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12/28/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Mac Warner, Jarrett Lewis, Brad McElhinny, Steven Allen Adams · The Dave Allen Show

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reporters here in West Virginia. Stephen Allen Adams from Ogden Newspapers going to join
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us, and our own Brad mclhenny will be here as well. Now,
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I thought I would kind of invite both in for a bit of a year
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in review from the political world of twenty twenty three and maybe a preview of
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the twenty twenty four political season. What's going on in the world of elections.
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Of course, we'll cover those things with Brad coming up a little bit
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later on. And I'm kind of trying to decide if the name is Adams
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and mcklhenny. I can't decide that that's a good name for a law firm
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or a seventies detective show. I just haven't quite put my finger on which
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one ball get in that a little bit later on. Also a little serious
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biz. Yesterday, we told you about this bizarre stabbing incident that took place
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over in Kanawa City at the McDonald's over there in Jeff and I, Jeff
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Jenkins and I. He was on the air talking about another story, and
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that had just broken about two hours before. We got some more information on
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that. Just a bizarre situation there in Kanas City, and we are going
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to talk about that with Jared Lewis from the newsroom coming up a little bit
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later on plus your calls the text to three zero four three four five fifty
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eight fifty eight or the text line three zero four nine three five five zero
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zero, we'd want to welcome to the show now, Western Diginian, the
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Secretary of State in Canada for Governor Mac Warner's secretary. Good morning, how
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are you. I'm doing great, basking in the glow of a nice wind
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last night mountaineers can talk about a nine and four season. Well it's better
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than go ahead, I'm sorry, just not too bad for a team that
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was picked last, dead last the league, dead last, and better to
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bask in the glow of that than to be covered in mayonnaise as coach Brown.
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Look, I'm a mayo guy, and I'm a Duke's Mayo guy.
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That's all we buy in our house. But that's a little bit. And
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when they start putting on pepperoni rolls, man, I mean, that's just
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that's not of God. Man. I mean, there's just something wrong with
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that. I think they need to pour that mess on the losing coach,
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not the winning coach. Is that I like it, I'm not going to
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go that far. The reason I wanted to have you on the show today
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as we're looking at the election coming up next year, the primarier, of
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course, will be and maybe here before you know it. I want to
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talk about poll workers. And there are a number of reasons for which we'll
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get into a little bit later on, but the bottom line is is the
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state of West Virginia is the need of poll workers for the upcoming elections.
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I know your office is undertaking several initiatives to try to make that happen for
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the upcoming election. Talk about that. Yeah, As we get ready to
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turn the corner into this twenty twenty four election year, it's important for us
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to start looking at making sure these elections are run properly. We've got this
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really divided country right now, concern over elected officials, concern over the elections
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themselves, and the best way to resolve that, to make sure that we
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have confidence in the elections is to ensure that the polls themselves where the precincts
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where people vote are run properly. And so what we've done is turned towards
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the group. The most respected institution cine America is the military, and being
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a military veteran myself, I want to call on fellow veterans this year and
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say step up once again, just like you did the first time when you
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raised your hand and swore to protect the Constitution. Now it's time to go
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out there and protect this republic by working at the polls, making sure the
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elections are run properly. Let's stop the conspiracy theories and those sorts of things.
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And the way to do that is to work at the polls. And
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so it's a real easy process. You can go to our website, go
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vote wv dot com. You can talk to your county clerk, or you
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can talk to your county executive committee. So there are a number of ways
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just to express your interest. And what we've done this elective service playing off
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the World War two selective service system where you had Uncle Sam pointing his fingers
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saying I want you to serve. Well, we want you to serve in
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our election process by working at the polls. And for those that may not
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know the way the poll workers system works as you said, you know,
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you can go on to the website or you can contact your your respective executive
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committees of your respective parties in your area to get on the on the rolls
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to be a it's it's a long day, you know. Polls open in
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West Virginia, sir at six thirty am, and they're we're made able to
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seven thirty pm. Most poll workers are going to arrive at five, you
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know, five thirty or so. Uh. And the process towards the end
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of the night is not nearly as long or as tedious as it used to
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be because the technology and things, so you can you know, be out
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of there, uh maybe hour hour and a half after the polls go.
