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Harridge and he's going to join us a little bit later. I'm talking about
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his plans for the party. Plus Republican strategist Greg Thomas is here, and
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I guess the big story is this morning before we go to Hannah Gardner,
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and that is that Pucksintani Phil has predicted that spring is on the way.
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Now we don't know what French Creek Freddy has to say, but he got
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the reprieve. And I love the way that the press, and I guess
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Senator Mansion's office that said something to the effect of Senator Mansion saves French Creek
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Freddy. So hats off to you, Senator Manchion. We appreciate you saving
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French Greig Freddy. He'll make his prediction. Come it up at ten this
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in Hannah Gardner from the Connal Charlesty Main association with this week's Adopt Me please.
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Pat of the Week had a good morning, welcome to the show.
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Hey, how are you? I'm fine. Happy Groundhog Day. By the
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way, you too, Do you have any experiences with groundhogs? I mean,
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I know you guys are taking it in all kinds of animals up there,
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or in your personal life? Any any groundhog stories to share with us.
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No, not in my time at the shelter or actually in no personal
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life either. Well did you know that a lot of old timers, including
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a lot of my relatives who are from Wyoming County is where our family comes
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from, referred to groundhogs as whistle pigs? Did you know that? No?
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I did not know that. You see, you've learned something today.
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As a matter of factors, I had in the paper this morning about French
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Creek Freddy and they referred to him as a whistle pig because of the sounds
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that they make. A lot of the old timers called them whistle pig.
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So you see, Hannah, I've taught you something from the world of animals
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today. How cool is that? How that is that you learned something new
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every day? And there you go. You hang around me, you'll learn
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a lot of useless information. Let's get to Cheeto. Cheeto is our adoption
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me? Please put it the week is always picture posted Dave Alan Radio on
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Facebook and the Dave Alan Show on x Now. I think, if I'm
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correct about this, Hannah, Cheeto is a repeat offender, meaning we've had
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Cheeto on the show before to try to get him adopted. Is that right?
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I believe so. I figured we had had him on the show before.
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I couldn't remember. But he is just too sweet to resist and he
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needs stuff on again. Well, he's a great looking dog. And again
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we've get the picture posted on my social media. Give us the story in
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the background on Cheetoh. All right, Well, Cheeto is a very very
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very handsome, handsome dog. He's about four years old and yes, like
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you said, he has been at a shelter before, and he has been
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on the show before. He does have a fully sponsored feed, so if
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anybody were to adopt him, he is fully sponsored. I know that.
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He also is like very very good with like he knows how to sit and
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he knows how he does his thing. Whenever you hold the treat up,
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if you tell him up, he gets up on his back feet and he
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puts his front feet up in front of him and he just kind of stands
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there. So he knows those few little tricks. He's definitely what we consider
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a class clown. It's a shelter just because he is so goofy and he's
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so fun and he does like to kind of chill and hang out and he's
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laid back in that sense. But he also likes to run around, and
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he likes to play, and he likes toys, and he really just likes
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people attention. He's a very very good dog. But he does prefer female
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dogs as his friends versus male dogs. So if you do have a male
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dog or something, we would probably recommend a meet and greet with your male
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dog and Cheetoh himself, but we also recommend a meet and greet just for
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really amy dog because it just shows better to as if they're going to get
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along with the dogs that you have or not. And we also will hold
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them on the leash while you have your dinner. Leash. We have a
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playyard where we do the whole introduction. But he is a very very good
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dog and he is very much looking for a home again, and he's about
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fifty fifty five pounds I believe at around five years old. Is that what
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you said? Yeah, well he's he's about four years old. About four
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years old? Okay, okay, then yeah, four to five. He
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is fixed and again his adoption fee is sponsored, so he is free to
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a good home. Any idea of what kind of dog Cheeto is, well,
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he looks like to be some type of bully or pity or something like
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that. So he definitely looks like he's got some of that. But he
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I couldn't tell you what else he would be because he just got that true
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like bully look too. He's a good looking dog. And again shafflire or
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something right. His pictures posted over on my Facebook page. If you'd like
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to go ahead and go over there and check it out. It's on Dave
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Island Radio and Facebook and the Dave Alan Show on x Let's I got to
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get this story on this because I was, you know, perusing your you're
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also Facebook pages I normally do before the show Valentine's Day. Hannah is here
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in a couple of weeks and you're doing something called doggie speed dating? Is
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that right? Yes? All right? What is doggye speed dating? I
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have to hear this story. So with doggie speed dating, it's basically this
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thing that we came up with which kind of is good for really anytime,
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but especially for around on Time's Day. So we made a form that you
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can fill out whenever you come up to the shelter if you're looking to adopt,
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or even if you're just wanting the foster, but if you're looking to
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adopt, then we have this form that you can fill out and you can
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write if you have any animals at home, what they're like, what you're
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looking for, you know, if you have any kids at home. And
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we kind of asked a bunch of questions on this questionnaire form to kind of
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learn more about you and your home lifestyle so that way we can better match
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you with one of the dogs that we know would probably be a good fit
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for you, and then you can take them out for just the day,
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or you can take them out for the weekend, or if you plan on
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just fostering and then you fall in love and become a foster fail, then
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of course we always always welcome the adoptions from this dog you speed dating event
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as well, and we're hoping that the event itself brings more people into to
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see some of these dogs and maybe foster them and then hopefully adopt them.
