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- 0:29Speaker 3: The United States of America, the state West Virginia, the
- 0:35Speaker 3: city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on five
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- 1:39Speaker 4: Ryan Nicholson in charge of things today. Coming up a
- 1:40Speaker 4: little bit later on the show, We're going to continue
- 1:43Speaker 4: our look back at the recently ended West Virginia legislative session.
- 1:48Speaker 4: One group has gone as far as to say this
- 1:50Speaker 4: was the worst legislative session in history. Pretty strong statement there.
- 1:54Speaker 4: Greg Thomas with Citizens Against Lost Age Abuse out with
- 1:57Speaker 4: that press release yesterday. We'll talk to Greg Thomas about that.
- 2:01Speaker 4: And of course, the big story here in the Canaal
- 2:02Speaker 4: Valley was the storms that rolled through the area just
- 2:05Speaker 4: after five five fifteen or so yesterday afternoon. Depends on
- 2:08Speaker 4: where you live as to how hard you got hit.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Understanding that in Charleston it wasn't nearly as bad. But
- 2:13Speaker 4: where where I live in in Tays Valley, we absolutely
- 2:17Speaker 4: got hammered about five point fifteen yesterday and you probably
- 2:21Speaker 4: have seen the videos floating around. I got a lot
- 2:25Speaker 4: about it post on my social media, Dave Island Radio
- 2:27Speaker 4: and at Dave A seventy on ACST. Yeah, it was
- 2:30Speaker 4: pretty intense and to clean up still continues over there,
- 2:32Speaker 4: So we'll talk about that coming up a little bit
- 2:34Speaker 4: later on. Plus, your calls and text are always welcome.
- 2:36Speaker 4: Big Ley Bigley Wiggly Hotline three zero four three four
- 2:39Speaker 4: five fifty eight fifty eight. Tony the Taylor Text three
- 2:42Speaker 4: zero four nine three five five zero zero eight, Welcome
- 2:45Speaker 4: into the show. The Attorney General of the City of
- 2:47Speaker 4: West Virginia in studio with us this morning.
- 2:50Speaker 3: J B.
- 2:50Speaker 4: Mccusky, Hey you doing man.
- 2:51Speaker 5: Good morning, Dave. How are you, buddy?
- 2:52Speaker 3: Now?
- 2:53Speaker 4: The last time you were here was on the State
- 2:55Speaker 4: Wide show and you brought these lovely little little girls
- 2:59Speaker 4: with you. And when I look up and I hear
- 3:01Speaker 4: the door open, this one, I see you walk in,
- 3:04Speaker 4: not quite as lovely without the girls, mane.
- 3:06Speaker 6: You know it's funny That is a very very common
- 3:08Speaker 6: statement that I received, is that you know, we like
- 3:10Speaker 6: you a lot better when your daughters are with.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it gives you a certain, you know, cuteness.
- 3:16Speaker 6: It doesn't give me cuteness. It just diverts people's eyes
- 3:19Speaker 6: away from my ugliness.
- 3:20Speaker 5: Is that what it is?
- 3:21Speaker 4: I didn't I didn't say that, sir, I did I did.
- 3:24Speaker 7: I get it.
- 3:24Speaker 4: I'm self aware. I got a few things I want
- 3:28Speaker 4: to talk to you about, but I want to start
- 3:29Speaker 4: by talking about the storms yesterday. As I said, depends
- 3:33Speaker 4: on where you live as to how hard you got hit.
- 3:35Speaker 4: In Putnam County, Uh, yeah, it was pretty intense there.
- 3:39Speaker 4: We're still cleaning up over there. Whenever we have jb A,
- 3:43Speaker 4: any sort of an incident, whether encitiven, happens like this,
- 3:47Speaker 4: you know, whether it's flooding or whatever, we seem to
- 3:51Speaker 4: get hit, and the hours afterwards, the vultures come a calling.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Yeah you know, I can fix this damage to your roof,
- 3:59Speaker 4: or I can fix thisdamage to your fence that got
- 4:01Speaker 4: knocked down, if your house got flooded, or whatever the
- 4:02Speaker 4: case may be. The scam artists are out and I'm
- 4:06Speaker 4: sure here we're a little over twelve hours away. I'm
- 4:08Speaker 4: sure they're already at work.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:09Speaker 6: I mean, I have a friend who lives in Putnam
- 4:11Speaker 6: County and she has to get the entire side of
- 4:13Speaker 6: her house. The siding redon her roof is completely destroyed.
- 4:17Speaker 6: And I'm sure that is unfortunately a common experience for
- 4:21Speaker 6: many people from that storm last night. And in many respects,
- 4:24Speaker 6: a hailstorm is the worst kind of one because the
- 4:26Speaker 6: scammers are the most likely to come and talk about
- 4:30Speaker 6: roofs in siding and.
- 4:31Speaker 4: So, and whereas you have a lot of people that
- 4:33Speaker 4: are just gonna probably maybe some older folks or whatever,
- 4:36Speaker 4: are going to say, well, I'm not going to go
- 4:38Speaker 4: up there and look, and you don't have any anyway.
- 4:41Speaker 4: You can see the obvious damage, but on top of
- 4:43Speaker 4: a roof you may not.
- 4:44Speaker 6: And there are a bunch of really great local roofing
- 4:48Speaker 6: companies that are licensed and regulated and know what they're doing.
- 4:52Speaker 6: But in the roofing space there's a lot of scam artists.
- 4:55Speaker 6: And so we need everybody in West Virginia, especially those
- 4:58Speaker 6: affected by the storm last night, to be hyper vigilant
- 5:01Speaker 6: about with whom you are doing business. It is, and
- 5:04Speaker 6: we talked about this last time. You know, there's a
- 5:06Speaker 6: heightened sense of anxiety when there's a hole in the
- 5:09Speaker 6: top of your house, or your roof is destroyed, or
- 5:12Speaker 6: in the wake of a storm. It's sometimes harder to
- 5:15Speaker 6: make great decisions, or really good decisions at the very least.
- 5:18Speaker 6: So take a deep breath when you're talking to somebody.
- 5:21Speaker 6: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- 5:23Speaker 6: If you notice something strange, call our office. But make
- 5:27Speaker 6: sure that you are ensuring that anyone that you're doing
- 5:30Speaker 6: business with to repair your house is a licensed contractor
- 5:34Speaker 6: here in West Virginia and somebody that your insurance company
- 5:38Speaker 6: is willing to work with.
- 5:39Speaker 4: And it's not hard to find out whether they are,
- 5:41Speaker 4: or it's not hard.
- 5:42Speaker 6: You just go right on the Secretary of State's website.
- 5:44Speaker 6: You can look them up and anybody who anybody who's
- 5:46Speaker 6: reputable will help you find that licensure. And they should
- 5:50Speaker 6: have copies of their licenses along with them when they're
- 5:52Speaker 6: when they're traveling around. And to be fair, if somebody's
- 5:55Speaker 6: going door to door, I would be a little extra skeptical.
- 6:00Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we want to think as West Virginians,
- 6:03Speaker 4: you know that people wouldn't do that and it wouldn't
- 6:06Speaker 4: be all your friends and neighbors, wouldn't. Yeah, Unfortunately, they
- 6:10Speaker 4: kind of take advantage of people when it comes to
- 6:12Speaker 4: the kindness of West Virginias.
- 6:13Speaker 6: For all the reasons why we expect our neighbors not
- 6:16Speaker 6: to do it to us, is the reason why people
- 6:17Speaker 6: who may not be our neighbors will come in here
- 6:19Speaker 6: and take advantage of our hospitality.