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It's a little bit more in some areas, a little bit less, but
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it's a good way to make some change because there's I mean, I mean,
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it's not a bad payday, secretary for one day of work, No,
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it's not. The compensation is fair. It's a nice you know,
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people use they to do it for the money, but they do it for
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civic causes and being a part of the community and being a part of the
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election process. But you do get paid for it. You also get paid
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for the training. And that's why we're starting now early, is because these
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courts are going to search the poll worker training here in just a couple of
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months, and so we have to have those names in and set up the
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trainings and that sort of thing. And we need about eighty four hundred people
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throughout this state to run these polls. We have one thousand, six hundred
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and eighty precincts and each one of those requires five people, so it is
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manpower intensive, and we've always met our quota. We've always we've always got
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those polls open throughout the state, and in a couple counties it's been pretty
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close. So that's why we want to get started early and encourage people to
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sign up and become a poll worker. I have a question here via the
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text line for you, and it says, do you have to be a
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poll worker in the precinct you live in or can it be where one is
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needed? Even more, even though you don't live in that particular precinct,
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it can be where it's needed. The requirements so you have to be eighteen,
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you have to be able to reading, you have to be a registered
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voters. Those are the requirements. But you know, a clerk can move
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you to another location needed as the best I remember from my experience when I
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when I work for the officer is that they try as best to put you
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I guess if they have an opening in your precinct to making. But sometimes
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it just doesn't work out that way. And in Kanawa County, you could
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live in one area, you know, let's say Saint Albans, but they
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need you somewhere else across county exactly. We had one case where a woman
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actually gave birth who was a poll worker the night before, and so we
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had to get somebody to go in that situation. So those situations do arise,
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but you're absolutely correct. We try to keep you in that local area
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because we want people who know other people. And this last election or twenty
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twenty election, the board of realtors stepped up and said, we'll give extra
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credit to our board of realtors who worked the polls because it brought them in
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contact with their customers, the clientele, and it was a civic engagement.
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And so I would encourage you if you're part of a church group or a
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civic group, you might encourage your group to, you know, on mosque
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go in and register as a worker. And again you can do that online
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at go vote WV dot com. And we had a question here somebody asking
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about the pay. That really varies on the particular county secretary. It does.
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I think it's anywhere from one hundred dollars to three hundred dollars depending on
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where you're at the counties. That's a county run program, so I would
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say an average two hundred and fifty dollars for that day, plus you also
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get paid for the training. You usually have a two hour training sometime before
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the election day and then the way they make those trainings available. I know
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in the larger counties, especially like Canawa County, they have several clerk McCormick
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and Hurt and her crew here do a great job with that in Canawha County,
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I know, because they would do them like early in the morning,
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they do middays, they did evenings. I think they may have even done
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some weekends. So they'll get you trained up, that's right. They'll they
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set them up at various times and places. So the key is just to
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get involved, let the clerk know and the clerk can handle it from there.
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The count executive committees are the first line. But if you're not into
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the you know, Republican or Democrat politics or whatever, just call your county
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clerk or come online and get the information there. All right, Well,
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secretary, I've got to ask you this before we let you go. I
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know you and under then the other candidates for governor hopefully getting a little bit
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of rest over the holiday season. But you guys will be back out back
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out on the road soon. I'm sure. Well we are. We're looking
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forward to it. It's time for game one. Yeah, somebody, here's
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another question. Uh, you're a popular guide today, everybody asking all these
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questions. But Tex says, if it is busy, is there a time
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poll workers get to vote themselves? Now, that's like a provisional type situation,
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can be right? Uh, the poll workers can they do vote?
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When again they're they're downtime stream of to day. I can tell you that's
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when the poll workers can vote, or if they're out of the precinct.
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Yes, you can vote a provisional ballot, or you've got early voting too,
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you know you could try to do the voting. Yeah, I mean
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they're gonna they're gonna let you vote for sure, but we do appreciate the
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textures for texting in those questions. Well, Secretary, I hope you and
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your family have a wonderful twenty twenty four. As I said, I kind
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of started talking about the campaign a little bit. Well, we'll leave that
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to another time. Best of luck to you out on the trail and all
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the other candidates as well. We'll talk again in the new year. Happy
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New Year, Happy new Year to you and everybody listening. Thank you,
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we go to break though, I want to bring in for the newsroom,
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Jared Lewis Jarrett. Good morning, Jeff and I started on the show yesterday
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talking about this situation with the with a murder over on the West end of
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Charleston, and we learned later that at a nine month old baby was graized
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in that. But in the midst of that, it was totally unrelated situation
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with this really bizarre situation with stabbings going on in Kanash City. An employee
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there of McDonald's in Kanas City, four people. I think we're stabbed.
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Take the story from there. Yeah, you're right. It was a very
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bizarre kind of I don't know, ten twelve hours, I guess in there.
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But it started Wednesday morning the McDonald's and Kanas City. There's an employee
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of the McDonald's. He was identified as Percy Woody. He's of Charleston,
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he's lived here. Police said that he's had instances like this before, but
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Chief Dempsey said back in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, he also had instances
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of malicious wounding. But this instance started yesterday morning before eight o'clock, there
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was a report that there were two employees of the restaurant that he worked at
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that he had stabbed or cut. Chief Dempsey said they weren't necessarily full on
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stabbings, if you will, Some of them may have been just grazes or
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cuts, but still taken seriously and injuries were sustained. So two employees were
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cut, and then a customer of the store was also cut by Woody.
