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07/31/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Scott Elliot, Steven Allen Adams · The Dave Allen Show

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a little bit later on, Stephen Island Adams from AGDA Newspapers is going to
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join us to say, already a wild and wooly political season and we aren't
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even into the political season yet. Well, he's going to join us to
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talk about that. Plus, you know, I haven't really had a whole
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Push your phone, calls and text are welcome. It's Monday, though,
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which means we talk to one of our mayors from here in the Canal Valley
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Mayor Scott Alley for Dunbar. How are you, sir? Doing great?
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I appreciate you having me on, Thank you for being here. Second appearance
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on the show. Right, we said we're going to try to make this
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a little bit more of a of a regular thing with you. But you're
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a hard guy to get a hold of. You're very busy because you're always
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doing the people's work. Yes, always out down the streets and taking care
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of business. That's what you gotta do. So what's going on in Dunbar.
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You got a lot of things going on. Yeah, tomorrow night we
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have the National Night Out. It's going to be held at the Police Department
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parking lot from six to eight and a lot of good things for the kids
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to interact with the police and fire departments and a lot of boosts set up
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for everybody to enjoy. And this is a this is a national adventage.
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You said, the National Night Out. This happens all across America. What
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do I mean? Not all cities take part in it, but you do.
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Why is it that you do it in Dunbar. The main reason that
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we do it in Dunbar is because I retired as a police officer from the
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city of Dunbar, saw the great program going on throughout the United States and
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was one of the first guys to get it started. Here in Dunbar.
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We constantly are having you know, issues at schools and different things, and
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we wanted to get the kids out and see the police and fire are somebody
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that you can talk to. And that's so important, I think, and
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one of the reasons behind the National Night Out on a nationwide basis, Mayor
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is to get these people in the community to come out and meet these folks
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and that way, when there are problems which will develop no matter what the
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town is, that way you have an opportunity. They're not a total stranger.
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You know that Jim is one of our local police officers or first responders.
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Yeah, and you know, like I said, whenever I started it,
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it was just a small group. We probably had a hundred participants.
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I would say tomorrow night we're probably gonna have between three and five hundred.
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And where does everything take place down in front of the police department on Dunbar
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Avenue, thirteen hundred block. All right, and that's good. A lot
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of lots of other activities going on as part of that as well. Yeah,
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and here on the sixteenth, seventeenth of September, we're gonna have our
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Fall Festival. With the Fall Festival, we're gonna have Tommy Griffith and the
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and Non Friction. On Friday September fifteenth and on the sixteenth we're gonna have
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the band hair supply. I'm familiar with both of nonfriction. All of them
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are great, you know. So we have a good time for the two
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days, indeed, you and we'll have you on probably before then to talk
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about that. With all the different activities. Again, we're talking to Maryor
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Scott Elliott of Dunbar here on Mayor money, I want to go back to
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the National Night Out for a moment. How many years you've been doing it?
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This will be this I believe it's the seventh year. We started right
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before I retired in two thousand and probably about two thousand and sixteen. And
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this isn't the only community in the area that we'll be doing it. I'm
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sure others will, but right now at your time, so we want to
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make sure everybody goes to one of the bigger and better ones in the area,
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and it's the city of Dunbar. I'll always make it bigger and in
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Dunbar, that's what you do, you know, Mayor. There's been so
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many big things going on in the valley here recently, from Regatta to the
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We had the World Table Tennis event last week at the Connell Stemaconvention Center of
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different events going on in Nitro here as of late. How do all these
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big events impact when they happen around the valley, How do they impact Dunbar.
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Unfortunately, they don't help us a lot. I mean they come through
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and they'll bow all kinds of our food and stuff like that. We only
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have one hotel road at a minute. We have another hotel getting ready to
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open hopefully at the end of the month. Once we get that and open
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the sports complex and different things are going to be taking advantage of that hotel,
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I believe, and the people coming in will really help the city out
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with the bingo taxes and everything else. Well, we're hoping that they do.
