set up at Bridge Valley and Bridge Valley has been
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a great partner in this, and they said, we would love to have
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other employers join us. We recognize that not many people have gone into skilled
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maintenance over the last couple decades, so we are from that and started approaching
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other companies, and then we had companies approaching us about it, and now
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we have a full cohort of six companies for the Canaw Valley Chapter of same.
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And again PCDA is tied to that chapter with Bridge Valley, so now
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we're out recruiting and we are looking at people who are interested in working at
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one of those facilities while they are getting their associates degree at Bridge Valley,
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and who is eligible morgan to take part in this program. So looking for
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anybody over the age of eighteen. You do not have to be right out
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of high school. Actually, we had a cohort start this fall at Bridge
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Valley, which is super exciting and actually fifty percent of the students that were
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in this fall cohort we're not straight out of high school. So we are
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looking for anyone over the age of eighteen. They do have to be drug
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free, they have to be willing to commit to the program and to one
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of the sponsor employers for two years, and they need to be college ready.
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So basically the classes are already set out date for two years, so
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they need to be ready to hop right in in the fall. And there
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is an interview process and an application process, and the students will actually interview
24:42
with all of the companies and then they will receive an offer and they can
24:48
select which employer they would like to work with, just like they would if
24:51
it was a real job outside of an apprenticeship. So a student would be
24:56
working for one of those six companies for the two year length of the program.
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And what makes this so attractive day that it's kind of a no brainer.
25:07
So the students are actually going to get paid by the company while they
25:10
work for them part time. And Bridge Valley has been such a great partner
25:14
on this program that the way it works is the student will go to Bridge
25:17
Valley for two days a week and then they all break apart for the other
25:22
three days of the week and they work at their sponsor employer. And with
25:26
programs like West Virginia Invests, you can actually get this degree completely for free.
25:33
And then Bridge Valley got another grant called a send that pays above and
25:38
beyond what West Virginia invest does, so it could actually pay for books in
25:42
the fees and gas cards. So a student could get an associates degree for
25:48
free and still get paid three days a week and get part time experience.
25:52
I mean, it's just such an incredible opportunity for students. Oh and I
25:57
agree with that. And one of the things Morgan that I liked in Learning
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As I said, I sit down with the folks at the Development Authority last
26:03
week and kind of get a little deep dive into this myself. Not for
26:07
me personally, but I mean so I could learn about it. One of
26:10
the things that I like about well, I mean, heck, you said
26:12
non traditional. I was non traditional as they get at fifty three? Why
26:15
not? You know. One of the things I do like about the program
26:18
is again we want to do what we can to you know, get our
26:22
young people involved, the one straight out of high school. But there's no
26:26
I mean, as long as you are drug free, is you ready or
26:27
whatever, there's no reason why a thirty to thirty five year old or older,
26:33
as far as I understand it, could could say, you know what,
26:37
this is what I want to do. I want to change careers and
26:38
I want to do this. Is that a pretty Is that a pretty accurate
26:41
statement? Absolutely? You could be in a completely different field, or you
26:45
could be in manufacturing that maybe you're on the production line and you're looking for
26:49
something different, maybe that it pays a little bit more. You know,
26:53
anybody can apply for this, so there's definitely not a threshold to where you
26:57
know you're too old or anything like that. And this it's such a great
27:03
career, Dave. I mean, you know, we're joking about you being
27:06
non traditional, but in a lot of different ways, Morgan, a lot
27:08
of different ways. But I mean honestly, when you graduate with this Associates
27:15
degree, this skill set is needed not only here in the Kana Valley,
27:18
but literally around the world and just here in the region. If you were
27:23
to graduate with this degree, in this skill set, you're looking at making
27:26
sixty to eighty thousand dollars right out of the gate with an Associates degree.