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So then he dips out of the McDonald's, goes down the street, ends
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up cutting a woman who's standing outside of her home just mining her own business.
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That's what Chief Dempsey said. She had no idea what was going on,
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she was just standing there, and sure enough she gets attacked. And
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so there were a total of four victims that were either stabbed or cut.
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And then as officers were coming in on Woody to take him into custody,
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he was also cutting himself. But you know, they were able to detain
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him and there were minor injuries sustained in that. So, yeah, very
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very bizarre instance. Chief Dempsey had said, you know, there have been
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cases like this before, but uh, with four people, you know,
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that's uh, you don't see that very often. Yeah, I mean,
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and it's just a you know, a bizarre situation that happened. I mean,
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you go in trab crab coffee, orn egg McMuffin or something that's the
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least of the things that you expect to happen. And there's no motive I
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mean for this. We don't know why this guy did this as of right
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now. That's that's what Chief Dempsey said. He had a presser yesterday where
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he talked about the murder from from Tuesday night as well, but also mentioning,
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uh, the uh, the the stabbing incidents from from yesterday morning.
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Again, this happened in Kanalla City well before eight am. And like you
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said, I mean, it's not very often that you're gonna go into the
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McDonald's. You're gonna get your your egg McMuffin or whatever it is, or
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your coffee, and then this all this all breaks out. Yeah. Well,
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uh, there's gonna be plenty more to come out on this story.
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This gentleman was no stranger uh to uh to law enforcement. O offically had
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a rap sheet to pretty much a mile long. So we'll let you get
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back to it. To Jared, I appreciate you taking time I were scheduled
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to be here, and of course we'll have more on the websites and on
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the air and on the social media. Jarret Lewis from the newsroom. Thanks
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a lot, man, Thanks to It is nine twenty two. It is
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worth noting that in Canosity yesterday again not as Jared's had not believed in any
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way to be related to the murder on the West Side that entered that infant
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late Tuesday night. I will say this and file this one under what the
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hell is wrong with our criminal justice system? I mean, this guy who's
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accused in these stabbings has been charged this time around with four council malicious wounding.
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Other charges through the years include another malicious wounding, fleeing from an officer,
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battery and a government official brandishing a deadly weapon, obstructing an officer,
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public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and domestic battery. Those are some of the
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prior charges that this guy have. Everybody's innocent in this case still proven guilty,
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But I mean, you know, it's you know, you know,
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to wonder editorial common here at why in the world is this guy still out
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On Friday's just for stopping by from Farm to table Bigly Pigly wiggly, the
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best kept secret in Charles Before I get Stephen il Adams and Brad mackawhoney,
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I didn't want to pass long. Yesterday I was talking about the comments from
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last week's Knawa County Board of Education meeting as it pertains to transgender students and
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the Supreme Court saying that school officials must let kids use the restrooms of their
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gender that they identify with. Most there was a Derek Evans who spoke during
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the public comment period of the meeting and and said, among other things,
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the board members should be fired from their daytime jobs for paraphrasing here allowing sexual
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harassment of kids, et cetera, et cetera. I wondered aloud if it
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was that Derrek Evians, you know of the Derek Evans is in the capitol
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thing. Of course I should have known it was, should have recognized the
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voice. And now Dave Wonders allow allowed WHI is Derek Evans who lives in
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Wayne County speaking during the public comment period of a Knawa County Board of Education
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meeting. I'll leave that one not so, Yes, it was the same
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Derek Avians. Welcome in from AUGDT the newspapers. Steven Allen Adams, good
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morning, sir, how are you? Good morning? Thank you for clearing
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that up, because I had seen that too, and I knew that he
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had posted something on social media about I don't follow him, but he posted
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something about that, and then I had seen the story like that can't be
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the same. Derek Evans apparently was Brad Mcklelhenny is with us as well.
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Brad, how are you, man, It's great to see you. We're
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gonna have to work on Brad's microphone. Yeah, we got an issue here
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with Brad's microphone. Stephen, Stephen, Yeah, we may yeah, yeah,
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it's a little a little loud in here, so we're gonna have to
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do a little work on Brad's micro I can't decide whether Adams and mclhanny makes
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a better law firm name or seventies crime drama. I can't decide what would
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you have any idea? Well, you know, I I'm picturing now perfect.
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I love it. We need to get T shirts printed. I'm picturing
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now Brad or Steven maybe sliding across the hood of a car, as in
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the opening segment of Starskin hut, just the good old boys we are.
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I like it. Yeah, sounds good. It sounds a lot better.