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And you I think you talked to Mayor of the last time you were
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on the show. But the need for another hotel in the Dunbar area,
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and again with the success of the Shawnee Sports Complex and with all these other
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things going on, and that propose Capital Sports Complex downtown Charleston. If that
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gets done, which we think it will, Dunbar is going to be,
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you know, like these other communities in the area, they're gonna be bustling
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just as well. Whether the events are held there or not correct. And
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you know there's only so many hotel rooms between here and Flatwoods Kentucky, Flatwoods
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West virgin all the way to Beckley that everybody is booking up solid every time
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there is a soccer comp the soccer competitions and different things like that. So
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for the last since twenty seventeen, we haven't had one of our hotels and
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it's a bigger hotel of all of them, and I think by getting that
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one back open with new owners will be in a great shape. We certainly
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wish you the best of luck with that's a mayor Monday with the Dunbar Mayor
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Scott Elliott. You know, Mayor, there's been a lot of people and
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it's been proven that are going to be moving into the area soon, you
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know. And I don't want to get into politics necessarily. We'll do that
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with Stephen a little bit later, but it's a fact there are people moving
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into the area. In my neighborhood. We're getting ready to add about a
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development of about three hundred families that are going to be in this new housing
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development that's happening over in Tays Valley, and all these people that are moving
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can't live in Tays Valley or they can't all live in downtown Charleston. So
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as a mayor, what do you say to people that may be looking at
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Dunbar as a place to live. Three years ago we took over the administration,
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and you know, there was a lot of houses that were dilapidated.
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Today I can come here and tell you that there has been forty on the
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ground. We have eight, possibly eight more coming down by September. We're
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making room to put new houses in every day that we can. And you
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know, if you would look at the prices of property back five years ago
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compared to today, we're getting up there and we're getting reasonable with all the
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prices. And you know, if it wouldn't have been for trying to clean
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up the city, we wouldn't we wouldn't be able to draw anybody in.
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But I think we can draw people in now well, and that's what we
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hope happens. How's the business climate in Dunbar. It's getting better. We're
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in the middle of restructuring Ohio Avenue to get that cleaned up. We have
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several businesses. We got a brand new ice cream shop, the Crafts of
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Coal that just opened up on Dunbar Avenue, right past the police stations now,
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and these folks have been at days a pretty successful food truck type thing
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of a trailer. But they've taken around of different here seeing people. I'm
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presuming right, yes, and they are packed. It seems like every day.
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Who doesn't like ice cream? And summertime it is nice. I had
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my first Crafts of Coal ice cream last Saturday on their grand opening and it
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was probably the best ice cream I've had. Okay, all right, so
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I got to ask you, mayor what's your what's your personal favorite? On
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the ice cream? That was the West Virginia I believe it was called the
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Pothole. What's Virginia Pothole? Yeah? And what was that? What was?
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It? Had cookie dough and oreo. You can stop right, there's
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good. You get me with cookie doughs. I mean I'm not a huge
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ice cream personal. As soon as you said cookie dough or oreo, you
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got me. And you got our producer in there, Hollywood, Jef Petty,
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who's like, you know, slurping all over the microphones and there.
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So so you got to craf so cole folks there and hopefully we'll get some
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some more businesses in there as well, because you know, Dunbar is a
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great place. Like I said, we're doing work on Ohio Avenue and that's
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our main business district. I'm waiting on the State of West Virginia to decide
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if they're going to give me the grant to open up Twelfth Street completely,
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and if they do, I think a businesses will come. Well, we
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certainly do, hope. All right, let's recap and talk about National Night
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Out again tomorrow. It give us the time and location and what people can
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expect when they come out. Well, we're gonna have the National Night Out
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from six to eight and the thirteen hundred block of Dunbar Avenue. Be careful
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when you're coming through because kids will be crossing the road. We're having foam
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machines and water sprinkler systems. We're having a demonstration by the Canines. We're
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having a demonstration from the Fire Department on extrication. Batman was going to be
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there, and we're just going to have a good time tomorrow night for a
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couple of hours. And the weather's going to be fantastic, I hope,
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because in the last three or four years it seems like every time we get
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a storm right in the middle. We According to what my friends in meteorology
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tell me, this is going to be a fantastic week for any sort of
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an outdoor activity. Mayor, it's always a pleasure to have you on the
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show. Keep doing great things in Dunbar. I appreciate you. Oh hold
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on one second, got a question here for You're not done yet, Okay,
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somebody, so, what is the status of the Alabama Barbecue that's supposed
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to be opening up in Dunbar. The gentleman that put the Alabama Barbecue in
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there had some issues and he had to get an exit ramp cut out of
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the Dunbar Avenue side. They have an entrance, but they had they couldn't
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take the entrance and exit out the same place, so they moved it.
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And he has some gravel that was put down before they moved to exit ramp,
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and as soon as he can get that all smoothed out and fixed up,
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I understand he's going to be opening. Yeah, because I've actually drove
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by there the other day and I saw the sign up there and I thought,
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man, it's been a while since that sign's gone. So hopefully we'll
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be able to to get him taken care of, and I appreciate the texture
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for texting a mayor good luck with everything. Tomorrow night. We'll have you
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on before your fall festival. Thanks a lot sounds good. Thank you,
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I am doing fantastic man. How are you doing well? You know,
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I love getting together with you to talk politics. And there's been a
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lot of news here as of late, particularly in the race for governor.