27:30
Sixty to eighty six right out of the gate, you're saying, you look
27:34
at possibly making sixty to eighty thousand dollars a year, correct, without student
27:40
loans and things of that nature, right with zero debt. And you should
27:42
have been, you know, pocketing some of that money that you've been making
27:47
because you have no you have no debt. So it's it's such a great,
27:52
great program. And one of the reasons that I wanted us as the
27:56
Development Authority to get involved is for us, this is twofold one. We
28:00
want to retain the existing employers we have here in West Virginia that have chosen
28:04
to make this their home. And one of the best ways that we can
28:07
do that is to cultivate the next generation of workers for them because they need
28:11
workers that are skilled. But secondly, this is allowing us the opportunity to
28:17
give people a great career virtually for free and stay local. There are good
28:23
paying jobs here, David. I know that you know that, and I
28:26
know that, But I want the public to know that manufacturing can pay very
28:32
good in terms of salary. And I really hope that with us going out
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and recruiting and talking to high schools, that we are communicating that you don't
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have to leave West Virginia to have a great paying career. But Dave Alan
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Because what you don't know can hurt you, all right, Morgan,
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before we let you go, you got some upcoming events, some open houses
29:12
to talk about. I know you said you're out in the schools. What
29:15
do you got coming up? Yeah? Absolutely, thank you. My team's
29:18
done a great job. We've actually presented to twenty four different locations this fall,
29:23
but we are going to continue. You're going to see us in Caball
29:26
and Canawan Counties over December and jail system. But the big day I want
29:30
everyone to know about. We are having an open house at Bridge Valley's Advanced
29:34
Technology Center on Tuesday, January twenty third, from five to seven pm.
29:41
You can learn about the program, speak to the employers that are involved,
29:47
and then we're going to be wrapping up interviews for next fall in February.
29:51
So if you're interested, you really need to check it out. Look at
29:53
PCDA dot org or check us out Putnam County Development Authority on Facebook for all
29:59
of the same information you need. All right, all right, Morgan,
30:02
I appreciate you being here. We'll talk soon. Best of luck with everything.
30:04
Thanks a lot, Thank you, Morgan, tending again from the Putnam
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County Development of forty. I you know, when I first heard about this
30:10
program, I thought, man, this is this is awesome. I mean,
30:14
it really really is, because again it's about trying to keep young people
30:17
here. But this is not just open to young people. I mean this
30:19
is open to anybody that is drug free, college ready, regardless of age.
30:23
You can do this program. Now. That open house again is January
30:26
twenty third at Bridge Valley from five until seven pm. We'll be talking more
30:30
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did you get the fire truck? No? I didn't bet on the fire
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we're all excited because there was a fire truck up for auction. I didn't
31:15
check the sight to see whether that went to anybody or not. I did
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not bed on the fire truck because Number one, I don't think my wife
31:21
would let me have a fire truck. Number Two, I'd have to check
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three five five zero zero eight. Just welcome to the show. Charleston Mayor,
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Amy Goodwin for Mayor Monday. How are you, good morning. I'm
34:53
wonderful, happy blated Thanksgiving? Yeah, happy blated Thanksgiving. Have a good
34:58
Thanksgiving? Oh yeah, it was great. I have my boys, so
35:00
I was so happy, both of them, and then happy to get rid
35:02
of them. I mean, you can say that it's okay, yeah,
35:06
but then they were just like the kitchen is so clean when they're not here
35:09
and there's no dirty clothes or wet towels on the floor. I don't know
35:14
how. I mean, I know that I've taught them hang up your towel.
35:16
You know that I have. Yeah, they must have forgotten. It
35:20
happens. Yeah, I want to start on the on the West side.
35:22
With gas crisis. We are a week away from the one month anniversary of
35:28
the league. Ass has been restored, but still not everyone is back totally
35:31
online. What can you tell us? Our team spent a tremendous amount of
35:36
time along with the contractors that are out there for Mountain near Gas literally going
35:40
door to door. I mean, there is no other way to really connect
35:45
people because some of the challenges that we were finding was for and I'll give
35:50
you two examples. Somebody who literally works all day and then in the evening
35:55
comes home and is you know, at nine ten at night going gosh,
35:58
I miss them and trying to coordinate with them. How do we make sure
36:01
that somebody is there to let the contractors in and so making that connection.
