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06-27-2024 580 Live - West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Steven Allen Adams of Ogden Newspapers · WCHS Network Podcasts

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We'll talk to Stevid about that a little bit later on, but I do
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want to welcome to the show West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner. Good
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morning, sir, welcome back to the show. Hey, good morning,
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Dave. Great to be with Thank you for being here. Now, we
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normally if I have you on, talk about something related to the elections,
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but today I wanted to bring you in to talk about the business division of
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the office, which, as listeners have heard both you and I say over
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the years, the Business Office really is the biggest part of the secretary of
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State's office, the most employees. Anyway, if you own a business in
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West Virginia, June is the month the for companies and businesses annual reports.
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First of all, what is an annual report and why do they have to
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be filed? They need to be filed for transparency for the public's sake.
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That is one place that the legislature said, we want you to be able
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to go to and know whether a business is in compliance in the state of
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West Virginia. And that is my office, the Secretary of State's office,
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and so, as you said, it is the largest part of my office.
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About half of our employees are employed with regards to the Business and Licensing
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Division. And so what that report is is it's a compilation of the main
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things you need to know if you want to deal with a company. So
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where it's located at mailing address, who the officers are, who is responsible
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for safe service a process, let's say there's a lawsuit that needs to take
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place, those sorts of things, And so the importance for the company is
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they want to be in compliance so that let's say that they're ready to close
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a real estate deal or get a bank load and that sort of thing,
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the opposing party is going to want to know, is this a legitimate business,
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are they biding by state law and so forth? And you don't want
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that red flag on your record of being out of compliance. And so once
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a year, by state code, each company has to register with the or
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update their information and it's so simple. We've made it so simple to get
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online. You can do this in five minutes, a matter of a couple
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of clicks on your computer. And by the way, about ninety percent of
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the ninety eight percent of the companies do it online. And so we've made
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it very simple. And if you haven't done any changes from the previously year,
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you simply click no changes and it is that simple. Twenty five dollars
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and you're done for the year. And that number as far as businesses to
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do it online, has gone up greatly since since you took office, because
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when I know, when I was working there and when I started in twenty
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seventeen, that number wasn't quite that high. It was still pretty good,
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but not that high, sir, No, it was we've really emphasized getting
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online, getting away from paper. We used to send up postcards to notify
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the companies that the annual reporters do and they can file that report anywhere between
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one January and June thirtieth. But now here we are in the last week.
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If somebody's waited to the last minute, this is the last minute.
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It's now time to do it today or tomorrow. Let's get it done.
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You have until Sunday at eleven fifty nine night you can mail it in.
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Only two percent of the people still do it by paper, and that's a
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matter of downloading and mailing it. It's like an absentee ballot. It has
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to be postmarked by June thirty or here's the bad side. If you miss
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that June thirtieth deadline, if it rolls over to Monday of next week,
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then we have to assess a fifty dollars late fee, and we don't want
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to have to do that. We keep track of about one hundred and fifty
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thousand businesses and charities, and the good thing is that's up significantly from when
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I took office. So the state is growing with regards to the number of
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businesses, nonprofits, charities and so on. So those numbers are growing.
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And right now we are about nine percent better as far as the response rate
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this year than we were in the past. But there's still quite a few
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yet to do here in these last couple of days. Because that's because you're
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dealing with humans not in your office, I mean public, and that's what
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that's what people have a tendency to do. They tend to kind of want
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to put things off. And I can tell you because in addition to this,
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I also own a business and for and a half for ten years,
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and I started probably around on Christmas time getting emails from the office. It's
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usually around that time, generally speaking, first of the year, you'll get
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an email that says a reminder, and you get one every so often.
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And I'm gonna be honest, because I'm a business owner, that just me
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you're looking at the business right here. I didn't do mine until about two
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or three weeks ago. But you just click on the link is actually in
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the email. And especially again, if you have no changes in your business,
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there's a box that says no changes and you just kind of take from
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it. Could not be any simpler. That's what we want to do is
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make it as easy as possible, and also one emphasize to people there's no
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need for a third party. There's no reason to bring in somebody else.
