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05/10/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Brad McElhinny, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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I want to follow up on something we really don't have anything new to
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report, in the Huggins situation from yesterday. Some people were thinking there you
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know, the apologies came out from Huggins, and they came out from the
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university within an hour or two after the incident. Some people thought there would
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be some sort of an announcement from the university yesterday. Didn't happen. Don't
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know if it will happen today or not. I'm one that thought there would
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be another statement from the university yesterday, but it didn't happen. If it
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does happen, of course during the show will have it for you, But
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if it happens throughout the day, we'll have it for you as well.
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So we got that coming up. I'm gonna spend some time talking to the
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state Democratic Party chair and delegate, Mike Pushkin, who's going to be in
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a Parmar store studio. We'll talk to him about several things going on in
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the world of news. That's coming up too. Plus your calls and text
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zero away. Let me bring it with the show. Brad Mcalehenny, Brad,
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good morning, how are you hi? Good morning, Dave. Thank
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you for having me on to announce my candidacy, and also congratulations to you
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the station and our colleagues for its incredible and very proud performance in the recent
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West Nshion Year Broadcasting Association Awards. Were well done to everyone. Well,
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thank you, Brad. We appreciate that it was. It was a great
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night to be a part of the family across the board at WVRC Media,
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but particularly here in Charleston. I mean yeah. For the tenth straight year,
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WHS one the news Talk Station of the Year, our colleagues V one
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hundred Adult Contemporary Station of the Year, KWS ninety six point one superstar Country
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Country Station of the Year. Woody Woods of course got for he had the
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great promotion he does on the beat with a backpack attack each summer just before
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school starts got Promotions of the year, and of course Chris and Carry and
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the entire news team cleaned up as well. So proud to be a part
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of it, my man. And you're a big part of it as well,
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probably a bigger star than anybody here, Brad oh Man. Well,
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that's why I'm announcing my candidacy. But I guess you know, it's it's
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late being a part of the Avengers. Like you know, we all do
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our own thing, but then we come together for something even greater. There
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you go, and that's what we're here. We're here to save the world,
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Brad. That's what it's all about. I don't know how whether we
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succeed in that or not, but I do want to get to your lead
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story at wv Metronews dot com, and it has to do with charter schools.
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In the Supreme Court now, West Virginia Supreme Court justices heard arguments whether
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the system to approve charter schools is constitutional. Important to note, as as
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you do in the article, the battle, Brad, is not about whether
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the state can have charter schools. That's long been settled, but rather whether
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they may be authorized through this professional charter school board. Explain it to us
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and take it from there. Yeah, that that is the case. It's
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it's specifically an argument over how West Virginia is authorizing charter schools. But if
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the challengers would prevail on this question, you know it would it would throw
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a wrench in the charter school system. So there will be a practical matter
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as well. The original lawsuit was brought on behalf of Sam Brunette of Marion
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County and Robert McLeod of Canaw County, and they and their lawyers site,
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this is gonna be good radio. I'm gonna I'm gonna read the constitutional clause
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that they site. All boy, Yeah, everybody gets your radio DVRs and
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record this right. No, no independent free school, district or organization shall
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hereafter be created except with the consent of the school district or districts out of
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which the same is to be created, except expressed by a majority of the
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voters voting on the question. So that is a very old aspect of West
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Virginia's Constitution written into the institution, long before charter schools were were ever considered.
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And it you know, it had to do with the first formation of
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public schools in Westbrigina to say, because prior to that, basically all schools
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were charter schools, I guess, right, yeah, well yeah, and
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what the districts would be, and if the legislature could come in and divide
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up those original districts. But it establishes the right for the citizens to vote
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regarding what the school districts are going to be in their communities. And so
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mister McLeod and mister Brunette are saying that that should apply in this case.