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Hopefully. So talking to Hannah Gardner again from the Canal Charsty, Maine Association
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with this week's Adopt Me, please put it the week, give it us
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some news about what's going on at there. The Dave Allen showing five Any
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law firm. Hannah, did I read this right that in the past couple
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of days you all hat to shelter have taken in around fifty or so parvo
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patients. Yes, So we went to Mason County and begania shelter there and
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we retrieved I believe it was close to around forty dogs from just one single
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home. So when we brought them or when they got there, they tested
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them for parvo and because they were showing signs of some things, and then
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they were all positive. So when they brought them back, we just immediately
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took them into our care, brought them into our Parvo Dog Relation Unit,
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and we got treatment started on them. And they have been doing well as
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far as I've heard, So we are hoping that you know, they get
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past all the treatment and they get past parvo, because parvo is very very
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serious. Well, it's it's rough when you do that, but again it's
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it's miraculous with all some of the health issues and injuries that the different animals
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have that come through the shelter that you guys always do a great job and
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trying to nurse them back to health and get them in in homes and whatnot
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with loving families. Anything before we let you go, anything else going on
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up in the shelter this week, any I know you're always in need of
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blankets and foods and things of that nature, but anything in particular this week
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or any any events going on that you want to plug. No. I
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know that on our social media we're having the Love is Blind thing where we
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are posting a dog every day until Valentime's Day, and it's basically kind of
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like a you get to figure out like who the dog is and maybe even
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come foster them or something like that, along with our dog U skating.
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So other than that, puppy chow Purina chowel is really what we need,
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right though. All right, all right, Hannah, I appreciate you.
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We'll talk to you again next week. Thanks a lot, Thank you so
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much. Anna Gardner again from the Canal Charles DuMaine Association. Cheetoh is the
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dog's name, and again he is a repeat offender. He's been on the
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show before. We're trying to get a dog. I just don't understand when
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you take a look at this dog, how this dog has not been adopted
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yet. He came in as astray around four years old. I said five,
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but it's actually four years old. He is neutered, he is free,
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he's sponsored, so he's this free dog came in as astray. As
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I said, he does prefer female dogs and playful dogs. But they always
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ask for kind of a bit of a meat and greet when it comes to
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the pets, so bring it. It's not to say that he can't get
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along with male dogs. Just never know. Just do bring your dog up
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there and they can kind of hang out and you know, tell stories and
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whatever and see get along with each other. He does pull on his leash
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slightly, but Hannah tells me that that could be worked on with some training
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and some love. He loves attention, loves treats. Around fifty five pounds.
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Beautiful, beautiful dog and he is absolutely free. Cheeto is his name.
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Four year old male newter Go Get this dog. He has pictures posted
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thanks for having me on, Thank you for being here. Give us
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the background on yourself, sir. Who is Matt Harridge? And am I
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pronouncing the name right? Herridge? Absolutely right? Well done. Sometimes that's
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an easy one to mix up, but yeah, click also on myself.
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I was just listening to your intro there at doctor Jordan Peterson. I also
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am a clinical psychologist. I spent ten years in the field. I worked
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at Charleston Harriet Medical Center for ten years and I also served on the clinical
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faculty and really enjoyed that work. But about two thousand and five I decided
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to get into the business world and went into the restaurant industry and I went
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into Burger King Restaurants and also now owned Qudoba Mexican E. Those are yeah,
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I think we've got some of those, both of those of course there
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across the state. But for about I guess it's now been since till May
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of last year, I was the chairman for the government relations committee for Burger
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King, and so I spent a lot of energy, and I spent a
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lot of efforts and time in DC with our congressman and women, with our
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senators, and not just West Virginia but across the nation. And it helped
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also run a relatively large pack and so we were very supportive of small business
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friendly representatives and restaurant industry representatives and anyway it was. It was a great
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experience. I really enjoyed it. I've always been involved in politics at one
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level or another, actively supporting, you know, conservative representatives, but also
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just i'd like the right. So I'm one of those guys who likes to
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write in op eds to the paper and likes to speak on conservative values and
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things like that. So it just seemed like the right time. After selling
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my burger king business last May and my my schedule agenda changed a little bit,
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and I thought this is a time to give back and put some more
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energy into our state. Matt Harry gie again as well as he is the
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state Republican party chair, newly named to that position last Saturday at at the
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meetings in Charleston. So, Matt, the Republicans have a super majority now
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and pretty much what they say goes into the Dome. But that doesn't come
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without problems, as you know. And at the winter meeting this past can
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I wasn't there, but I hear stories there were some shall we say,
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disagreements, which is not a bad thing. It's not always it's not a
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bad thing. You know, you need to have and I'm sure the Democrats
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did too when they were in charge. You know, you need to have
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some discussion as long as it's all civil, and I understand that it was.