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A lot of times you'll get in the mail a letter and it looks very
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official like it's government, and it's really not. If it doesn't say West
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Virginia Secretary State, it's not coming from it's coming from a third party.
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Vendor, and what happens is these people will charge one hundred dollars to file
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your fee for you. It's been as much as three hundred and seventy five
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dollars we've seen. And I know this is a problem that's been going on
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for some time and there's really not a whole lot that the state can do
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about it. Yeah. I don't want to call it a scam, but
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it is taking advantage of people that are not as close as you can get.
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I make the analogy it's like paying somebody to fill up your gas tank.
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You're fully capable of going out there, opening up your gas tank and
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filling it up. Why I pay somebody one hundred dollars to fill up your
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gas tank. You can do this yourself. Like you said, it's so
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simple to get online WVSS dot gov. And as you mentioned, we've actually
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sent out a series of six emails of course of the time from first to
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January to remind people once you file. Then we stopped sending the emails,
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but in your case, if you didn't, if you wait until just a
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couple of weeks ago, you've probably got four or five different emails from us
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reminding you to register or renew your business license. I'm not the most tech
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techy guy in the world, but I'll tell you I did the entire thing
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at about maybe two minutes, if even that, And that was just me
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doing it. So it's not difficult at all, especially if there are no
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changes. You just click no changes and just keep going. Yeah. So
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if you're a business owner or if you're working for a business and you can
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talk to the owner, say remind them if you done your anal renewal.
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If you haven't today and tomorrow, that's the time to do. And if
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people all wait until little Sunday evening to do it, there's all they always
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that possibility of a systems crash or some other problem. Let's not do just
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let's good and do the renewal right now. Why we're talking about it while
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big and small shop locally General Hardware WV dot com. We had a text
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of the show someone said, how does one close a business as a Secretary
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of State's office? Best thing you can I mean, I'll let you tay.
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It's very simple to do that. What it's very simple call let us
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know, go to the one stop that we have, get online, just
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let us know. It's a matter of letting us know that you're closing the
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business. See, if you don't do this renewal, then we put you
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in an inactive status or not inactive non compliance status for three years, and
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after that third year then we can drop you from that list. But we
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don't want to do that. We want to know affirmatively that you've decided to
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stop your business. In another check, that said, are out of state
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companies that do business in West Virginia required to file Yes, anybody doing in
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business in the state of West Virginia. And that's one of the things too.
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You mentioned scams or things like that. When people come to your to
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your door and say I want to I want to, I want to I
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want to trim your weeds, I want to do a roofing job or whatever.
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I don't want to say. Let's don't go long care because there are
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people that just you know, most people's grass. But let's say a bigger
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company. If you want to know if this business is incompliant it's really simple.
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You've got a database there. The classic one, like you said,
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is a roofing or the repaving your driveway, those sort of things, and
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they want to take money upfront to say we're going to go get spots.
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They take the money upfront, then you never hear from again. So what
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else suggests people do in those situations is take the name and address that sort
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of thing, get online and get on the West Virginia Secretary of State's website
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and see whether that firm is in compliance, where they're located, Know the
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officers that sort of thing. And how many businesses again, we talk talking
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about it one hundred and forty nine, seven hundred and forty, but it's
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one hundred and fifty thousand basically businesses we keep track of and those numbers are
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going up. They in West Virginia. That's a good thing. Yes,
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it is. You mentioned the business one stop office. Now, over the
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last year or two years, the office has moved. It was on Washington
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Street next to Tricky fishients move. Tell us where the new location is.
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It's down there right where the Elk River flows into the Canal's right there on
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the boulevard. Pulling on that entrance. There's a fitness center there and we're
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on the second floor above the fitness center. And there are still people that
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do like to come into the office, you know, for that not just
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the anial reports, but but for other things too they do, and that's
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where we have a number of people there, a number of employees. We've
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got the tax office there with us as well. That's why we call it
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the Ones Office, you know, and take care of your business registration,
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get questions answered. There's a kiosk there with regards to the Small Business Administration.