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When when West Virginia first allowed charter schools, it was pretty late to the
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game, but in two nineteen, right. Originally the process was charter school
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applicants would go to their county boards and ask for approval. Well, the
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very first one out of the gate, one in Morgantown, was shot down
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by the Montagala County School Board and by the Preston County School Board. It
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was one that was supposed to sort of straddle both and they, for whatever
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reason, they said, no, I'm not going to do it. So
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the legislature came back and established the West Virginia Professional Charter School's Board, which
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is named by the governor and approved by the state Senate its members. So
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the question is here, should there is not a voting process of the citizens
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of a particular account in this route to approval by the West Virginia Professional Charter
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Schools Board. Should that section of the constitution apply in this case? So
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let's take the one in Canak County, because you go to Knau County audience
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the Nitro, the Nitro Academy has been under consideration. It actually was approved
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a couple of years ago, and it would be a part of it would
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be a Churner school, but it would be in the West Virginia Public Schools
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system. It still isn't actually underway, but under under that section of the
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constitution, should the voters of Canaw County have some say so through a vote
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or through the local board. One of the big questions is if you if
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you think about Nitro, it's not just a school that is supposed to draw
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from Canaw County, it's it's supposed to draw from Putnham County also, So
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so how do you apply this section of the constitution? Should in that case,
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should the citizens of Cannaw and Putnham Counties get a vote somehow? Should
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should both of those boards be able to approve the Nitro Academy. This is
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a question that's now before the five members of the State Supreme Court. And
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you know, I think it's interesting because it's a challenging thing to think about,
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and it's it's to me, it's sort of a mental challenge to figure
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out, all right, does the specific aspect of the state constitution apply in
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the case of charter schools? So what does it go from here? Brad?
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I mean, where are we on this? And again I would urge
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people to go over to the website and read you that's the cover storywv Metronews
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dot com. But but where does it go from here? Well, the
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Justice has heard oral arguments yesterday. What they were actually being asked was the
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case originally went to conocer to court where state government cases go. And Judge
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Walker origin sorry, yeah, Judge Jennifer Bailey originally said that she thought the
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case had a good chance of succeeding on the merits, and she issued a
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preliminary injunction. That's been a while now, late twenty twenty one. The
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Supreme Court a while back issue a stay, which is why we now have
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charter schools. They've allowed the process to go forward until they could hear it
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just a little more. And now they are being asked to completely lift Judge
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Bailey's original preliminary injunction, and they are being asked to send it back to
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her to vacate the thing entirely. In addition to the question of whether that
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section of the Constitution applies, there are additional sort of procedural questions. Those
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who originally sued named Governor Justice and named Speaker Handshaw and President Blair. A
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question within the whole thing is, well, you know, what can they
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do, particularly Senator Senator Blair and Speaker Hanshaw. You know, their entities
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make law, but the law is now already made right, so they don't
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necessarily have any recourse. The question with Governor Justice is can he telled the
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West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board what to do under the threat of removing them
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from the board or whatever? Or could the governor call a special election,
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whether it's statewide or in the particular counties to comply with this section of the
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constitution. So still a lot to be ironed out by court. Mostly the
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questions yesterday were asked by Justice Armstead was very active, asked quite a few
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questions, notable that he's a former Speaker of the House, has been has
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been supportive of charter schools in his political life in the past. Judge sorry,
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Justice Haley Haley Bunn asked a couple of questions. Chief Justice Walker just
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asked, like one or two sort of procedural questions, where do we stand
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on this? Justices Wooten and Hutchinson just didn't ask anything at all. It's
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it's fairly easy for me, given the makeup of the court, to imagine
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a three to two decision in favor of keeping the charter school system as it
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is. But you know, some some elements of what the challenges are asking
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are sort of traditional conservative ideas that the citizens should have a vote, that
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the taxpayers should have some direct or representative say in what is happening with their
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school systems. I mean to me, those overlap with traditional conservative ideas.
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So it'll be interesting to see what how how this largely conservative Supreme Court majority
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comes down and what their reasons are when they back it up. We followed
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in the story all day before we let you go. Brad Interham's just wrapped
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up in Honeyton on the campus of Marshall. What came out of that,
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Well, you know, the nature of interms has nothing ever comes out well.
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The true there were a couple things that interested me though. I mean
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they're basically homework and updates, and they are meant or legislators to be in
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formed as they moved toward the regular session or a special session. Meant to
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make legislators better informed. So West Virginia has a major initiative based on federal
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funding for broadband to roll out, and the Development Secretary of Mitch Carmichael gave
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a pretty optimistic view of trying to roll high speed internet out to West Virginia
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rural communities. Twenty four projects identified, three completed using that those funds.
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Already, it's going to be a while. You know, what people really
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want to know is let me know when I have my broadband and it's in
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good shape. The sort of the steps. In the meantime, it's hard
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to get people's attention, but West Virginia is hard at work on rolling out
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more broadband. The jails crisis continues, and there was an update about staffing
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in the jails. Now a thousand and forty vacancies in jails across West Virginia
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jails, juvenile facilities, and Mount Olive, the Correctional Center, the prison
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all above fort vacancy levels and still no consensus between the legislature and the governor
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about what to do. The governor has called generally for locality pay. But
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those those jails that are that have such high vacancy rates, they're just all
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across the state. I mean some are even the Eastern Painting though, but
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others are in Doddridge County or Mount to Olive itself is in Fayette County.