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But one of the disagreements had to do with the closing the primary to
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independence. Some wanted it right away, some didn't want it at all,
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others wanted to put off a year or two. In the end, it
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was decided that the Republican primary would indeed be closed, but not till the
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year twenty twenty six. Your your thoughts on that decision, Yeah, that's
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a I think you framed it very well. You know, this is a
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this is a very big decision, but it's also a tough decision, and
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that there are good arguments on either side on this primary issue, and it
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was a vigorous debate. But you know, this is to your point,
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this is what happens when and it's a good thing. When a state becomes
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a super majority state like we are, there are different different viewpoints are going
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to evolve, and that kind of I call it iron sharpening iron It's just
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I think a good thing for any party. But you know, my feeling
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is that we came to the right place, We came to a consensus.
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We democracy did its thing. This was on my mind, I would call
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it a compromise. We are going to close in twenty twenty six and not
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not cause any real big challenges at twenty twenty four. But I think as
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we move ahead, we're just My goal now as party chairman is really to
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make the case to all West Virginians that they need to consider the Republican Party
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if they're not a member yet. Okay, well, there was a lot
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of people, you know, Like I said, it kind of went back
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and forth between I think I think putting it off to twenty twenty six in
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my opinion, not that anybody asked my opinion, I think was the was
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the right If you're going to do it, I think, you know,
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because there's an education factor that goes in and plus as my time, you
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know, I spent working with the Secretary of States of also realize the hard
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work that our county clerks do, and that's what it would be a pretty
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big lift in my opinion, not that they couldn't do it, because they
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always do what they're asked, but I think it would been a pretty big
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lift to get that in time for the primary. Matt, I've said it
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before. There is no way short of a miracle that it's not a banner
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year again for Republicans in West Virginia. You have the leading contendent for governor,
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with all due respect to Honey, to Mayor Steve Williams, who I
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think is a good guy and a good mayor. More likely, more than
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likely, the next Canada or the next governor is going to be a Republican,
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whether it's Morrissey, Warner Miller, Capitol, one of those same with
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the Board of Public Works, most House and Senate races, probably down right
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down to the county races. You know, these are truly historic times for
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Republicans in the state of West Virginia. Matt, Yes, absolutely, you
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know. We are quite a story. I mean, I'm actually right now
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in Las Vegas at the RNC winner meeting. This is my first experience to
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join this group and get involved a little more at the national level. And
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I'll tell you, West Virginia is one of the centers of conversation here.
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What has happened in our state over the past decade is relatively unprecedented in the
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US and it is just a testament, I think, to what we stand
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for in West Virginia. Faith, family, freedom. I think, folks,
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really that message resonates with West Virginians. And I can't tell you how
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I'm incited for the next for this election cycle. So what message do you
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have for the Republicans now instead of West Virginia, Because Matt, here's the
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thing about it is, as I said, West Virginia was ruled by Democrats
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for eighty eighty three years something like that, and now it is ruled by
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Republicans. But doesn't mean it's always going to be ruled by Republicans. That
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seems to be the mindset of West Virginia right now, but that can change
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and no one wants to get complacent. So I'll let you close out with
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that. What is your message now for Republicans in the state of West Virginia,
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Matt Well, I think we kind of, you know, talked to
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around us at this point. But you're the issue for Republicans is we can't
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number one, we can't play defense. We have got to act like we
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still are minority party. We've got to aggressively campaign. We've got to again
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push our message out there, share it with folks. I think it really
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does resonate. But the other thing is we have all, as we like
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to say, can't we all just get along? We've got to start looking
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at who the real challenge is, who's creating the challenges for this country,
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and that is the Democratic Party. I mean, we're seeing the tax on
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free speech, We're seeing weaponization of the FBI, of the IRS. We
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have got to remember that there is an enemy, so to speak, or
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a challenge out there that we need to put our attention on and not each
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other. And I think we can accomplish that. I think we saw it
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last weekend as people came to compromise and consensus, and I'm convinced we'll continue
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to do so. Matt Ridge again, is the new State Republican Party Chair.