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So if you want to that in person experience, that's what we suggest
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you do. What else you had going on in the office these days,
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We've got a lot of things going on, some new personnel. We're working
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with the clerks. Just was at the Clerks conference yesterday in Morgantown. So
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it's an ongoing thing. With regards to election training, seeing what happened with
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the primary getting ready for the general office or the general election, there's always
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that clerk training, pollworker training, getting poll workers, that sort of thing.
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We're actually taking on some pretty decent things. We have an amicus brief
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right now to the US Supreme Court. We have a new General Counsel,
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Dave Cook is doing a wonderful job, wrote a wonderful brief for the US
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Supreme Court. Eight other states have joined in with us, and what that
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is is pushing back against the Biden administration trying to federalize the elections, trying
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to take over making all federal agencies about six hundred federal agencies as voter registration
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centers. And our position is this is a state responsibility. That's what the
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US Constitution says. So we're pushing back in that regard in the arena with
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Facebook, Google, Twitter, the social media, we're trying to make them
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fair in the elections. We don't want to have them weighing in on one
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side versus the other. So we're taking on some suboenas and getting documents from
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them to make sure that they are complying with state finance laws. So there's
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some behind the scene things that are going on, but pretty significant. It's
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once again showing where West Virginia is a leader nationwide in this election integrity and
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security arena. And then I'm also getting ready for the National Association of Secretaries
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of State meeting that's coming up this next month and We've been asked to talk
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about our Businesses against Trafficking program that we initiated here last year, a very
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successful program. If you've been out on the interstate and stopped at a restop,
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you may have seen some of the posters. We're trying to reduce human
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trafficking. And you may not think it occurs here in West Virginia, but
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I can cite several cases where we have had trafficking take place here in West
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Virginia, and we want to make people aware of it and what to do
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if you recognize a situation that doesn't feel right to you, how you report
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it wester to do? Secretary of State Mike Wonder. It's always a pleasure
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again, and if you're a business owner, get those reports in. They
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are required by state code and they have to be in by eleven fifty nine
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pm on Sunday night, this Sunday, all right, get on WVSS dot
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jov all right, Mac is always pleasure to talk to you, sir.
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Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave, thanks for having me on.
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Thank you for being here. Let's are you feeling a little bit better?
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Saw where you were? You're feel a little under the weather, you
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know it? Okay, I feel just fine. I sometimes have that occasionally.
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So took a little day, worked from home. Still monitored everything,
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including the Governor's briefing yesterday, so it was still a work day for me.
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I just got to do it on the on the back porch with a
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dog. So well, you know, there's worse things. I guess let's
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start with the with the governor and his latest financial news. And there's a
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bunch of it that just came out of the last couple of days. Well,
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yeah, I mean, which thing do you want to start with.
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Let's start with the announcedent Carter Bank yesterday. Yeah, that's a big one
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because that was three hundred million dollars that the governor had personally guaranteed and loans
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from Carter Bank. He had a long standing relationship with this bank, which
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is Virginia based. He knew the owner. But when the owner died,
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while the board of directors of that bank wanted to start collecting on the money
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that it was over to them, because that's a lot of money for a
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small regional bank. So they've been having a gut back and forth with justices
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companies for a number of years trying to collect. They settled something I think
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around this time last year, but or two years ago. But for last
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year they started to try collect again. They weren't getting the money they thought
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they were due. They went back and forth in court, federal court.
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At one point they were even trying to get some of the Governor's properties and
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sell them, such as the Greenbrier Sporting Club. The Greenbrier might have even
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been in their sites as well. But apparently yesterday a global what they called
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a global settlement was announced between Carter Bank and Justices companies. We don't know
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the specifics because they're behind the confidentiality agreement, but apparently it will allow the
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Justices companies to continue paying on those loans without having Carter Bank tried to collect
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on all of them. So it makes both sides happy. So all the
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federal and county lawsuits are being dropped and now they're back to being friends again.
