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- 1:35Speaker 4: Tuesday edition, Metro News meteorologist Brian Hughes says we could
- 1:38Speaker 4: see some scattered showers today near record high temperatures in
- 1:41Speaker 4: the upper eighties. Muggy tonight live in the mid sixties
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- 1:47Speaker 4: It looks like highs in below nineties and we're gonna
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- 1:52Speaker 4: end of the week's scattered storms continued warm big cool
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- 2:03Speaker 4: on Air two. Coming up a little bit later on
- 2:05Speaker 4: State Treasurer Larry Pack will stop by. We're going to
- 2:08Speaker 4: talk to Kenaw County School board member who is hoping
- 2:11Speaker 4: you'll re elect her to that post, Becky Jordan, And
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- 2:23Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Now from the Forks of Coal Foundation, Frank Culture is here.
- 2:27Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
- 2:29Speaker 5: Good morning, and thank you for having me on.
- 2:31Speaker 4: You pulled that microphone a little bit closer to you there, sir.
- 2:33Speaker 4: You don't have the Jim Strawn voice, you know, Thank
- 2:37Speaker 4: thank goodness for that. Anyways, so Franks with us tell
- 2:40Speaker 4: us about first of all, before we get you have
- 2:41Speaker 4: a specific vigue on this weekend, tell us about the group,
- 2:45Speaker 4: the Forks of Coal Foundation.
- 2:46Speaker 3: What is it that you do well.
- 2:47Speaker 5: The Forks of Coal is a state natural area located
- 2:50Speaker 5: out about out on Quarter G about four miles south
- 2:54Speaker 5: along Quarter G and it is a one hundred and
- 2:56Speaker 5: fifty acre established park. It's a natural area. There's no bicycling,
- 3:02Speaker 5: that's all pedestrian travel and hiking. We have three or
- 3:06Speaker 5: four miles of hiking trails to do. And we have
- 3:09Speaker 5: the Claudia L. Workman Education Center, which has animals that
- 3:15Speaker 5: have been taxidermied and stuffed, and we have some live animals.
- 3:20Speaker 5: We have the fifteen hundred gallon aquarium that has all
- 3:24Speaker 5: the natural fish that's in the Coal River, so you
- 3:29Speaker 5: can see what's in the Coal River.
- 3:31Speaker 4: So now I wonder how many people though I mean,
- 3:34Speaker 4: of course they've heard of your group, but many. I
- 3:36Speaker 4: wonder how many people didn't know about that Wildlife Education Center.
- 3:39Speaker 3: A lot, a lot.
- 3:40Speaker 5: We have about seven thousand students come through a year
- 3:43Speaker 5: with their school tours and everything, but we find so
- 3:46Speaker 5: many people don't know about the center and don't know
- 3:50Speaker 5: about the forks. It's a new area. It was donated
- 3:53Speaker 5: to the state in twenty sixteen by Jack Workman, and
- 3:57Speaker 5: the education center was dedicated to his wife, and it
- 4:01Speaker 5: was started construction in twenty twenty and just finished in
- 4:05Speaker 5: twenty twenty two. So we're fairly new and the foundation
- 4:09Speaker 5: is a support group to back up the state and
- 4:12Speaker 5: we have a group of volunteers that come out and
- 4:14Speaker 5: help clean the trails and do things. And we are
- 4:17Speaker 5: now starting an endowment campaign so that we'll have a
- 4:21Speaker 5: lasting funding source to be able to match grants and
- 4:25Speaker 5: expand our education programs and expand things inside the natural area.
- 4:30Speaker 4: Now you said it's out on the corridor. Explain where
- 4:32Speaker 4: it is for folks, what's the best way to describe it.
- 4:36Speaker 5: If you're heading south towards Boone County, we're about four
- 4:39Speaker 5: miles south of South Ridge and it's on the right
- 4:43Speaker 5: hand side, okay, and it's just before you go you've
- 4:46Speaker 5: got the double bridges going into Lincoln County and we're
- 4:50Speaker 5: just before the second bridge.
- 4:52Speaker 4: You have an event coming up this Saturday. It's called
- 4:54Speaker 4: Rooted in Conversation, the Adopt a Tree fundraiser. Talk about that.
- 4:59Speaker 5: Yes, that is our initial endowment campaign to raise money
- 5:06Speaker 5: for the endowment. And we have we're gonna have seedlings
- 5:09Speaker 5: that you can purchase and go out and plant in
- 5:11Speaker 5: the forest and have your name on it. And with
- 5:13Speaker 5: that you'll get a brick that'll go in our front
- 5:16Speaker 5: walkway with your name and the year. We have memorial
- 5:20Speaker 5: trees that we can get you can go out and
- 5:22Speaker 5: select a mature tree in the forest and make it
- 5:25Speaker 5: a memorial for a loved one in your family that
- 5:28Speaker 5: you can go visit and see it grow and be
- 5:30Speaker 5: in the woods with it. And we have a corporate
- 5:34Speaker 5: grove that we can plant as a team event for
- 5:37Speaker 5: your corporation to come out and and do and and
- 5:40Speaker 5: plant fifty white pine trees into a grove. So it's
- 5:46Speaker 5: it's a fairly forested property, but you know, we can
- 5:50Speaker 5: always use more trees. The trees are gonna plant are
- 5:52Speaker 5: gonna be native to West Virginia. They're gonna be nut
- 5:55Speaker 5: bearing trees and the white pine trees.
- 5:59Speaker 3: How many acres do you have out there?
