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- 0:55Speaker 3: Dave Allen and a good Wednesday Morning. Can you welcome
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- 1:54Speaker 3: in Saturday with Tony the Taylor Loaded Up Show this
- 1:57Speaker 3: morning on this Wednesday edition. Of course, we're gonna have
- 1:59Speaker 3: more on the debate last night. I hope you had
- 2:02Speaker 3: a chance to check that out. I'm at your news
- 2:04Speaker 3: TV and on our stations between Attorney General Patrick Morrissey
- 2:08Speaker 3: and Hontyton Mayor Steve Williams. Going to get into that
- 2:11Speaker 3: a little bit later on Doctor Casey Sacksvillbridge Valley will
- 2:13Speaker 3: be stopping by John Mitchell, who's a candidate for prosecutor
- 2:16Speaker 3: here in Kanawha County, will be stopping by as well
- 2:19Speaker 3: as House candidate Tristan Levitt. And as always you're calls
- 2:22Speaker 3: some text to welcome big Ley Pickli Wiggley hotline three
- 2:24Speaker 3: zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Tony
- 2:27Speaker 3: of Taylor text three zero four nine three five five
- 2:30Speaker 3: zero zero eight want to go to Rob Reel now
- 2:33Speaker 3: from her sister station ninety six one KWS, hopefully only
- 2:37Speaker 3: one day and a half out from completing this herculean
- 2:41Speaker 3: task of walking from Charleston to Morgantown for WVU Children's
- 2:44Speaker 3: Hospital to deliver that big old check that you the
- 2:47Speaker 3: listeners of the stations of WVRC Media helped make possible
- 2:50Speaker 3: through your donations. Rob, Good morning buddy today and half
- 2:54Speaker 3: of tomorrow. What was that?
- 2:57Speaker 6: What hercules circle from the nutty professor?
- 3:01Speaker 3: Ah got you? I wasn't expecting the early don Knotts
- 3:05Speaker 3: reference this morning.
- 3:06Speaker 6: Here, So you know, Percillian's a big word for you.
- 3:10Speaker 3: It is, it is. I just says strong, normally strong.
- 3:13Speaker 3: He's strong. But it was a big old task that
- 3:16Speaker 3: you took on. And you, I mean, what about a
- 3:18Speaker 3: day and a half you should have this thing knocked out.
- 3:20Speaker 6: Bud, Yes, sir, I started out with twenty four miles
- 3:25Speaker 6: to go this morning. I got a little extra in
- 3:27Speaker 6: yesterday Mount and Mama was being good to me. I
- 3:30Speaker 6: was feeling good. I made it all the way to
- 3:31Speaker 6: the edge of Fairmont and spent National Cat Day at
- 3:36Speaker 6: the Marion County Humane Society. Spent about an hour in
- 3:38Speaker 6: the cat room just hanging out and getting some critter therapy.
- 3:42Speaker 6: And I'm all charged up moving through Fairmont. Now I've
- 3:45Speaker 6: passed campus, and I won't get it all done today,
- 3:48Speaker 6: There's no way. But I'll get to the edge of
- 3:50Speaker 6: Morgantown and be ready to finish up tomorrow morning as
- 3:53Speaker 6: well tomorrow midday.
- 3:54Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll tell you again, I've said this every
- 3:57Speaker 3: day that we've had you on the air. You have
- 3:59Speaker 3: just been blessed, my friend, because anytime that you're dealing
- 4:02Speaker 3: with October, and I can recall Halloween nights. You know,
- 4:05Speaker 3: over the years, there's been snow, there's been rain, there's
- 4:08Speaker 3: been cold weather. You have had absolutely if anything, you
- 4:11Speaker 3: may be a little too warm today, Rob.
- 4:16Speaker 6: You know, a dressing in layers has been the key.
- 4:18Speaker 6: And you know it's been winter in the early morning, spring,
- 4:22Speaker 6: in the midday, summer, in the afternoon, fall in the evening.
- 4:26Speaker 6: A lot more leaves are down in the north central
- 4:28Speaker 6: part of the state than we're in Charleston the last
- 4:31Speaker 6: time I was there. So folks who are around the
- 4:34Speaker 6: capital city, make sure you are enjoying things. And I
- 4:38Speaker 6: do have to go quickly, and just for fun, I
- 4:41Speaker 6: took the remote gear downstairs and actually did part of
- 4:44Speaker 6: my show up real early from the breakfast portion of
- 4:48Speaker 6: the hotel, and just just to get some interesting looks
- 4:52Speaker 6: for some folks as if they had never seen the
- 4:54Speaker 6: live radio broadcast happening before. So it's got a good
- 4:59Speaker 6: night's rest and I think we're going to get this done.
- 5:02Speaker 3: And so what's your eta for late tomorrow afternoon.
- 5:06Speaker 6: We're aiming for one o'clock tomorrow, So in word for
- 5:11Speaker 6: that to happen, I need to knock out about seventeen
- 5:13Speaker 6: or eighteen miles today so that I could make for
- 5:16Speaker 6: a super short day tomorrow and hit one o'clock. But
- 5:19Speaker 6: I think that's when the Halloween shenanigans are happening for
- 5:22Speaker 6: the youngsters at WVU Medicine Children's and I will be
- 5:25Speaker 6: in costume ready to be a part of that.
- 5:27Speaker 3: I mean, like a different costume what you normally have on.
- 5:32Speaker 6: Yeah, I will not be dressed as a Slovenly DJ.
- 5:37Speaker 7: No, I.
- 5:39Speaker 6: Have a stupendom costume ready to go. And yes there
- 5:43Speaker 6: is a hint in that sense.
- 5:44Speaker 3: I don't know how you have energy, buddy, to do
- 5:46Speaker 3: anything other because I mean you've been walking on average
- 5:48Speaker 3: of twenty miles a day to get that check of
- 5:51Speaker 3: the WVU Children's Hospital. So hats off to you for that,
- 5:54Speaker 3: and as I said, every day as well. If you're
- 5:56Speaker 3: not following Rob a Long on the Facebook pages of
- 5:59Speaker 3: social mediainety six one kws, make sure that you do,
- 6:02Speaker 3: because Rob has just been taking some absolutely beautiful picture
- 6:05Speaker 3: beautiful pictures of the cats yesterday for National Cat Day
- 6:07Speaker 3: when you got to stop by the animal shelter there
- 6:10Speaker 3: as well. We'll talk to you tomorrow. I guess for
- 6:13Speaker 3: the final day, and then we're gonna give you some
- 6:16Speaker 3: time to rest up, and then one day next week,
- 6:18Speaker 3: maybe after even after we get through the election. By
- 6:21Speaker 3: the way, there's an election next week. I don't know
- 6:22Speaker 3: whether you knew anything about that.
- 6:23Speaker 6: I've heard this. Wilson Progress was his middle name.
- 6:27Speaker 3: So we will. I want to have you in studio
- 6:30Speaker 3: too after you with your feet propped up in here,
- 6:33Speaker 3: probably still you know, soaking an abb some salt or something,
- 6:35Speaker 3: so I can I can kind of get a rundown
- 6:38Speaker 3: of how everything went overall. But to be safe out there, man,
- 6:40Speaker 3: We'll be following along on the social media pages and
- 6:43Speaker 3: the website and whatnot. Rob will talk to you again tomorrow, man.
- 6:45Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Thank you, sir, Rob Real from our
- 6:49Speaker 3: sister station ninety six to one KWS again that walk
- 6:52Speaker 3: he is on from Charleston. He left our studios here
- 6:55Speaker 3: to eleven eleven and is headed to Morgantown. And he
- 6:58Speaker 3: has got this thing fingers cross, knock on the proverbial wood.