36:08
And I'll give props to Captain Hodges and Assistant Chief Jones who literally were going
36:15
door to door, And then my office was Tiffany and Andrew and Tina on
36:21
the telephone literally trying to connect people who were calling, are you home,
36:25
what time will you be home? Let me help you because at this point
36:29
in time, that's what we're dealing with. And we also dealt with,
36:30
you know, people who are bedridden. And you know, by the time
36:34
I got to the door, Amy, by the way, it takes me
36:36
twenty minutes. I talked to a woman. I understands, let's help you
36:38
make that connection. And so while there's still our folks who are out we
36:44
are going door to door making sure that we can get them in, get
36:47
them with the right folks, and in the meantime, make sure that everyone
36:52
everyone has heat, has meals and are taking and taking care of Talk about
36:57
the other groups maybe outside the city. There have been so many that have
37:00
that have gotten involved, from the United Way to individuals and the community and
37:05
things of that nature. Talk about that. I mean there are when I
37:07
say there are literally too many to mention. It would take your show and
37:10
then Hoppy's entire show, and then some day That's what West Virginians do,
37:15
and we do it best. We come together in times of need. For
37:20
sure, there were so many different agency you know, top of mind and
37:22
tip of tongue, the United Way, Margaret O'Neil, we make fun all
37:25
the time and say we're going to buy our crown. You know we probably
37:29
will at some point in time. But just you know, great organizations that
37:32
are doing good things, including health right on the west side. What a
37:37
great location. The city and the county were big supporters of establishing that West
37:40
Side location, and you know, all of their efforts have come to fruition
37:45
and making sure that people know that the doors open. They do five to
37:47
seven pm suppers and so that was nice. You know, when you don't
37:52
have a hot dinner and I'm something hot to eat when it's cold outside,
37:55
that's you forget does have another cold sandwich? No thank you, but a
38:00
bowl of hot soup and a hot you know, hot grilled sandwiches is always
38:05
was always great. So but again, churches and individuals and people. This
38:08
is always my biggest fear when you start thanking folks hundreds that I have no
38:14
idea their names, who literally came in uh and donated and gave money anonymously.
38:22
And that is the thing that I think is so impressive. People that
38:24
don't want to pat on the back, people that don't want to puff up
38:28
their chest and regnize me, recognize my organization by the way we want to
38:32
thank you, but but not doing it for that purpose. There are so
38:36
many people who you know, don't stand on the mountaintop but you know and
38:39
shout look at look at me, look what I've done. That who is
38:43
taking care of our families on the west side. I know your office mountain
38:47
near gas officials from Westvirgin American Water you mentioned you. None of United Wind
38:51
other group's been having pretty much daily calls about this situation. Have you been
38:55
satisfied with the response from the gas and water companies. That almost sounds like
39:00
a trick question, So I mean yes, and I'll be honest, yes
39:05
and no, right, I mean yes and no. There's been some criticism
39:07
about maybe not and this is not the fault of the city obviously, because
39:10
as your companies we're talking about, but maybe not getting the word out soon
39:15
or some sort of an alert system or something like that. I know I've
39:17
had various legislators on there's no question Democrat by the way, Mountain der Gas
39:22
needs one, and that's going to put the interims for next week. There's
39:25
a possibility that they're going to be brought in to answer that that there should
39:30
be some sort of an alert system go out. I think that's smart.