- 6:22Speaker 4: There's been a lot in the news Attorney General about
- 6:24Speaker 4: the deportation from the Trump administration of some folks, one
- 6:29Speaker 4: having to do with some Venezuelan gangs talking about them.
- 6:33Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if you're in this country, number one, illegally,
- 6:36Speaker 6: and number two, if you're in this country and you're
- 6:37Speaker 6: a dangerous felon who has felonies from other countries as well,
- 6:41Speaker 6: you have no business wandering around the streets of America
- 6:44Speaker 6: and endangering the people here. But more than that, bringing
- 6:47Speaker 6: fentanyl and other drugs across the border. And so that
- 6:50Speaker 6: the Trump administration has made a very concerted effort to
- 6:53Speaker 6: find folks who have noticeable criminal records and get them
- 6:58Speaker 6: back to where the the country from where they came,
- 7:01Speaker 6: and so that they can be processed and imprisoned properly.
- 7:04Speaker 6: In the places where they're supposed to be, and our
- 7:06Speaker 6: office supports that effort one hundred percent.
- 7:09Speaker 4: There has been some folks that have criticized, right for
- 7:15Speaker 4: right or wrong, the process of the Trump administration, saying, well,
- 7:19Speaker 4: maybe they're going out that maybe they got some of
- 7:21Speaker 4: the wrong people, people that weren't gang members. How do
- 7:23Speaker 4: you ensure I know, it's not your job to do it,
- 7:25Speaker 4: but I mean, if you were in that position, how
- 7:27Speaker 4: do you ensure that you're getting the right people?
- 7:29Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 7:29Speaker 6: I mean I think that that is why you have
- 7:31Speaker 6: elected representatives, right, That's the reason why you have experts
- 7:35Speaker 6: at the head of Department of Homeland Security. It's why
- 7:38Speaker 6: you have experts in the White House, and you have
- 7:40Speaker 6: lawyers working at every part of this process to ensure
- 7:43Speaker 6: that it's being done constitutionally. And you know, are there
- 7:47Speaker 6: going to be missteps? There might be, but it's impossible
- 7:50Speaker 6: to do anything perfectly, and perfection is a great goal,
- 7:53Speaker 6: but it's unattainable, and so our only goal and our
- 7:56Speaker 6: only hope here is to help the Trump administration do
- 7:59Speaker 6: it the best way possible, as quickly as possible, because
- 8:02Speaker 6: human life is far more important than anything else, and
- 8:06Speaker 6: we're just hopeful that we're finding a sense of normalcy
- 8:09Speaker 6: in our immigration policy. I think, you know, one of
- 8:11Speaker 6: the things that I find pretty interesting is that our
- 8:15Speaker 6: immigration policy was so wonky that getting it back to
- 8:18Speaker 6: neutral seems extreme to one side of the political spectrum.
- 8:22Speaker 6: I think removing dangerous felon gang members from countries of
- 8:27Speaker 6: great concern shouldn't be that controversial. And so we're we're
- 8:32Speaker 6: very supportive of this effort, and we're supportive in a
- 8:35Speaker 6: way that we speak through our filings, and we speak
- 8:39Speaker 6: through our amicus briefs, and we've done a lot of
- 8:42Speaker 6: things to help ensure that this process is going properly.
- 8:45Speaker 4: And I wanted to ask about that because as soon
- 8:46Speaker 4: as I said that, we had a text with somebody
- 8:48Speaker 4: that said, what about Doe process? And the text goes
- 8:51Speaker 4: on to say, is the constitution meaningless?
- 8:53Speaker 6: The Constitution is decidedly not meaningless. The president has extreme
- 8:58Speaker 6: plenary powers to designate certain groups in certain countries as
- 9:04Speaker 6: enemy combatants, and I don't think there's a particularly good
- 9:06Speaker 6: argument that the president doesn't have that power, and there
- 9:09Speaker 6: isn't a good argument that he doesn't have that power
- 9:11Speaker 6: as it relates to a foreign invading force, which is
- 9:14Speaker 6: what he believes and has stated that the trend to
- 9:18Speaker 6: augwaad Venezuelan gang members are and so the President's allowed
- 9:22Speaker 6: to do this. You can go back through history. If
- 9:24Speaker 6: Congress wanted to stop them, they could have. But every
- 9:27Speaker 6: president in history has had this authority, and this president
- 9:31Speaker 6: is using it to remove violent gang members from the
- 9:34Speaker 6: streets of this country.
- 9:35Speaker 4: We had a text you reference to the Secretary of
- 9:37Speaker 4: State's office earlier, and somebody said a phone number would
- 9:40Speaker 4: be great for the folks. So, yeah, the main line
- 9:42Speaker 4: the secretary of State's office, not your office, but we
- 9:44Speaker 4: want to throw that out there. You can give him
- 9:45Speaker 4: my office too, or I can do well, let me
- 9:47Speaker 4: do Secretary of State first, the Secretary of States. If
- 9:50Speaker 4: you have any questions about anything, you can call three
- 9:54Speaker 4: zero four five five eight six thousand. Three zero four
- 9:57Speaker 4: five five eight six thousand. That is the number. That's
- 10:00Speaker 4: the main line for the Secretary of State's office. Now again,
- 10:04Speaker 4: you can go on the search portal, and if you're
- 10:06Speaker 4: not that computer litterate what some folks are, you can
- 10:09Speaker 4: find a person that could probably handle that for you,
- 10:11Speaker 4: and you can look up I know a little something
- 10:13Speaker 4: about this. You can look up any of these businesses
- 10:15Speaker 4: and to see if they're a randity contractor.
- 10:17Speaker 6: It's a well done website that has good search functions.
- 10:20Speaker 6: And if you're looking to get ahold of the West
- 10:21Speaker 6: Virginia Attorney General's Office, you're going to want to ask
- 10:24Speaker 6: for the Office of Consumer Protection if you have a
- 10:27Speaker 6: question about maybe getting scammed or somebody trying to scam you.
- 10:30Speaker 6: And that number is three oh four, five to five eight,
- 10:33Speaker 6: twenty twenty one.
- 10:34Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about coal mining.
- 10:37Speaker 2: I love talking about Coleman.
- 10:38Speaker 4: A big executive executive orders were signed last week in DC.
- 10:42Speaker 4: Were you there last week?
- 10:43Speaker 8: I was.
- 10:43Speaker 4: I thought you were to talk about that experience in
- 10:45Speaker 4: DC last week.
- 10:46Speaker 6: So the first and most important thing I think from
- 10:48Speaker 6: that was that we had a West Virginia coal miner
- 10:51Speaker 6: from up in Weirden who delivered remarks on behalf of
- 10:54Speaker 6: the coal community and they were all standing behind the president,
- 10:57Speaker 6: and the speech that he gave borderline made me choke up.
- 11:02Speaker 6: And what was really noticeable is that the coal industry
- 11:07Speaker 6: has been absolutely crushed by a myriad of federal forces.
- 11:14Speaker 6: But I think the most painful thing for most of
- 11:17Speaker 6: the folks in the coal industry is the lack of
- 11:19Speaker 6: respect that comes from those who are in charge of
- 11:21Speaker 6: making energy policy, and it's palatable. And his remarks centered
- 11:26Speaker 6: around the idea that this was a president and an
- 11:29Speaker 6: administration that was willing to look the coal miners in
- 11:32Speaker 6: the eye and say, I value you, I value the
- 11:35Speaker 6: work that you do, and I value what your work
- 11:37Speaker 6: does to make America a better country. And you could
- 11:40Speaker 6: just see the smiles on their faces to know that
- 11:44Speaker 6: they're incredibly dangerous, they're incredibly difficult, they're technically difficult. Jobs
- 11:50Speaker 6: were being valued by the most powerful man in the world.
