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01/23/2024 The Dave Allen Show On 580 Live - Terry Burns, Stephanie Abraham, Joe Stevens, JB McCuskey · The Dave Allen Show

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It mid not on Saturday. Coming up on the show we got to
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Terry Burns. He's standing by next. He is running for a House of
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Delegates. We've talked to him once before. He's back with us again.
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Plus Stephanie Abraham is running for Kanaw Circuit Judge will be stopping by. With
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all the snow we had last week and the cold temperatures, I'm about over
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it, as you may be. But one person who is not, and
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that's Shoe Stevens from the Western Ski Association. He's going to join us and
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it is official now. Current State Auditor g. B McCuskey is now a
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candidate for attorney generally signed up yesterday at the Secretary of State's office. So
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we'll talk to JB about that. Plusure calls the Texture. Welcome to Bigley
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Pharmacy Text three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight. Let's welcome
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to the show. Terry Burns, who is a candidate for a House of
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Delegates. Good morning, sir, How are you morning, Dave, how
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are you? I'm fine, welcome back to the show. Thank you for
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having me. And you're a Republican candidate. Is that right? All right?
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And tell us about the district again. It's District fifty three. It's
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basically the mostly the eastern part of Kenoal County. You've got Hughges Creek,
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Wicher's Creek, County's Creek, Camell's Creek, You've got if you got it?
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Is that what you're saying, It's creek, it's in mind? Okay.
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Uh so why is it that you're running. Why do you want to
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do this? I think if we can do better than what we have in
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the past on the eastern part of Kenoal County, I think it's been ignored.
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I really, I really think we can make things better for the people
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in that area. And we've got nothing up there right now. Uh It's
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it's a The eastern Parkkanal County is dying, and I think the legislature is
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pretty much ignored it. We've got, you know, all these politicians they
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talk about shovel ready sites. There are some sites in the eastern part of
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Knol County that could be made shovel ready, but yet nothing's been done.
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And I think we need to do that. I really think we should get
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something up there. I know LG made the announcement they're coming there. They
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mentioned Kenol County. Why do we not try to allure LG to the eastern
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part of Keanoc County. It's a good location. You've got the turnpikes there,
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you got Route sixty that goes right into the Interstates on with the turnpike.
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I see no reason why we couldn't put something up there. You know
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a few years ago, we had a company come in that was going to
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put an ammunition site there, which everybody figured out pretty quick that was a
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no go. But that site is still there. So why do we not
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get that site shovel ready and maybe we put an ammunition site up there,
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you know, and by then we could put maybe the seal ammunition to the
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federal government. That would be income for the state taxpayer to get some relief
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from the tax money coming in. I think that would be a good thing
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to do, if we can get everybody on board to get the site ready
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and find somebody to come in to do it. I can tell you're very
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proud of the area that you want to represent, that Upper Canal Valley.
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What is it about the Upper Canal Valley that you think maybe people might have
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a miss conception about I think that the things that happened in the years past,
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I think that maybe got a bad reputation. But now if everything is
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coming together, the people come together. If something happens to people stick together.
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You know, if there's a flood, then everybody pitches in and we
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put everything back. You know, the Camel's Creek got hit not what three
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years ago, and then we got up around shillion. They got hit a
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couple of three years ago, and everybody sticks together, and they that could
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happen because the federal government doesn't come and help. I've seen people that I've
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talked to on the show, not just those Terry that are running for office,
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but others that I definitely see that pride that people that are from the
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Upper Kanal Valleys. A matter of fact, I get text to the show
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frequently with somebody will say something like Upper Kanal Valley proud or something like that
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is an area that people take a lot of pride in. Yeah. I
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mean I've born and raised there. I've been on camel S Creek my entire
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life, which is sixty three years almost, so you know, I know
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the area. I know the people. If something happens. We know where
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it's at. If somebody says Pond Gap, we know where Punk Gap.
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You know, if it's Baker's Fork, we know where Baker's Fork is.
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Everybody in that area has been all through the area. You know there's a
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TV trails I mean, I think the legislature should be looking at that.
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Maybe we extend part of the ATV trail system into Kennol County, into the
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eastern part of Kanoa County. That would bring some maybe economic development that way.