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So it's you know, what's what's frustrating from a citizen viewpoint, I think
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is seeing an officially declared emergency such such such a sort of frozen political atmosphere
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on addressing what has been an emergency now for nine months. Well, I
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get Mike Pushkin here, who of course delegated the Sydne Democratic Party chair.
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He'll be in the next segment, so we'll get the interesting to see mister
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Pushkins take on this before we let you go, Brad, I don't know
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if you happened to listen to the show yesterday, but everybody's talking about how
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ugly this battle for us Center between Governor Justice and Congressman Mooney is going to
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be. Well, hold my beer, because you may want to turn your
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attention to the state. The race with State Senator Ryan Weld versus State Senator
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Mike Stewart for Attorney General. Stewart fired the first shots on the show last
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Thursday. Weld fired back yesterday. If you haven't heard it, I would
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say go over to a WCHS network dot com or check out our Facebook page,
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my Facebook page, day Allen Radio, listen to the shows and get
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back on me, because this is going to be one to watch. Brad,
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go ahead, you got about thirty seconds. Go ahead. Oh my
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gosh. Well, I mean the thing about starting these races so earlier.
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Those are two guys who are going to have to be in the same caucuses,
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the same supermajority, the same committee meetings, they both serve on Judiciary
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over the next year, and it's going to be hard to separate the politics
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from the policy. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Hey, Brad,
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at Saint Democratic Party to share Michael ari Pushkin, Good morning, sir,
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how are you? Oh, it'd be help if I turn your microphone on.
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Go. Yeah, people have been trying to sign year on before we
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came in. I don't know what I was talking about then, No,
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it was off. It was okay, thanks for turning my microphone on,
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and thanks for inviting me on. That's on me and uh, I'll start
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off by congratulating you and the entire family here at at it was at WCHS
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or all well, it was WCHS. We won talk station of the year
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for the tenth consecutive year. Well, Stuyah and the other stations also in
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the news department had a good night as well. So well, appreciateation to
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all, you know, all of our friends on the airways, but especially
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do you Dave, I want to congratulate you in particular, Well, thank
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you, uh because I like coming on here and talking to you and I
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think you do a good job. Well do we have that? Ryan?
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Do what he just said that do you think I do a good job?
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All right? Mark? Then yeah, yeah, of course a lot of
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your you know listeners like to disagree with me on everything. Well that's okay,
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that's if we could just have more civil discourse than the world would be
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a lot matter. Civil discourse being the keyword there speaking a civil discourse,
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all right. So that on the same night, the very same time when
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uh WCHS was getting this major award for best News Radio, Best Talk Radio,
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um, there was another event here in Charleston. I think it was
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the Canall County Republican Executive Committee had their annual fundraise or the Lincoln Day Dinner.
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I saw some bits and pieces of the video and uh wow, first
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I know that they invited candidates for UH for the goobernatorial candidates and of course
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to congressional candidates. But only one congressional candidate showed up to my knowledge,
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and that was was Derek Evans, and he gave quite a speech, of
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course, full of you know, election denial and conspiracy theories and um.
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It was very different from the speech he gave to the judge when he was
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getting sentenced. By the way, he was a lot less apologetic, a
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lot less humble. His tone has definitely changed since he's been released from prison.
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But it was, it was, it was out there, and I
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heard a lot of amends and preach it brothers coming from the from the choir
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in the room. So I'm glad to see that you weren't there. You
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were getting your major award across town. And of course they also had I
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believe another guest or a speaker was this guy, a doctor Douglas Frank,
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who travels around the country UH spreading uh in misinformation about the twenty twenty election.
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In fact, this guy has been under federal getting investigation too. I
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believe he's had his computers and photes see by the FBI. I mean,
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it sounds like I mean and yeah, um yeah, this is what they
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wanted to promote their at their dinner. Meanwhile, I went up to your
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neck of the woods, Putnam County on Sunday for a democratic function. It
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was the Democratic Women of Putnam County had all three of them there. We
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had a packed house, a packed house in Eleanor, and Eleanor Town that
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is named after Eleanor was our favorite version the cleanest town in West Virginia's right.
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And uh it was also created under the New Deal, which is a
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democratic policy from one of our greatest presidents, FDR. But uh, yeah,
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but there was a great event there and the keynote speaker there was Joan
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Browning, who was one of the original Freedom writers. And it was a
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beautiful event. It was just um, it was very uplifting and um moving
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event. And that's what we had on our side, while on the other
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side they had election deniers and and people who stormed the capitol speaking. So
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yeah, you took to Twitter to talk about that. Actually, I was
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reading your comments on on on Twitter about about the Derek Evans appearance at the
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Canalla County Lincoln Day the Executive Committee fan. Well, yeah, because like
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about a day and a half or so before the event, he was on
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Twitter saying that he supported the Proud Boys proudly. He was proudly supporting a
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white supremacist group. And at that point I think that the chair of the
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Knall County Republicans should have pulled the plug on on his his speaking engagement.