- 7:01Speaker 3: He's got this thing knocked out, and we are very
- 7:04Speaker 3: very proud of what he's done. He should arrive at
- 7:06Speaker 3: WU Children's Hospital in Morgantown. They say around one o'clock
- 7:10Speaker 3: or so tomorrow afternoon, and then he's probably not going
- 7:13Speaker 3: to walk ever again after this. He lives actually not
- 7:17Speaker 3: far from the station, I mean within walking distance, and
- 7:19Speaker 3: so I have a feeling he's going to get somebody
- 7:21Speaker 3: an interurn or something to go get him into wheeling
- 7:24Speaker 3: to the station every day. I can't see. I believe it.
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- 7:49Speaker 3: zero A. John Mitchell, who is a candidate for Prosecuting
- 7:52Speaker 3: Attorney Kanaw County, due to join us a little bit
- 7:54Speaker 3: later on. Also Tristan eleven, who's a candidate for House
- 7:57Speaker 3: here in West Virginia, will join us when we'll get
- 7:59Speaker 3: into some debate talk and some other things in the
- 8:01Speaker 3: news coming up a little bit later on as well.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Doctor Casey Sacks from Bridge Valley. I believe is with
- 8:07Speaker 3: us right now. Doctor Sachs.
- 8:08Speaker 8: Are you there, Good morning, Dave.
- 8:11Speaker 9: How are you to day.
- 8:11Speaker 3: I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine because unlike Rob Real,
- 8:15Speaker 3: I'm not walking from Charleston to Morgantown. I know that
- 8:17Speaker 3: you are. You know you're into the outdoors and everything
- 8:20Speaker 3: like that. You're a Colorado native who got to West
- 8:23Speaker 3: Virginia as quickly as you could. That's a long walk, though,
- 8:26Speaker 3: doctor Sachs.
- 8:27Speaker 9: It is a long walk, but good for him for
- 8:29Speaker 9: doing it.
- 8:30Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Absolutely, a couple of things going on a Bridge Valley.
- 8:33Speaker 3: You recently had a family fun Night and a great
- 8:35Speaker 3: golf tournament. Tell me about those.
- 8:37Speaker 9: Oh, both were such wonderful events. Thank you so much
- 8:40Speaker 9: to our whole community for making them so fun. Nine
- 8:43Speaker 9: hundred kids brought their parents out for family Fun Night
- 8:46Speaker 9: and it was in partnership with WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals,
- 8:49Speaker 9: So we all set up cars and they did a
- 8:51Speaker 9: trunk or treat and we had a hot house. It
- 8:53Speaker 9: was a lot of fun. And the golf tournament too.
- 8:56Speaker 9: We had fifteen teams and a terrific turnout and some
- 8:59Speaker 9: really wonderful support, we gave away incredible prizes, so all
- 9:03Speaker 9: of it has just been it's.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Been a fun month talking to doctor Casey Sachs Abridge
- 9:07Speaker 3: Valley and I understand now you're doing a purse raffle,
- 9:11Speaker 3: and I hope my wife isn't listening to this.
- 9:13Speaker 9: We are, and I do hope your wife is listening
- 9:15Speaker 9: to this. So November fifteenth, we're doing a purse raffle.
- 9:19Speaker 9: We've got our raffle license from the state, and we're
- 9:22Speaker 9: super excited. We've gotten some incredible donations. If Louis Vaiton
- 9:25Speaker 9: is your thing or Tory Burch is your thing, we
- 9:28Speaker 9: have several purses in this purse raffle. It should be
- 9:30Speaker 9: a really fun night.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Indeed, And again that's November the fifteenth. Is that what
- 9:34Speaker 3: you said?
- 9:35Speaker 9: That's right?
- 9:36Speaker 3: All right, tell me a little bit more about this
- 9:38Speaker 3: win Academy. I was in a meeting one day last
- 9:40Speaker 3: week and it was just a kind of a random
- 9:44Speaker 3: business thing that just kind of popped up, and I
- 9:46Speaker 3: heard several people talking about this win Academy. Now, you've
- 9:50Speaker 3: talked about it on the show in the past, but
- 9:51Speaker 3: obviously the word is getting out there. Explain what this explained?
- 9:55Speaker 3: The Win Academy.
- 9:56Speaker 10: So the Win.
- 9:57Speaker 9: Academy is a public high school for students who are
- 9:59Speaker 9: in a eleventh and twelfth grade who were interested in
- 10:02Speaker 9: going into the workforce. So we started out with nursing,
- 10:05Speaker 9: we expanded into advanced manufacturing, and it's for students who
- 10:09Speaker 9: are really ready to be on a career pathway and
- 10:11Speaker 9: who want that work based learning that you know we
- 10:13Speaker 9: provide so great here at Bridge Valley. And they get
- 10:16Speaker 9: to do clinicals and nursing, they get to draw blood
- 10:19Speaker 9: and flebotomy. They're outworking with our manufacturers and the idea
- 10:23Speaker 9: is really to help site high school students accelerate into
- 10:26Speaker 9: the workforce. So it's totally free to families, and it's
- 10:30Speaker 9: what they do for high school.
- 10:32Speaker 3: I mean it's awesome. I mean, it really really is.
- 10:34Speaker 3: And I got to, as I said I've said in
- 10:36Speaker 3: on a meeting last week and got to hear some
- 10:37Speaker 3: more about that from people outside Bridge Valley, and that's
- 10:40Speaker 3: always good when outside people are talking about it as well.
- 10:43Speaker 3: I'll understand as well that you're doing some hazmat training
- 10:47Speaker 3: for current linemen and for your CDL license students.
- 10:51Speaker 9: We are, so a colleague in another state got a
- 10:55Speaker 9: grant to be able to provide some free hazmat training,
- 10:58Speaker 9: and he called and said would you want this at
- 11:00Speaker 9: Bridge Valley, and our dean for our programs that are
- 11:03Speaker 9: in CDL and Linemen said yeah, absolutely, that'd be a
- 11:06Speaker 9: great benefit to some of our current students. So they
- 11:09Speaker 9: came in and went ahead and did hasmat training for
- 11:11Speaker 9: those groups of students. And it's just one of those
- 11:14Speaker 9: benefits that you get from being a student here is
- 11:16Speaker 9: that when we can find other opportunities to augment learning,
- 11:20Speaker 9: we really try and jump on it because what a
- 11:22Speaker 9: cool extra certification for people to have.
- 11:25Speaker 3: Indeed it is. And finally we'll leave with this. You're
- 11:27Speaker 3: doing a series of open houses at Bridge Valley talk.
- 11:30Speaker 9: About that we are, so we really like to give
- 11:33Speaker 9: the community an opportunity to come see us. Sometimes that
- 11:36Speaker 9: helps folks feel more comfortable coming to campus. You may
- 11:39Speaker 9: have been a student years ago and have some college
- 11:41Speaker 9: and maybe no degree and you're ready to come back.
- 11:44Speaker 9: That's a lot of who our students are here at
- 11:46Speaker 9: Bridge Valley and so we have open houses the thirteenth
- 11:49Speaker 9: to the twentieth and the twenty first of November to
- 11:52Speaker 9: just intentionally give tours and connect people to the community
- 11:55Speaker 9: and say come back, come back to school and sign
- 11:57Speaker 9: up for spring classes.
- 11:59Speaker 3: Indeed, give us the website for more about Bridge Valley.
- 12:02Speaker 9: It's Bridge Valley dot edu.
- 12:04Speaker 3: All right, doctor Sachs, I know you're very busy. I'll
- 12:06Speaker 3: let you get back to it. We will talk again soon.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for joining us this morning.
- 12:10Speaker 9: Have a great day day.