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Ryan. I appreciate it. Thank you, Thank you very much. Steven
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uh So, how about this cameo appearance. But Derek Avians at the Canawa
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County Board meeting last week, Guess I've never heard of him. I mean,
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he's you got to give him, I guess a little bit of credit
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because I mean he's gotten some news out of that. But at the same
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time, nobody knew of his him. So how good of news coverage for
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him as far as name id could that have possibly been? You know,
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that campaign's kind of quiet. Most of the House campaigns really are kind of
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quiet right now anyway, because it's still a little early yet. But you
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know, he's got big shoes to try to fill by trying to, you
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know, defeat Carol Miller in that race, and I will see if he
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can like run up the scoreboard. But I was a little disappointed that we
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didn't hear like some really cool audio like Derek Avins is at the school board,
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Derek Cavins' is at the chalkboard, you know, Okay, like we
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did the Cavian I think that would have been kind of and maybe wearing a
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helmet. Yes, yes, yeah, you know it was the same guy,
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guys. I had Secretary of State and candidate for Governor Mac Warner on
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the show earlier. A nothing groundbreaking or earth shattering like the CIA working with
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a big tactic steal an election, anything like that. We did discuss the
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need for poll workers though in West Virginia in all seriousness, and I know
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this from my time having worked there, Steve, and you're also a veteran
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of that office. The average pole worker age in West Virginia something like eighty
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eight years old. And there's nothing wrong with eighty eight year olds, don't
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get me wrong. But I'm just saying, in talking to them, as
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I did with the office, there were many of them that said, you
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know what, I'd like to maybe move on and not do this anymore,
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but there's no one to take my place. And so now I give Secretary
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Warner and his office credit for trying to recruit, and they've got an initiative
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of going now with veterans, trying to get veterans to be poll workers.
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You know, we need pole workers in West Virginia. But here's the thing
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that maybe I should have asked Mack when I had him on. I'm trying
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to keep it everything nice for the holiday, see and whatever. Maybe,
23:02
just maybe with all of the scrutiny that there is on poll workers and election
23:07
workers across America, not so much in West Virginia, but across America,
23:11
now, maybe that makes it a little harder to recruit poll workers. Is
23:15
that just an off the wall thought of my brain? You know, there
23:18
was a significant news story within the last few weeks in Georgia where poll workers
23:26
Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, a mother and daughter pollworker duo, intended to
23:30
do public service. They were land basted over and over by Rudy Giuliani,
23:34
one of the former president's allies, and by the former president himself, which
23:40
resulted in a variety of actions against them. The mob came after him,
23:44
they received death threats. That entire experience was just a lightning rod of awful
23:51
behavior by segments of the public. And they got one hundred and forty eight
23:55
million dollars out of Rudy Giuliani's hide. He can't afford to actually pay it.
23:59
But you know, we are, unfortunately in a time where that act
24:03
of public service. It should be a quiet day or a few weeks of
24:07
performing your duty. You can wind up absolutely in the public crosshairs. And
24:12
you know, as as a society, we've got to tone that down,
24:15
So don't. I don't see a situation where that would ever happen in West
24:19
Virginia, but happened in Georgia, so you know, and it's mac Warner
24:26
doesn't as the Secretary of State, does not have any kind of jurisdiction over
24:30
the situation in Georgia. But it has to be a situation where where people
24:37
can believe that they operate behind the scenes and that they are not going to
24:41
receive death threats or that kind of eye profile, and that they're not going
24:45
to be the story, that they're going to be the story, that they're
24:48
not going to be the story. Well, here's another problem that I see
24:49
that we're having. And it's happening with pole workers, especially with the ones
24:52
that are getting older to do want to take a break from it. It's
24:56
happening across many different aspects of our society and culture, even veterans groups,
25:00
where younger people are not stepping up into these roles. And I don't know
25:07
if that's an issue with distrust of institutions that we see a lot of right
25:12
now. But veterans groups are having a hard time getting younger people to join
25:17
American American Legion and vets things of that nature. It's really becoming kind of
25:22
a problem and we're seeing this, I think play out also among poll workers,
25:26
where it is mostly you know, people that you would expect to be
25:30
your grandparents and people like that, be younger people aren't stepping up into these
25:33
roles and they really should. Well, you don't want to stereotype any you
25:37
know, I don't want to be accused of ageism or anything. But I
25:40
can tell you again, drawing from my experience working with the Secretary of State's
25:42
office, when we would go in to schools to do voter registration drives and
25:47
we would talk to assemblies and sometimes we would just go in and talk about
25:49
the totally nonpartists and just talk about the importance of getting involved in the process.
25:56
We would go in frequently. This is one of the things I did
25:59
with the office. I would go in, I'd go to a name high
26:00
school and talk to the kids and talk to them about being poll workers.