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Now last week actually came down officially, I guess on last Monday, but
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it had been rumored for some time. State Auditor J. V. Mccuski
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has dropped out of the governor's race to instead turn his attention toward the race
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for Attorney General. Will he'll find himself facing off Stephen against a couple of
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state Senators Mike Stewart. Editor's note, Mister Stewart has asked for time to
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talk to Dave Nation this Wednesday top of the show, and he'll be on
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the show Wednesday also Senator Ryan Well as part of that too. A lot,
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Steven has been made of the friendship, or maybe the former friendship between
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mccusky and Weld. What do you make of all this? Yeah, I
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think formers the operative word there in a short amount of time. There's already
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been some hurt there. You're talking about two people, in the case of
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Ryan Weld, good friends with JB. Mccusky. Well would sometimes even stay
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with the mccuski's when he came to Charleston, their wives get along, and
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JB openly welcomed Weld to detrain general race on social media, and so there's
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a lot of closeness there. So this took them by surprise, even though
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from what I understand, I think JB did give Weld a heads up before
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he did it, but they didn't make it any less hurtful for sure.
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So it was a surprise by that group. And if Weld smart, he
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kind of takes that anger and kind of channels that into the race and moving
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forward because obviously he's he's mad, and let's see what happened. And in
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the interview UM on Hoppy last week, you know you have kind of that
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he said, she said thing because Yan Ryan Well, I guess he said.
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He said where Ryan Weld, you know, says that, I guess
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that that JB sort of kind of told him, you know that if you
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run for governor, I'll run for attorney general, and you run your race
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and I'll run mine. As you said, they were great friends. And
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then mccusky comes out and says, no, I didn't say that, and
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Weld responds by said, I can tell you exactly where you were when you
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said that, So who actually knows here? Yeah, I would imagine some
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conversations were had about that. I was told something similar. I was told
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basically the weld wouldn't have even gotten into the AG's race if JB had said
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that was the route he wanted to go. But from what, from what
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I've been told, JB had said no, no, you're good to go.
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So that they did it. But the rumor have been out there for
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some time and JB was looking to get out. Now, he never hinted
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that much about that sort of thing to me to get out of the governor's
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race. I should say I never got a hint of that. In fact,
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I was arranging an interview for Goober, a tourial interview series I'm working
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on for our papers, and then this all happened what the last week,
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And really it's when a lot of us started to come out there was to
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pull out there apparently trying to feel people out how they felt about JB.
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Mucusky running for Attorney General. And then the announcement came last week. So
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it's one of those things where yeah, he said, he said, and
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the only thing you can really do is just move forward. You got another
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guy in the race and just do the best you can. And Mike Stewart,
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of course, you know, came out as I said, Michael be
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on the show Wednesday. But Mike comes out and says basically, Okay,
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well, you guys are talking about feelings and hurt feelings. I'm busy talking
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to the people. Is Greg Thomas was on the show last week. He
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says that mccusky is the is the favorite in this race. What do you
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think? I think there's a lot of interesting dynamics there because politically, I
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think Weld and JB are very similar. I would put them I think in
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my call in today, I describe them both as sort of traditional Republican conservatives.
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Make Stewart I would put more in the kind of national conservative family that
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seems to be kind of a growing a little more right than what, in
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your opinion what mc caskey and world are. Yeah, definitely for sure,
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and it's a trend that's kind of growing nationally. So they could take votes
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away from each other. But you know what, JB and Stuart could take
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votes away from each other too, because they're both been involved with Canal County
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politics for some time. For the last decade or so, so there's a
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potential for that as well. And of course the JB, as you know,
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is coming in with I think more than four hundred thousand dollars in cash
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on hand, which is way more than World who does have the most money
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in the race. He outraced Stewart in the last quarter. But I mean,
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that's a lot of money and he could do a lot with that.
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Even if he doesn't raise anything else, he can definitely use that to get
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his name out there. So a lot of different dynamics there. And speaking
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of money, I'm honestly Stephen not somebody who spends a lot of time pouring
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over a campaign finance reports. Some of you, guys, it's your paid
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job. You have to do that, Ethan Braden, people like that.
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What do you ma, could the early report so far? Oh wow?
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Yeah, I think before JB got into the governor's race, certainly, I
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think, well, would having a lot of money really kind of shows you,
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look, Mike Stewart could be a little bit grading on the other side
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of things. Obviously, he had a kind of a reputation coming out of
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this legislative session for pushing hard and kind of getting under fellow Republican senators Feathers.