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So this is just one though of a I mean, how many times
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have we said governor and financial problems in the last you know, six seven
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eight years he's been in office, and quite frankly even before that, Oh
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for sure. I mean the biggest one out there is the one he currently
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owns, the Green Sivil Bank credit suite. That's over eight hundred million dollars
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that he owes. Now, of course Justice doesn't run his day to day
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operations because he's governor. His children do, his adult children. But as
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governor, he has guaranteed these loans, which is why. And he doesn't
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have any of these companies for the most part under blind trusts, which would
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kind of shield him to some extent where I don't even know we'd ask him
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about any of this stuff if it was in a blind trust, because he
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wouldn't really have any direct involvement with it. But in this case, he
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does have some direct involvement and skin in the game. So it's going to
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keep coming up. And some extent this place in the governor's ability to manage
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his businesses over his lifetime. To some extent, there is pressure from some
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of these companies that I think. I think they can bring this pressure to
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bear on the governor, considering that he's running for Senate and probably doesn't want
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these headlines out there. So the quicker he can find some settlement with this
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stuff, which is what he just did with Carter Bank. Quicker, you
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can get that stuff out of the headlines and not have it be smacked in
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dog so much. I read everybody loves baby doll. Everyone does love baby
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dolls. But there's some issues here, not with baby dog, okay,
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just with any dog that would be in that picture, right and the way
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it was done. I think it's a process problem. I really think it's
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a process problem. Look, you can from historical standpoint, Look, English
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bulldogs came to the America's according to the American Cattle Club, around the late
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eighteen eighties, so it's plausible the English bulldogs were in West Virginia in the
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late nineteenth century early twentieth century. So I mean, you could pick any
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West Virginians probably have around that time. It's probably a traditional you know,
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West Virginia brown That's what I've said yesterday. Okay, you can argue about
22:18
this historical part of that, but I think the problem is the process.
22:22
I mean. Randall Reid Smith at the part of set Cabinet, Secretary of
22:26
the Department Arts, Culture and History, has been working on this project since
22:30
twenty ten. The Capitol Building Commission, which is by law required to sign
22:34
off on any changes inside outside onto Capitol grounds, they voted in twenty ten
22:41
to allow for the selection of an artist to begin coming up with concepts.
22:48
Well, they ran out of the money in twenty ten, so they didn't
22:49
keep trying to do it. But Randal Reid Smith has kind of used that
22:53
vote in twenty ten as a blank check to go ahead and move forward with
22:56
it now and never bring it back for the Capitol Building Commission ever since.
23:02
He started doing this again in twenty twenty one, going with John Canny and
23:04
company to come up with the artist concept and do the construction and the creation
23:10
of this. This has never come back before the Capitol Building Commission. And
23:12
then of course in April we have the artist renderings released to the public.
23:18
Well, there's no baby dog in that one with Seneca Rocks. There's no
23:21
animals at all. A small private committee made up of two governor office representatives,
23:26
two cabinet secretaries, and the state Museum director decided to come up with
23:30
this concept of making some minor changes, including adding the plildlife, which is
23:34
fine. But they decided the ad baby dog without apparently consulting anybody on it,
23:41
including even the governor, because the governor says he was surprised by it
23:45
and didn't realize that baby dog was believe when he says he was surprised by
23:48
I do I actually remember I do. I do as well. I believe
23:52
it. But the problem is your office was directly involved with it. Now
23:56
you may not have known about it, but I think that's even problematic that
23:59
you didn't know about it, and that they did this sort of as a
24:04
you know, surprise, you know, to make the dear leader happy.
24:08
And I think the process is problematic. Forget about the dog. It's a
24:12
process problem. I think some people. Well, I say, I'll say
24:18
it's probably fifty to fifty what I'm getting because again I listened to Hopy,
24:19
He's talked about this at nauseum. I've gotten texted the show, and it
24:23
tends to be a thing where people say, well, I mean, with
24:27
all the problems going on in the world, why are you concerned whether there's
24:30
a picture of a dog. Well, again, it's a procedural issue.