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Matt A pleasure to have you on the show. We'll have you on
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again soon. Thanks a lot, Hey, thank you so much for having
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me. All right, thank you again, Matt Heriage heredage. I always
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want to say heritage. It's not heritage. What are you laughing at?
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Thomas? Greg's over here laughing at you because I'm stumbling over my words over
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reps voted. Can you get him on secret ballot? Was a chicken crap?
24:51
Means of handling this? Yeah? I the State Republican Party chairs Tony
24:55
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the show. We'll have Tony on the show at some At some point,
25:03
Tech says, Matt Harridge is a great spokesman for the West Virginia Republican Party.
25:07
He will make us very proud, says a text. A couple quick
25:11
notes here, then we'll go to Greg Thomas. It's night four of Restaurant
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25:22
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25:26
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do it again, real student. And Steve is feeling better. He is
25:36
back in the building again. Greg Thomas is also in the building. How
25:40
are you Are you the only one in the world. It's not sick right
25:41
now. I was very sick like last week, okay, and so last
25:47
week I probably would not Actually I did a couple of radio interviews early in
25:51
the week that I had already scheduled, and I sounded terrible, not that
25:56
I always sound great, but like, I think you were happy one day
26:00
light. Yeah, I was unhappy on Monday. It was I saved up,
26:03
like my voice all like, I didn't like talk all morning until I
26:06
did it, and then I had another radio interviewed late afternoon. So I
26:10
uh, I wasn't I wasn't feeling great, but I did them. There's
26:15
a lot of people, I mean, I think Animal and we were well,
26:17
everybody was wanted to talk about the closing the primary, right, yeah,
26:19
and we're going to talk about that. I think Animal just had a
26:22
sinus infection, so hopefully he's he's back as good as he can get.
26:26
He's he's purified though, so he didn't have anything to worry about. Uh.
26:29
We'll get to the closing the primaries here in a couple moments, but
26:32
I want to ask you about this. The filing period GREG ended last Saturday
26:34
night slash Sunday morning. Any any surprises from you. People who filed that
26:41
you didn't think would, they filed for a different office. Many people that
26:45
you thought were going to file that didn't know. I mean it was pretty
26:48
uh, I mean I knew I mean, I guess I knew about more
26:52
than most did, but uh no, I think it's pretty much who you
26:57
would have thought. I mean, you did have a lot of you know,
27:00
House of Delegates and stuff like that. You still get a lot of
27:03
people that filed last minute, you know what I mean, and you know
27:06
people that kind of go along and think, oh, I don't have an
27:07
opponent at all. One of the things that I you know, I don't
27:11
know we now that we are this like Superman, you know, beyond,
27:15
I don't know what the next level of you know, I've been calling it
27:18
mega majority. I don't know what the next level up, which was where
27:22
we'll get to after this elect work. I've copyrighted super duper majority. We
27:26
have mega majority. I don't know what I thought we I feel like we're
27:29
the mega majority. And then I don't know what the next one is.
27:32
I've been I've been thinking about it, but I haven't come up with something
27:34
yet. But uh, you know, look, this is it's healthy though,
27:38
right, I mean, you know a lot of the they complain it's
27:41
like, oh I got an opponent. It's like, well, you know,
27:42
because you don't have it. You know, you're you're gonna have an
27:45
opponent. It's just going to be Is it going to be in the primary,
27:48
is it going to be in the fall? Some people have both.
27:51
But I think we have a lot of really good UH State Senate candidates.
27:56
We have a lot. I think I think the crop of to get candidates
28:00
is better than it has been in a few years. You know, I
28:06
would have liked to have seen probably some more circuit you know, we are
28:10
going to have some competitive circuit court races, more than what we've ever had.
28:12
I kind of wish we had maybe a little bit more than that,
28:18
you know, But look, I think, you know, there's going to
28:21
be it's going to be a very very competitive primary on the Republican side.
28:25
I think you're going to have I don't know if it's like record Republican turnout
28:29
or anything. It probably just will be. Given that the given that the
28:32
you know, registration so much higher than what it used to be, and
28:36
then as you talked about earlier, the you know, unaffiliated voters will still
28:40
be able to participate in the Republican primary this year. How do you feel
28:44
What was your take on that. I think they made the right decision.