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I mean, there is hundreds of miles of trails that could be developed
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and we can make it work. I mean, it could work. It's
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just we got to get politicians on board to do it. Talking again with
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Terry Burns's Republican candidate for a House and district at fifty three, the Dave
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Born and raised in Camels Creek my whole life. Matter of fact, I
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was I don't care. I was born in April and we had a major
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flood in nineteen sixty one, which is the year I was born. And
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the flood came in June and my mother carried me out of the house in
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wasteep water. So, I mean, we get floods. That's just the
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nature of the temple. You know, the area we live in, it's
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heeled, You get a lot of rain, it runs off, you get
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floods. You do the best you can with it. But you know,
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I've been married for like thirty two or three years now, you better get
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that right, man. Yeah, it's been a while, and I tell
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people all the time, I know what I was married. I just can't
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do the math in my head exactly. That's the thing. I got a
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one daughter. She lives in Lewis County, so you know, she's kind
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of way from home. But I thought she might come back someday. But
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I don't think that's going to happen. But you know, I've been here
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all my life for sixty three years. Almost what professionally would have you done
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in your life. I worked for Division of Highways for like twenty years and
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retired, so you know, I've got the experience in state government. I
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know what works and doesn't work. I know what needs fixed and how to
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fix it. And there's a lot that needs fixed in state government. I
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want to ask you about You mentioned your daughter there, and she's in Lewis
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County, which is you know, I mean, that's not exactly like being
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next door, but it's also not like being in California either that you're that
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far away. You're obviously within Drivy disc it's not that far. But how
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do we get younger people to want to stay in West Virginia? That's part
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one and part two, Terry. How do we get people that maybe left
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West Virginia to go to North Carolina or Ohio or Indiana or wherever they went.
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How do we get those people to want to come back? What do
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we need to be doing differently under the dome to make those people want to
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come back. I think it starts with jobs and good paying jobs. You
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got to have good paying jobs to keep them here to start with, and
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then you've got to have opportunities that they want like an ATV trail, you
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know, or maybe the sports complex that they're doing at the Civic Center or
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the town Center. Maybe that would help out. But you have to have
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activities. I always thought maybe we should have a like a Cedar Point amusement
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part but put it up at Snowshoe somewhere. Once Corridor H has done,
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you'll have pretty pretty good access, and that way you could have a year
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round thing. You have to have activities that would draw them here. You
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can't do the status quote and think they're going to stay because they're not.
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And I think we need to be asking the kids that leave or are thinking
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about leaving. We need to ask them what would it take for you to
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stay? What do we need to do because that's the next generation. We
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need to get the next generation here. Have you been keeping an eye on
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the current session of the legislature, You've been watching anything in particular that's kind
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of stuck out to you getting your attention. I think that the death penalty
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thing is kind of ringing everybody's bell. I think I could support that if
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the circumstances were right. I think you had to be careful and it couldn't
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end up called send us a lot of money. And then on the other
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side of that. I saw a thing this morning. I think it was
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in Oklahoma. There was a guy that was on death Road and they found
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out now that maybe he didn't do it, and he's had three execution dates.
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So you got to be careful when you do that because there is no
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coming back from that. Now, you mentioned your background with the Department of
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Highways. What do you think about the road system in West Virginia? How
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I mean, there's obviously been some some improvements. Everywhere you go, there's
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there's orange barrels up. But as somebody who is kind of an expert in
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that area, what's your what's your take on? I think we can do
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better. I don't like the way we pave roads. A lot of these
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roads were putting down one inch of asphalt that's not going to last. There's
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no use spending fourteen million dollars to pay a mile road when it's only going
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to last three years. That's why I think you got to be careful.
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With all the bonds that they're talking about floating. You can't. You cannot
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use bonds for a paving project. It's just a bad idea. It doesn't
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work. It's you're going to be paying for your bonds way past the time
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when the pavement is gone. So we just can't do that. So if
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you are elected and you go in, you're going to find yourself terry dealing
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with a lot of people that, even though they may be of your same
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party. The Republicans are in the super majority obviously, but people that have
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different differences of opinion than you do. Even within a party, not everybody's
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going to agree and that and they and they shutting. That's where dialogue comes
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from, and that's where ideas get hired at. How do you think you'll
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deal uh with with with dealing with people maybe that have a totally different perspective
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they all. I think we'll be fine. I've dealt with people all my
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life. And even even with those one hundred delegates, you're going to find
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groups that are they're together, yeah some sense kind of Yeah, that happens
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every time. So, I mean, but it doesn't matter to me whether
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you're a Democrat, Republican, independent. The people have to come first.