39:32
I think communication is the number one thing that folks need. And I'll say
39:37
this, and I think I said this to you the last time we were
39:39
on together talking about this. Communication is critical. Bad communication. We spend
39:45
and have spent for the past almost now month, hours and hours every day
39:52
trying to squash down bad information or rumors of folks. Go to the marrion,
39:58
give them your credit card. You'll be refunded from the DAJHR to give
40:01
you a hotel room. No, welcome to twenty twenty three. Don't do
40:05
that. Call the governor's office. He'll bring you, you know, a
40:07
hot pot tomorrow. No, there's a system in place. So when you
40:10
put out bad information on social media. Love social media and it has been
40:15
helpful in many many ways, but critical information, but it has to be
40:20
correct and so but there's no question. So I think that I think the
40:22
fair answer is yes, in some respects know in others. Initially not a
40:28
great job. Eventually yes, you know, we have unfortunately dealing with something
40:35
that has never happened before, and there was a lot of confusion and a
40:37
lot of concern. This has never happened before. In trying to understand what
40:43
happened, who was impacted and how severely took a hot minute to figure out
40:47
what is going on, and so that has to be an after action review
40:52
is mandatory for those companies to do, all of those companies and quite frankly
40:58
us too. You know, no, it's not While I think we did
41:00
a good job, I always think that everybody can do better and say,
41:05
Okay, what did we do really well? What did we do poorly?
41:07
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Yesterday was the third anniversary of the Charleston Police officer Cassie Johnson passing away.
41:37
A sad day for the city, but also a day yesterday to kind of
41:40
look back on her life and career. Your thoughts. Yeah, she was
41:45
one of the very first officers that I swore into office. I remember that
41:52
moment, and I also remember standing there in the hospital for days with her
41:55
mother, Cheryl, and her sister Chelsea, and it was horrible. It
42:01
is you know when people said when you became mayor you know, did you
42:06
did you expect all of this? Yes? I expected anything that folks brought
42:09
my way. I did not anticipate holding by the way many mothers hands while
42:15
they buried their children. It was awful then, it was awful now.
42:21
But our police department, our sisters and brothers in blue, that's what they
42:27
do. They come to gather. You couldn't even stand in the family area
42:32
at c A MC for those days. And it's a time in which I'll
42:37
never forget, and a time in which I know that our officers who were
42:40
there. She is always top of mind and how she how she led her
42:46
life as an officer is exactly how we should all be. And thanks for
42:50
bringing up we should all be living our lives. She was so good in
42:54
that Officer Johnson. Cassie Johnson would never take a lunch that day. She
43:00
wouldn't take a lunch. She would call her mom or sister and say,
43:02
Hey, bring me a sandwich, give me some drink. I gotta follow
43:05
up on this thing. I'm super suspect about this one case I'm doing.
43:08
I really want to work on this. I really want to spend a little
43:10
bit more time on this paperwork. She would come in early, leave late,
43:15
and spend more time trying to figure things out. She was a student
43:21
every day and she wanted to learn more and do more and not puff up
43:24
you get, not puff up her chest, not say hey, look at
43:28
me, look at me. She really wanted to do right. And she
43:30
was a student every day and really cared for so so many people. And
43:38
you know, we celebrated her life and her legacy as we do every year,
43:43
and with all of our officers that we that we lost as well,
43:45
including Jerry Jones and his family that we think about often and all that they
43:52
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in the city. Every time I say that I think I should I should
46:37
like break into some love and spoonful of the hot time summer in the city.
46:40
But it's Christmas in the city. Let's review a little bit. Let's
46:44
review. Let's talk about to Jolly Brows small Business Saturday and what's going on
46:49
at the Bark and the economic impact. I mean, it's absolutely I am
46:53
excited to get the numbers here in January to see the impact. Jolly Brawley
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we hosted over gold ten thousand people. Of course, that's when the public
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Outdoor Designated Area, the PODA came in to affect them. We literally were
47:08
running out of cups. Some businesses were running out of cups. It was
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47:44
five different states that have come through. That that's right, people who have
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online tickets or have come there. And by the way, I am told
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I have been there several times, but to buy your online. I bought
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at the window, but you can buy them online and that is the preference
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now, especially on nights, because what I have been hearing from folks is
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it's great, it's super popular, but you don't want to be standing there
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with two four year olds in the cold waiting to buy a ticket. And
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if you want to go, it is a dblightthenight dot com. That's a
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website that you need to use, dblightthenight dot com. And it's so great,
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and he's added so many more things that you know, ginormous forty foot
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slide that I slid down on holiday, by the way, it's over there
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now, which is there is video this? I think I saw video though.