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He's got that reputation behind the scenes as well, and of course he
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was a hard charger as US attorney. So it's one of those things where
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well it's you know, comes across as a friendlier guy. He's a younger
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guy, he's very polished, all that sort of stuff. So maybe people
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kind of saw something in him that they thought would make a good Attorney general
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candidate. So he got more of the money that time around. But I
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mean again, now, if a third person that race, JB. Mccusky,
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that dynamic is going to change and he doesn't have to raise any more
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money, but he might, but people might see him as someone in someone
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who was friend a statewide race. The other two really haven't done anything like
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that, so that does give JB a an advantage they don't have. Indeed,
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again, we're talking with Steven all Adams of AGDA Newspapers here on five
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we got interims coming up, yes, Uh? State Democratic Party Chair Mike
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Pushkin on the show last week, UH and deligate Mike Pushkins well got to
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get both his titles in there, uh, saying that's it's time for I
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guess while the interims are here to really focus on more of a special session
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kind of a thing on on foster care. He was on I saw him
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on Mark Curtis the show over the weekend as well. He was really really
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drilling down on that on on the foster care system and the prison system.
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Your thoughts on what we could expect as a get arms roll into town.
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Sure, I think there will be a special session. Of course, it
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hasn't been announced yet. Everyone keeps pressuring the governor. Governor doesn't ever announce
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that stuff until practically a day before. So, but I could tell you
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talking to some lawmakers, particularly Senate President Craig Blair, behind the scenes,
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there's movement towards that, particularly to deal with the correctional officer crisis, and
22:19
they have a comprehensive plan. It's not just going to be pay raises,
22:22
but it's gonna be changing some of the pay scales and other reforms to try
22:27
to encourage correction officer to stay recruit more. So you're going to see that
22:33
happen. But in regards to foster care, I don't know. That's a
22:37
big thing, and they have done They have done several bills over that book
22:42
orse that just scratches the surface of what they need to do. I know
22:45
Hobby had to call them this morning talking about making some fixes to how they
22:48
do the automobile, motor vehicle, personal property tax rebates. STU. It's
22:53
confusing, Yeah, it is confusing. Makes you wonder why the State Tax
22:57
Division didn't come out with any guidance on since this was the governor's thing.
23:00
But that's another story. But yeah, they'll they'll have to do a fix
23:03
to that there. I'm sure they'll have some supplemental appropriation. So yeah,
23:07
I think they'll use this interim time to do a special session. For sure.
23:11
There's certainly a desire to do it, but of course it always takes
23:15
coming up with agreement on whatever the bills are before they move forward because they
23:18
don't want to go past it the interim date and didn't have to spend actual
23:22
money because special sessions costs thirty five thousand dollars a day. Yeah, yeah,
23:25
you're exactly right. I had Stephen, I had last week at HD
23:29
Media President Dell get Doug scaff on the program, and Steve, I just
23:33
keep hearing that he may possibly be looking at switching parties, possibly to run
23:38
for secretary of State. Now he did not elaborate on that. He was
23:41
a little bit vague on it. He said he has no plans at this
23:45
time. When politicians say at this time, you got to put that asterisk
23:48
up there your thoughts. I've heard this rumor twice. Now. I heard
23:52
this rumor going into July, and then someone else told me this rumor.
23:57
Both times it came from two from people that are not connected to each other.
24:02
So I've heard us a couple of times. Doug Scaff certainly is what
24:04
I would call a conservative in regards to business, in regards to economic issues,
24:11
social liberal, which is pretty common among sort of the younger group.
24:17
Anyway, that's not totally dissimilar. It makes kind of sense for the Charleston
24:21
area, So that would probably be okay if he were to do that.
24:25
As for running for Secretary of State, I think that would be a hard
24:26
lift. H just switching parties suggests to do that, especially since you've got
24:32
longtime Republicans sent in that race, including you know, Brian Wood and c
24:36
and Chris Pritt. Do Chris Pritt and that sort of thing. Read yeah,
24:40
yeah, exactly. So I think that that would be a hard lift.