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- 16:38Speaker 3: for Fox News Radio. More talk about Amendment one candidate
- 16:41Speaker 3: for Secretary of State, Chris Warner, some WVU football talk
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- 16:53Speaker 3: and the Dale Miller Building in Morgantown. So, welcome to
- 16:55Speaker 3: the show now Canada for prosecuting an attorney here in
- 16:58Speaker 3: Kanaw County, John Mitchell, John and more, Welcome to the show.
- 17:01Speaker 8: Great to be back. Thank you for having me.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us in our new home here.
- 17:05Speaker 8: Yeah, it's cozy. I think I think I'll be able
- 17:08Speaker 8: to just find for the next couple of months, and.
- 17:09Speaker 3: For the next couple of months, that's what they say.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Then we move into the big studio that they're working
- 17:14Speaker 3: on right now. How's a campaign for prosecuting the attorneyment
- 17:16Speaker 3: so far?
- 17:17Speaker 8: Well, I know if you read front page of the gazette,
- 17:19Speaker 8: it's a it's a money game. It seems like I
- 17:23Speaker 8: don't know if you noticed, but my opponent has already
- 17:25Speaker 8: raised over two hundred thousand dollars to be the prosecuting
- 17:28Speaker 8: attorney of Canac County. I'm pleased. I've done everything I
- 17:34Speaker 8: set out to do. I wanted to run a forty
- 17:36Speaker 8: thousand dollars budget. We got that, We've got there, we
- 17:39Speaker 8: got the name, our word out. Quite frankly, I'm going
- 17:41Speaker 8: to do your show this morning. I'm going to vote
- 17:43Speaker 8: this afternoon. As far as I'm concerned, I'm gone with
- 17:47Speaker 8: the campaigning part of it. We'll sit back. I've got
- 17:49Speaker 8: some obligations with the kids, and with the office and
- 17:51Speaker 8: with the church. But I'm ready for next Tuesday and
- 17:55Speaker 8: let's see how this shapes out. And I can't help
- 17:59Speaker 8: it to be optimistic only because of the number of
- 18:00Speaker 8: people keep coming up to me and encouraging me, and
- 18:03Speaker 8: the number of people that really steps up the plate
- 18:05Speaker 8: to help me on this campaign. I've been very gratified
- 18:09Speaker 8: by the whole experience.
- 18:11Speaker 3: So why do you want to be prosecutor in Kenan County?
- 18:13Speaker 3: John Well, I think I answered that question for you
- 18:15Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. I had the forty years
- 18:18Speaker 3: of experience, both as assistant prosecutor and in my state
- 18:22Speaker 3: centered experiences and in my private practice.
- 18:24Speaker 8: All these years, I can't think of a better way
- 18:28Speaker 8: to contribute and give back to the county using one
- 18:31Speaker 8: attributes and skills. I have better than to be prosecuting attorney.
- 18:35Speaker 8: And I've got some real, real strong convictions about crime
- 18:39Speaker 8: and punishment. For that matter, there's a real contrast between
- 18:41Speaker 8: mine and my opponent and what we have in terms
- 18:44Speaker 8: of the vision of running that office and taking all
- 18:48Speaker 8: these responsibilities. And in that regard, I think I've given
- 18:51Speaker 8: the voters out there a contrast, and they really do
- 18:55Speaker 8: have a choice going on here.
- 18:56Speaker 3: To talk about the contrast between you and your opponent.
- 18:58Speaker 8: Deb Bruthers Nick, Well, she has these you know, one
- 19:01Speaker 8: size fits all everybody.
- 19:02Speaker 3: She locked up, high.
- 19:03Speaker 8: Bonds, new mental health evaluations. She's very proud. I'm not
- 19:09Speaker 8: anti Deba. I don't get me wrong. Her ideology I
- 19:12Speaker 8: disagree with. Okay, she can't a number of years of
- 19:14Speaker 8: judges putting in prison as being a girl scalp pen
- 19:19Speaker 8: or something. I'm probably believe that Pruscan Attorney has controlled
- 19:23Speaker 8: a very criminal case that comes through the loop, and
- 19:26Speaker 8: there's a lot of stuff you can do without having
- 19:27Speaker 8: to hammer them and put them away in printitentiaries. And
- 19:30Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, there's a lot of people that
- 19:32Speaker 8: need to be locked up. I'm sure him there's there's
- 19:34Speaker 8: a real criminal element out there. But so much of
- 19:36Speaker 8: our issues and problems and crime are generated by mental
- 19:40Speaker 8: health issues and or drug addictions, and so many young
- 19:43Speaker 8: people that if we can grasp and hold it over
- 19:44Speaker 8: their heads, so to speak, get them channeled in the
- 19:46Speaker 8: right direction, we can do some really positive things with them.
- 19:50Speaker 8: In a negative scenario. I love it of the one
- 19:52Speaker 8: silly youth twice silly me, but in a very elaborate,
- 19:55Speaker 8: concise programs that which we started to see in the
- 19:59Speaker 8: Day Reports Center, in the in the drug courts, and
- 20:02Speaker 8: and that that type of optic I.
- 20:04Speaker 3: Want to talk about the day Reports Centers and the
- 20:06Speaker 3: and the and the of drug courts because this has
- 20:09Speaker 3: been a program that's gone on in Canawl County, but
- 20:11Speaker 3: it's also gone on all across the state and all
- 20:12Speaker 3: across the nation. You a big proponent of those.
- 20:15Speaker 8: I was, In fact, I was in the Senate when
- 20:17Speaker 8: the first one got started up in Wheeling years ago,
- 20:19Speaker 8: the Drug Court. I was a big fan of uh
- 20:22Speaker 8: Will Thomas, United States Attorney now he was he was
- 20:25Speaker 8: heating along with Jennifer Barely here in Kennall County. We're
- 20:29Speaker 8: instrumental and really getting that program done locally, and we
- 20:32Speaker 8: said it seems to make good results. So many, so
- 20:35Speaker 8: many good people just get behind that that drug loop
- 20:39Speaker 8: or or that abandon loop, or so many environmentals scenarios,
- 20:45Speaker 8: and and and that contribute to this one. In fact,
- 20:48Speaker 8: that we could just give them the right leg up,
- 20:49Speaker 8: the right monitoring.
- 20:51Speaker 7: Uh.
- 20:51Speaker 8: It's not a short fix, it's a long term fix.
- 20:54Speaker 8: Otherwise we're gonna have to give up on a whole
- 20:55Speaker 8: generation of our society.
- 20:58Speaker 3: Talking to John Mitchell again, who is a candidate for
- 21:01Speaker 3: prosecuting attorney here in Kanal County. But Dave Allen Show
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- 21:07Speaker 3: at Nitch Pepperoni pizza and an eight inch chocolate chip
- 21:10Speaker 3: cookie only twenty three ninety nine. As you've been out
- 21:12Speaker 3: on the campaign trail, what have you heard from people?
- 21:15Speaker 3: What do you hear from if you're knocking on doors
- 21:16Speaker 3: or waving science or the candidate's form, whatever, What do
- 21:19Speaker 3: people come up to John Mitchell and say.
- 21:21Speaker 8: Is completely different than when I was a center? Most
- 21:24Speaker 8: first question always is what does a prosecuting attorney did it?
- 21:27Speaker 8: Nobody understands the office. He's never been exposed it politically
- 21:31Speaker 8: like it has been. This has been the most expensive
- 21:34Speaker 8: prosecuting attorney's race in the history of the state of Westervirginia.
- 21:36Speaker 3: I mean, even going back to the primary was in
- 21:39Speaker 3: that race, it was pretty extensive. And now we've added
- 21:41Speaker 3: on to it.