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It's people before party, and you have to do that. Every legislator or
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politician that should be what they do. It should be the people first,
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and you have to do that if we're going to continue down the prosperity path
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we were on. You have to get things ready. You have to work
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together and everybody. Everybody has to get on the same page. I mean,
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you may have to compromise here or there to get what you need done,
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but at least you can get it done. Which campaign strategy, Like,
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you've been out knocking doors and doing forums and whatever. What do you
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do? How do you cod for me? I gotta wait till it was
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well, it's going to be at the fifties today in the snow's mountains,
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so you've got no excuse get up there knocked out of doors. But what
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do you tell people if you go to somebody I don't know. I said
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that about knocking a door. Some candidates do that and some don't. But
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if you meet somebody in a senior center or wherever you meet them, or
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at the mall or whatever, and they say, well, why should I
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why should I vote for Terry Burns? What would you tell them? Basically?
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What we said. You know, I've lived in the district my whole
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life. I know the district, I know the people, I know what
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we need. I know where it needs to go. I know the places
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where we can put things. I can represent people probably better than anybody else
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that's running in my district because I've been in my district. You know,
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I've wrote ATVs up every one of these hollows that we mentioned many times.
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So I think you know that that would be a big thing. And the
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other thing is you don't take money from lobbyists or special interests. And you
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know we need utility rate reform. If a candidate's taken twelve million dollars from
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utility companies, you're not going to get any reform. You have to go
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in there with a clean slate, willing to make the changes and fight for
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what you believe in and try to make things better for everybody. You know,
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I went to the PSC hearings. I've pretty much done everything that you
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can do to try to stop the rate increases. I think we're at the
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point now where the legislature is going to have to step in and you're going
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to have to reorganize PSC, and you're gonna have to put some kind of
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code in law that says this is what you do, and maybe you start
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charging utility companies a fee to file for rate increase and you basically on how
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much they ask for. Maybe if it's the first one, you ask for
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five percent. If you ask for the second one in five years, maybe
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you go to twenty percent. And if he ask for a third one in
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five years, maybe you just make it forty percent. And it can't come
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from the rake bears. It has to come out of the company profits.
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Interesting concept. I think there probably would be a lot of support for that.
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Well, Terry, working people learn more about your campaign. You can
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go to Terry Burns dot org. There you'll find my email address, my
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personal cell phone numbers there. I think if you're in office or running for
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office, you should be available for anybody to contact you and talk to you.
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You know, if you got questions, call me, email me.
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I'll be glad to answer any of the questions you have and hopefully everything works
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out well. Wishuld the best to like Terry Burns again, Republican candidate for
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for Attorney General joined us a little bit later on as well. Welcome in
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Stephanie Abraham. How are you, Stephanie. Good morning, great Dave,
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thanks for having me this morning. Thank you for being here. Now you
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were pointed to the thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in August or place Jedge jug Bloom,
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who retired, So talk about that experience so far. How's it been,
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Well, it's been great, And I was thinking back this morning,
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it's you had me here the morning of my investiture. So it's been four
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months later. It's been a wonderful four months and incredible experience for me.
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There's a lot of things that I've learned, a lot of things that I'm
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awfully proud of that we've been able to do. I've been very grateful for
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the opportunity to preside over our Juvenile Drug Court since that time. That's a
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program that we have to really get our kids on the right path to success,
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and I'm incredibly proud to be part of that. I'm going to ask
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you about the Juvenile Drug Court. How does that whole thing work. It's
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been around for a while, what kind of successes are we seeing, and
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just give us an idea of how the whole thing works. Sure, it's
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really a holistic approach. We have a treatment team that's made up a variety
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of stakeholders with regard to representatives from the Prosecutor's office, with regard from the
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Public Defender's office. We have representatives from Kenaw County School District. We have
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therapists that work with our kids. It's really an all encompassing approach to help
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help the kids in the program really get invested in their futures and their families
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get invested in their futures. We are working really hard to build partnerships with
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some of our community leaders, with some of our state leaders. For instance,
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we have hearings tonight and we have Phil Cantrell coming from out your Challenge,
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he's the state director to speak to our kids about that opportunity. We
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have a lot of the same goals and it's just a really good opportunity for
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them to get some information if they've expressed interest and ask some questions from them
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and their parents. And so many of these kids, and I know in
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your experience and other others in the court system have told me when they're experience,
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I mean, so many of these kids are almost sadly born with a
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strike against them because mommy and daddy are not part of the picture because of
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drugs, grandma's you know, are sometimes not part of the picture. So
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getting them early and hopefully getting them on the right path, getting them turned
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around, is so so important, Judge right, And that's exactly what our
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goal is because I think in my background, I've already been aware of some
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of the issues that our kids are facing, but really being down and seeing
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it firsthand and being in the trenches has been profoundly humbling and eye opening experience
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for me. So we're doing everything that we can to make sure that our
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kids can be successful and have good opportunities in the future. So you are
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appointed to that position. You've been in office now for four months. Now,
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now you're a candidate. Why do you want to continue? Well,
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I, like I said, I'm just proud of the work that we've been
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able to do so far. I think when I was back here in September,
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I told you and your listeners that I would hit the ground running,
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and I have done that. We are moving cases, making decisions and it's
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incredibly great, just really wonderful for me to serve the citizens of this county.