24:44
But I keep hearing the rumors too, and I keep checking in each
24:47
week to see if the registrations change. So if I hear at first,
24:51
I'll let you know. Um, I'll go back to the the Senate race
24:55
between Governor Justice and Congressman Alex Mooney just for a moment. The Paul Les
25:00
show that it isn't even close. Greg Thomas on the show though last week,
25:03
says he thinks Mooney is going to close the gap somewhat as we head
25:07
toward next year. Your thoughts, Yeah, I think that's right. There
25:11
was a poll that came out here. There's quarterly morning consult poles that always
25:15
look at the governors and each state and how their popularity and unpopularity looks,
25:19
and the Governors is still he still has popular numbers, but he's been in
25:25
the top five over the last year, he's dropped to the top ten down
25:29
to the bottom top ten. Still very popular, but his numbers are softening
25:33
a little bit, and that would coincide a with his announcement of a run
25:37
and be with some of these negative headlines in regards to the federal lawsuits,
25:41
banks going after him and just businesses and that sort of thing. So obviously
25:45
Mooney the Club for Growth, which also backs Mooney, are going to hit
25:49
Justice repeatedly for that stuff. They got ads out there now on that sort
25:52
of thing. I think that, and we got a lot of time between
25:55
now and next primary, so the more they hit that, the more loose
25:59
numbers could soft. So I think he's right. I think it will narrow
26:02
some now well, narrow enough for him to win over Justice. I don't
26:07
know, but I think it will narrow well. And I could just keep
26:08
hearing that these things are going to come out, more things on Governor Justice,
26:12
and I've had people on the show and then at texted the show about
26:17
allegations of some immigration issues with some of his employees down there, and that
26:22
they're really some of these national groups are really going to hit hard on certain
26:26
things like that. One thing about it is regardless, Steven, there's gonna
26:30
be a whole lot of attention on a West Virginia center race. At this
26:33
time twenty years ago, probably would not have had that much attention. Because
26:37
the stakes are much higher now. People need to be very prepared for that.
26:40
Yeah, we're going to have a lot of national news stories on this
26:44
race because I mean again, we've now for the last couple of cycles,
26:48
the makeup of the Senate has been a big deal. Right now, it
26:52
still remains barely majority Democratic, but Republicans have tried to make a couple big
26:57
pushes on that kind of been kind of interfered with by a certain former president
27:02
that's kind of screwed that up in my opinion. But yeah, two cycles
27:07
of that. They are desperate, the Republicans to get the majority back.
27:11
So every race counts and this one does too. So you're going to see
27:14
the Democrats poor law Bunny in the list race too, whether it's Joe Mansion
27:18
or if it's just them trying to keep justice out or whoever wins that law
27:22
money law attention are coming to West Virginia. All right, speaking you said
27:25
the magic word there, Stephen and Joe Mansion. I'm going to ask you
27:27
the same question I ask nearly everybody I have on the show, and that
27:32
is, does Senator Mansion run for reelection to his Senate seat? Does he
27:36
run for president or does he not run at all? I think he does
27:40
whatever is going to work out in his best interest. Now that's a fake
27:44
answer, but look, I mean, he is the type of person that
27:48
if he decides to run for Senate, he's going to need a lot of
27:49
support. So he's gonna need the Democrats coming out. He's going to need
27:53
all that money that they may not want to spend for anyone else because it
27:56
looks like it's going to go red, but they might spend it for man
28:00
jenif there's a chance of him staying in a chance of then pulling out that
28:03
seat. But at the same time, does he want to have a humil
28:07
leading loss to a guy that he helped get like at sixteen flip flip parties
28:10
and fired his wife. I don't know. I wouldn't. What about president,
28:14
Well, he's gonna lose for president, but he could actually pull that
28:17
out as well, and use that as a way to parlay some national attention
28:22
for himself, but the third parties usually lose. What's he going to do.
28:26
He's only going to do what works out for him allows him to save
28:29
face. So but what that choices I just don't know yet. Well,
28:33
I will say this, with all due respect to Senator Mansion. He runs
28:37
against Jim Justice, he runs against Alex Mooney. Either one he loses in
28:41
my opinion because the and it's nothing necessarily against Senator Mansion. It's just where
28:48
West Virginia is right now. And let's go back to twenty eighteen. He
28:52
barely beat Patrick Morrissey at that in that particular race. So I'm gonna say,
29:00
you know, I don't know what he's gonna do. I don't.
29:02
I can say something to Day and then you know, Wednesday be totally proven
29:06
wrong. I don't think Joe Mansion runs for Senate. I think he does
29:10
do the presidential thing, and he knows he's not gonna win because there's no
29:11
way that any third party is going to win. And now the question is
29:17
is does a Mansion or whomever you know is part of that that whole team.
29:22
Because I made Lieberman and there maybe some others that will be a part
29:23
of that as well. Does that help Trump or does it help Biden?