- 21:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 21:42Speaker 8: Yeah, And the second question, of course, is quite frankly,
- 21:48Speaker 8: describing a man my opponent. It's been naming recognition, name recognition,
- 21:52Speaker 8: name recognition, but it's not been really a whole lot
- 21:54Speaker 8: of getting down to the brass tactics of work, what
- 21:58Speaker 8: we truly stand for, the hardcore question, because people just
- 22:03Speaker 8: don't ever get pass the grasp of what the prosecutors
- 22:05Speaker 8: actually do it.
- 22:06Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna give you another opportunity again to explain,
- 22:09Speaker 3: explain the role of the prosecuting attorney, because I think
- 22:12Speaker 3: there's a lot of people, and I've talked about this
- 22:15Speaker 3: when you were on the show before, John, a lot
- 22:17Speaker 3: of people when they look at those offices, either that
- 22:20Speaker 3: or a magistrate or whatever, they have an idea of
- 22:22Speaker 3: what it is, but they may not really know exactly
- 22:25Speaker 3: what it is. So give me the elevator, give me
- 22:27Speaker 3: to the synopsis, the job description. What exactly does the
- 22:31Speaker 3: prosecuting attorney did?
- 22:32Speaker 14: Well?
- 22:32Speaker 8: He is the attorney for the State of West Virginia.
- 22:35Speaker 8: And the most vital role, of course, is anytime a
- 22:38Speaker 8: crime is committed, he is the one that's bringing the
- 22:41Speaker 8: charges forward. He's the one that presents it to the court.
- 22:43Speaker 8: He is the one that takes the role as representing
- 22:46Speaker 8: the interests of the State of West Virginia in this
- 22:48Speaker 8: case getting a conviction. It really is that simple. The
- 22:55Speaker 8: problem is is but you also have to remember, but
- 22:57Speaker 8: he's also the he or she I should say it
- 23:00Speaker 8: is the chief law enforcement offsters for the state of
- 23:02Speaker 8: West Virginia or or for their county. Uh. Technically they
- 23:07Speaker 8: the bucks stops there. But again you don't see that
- 23:11Speaker 8: very often. It's it's not what you read about. But
- 23:16Speaker 8: unfortunately the perception is what you see on TV. And
- 23:20Speaker 8: and it's a there's a much more of a executive
- 23:25Speaker 8: aspect to it. You have a lot of employees, a
- 23:27Speaker 8: lot of different responsibilities within prosecutor's office. Gives me on crime,
- 23:30Speaker 8: you've got child abuse cases for example, and and and
- 23:34Speaker 8: uh uh collections issues and and and and mental health
- 23:39Speaker 8: issues and mental hygiene issues and guardianship issues. It's a
- 23:44Speaker 8: broad best press scenario. But what you read about is
- 23:47Speaker 8: the big criminal case.
- 23:48Speaker 3: Right, and and in Kanawha County, UH being the obviously
- 23:53Speaker 3: the largest county in the state and the seat of
- 23:54Speaker 3: the seat of state government, there's a lot of focus
- 23:58Speaker 3: on the prosecuting attorney there to be in the news
- 24:00Speaker 3: a lot. You're going to see them on television here,
- 24:02Speaker 3: them on our stations as well. So because again it
- 24:04Speaker 3: just comes with the territory. Are you prepared for all that.
- 24:08Speaker 8: Well, I've been doing that all my life. I've not
- 24:10Speaker 8: at least been intimidated by that aspect of it. I'm
- 24:13Speaker 8: not worried about the publicity of it, quite frankly, and
- 24:15Speaker 8: I don't worry too much about having a microphone stuck
- 24:18Speaker 8: in from my face. What I am concerned about is
- 24:20Speaker 8: that we have conscientious, sincere, common sense afflication of that position.
- 24:27Speaker 3: We had a text question here that I'm going to
- 24:30Speaker 3: go and throw out you if you don't care. A
- 24:32Speaker 3: text says, can you ask the prosecutor or candidate what
- 24:35Speaker 3: he would plan to do with these violent offenders who
- 24:37Speaker 3: are chronic offenders, sometimes six twelve or more arrest for
- 24:40Speaker 3: hurting people. They do a few days in jail for
- 24:43Speaker 3: attacking someone, then they're back on the streets. Of Charleston,
- 24:45Speaker 3: a ticking time bomb before they hurt someone else, Should
- 24:48Speaker 3: they be in prison long term or given more cushy breaks.
- 24:51Speaker 8: Well, First of all, no prosecutor in the history of
- 24:54Speaker 8: practice of laws ever sentenced anybody to jail. That's the
- 24:58Speaker 8: judge's responsibilities.
- 25:01Speaker 3: Again, that goes back to that. Sometimes people just don't
- 25:03Speaker 3: understand what the prosecuting attorney does.
- 25:05Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't understand why my pun and prize herself
- 25:07Speaker 8: in a number of years, people have gotten sentence. You
- 25:09Speaker 8: never sends anybody to jail in their life. They are prosecutor.
- 25:12Speaker 8: That's a judges function. Bail bonds are determined by judges
- 25:16Speaker 8: and magistrates, now by prosecutors. Quite frankly, and I've told
- 25:20Speaker 8: you I said here today, there are certain people out
- 25:22Speaker 8: there that, quite frankly, the need to be incarcerated, locked
- 25:25Speaker 8: up and put away for life, taking it completely out
- 25:27Speaker 8: of the mainstream of society. They're not redeemable, they're not
- 25:31Speaker 8: going to change their ways. In fact, that it's the
- 25:33Speaker 8: criminal mind. There is a good versus evil scenario out there,
- 25:37Speaker 8: these people who's long term hardcore records here in Kannall County.
- 25:42Speaker 8: I think it's very rare that you actually see them
- 25:44Speaker 8: getting out as often as you might perceive, and if
- 25:47Speaker 8: they are, they're almost invariably on home confinement.
- 25:50Speaker 3: Okay, working for people learn more about your campaign the website,
- 25:54Speaker 3: social media.
- 25:56Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I mean that. It's basically you've heard me.
- 25:59Speaker 8: I don't have any magic one or magic potion on
- 26:02Speaker 8: writing down there is if you think you want somebody
- 26:05Speaker 8: with forty years of prime experience and since really wants
- 26:08Speaker 8: to do a darn good job at Makeannall County a
- 26:10Speaker 8: little bit better place, I'm your man.
- 26:12Speaker 3: All right, give me thirty seconds. You kind of did
- 26:15Speaker 3: a little bit there, but I always like to give
- 26:16Speaker 3: my political candidates. I call it the final thirty on time.
- 26:20Speaker 3: Give me thirty seconds or so? Why are you a
- 26:23Speaker 3: better choice for prosecuting Attorney of Kenawh County? John, I.
- 26:28Speaker 8: Think I'm done. I think I've already said it. I'm
- 26:32Speaker 8: not a campaigner. I'm not going to sell myself. If
- 26:35Speaker 8: the people out there don't know by now who I
- 26:37Speaker 8: am and what I stand for, it's over. I mean
- 26:41Speaker 8: it's time to vote now, folks.
- 26:43Speaker 3: All right, And of course early voting continues this week
- 26:45Speaker 3: through Saturday, and then take a couple of days off
- 26:48Speaker 3: and election day polls open at six thirty and they
- 26:50Speaker 3: close at seven thirty. John, six thirty seven thirty. That's
- 26:53Speaker 3: not one hour. Six thirty am to seven thirty pm.