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He should have been disinvited at that point when he's out there, you don't
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think he has a right to speak. I mean, I mean, I'm
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not a Derek Evans fan by any stretch of the imagination, But you don't
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think he has a right. He has a right to speak, but not
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everybody has a right to speak at Not everybody was invited to speak at a
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dinner. Not everybody has a right to speak at a function. He can,
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he can, Yeah, he has a right to free speech. That
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doesn't mean he should have been invited when he is, uh, you know,
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stating his support for the Proud but candidate I would want to distance myself
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if I was, I would want to distance myself from somebody who wants to
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embrace white supremacist groups. But if that, but if they were worried about
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upsetting the Bay, maybe that's why they don't want a distance, but I
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mean, is he is a candidate though, that's my point, Mike,
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I don't. I mean I I don't agree with the guy on anything,
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but he is a candidate. I mean he has a right to speak,
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does he not? Whether you agree or disagree. I'd like to see where
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he's polling in that race. He's not, he has no chance of winning.
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Well, do you have every single candidate on do you have on your
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show? I have any candidate that asked to be on the show. Okay,
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Well, well, yeah, that's that's good for you. But I'd
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say a lot of times you'll see where, like you know, there are
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debates and they don't. People aren't often invited if they're polling it less than
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one percent. Well, now, I just got some information that there was
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a one thousand dollars speaking fee for the dinner, and so he must have
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paid it. So you had to you had to pay in order to speak
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at this event. I get, I wasn't. It's nice to know that
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the republic Republican Party is willing to sell their their morals and sell out and
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uh, you know, give up their responsibility to have a civil discussion and
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instead invite somebody who is claiming his public support for the Proud Boys, well,
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which is uh, I mean, and and he's he's claiming his support
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for a domestic terrorist group and that's who he wanted our dinner. Well you
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and I I mean again, I don't agree. I'll say it again for
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the fiftieth time. I don't agree with the guy. But if he has
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a right, he's a candidate, and he has a right to speak,
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in my opinion, and didn't free speech again when when there's been a lot
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of talk about free speech this week with the Huggin situation, you know,
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it protects what you like and what you don't like. I don't, I
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don't. Necessarily that's not a free speech issue either the government at the free
25:32
speech is whether the government has a right to limit speech. It does not.
25:34
It's not the government limiting his speech. It'll be his employer, which
25:37
is really the state of West Virginia. No. No, I mean,
25:41
he's the highest page a state worker in the state and he should be smarter
25:44
than to go on a want that and try his hand to comedy because he's
25:48
not funny. It's offensive. And it was just I mean, it was
25:51
ridiculous. It's something of a fourteen year old should be embarrassed, right,
25:55
So, so since you brought what I sort of brought it up, but
25:56
I didn't mean to to later, what should happen with and should he lose
26:00
his job? I would agree with Sports Illustrated that said that he should do
26:04
the state of favor and resign. I don't believe he will. I don't
26:08
believe that Washington Post is also calling for this. I don't believe that the
26:12
university will fire him. What I'm more concerned about Dave, and I'm gonna
26:15
leave it at this. What I'm more concerned about is, like now,
26:18
he probably won't be fired, But you know who does get fired in West
26:22
Virginia. Anybody who is a member of the LGBTQ community. They can be
26:27
fired because for who they are. They can be kicked out of their houses
26:32
for who they are. So I'm more concerned about the legislators who have failed
26:37
time and time again to pass the Fairness Act and give people employment protection protection
26:41
and housing protection and public accommodations. We have a systemic problem in this state
26:47
that we fail to address. I'm really more concerned about that than some stupid
26:52
remark on a radio show. I made my living on stupid remarks on radio
26:56
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the game last night? I was unable to make the game last night.