28:48
Do you think it'll stand because I've had a lot of people on the inside
28:52
have said, well, they put it off to twenty twenty six because the
28:56
legislature could get involved in some things. I mean, the parties could pretty
28:59
much make up their own rules. They can, but there is some legislative
29:02
Secretary of State oversight. It has to be a part of it. I've
29:04
heard I've heard people say Greg that they put it off to twenty twenty six,
29:10
and it's not gonna happen in twenty twenty six either, because it's like
29:12
you are going to change between now. Yeah, I feel like it's a
29:15
goal. I'm not against closing the primary. I think it's a goal that
29:19
you strive for. I mean, to me, I don't know how you
29:22
close the primary if you don't have fifty percent of the electorate, right,
29:26
Because it's like, all right, you know, I mean, I've just
29:30
run so many campaigns over the last twenty years where we were very reliant upon
29:36
conservative Democrats and unaffiliated voters to vote for us to become the majority party,
29:41
and a lot of those conservative Democrats have since switched to become unaffiliated, you
29:47
know. You know, So there's about fifty thousand unaffiliated voters that regularly participate
29:52
in Republican primaries. And to me, you know, you brought up the
29:56
word education earlier with respect to this issue. I think that's I think the
30:02
biggest part of it is, you know, the Republicans still have to be
30:04
in a position to win in the fall, regardless of who the candidates are.
30:10
The other thing is is, you know, you have to have an
30:11
education effort to these unaffiliated voters to make sure they know right, I mean
30:18
you, I mean, what a disaster would it be to have a bunch
30:21
of unaffiliated voters show up to vote for Donald Trump and they're not allowed exactly?
30:25
That would have been it. And that's what I said earlier this week.
30:27
And here's the thing. If somebody goes into a polling place and they
30:32
find out they're an unaffiliated voter and they can't vote for whomever, and and
30:36
it's and I'll just use Trump as an example, because that's the one they
30:37
all want to vote for. So if they go in and they can't vote,
30:41
are they gonna blame well, are they going to say, well,
30:44
dang those Republicans that No, they're gonna they're gonna blame eighty eight year old
30:48
uh Mabel there that's the pollwark, that's what's gonna happen, they would at
30:52
the time, and that was the point that was brought up. I know
30:55
Senate President Blair, you know, he was one of the ones that was
30:57
really that helped orchestrate this compromise, and that was a big point of his
31:02
was exactly that he was like, man, but do you know, you
31:03
guys are putting a lot of pressure on some pollwork and you can't get You
31:07
have a hard time getting poll workers now anyway, you know, and it'd
31:11
been tough. And so look, I think I think if the to me
31:14
to I mean, I'm I could see it happening in twenty six, but
31:18
I think they really have to as soon as this primary is over. I
31:22
think they've got to start educating. I think there has to be a voter
31:26
registration drive to these unaffiliated voters to try to get them a switch, you
31:29
know what I mean. I think there's got to be you know, I
31:32
don't know if it's a mailer, I don't know if it's going door to
31:33
door, I don't know if it's calling these people. I think I think
31:37
the Republican the local county Republican parties need to have like open houses where they
31:41
invite the unaffiliated voters in come talk to you know what I mean, there's
31:45
got to be there's got to be a series of things, a real campaign,
31:48
if you will, to to try to get unaffiliated voters to become part
31:52
of the party. So look, I think if that's the case, I
31:56
don't you know, Look, we're going to be a Republican majority party for
32:00
a while in West Virginia. It's just, you know, what's the best
32:04
way of going about it? You know. Look, I think the other
32:07
aspect of this that that I know insiders are talking about was, you know,
32:10
Patrick Morrissey was really leading the charge on that to close it. You
32:14
know, he really thought that was going to help him for some reason,
32:16
and it might have. But the fact that you know, he's sort of
32:21
like campaigns on saying oh I've got this, you know, conservative grassroots network.
32:25
I mean, if he can't get fifty percent of the state Executive Committee
32:30
to support him, I think that was a real showing to me of you
32:36
know, I think he's a lot. I think he's in a weaker position
32:37
than what he's letting on. I think internally he knows that and he's been
32:43
saying that. But you know, I think the fact that that campaign couldn't
32:46
get that done really shows that they just don't have the command of the grassroots
32:52
like like they say they do. And so so we'll see how that goes.
32:59
What's speaking of which, fund me jump in here real quickly, because
33:01
I do know that you have been on the show in the past, and
33:04
you've had less than I don't say less than nice things. You haven't been
33:07
You haven't given your glowing approval of Patrick Morrissey in a pastor is a text
33:10
about that. It says, waiting to hear Greg trash Patrick Morrissey to help
33:15
his candidate for governor. You said you don't have a candidate. I don't.