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In case people missed your previous appearances on the show, is devidi to
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give give us the bio in Stephanie Abraham. Well before I'm being appointed by
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Governor Justice. I was a Attorney General Council for our state Board of Education,
22:47
also worked as an attorney for our Department of Education, and then had
22:52
my own private practice where did some work for countity and county entities and a
22:56
lot of property work. I've represented all kinds of individuals, different businesses,
23:00
different governmental entities, so I have that different, unique kind of experience bringing
23:06
that to the bench. There's been some criticisms in the past judge of judges
23:12
who want to legislate from the bench, be it locally, even on the
23:18
higher level. I'm going to phrase this right, what do you feel is
23:23
the role of somebody setting on that bench and what does the line get drawn?
23:27
Because you've heard the criticism, not necessarily against you, I don't mean
23:30
that, but I mean across the country people saying we have you know,
23:33
activist judges, judges don't want to legislate from the bench. How do you
23:36
answer those sercations? And I can unequivocally say that that's not me, that's
23:40
not my role. We don't make laws. That's the legislature's role, and
23:45
it's our job to make sure that. And what I feel strongly about is
23:48
following our state laws, following our Constitution, and ensuring that all the litigands
23:52
that come in front of me have due process and equal protection in their liberties
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protected. Give us a website or something where people learn more about you,
24:03
Abraham for Judge dot com. Okay, and so again, you're back at
24:07
it right now, and you've got the four months of experience. And I
24:12
kind of touched on this early, but it just kind of reiterate there's nothing
24:15
like on the job experience. And you're obviously very experienced, So you don't
24:18
really know till you know, until you until you're there. And I'm sure
24:22
that you've picked up some things along the way from the last time that you
24:25
were here that you could say, Okay, well this didn't work, this
24:27
does work, whatever, and kind of take it from there. Yeah,
24:30
And like I said, it's been incredibly eye opening experience. Some of the
24:33
issues that we're facing here in our county and that our citizens are facing in
24:37
this county. We all know, and it's no secret that substance abuse and
24:41
addiction is a main driver of crime in our county. We work really hard
24:45
to ensure that people have access to treatment, but we also ensure that there's
24:49
justice for victims. That's just as important. I'm firm on that. I
24:53
don't want my courtroom to be a revolving door of recidivism, but it is
24:57
something that we struggle with and we see and we hear so many people in
25:03
the judicial front that will that have told me, others, you and others
25:06
on this show that they do see sometimes a lot of the same people in
25:11
there. And I don't know how you break that. That's not the role
25:14
of the judicial system, but I don't know how we break that cycle.
25:17
But I think of some of these things that you and others are doing with
25:19
these drug courts, and you mentioned them out in your Challenge Academy, which
25:22
I think. I'm a big believer in that program. I think I think
25:25
it's a fantastic program if we get these hopefully we get these kids and even
25:29
adults get them turned around, because there's a lot of successes in drug courts
25:33
and things of that nature to judge. So it's not just that I spend
25:34
time talking about the kids, but there are success stories of those that are
25:38
much older in life that have been able to turn it around. Oh.
25:41
Absolutely. In fact, I was very fortunate to attend Judge Slango's Family Treatment
25:45
Court graduation a few weeks ago. We also have adult Treatment Court in Kanawah
25:49
County and then the juveniles, like I already spoke about. So really it
25:53
is an all hands on deck effort. So give me the final thirty seconds
25:56
you're watching, somebody vote to retain judge have any Abraham on the bench.