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I had to go to attend I've been attending Democratic Executive Committee get your kind
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of busy County Executive Committee throughout the state, and actually was the shortest drive
27:26
I had to make for one last night. I attended one at the Knall
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County Courthouse, which was the Knall County Democrats had a meeting last night which
27:33
I'm actually an elected member of that of that committee. Uh yeah, it
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went well. Yeah. I got some texts here Texas Republican in fighting that
27:41
we'll get in the way of policy and operating the government. How on brand
27:45
of them? I'm going to sit back with popcorn while the West Virginia GOP
27:48
implodes, says a texter. Well, that's what we're seeing already. I
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mean you mentioned, um, you know the already in the Attorney General's race
27:56
orts taking shots at Ryan. Well. Well, I thought it was an
28:00
interesting story today that you know, Mike Stewart was pushing for this some of
28:04
these rescheduling bills that were aimed at create him. And I don't even know
28:10
if I'm pronouncing it right, that create him or kred and um, you
28:11
know the Delta aide and the different hemp products and he um must not have
28:15
really read his own bill very closely, because he made a very big mistake
28:19
and actually um outlawed xylazine test strips, which are used to test substances to
28:27
make sure there's not a deadly this deadly new designer drug, make sure that
28:32
that's not in this substance, and that will lead to people overdosing and loss
28:38
of life. There's a huge mistake. He needs to read his own legislation.
28:42
And did you hear the show yesterday with well the Stewart interview last week
28:47
in the Ryan World interview yesterday, Um, I'll have to go back and
28:51
listen. It's uh, this is going to be one I mean, like
28:53
I said when I was talking to Brad earlier, everybody's talking about Mooney and
28:56
Justice. This one is going to be ugly, and it's uh and it's
29:00
it's really going to be ugly. And it's already started between Stewart and Weld
29:03
for something that no an office. I don't want to downplay the Attorney General's
29:07
office, but it is not one of the ones that gets a lot of
29:10
the marquee headlines. Well, it's an important, very important office, and
29:12
we're going to have a great candidate for that office. Oh really, but
29:15
we're going to do it at and we're gonna make these announcements at a normal
29:19
time. Okay, you got you got like what five or six people running
29:22
for governor down We already know people that are run for Congress and for we
29:26
have at least three running for Secretary of State. There's gonna be another one
29:29
announcement the next couple of days. Another Republican. I understand, when aren't
29:32
we going to see some Democrats. It's not a Memorial date yet, generally
29:36
any closer to Labor Day, we're gonna We're decided, we're going to give
29:38
the people a little break. Most people aren't paying attention to the to the
29:41
twenty four election like like you and I do. If political junkies do,
29:45
we're going to give the people a bit of a break. And we're having
29:48
these discussions and we're making the phone calls, and we're gonna have uh formidable
29:52
candidates from the top of the ticket to the bottom. And uh you know,
29:56
if if Mike Stewart is is your party's nomin for attorney general and say
30:00
bring it on. I mean, he doesn't read his own bills before he
30:03
gets him passed. And now he's inadvertently cost a past a very harmful law
30:10
that has outlawed these things that are there to save people's lives. I mean,
30:15
I got carries around photos, he says. He claims to carry around
30:18
photos of overdose victims Lea's I hope he doesn't have to put more photos in
30:22
his wallet because of his own bill. I mean, knock out some texts
30:26
here, says, don't you know? Bureaucrat Stewart is a corporate lawyer with
30:30
an Ivory Tower law firm. One a man of the people. Hey,
30:32
coal miners asked bureaucrat Stewart, how many minors this firm has represented in any
30:37
case, text says quite telling when push quite Okay, I get it quite
30:45
telling. When pushkin is railing, it gets Republicans. Because the Democrats have
30:48
nothing to boast about. We have plenty to boast about. I mean,
30:53
I want to talk about all the announcements that have been made over to past
30:57
several months, whether it's investment in new core, investment in and the electric
31:03
buses here in Kanall County, whether it's form Energy. I could go on.
31:07
There's going to be uh, there's gonna be ground broken down in your
31:11
neck of the woods, and Logan here on the east end of Charleston and
31:14
Huntington's and all of that is from policies that were passed by by Democrats.
31:19
Uh with them, whether it's the Inflation Reduction Act, whether it's American Rescue
31:23
Plan. Of course, the infrastructure bill that had some had a few Republican
31:29
votes, not a whole lot. But of course, you know Mooney didn't
31:32
vote for it, Carol Miller didn't vote for it, but they were.
31:34
They will gladly get a photo op in front of a ribbon cutting or groundbreaking
31:38
for something they didn't vote for. So we have plenty to boast about Texas.
31:42
Mike, if you're so unhappy in the legislature about all means, feel
31:45
free to leave. I never said I was unhappy in the legislature. You're
31:48
unhappy with the legislature not necessarily being there. Well, I'm unhappy with a
31:52
lot of the policies that are coming out of it. But we did have
31:56
some productive meetings in Huntington. Let's let's let's stop there a moment, because
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equals liar, liar, liar, you are uh text says if that's math.