29:27
Yeah, that is the question. I mean I never take Joe Mansion for
29:32
granted, he's a great retail politician, but yeah, if he runs for
29:36
president, that's the hard choice. And I kind of see it to some
29:41
extent taking votes from certainly both Biden and Trump. If you're a moderate and
29:45
you want somebody in that moderate sphere, then you're going to vote for Mansion.
29:48
But I mean, flip a coin, you know, you're we were
29:52
literally walking into the same situation that we're in and sixteen, where you have
29:56
two unpopular candidates and it's going to come down to whoever is the least unpopular
30:00
among the two sixteen it was Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Trump. This year,
30:04
I think it's gonna be Biden in Trump and whoever is the least unpopular,
30:10
it's gonna be Biden or Trump. I mean, I watched a lot
30:11
of other political talk shows over the weekend. I talked about the Sunday Show
30:15
last week. The majority of Americans, Pole after Pole has said that they
30:18
don't want Biden and they don't want Trump, regardless of party. But but
30:23
that's where we're gonna go do. De Santis is falling further and further through
30:26
the poles. I hear a couple of people here and they're saying the right
30:30
things. So Tim Scott or Will Hurd got booed at at then I think
30:37
that was an Iowa was at an Iowa this past weekend where they got booed.
30:40
Nicki Hayley was making the rounds of the shows and she's, you know,
30:42
walking that line because you don't want to say anything bad about Trump,
30:45
but you want to say basically what she was saying as well, it's time
30:48
for somebody new, you know. So, um I want to throw this
30:52
out at you. Um So. I mentioned Greg Thomas had Em on the
30:56
show last week and some of the folks, some of the political strategists have
31:00
indicated that instead of getting involved in a lot of races next year for House
31:06
and Senate things like that, they may instead focus their energy toward a lot
31:11
of county races. I mean, we are seeing steven a complete blood letting
31:15
right now with county officials who can't get to the county clerk's office quickly enough
31:22
to change their registration. In my native landown in Logan County. You just
31:26
had the county clerk that flipped. You just had the sheriff that flipped,
31:30
which would have been unheard of. You know, this time fifteen twenty years
31:33
ago, we have a county Commission seat up here in Kanaw County. Next
31:37
year, we don't know what a commission President Kent Karper's going to do.
31:40
At this point, we already know Chris Walters is going to run for that.
31:42
And I'd say all that to say this, there's going to be a
31:47
lot more focused in some of these county races because I think some of the
31:49
higher ups in the Republican Party are just kind of looking, you know,
31:53
as you said, you never want to take anything for granted, but they
31:56
are looking at some of these House of Delegates raised some of these state Senate
32:00
races, is saying well, it's going to go Republican. That's just a
32:02
matter of which Republican gets it. We're going to focus more on the county
32:06
courthouses. Are you hearing that? Maybe I listen to Greg Thomas talk about
32:12
that and I see that as a focus for some. But I do see
32:15
groups, particularly the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, I think are still going
32:20
to be very focused on the legislature because you know, this past session you
32:22
did have some pretty significant fights the Form Energy Bill, for example, where
32:28
you had some Republicans obviously before that fact, well, I mean most Republicans
32:30
report because the past the bill passed allowing some of that state money to be
32:36
used in order to entice form Energy in the Northern Panhandle. But you also
32:39
had a number of Republican lawmakers that didn't think state money should be used for
32:43
that, or thought the company was woke, or all the sort of stuff.
32:46
And you saw a lot of chaos in the Senate too, between different
32:50
factions in the Republican Party. And I think there's going to be an effort,
32:52
particularly by the Chamber to try to recruit candidates that are more conservative traditional
33:00
conservative, rankan conservative, business conservative to kind of counteract that. I think
33:02
a good example was running is Robert Karnes up in Randolph County and Robbie Morris,
33:09
part of the Economic Development Group up there has been I think recruited by
33:15
the Chamber. I think you're gonna see some of that focus in the legislature
33:19
as well. I'm gonna play a little make believe right now, Stephen before
33:22
we let you go. You are State Democratic Party chair, Mike Pushkin?