- 11:53Speaker 6: And I think his willingness to say the energy needs
- 11:57Speaker 6: of our country are not being met and the men
- 11:59Speaker 6: and women the coal fields in West Virginia are going
- 12:01Speaker 6: to be the bridge between what's happening now and ensuring
- 12:05Speaker 6: that America dominates in energy production and data and AI
- 12:09Speaker 6: into the future. It's hard to really quantify what that
- 12:14Speaker 6: means to the folks in that room. And I was
- 12:16Speaker 6: really proud to be there, and I was really excited
- 12:18Speaker 6: about the executive orders that came out, specifically the President
- 12:23Speaker 6: noting our super fun lawsuit where we are fighting New
- 12:28Speaker 6: York's decision to find our coal companies upwards of seventy
- 12:34Speaker 6: five billion dollars for quote unquote environmental impacts that have
- 12:38Speaker 6: happened over the last thirty years. And he's going to
- 12:41Speaker 6: help with the full weight of the DOJ in our
- 12:43Speaker 6: suit to ensure that states are not allowed to usurp
- 12:47Speaker 6: the federal government's primacy as it relates to energy policy.
- 12:52Speaker 6: And that was very meaningful to me. And you know,
- 12:54Speaker 6: to be fair, it is incredibly humbling to have the
- 12:57Speaker 6: President recognize some of the most important world that you've
- 13:00Speaker 6: been doing in your job.
- 13:02Speaker 4: Talking again with Attorney General JB. Mccusky, you're you're getting
- 13:07Speaker 4: into the fight over high capacity magazines and so.
- 13:11Speaker 7: Not sure what that term actually even.
- 13:12Speaker 4: Okay, all right, that's what I was going to say,
- 13:15Speaker 4: because and I'm not the biggest gun guy in the world.
- 13:18Speaker 4: I'm not against them one hundred percent pro gun, just
- 13:20Speaker 4: not something I'm necessarily into. I lead that up to
- 13:22Speaker 4: the Chris Lawrences of the world and the Art Toms
- 13:25Speaker 4: of the world. Yeah, the Art Tom big shout out
- 13:27Speaker 4: to Art Tom. Absolutely into those folks.
- 13:29Speaker 3: Uh.
- 13:30Speaker 4: But when you hear these terms that around, like assault
- 13:32Speaker 4: rifles and things of that nation, nobody even knows exactly
- 13:35Speaker 4: what that means, particularly the people that are usually speaking
- 13:37Speaker 4: against them. They don't understand it.
- 13:39Speaker 6: But hilariously, Dave, people that don't like guns think that
- 13:42Speaker 6: AR stands for assault rifle, which it does not. The
- 13:44Speaker 6: assault rifle is a term that was invented to describe
- 13:48Speaker 6: a gun that looks different than what most people think
- 13:50Speaker 6: they look like.
- 13:50Speaker 4: What, so, what your office doing in this realm?
- 13:52Speaker 9: Yeah?
- 13:52Speaker 6: So, the District of Columbia has been a real thorn
- 13:56Speaker 6: in the side for the Second Amendment for a very
- 14:00Speaker 6: very long time, and the Supreme Court and the Heller
- 14:04Speaker 6: decision has determined that there is no balancing test. It's
- 14:07Speaker 6: a historical analysis and the Second Amendment says what it says.
- 14:10Speaker 6: And even after the Heller decision, the District of Columbia
- 14:13Speaker 6: continued to have regulations on the book that don't comply
- 14:18Speaker 6: with the Second Amendment that restrict the gun ownership rights
- 14:21Speaker 6: of the people that live there and the people that
- 14:22Speaker 6: visit there in a way that is unconstitutional. And so
- 14:25Speaker 6: we have weighed in with an amicus with a bunch
- 14:28Speaker 6: of states signing on along with us, to say, look,
- 14:31Speaker 6: the Supreme Court told you what you could do, and
- 14:34Speaker 6: you're still violating that. And we believe that when the
- 14:37Speaker 6: people here in West Virginia travel over to Washington, d C.
- 14:40Speaker 6: And when the people in Washington, DC want to defend
- 14:42Speaker 6: themselves and their families, that the rules that the Supreme
- 14:45Speaker 6: Court has delineated and the clear language of the Second
- 14:47Speaker 6: Amendment apply.
- 14:48Speaker 4: Before we let you go, the legislative session just wrapped up.
- 14:51Speaker 4: What sort of initiatives did the AG's office have? You're
- 14:55Speaker 4: taking any of them?
- 14:56Speaker 6: Yeah, So we took a pretty passive approach to this
- 14:59Speaker 6: legislative sty You know, I was a legislator for four years,
- 15:01Speaker 6: and I know how busy and how wild it is
- 15:05Speaker 6: up there, and I didn't really know what I needed
- 15:07Speaker 6: or wanted yet, right I'd only been there for three
- 15:09Speaker 6: weeks or a month. Whenever the legislative session started, whenever
- 15:13Speaker 6: the legislature called nas fort interpretation, we were happy to
- 15:15Speaker 6: give it to him. But our budget is going to
- 15:18Speaker 6: be what the legislature makes it. We were happy with
- 15:20Speaker 6: the UH, with the way that that went. And you know,
- 15:22Speaker 6: maybe over the next year or so, we'll start to
- 15:25Speaker 6: really understand some ways that we can, UH, if we
- 15:28Speaker 6: need to, we may not to change some of the
- 15:31Speaker 6: laws and regulations that relate to the Attorney General's office
- 15:34Speaker 6: and work with the legislature over that year. But this
- 15:36Speaker 6: year was a year for us to really get our
- 15:38Speaker 6: feet underneath us in the Auditor's office. And you know,
- 15:40Speaker 6: the worst thing you can do is jump to a
- 15:41Speaker 6: conclusion and ask somebody to change a law when it's
- 15:45Speaker 6: possible that that the process can be worked out in.
- 15:47Speaker 5: A different way.
- 15:48Speaker 7: And that's the approach that we took.
- 15:49Speaker 8: You.
- 15:50Speaker 4: You referenced the Auditor's office.
- 15:52Speaker 5: I did.
- 15:53Speaker 4: Yeah, did I say auditor's office? And I and here's
- 15:55Speaker 4: the reason I'm happy about that, because I have continued
- 15:58Speaker 4: I have referred to you as the auditor. This is
- 16:01Speaker 4: the only interview I've ever done with you that I
- 16:03Speaker 4: did not call you the audit.
- 16:04Speaker 7: Did I do it more than once?
- 16:05Speaker 4: No, you only did it once.
- 16:06Speaker 6: Well, just for point of reference. I am now the
- 16:08Speaker 6: Attorney General. But I absolutely loved my time as the
- 16:11Speaker 6: state auditor. And you know, occasionally when I walk in
- 16:15Speaker 6: the building, I turn left instead of right and walk
- 16:17Speaker 6: right down the wrong hallway day everybody you know what's
- 16:19Speaker 6: happening less frequently, but it did happen pretty frequently.
- 16:22Speaker 4: And by the time that that you get that, and
- 16:24Speaker 4: I'm just messing with you. You realize, Yeah, by the time
- 16:26Speaker 4: you get to that, then you'll be changing offices to
- 16:29Speaker 4: a higher office. I maybe who knows, you know, I
- 16:32Speaker 4: have a little push.
- 16:33Speaker 6: I got a couple of little kids, a pretty busy job,
- 16:35Speaker 6: and you know, sometimes my brain, especially in the morning,
- 16:39Speaker 6: turns off just a little bit.