24:34
And I can tell you as somebody who, as I've said many times before,
24:37
worked in state government. You worked in state government. You don't move
24:41
a desk from one end of the office to the other that you do not
24:45
have permission from the powers that be at the capitol. I mean, seriously,
24:49
people think, and I guess that's a good thing. You don't down
24:52
a trio. No, you can't do anything on the grounds. And literally,
24:56
if you want to redesign your office, if you want to say,
24:59
U use the Secretary of State's officers, because I worked there, you work
25:03
there. If you want to say, okay, we want to move elections
25:06
from here to here, and we want to move the finance office over here,
25:08
you have to have permission pretty much to take pictures down, to move
25:11
pictures of that secretary over there. You've got to have permission to do this.
25:15
And I guess what Randall reed Smith was doing from what you're talent.
25:18
I mean you followed this a little more closely than I have. What he
25:22
was based on this on a vote from twenty twenty twelve, twenty ten,
25:26
and so that's where I think the thing. Is anything going to come to
25:32
this or is it just going to go Hobby tends to think it's just going
25:33
to kind of go away in a day or so. What do you think?
25:36
Hobby is absolutely right on it. I think it's going to go away,
25:37
I think, and I think when people say there aren't there more important
25:41
things, well, of course there are. We're having the channel welfare crisis
25:44
in this state right now. There's a number of things that are more important
25:45
than this. What this is is a symptom of problems that I think we
25:51
have seen throughout and I think Governor Justice on the whole has been a good
25:56
governor. But there are a number of issues we've seen with the administration with
26:00
certain departments. You know, we've always lived been dealing with the Department of
26:03
Human Services and the issues there with CPS. We were just dealing with,
26:07
you know, a big crisis in vacancies and prisons. I mean, we
26:10
can point to a number of issues over the years where this is just another
26:15
symptom of kind of how things run. And no, I don't think anything's
26:19
going to come of it. I don't think grandall Reed Smith's going to lose
26:22
his job. In fact, the way he's been treating media, including me
26:26
over the last few weeks on this and the other stories, he seems pretty
26:30
comfortable. So I don't think anything's going to change of it. But I
26:33
do think it is important to point out, especially considering the fact that they
26:37
unveiled this last Thursday, West Virginia Day, there was no mention as a
26:41
baby dog being included. So why would you not even mention that? Why
26:45
not even own it? Because it's there obviously, you know, it was
26:48
noticed within twenty four hours of it going up. Other people would notice that
26:52
during the construction phase. Why not own it? Obviously you all thought this
26:59
might be problematic, which is why he didn't talk about it last week.
27:00
And the governor has said, and rightfully so, that baby dog has brought
27:03
a lot of joy, a lot of happiness to people. I mean not
27:07
I mean, I'm a pet person. I know you you you have a
27:11
dog Hoppy as a pet owner. We're not anti pet, We're just asking
27:15
some questions. That's it, and it's important for us to do that.
27:19
And it's also important for our cabinet officials and government officials to kind of welcome
27:26
that to some extent, not to be hostile to it. Or of course,
27:29
why would we not ask questions about that because it's you know, it's
27:32
out there. Did the governor really say I was busy, didn't see the
27:34
Burton host rations and briefing. Did I read something that he said something to
27:38
the effect of that the English ruled the land? And did he say something
27:44
like that? He said something like that, but only just talking. The
27:48
way I took it was he was even surprised. He took it as surprise
27:52
that they would include an English bulldog on there because of that. Okay,
27:56
I didn't know what I didn't know what context was. But I want to
28:00
talk about a big event tonight in Huntington. There is a big fundraiser for
28:04
Huntington mayor and candidate for Governor, Steve Williams being held in the Hotel Frederick
28:11
Lobby. The main names on the card, if I can harken back to
28:15
my wrestling days, Senator Joe Manchin now Independent Joe Manchon, former Governor Bob
28:19
Wise. As far as Bob Wise goes, that's a name you probably haven't
28:23
heard in a while. But to Senator Manson, and you were the one
28:27
that I first saw. You broke this story a week or so ago on
28:30
X to Senator Mansion, does this settle it once and for all? He's
28:34
not running, Probably not in the minds of some that probably still want him
28:38
to. But I really kind of think it puts it to bed. I
28:42
guess we'll see how much they raise. Of course, we're running up against
28:45
campaign finance deadlines right now for the quarter, so it's one of the big
28:52
reasons I think they're wanting to push us, and they're pushing it so hard
28:53
because I think they need to raise a substantial amount of money in this thing
28:59
to really show other potential donors down the road that Steve Williams is viable,
29:04
viable, which is why I think they're pulling out the last two Democratic governors
29:08
Mansion and Wise. Oh yeah, already doesn't live in West Virginia anymore.