- 26:55Speaker 3: I should say, John, I appreciate you being here. Best
- 26:58Speaker 3: of luck in your campaign. Although you say it's pretty
- 26:59Speaker 3: much over at this point. You just got some you
- 27:01Speaker 3: get some responsibilities right now. But I'm sure that people
- 27:03Speaker 3: can reach out to you if they want to talk
- 27:05Speaker 3: to you. I appreciate it. I appreciate you being here, John,
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- 30:36Speaker 3: a couple more House candidates, one a Republican, one a Democrat,
- 30:39Speaker 3: but they're not facing each other. Sarah Drennan will be
- 30:41Speaker 3: here on the show tomorrow, she being the Republican, as
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- 31:01Speaker 3: up on tomorrow's show. I want to bring in Tristan
- 31:02Speaker 3: Levit now Republican running for House in District fifty three.
- 31:05Speaker 3: Is that right, sir? That's right, Good morning, Welcome to
- 31:08Speaker 3: the show, Welcome back to us. Explain what that district is, sir.
- 31:10Speaker 17: So it runs from Eden's Fork, Meek Shoals area all
- 31:14Speaker 17: the way out to north of Montgomery Pond Gap and
- 31:16Speaker 17: so just everything north of sixty for a long strip there.
- 31:21Speaker 3: So why do you want to do this? Why do
- 31:22Speaker 3: you want to represent that district?
- 31:24Speaker 17: It's a really unique time for West Virginia right now.
- 31:26Speaker 17: I think there's a real opportunity and there's also some
- 31:28Speaker 17: potential pitfalls. So it's a critical time and there are
- 31:33Speaker 17: a lot of financial obligations the state has, but there's
- 31:35Speaker 17: a lot of opportunities to bring more people here to
- 31:37Speaker 17: the state, and so I think it just requires someone
- 31:39Speaker 17: that has you know, I think all of our legislators
- 31:41Speaker 17: should be thoughtful, but I think this is an opportunity
- 31:44Speaker 17: to try and apply my experience at policymaking working as
- 31:47Speaker 17: a staffer in Congress to try and help in this
- 31:50Speaker 17: legislative process get across the finish line the things that
- 31:53Speaker 17: are going to help benefit certainly all of West Virginia,
- 31:55Speaker 17: but particularly eastern Kannak County.
- 31:57Speaker 3: I want to talk about your experience, and you talked
- 32:01Speaker 3: about some of the things last time you were on
- 32:02Speaker 3: the show that you've done, but give us the bio
- 32:04Speaker 3: again on you. If you want to talk personal, that's fine,
- 32:07Speaker 3: but I also want to talk professional. Give us some
- 32:08Speaker 3: of your experience. Anything you want to throw out there
- 32:10Speaker 3: about Tristan Levin sure. Well.
- 32:13Speaker 17: I'm a person of faith, I'm a husband, I'm a
- 32:14Speaker 17: father of five kids. I have kids at Roughner Elementary,
- 32:17Speaker 17: Horseman Middle School, Charleston Montesssori, and Capitol High School. And
- 32:22Speaker 17: I am a lawyer by background. So my first job
- 32:26Speaker 17: out of college was working in the House of Representatives
- 32:29Speaker 17: as a staffer, and then during law school I came
- 32:31Speaker 17: here and worked for a time for Steptoe and Johnson
- 32:33Speaker 17: in the summer, but I ended up after that being
- 32:35Speaker 17: hired to work for the Senate Judiciary Committee with Chuck Grassley,
- 32:39Speaker 17: and I did congressional investigations. So for eight years, my
- 32:43Speaker 17: whole job was to find problems in the federal government
- 32:45Speaker 17: and then work with lawmakers to craft laws that could
- 32:47Speaker 17: help address those problems. After that, I led two federal
- 32:50Speaker 17: agencies in both of the last two administrations, and then
- 32:54Speaker 17: was nominated by President Biden actually to be the Republican
- 32:58Speaker 17: on a board that hears federal employe appeals, and that
- 33:00Speaker 17: allowed me to move here because I could do it remotely.
- 33:03Speaker 17: Now I lead a nonprofit called them Power Oversite, where
- 33:05Speaker 17: I help represent whistleblowers in the federal government.
- 33:07Speaker 3: So what is it about this area? You said you
- 33:10Speaker 3: moved to West Virginia. What is it about West Virginia
- 33:12Speaker 3: that appealed to you?
- 33:13Speaker 17: So my wife grew up in Charleston, and I've loved
- 33:15Speaker 17: it from the time that I first came here in
- 33:17Speaker 17: two thousand and five. It's a beautiful area I grew
- 33:19Speaker 17: up in Idaho. There's a lot more trees here than
- 33:21Speaker 17: there are in Idaho, I will say, but they have
- 33:22Speaker 17: very similar outdoor vibes, a lot of great outdoor stuff,
- 33:25Speaker 17: and the people here are amazing. People are just hardworking, honest,
- 33:28Speaker 17: down to earth people, and especially living in the Washington,
- 33:31Speaker 17: DC area for quite some time, it's just such a
- 33:33Speaker 17: great contrast. So we were thrilled to be able to
- 33:35Speaker 17: take our kids out of that really high stress environment
- 33:37Speaker 17: come to just a place where they could have normal life,
- 33:39Speaker 17: the normal upbringing that we had growing up my wife
- 33:41Speaker 17: here in Charleston and me and Idaho and in coming here.
- 33:44Speaker 17: You know, there's a lot of challenges that we saw,
- 33:46Speaker 17: but there's it's also just a really wonderful place to
- 33:48Speaker 17: raise a family. And so I want to help bring
- 33:50Speaker 17: more people here to have that kind of experience.
- 33:52Speaker 3: That was going to be the next thing I was
- 33:53Speaker 3: going to bring up to you, trist again, we're talking
- 33:55Speaker 3: Trists and Levit, who's a Republican running for the House
- 33:58Speaker 3: in District fifty three. How do we get more Tristans
- 34:00Speaker 3: to come here? And what I mean by that is
- 34:02Speaker 3: people that choose's two parts of this. It always is
- 34:05Speaker 3: people who choose to move to West Virginia or those
- 34:08Speaker 3: that are a little younger that want to stay in
- 34:11Speaker 3: West Virginia. How do we sell West Virginia to younger
- 34:14Speaker 3: people because that's what we need. Yeah.
- 34:16Speaker 17: Absolutely, So jobs, high paying jobs are obviously the first
- 34:19Speaker 17: thing that you have to touch on in this conversation.
- 34:21Speaker 17: You talk to kids that are graduating, they don't think
- 34:23Speaker 17: that they're opportunities for jobs. At the same time, there's
- 34:25Speaker 17: something like at least thirty thousand job vacancies in the state.
- 34:29Speaker 17: So part of that is helping to train our upcoming
- 34:32Speaker 17: generation with the skills that they would need and also
- 34:34Speaker 17: help them understand the job openings that there are. But
- 34:37Speaker 17: bringing other people here the number one. You know, my
- 34:39Speaker 17: focus again has been on job bringing jobs in here.
- 34:42Speaker 17: The way that jobs are going to come here is
- 34:44Speaker 17: people need to see some changes and that includes in
- 34:47Speaker 17: our school system. So you know, you see new core,
- 34:50Speaker 17: you see these announcements, but then people look at the
- 34:52Speaker 17: schools and it's hard for them to fill some of
- 34:53Speaker 17: those positions when they see where we're at. So I
- 34:55Speaker 17: think the combination of things that are being done, like
- 34:58Speaker 17: tax cuts, things like Cope Skull, those are That's one
- 35:01Speaker 17: particular profile of state. Not everyone loves that, but that
- 35:04Speaker 17: is a profile of state that appeals to certain people.
- 35:05Speaker 3: They say this is the place I could go.
- 35:07Speaker 17: And I talk to people from across the country that say,
- 35:08Speaker 17: oh yeah, West Virginia is a leader in these things.