33:28
How do you play this whole thing? How do him? On the show
33:30
last week and I asked him when could we expect to see some names being
33:32
thrown out there to run for some of the seats for governor for example,
33:36
or House or whatever. No one wants to be the Washington Generals. That's
33:40
an obscure reference. But what I mean is the Generals are the team that
33:43
get their butts kicked every night by the Harden Club trotters. Nobody wants to
33:46
be them. I don't see a path forward for hardly any Democrats. If
33:52
you are a the state Democratic Party chair at this point, what do you
33:55
do well? First of all, by making me Mike Pushkin, you just
33:59
gave me the ability to guitar decently, So I appreciate that. Yeah,
34:00
he gets a good guitars. But but but in all seriousness, I talked
34:06
to somebody just last weekend about this sort of thing, and I think they
34:09
are going to try to get some names on the various tickets I mean,
34:15
and try to get some good names, even if they might lose. I
34:17
think they want to have some high quality candidates going forward just to fill those
34:22
ballots spots, particularly board to public works, and I think that it's important
34:29
for them to fill those ballots because that's one of the things that they've gotten
34:31
criticism of before. And is it going to be an uphill climb, Yeah,
34:36
it's going to be an uphill climb, But they they're better off trying
34:38
to not trying, because you just never know what's going to happen in politics,
34:42
and maybe something happens in one of those guys gets in. I mean,
34:45
you gotta do what you can, in my opinion, to distance yourself.
34:50
If you're a state, if you're a West Virginia Democrat, you've got
34:52
to do what you can to distance yourself from the Democratic Party or the perception
34:57
of such on the national level. West Virginia, Stephen is a solidly read
35:00
state and getting redder by It's it's more red than what it was when I
35:05
started the show. That's where we are right now, and the further right
35:09
that the Republicans go in West Virginia, it seems the more the electorate here
35:15
likes it, and it's like they can't be right enough. And now we're
35:19
seeing battles on the Republican side well, I'm more I'm more conservative than he
35:22
is, you know, as you know, I'm more a couple of years
35:24
ago, I'm more Trumpier than he is, or that she is or whatever.
35:29
I mean, that's what the Democrats have to do. They've somehow got
35:30
to distance themselves from the perception of what the National Democratic Party is. Yeah,
35:36
real quick. I know that some people obviously like to say West Virginia
35:38
is a Trump state, and that is true to an extent. But I
35:42
had a good conversation with the Republican political operator the other day. It really
35:45
made a good point say, look, it just doesn't matter in this state
35:47
at this point if it's not Trump at somebody else. But this electorate in
35:52
the state will vote Republican regardless. And you can see that in the presidential
35:57
stuff, because I mean the last Democratic presidential soon we voted for US Bill
36:00
Clinton. We've been voting Republican in presidential contestsince eighty four. So it doesn't
36:06
really matter who it is at this point. REFUW Gun or by your name,
36:08
you're probably going to do pretty well at this point. All right,
36:12
before we let you go to have a text, here says a mansion got
36:15
lucky. He beat Morrissey, who has a personality of a pet rock.
36:17
Morrissey has no people's skills, and that's why more will win. I'm presuming
36:22
that they need more capital. Yes I'm a Republican, and no, this
36:25
is not Greg Thomas texting. According to Morrissey is a hard charger. He's
36:30
a bulldog. He's a hard campaigner, and that does ruffle some feathers for
36:36
sure, but it also has worked out for him. So I mean,
36:38
since twenty twelve he's a winner. I mean, you can you can dislike
36:43
the guy, you cannot like his person out or whatever. The guy does
36:45
nothing but win. Morrisey. I mean he did get beat in twenty eighteen,
36:47
but not by a heck of a lot. That race is today between
36:51
Morrissey and Mansion. Morrissey wins in my opinion, I think so too.
36:53
Yeah, what are you keep an eye on today? Thirty seconds? What
36:57
are you looking at today? Well, when governors starting his administrative briefing on
37:00
a Monday for a change, so we're doing that. I know he's seeing
37:04
off National Guard soldiers heading off to the Mexican Texas border. So those were
37:08
sort of the big things going on right now and right now I'm just trying
37:12
to get some of the goobernatorial candidates to give me a callback. Okay,
37:15
well, good luck with that. Steven alt ales with AGDA Newspapers, which
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you can follow him everywhere on social media and check out the newspapers. Well,
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Steven is always pleasure with Tata Man. We'll talk to Sam thaks Dage.
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on talk that Chris Stirewalt from The Dispatch will be on board the show today
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as well, and former West Forrindida congress from Nick Rayhall. Haven't heard that
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That's talk line coming up at ten h six. So I promise you
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I would get to this and I am needle exchanges. This of course,
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We've discussed it. I've been doing the show now for three years.
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I have discussed it several times on the show in the past. It's been
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discussed various places. Well. The discussion is bike. In Charleston last Thursday,
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over one hundred residents came out to make their voices heard over a newer
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plan that's coming to light now from the Women's Health Center. The Women's Health
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Center has applied for a syringe service program license. Now city Council is expected
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to vote on the program being used or what's proposed to be used at the
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Women's Health Center on the West Side. I'm told it is going to be
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discussed at next week city council meeting. Now, the rules say that before
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a program like that can be put into place or had to be a public
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hearing, and that's that's what happened last Thursday. That meeting was held at
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the Goodwill Prosperity Center of Virginia Street West. I did not attend the meeting.