29:15
But I don't like, why does he live in no already? Uh,
29:18
pretty much is residing on the beach somewhere right now. Oh good for him.
29:22
Well, because I've talked to uh he. I mean, I've known
29:25
e Alreay literally my whole life, and I've tried to get him come on
29:27
the show a couple of times. He's i think, been on hoppy But
29:30
I'm just he's perfectly happy with where he is. I'm going to give her
29:33
already Tom in the past, because I've tried to reach out through third parties
29:37
to do an interview with him, just like, well, what what are
29:40
your thoughts about the polcala here right now? And he doesn't want to have
29:42
any involvement with him, And I don't blame him. He's gone, but
29:45
heaven Wise and Mansion Frontos I think is important, and I do think if
29:49
Mansion's doing us, he's now finally shown some action to show. Look,
29:53
I'm supporting my friend Steve Williams. I am not getting back in this race.
29:57
And there are several other notables aames on the bill, including a few
30:00
mayors, state Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin, of course, some legislators,
30:03
some heavy hitters from the world of business, and as I told Pushkin Stephen
30:07
when he was on the show last week, if Steve Williams can't raise money
30:11
with this crowd. He's just not really trying. That's it. That's it.
30:14
That's why I think this particular fundraiser is extremely important for him. So
30:18
I think how much money he comes out of this and how much money he
30:22
raises during this quarter, which we'll find out here in about about a week
30:26
week and a half or so. I think it's important because it's got to
30:29
do. There's got to be something to spark interest of other people. And
30:33
you know it's going to be expensive. It may not be as expensive as
30:36
the Republican primary, but we all know Morrisy's got money he can put into
30:40
this. Speaking of which, not to be outdone, there's a big fundraiser
30:45
for Patrick Morrison, current Attorney General candidate for governor. He's going to be
30:48
in my neighborhood, Sleepy Hollow Country Club and over in tays Valley on the
30:53
July second, which next Tuesday, Senators Eric tar and Glen Jeffries and again
30:57
a lot of big time players from world of business. The checkbooks are going
31:00
to be coming out that night. Sir, Oh yeah, for sure.
31:03
I mean Morrissey's not going to take anything for granted, he's a hard charging
31:07
guy. We already saw that during the primary. He's going to raise as
31:11
much money as he can, He's going to spend as much money as he
31:15
can to ensure that he can wind up with the victory in November. So
31:21
I don't think there's any doubt about that. I think he I don't make
31:26
predictions, but I do think that he's going into this looking pretty good right
31:32
now. And again that's why Williams has to get some money into his bank
31:37
account. So what are you watching today? I am actually working on a
31:41
retrospective of federal flood mitigation funding. Of course, we just came past the
31:49
eighth year anniversary the twenty sixteen floods, and we all remember twenty eighteen,
31:53
twenty nineteen, some of the issues with the Rise West Virginia program and some
32:00
of the slow spending that was going on. And we know that there's been
32:02
efforts to try to do flood mitigation. We have a Joint Flood Mitigation Committee
32:08
in the legislature. There had been funding talked about. There's been a lot
32:12
of talk about flood mitigation, but I don't feel like there's been as much
32:16
action, particularly on funding actual projects to do it. So I'm calling back
32:22
through and seeing what we've spent from the federal government on this and where we're
32:25
at right now with flood mitigation because it's so important. What do you believe
32:30
in climate change or not. There's no doubt that we are experiencing more and
32:35
more flooding events in the state, and we're not the only mountain the state
32:38
that deals with flooding, but there are other states that handle flood mitigation.