26:06
And when I told them that polls open at six thirty and that they have
26:10
to be on site by five thirty. I lost about half of them there,
26:12
even though, as Mike said, Secretary of Warning, I should say
26:15
said, it's as much as in some areas three hundred dollars a day to
26:21
be a poll worker. Average is about two to two fifty including the training
26:26
session. Not a bad paycheck, you know, for I'm not trying to
26:29
downplay what they do, but not a bad paycheck. Not like you're digging
26:32
ditches. I mean, you know, you're kind of sitting sitting there.
26:33
It does get busy at times. That was one of the things that lost
26:37
them. But another reason that I lost a lot of them when I would
26:40
try to recruit them was we told them they couldn't have their phone, and
26:45
cell phones are illegal inside the voting booth number one. But it's kind of
26:52
frowned upon to have them at the desk when you check in, and to
26:59
try to tell and again, adults can be just as you know, older
27:02
folks can be just as guilty as young people. But to try to tell
27:04
a twenty year old you have to go without your phone from six thirty am
27:11
to seven thirty pm. You can pay them one hundred thousand dollars. It
27:15
ain't happen. I would have a hard time going on without my phone.
27:18
I would I would reach for my phantom phone all day. But on the
27:22
other and I think I would look at it as a as a worthy break.
27:26
You could sell it to me, Dave by by leaving you you are
27:29
required to leave your phone at HOOM and you cannot look at it all day,
27:32
and I might think that's a nice break. Yeah, I'm off the
27:36
grid, man, I'm off the grid when I go camping. I turned
27:37
my phone off, So take me off the grid for for a day.
27:41
I'm cool with it. Yeah. Well, apparently not everybody feels that way.
27:45
And again it's not just young people. There's a lot of old people,
27:48
older people like myself that probably have an issue with that as well.
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public service should be a couple of weeks. The exact same can be said
28:15
for members of Congress. Actual public service, not corrupted careers. Mister Adams
28:22
Well, a buddy of by Matt Lewis, actually wrote a really good book
28:26
that came out over the summer talking about really how members of Congress enriched themselves
28:32
while they're in office when they're out of office, and it's a real fascinating
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book. It is real interesting how some members of Congress are able to parlay
28:41
their experiences in order to enrich themselves and make sometimes millions. Thanks Ractlhanny,
28:48
maybe we should How do you feel about term limits? Totally totally off the
28:52
wall question, but playing off that, how do you feel about uh?
28:55
You know, I am of the believer that the voters themselves can enforce term
28:59
limits. They've got options every couple of years, four years, six years
29:03
in the case of the US Senate, so it should be up to voters.
29:04
But there, you know, there are other forces. Once you are
29:07
an incumbent, it's it's pretty hard to beat you. But it's not impossible,
29:12
you know. I believe that Joe Manchin took a look at the numbers
29:17
versus a potential matchup with Jim Justice, and he decided to de term limit
29:22
himself. He did. Indeed, I've said it before, and I've said
29:25
it to Steven. Maybe I've said it to you, and I've said it
29:26
on the show. With all due respect to Senator Joe Manchin, who has
29:30
quite a winning record when it comes to elections, Joe Manchin goes head to
29:33
head with Jim Justice in that Senate race, Joe Manson gets beat handily.
29:37
In my opinion, I think he does as long as the de's by his
29:41
name. I can still see depending on who the Democratic candidate might be.
29:45
You won't really know till the filing period ands at the end of January,
29:48
but I could still see a scenario where he might be willing to try to
29:52
come back and pull Joe Lieberman and run as a right and independent and try
29:56
to get on the ballot that way. But I think that only happens depending
29:57
on who the Democratic candidate it is and depending on the situation with Jim Justice,
30:02
because by then he could have been beat up pretty good during the primary
30:04
with Mooney. But I mean, I don't think it really matters so Stephen,
30:08
because everything in the world has been thrown at Jim Justice as far as
30:12
his financial issues, it just keeps piling on and piling on more and more.
30:18
You pick up the paper, listen to Brad who you're what you write,
30:21
and it's just every day and people just don't care. They just simply
30:25
don't care, you know. I think that is in part because none of
30:30
these financial crises ever seem to have an endpoint. They get delayed or there's
30:34
a settlement behind the scenes, and then they eventually pop back up. There
30:40
is a There are a couple of things that are still in the air.
30:44
One is the three hundred million dollar claim by Justice's longtime banker, Quarter Bank,
30:49
that could be resolved potentially by a judge in Martinsville, Virginia by the
30:53
end of next month. That judge could say, look, you owe it,
30:57
you signed and so if there were finally a resolution like that, where
31:03
it's a clear cut and dry conclusion, then that potentially could change, that
31:08
could resonate with the citizens and the voters. But you're right, it hasn't
31:12
so far. Well, I mean, look a Donald Trump, I mean
31:15
former President Trump. The more legal issues, the more that's thrown at him,
31:18
the more popular he becomes. I think, weirdly enough, there's some
31:22
sympathy a little bit to place in the list too, because how many people
31:25
out there you've got bills that you haven't paid, or you've got mortgages or
31:30
that you're behind on or things of that nature. And I know people would
31:33
think Jim Justice, being as rich as he is, theoretically you would think
31:38
that people wouldn't have sympathy for that guy. But because he comes across as
31:42
folks see and down the earth, I think there's some sympathetic factory to place
31:47
into that. I agree with that big difference though, between you know,
31:49
a billion dollars and then and missing the payment on your ninety five dollars dart.