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Our Jared Lewis Deady covered the meeting for the WCHS Network and Metro News
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last week. I still go back on the website and read the stories.
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Now I'm told that there was a mix of people both for and against the
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program. Iris, And if if you're listening to the show, I totally
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apologize because I know I'm gonna mispronounce your name. But to Iris Sedictman and
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again if I got it wrong, I deeply apologized, spoke and said the
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program will do more than just hand out needles. She talked about the program
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offering reproductive healthcare, substance abuse treatment, etc. Etc. And there were
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emails both four and against read at the meetings before the public comment period,
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and just like with the emails that were read, there were people in attendance
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during the public comment section that were both foreign against the program. One woman
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spoke saying that if it weren't for programs like needle exchanges, that she would
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not be alive. One of those against the program talked about moving to Charleston
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from the DC area and said he was worried about the program being that close
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to his house and quite frankly, I get that served. He said that
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they would be distributing heroin needles his words, to junkies two hundred feet from
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his house, and that these programs are a magnet for drug users. Now
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a little history here. Back in twenty eighteen, the can All Charleston Health
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departments needle exchange was shut down. Legislature, of course, have done what
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they could curtail some of these programs, allowing to basically saying you have to
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go through a process in order to do this. And look, the studies
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have shown that these types of programs do work in lasting the numbers of diseases
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and whatnot that are associated with IV drug use. YEA. But at the
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center of all this is the fact that many people, myself included, are
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of the mindset that while the programs nationwide may be successful in lasting disease and
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things of that nature, you are still encouraging illegal behavior. And here is
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the part where I come off as being a cold, unfeeling piece of crap.
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Be that as an may I don't have a lot of sympathy for drug
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users. I'm sorry. If that makes me a bad person, so bid.
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I am more concerned about the person who has to live with the consequences
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of other people's poor life choices. And trust me, it is a choice.
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You know how medical professionals will tell you that a glass of wine or
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alcohol in moderation could be good for you or at least okay, And you
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know they're proven studies that marijuana can help those that are sick with something,
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say cancer, possibly to get their appetites back, or could be a much
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safer alternative to paint pills. Well, folks, there's no good heroine stories.
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I'm sorry. No doctor is going to say, hey, you should
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try heroine or fentanyl. It'll help you with your symptoms. Ain't happening.
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And before someone says you would feel differently if it were someone in your family,
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no, actually what? In fact, I have a half sister who
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I haven't seen her talk to since two thousand and three, twenty years have
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gone by since we talked, and frankly, I'm gonna be honest, I
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have no idea whether she's dead or a life. She had it all smart,
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much smarter than I am, which is not really saying a whole lot.
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College educated, We came from a good, hard working family, no
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abuse, no is She's like one day she just decided to start taking pain
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pills when that was the popular thing to do in the early two thousands.
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She wasn't prescribed to pain pills, no injury. She just got board,
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decided to start taking pain and she chose that path. Her college education went
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out the window, her marriage, her kid, she chose drugs overall of
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She end up losing her kid, our mother, who passed away in twenty
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nineteen. We couldn't find my sister to even tell her that her mother had
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passed away. And to this day, I don't know whether she even knows
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our mother passed away, nor do I even care, and because I'm sure
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she doesn't. My mother spent the last few years of her life dealing with
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the restraining orders and whatnot to keep my sister from stealing everything she had to
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support a drug habit. And I say all that to say this, I
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am pretty hardcore in my stands on drug users. I have zero tolerance for
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those who choose a lifestyle and yes, in many cases it is a choice.
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It is a choice, and you are legitimizing poor lifestyle choices when you
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hand out materials for someone that is conducting illegal activity. Zero sympathy here,
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folks. Zero. And I see businesses around Charleston other places displaying science and
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say we have in the locks own that, of course, being the drugs
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that can reverse overdose. I see bumper stickers that say that too. We'll
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just know this you'd around me. I don't care in the locksowne. You've
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had a bad day. You play stupid games who win stupid prizes. All
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right, gotta go. Thank you so much to all of our guests on
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the show today. Call some textion did not get imagine that that got some
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texts going. Well, I'll do my best to try to get them on
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bit more of the Inside a Huddle event with Tony Creedi. I will see
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you tomorrow from my producer Hollywood Jeff Pety. Thank you so much, so
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