32:42
Is certainly better than what we do, and we have more money right now
32:46
to deal with it than we've ever had before, but it just seems like
32:50
there's no real big projects that we're hearing about. So I'm kind of looking
32:53
to see where we stand on that er and remind people where people can check
32:55
out your stuff. Sure, Parkerspur News and Sentinel, Wheeling Intelligencer and News
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Register. We're in Daily Times, the Inner Mountain of Elkins and the Journal
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I would highly encourage you to do that if you want to keep up with
33:12
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out there. I mean, I want to give a big shout out to
33:17
our own Brad mcilhanney Reporters Brad and and Amelia. Nicely, there's some good
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reporting going on in the sy to West Virginia right now. You really do
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it, really and we all kind of informally work together. Yes, so
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How cool is that? All right. I mean, I got a bunch
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of texts to get to tex says because McCoy, this Texter loves to refer
38:28
to mac by his real name for some reason. I don't know why.
38:30
Because McCoy keeps lying about the Constitution prohibiting the federalization of state elections. Read
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read rather Article one, section four of the US Constitution on air, especially
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the part about Congress changing the rules. The times, places and manner of
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holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature
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thereof. But the Congress may at any time, by law, make or
38:54
alter such regulations, except as the places of choosing senators. As a Texter,
39:00
now, I'm not a constitutional attorney, so I do I have to
39:05
do a little, a little bit of a deep dive on that Texas Dave
39:09
elections should be the same in every state. Stop disenfranchising people's right to vote,
39:15
says a Texter. Text says, too bad, Michael Lithy, pink
39:21
chips lead him down. The CIA Trump election lost conspiracy hole. I can't
39:24
take anything that guy says seriously, even if it is serious, says a
39:30
Texter. Tex says, the baby dog portrait is a symptom of our elected
39:35
clowns and their circus. This text is not surprised. Text says, is
39:43
baby dog sitting on a silver platter showing her hind end? Why isn't Jesco
39:47
on the mural? Pop culture, political bs and I have seen since this
39:53
whole baby dog story broke, I have seen so many things on social media
40:00
where people you know, in an attempt to be funny, and it is
40:04
funny, trust me, it is. I've seen so many people that have
40:07
said other things that should have been you know, included as part of a
40:12
mural. I mean, I've seen everything from from moon pies to obviously tutors
40:19
biscuits. I've seen Geno's stuff. I have seen, as I said,
40:23
Jessco, I've seen two or three different things about Jessco White. I have
40:29
seen potholes and things. I think it would have been really, really cool
40:34
had you on New mural had like a covered wagon or something like that that
40:39
was you know, jackknifed or turned over because of a pothole. That's that's
40:44
what I think would have been cool. By the way, I want to
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I agree with the governor on one point. The English did rule this land
41:59
before we became a cunt'. That's a historical fact. That's they say,
42:06
Texas, Dave, what's wrong with folks in West Virginia. The baby dog
42:09
story made it here in Florida, and no doubt there's more important things to
42:14
worry about. Again, I don't disagree with what the texture is saying.
42:19
What people are concerned about, as people in the media have questioned and others
42:22
have been, the whole procedure for the thing, not that it's baby dog.
42:28
Uh. And there have been some allegations, allegations not by me but
42:31
others, allegations that maybe things weren't exactly done above board on this. So
42:37
Steven, I'll leave that to the Steven Allen Adams and Brad Mcilhannys and the
42:39
others of the world. They can get into that. But I think that's
42:43
what the story it's not about baby dog. It's not. And if you
42:46
pick up your copy of Because that Mail this morning, I think there's two
42:49
editorials about this on the page. It's just about the way it was it
42:54
was done, and that you are choosing a particular political candidate this case,
43:00
the governor to go down in history for lord knows how long that his personal
43:05
pet was on there as opposed to just generic animal. I think, as
43:08
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a lack of road and bridge maintenance. The incompetent d HHR CPS school system,
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et cetera. I agree, but again, as Hobby said on the
43:52
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43:59
Again to three four things can all be true and can be right. At
44:01
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44:07
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Reference to the Governor's themed fictional fictional characters text of the historical angle. A
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baby dog doesn't work either. Baby dog is an accessory dog, selectively bred
44:23
for its traits that make the dog an accessory, not a working dog like
44:28
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text three zero four nine three five five zero zero. Wait, I want
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to talk a little shop here as we closed the show this morning, and
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I let me just just kind of hear me out on this, all right,
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let me just say this. I love my textures to the show.