- 35:10Speaker 17: I've thought about moving there to get those people, to
- 35:13Speaker 17: get them across the finish line. We've got to do
- 35:14Speaker 17: more for our school systems to improve where we stand there.
- 35:17Speaker 17: But as we have the jobs here, as you have
- 35:18Speaker 17: the good schools, those are the kinds of things that
- 35:20Speaker 17: build up communities and encourage people that this is a
- 35:22Speaker 17: place they could come and raise a family and stay
- 35:25Speaker 17: and really be happy.
- 35:25Speaker 3: And there's been a lot of there have been some
- 35:27Speaker 3: times a lot of issues in the news when it
- 35:29Speaker 3: comes to our school system, our public schools. And I
- 35:32Speaker 3: have all the respect in the world for public schools.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Do not get me wrong. I have the union heads
- 35:37Speaker 3: on my show from time to time. I have all respect.
- 35:39Speaker 3: I think they're doing what they can't. However, there are
- 35:43Speaker 3: issues in our public schools, and it's easily defined depending
- 35:47Speaker 3: on what you're looking at. West Virginia consistently forty fifth
- 35:50Speaker 3: to fiftieth sometimes even bring the territories in there, and
- 35:53Speaker 3: we rank below them. How do we fix that? And
- 35:56Speaker 3: Pia has been a huge part of that as well.
- 35:58Speaker 3: And I know I'm kind of throwing a lot at
- 36:00Speaker 3: you because I know you can handle and you you
- 36:02Speaker 3: encourage this sort of thing as far as the education goes.
- 36:06Speaker 3: What do we need to do to fix it? I
- 36:08Speaker 3: know that's a million dollar question. If you knew that,
- 36:10Speaker 3: you wouldn't be running for you know, for a house seat.
- 36:13Speaker 3: But how do we start approaching some of these things?
- 36:15Speaker 17: Tristom So, I think the Third Grade Success Act from
- 36:18Speaker 17: two years ago was actually a fantastic start. Focusing on
- 36:21Speaker 17: the science of reading is not a partisan thing. My
- 36:23Speaker 17: sister is a teacher, she's a Democrat. Two of my
- 36:25Speaker 17: sisters are teachers. There's a real newed interest in the
- 36:27Speaker 17: science of reading and that's a really important place to start.
- 36:31Speaker 17: I think we will see in the next couple years
- 36:33Speaker 17: with the impact of that is. Another great thing that
- 36:34Speaker 17: did was to put teachers aids in every classroom at
- 36:37Speaker 17: the kindergarten level, and so as you see more of that,
- 36:40Speaker 17: I would love to when I'm in the legislature focus
- 36:42Speaker 17: on how to get those teachers' aides credentialed to do
- 36:45Speaker 17: what they need to do to become teachers. So those
- 36:46Speaker 17: are some of the sorts of things, but focusing on
- 36:48Speaker 17: the basics is important and I think that really will
- 36:51Speaker 17: show a big change in our school system. I'm a
- 36:53Speaker 17: big advocate of school choice. You know, we have chosen
- 36:56Speaker 17: to put four of our kids in public school. One
- 36:58Speaker 17: that has dyslexia, is in an alternative learn environment. But
- 37:00Speaker 17: giving people the options, I think is an important part
- 37:02Speaker 17: of that and does help spur competition. But ultimately we've
- 37:06Speaker 17: got to make sure their teachers are able to stay.
- 37:08Speaker 17: That was a focus of the governor's debate last night
- 37:10Speaker 17: and it is one of the big questions. How do
- 37:12Speaker 17: you pay teachers more? How do you get people to
- 37:14Speaker 17: stay here with the PIA challenges there, and it requires
- 37:18Speaker 17: some pretty significant financial finaggling. So looking at the tax cuts,
- 37:22Speaker 17: all of that again, there's some real choices for the
- 37:24Speaker 17: legislature in the years ahead, but we have to be
- 37:27Speaker 17: able to keep our teachers to attract more and again
- 37:29Speaker 17: to do other things like focusing on accountability and focusing
- 37:33Speaker 17: on the kids' success with things like that third Grade
- 37:35Speaker 17: Success Act. They focus is on the basics, So that's
- 37:38Speaker 17: I think I touched on your different pieces there there.
- 37:40Speaker 17: It's obviously there's a lot there, but.
- 37:42Speaker 3: I can't ask you to solve it in ten minutes.
- 37:45Speaker 17: I get that, but that has to be the legislator's focus.
- 37:47Speaker 3: It has to talking to Tristan Leven again, a Republican
- 37:50Speaker 3: for a house in District fifty three. The Dave Allen
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- 38:04Speaker 3: How's the campaign been so far? At Tristan, It's been great.
- 38:07Speaker 3: I love talking to people. I love being out in
- 38:08Speaker 3: the community and meeting folks, hearing their concerns. A lot
- 38:10Speaker 3: of people when you knock on their door, they say,
- 38:12Speaker 3: I've never had, you know, a politician knock on my door.
- 38:14Speaker 3: For I try not to be offended that they call
- 38:16Speaker 3: me a politician, but it's been really you own it,
- 38:19Speaker 3: because I'm going to tell you these people that say
- 38:22Speaker 3: they're not politicians. Absolutely. It's one of my pet PE's, Tristan,
- 38:25Speaker 3: I'm gonna go off on tangent here when you say
- 38:26Speaker 3: I'm not a the minute you sign your name, you're
- 38:29Speaker 3: a politician. You know you're a politician, whether you want
- 38:31Speaker 3: to be or not. What you sign your name on
- 38:33Speaker 3: the dott a line. But go ahead, you.
- 38:34Speaker 17: Got to try to represent them. Well, yeah, you got
- 38:36Speaker 17: here listen to people. So it's been a wonderful experience.
- 38:38Speaker 3: You have a website or social media people can learn
- 38:40Speaker 3: more about you and your stances on things and whatnot. Yep.
- 38:42Speaker 17: My website is Levitt for WV dot com. Same on Instagram, Facebook, X,
- 38:48Speaker 17: all the things, all the yeah, all of the places.
- 38:50Speaker 17: My handle is levit for WV.
- 38:52Speaker 3: Give me the final thirty. Why should someone vote to
- 38:55Speaker 3: vote for Tristan Levitt for a house.
- 38:57Speaker 17: I'm passionate about a lot of things, and I think
- 39:00Speaker 17: that my experience can be useful at this critical time
- 39:02Speaker 17: in West Virginia. We have to focus on job creation,
- 39:04Speaker 17: on improving our schools. I think that my experience finding
- 39:07Speaker 17: problems in government and then working with lawmakers to help
- 39:09Speaker 17: fix them will be beneficial as we face these big challenges,
- 39:12Speaker 17: these big questions in the next few years in our legislature.
- 39:15Speaker 3: Wish you the best of luck. Thanks a lot, man,
- 39:17Speaker 3: appreciate you being here. Just and love it again. A
- 39:19Speaker 3: candidate for House in District fifty three on the Republican side,
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- 41:29Speaker 3: know can hurt you. Reminder that coming up on Monday Show,
- 41:34Speaker 3: we're going to take about thirty minutes or so to
- 41:36Speaker 3: talk to the two nominees for Canawa County Commission, Republican
- 41:39Speaker 3: Chris Walters the Democrat Natalie Tenant, both have agreed to
- 41:42Speaker 3: sit down with me for two segments on the Monday Show.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Not a debate, not a debate, but more of a forum,
- 41:50Speaker 3: just to talk about the issues. I'm not going to
- 41:53Speaker 3: be taking calls, but we will take text as long.