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I'd like to see their work. Joe mere work, Texas goofball.
35:22
Mic Warner went on the w R and R talk radio and said that the
35:24
twenty twenty election was thrown, it was stolen, and we should not rest
35:28
easy. It's easy to see election to nine will be at front of the
35:31
West Virginia GOP races in twenty twenty four. Pathetic. Yeah, let let
35:37
me read it now, go ahead, go ahead, text done. Yeah,
35:40
there's a text. It is pathetic and it's showing on the I mean,
35:45
everybody involved in a Republican primary right now is involved in a race to
35:49
the bottom to for Mac Warner as the chief election officer of the state to
35:52
go out and put out absolutely no evidence, but because he's in a Republican
35:57
primary and he wants to you know, out crazy as opponents because that seems
36:00
to be what's selling on that side right now, and he's going out and
36:05
putting out conspiracy theories and um it really it's an insult you know, all
36:08
the election officials across the country. He's not put out an ounce of evidence,
36:14
and it just goes back to you know what was on display the other
36:16
night at this Lincoln Day dinner where you had this guy Douglas Frank. I'm
36:22
not sure if he was a speaker or if I know he was there because
36:24
I saw pictures of him. He is a he goes around the country putting
36:29
out misinformation about the election. He backs it up with nothing. He's involved
36:32
with this guy, the Pillow guy who recently lost a lawsuit thanks to a
36:37
friend and Charleston attorney Bryan Glasser, who successfully sued him. And um,
36:45
I just my thought was, you know, we had some there were some
36:49
reasonable Republicans who are running and friends of mine who are running for governor.
36:53
I know they were at the event. Did any of them get up and
36:57
you know, try to distance themselves from the insurrection? This Derek Evans,
37:01
I don't think we're you know, not a whole lot of profiles and courage
37:06
going on right now. On the other side of the aisle, let's go
37:07
to the phones. Jim, you're on with Mike Pushkin. Go ahead,
37:10
alright, thanks a lord days. Hey Mike, Hey Jim, it's good
37:14
to hear you. How are you feeling. Oh, I'm feeling better.
37:17
I'll tell you I had a rough few days. I was accepting. Are
37:22
you home now? Yeah, I'm home and uh running my mouth and getting
37:29
back to the normal. I had a question about the LG be Qute community
37:37
and I'm sorry, don't come after me, as I know that's not the
37:42
right letters. I've mentioned it to a city council member that uh we probably
37:51
needed to pass a tuple warding assists to protect them and uh reining doing different
38:00
things. Who's going to get the last laugh? Has the legislature passed any
38:07
ordinances like this? No? I think what you're bringing up the lot of
38:12
municipalities starting in Charleston like twenty years ago. I think Charleston was the first
38:15
to pass NONSCRI nondiscrimination nondiscrimination orders that means somebody can't simply be be fired,
38:22
evicted, or denied public accommodations something because of who they are. I think.
38:28
I think this is why I brought it up. Yeah, but Charleston
38:30
did, Huntington's done it. There's been, like I believe around seventeen or
38:34
eighteen. Someone's probably gonna correct me because I don't know the number off the
38:37
top of my head. I've been many municipalities have done that, and the
38:38
reason the municipalities are doing it is because the state legislature refuses to do it.
38:45
We can't even get it on the Charleston, the huge metropolis of Thurmond,
38:51
West Virginia, all six of them, Yeah, has passed it,
38:52
and I thought that was that was that was cool. The reason they're doing
38:58
is because the legislature can pass that legislation. The SIMPOLO does is expand the
39:02
Human Human Rights Act to protect you right now, the Human Rights Act protect
39:07
people for a race discrimination, religious discrimination. Actually it protects you for political
39:12
discrimination. You can't legally be fired because of your political beliefs. But what
39:15
it doesn't protect is m gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. And
39:21
that's all that bill does is add to what's that. It's got it all
39:25
covered. Well, unfortunately it doesn't have it all covered because it's missing those
39:30
four important words from the State Human Rights Act. That's all the bill does,
39:34
but the legislature refuses to even discuss it. All right, Jim,
39:37
I hope that answered your question. I appreciate your phone call. Thanks,
39:40
Jim. I'm really glad you're home. It's some one better and I wanted
39:43
to come visit you. I apologize it didn't get a chance to, but
39:45
you're just glad to be glad to It's great to hear your voice. Absolutely,
39:50
I appreciate that and I know you would be there all right, Jim,
39:52
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40:07
of insurrectionist Derek Evans, election deniers, white nationalists, seditionists and other hate
40:13
mongers resonates with about thirty percent of their base. The GOP doesn't have the
40:16
guts to tell the thirty percent that their views are a horrid and said they
40:21
cultivate the message while trying to feign plausible deniability. The Western Gina GEOP has
40:25
sold whatever integrity it has for power. It's a bit, it's a lot
40:29
of powerful. I could not have said it better myself. Excellent text Texas.