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I do. I don't know who they are. I see a phone number.
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If they make a threat to me, I could call the police,
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but they don't. I've got great listeners and great texters ninety nine point nine
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ninety nine percent. And I love my textures, don't get me wrong.
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But I'm gonna have to come up with some kind of a contest or something
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to ramp up more calls to this show. I mean, you know,
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I'm an old school radio guy. I've been doing this for thirty six years.
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Only been really full time at the talk show Realm though for about four
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years. And I'm gonna just say I miss not having as many callers.
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And it's I don't think it's anything that I'm doing wrong. Well, it
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could be. You may disagree, and I know you're out there. The
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ratings show that you're definitely listening. The revenue that the show brings in shows
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that you're there. And by the amount of text, I mean, I
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normally cannot get to all the text we have the show in one day,
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and I do appreciate that very much, and I am extremely grateful for that.
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But in the words of Rick Springfield, Captain eighty's here, you know
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as I am, it's good to have a little human touch every now and
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then, So don't be afraid to call the show from time to time.
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Calling numbers are still the same three zero four, three four five fifty eight
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fifty eight three zero four, three four five fifty eight fifty eight. I
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understand the text thing, and I you know, and I'm so thankful for
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the text, love the text, but sometimes you just like to have some
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calls too, So those of you that can. I know many people that
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text may be working or doing other things and they can't call. But I
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and it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you know you're on. If
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anything, if you've learned anything and listening to this show in the past four
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years, it's said, I'm an equal opportunity offender liberal Sam too conservative,
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conservative, Sam too liberal, and I give a voice to everyone on this
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show. I have people say all the time, why do you have this
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person on some of my some of my more shall we say, not controversial,
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That's not the word. I'm looking for the ones that elicten the most
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calls and text. You know, I might push again a Greg Thomas,
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you know the people like that on both sides of the aisle. I appreciate
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all my all my texters, and I definitely appreciate all my listeners. But
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going forward, let's ramp up some calls, Let's get back, Let's try
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to get back to that as we can. I want to close with this,
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As I mentioned earlier early in the show, tonight is the first presidential
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debate. Hoppy's going to preview it next hour. What are you looking at
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as far as the debate goes, I want to get a little programming note
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here. Side note. WCCHS will have coverage of the debate starting at I
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think eight o'clock today via the ABC Radio network, So if you can't tune
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in, we will have complete coverage. REDS Baseball will instead be heard on
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Charleston's ESPN Radio. What am I expecting from the debate tonight, Well,
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one thing, it's nine o'clock, so Papaal is going to have a hard
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time staying up. I can tell you that what I'm expecting is Biden will
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be confused, not know where he is, and Trump will be rude,
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crude, crafts and offensive and hoppy. Is a poll up right now on
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X asking you if you think the debates will have any impact on the election.
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I can tell you now answer is no. People have long ago made
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up their mind who they're voting for, between Biden and Trump and Pal.
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For a lot of us out there, the answer may be none of the
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above, but we'll be watching the debate tonight. May Thanks to the Secretary
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of State Mac Wonner for being here and also to Steven Allen Adams. Download
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the all new Metro News TV app. If you have an already metro news
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TV app, get it. My producer is Antoine woods Antwine. Thank you
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so much. I will see you tomorrow morning for a Friday edition of the
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show Bill. Tomorrow, I'll have fun and love somebody in the morning.
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You see it. Sam ninety six point five, Charleston one oh four point
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five Cross Lane un WUVRC Media Station. We're proud to live here too.