- 41:56Speaker 3: Keep in mind, as long as they are germaining to
- 41:58Speaker 3: the duties of the County Commission. In other words, I'm
- 42:02Speaker 3: gonna talk about Trump. I'm gonna talk about Kamala Harris
- 42:06Speaker 3: or anything like that. No border talk, nothing of the sorts.
- 42:10Speaker 3: Just the things that the Kanawa County Commission can control
- 42:12Speaker 3: or at least deal with on the county level. All right,
- 42:16Speaker 3: So I'm gonna save you to trouble if you're gonna
- 42:18Speaker 3: ask me, if you let me ask one of them,
- 42:19Speaker 3: was the election stolen what would you know? What do
- 42:21Speaker 3: you think about the border? What do you know? No, no,
- 42:23Speaker 3: no's just let's stick to water projects. So let's stick
- 42:26Speaker 3: to things that the county commissioners actually do. Now, I'll
- 42:30Speaker 3: take text during the show, but if you want to
- 42:33Speaker 3: email me before then you can. My email address is
- 42:36Speaker 3: real simple, It's Dave dot allenwvradio dot com. Dave dot
- 42:40Speaker 3: Allen WV radio dot com. And I will do my
- 42:43Speaker 3: best to answer those or to ask those questions of
- 42:48Speaker 3: Natalie Tennant and Chris Walters again two segments on Monday.
- 42:51Speaker 3: Hats off to both candidates for agreeing to do this.
- 42:53Speaker 3: I mean to come in because you don't see that
- 42:55Speaker 3: a whole lot haven't heard anything from e the one
- 42:58Speaker 3: of them as far as well, like what's going to
- 43:00Speaker 3: happen here? And how's it? They just said yes, happy
- 43:03Speaker 3: to do it, so again in this time of a
- 43:06Speaker 3: toxic political environment that we have. Congratulations, hats off, kudos,
- 43:11Speaker 3: whatever you want to say to Natalie Tenant and to
- 43:14Speaker 3: Chris Walters for green to do this on Monday. Famous
- 43:17Speaker 3: last words, I'm hoping that it stays that way. I
- 43:20Speaker 3: have I'm pretty pretty confident that then it well, I
- 43:22Speaker 3: got a bunch of texts to get to. I don't
- 43:24Speaker 3: want to talk a little bit about the gubernatorial debate
- 43:26Speaker 3: last night. A text set, what's the simple text? Vote
- 43:29Speaker 3: for Amendment one? As a Texter? All right, tex says,
- 43:33Speaker 3: heard you mention the Mingo County situation. The clerk there
- 43:37Speaker 3: is corrupt and no surprise he was elected as a Democrat,
- 43:41Speaker 3: says a Texter. Yeah, that's an unfortunate situation. And I
- 43:45Speaker 3: have been caught up in a lot of things the
- 43:46Speaker 3: last couple of days, and I haven't been really keeping
- 43:48Speaker 3: an eye on that situation down there. Hopy is going
- 43:51Speaker 3: to talk about it. I think he was going to
- 43:52Speaker 3: try to get deep Curzy from the Secretary of State's
- 43:55Speaker 3: office on the show today. Not sure he was efforting,
- 43:58Speaker 3: as we say in the business, to make that happen,
- 44:00Speaker 3: but I know he's going to talk about it. Basically,
- 44:02Speaker 3: what happened down there is you have a Democratic candidate
- 44:05Speaker 3: who was left off the ballot, and when people went
- 44:09Speaker 3: to do their early voting, that particular candidate simply was
- 44:13Speaker 3: not on the ballot, which is a little problematic, you know,
- 44:17Speaker 3: And so they're investigating trying to see what happened. And
- 44:20Speaker 3: now what they're going to do about it. Will those
- 44:22Speaker 3: people be allowed to, you know, come back and vote.
- 44:24Speaker 3: They would have to vote provisional. But again, that's down
- 44:27Speaker 3: in Mingo County. And maybe I shouldn't have said what
- 44:29Speaker 3: I said earlier Mingo be and Mingo, but let's face it.
- 44:32Speaker 3: You know, I'm from southern West Virginia. These things have
- 44:35Speaker 3: a tendency to happen down there. And I'm not throwing
- 44:37Speaker 3: any shade because I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe
- 44:40Speaker 3: it's an honest mistake, maybe it wasn't, I don't know,
- 44:42Speaker 3: but regardless, it just throws a negative shadow on what
- 44:47Speaker 3: has been a very very shaky past in political arenas
- 44:52Speaker 3: in southern West Virginia, particularly Mingo County. Not hating on
- 44:55Speaker 3: Mingo County because I'm from the county that's right next
- 44:57Speaker 3: to Mingo County and we had our problems back in
- 45:00Speaker 3: the day. Trust me, in Logan County, I know you
- 45:02Speaker 3: know all about it. But for the last twenty or
- 45:04Speaker 3: thirty years, it's been downright boring in Logan County, which
- 45:08Speaker 3: is what it should be. So that is good news,
- 45:12Speaker 3: all right. Tex says did not catch the egubernatorial debate
- 45:15Speaker 3: last night, because why waste my time. Unsurprisingly, Maga Man
- 45:19Speaker 3: Dave Wilson's commentary had its usual partisan bias. Perhaps he
- 45:24Speaker 3: and WVRC media are positioning to get in more of
- 45:27Speaker 3: these good graces once he is the official governor. I
- 45:30Speaker 3: didn't catch that. I mean, I was part of the
- 45:32Speaker 3: post debate talk as well as myself and Dave Wilson
- 45:35Speaker 3: and Steven Allen Adams from Ogden Newspaper and a million nicely,
- 45:38Speaker 3: I didn't catch that. Maybe I need to go back
- 45:40Speaker 3: and listen to it again. I've never heard Dave Wilson,
- 45:43Speaker 3: Northern Dave as we call him, referred to as maga man,
- 45:46Speaker 3: but I'll point that out today. Tex says, I'm looking
- 45:50Speaker 3: forward to seeing how well West Virginia Republicans govern now
- 45:52Speaker 3: that the federal government money has dried up, knowing them
- 45:56Speaker 3: they'll likely to go back to the federal will while
- 45:58Speaker 3: trashing federal government, says a texture Texas Dear David. Idea
- 46:03Speaker 3: rather than everyday political election talk, how about a comprehensive breakdown.
- 46:08Speaker 3: How about a comprehensive breakdown of every team in the
- 46:11Speaker 3: NFSE East giving the people what they want? Bro Uh,
- 46:14Speaker 3: says a text. Uh Texter says, uh, Dave, we don't
- 46:19Speaker 3: need another Republican to close our schools and divide our
- 46:22Speaker 3: communities and put more social issues on the people. Upper
- 46:25Speaker 3: ganav Valley is fed up. Vote Blue says a texture.
- 46:30Speaker 3: So to last night's goobernatorial debate Patrick morris and Steve Williams.
- 46:35Speaker 3: I'll let me do a little shameless promotion here if
- 46:37Speaker 3: you missed, it's available. It was available last night of
- 46:40Speaker 3: the Metro News TV app. So I don't know whether
- 46:42Speaker 3: the podcast that or not. I'll have to check into that.
- 46:45Speaker 3: But my debate thoughts last night, As I said, I
- 46:48Speaker 3: was part of the post debate team, myself and h
- 46:50Speaker 3: and Dave Wilson and Stephen Allen Adams and Amelia nice LEYA.