26:00
Well, thanks, Davi v I. Like I said, I am a
26:04
firm believer that everybody deserves their day in court. If they are in front
26:08
of me, they will have every opportunity to present their case and I will
26:11
hear it fairly. I will follow the law, not make the law,
26:15
like we just talked about, and that's something that I believe in, and
26:18
that's something I'm going to continue to do. All right, And we have
26:22
information out there people can learn about you on the course. You're running a
26:25
lot of commercials. That's a good start on the show, on this show,
26:27
in this station. But you got a website, social media, they
26:30
are pretty easy to find right there. All right, Judge seventy Abraham,
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I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. Hanging at me with me
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to get out to the Coloseum and Convention Center, and that is happening on
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Thursday night. I mean, I got a couple of text and then we'll
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go to Joe Stevens. Tex says this was about yesterday's show to the know
30:33
nothing, know it all genius saying banning the anti white propaganda platform critical race
30:40
theory. By the way, if you're based on facts, it would not
30:41
be a theory, says a Texture that it violates the First Amendment. You
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really need to know the difference between speech and indoctrination. It protects your rights
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to proclaim critical race theory, but it does not establish any right to teach
30:52
it in tax payer funded government schools says a Texture. Going back to the
31:02
Chris Print interview yesterday. Yesterday on the show, Chris Print, remember the
31:03
House of Delegates, had said he was going to run for Secretary of State,
31:07
opting in standing now to run for state senate, says I'm confused.
31:11
Print is running for West Virginia State Senate to make other states elections, sayer
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l O l says a texture. Let's go to Joe Stevens, our good
31:18
friend from the Ski Association. Joseph, good morning, how are you just
31:22
fine? And great news about the caravan coming in? And you know what
31:26
flag I fly in front of my house. Let's go. Oh, you
31:30
will appreciate this, mister Allen. Crossing something off the bucket list. My
31:36
brother and I are going to spring training in March to ed Smith Stadium C
31:41
and the O's play. Now where do they do their spring training when?
31:45
Or where? Where? Where Sarasota? Oh, they're down in Sarasota.
31:48
Okay, yeah, I know. I know. Jeff Jenkins went down I
31:52
think last year, and he may have gone down a couple other times to
31:55
take into Red spring training. That's that's also on my bucket list. But
31:57
I'll be honest with you, I don't really care what team I go for,
32:00
to be honest with you, I just want to go to spring trading.
32:02
I think it would be awesome to do that. Yeah, my brother
32:06
and I were like, who are they playing? Who cares? Yeah?
32:07
Exactly right? All right, Joe, So you took me to task a
32:12
couple of times last week, and I refer to the snowy weather and the
32:14
cold as nastiness. I think you referred to it in a text to me
32:17
as gold falling from the sky. All right, So so can both things
32:22
be right? Can we? Can we hate snow and love it at the
32:24
same time. Well, I'm not going to disagree because you have the silence
32:29
button, so we'll we'll let that one fly. But you know, I
32:34
mean, there are there are times when you know it can get a bit
32:38
gnarly out there as it may be, but when you're when you're at the
32:43
ski resort, or you're going to a ski resort, or you know you're
32:46
going to be snow tubing or or snowboarding or even cross country skiing. What
32:52
what was occurring in the last ten days or as you as I as I
32:58
described it for you, it was gold wait goal falling from the skies.
33:01
Yes, So let's talk about the last couple of years in the skiing industry
33:06
in West Virginia as far as snowfalls go. I mean, if you remember
33:08
last year around Christmas, we had that really cold snap and we didn't get
33:12
a whole lot of snow with it, but because it was twenty five below
33:15
zero, it seemed like it's stuck around for a while, but other than
33:17
that, over the last couple of years, Joe, it's been pretty slim
33:20
pickens as far as snow in West Virginia, well, two years ago it
33:23
was somewhat on the average both Canaane Valley and Pocahontas where Snowshoe is that those
33:32
two areas got over one hundred inches, but that's still under the one hundred
33:37
and fifty to one hundred and eighty I've seen as much as when I was
33:40
working at Snowshoe, I've seen as I saw as much as two hundred and
33:44
ninety eight inches in a season, but that hasn't occurred in last year.
33:49
Like you said, it was limited. But with that said, we did
33:53
have the cold temperatures. And that's the key because the resorts in West Virginia,
34:00
and I'm talking about from winter Place in Raleigh County to Snowshoe and Pocahontas
34:05
County to in Tucker County you've got Timberline and Canine, and over in Ohio
34:09
County you've got Ogilby. If it's cold temperatures, they're making snow and it's
34:15
not the it's not artificial snow. It's not fake snow. It is real
34:20
man made snow. It is crystallized formations hitting on the ground that people can
34:25
play on. Well, I saw a lot of pictures posted online for people
34:30
that when they saw the forecast either headed to the ski resorts or maybe they
34:35
already had trips planned. They kind of got their money's worth last week.