31:53
I mean, I think there could be a big difference, But I
31:56
do understand what you are saying. Tech says. If the voters choose,
32:00
then with that argument, there would be no term limits for every other political
32:04
office. And there are some, you know, especially in the county.
32:07
I know sheriffs in West Virginia they can only serve two terms. So governor's
32:10
limited to two terms. Governor's limited two terms. Yeah, indeed, Texas,
32:15
no phone, just listen to music. Sorry, I've got to have
32:16
my serious XM Elvis Radio says, says a little love for the king there,
32:23
going back to what I said earlier about the situation with this stabbing.
32:28
Uh. And then guys will take a break and we'll well, we'll hang
32:30
have you guys hang out a little bit because I got several questions from both
32:34
of you. It's pastime, says a texture to reopen the mental facilities like
32:37
Spencer. When people with serious mental problems that were dangerous to the public were
32:40
locked in those hospitals, there was no repetitive in and out like in our
32:45
jails. Now, what if this guy yesterday had stabbed a child? The
32:47
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35:50
was a poll worker. It was the longest day of my life. It
35:52
is. It is a long day. I mean, it is a long
35:55
day. But one thing I've always said about poll workers, guys, they'll
35:59
never starve to death because in traveling this data as I did when I worked
36:01
for the Secretary's Office, there's a lot of food, well, a lot
36:06
of food to be had. The I don't want to make it sound like
36:08
that it's not a hard job because it candy and it's busy. It is,
36:12
but I will tell you, depending on how many moons ago that you
36:15
were a pole worker, it was probably a lot harder. You know,
36:16
the technology has improved a good deal. I think it's streamlined some things to
36:22
some extent, so it might be a little easier. Should you want to
36:25
come back and try again? Yeah, Texas, Dave, could you please
36:29
give a belated birthday wish to one of your longtime listeners, Jim Brown.
36:32
Thanks indeed, Happy birthday, Birthday, Happy birthday, Jim. All Right,
36:37
gentlemen, Last week, just after appearing on this show, delicate more,
36:39
Capito announced he was resigning his position of a legislature to focus on his
36:44
run for governor. Although I have to say that speaking for me, it
36:47
did not surprise me. I thought the timing was a little strange, especially
36:52
since just two hours before he was on this very show and didn't mention it
36:55
or even in the green room while we were having coffee and say, hey,
36:59
there's going to be a big announce not not but more Capito owes me
37:01
anything. But but I do you kind of thought that, you know,
37:05
a little bit of a hint. I did not see it coming on that
37:07
particular day. Any thoughts from Stephen or Brady, Well, I mean,
37:13
you know, Brad's a good friend of mine and we text a lot,
37:15
so you know, as reporters were often on the zoom, the participating questions
37:21
and going into Christmas, you know, no one can foid the text.
37:24
Yeah, yeah, nobody can foil the text. I wasn't going to go
37:27
on the zoom. I think you said you probably weren't going to go on
37:30
the zoom. We didn't know anything about this at all, and then of
37:34
course they had their tech problems, so when the briefing was apparently going on,
37:38
we didn't even realize it was going on because it wasn't streaming on YouTube
37:42
and it wasn't even streaming on Twitter. It turned out the only place that
37:45
appeared was Facebook. So you know, we didn't took it took a tiny
37:50
day for us to figure out what was going on. It suppressed the splash,
37:53
yeah it did. Yeah, you know, as a strategy, I
37:58
can understand that for a significant office like governor is time consuming to campaign and
38:06
to get out around the state. On the other hand, if you're going
38:08
to be judiciary chairman, that is a significant part of legislative leadership. You
38:15
are in the middle of significant bills that are in the news on a daily
38:21
basis. And you know, I will say with in what I hope is
38:25
fairness to more capital, his slogan has been I'm to get it done conservative
38:32
and now he's stepped away from that active position to campaign but not to currently
38:38
be part of the legislative process. So I'm still thinking through it. But
38:44
I just wonder why in the cold months on January and February, where there
38:51
are not festivals and bean dinners are at a minimum, why you wouldn't be
38:55
where the news is. Yeah, text Seria says a Resils. I mean
39:00
his chairmanship would not have been surprising. Resigning the entire seat, though,
39:04
is quite shocking. Yeah, I would agree with that because I think and
39:07
that plays into a little bit at least if you're still in the legislature,
39:10
you can have votes and you can put yourself on the record and then you
39:14
can go out and campaign. See I voted for this or I recommend it
39:19
in better your lives this way. So that's actually I think a pretty well
39:22
taken point. It might have been better for him just to step down because,
39:27
as Brad said, I mean, every bill has to go through practically
39:30
two committees. It's either Judiciary or it's Finance, and they are major committees
39:36
and it's a huge task. Well, I'm going to be interested kind of
39:39
pivoting off that a little bit. I'm going to be really interested to see
39:43
who becomes the new chairman of that committee because it's so powerful. There's certainly
39:46
some lawmakers there. You would think that the vice chair, which is Tom
39:50
Fast, which I think this is his last year, anyway, he'd be
39:53
issueing I've heard Brandon Deli get Brandon Steele is wanting it, which is possibly
39:59
why he didn't decide to run for a circuit judge position down there. There's
40:04
all sorts of things that they could go in. So I'll be curious to
40:06
know who takes the baton from more Capito in that committee. Yeah, it's
40:09
uh, it's gonna be interesting to see. I guess what I have this
40:14
whole thing plays out. I want to move on to another candidate for Governor's
40:16
Patrick Morrisey, just checking the room does does Patrick Morrisey still hate us all?