- 16:40Speaker 4: I got you, Attorney General J. B. McCuskey, I appreciate you, baby.
- 16:44Speaker 6: What am I supposed to call you? If I'm Attorney
- 16:46Speaker 6: General JB. McCuskey, you would be I just radio host extraordinary.
- 16:52Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be good because that work. Yeah yeah, hot
- 16:55Speaker 4: dog enthusiasts. Hot dog enthusiast. We could probably probably come
- 16:59Speaker 4: up with some other things, Dave.
- 17:01Speaker 6: I appreciate you, man, And to everybody out there, hope
- 17:03Speaker 6: you have a wonderful day and we'll look forward to
- 17:04Speaker 6: talking to you guys to night.
- 17:06Speaker 4: Attorney General JB. Mccusky nine twenty four big Leypigley Wiggly
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- 20:51Speaker 4: Let's welcome to the show. Now it's Greg Thomas. So
- 20:54Speaker 4: how are you, my friend?
- 20:56Speaker 5: Good morning.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Allergy is a little bit better this time the last
- 20:58Speaker 4: time you and your death last time.
- 21:00Speaker 11: They are I took actually got better there for a
- 21:03Speaker 11: couple days and the storm seems just broad.
- 21:05Speaker 4: Do you they damage at your at your house?
- 21:07Speaker 5: No, you know, we we didn't.
- 21:09Speaker 11: I live in South Charleston kind of up on the
- 21:11Speaker 11: top of the hill, and so uh we could we
- 21:13Speaker 11: We were like sitting on the front porchs like watching
- 21:15Speaker 11: it come in, so you could like see it kind
- 21:17Speaker 11: of coming in, passing y'all and going up through like
- 21:20Speaker 11: Cissonville and kind of crossing seventy nine and all that
- 21:23Speaker 11: and we didn't get it at all.
- 21:25Speaker 4: So yeah, we got it. We got enough for everybody. O.
- 21:27Speaker 4: We're in Tays Valley. That's true.
- 21:29Speaker 5: I saw that hills something else. Yeah, it is.
- 21:31Speaker 4: I mean it's not. I mean, you know, it's not
- 21:33Speaker 4: something that when you hear that sound. I mean we
- 21:37Speaker 4: knew it was coming. It's been predicted for days and
- 21:39Speaker 4: about five point fifteen, my wife was making dinner yesterday
- 21:42Speaker 4: and we're like, oh, here it comes, and bam bam ba,
- 21:45Speaker 4: and what are you gonna do? I mean, you just
- 21:47Speaker 4: gotta just you just sit there and you just watch
- 21:49Speaker 4: your flowers being destroyed and what your you know, you're
- 21:51Speaker 4: sighting and everything just just going away. So uh, all right,
- 21:55Speaker 4: So the session just wrapped up. Press release comes out
- 21:58Speaker 4: yesterday from Citizens Against law Suit Abuse, a group that
- 22:02Speaker 4: you are the executive director of. That's your great title,
- 22:06Speaker 4: Worst session ever, that's what that's what you said, worst
- 22:10Speaker 4: period session, period ever, period.
- 22:14Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's terrible. It was. It was terrible.
- 22:19Speaker 5: I mean it was.
- 22:20Speaker 11: I mean, look that not like all the way around, right,
- 22:24Speaker 11: I mean we don't want to say like nothing, nothing
- 22:27Speaker 11: happened at all. But from a legal reform perspective, it.
- 22:31Speaker 5: It was terrible. From a job's perspective, it was terrible.
- 22:36Speaker 4: So you know this is going to put you at odds,
- 22:39Speaker 4: Gregory with with some of your Republican brethren, right, I mean,
- 22:42Speaker 4: I'm not not that you've ever cared before, but I.
- 22:44Speaker 11: Think, well, first off, you know, most a lot of
- 22:48Speaker 11: these folks aren't actually Republicans. I mean, I think that's
- 22:51Speaker 11: the problem now, right, when you get to having where
- 22:54Speaker 11: there's just one party, a lot of these people that
- 22:56Speaker 11: are at heart at least at can gnomic Democrats, they
- 23:02Speaker 11: infiltrate the party. And that's what we have, right, I mean,
- 23:06Speaker 11: you know, and for a lot of your listeners that
- 23:08Speaker 11: have listened to me, We've been doing this a long time.
- 23:13Speaker 11: You know, I've been running Republican state legislative campaign since
- 23:16Speaker 11: two thousand and two. And back then, you know, those
- 23:20Speaker 11: first ten years, right, we ran a lot of campaigns
- 23:24Speaker 11: against sort of pro life, pro gun, pro union, pro
- 23:28Speaker 11: trial law, your big government Democrats, and those are a
- 23:32Speaker 11: lot of the folks that we beat. And here we
- 23:35Speaker 11: are ten years into Republican control in the legislature, and
- 23:38Speaker 11: now we have a lot of pro life, pro gun,
- 23:41Speaker 11: pro union, pro trial law, your big government Republicans, and
- 23:46Speaker 11: that's what we have in the State Senate. And part
- 23:50Speaker 11: of the reason we have that is because the personal
- 23:52Speaker 11: and you know what happens is that, right, the liberal
- 23:54Speaker 11: interest will just find people that need money and they
- 23:58Speaker 11: go get the money.
- 23:59Speaker 13: You know.
- 23:59Speaker 11: Put Trisha Rucker, state Senator from the Eastern Panhandle, took
- 24:02Speaker 11: you know, a Republican, Yeah, Republican in name, you know,
- 24:08Speaker 11: twenty thousand dollars from personal injury lawyers, you know, most
- 24:13Speaker 11: of which we're here in Charles, you know, Democrats here
- 24:15Speaker 11: in Charleston or Democrats in Morgantown. And then they you know,
- 24:19Speaker 11: run around the Capitol with a flag that says I'm
- 24:21Speaker 11: the most conservative person you've ever met. And then they
- 24:26Speaker 11: vote on big government issues, they vote on you know,
- 24:31Speaker 11: vote to do whatever the trial lawyers want them to do.
- 24:34Speaker 11: Uh So, not only do we did not get any
- 24:37Speaker 11: legal reform, but they created dozens of causes, tried to
- 24:41Speaker 11: create at least dozens of causes of actions. I mean,
- 24:44Speaker 11: it was it was a trial lawyer feast in the
- 24:48Speaker 11: in the State Senate this year. Thankfully to have you know,
- 24:51Speaker 11: the House of Delegates played defense some and I will say,
- 24:55Speaker 11: you know, jb Acres, who's a this the House Judiciary chair.
- 24:58Speaker 11: He passed several reasonable legal reforms this year. He's a
- 25:02Speaker 11: trial lawyer, right, so like like he got it right.
- 25:06Speaker 11: I think the governor had an okay, had the governor
- 25:09Speaker 11: had a decent session, right, I mean he passed a
- 25:11Speaker 11: lot of his agenda.
- 25:12Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm going to jump in on that because
- 25:14Speaker 4: I think and I am guilty of this as as
- 25:16Speaker 4: possibly other other folks are as well. Because the governor
- 25:20Speaker 4: took a couple of big losses. I think maybe maybe
- 25:23Speaker 4: a certificate of need maybe on the vaccine bill that there,
- 25:27Speaker 4: you have a tendency to think, well, he didn't have
- 25:29Speaker 4: a very good session. A matter of fact, I'm looking
- 25:32Speaker 4: at the headline and the Charleston Gazett mail this morning.
- 25:34Speaker 4: Morrisy priorities take a hit. Got twelve out of fourteen passed.