33:17
I don't have anybody but Morsey is my candidate for governor. So I
33:22
don't have a specifician. Again, let's specify that. What he's saying is
33:27
you will vote for anybody except for Patrick Morrison. Yeah, no, I
33:30
don't. I'm not working on any of the gubernatorial campaigns. And you know,
33:35
so I think that's part of you know, and I think that's a
33:40
I think that is a sentiment out there. Now. The flip side of
33:43
that, though, right is somebody does have to become you know, some
33:45
one of these other campaigns is going to have to get the momentum. I
33:49
mean Morsey's you know, look Morsey's name. Might he's like ninety percent,
33:52
but right now he's polling at like twenty five percent, which means there's a
33:55
whole bunch of people that know of him that aren't supporting him, but right
33:59
now they're also not supporting anybody else, right, So one of these other
34:01
campaigns is going to have to to have to catch fire. So who has
34:06
if people do back away for Morrissey and then we'll do this and we'll go
34:08
to break, who has the most to gain? Would it be? I
34:12
would think that politically, if you look at their stances on things, I
34:15
would think he's probably more closely aligned with make Warner. As far as I
34:20
don't know, if I don't get the people, I don't know if the
34:22
people, I don't think anybody's going to back off. I mean Morsey has
34:24
a floor, right, I mean, I don't think people are going to
34:27
back off of him from where he is. I just think there's a whole
34:30
bunch of people now that know him that aren't supporting him as of right now,
34:35
right, So that leaves all of the other candidates as potential votes.
34:37
So those guys are in the onus is on them to get those people to
34:42
support them and not Morrissey. So I think that they That's what's going to
34:45
happen over the next couple of months, right, is those people are going
34:49
to have a chance to go get this other seventy five percent. But if
34:52
they don't make their case, if they don't run effective campaigns, if nobody
34:55
really catches fire, then some of those people are probably just going to go
35:00
with Morsey because they do know him or they know of him. Right,
35:02
So look, I still look, you know Morsey is still the front runner
35:07
of that race today, but you know there is definitely a path for victory
35:14
for you know, a couple of the other campaigns. But you know,
35:17
they're gonna have to get the momentum going. You know, they're gonna they're
35:21
gonna have to really start getting their message out there. Texas close and we'll
35:22
do this, and I promise we'll go to break. Closing the primary,
35:25
says a texture would harm Gregg's more moderate candidate according to RESA polls. That's
35:29
why you're against it for anybody to think that I'm more moderate is silly,
35:36
given that you know, I mean, Morrisey has a ton, a ton
35:39
ton of big government liberal positions. So I think that's a sort of an
35:44
outrageous thing to say, all right, we're gonna take a break. We'll
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you. Greg Thomas is here, Tex says. I usually like what Greg
38:15
has to say, but I gotta say if you don't have a candidate then
38:17
why do you think it's okay to trash Moris seed just because you don't like
38:21
it. I mean, it's it's a it's a primary, like, it's
38:24
a debate, it's a it's a this is a talk radio show. We're
38:28
just talking like, I don't know. I mean, I don't have a
38:31
like, I don't know. You know, when you when you do this
38:34
for a living like I do, and you usually you know, you work
38:37
for a candidate, or you work for a cause or an organization or whatever,
38:39
you come on there and do it. But you know, I feel
38:42
like you're you know, you're just asking me, like, hey, what
38:44
do you think of this stuff? I mean, and you don't care to
38:46
tell us no. I mean, I look, I think that's been a
38:50
hallmark of sort of why I've been successful. Was you know, I've been
38:54
a you know, a conservative in West Virginia, running conservative campaigns since two
39:00
thousand and two. You know, I didn't move here from New Jersey.
39:02
I don't come and just repeat Fox News talking points like. I've been in
39:07
the trenches doing this stuff, trying to promote the conservative cause and agenda,
39:12
been part of more election wins than anybody else in the state. And you
39:17
know, when you have somebody come along that's just sort of this interloper that's,
39:22
you know, totally focused on themselves that has no regard for the party
39:24
or the Conservative Cause. I am going to speak out and I am going
39:29
to say, look, I don't I don't think this is the right person.
39:30
And you know, I just I have a lot more invested in the
39:34
Conservative Cause than you know, a couple of out of state candidates that come
39:37
in and you know, want to change the rules so that you know,
39:42
you know, so that they can try to win one election for themselves.
39:45
I mean, this, this, this cause. This party has never been
39:49
about one consultant or one candidate or one issue or whatever. I mean,
39:52
that's not how we got here, you know, and these people, and
39:55
I struggle with this all the time, Dave. I mean, you know,
39:58
we we have all these new people the party that have no history of
40:00
it. You know, they don't. They weren't here in two thousand and
40:05
four, you know, they weren't here. They heck, they weren't even
40:07
here in twenty ten, you know what I mean, out here trying to
40:10
help us win races and stuff. And so you know that that's why I
40:15
fight for, you know, sort of the That's why, That's why I
40:19
do feel like I'm in a position to say, hey, I don't have
40:21
to go out here and say, hey, everybody vote for this one person.