34:38
Is that a pretty good assertion, Oh, without a doubt. I mean,
34:43
and yesterday I was just talking to somebody that their grandson was skiing at
34:46
winter Place and they were still in ankle deep snow. And you saw some
34:53
of the pictures from Timberline, and you saw a picture I saw a picture
34:57
from Snowshoe and they were in knee deep outer and I mean, that's just
35:01
that's just too much fun to be had by one person. And unfortunately I
35:06
wasn't one of those persons that were going downhill and having fun. But yeah,
35:10
we're in good shape. And Dave, you know, just looking ahead
35:14
down people are you know, they got their weather apps on their phone and
35:17
they and they and they feel that that is the where they get the most
35:21
accurate information. And that's another story for another time. And Tony and and
35:25
the person you want to talk to about that, and Tony Edwards at n
35:29
WS and just just just calm up and say tell me about weather apps and
35:34
and and that'll be an hour long show for you. But but none.
35:37
Nonetheless, we're going to come into a mile period now and and but because
35:43
of what has already fallen and what they've made, I mean they dumped out
35:47
water. They were there were millions upon millions of gallons of water in their
35:52
snowmaking pond uh lakes that they were making snow. And man made snow is
35:57
more resilient. Yeah, it's going to be under the snow in a couple
36:00
of days at some of the resorts and what have you, but are known
36:02
as rain, but we call it under developed snow. And and but you're
36:07
not. It's the conditions it would be good. And for guys like you
36:12
and I who it's gonna be Ego snow because it's gonna be a softer scenario
36:17
and they can have some fun in it and and let gravity be their friend
36:22
as it may be. Talking to Joe Stevens from the Ski Association of Dave
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Joe, are we talking about? For what skime means to the tourism
36:50
industry in West Virginia About a quarter of a billion dollar industry. That's and
36:54
that's not only at the resort. Let's talk about people like place where they're
37:00
lodging in Princeton, they're lodging in buff Up, in Bluefield, they're lodging
37:06
at Glade Springs. So that's money being being funded in in in that area.
37:12
You know, you're talking about restaurants off the resorts. You're talking about
37:16
gas stations off the resorts. A good case right there at gen where you've
37:21
got a par mar store and uh, you know you just see people lining
37:24
up there when they're coming in and when they're going out. So you've got
37:29
an economic impact across across the board. And and we're also talking about right
37:35
now about five thousand jobs that is directly related. And that's not even counting
37:40
the guys plown snow, the the individual and the individuals, not the d
37:46
O H guys who have done just an awesome job this year to and from
37:51
the resorts and that sort of thing, but the individual plow drivers that have
37:55
to take care of the parking lots that people are coming to the resorts and
38:00
that sort of thing. So the trickle down effect, the proverbial trickle down
38:02
effect is strong. Well, Joe, you know, all my weather forecasting
38:08
friends, you know, from the National Weather Service and the guys that do
38:12
the TV thing, Spencer and Brian and Tony and all of them, they'll
38:15
always say that the weather cannot be act very you know, there's certain exceptions,
38:21
but for the most part, it can't be accurately predicted more than about
38:22
forty eight hours in advance. So Brian Hughes I had him on a couple
38:27
of weeks with Spencer, was on last week as well, and they say
38:28
that, well, we're gonna have this mild period, but then we may
38:31
it looks like February is gonna be a little bit colder, so we'll play
38:35
the wait and see game. And don't always trust the apps on your phone,
38:37
right exactly. It's weather, whether you like it well, weather,
38:42
whatever the weather will be. Weather gonna do what weather gonna do. Joe,
38:45
I appreciate it, man. And where can we get more information about
38:49
anything related to ski in West Virginia. What's your go to places as far
38:52
as locate websites or things of that nature, ghost ski WV dot com that's
38:57
got skiwv dot com or skisoutheast dot com which is just a really good portal
39:05
for the industry and that sort of thing. But at gooski dot com you
39:07
will be able to find out what programs are going on and also quick links
39:12
to not only the resorts, but to the resort cams and you can feel,
39:16
taste, touch what's going on at the resorts live and in person.
39:20
All right, Joe, we'll talk again soon. Man, Thanks a lot,
39:22
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We'll come back with JB mcusk Tex, says Abraham talking about Stephanie Judge.
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Stephanie Abraham is an unelected bureaucrat who only got position because of political connections.