40:34
Dave Stewart said on your show he would send it for women's rights,
40:36
when in fact he voted for strict abortion laws. Text says Dems need to
40:40
point out GOP records ten years still Dad lasted education, job creation, job
40:45
participation, lead nation to drug overdose deaths, lasted infrastructure. Thanks to the
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Biden bills, it's bringing jobs to the States. Another great text, all
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you're freaking of. The inability to do anything when it comes to dealing with
40:59
the drug crisis has just rereaked havoc on this part of the country. We
41:02
had a great presentation yesterday and the Joint Committee on Health, but we met
41:07
over over the campus of Marshall University and it's very interesting. I don't know
41:12
if you've ever watched the series. Uh is it a series or a movie?
41:15
Dope site? It was a series series? Is a series on?
41:17
I think it was Netflix? Ryan? Is that right? It was a
41:20
streaming Think it's one I watched. I've not had a chance to watch it.
41:23
I wanted you've watched it. Watched a few episodes. The main character,
41:28
Michael Keaton plays to make character by Michael Keaton, but it's based on
41:31
this doctor Stephen Lloyd from Tennessee. Well, doctor Lloyd uh was spoken front
41:37
of He presented to the committee yesterday and just gave what he thought was like
41:40
a very holistic plan of how to um possibly spend a lot of the settlement
41:46
money, uh in real drug abatement. And I thought it was very interesting,
41:52
and he had a lot of the stuff he talked about we're doing,
41:55
we actually are doing well or have done better when it comes to some of
41:59
our f it's in criminal justice reform. We have drug courts that are should
42:02
field should expand. A lot of the stuff they talked about we are doing.
42:06
But some of the stuff you mentioned, we've actually gone backwards. And
42:08
when we pass a build this past session to limit the amount of treatment beds
42:13
per county based on some artificial number, that's not really I mean, that
42:17
goes against the Republican platform in my opinion, to put a limit on the
42:21
amount of licenses you give. It's not exactly free market capitalism for one thing.
42:24
But it's also ridiculous because you don't know how much help somebody's going to
42:28
need, or how many people you're going to need to help at any given
42:30
time. That was a huge mistake, I think going backwards in regards to
42:35
harm reduction. He talked about that, and it actually, I mean,
42:38
it's it's not a popular policy, but it's a smart policy that actually save
42:43
that saves public dollars in the long run. He talked about that, He
42:46
talked about a whole host of things. The problem is, I'm just afraid
42:51
that a lot of what this man said, and he's probably one of the
42:53
you know, most foremost experts on addiction in the country. I just hope
43:00
it didn't fall on deaf ears. I know that, you know that the
43:02
line of questioning from um, you know what, your frequent guest and friend,
43:08
Eric Tarr, proved that they're probably not going to listen to this guy.
43:12
He was He was really questioning what even the main premise behind this guy's
43:16
talk. So, yeah, it was great that they brought him in,
43:21
and I applaud the committee for bringing the speaker in. I just I just
43:23
really hope and pray that we listened to him. It is nine fifty one
43:28
text says Hey, Dave asked Mike, when six hundred pounds of sin,
43:30
we'll have a reunion tour. The bus needs to get back on the road.
43:35
The bus went to a crusher. Unfortunately, I was able to blow
43:38
up a huge diesel motor, which is not an easy thing to do,
43:42
but I did it. Going up the hill. Anybody can do in Marion
43:45
County. Yeah, and um, of course our singer is Uh is making
43:49
a doing very successful right now. Sierra Farrell, who was the singer for
43:52
six hundred Pounds of Sin. I don't think we'll be able to bring her
43:54
back for a reunion. She's doing question Yeah, Texas, my husband and
44:00
she's doing. She's like, you know, her heels are on fire.
44:01
She's is that the correct term, your heels? Yeah? I mean she's
44:07
really her career is really taken off, and we're very proud of her Texas.
44:09
Today is National School Nurses Day. A big thank you to all West
44:12
Virginia school nurses for keeping our students healthy and in school to learn. Mike
44:16
has always been a champion for school nurses. That's true, all right.