40:22
I can say, hey, look, here's the person that I don't
40:24
think aligns with the values of the core conservative. And you don't think that
40:30
Patrick Morrissey, because that would come to a shock as a shock to a
40:32
lot of people, including mister Morrissey himself. You you're so I don't think
40:36
there No, No, I think Patrick morvative. No. I think I
40:38
think he is transactional. I think he looks at it and I think he
40:42
sees what everybody's talking on Fox News, and then he tries to figure out
40:45
if he can, you know, if he can just puppet that message locally
40:51
or find a way to get like the you know. And this is what
40:53
happens in DC. I mean, he's just he's a DC person, right,
40:55
I mean he came out. I mean he's from New Jersey, but
40:58
he lived in d C. And he was a lobbyist and everything over there,
41:00
and like that's what those people try to do, right, It's like
41:04
the message of the day there is there's no like, there's no like conservative
41:07
agenda. There's no like, hey, here's here's ten things we've been working
41:12
on for a decade that we've got to go do. It's just, hey,
41:15
what's the what's the national issue that I can you know, go and
41:20
do for the day or you know, you know, he goes out there
41:23
and hires outside council and sues all kinds of businesses all over the place,
41:27
which isn't very conservative. You know, he gave one hundred and forty one
41:30
million dollars to Democrat personal injury lawyers. That's not conservative, man, Like,
41:35
there's no version of giving one hundred and forty one million dollars and overall,
41:38
I mean over the course of this thing. And you know, my
41:42
client, the organization that I've worked for for a long time, West Virginia
41:45
Citizens Against Lwsuit Abuse, just recently put out a report that showed that it's
41:50
not just that one hundred and forty one million dollars. I mean, he's
41:52
given out nearly a quarter of he's overseen almost a quarter of a billion dollars
41:57
that's gone to Democrat personal injury lawyers. And you know, I just that's
42:01
not conservative, man. It just isn't conservative. And because you go out
42:05
and you know, join some national lawsuit that you know twenty other Republican ags
42:09
have joined, you know, because you saw somebody on Fox News talking about
42:14
it, doesn't mean you're a conservative. It just doesn't. And the and
42:15
the and the governor is an executive role. I mean, this is an
42:21
executive position, Like we need to hire somebody who has executive experience, not
42:24
just and that and that's he doesn't, you know, he just doesn't.
42:28
I mean, being a being a pharmaceutical lobbyist doesn't, you know, doesn't
42:31
make it, you know. And then going out and hiring, you know,
42:35
giving out a quarter of a billion dollars to Democrat person or injury lawyers,
42:37
to me, isn't a great resume to become the governor of West Virginia.
42:40
I mean, I got some text or text says, ah, yes,
42:43
I'm eagerly signing up for the Republican Party. Who thinks Joe Biden intentionally
42:46
shut down the West Virginia Wildlife Center to punish West Virginians for who knows reference
42:52
to French Greek Freddy there but Joe Manchin say French Creek Freddy. Uh Texas,
42:57
please give Greg Thomas my best wishes on Republican strategy of declaring a holy
43:00
war on Taylor Swift. It's fitting the Republican religious zealots would declare jihad against
43:05
a woman urging people register to vote. Did you say anything about about Taylor?
43:10
I don't. I don't come on here and talk. I don't.
43:13
Ever, I'd literally come on and say I don't want to talk about the
43:15
Fox News docking poicte in the face like there you go, like that's that's
43:17
that's that's why. And you know, look, Matt Harriet, who I
43:20
think is going to be a very good state Republican Party chair. I mean,
43:22
I think this guy with a great business background. I'm really excited about
43:27
what I think he's going to be able to do there. Uh, but
43:30
you know, you asked him a question of like, Okay, what do
43:31
the Republicans do now? What our Republicans need to do is to continue to
43:36
have and we've had we have passed the most conservative legislative agenda in the country
43:42
over the last eight years. Uh. We need to continue to do that,
43:45
you know. And in the in the chasing down the Fox News talking
43:49
point of the day, whether it's look, I agree with those people.
43:52
I'm not. I mean, I don't. I don't. I don't watch.
43:53
I don't watch, you know. I mean I've seen some of these
43:57
you know, football games and Taylors who cares man Like, I don't care
44:00
about that, Like like if that was really something that our legislative leadership was
44:04
like focused on every day, Okay, but like the fact that a whole
44:07
bunch of people are saying it on Facebook. I mean that that's the problem
44:09
with I think some of these other politicians that come along that, like,
44:13
you don't chase what you see on Facebook, you put together a conser thing
44:16
Republicans can do, in my opinion, is to turn off Fox News.