- 25:39Speaker 5: Look, you just.
- 25:40Speaker 11: Heard, you know the Attorney General McCuskey say, hey, you
- 25:43Speaker 11: know I had a you know, I just got here, right,
- 25:46Speaker 11: I don't know exactly what I need to do. I
- 25:48Speaker 11: think that was a little bit of what Morrisey did too.
- 25:50Speaker 11: He had a modest agenda. Of the fourteen bills, probably
- 25:55Speaker 11: seven of them were technical kind of things in nature.
- 25:58Speaker 11: But he had some good stuff. I mean he had
- 25:59Speaker 11: that know versual licensure bill was a good one, the
- 26:02Speaker 11: one stop shop permitting. He had some government organization kind
- 26:06Speaker 11: of reorganization bills that were good, the unfortunately named micro
- 26:11Speaker 11: grid bill. They need to call that the data center bill, right,
- 26:15Speaker 11: like it's you know, who knows what a micro grid is? So,
- 26:18Speaker 11: you know, I think that data center bill was a
- 26:20Speaker 11: good one, or could potentially be a really really good
- 26:23Speaker 11: one from a from a revenue side, Well, what would.
- 26:26Speaker 4: You say on the micro grid bill? There were a
- 26:28Speaker 4: few folks, I know Senator Phillips was one that had
- 26:32Speaker 4: some concerns about that. Do you think that those concerns
- 26:36Speaker 4: were founded? Yeah, yes, yes I do.
- 26:40Speaker 11: I mean I think this is anytime you approach sort
- 26:44Speaker 11: of a new industry, right, which is this is it's like,
- 26:46Speaker 11: you know, you you really have to worry about unintended consequences,
- 26:50Speaker 11: right because you can come in and say, all right, hey,
- 26:52Speaker 11: what do we have to do to bring in these
- 26:54Speaker 11: data centers? And I'm a hundred Look, I'm as pro
- 26:56Speaker 11: economic development as anybody, but you also say, how does
- 27:00Speaker 11: that how's that going to interact with the businesses that
- 27:02Speaker 11: we have. I mean, what what will it do? And
- 27:05Speaker 11: so uh that you know that warranted the debate. To
- 27:09Speaker 11: be honest with you, I don't. I don't know exactly
- 27:11Speaker 11: how it came out. I mean I heard about the
- 27:13Speaker 11: debates and stuff. I wasn't you know, intimately involved in that,
- 27:17Speaker 11: but I would say that, you know, I think, Look,
- 27:19Speaker 11: I think this is going to you know, we're an
- 27:21Speaker 11: energy state. You know, we need to be involved in
- 27:23Speaker 11: the data center, you know, industries we just do and
- 27:26Speaker 11: and we will be you and hopefully this legislation will
- 27:29Speaker 11: will you know, facilitate more of those in the state.
- 27:34Speaker 11: You know, Morsey had a couple other bills too, you
- 27:36Speaker 11: know that the defining the men and women, the you know,
- 27:38Speaker 11: ending the DEI stuff with state government within state government.
- 27:43Speaker 11: You know, all that was good stuff. He did have
- 27:46Speaker 11: those couple And look, I think part of what Morsey
- 27:48Speaker 11: did too, right, he had that group of people that
- 27:51Speaker 11: like supported him very early in the campaign were the
- 27:55Speaker 11: people that he was working with to get stuff done
- 27:58Speaker 11: early in the legislative session. And that probably wasn't the
- 28:01Speaker 11: best team to have, right, I mean, just I think
- 28:03Speaker 11: the legislators he were working with were some of the
- 28:05Speaker 11: kind of fringy folks that that just really aren't very
- 28:08Speaker 11: good at getting things accomplished at the Capitol. And I
- 28:12Speaker 11: think he learned from that, right and so as he
- 28:14Speaker 11: went to these other bills to get them done, he
- 28:17Speaker 11: expanded the group of people that he had helping him
- 28:20Speaker 11: out and so and and that's why you have a
- 28:23Speaker 11: modest agenda your first session, because you need to learn
- 28:27Speaker 11: those things, right.
- 28:28Speaker 4: So it was a learning experience. And Greg, you know
- 28:30Speaker 4: yesterday had Senator Guitar on the State Wide show yesterday
- 28:34Speaker 4: and and this and well actually we had the governor
- 28:37Speaker 4: on the show yesterday as well on the Metro News midday.
- 28:41Speaker 4: It's a learning experience for a lot of reasons. Number One,
- 28:45Speaker 4: in under the Capitol, you had a bunch of new members, Okay,
- 28:49Speaker 4: and I'm not criticizing them, I'm just calling it like
- 28:52Speaker 4: it is.
- 28:52Speaker 3: It used to be.
- 28:54Speaker 4: If you were a new member of a legislature. The
- 28:56Speaker 4: joke was you spent the first year trying to find
- 28:59Speaker 4: out where the bathroom was. You know, you just can
- 29:01Speaker 4: take it kind of quiet and set back and take
- 29:03Speaker 4: it all in. We had some legislators I think that
- 29:06Speaker 4: came in this time around that didn't get that memo.
- 29:10Speaker 4: I'm not saying necessarily they should, but they Oh no,
- 29:13Speaker 4: they definitely should have.
- 29:15Speaker 8: Definitely should, but they came.
- 29:16Speaker 2: In with an agenda.
- 29:18Speaker 4: You had that you had Governor Morrissey coming in, who
- 29:23Speaker 4: was a learning experience and he would tell you this
- 29:25Speaker 4: for him because he is used to be an attorney general,
- 29:27Speaker 4: where so I said before, you know, you can have
- 29:30Speaker 4: debate within your office, but at the end of the day,
- 29:32Speaker 4: if you're on the Board of Public Works, it's your
- 29:34Speaker 4: name outside the door, you're going to get the final safe.
- 29:36Speaker 4: So not that way when you're the governor, because you're
- 29:38Speaker 4: working with all these legislators. So there is that also
- 29:41Speaker 4: for the legislators that have been there for a while,
- 29:44Speaker 4: they had a more hands on governor, one that was
- 29:47Speaker 4: actually there, and a hands on first Lady for that matter.
- 29:51Speaker 4: So it was a learning experience, Greg I think all
- 29:53Speaker 4: around for everybody.
- 29:54Speaker 11: That say yeah, and I think there's no doubt, and
- 29:57Speaker 11: I think that because you had all these new statewide
- 30:02Speaker 11: office holders though this this would have been the opportunity
- 30:05Speaker 11: for veteran legislators to get things done, and you had
- 30:09Speaker 11: some veteran legislators in the State Senate that honestly are
- 30:12Speaker 11: just incompetent and they really couldn't get anything done because
- 30:18Speaker 11: there are a bunch of folks that shouldn't have been
- 30:19Speaker 11: in leadership to begin with. You gotta name names here,
- 30:23Speaker 11: I mean that half of the leadership team, you know.
- 30:26Speaker 11: I mean, look, I think Stewart did a good job.
- 30:28Speaker 11: You know, you know local Kenwall County State Senator Stewart,
- 30:31Speaker 11: who has had a Senate judiciary. He did a good
- 30:33Speaker 11: job trying to get some of the things he wanted through,
- 30:35Speaker 11: but he just had a committee that was beholden to
- 30:38Speaker 11: the person injury lawyers, and so you couldn't really get
- 30:40Speaker 11: anything pro jobs through.
- 30:43Speaker 5: You know.