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Vote against political cronyism. Well, j Abraham was appointed to that job
40:07
by the governor and now she's on the ballot. So well, if people
40:13
don't like her appointment, they can they don't have to vote for them.
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It's pretty much the way it is. Thirteen minutes away from ten leads story
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wv Metro News dot com. Do you know what swatting is? It's not
40:22
the best way to get rid of flies. Swatting is when someone or some
40:27
things calling a fake emergency. Do you see what kind of response they can
40:30
get from first responders. Well, that's exactly what happened in South Hills yesterday
40:35
when nine to one one took a call around eleven yesterday morning in which the
40:37
caller claimed to have his parents and his brother in the house. The caller
40:44
said he was barricaded in the house on Dunlevy Road in South Hills. He
40:46
claimed to have shot the others in the house and would shoot anyone who else
40:50
approached the house. Is all the talk around eleven eleven thirty yesterday morning.
40:53
It was later found out the whole thing was false. There was a woman
40:57
in the house at the time who was quite surprised to find that the SWAT
41:00
team was surrounding her home. No one was injured, but a police cruiser
41:05
was wrecked on the way to respond to the call. Chris Lawrence has a
41:08
full story posted about it at wv metronews dot com. At this time,
41:13
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41:17
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Texas Day. The CPC shows February above normal, also March and April,
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so winter West Virginia winter may be over along with the above normal the next
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two weeks. As a text us welcome to the show. Jimmy McCuskey,
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current state auditor and candidate for Attorney General. JB. How are you,
44:24
man, Great, Dave, how are you. I'm doing fine. You
44:27
were telling me that during the break, I was talking about this swatting story
44:31
that happened yesterday up in South Hills, and I was, I mean,
44:35
people you know, were talking, I mean, calling the station and everything
44:37
about this. It later turned out to be fake, but you you really
44:39
pretty darn close to the situation talk about that. Yeah, So we had
44:43
probably I mean, it's hard to count, but I'd say twenty five or
44:46
thirty first responders go past our house, sirens blaring, you know, going
44:52
sixty seventy miles an hour on a on a on a neighborhood road. And
44:57
the school. And I was working from home yesterday and the the the school
45:00
is across the street from the house, and that's where my six and my
45:02
eight year go to school. I have a third grader and a kindergartener at
45:06
whole school. And when you see that much police presence speed past your house
45:09
and your kids are at an elementary school without a security guard, I literally
45:15
threw on a jacket in my shorts and my slippers and ran up the street
45:20
in the freezing cold to do whatever I could because I thought they were all
45:22
going to my kids' school. It was as scared as I've ever been in
45:25
my life. I can't imagine that man and the teachers I talked to.
45:29
I mean, what a disaster swatting is. At some point we need to
45:32
probably take a really good hard look at what are the punishments for this.
45:37
They need to be pretty similar to any other kind of action that puts a
45:42
first responder in harms, like a terroristic type thing. I mean, lock
45:45
them up and throw away the key as far as if they if they find
45:47
them, because a lot of times they don't find it, bear them under
45:50
the jail. It's this is a huge problem. It is, But at
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the same time, the bigger problem is is that we still haven't, as
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Senator Tarr and I have been working on for years, figure it out a
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way to prioritize the safety of our school students. There needs to be a
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resource officer in every single school in West Virginia. No parent should feel the
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need to sprint to their kids' school at the moment of danger. There should
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be somebody there protecting our kids. We have found ways to prioritize spending hundreds
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of millions of dollars on so many things right, and the safety of our
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children I think should be the most paramount, and I'll continue to fight for
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this because I think it is intensely important. I think it is worth every
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single penny, and I think most importantly what we know is these things happen
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everywhere. Yep. There is no special bubble around West Virginia that's going to
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prevent this from happening here, simply because this is a great place to be.
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It's a very safe place to be. It's a place with great families
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and great values. But all that being said, the mental health crisis that
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is affecting teenagers throughout this country is not going to stop at the Virginia,
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Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania border. Right. It's good to your campaign.
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It is official now, JB. You officially signed a paperwork yesterday.
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You're now a candidate officially for attorney in general. Why do you want to
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be the agen Well, it is, as we were just talking about,
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being a public servant in West Virginia is a passion and there is nothing on
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earth that I work harder for than to allow the people that I live with
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the people of the Mountain State to finally achieve the greatness that this place promises.