40:22
You know, I haven't seen him since there was a forum for gubernatorial
40:27
candidates in Morgantown and we each were headed for the dessert bar and we got
40:31
along fine. We united over our appreciation for dessert. So I think,
40:36
well, I'll say, and I say that kind of tongue in cheek,
40:37
because you know, Patrick Morrissey, attorney General, in his role as Attorney
40:40
General, is a regular on this show on a regular basis, say,
40:44
and I'm not talking too much inside baseball here, I personally, even though
40:47
I'm a very very very small part of Metro News and this, I have
40:52
a desk. I have a desk upstairs. I was taken aback by some
40:58
of his comments about fake news and fake media, and as you and I,
41:01
Brad, I think, had that conversation that didn't seem to be fake
41:05
news. When when you want on the show, you know, I mean,
41:07
and my question and when his folks, who are very great people to
41:12
deal with, reached out to me by coming on the show, my comment
41:14
was, well, why would he want to come on the show if it's
41:15
fake news? I don't mean, why would he want to lower himself to
41:19
that. Now, if he wanted to come on as a candidate, I'm
41:22
I can't deny him with that. But I don't know if I'm going to
41:23
give free time to somebody who callsed the news organization a fake news outlet.
41:28
I mean, just probably that's my call completely, not not on behalf of
41:32
the company or anything, just my call. I said. Now, I'll
41:35
have him on as a Canada, but not so much as AG because we're
41:37
fake news. Yeah, I get that. I actually had a conversation just
41:42
yesterday on the phone with him for a story I'm working on for this weekend,
41:45
which was pleasant. I mean it was all off the record, but
41:49
we all, you know, talked, talked about campaign and things of that
41:52
nature. So I've had a few conversations with him since since then. And
41:58
that's always the struggle, because you know, the persona that certain candidates put
42:01
out, particularly on social media, versus how they interact with you in person.
42:08
It's different. I get their plane to a certain type of primary voter
42:14
that they think is going to vote for him based on that sort of stuff,
42:16
but they got to remember to do and it's pretty easy to pick up,
42:22
you know, good reporters, bad reporters, fair reporters on fair reporters.
42:24
But I think most of us are trying to do a fair job and
42:28
just tell the story. And you're better off just not trashing us, but
42:31
working with us, because we're not out to get you. We're ro out
42:35
to tell a story, and the more you talk to us, the better
42:37
the story we can tell. I will say that in that period where there
42:43
was a lot of morrisy World discussion of fake news, I wondered not only
42:49
about the relationship with shows like this one, but there are other fine nine
42:52
AM shows in the Metro News zone across the state, one in Beckley,
42:58
one in Martinsburg, one in Morgantown, And to strain the relationship with any
43:04
of those shows, I wondered about the logic and the strategy there. And
43:07
then you know, skipping out on the debate and doing your own live streamed
43:13
event to each his own. That wouldn't have been my advice to not be
43:19
there when it's it seems to me a competitive race, and there were three
43:22
candidates there who were trying to draw a distinction, and you know, anybody
43:28
who was interested in the race, it was clear that he was not there
43:30
again, that's that's his decision, but it wouldn't have been my advice.
43:35
Texas, ask the gents your jets now ask the gems. Must be confused
43:38
with somebody else my top hat. If Big Daddy Jim officially endorses Capito,
43:44
how much does that affect the race? Well, you can make the argument
43:47
it kind of happened now, of course they I've talked to a few people
43:51
behind the scenes in the More Capitol campaign to see what happened last week is
43:54
greasing the skids for an endorsement. And of course, just to be clear,
44:00
many of the governor's top advisors and officials have donated to the More Capital
44:05
campaign, so money wise, they have basically blessed More Capital. And of
44:08
course Senator Shelley Moore Capito endorsed Jim Justice at his campaign announcement in April.