- 30:43Speaker 11: But I think some of your other you know, committee
- 30:46Speaker 11: chairs and stuff in the State Senate were you know,
- 30:48Speaker 11: just folks that aren't just aren't very good at legislating,
- 30:52Speaker 11: and they didn't get a lot accomplished. We've got this
- 30:56Speaker 11: group within the Republican Party now that you know, they
- 31:00Speaker 11: run around and they yell about freedom and medical freedom
- 31:03Speaker 11: and all this stuff. Yet we're in a state where
- 31:07Speaker 11: what is it, seventy two percent of our funding comes.
- 31:09Speaker 5: From the federal government, you know, pretty high. You know,
- 31:14Speaker 5: the eighty five.
- 31:15Speaker 11: You know, how can you have medical freedom when eighty
- 31:18Speaker 11: five percent of the patients that walk into a hospital
- 31:21Speaker 11: the government.
- 31:22Speaker 5: Pays the bill when they leave. How are you going
- 31:24Speaker 5: to have freedom with that?
- 31:25Speaker 11: How are you going to have How do you really
- 31:27Speaker 11: have freedom when far more than half of West Virginians
- 31:30Speaker 11: wait for a government check on the first of the
- 31:32Speaker 11: month to pay their bills. What kind of freedom do
- 31:36Speaker 11: we have? And like that's so when they talk about
- 31:39Speaker 11: all this stuff, it's literally just stuff to get like
- 31:42Speaker 11: Facebook likes, Like we have to get people working, right, Like,
- 31:46Speaker 11: we didn't do anything to create jobs.
- 31:49Speaker 5: We didn't do anything. You know what people care about.
- 31:51Speaker 11: People care about jobs, people get about roads, people get
- 31:53Speaker 11: about schools. We didn't address that stuff. We were out
- 31:57Speaker 11: here on fringy stuff to get likes on Facebook, you know.
- 32:00Speaker 11: And by the way, if you go to those the
- 32:02Speaker 11: legislators facebooks, they don't get very many likes, you know,
- 32:06Speaker 11: but that's what they do. I mean it for them,
- 32:08Speaker 11: it's well, I spot you know, look at go, look
- 32:10Speaker 11: at the go, look.
- 32:11Speaker 5: At the social media from some of these folks.
- 32:13Speaker 11: It's like, well, I sponsored this bill, and I'm the
- 32:15Speaker 11: chair of this and I'm that it's all about them.
- 32:18Speaker 11: It has nothing, there's not it. There isn't a cause,
- 32:22Speaker 11: there isn't like I do it for this group of
- 32:24Speaker 11: people or whatever. That's not what they do.
- 32:26Speaker 5: You know.
- 32:26Speaker 11: They do it because they like having the title, and
- 32:30Speaker 11: because they like that, they're willing to take money from
- 32:34Speaker 11: non conservative interest like personal injury lawyers that help them
- 32:38Speaker 11: get in there so that they can just keep the title.
- 32:40Speaker 11: And that's what we're exposing. I mean, it's it's it's outrageous.
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- 35:46Speaker 4: publicly worship Bush, Reagan or Ford. It's weird. People see
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- 35:52Speaker 4: many reasons the session was bad. One of those reasons
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- 36:23Speaker 4: blood Republicans running things again, we'd be living in high cotton. Right.
- 36:27Speaker 4: You have a super duper majority and still can't lead.
- 36:29Speaker 4: It's sad, we you know.
- 36:34Speaker 5: I'll read a couple of my texts.
- 36:35Speaker 11: Okay, I gotta get text on here too. I got
- 36:37Speaker 11: one from a good friend. Well, just because it segues
- 36:39Speaker 11: into what they just said. I mean, I've got one
- 36:41Speaker 11: here says crisis of competency by the attention seeking caucus,
- 36:46Speaker 11: bad teammates.
- 36:49Speaker 4: And that's somebody that texted your You don't have to
- 36:52Speaker 4: give it up, but that's somebody that's texting you.
- 36:55Speaker 5: Just friends of mine texted me.
- 36:56Speaker 11: And then I got another one to tell me to
- 36:57Speaker 11: quit sucking up to Morrissey, which is not a text
- 37:00Speaker 11: I've ever received before, because I've never done that before.
- 37:03Speaker 4: We were pretty critical. I was very critical of mister
- 37:06Speaker 4: Morrisey before he was governor. I mean, you really were.
- 37:09Speaker 11: I was my thought on this right now for Morrison. Look, look,
- 37:14Speaker 11: I do think he had a modest agenda and he
- 37:16Speaker 11: you know, he did a better job as the session
- 37:18Speaker 11: went on to get it done. I think because of
- 37:21Speaker 11: you know, some of your texters here aren't wrong, because
- 37:24Speaker 11: we do need stronger leadership in the legislature if we're
- 37:28Speaker 11: gonna get things done. Morrisey's going to have to have
- 37:32Speaker 11: more aggressive agendas than what he had this time. I
- 37:35Speaker 11: know yesterday, you know, on the state wide shows. You know,
- 37:39Speaker 11: Morsey had talked about, you know, need to do special sessions.
- 37:42Speaker 11: You know, mentioned things like PIA and education and some
- 37:45Speaker 11: other stuff. We have huge problems in the state that
- 37:49Speaker 11: really do need addressed. And here, you know, we've we've
- 37:52Speaker 11: wasted sixty days to not address almost any of those problems.
- 37:56Speaker 11: And so Morrisey, you know, Morrisey's talked about, you know,
- 37:59Speaker 11: he had a couple kind of small ball government reord
- 38:02Speaker 11: things he's talked about doing, you know, brought in you know,
- 38:05Speaker 11: new new department heads, having these top down reviews. He
- 38:10Speaker 11: needs to have major reforms on the on the agenda
- 38:13Speaker 11: next time major government reforms. Uh he talks about the
- 38:17Speaker 11: bar backyard brawl that he you know, with respect to
- 38:20Speaker 11: kind of an economic you know, competitiveness with our surrounding
- 38:23Speaker 11: states on creating jobs, he really needs to work with
- 38:27Speaker 11: with job creators around the state to figure out what
- 38:29Speaker 11: we've got to do to do that, because you're not
- 38:31Speaker 11: going to get that let you're not going to get
- 38:33Speaker 11: that leadership from this legislature.
- 38:34Speaker 5: You're just not.
- 38:36Speaker 11: And uh So, if we're going to create jobs, if
- 38:39Speaker 11: we're going to actually tackle the stuff a government Morris
- 38:42Speaker 11: he's going to have to do it, and he's going
- 38:44Speaker 11: to have to do it, whether he does some of
- 38:45Speaker 11: it in special sessions, whether he waits till the next
- 38:47Speaker 11: legislative session.
- 38:50Speaker 5: You know.
- 38:50Speaker 11: So there's some big things that he has talked about
- 38:53Speaker 11: doing on the campaign trail, he talked about in the
- 38:56Speaker 11: uh you know, when he was sworn in and all that.
- 39:00Speaker 11: You know, let's you know, I'm optimistic that there'll be
- 39:04Speaker 11: big time things coming on that front, and so I'm supportive,
- 39:09Speaker 11: you know, until we get that stuff.
- 39:11Speaker 4: But Dave Allen showing five Anyone brought to you a
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- 39:23Speaker 4: Dot Conference Tales, Texas. Greg is exactly right. The Senate
- 39:26Speaker 4: used to be the voice of reason, but poor leadership
- 39:29Speaker 4: made them the voice of the crazies. The House was
- 39:32Speaker 4: the chamber of reason.
- 39:33Speaker 11: That was true this time, you know. And look, and
- 39:37Speaker 11: I don't really look. Randy Smith is a really nice guy.
- 39:41Speaker 11: I'm buddies with his friend Scott. I like I've liked,
- 39:43Speaker 11: you know, Randy's Randy's been a good vote for a decade.