- 46:55Speaker 3: We were part of the post team. Hobby of course
- 46:56Speaker 3: was the moderator. I think it was overall it was
- 47:00Speaker 3: very civil in my opinion. I think it was a
- 47:04Speaker 3: good debate for Patrick Morrissey. And let's face it, Patrick
- 47:09Speaker 3: Morrissey has more experience at debating, I mean, considering how
- 47:12Speaker 3: many times he's run for office now. Steve Williams is
- 47:15Speaker 3: a former legislator in addition to be multi term mayor
- 47:18Speaker 3: of Huntington. I'm not saying he didn't do well, but
- 47:20Speaker 3: in this sort of a setting, because you know, Patrick
- 47:23Speaker 3: Morrisey has run for a couple of different offices, including
- 47:25Speaker 3: an attorney general, He's got a little bit of more experience.
- 47:29Speaker 3: I do think I do think that that Steve Williams
- 47:33Speaker 3: did well, But I don't think that one of the
- 47:37Speaker 3: things that Steve Williams tried to get Morrisey on worked
- 47:41Speaker 3: out well for him. The subject of opioids was brought up,
- 47:46Speaker 3: and you know it would be and uh, and Steve
- 47:48Speaker 3: Williams tried to get into Morrissey's past ties to the
- 47:52Speaker 3: pharmaceutical industry, and I guess I don't know whether that
- 47:56Speaker 3: was such a good idea or not. Because I'll give
- 47:58Speaker 3: kudos to Patrick Morrissey. I thought he handled it well.
- 48:01Speaker 3: I guess Mayor Williams forgot that in the past he
- 48:06Speaker 3: meaning Mayor Williams, had actually praised Patrick Morrissey and his
- 48:11Speaker 3: office for their work as Attorney General in going after
- 48:15Speaker 3: some of the big drug companies. And Patrick Morrissey handled
- 48:20Speaker 3: it well because he kind of turned it around on
- 48:23Speaker 3: Mayor Williams and pretty much forced him to admit that
- 48:27Speaker 3: in the past, the mayor as mayor of Huntington had
- 48:30Speaker 3: actually praised the Morrissey administration, that was until he became
- 48:35Speaker 3: a candidate. And I'm kind of paraphrasing what Patrick Morrissey
- 48:39Speaker 3: said there. He basically said to Steve Williams, well, you
- 48:41Speaker 3: know you had no problem with any of this. Matter
- 48:45Speaker 3: of fact, you showed up at my press conference of whatever.
- 48:47Speaker 3: You have praised me in the past as doing a
- 48:50Speaker 3: good job as Attorney General fighting the opioid crisis, with
- 48:54Speaker 3: the opioid settlements and so on and so forth. And
- 48:57Speaker 3: to be honest with you, because we were you know,
- 48:59Speaker 3: it was livestream. We were watching it by myself. I
- 49:01Speaker 3: had Mike Pushkin in studio with me because he was
- 49:04Speaker 3: part of the post debate as well being the state
- 49:06Speaker 3: Democratic Party chair. You know, he we watched it and
- 49:10Speaker 3: we could see the expression on Steve Williams face when
- 49:14Speaker 3: he basically said, well, yeah, I kind of did that.
- 49:18Speaker 3: As to who won the debate, you know, it's just like, folks,
- 49:23Speaker 3: It's just like with any other debate. I mean, Republicans
- 49:26Speaker 3: are going to say that Morrissey won, and the Democrats
- 49:28Speaker 3: are going to say that Williams won because nobody can
- 49:30Speaker 3: be honest about who actually won. They're going to say
- 49:34Speaker 3: their person one. I would say this if you're judging
- 49:39Speaker 3: on style points, my opinion, my opinion only. It was
- 49:44Speaker 3: a win overall for Patrick Morrissey over Steve Williams. And
- 49:48Speaker 3: that's the way I think it's going to shake out
- 49:49Speaker 3: on election day. And I have all the respect in
- 49:52Speaker 3: the world for Mayor Williams. I've known him for a
- 49:55Speaker 3: few years. And I will also say this as someone
- 49:59Speaker 3: who has ties to the Huntington area, spent a lot
- 50:02Speaker 3: of time there with college there. I can tell you
- 50:07Speaker 3: it is remarkable the changes that have been made to
- 50:11Speaker 3: the City of Huntington during the Williams administration. Now is
- 50:14Speaker 3: it perfect.
- 50:15Speaker 6: No.
- 50:15Speaker 3: They still have drug issues, they still have homeless issues.
- 50:19Speaker 3: But the city as a whole, in my opinion, has
- 50:21Speaker 3: gotten a lot better off than it used to be.
- 50:23Speaker 3: It's certainly a lot better than it was in nineteen
- 50:26Speaker 3: ninety to nineteen ninety two when I was attending Marshall University.
- 50:29Speaker 3: I can tell you that it's a whole lot better now.
- 50:31Speaker 3: City was bankrupt and Mayor Williams basically saved it. Now
- 50:36Speaker 3: did he fix everything? No, I don't think any mayor
- 50:37Speaker 3: is going to but overall last night, I would have
- 50:40Speaker 3: to say that if you're picking winners, and you know,
- 50:44Speaker 3: some of the more journalistic types like you know, Amelia
- 50:47Speaker 3: and Brad and Steve Adams, they don't want to pick
- 50:50Speaker 3: a winner. And I completely get that. But I'm not
- 50:51Speaker 3: a journalist, Okay, I'm supposedly an entertainer or whatever I can.
- 50:56Speaker 3: I can pretty much say what I want, and I
- 50:57Speaker 3: think Morrissey won last night. I really really do agree.
- 51:00Speaker 3: You're welcome to weigh in on it with me if
- 51:03Speaker 3: you want. You can text me or call me Bigley
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- 51:17Speaker 3: visit for the people dot com, uh Texas. I don't
- 51:22Speaker 3: feel like Dave Wilson favored Morrissey. It seemed to me
- 51:25Speaker 3: like the majority of the panels was attempting to salvage
- 51:27Speaker 3: Steve Williams Oh I mean, you know, we weren't attempting
- 51:31Speaker 3: to salvage anything. We were just giving our opinions. Texas says, Actually,
- 51:36Speaker 3: the Democratic Party leadership didn't even put out a statement
- 51:38Speaker 3: about Steve will he was performance. They know he got
- 51:41Speaker 3: whipped in the debate. Uh, Texas, Steve Williams has more
- 51:46Speaker 3: experience as a West Virginia and the new Jersey lawyer
- 51:49Speaker 3: is no Rockefeller. That's the Texter, Texas, Dave. It's one
- 51:55Speaker 3: thing to have experience in debating and being smoothed, and
- 51:58Speaker 3: another not to be prepared. Giams was not prepared to
- 52:01Speaker 3: talk about Peia solutions and economic topics. Shockingly unprepared, says
- 52:06Speaker 3: the text. Final text says Morrissey help flood West Virginia
- 52:09Speaker 3: with opiates and then fought against the efforts of the
- 52:12Speaker 3: opioid dump. We should be so grateful for pain pill
- 52:15Speaker 3: pat a little bit of sarcasm. I think they're from
- 52:18Speaker 3: the texture, all right. Thanks to Tristan Levitt, and thanks
- 52:20Speaker 3: to John Mitchell and doctor Casey Sachs and Rob Real
- 52:23Speaker 3: for being on the show. Coming up tomorrow, we have
- 52:25Speaker 3: a couple of more House candidates on the show, plus
- 52:28Speaker 3: Rob Reel for the final time on his talk as
- 52:30Speaker 3: walk from Charleston Morgantown for WVU Children's Matt Murphy, my producer,
- 52:34Speaker 3: thank you so much. I'll be coming up with talk
- 52:35Speaker 3: Line ten o six. I will see you tomorrow. Download
- 52:38Speaker 3: the all new Metro News TV app and the wv
- 52:40Speaker 3: RC Media App. Till tomorrow, have fun and love somebody