44:15
So this is pretty much all but officially done. I mean, the governor
44:19
I think said on that briefing that not to consider this an official endorsement a
44:23
more Capital But I don't know how you can't really already see that it's coming.
44:29
What difference that makes though, I don't know. I mean whether the
44:31
Governor's popularity is something that creates coattails that More Capital can write. I don't
44:37
know. It remains to be seen. I mean it seems like an alignment.
44:40
Senator Capito, as stated earlier, has endorsed Jim Justice did right away,
44:46
and More Capital has endorsed GYM Justice officially. But if it goes the
44:52
other way, you know, I think so a Trump endorsement means a great
44:57
deal, and Trump is a unique political figure in some ways. Jim Justice
45:04
is cut from that same mold, a rich guy who connects somehow with the
45:10
broader population. But I'm not sure people feel as passionately to identify with Justice
45:19
the way they do Trump. So I'm just not sure it's going to have
45:23
that as significant an effect. It seems to me that people like Jim Justice.
45:29
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45:31
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45:37
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today. Brad michaelhennin Ce and Alan Adams are here. Either of you guys
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happen to hear Cinder Finance Chair Eric Tarr on the show yesterday explaining the big
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fundraiser at Edgewood that has some on edge identity, including Robert Karnes. I
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did catch that yesterday and I did. If nothing else you know, as
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a reporter that covers campaign finance stuff, I do find the at least a
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little refreshing that he kind of leaned into it. You know, dang right.
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We had the fundraisers, those people that were upset about it because it
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was like, what ten thousand dollars a plate or something, you know like
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that, and they were saying that, and the Democrats made a deal out
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of it. But more importantly, some of the Republicans made a big deal
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out of this. And Senator tar to his defense, you know, it's
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just said yesterday basically, hey, wasn't paid to play or anything like that.
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It's just we got to have money. And look at how much money
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the Democrats and he used the term unions and trial lawyers and things that much
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money that they raise. Well, I'm sorry to say I missed the appearance.
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What was that doing yesterday? You were roaming around here to go to
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something. I don't know what you were doing. You're trying to get a
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trying to get a T shirt or something. I don't know what you were
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doing, because you know you were just that's a good motivation, looking for
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free food. Yeah, exactly. So I want to bring this up too,
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and it has to do with Senator Mansion. Now he's starting his US
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tour, I understand. I think he's got the Steve Miller band opening up
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for him. I'm not sure, but he's going all around America trying to
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find the truth or something like that, some kind of an old fable or
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something. I don't know what he's doing, but trying to trying to gauge
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the the peed offness, if you will, of the American electorate. For
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lack of a better term, what do you think of Senator Mansion. Yeah,
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I know he's going to be up in New Hampshire, I believe at
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an event, and I just don't know. I really kind of running for
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a third party is really just I feel like it's Indiana Jones in the Quest
50:30
for the Holy Grail and everyone's trying to get it and everyone thinks they can
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keep it, but nobody can keep it. And I know Mansion things.
50:38
Maybe he might have a recipe in order to have a successful third party campaign.
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I don't see it, and I suspect he will see it at some
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point and maybe just parlay this into his own organization. But I have been
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wondering what shape his search for the middle will take. And now we're beginning
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to see this is an issues in Eggs kind of style event in New Hampshire,
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which is significant because it's an early primary state. You know, I
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wondered, well, if you're going out in search of America, are you
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going to diners to talk to people like Brad, Dave and Stephen? Are
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you going to talk to Is it a blend of all that? And so
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now we see he's addressing people who are very interested in politics. I agree
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that I'm not sure there is a third party path because of this thing called
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the electoral College. You know, it is fine to say that there is
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a significant movement of support for individual voters, but the electoral college takes states,
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and the states lean one way or another. West Virginia is gonna go
51:45
Republican for the presidential election. California is gonna go Democratic, so is New
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York. So what are the states that you, as a third party candidate
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hope to hope to get the votes of in the electrical code? Guys,
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real quick, what are you looking forward to in the new years? What's
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your New Year's resolution? Brad? You know, I am nearing middle age
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and trying to be more physically active, and I hope to do that while
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Stephen and I sit at five hour meetings. See going on a cruz at
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the end of the session and in between the primary, so that way I'm
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relaxed, all right, guys, I appreciate you both being here. Check
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out brad stuff on our website and on the air. Stephen with Ogden Newspapers.
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I appreciate you guys being here. Thanks a lot so much for being
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here. Great discussion, or at least I enjoyed it. Going up on
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the show tomorrow, Miss Amanda Walton is going to be here Hannah with our
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Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week and more. We'll see you then till
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