- 39:47Speaker 11: You know, his politics are real close to where mine
- 39:51Speaker 11: are personally. But he ran for State Senate kind of saying, hey,
- 39:56Speaker 11: we're gonna put people in you know, these chairmanships, and
- 39:59Speaker 11: we're gonna let them run their committees the way they
- 40:01Speaker 11: see fit. He just didn't pick very good chairs. You know,
- 40:04Speaker 11: that was the problem. And so I I, you know,
- 40:07Speaker 11: I don't really put this on on Randy's feet, the
- 40:10Speaker 11: center president's feet. You know, he's going to have to
- 40:15Speaker 11: take a He's going to have to take some of
- 40:16Speaker 11: this downtime and say, hey, do we want to keep
- 40:18Speaker 11: this team here?
- 40:19Speaker 5: Right?
- 40:20Speaker 11: Is this that the team that I've surrounded myself by
- 40:23Speaker 11: are we Am I going to keep them there or not?
- 40:26Speaker 11: I don't think he should, but I think that if
- 40:29Speaker 11: he doesn't, you know, we're going to end up with
- 40:31Speaker 11: another really tough session. And if Morrissey actually has the
- 40:35Speaker 11: aggressive agenda, you know that I hope that he's going
- 40:38Speaker 11: to have next time. I don't see how he passes
- 40:41Speaker 11: it with the leadership team in the State Senate that's
- 40:43Speaker 11: in place right now. I mean, you're going to have
- 40:45Speaker 11: to have competent people be able to get this through,
- 40:47Speaker 11: and I think that this session was showed that they
- 40:50Speaker 11: don't have that level of competency to get it through.
- 40:52Speaker 4: Tex says lol Maga super Majority checks notes blames the
- 40:56Speaker 4: three Democrats in the building for their incompetence, holding out
- 40:59Speaker 4: for blame for Hillary for something.
- 41:04Speaker 11: I mean, I don't think I talked about the actual well,
- 41:07Speaker 11: I mean I said there's Democrats with you.
- 41:10Speaker 4: I don't know that you've mentioned democrats. I mean someone
- 41:12Speaker 4: with an actual D after their name. Oh, your issue
- 41:15Speaker 4: seems to be with the Republican.
- 41:16Speaker 11: Oh, certainly because there's no there's almost no Democrats to
- 41:18Speaker 11: be upset with, right, I mean there's there's almost none
- 41:20Speaker 11: of them up there.
- 41:23Speaker 5: Look, okay, let's talk about Democrats.
- 41:25Speaker 11: I think the Democrats need to do a better job
- 41:27Speaker 11: of having a real message, right, I mean, they don't have.
- 41:30Speaker 5: One right now.
- 41:31Speaker 4: I don't think it matters.
- 41:32Speaker 5: In the national one. The national one.
- 41:34Speaker 11: Is so bad, you know, the national Democrats are And
- 41:40Speaker 11: part of it is because they've just catered to their fringe.
- 41:44Speaker 11: And yet here we are in West Virginia and we
- 41:46Speaker 11: have a lot of we have a lot of people
- 41:48Speaker 11: in the Republican Party, right, now, especially in the legislature
- 41:51Speaker 11: that ran for office, is kind of a I want
- 41:54Speaker 11: to get back at these national liberals for shoving all
- 41:57Speaker 11: this stuff down our throats.
- 41:58Speaker 5: And I appreciate that.
- 41:59Speaker 11: I'm with you on the woke stuff and the trand
- 42:01Speaker 11: all that stuff was crazy. But what you can't do
- 42:04Speaker 11: is say, hey, they were real mean to us and
- 42:07Speaker 11: didn't let us do what we wanted to do and
- 42:09Speaker 11: shoved everything down through our throats. You know what we'll do,
- 42:12Speaker 11: We'll shove it down their threats that that's not That's
- 42:15Speaker 11: how you end up in the minority.
- 42:17Speaker 5: Right, Like, we have to have reasonable legislation. We have
- 42:20Speaker 5: to have.
- 42:21Speaker 11: Things that that we want to do proactively, you know,
- 42:28Speaker 11: we have to have things that we want to do
- 42:30Speaker 11: proactively to create jobs, to to you know, increase affordable
- 42:35Speaker 11: you know, access to affordable healthcare in West Virginia, to
- 42:38Speaker 11: fix the roads, to better schools, better education.
- 42:41Speaker 7: Uh.
- 42:41Speaker 11: And we just we didn't have any of those solutions.
- 42:44Speaker 11: Very few of those solutions were even offered up during
- 42:46Speaker 11: the session.
- 42:46Speaker 4: Let me knock out as many tax as we can
- 42:48Speaker 4: here before we go to break our states as a
- 42:49Speaker 4: texture is going backwards. We're losing our rights being told
- 42:52Speaker 4: what to eat, and letting big business poison our water,
- 42:55Speaker 4: and going against the will of the people, independent voters
- 42:57Speaker 4: being told they can't vote for what party they want.
- 43:00Speaker 4: Then we need to take our state back. Hell says.
- 43:03Speaker 4: The texture might have frozen over the day. Since I
- 43:05Speaker 4: agree with much of Thomas's assessment of the legislature, Tex says,
- 43:10Speaker 4: according to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, we have a good
- 43:12Speaker 4: chance of building a one sauce factories. Did you see that?
- 43:16Speaker 5: I didn't.
- 43:16Speaker 4: Well she I mean it was a slip of the tongue.
- 43:20Speaker 4: She was talking about AI and she was reading something.
- 43:22Speaker 4: She said A one, So I mean it can happen.
- 43:25Speaker 11: I like a one sauce though, I mean I think
- 43:27Speaker 11: a lot of people do. I mean, it's been around
- 43:29Speaker 11: for like I like it. It's been right for like
- 43:30Speaker 11: one hundred fifty years.
- 43:31Speaker 8: I like it.
- 43:32Speaker 4: But if you put it on the steak in my presence,
- 43:34Speaker 4: we're no longer friend.
- 43:34Speaker 5: But it's still pretty delicious.
- 43:35Speaker 4: It is pretty delicious, but steaks don't need anything of it.
- 43:38Speaker 11: But I think we should have MOREI one sauce factories though,
- 43:41Speaker 11: more promo.
- 43:42Speaker 5: Who's a getst ay one? Who's this anti a one
- 43:46Speaker 5: sauce can.
- 43:47Speaker 4: Check their anti Lenda McMahon, Tex says Greg Thomas. For
- 43:53Speaker 4: some reason, we had TJ in here, and TJ's laughing
- 43:55Speaker 4: at this, Tex says Dave. Greg Thomas is at least
- 43:58Speaker 4: honest about the fact he represents the extreme far right
- 44:01Speaker 4: of the party. Sad that he's so critical of those
- 44:03Speaker 4: closer to the middle who represent actual Eisenhower Esque values.
- 44:07Speaker 4: By definition, that makes him an extrememist, and extremists suck
- 44:11Speaker 4: twenty seconds.
- 44:13Speaker 11: I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I said
- 44:16Speaker 11: during its whole thing. But uh, I don't know, I
- 44:19Speaker 11: don't I don't even know what to say that. I mean,
- 44:21Speaker 11: the fringe is what messed us up, not where we
- 44:23Speaker 11: need to be.