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Of course my kids are like, Mom, you're so extra. Why
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did you do that? I said, well, if I'm gonna have children
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sliding down it, I probably should give it a go myself. But it's
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a forty foot slide, it's the ferris wheel, it is the skating rink,
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and it's the maze. It's ours, Dave. You have to give
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yourself hours to do every single thing you want to do at the ballpark.
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And then Capital Market their amazing holiday extravaganza that they're having every single weekend.
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This first weekend knocked it out the park. I don't know if you're gonna
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have Evan honor An he was on Friday. Great, it's it's so cool
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again. I keep saying, Hallmark, sit down, you don't know what
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you're doing any longer. Hold yeah, please cheers. It's just it's incredible
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people coming together with a great vision about what this city should be, which
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is vibrant and lively. But the return on investment that we're seeing is fantastic.
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And you think of Charleston as a you know, a city right here
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at the confluence of two rivers, and uh, it's a summer city.
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No it's not. It's a winter city. We're making it happen. And
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I'll go back to the place in which we started when we started talking about
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turfing fields right with Chad Robinson my first year in office, almost five years
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ago. It's not just about baseball. It's not just about making sure games
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aren't canceled. It's also about talking about concerts. Yeah, because this would
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not have been possible. It would not happen it absolutely, no way,
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no, no, you can't do it that way. It would destroyed everything.
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And so now we have the ability to continue build. And that's what
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it is about continuing this momentum, building upon every single year. I mean,
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I was the folks that you had on before from Putnam County and talk
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about development and talking about getting It doesn't matter if you're doing events, it
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doesn't matter if it's job development. Every year you have to do something different.
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You have to reinvent yourself and you have to find a way to improve
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upon what you're doing every single year. And that's what municipal government should all
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be about. Not wowing everybody, but saying, okay, what works,
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what does wow? Folks. This is when you think about Holly Jolly Browley,
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you think about the ballpark, you think about capital market. This is
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quality of life. By the way, this is when you will say we
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want a good quality of life. You better believe we do. We want
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a safe, fun, vibrant place to go. And that's what that's what
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this is doing. I want to get to the Christmas parade before we have
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to go this Thursday, Thursday night, this Thursday. I still sign up
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if you want to be in it. No, it is. It is
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the largest Christmas parade we have ever had. So pack a snack, make
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sure you get some supper, get a chair, get a blanket. Seven
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o'clock it starts. The theme is toy Land and I already have my Our
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entire team has their outfit. So you're going to be dressed as some sort
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of Okay, you can't give us any indications. Okay. Very popular movie
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with children. My children love this movie more than oxygen when they were growing
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up. And by the way, it's still popular today. Does that give
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it away? Well not for me, No, no it doesn't. Well
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you'll see me. You'll see me wearing this. You'll as soon as you
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see my hat, you'll go, oh right, I know who she is.
51:52
All right. So it all starts seven o'clock, seven o'clock this Thursday,
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downtown Charlestown, all right, on summers, and there's gonna be all
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kinds of active. Butody's going on to the businesses around there too. I'll
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try to get to the downtown businesses. Or thrilled. This is exactly what
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they wanted, all right, Mayor Goodwin, It's always a pleasure to have
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you on the show. Coming up on the show tomorrow, speaking of the
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parade, Landel Eugen Murphy Junior is going to be in town. He's going
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to be on the show tomorrow morning. He'll be live in studio with us
52:15
tomorrow morning. Landau will be here. Chris Witrow from the Benny Keatam Shrine
52:19
on the show tomorrow as well, and Angie Settle from Health Right is also
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on the show tomorrow as well. My producer was Hollywood Jeff Patty, Thank
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you so much, Hobby. Coming up follow the news of the AWE Metronews
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