44:21
Text says I was at the Lincoln Day dinner, says a texture. Some
44:23
people like Derek Evans, many others roll their eyes and set with their arms
44:28
folded. Well, I just saw the video that Derek posted, and I
44:32
heard a lot of I heard a lot of chatter over in the amen corner,
44:37
a lot of preach it brother love a man, I personally would want
44:40
to distance myself from somebody who is embracing white supremacist. I think that's horrible,
44:45
and I think as a party, you would do it would do them
44:51
a good to distance themselves from that. They should have used that as an
44:54
opportunity to say, you know what, I don't care if you do pay
44:58
the thousand dollars entry fee, We're not going to have you spew hatred at
45:00
our dinner. Eight minutes away from tam got to TV on here in the
45:04
studio, George Santos has been taken into custody. Congressman George Santos, He
45:07
was taken into custody. Well, he's surrendered. Uh yeah, so yeah,
45:12
and I've you know, I missed that. What was he charged?
45:13
Well, he has been hold on, I got notes here he has been
45:15
charged. Well, it was hast and it wasn't just all the line.
45:20
It was with the line on the on the finance on it was a line
45:23
on the campaign finance stuff was what it was. That's what got him.
45:27
So but yeah, he is he has surrendered. And orbit well, I
45:30
guess he was surrendered and then taken into custody, and well maybe he can
45:32
be the keynote speaker at next year's Lincoln Day County all right, we gotta
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take a break. Uh final old texts before break. Thank you for having
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Travis Willard Edward Jones Member SIPC Texas. What does Mike think of Trump's sexual
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abuse and defamation conviction yesterday? I think that the court ruled in the correct
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manner. I mean, I'm not I wasn't on the jury. I didn't
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really pay that close attention to it. From what I understand, he didn't
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testify in front of the grand jury and really put up a defense, and
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when he was deposed, all his only defense was it was really insulting and
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just ridiculous. His defense was, She's not my type, as if there
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needs to be a type for sexual assault. It's just it's disgusting. But
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you know what, there's he said when he ran, you know, the
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first time, he could shoot somebody in the face on Fifth Avenue and his
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supporters would still support him, And I think he got that right. There's
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just that that small group of people, and it's not a huge group of
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people, but it's a when you're talking about just Republican primary voters, it's
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enough. Unfortunately, Well, and what you have I think within the Republican
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Party, this is just my opinion. I think you have a lot of
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people, maybe outside West Virginia that don't support Donald Trump when he gets involved
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in the elections in other states. You see how south it went for the
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Republican Party. But you have a number of good people in the Republican Party
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that are afraid to stand up and say, we don't want this guy as
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a loser, he's a grifter. I've and I'm somebod who's voted for him
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twice as I said that, But I finally it took me a while,
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but I finally saw the light. The guy is what you only had two
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chances to vote of January January sixth. Well that's good, Um, welcome
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a board. Well let's go on the secondary stage. Let don't say welcome
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aboard, let's say welcome off the Trump train, which I'm one of the
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person off the Trump train. I don't know that. I think I just
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saw it as a better alternative, but but not anymore. But you do
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have a lot of people within the Republican Party that don't like Trump, they
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don't want him to be the nominee, but they won't stand up and they
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won't stand up to leadership and say this is not what we want, this
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is not what we need. Well, I you know, I think that
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they really need to and I know there are a lot of good people in
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the Republican Party. There's a lot of a lot of good elected officials in
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the Republican Republican Party, a lot of my friends and colleagues that I work
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with, a lot of very good for the majority of good decent people,
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and they should uh uh, you know, grow some courage and speak up
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when it's wrong. I mean, this guy was just found guilty of sexual
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assault and it should shock nobody because we had tapes years ago where he was
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bragging about sexual assault. They voted for him anyway, you voted for him.
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I did, apparently I did, and I admitted it, and I
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admitted I was wrong. Tech says one thousand dollars to speaking of political dinner
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question. That's I was just thinking about that too. There's something wrong with
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that. I'm sorry, but you know, when we have fundraisers, we
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don't charge a democratic side. We never charged candidates to speak at a function.
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In fact, what we did we actually paid for entertainment. We paid
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musicians and and and and so it would actually be fun for people. There's
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something just wrong with charging candidates to speak in an event. I'm sorry,
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but it's uh I find it distastement. All right, we gotta go,
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nine. Mike, thanks for being here, man, I appreciate it.
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Thank you. Coming up on the show tomorrow, it's first of all time
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and we're gonna have McKinsey Spencer to talk about that. Plus former mayor Danny
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Jones is going to stop by the station tomorrow, so looking forward to tune
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into that. Tune in every day Jerk, I mean you really should,
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you know? All right, we gotta go. Thank you so much for
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