- 44:24Speaker 4: All Right, we got to take a break and we'll
- 44:27Speaker 4: go back to arguing about a one sauce of an
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- 47:04Speaker 4: Welcome back to the show. Greg Thomas is here. Tex says,
- 47:07Speaker 4: Greg is right. Governor Morrissey did have a solid session
- 47:10Speaker 4: despite what the gazette says. Much more to come. Tex says,
- 47:13Speaker 4: Morrissey can't be afraid of Musk. I mean, I'm sorry,
- 47:16Speaker 4: can't be afraid of can't be afraid he must be
- 47:18Speaker 4: working with powerful leaders of the legislature. They get things done.
- 47:23Speaker 4: Tex says, how are jobs going to McDowell County when
- 47:26Speaker 4: it takes two and a half hours to get there
- 47:27Speaker 4: on winding roads and it's an all and it's an
- 47:29Speaker 4: hour away from the nearest interstate. What industry besides Cole
- 47:32Speaker 4: wants to be that geographically isolated Miss Biden. Yet with
- 47:37Speaker 4: all them good green jobs that are dried up, where's Trump?
- 47:41Speaker 4: Tex says Greg. Today's Republican party is anything but reasonable.
- 47:44Speaker 4: You're complaining about eleven Democrats in the West Virginia legislature,
- 47:47Speaker 4: trans people and will culture for your parties failing again. Sad,
- 47:51Speaker 4: I don't think you did that at all. You just
- 47:54Speaker 4: you literally just said that they need to stop focusing
- 47:57Speaker 4: on things like that. That's pretty much what you said.
- 47:59Speaker 4: I don't want to put words. Oh, by the way,
- 48:00Speaker 4: I got to get this out, but ave Allen showing
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- 48:05Speaker 11: Go ahead, Yeah, I mean, look this, this legislature here
- 48:09Speaker 11: was it's really odd.
- 48:10Speaker 13: Right.
- 48:10Speaker 11: It's like I think that the reason they go so
- 48:13Speaker 11: hard in the paint on the social issues stuff is
- 48:16Speaker 11: to distract from the fact that they're actually democrats on
- 48:20Speaker 11: the economic stuff and on the governmental stuff.
- 48:22Speaker 3: Right.
- 48:22Speaker 11: I mean, this legislature was as big government as any
- 48:26Speaker 11: we've had in more than a decade. I agree every
- 48:30Speaker 11: you know, every problem. The solution was more government, more control,
- 48:35Speaker 11: another agents and other you know, another task force, another rule.
- 48:39Speaker 4: We're taking our cheetos, the food.
- 48:41Speaker 11: I think that's the best example, right, the ban on
- 48:44Speaker 11: the band, the food Die band, whatever it was. You
- 48:47Speaker 11: know these guys, right, they want to they do love
- 48:50Speaker 11: Trump and they were trying to be Trumpier than Trump. Right,
- 48:53Speaker 11: So it's like, all right, Trump comes out and says
- 48:54Speaker 11: we're going to ban the food dies in the in
- 48:56Speaker 11: the school the food that we send to the schools
- 48:58Speaker 11: that the government pays for.
- 49:00Speaker 5: Okay, that's fine, the government pays for it.
- 49:02Speaker 11: And then so for some reason, West Virginia legislators were like, well, man,
- 49:06Speaker 11: let's make it to where there's a ban on all
- 49:08Speaker 11: those food dies. You know, we're going to ban it
- 49:10Speaker 11: all so nobody can have it and nobody can distribute it,
- 49:13Speaker 11: nobody can sell it, and nobody can eat it. And
- 49:16Speaker 11: you're like, real problem, What when did the Republican Party
- 49:20Speaker 11: have the like when did they have the meeting where
- 49:24Speaker 11: we decided to no longer be small government local control?
- 49:28Speaker 5: When when did they have that? I missed it. I
- 49:30Speaker 5: didn't get invited to that meeting. I've been a Republican
- 49:33Speaker 5: for a while.
- 49:33Speaker 4: All right, TJ. You had a question for TJ. Meadows
- 49:36Speaker 4: hosted talk line. Go ahead.
- 49:37Speaker 13: So Dave and I are blessed to be on the
- 49:38Speaker 13: radio every day and speak our mind and talk the
- 49:41Speaker 13: issues with the people. We have been branded, and Dave,
- 49:44Speaker 13: I think the trademark is pending. We've been branded country
- 49:48Speaker 13: Club Republicans, Chamber of Commerce, Republicans, Republicans, country Club Conservatives
- 49:55Speaker 13: is what we've been branded. So you know what we're
- 49:57Speaker 13: going to go with that. We're going to start a
- 49:58Speaker 13: new party, and we are inviting you today see join.
- 50:02Speaker 4: The party with us.
- 50:04Speaker 5: See.
- 50:04Speaker 11: I feel like I'm more of a Sam's Club Republican.
- 50:08Speaker 11: Like That's that's where I'm at, Like like like I
- 50:11Speaker 11: can definitely like I'm with you on most of the
- 50:13Speaker 11: country Club Republican stuff too, But I feel like I'm
- 50:16Speaker 11: like the next layer closer of like the Sam's Club
- 50:19Speaker 11: Republican and that, and that's sort of where I think
- 50:21Speaker 11: I've always kind of felt that I was.
- 50:24Speaker 4: I mean, I just more working class.
- 50:27Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, I mean like I'm for a lot of
- 50:29Speaker 11: that right, like like I want the no income tax,
- 50:31Speaker 11: like I want like.
- 50:32Speaker 5: Oh I do too. I feel I feel.
- 50:34Speaker 11: Connected to some of the populist stuff that goes on,
- 50:38Speaker 11: as I do think West Virginians do. But then these
- 50:40Speaker 11: guys always like take it too far right. It's like
- 50:42Speaker 11: there's never it's like they you know, any bill that
- 50:45Speaker 11: they had, like they have good ideas if it was
- 50:48Speaker 11: like seventy five percent of it was implemented, but they
- 50:51Speaker 11: go like one hundred and ten right, and they do
- 50:52Speaker 11: that though because they want to. I think They do
- 50:55Speaker 11: it for two reasons. One they do it for the attention,
- 50:57Speaker 11: and two they're always looking for some kind of like
- 51:00Speaker 11: wedge issue in a primary, right because now we don't
- 51:02Speaker 11: have general elections anymore, so it's not like it's not
- 51:05Speaker 11: just black and white, it's like grays, and so they
- 51:09Speaker 11: try to find these definitive issues within the gray areas,
- 51:14Speaker 11: and they try to just sponsor.
- 51:16Speaker 4: This you get elected with thirty four percent of the vote.
- 51:18Speaker 11: Well, and that's the other problem too. Look, we got
- 51:20Speaker 11: to quit having three and four If we keep having
- 51:23Speaker 11: three and four way primaries, we're going to keep electing
- 51:25Speaker 11: fringe people and that's how you lose control of the state.
- 51:30Speaker 11: And look, I spent twenty five years trying to, you know,
- 51:33Speaker 11: get this legislative majority, and it pains me to have
- 51:35Speaker 11: a session as bad as the one we just did.
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- 51:50Speaker 13: Michael Brooks, president of the McDowell County Commission, joins us
- 51:53Speaker 13: at ten oh six. Coming up a ten thirty three,
- 51:55Speaker 13: Mayor Al Thompson of Davis. We'll talk about that proposed
- 51:58Speaker 13: data center and what has folks concerned in that neck
- 52:01Speaker 13: of the woods. Eric Tarzan studio at eleven thirty three.
- 52:04Speaker 13: You join us, Dave at eleven oh six.
- 52:07Speaker 4: Greg and I are going out for cheetos at that time.
- 52:09Speaker 4: Sorry Endo, cheetos, me one bring me some bad all right, Greg?
- 52:12Speaker 4: Thanks man, I appreciate it all right. Coming up on
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