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And we have an incredible opportunity in front of us with economic development,
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with our location, with our value set there, this is the place where
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young families from around this country are going to want to move right. And
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with my long history of being a lawyer, both a constitutional lawyer protecting people's
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religious liberties, being a private defense attorney working to defend our coal industry and
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working to defend our gas industry, and then being the auditor and working to
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reform our entire state government to make it more efficient, more effective, faster,
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and more transparent and importantly more accountable to taxpayers, I believe that I
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have a really unique opportunity to help the next governor both protect our state from
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rogue Washingtonians and Californians who don't believe it that our way of life is appropriate,
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to defend our values, and to make sure that our government is able
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to be reformed and turned into a truly taxpayer centered organization that protects our children,
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that educates our children, that provides first class infrastructure, and that gives
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people who have a little bit less than we do a great opportunity to move
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up to the middle class. There is the left has tried for years to
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paint conservatives as those who don't care about those that are less fortunate, and
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nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is is that conservatives are
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the ones who truly want to empower the least among us and give us give
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them the most most opportunity to reach the middle class. And if we do
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that, the next twenty five or thirty years are going to be the most
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remarkable in our history. And I am excited to fight for every single one
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of those things. In every West Virginia. What are you most proud of
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as far as your work the state auditor? I would say that, you
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know, the list is so long, Dave. It's like that job interview
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question when they say, like, you know, what is your biggest fault?
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It's like, yeah, I'm just too humble, right, But you
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know, our office has done an incredible job of increasing our own efficiency,
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increasing our own effectiveness, and increasing our workload while also getting smaller and returning
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money back to taxpayers. So we have increased our audit load by almost a
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thousand audits. We've streamlined the audit process, We've made it significantly faster.
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We've created demolition programs that have torn down twenty five to thirty million dollars worth
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of dilapidated properties. We've prosecuted more than forty five people to felony fraud conviction
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throughout the state of West Virginia. And we've created the West Virginia Checkbook,
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made West Virginia the most transparent state in the entire United States, which I
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think is important. But at the same time, we've done it while decreasing
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the size of our staff where staff is down twenty five percent, and decreasing
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the size of our general revenue budget, so we spend less of your money,
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we have less people doing it, and we've returned over one hundred million
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dollars to the general revenue in the seven years that I've been here. And
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so what I what I know is is that we have committed ourselves to being
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the lean, accountable, efficient organization that the rest of the government can be.
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And I'm just super proud of my team and their willingness to buy into
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my vision in the office. And that's that It's been the joy of my
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life to build a team of people that bought in and are so committed to
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West Virginia taxpayer, And now, how do you transition that we'll close this?
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How do you transition that if you're like to attorney general. Yeah,
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the values are the same, right the end of the day, the West
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Virginia taxpayer is the person who needs to be protected. They either need to
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be protected from a rogue Washington bureaucracy or a rogue Charleston bureaucracy. Right,
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and I have a history of defending our state's values against people who want to
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stop it. Because here's the deal, Dave, we will not be able
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to grow if we're not allowed to be ourselves. The reason people want to
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move to West Virginia is because of who we are, because of our value
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set, and because of the way that young families can be free to educate
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their children here. They can they have a low cost of living it,
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they have a high a high probability of being close to the things that they
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want outside of nature. Everything is beautiful. Right, We're close to New
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York, DC, you name it. But it's a little alcove of freedom.
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And we need an attorney general who's going to fight to make sure that
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our value set is defended. And I'm the person to do that, and
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you feel that you are the person to do them. I know I am.
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All right? Where can people learn more about your campaign? Mccuski for
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wv dot Com. All right, House campaign, been looking so far?
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You've been at meeting people in Shakespaue, Austin. See the amount of enthusiasm
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that we have from the Eastern Panandal to the Northern Panandal, the coalfields,
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Canna, Putnam, Cavell, Harrison, Mary and Maud, Ohio, Berkeley,
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Jefferson, Mineral, you name it. We have incredible enthusiasm. Fundraising
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is going incredible, and interest groups and and you know, just the groups
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of people in West Virginia are very excited about my vision and I'm excited to
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get this race going. All right, State auditor and now officially a candidate
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for Attorney General. J. B. McCuskey. All right, appreciate it,
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man, Thanks a lot. Coming up on the show tomorrow, Don
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Miller from the Read Aloud West Virginia program will be here US and Canada.
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Glenn lah also the mayor of Wheeland. He'll be on the show tomorrow prosecuting
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attorney candidate Morgan Switzer will be on the show tomorrow as well. Gotta go,
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I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody.
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