44:19
That would be the best thing Republican because it's because it's crap. I mean,
44:22
it really is, in my opinion, that's my opinion. It's it's
44:25
it's a lagging indicator, not like not a not a you know, forward
44:31
thinking conservativeation. All right, I did get a text. I want to
44:35
get this in and we've got to get to break the text, says as
44:37
A. Says Greg as an independent who leans conservative and always votes Republican.
44:42
I'm disappointed that the legislature seems to focus so much on social issues. Do
44:46
you have an opinion on that? Look, I think the legislature is a
44:51
representative body of the state, and I think there are a lot of people
44:53
in West Virginia that are focused on social issues, and so I don't I
44:59
don't mind the the look. I'm a I'm a social conservative too. I
45:02
like to see some of those things addressed. But I do think that there
45:07
there are certain uh like our House Judiciary Committee, that's all they ever talk
45:12
about, right, Like, all they ever talk about is trying to trying
45:15
to find ways to sue people because they are all a bunch of trial lawyers.
45:16
And then the other half of the group is, you know, really
45:20
really focused on the social issues. Uh. I think that we're gonna have
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far for our party to continue to grow and to continue to have the success
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that we've had. Uh, it's got to be diversified, right, It's
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got to be how do we create jobs, how do we improve education,
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how do we you know, how do we improve health care in the state,
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and and and look, family values has to be a part of that.
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Uh. But this just I think what they're getting at is like sometimes
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these guys are just trying to be punitive, right that being punitive is not
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a way to build the party, right, Like, we have to figure
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out ways to add people to the party. We have to figure out ways
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to get this unaffiliated voter that just sent a text in to to say,
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you know what, that's the kind of agenda I want to see. That's
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the kind of party I want to belong to and have that, you know,
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do things that are caret to bring that person into the party. But
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I talked about this on the show yesterday. City Council in Charleston set to
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meet again Monday evening, and I'm told there's going to be a large presence
48:59
of people there again asking for the Mayor and Council to issue a proclamation asking
49:04
for a ceasefire situation in Israel. They're hitting, hitting the emails, they're
49:09
hitting the council people, pressuring council. I talked to one council person the
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other night who said he's gotten countless emails from people he doesn't recognize from you
49:16
know, not in his district, not in his ward, for people asking
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them to do this. They're setting up a phone bank to flood phones.
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I understand tonight, you're taking this whole thing. Look, they should have.
49:31
I mean, obviously it's an outrageous thing to think that the City Council
49:36
of Charleston has anty any influence whatsoever about what's going on in Israel. And
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so look, I mean there's a part of me right that's like sympathetic that
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they're, you know, getting all of this negative attention on it. But
49:52
they also brought it on themselves by like waiting into this pool to begin with.
49:54
I mean, they you know, they put out some like Mamby Pamby,
49:59
you know, you know, know, you know, you know,
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you know, we hope both sides win type letter, you know what I
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mean, to get this thing started. And once you open up that that
50:08
sort of box man and then all of a sudden. You know, you're
50:10
going to get these you know, very extreme you know, very extreme activists
50:17
to get motivated on on, you know, getting engaged in this. I
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mean, I I don't have any idea in the world why the Charleston City
50:27
Council would be addressing this issue to any degree. Ever. Fixed potholes,
50:31
yeah, I mean, yeahs fire protections, stay the hell out of everything
50:35
else. I mean, that's what I mean, That's what I'm saying about,
50:37
you know, the what we were talking before about the West Virginia Legislature.
50:39
I mean, as long as they're doing a good job and they're passing
50:42
this agenda and they're moving things forward, they're going to be okay. But
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the city council, I mean, if they're not going to actually get stuff
50:47
done, and this is the kind of stuff they're going to spend their time
50:50
on and back and forth, you know, you know, I'd hate to
50:54
see what the next election is going to look like. All right, But
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Technical collect says some conservatives, So I'm sorry, social conservative is a synonym
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for government all up in your private life. I I I don't think that's
51:09
always the case, but I do think it's sometimes the case. I think
51:14
that sometimes that wing of the party gets a little uh uh, gets a
51:19
little theocratic and and gets a little down in there. So I mean,
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I look, I I do think that the far left sort of like they
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stay on attack with some of those you know, the trans issues and some
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of those real extreme things, and so it kind of puts the Republicans on
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defensive there. But then, you know, we sort of have our you
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know, extreme wing of the party that that goes down that road a little
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bit too much too. So I you know, some of our you know,
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people that say they're farthest to the right tend to be the ones that
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are you know, you know a little bit, a little bit bigger government
51:51
than what they think they are in their heads. All right, Well,
51:52
Greg, don't don't spend so much time away. Because I had about twenty
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text I didn't get to here today, so I have to have you on
51:59
again real soon. That's like Greg Thomas Man, I appreciate it. Thanks
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