- 6:01Speaker 5: We currently have one hundred and fifty acres on what
- 6:03Speaker 5: we're calling the north side, which is a developed side now,
- 6:07Speaker 5: and the Probate has just granted us another one hundred
- 6:11Speaker 5: and fifty acres on the other side of the Quarridor
- 6:15Speaker 5: which we are developing and starting to open up.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Talking to Frank Colder again from the Forks of Coal
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- 6:41Speaker 4: you know, corporations, companies getting involved in things like this.
- 6:44Speaker 4: This would be a great team building thing for a company.
- 6:47Speaker 4: They're always looking for outings like that, or for for
- 6:50Speaker 4: you know, kids in school that are needing community service hours,
- 6:53Speaker 4: or church groups or civic organizations, all kinds of great stuff.
- 6:56Speaker 5: It is, it is, and you know the event is
- 7:00Speaker 5: going to go from ten till noon. If corporation would
- 7:03Speaker 5: want to do that, we can accommodate it. Just call
- 7:06Speaker 5: us and get on our website Forks of Cold and
- 7:10Speaker 5: contact us and we will we will work with you
- 7:13Speaker 5: to come up with a day and time to come
- 7:15Speaker 5: do that.
- 7:15Speaker 4: It sounds like this thing is really exciting, and I
- 7:19Speaker 4: think that the Workmen, I guess the Workman family.
- 7:21Speaker 3: Should be commended for this.
- 7:23Speaker 4: Center that they've put in out there, because again, I mean,
- 7:26Speaker 4: it may be one of the best kept secrets around
- 7:27Speaker 4: because I just don't think a lot of people know
- 7:29Speaker 4: about it.
- 7:30Speaker 3: But it sounds like you've got great things going on
- 7:31Speaker 3: out there.
- 7:32Speaker 5: We do. We have a lot of other events as well.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Talk about those.
- 7:35Speaker 2: We have.
- 7:36Speaker 5: The Avian Center usually comes once or twice a year
- 7:38Speaker 5: and brings their raptors, the eagles, the owls and everything
- 7:42Speaker 5: and have those live birds there and talks about them.
- 7:46Speaker 5: We'll have the Reptile Center down from Hurricane come in.
- 7:49Speaker 5: We'll have fly fishing classes, and we'll have hikes led
- 7:54Speaker 5: by naturalists out through the property at different times during
- 7:57Speaker 5: the year. So you can check out our website and
- 8:00Speaker 5: see the event listing and things, and we're welcome to
- 8:03Speaker 5: do it. Part of the campaign for this is to
- 8:06Speaker 5: get our marketing out and get our name out and
- 8:08Speaker 5: have people come through. You have a lot of school
- 8:10Speaker 5: groups come through now, but we have a lot of
- 8:12Speaker 5: families come out and to come out and do the
- 8:15Speaker 5: Governor's Mountaineer Mile on one of our trails. And the
- 8:19Speaker 5: trails are fairly moderate, so they're not real technically difficult
- 8:23Speaker 5: or anything, so come out and come out and visit us.
- 8:26Speaker 4: So it is going to ask you about the difficulty
- 8:28Speaker 4: of the trails, because I mean, when you hear the
- 8:30Speaker 4: word trails, it can be any number of things. It
- 8:32Speaker 4: could be almost like you're up in the Himalayans or something.
- 8:35Speaker 3: But you can say.
- 8:35Speaker 4: You'd have the ones that are more for people like me,
- 8:38Speaker 4: that are almost like downtown streets.
- 8:39Speaker 3: That's what I need.
- 8:40Speaker 5: That's correct, And we have those trails all right.
- 8:43Speaker 4: Again, give us the website or social media wherever people
- 8:46Speaker 4: can learn more about this.
- 8:47Speaker 5: If you look up forks of coal, that's all you
- 8:50Speaker 5: have to type into your Google search and you'll get
- 8:52Speaker 5: our web page, our Facebook page, the state's website and
- 8:58Speaker 5: their web page, their Facebook page, and you can get
- 9:02Speaker 5: to get to any of them through that.
- 9:04Speaker 4: And review what else what ELL's going on this weekend
- 9:06Speaker 4: and give us all the details on that.
- 9:08Speaker 5: We are having a adopted tree programmed to where you
- 9:11Speaker 5: can come out and purchase a seedling and plant out
- 9:15Speaker 5: on a property we're having. The center will be open.
- 9:20Speaker 5: You can go through the center and see everything that's there.
- 9:22Speaker 5: It's a center and things start at what time ten o'clock?
- 9:26Speaker 6: Right?
- 9:26Speaker 3: I still new?
- 9:26Speaker 4: All right, Frank, I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot,
- 9:29Speaker 4: Frank coul appreciate you in absolutely. Don't let it be
- 9:32Speaker 4: the last time. Come back in and you said you
- 9:33Speaker 4: needed marketing man, we can do.
- 9:34Speaker 3: That for you.
- 9:35Speaker 5: Okay, we appreciate it.
- 9:36Speaker 4: But you've got Jim Strawn out there, that's the king
- 9:38Speaker 4: of the marketing, so he'll get a great job.
- 9:40Speaker 3: He done well. Okay, he does something. But I'm kidding,
- 9:42Speaker 3: I'm kidding. I know he's listening right now. Jim.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Jimbo's a buddy so for the Coal Foundation, and you're
- 9:48Speaker 4: part of the board there. Frank Cults appreciate you being here.
- 9:50Speaker 4: Thanks a lot. Hang out with you just one second.
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- 13:00Speaker 4: zero zero Welcome to the show. Now, Becky Jordan, how
- 13:03Speaker 4: are you doing, Becky?
- 13:04Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
- 13:05Speaker 8: Thanks for having me today.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Current member Kennan County Board of Education, and you're hoping
- 13:09Speaker 4: to be re elected. Before we get into the campaign,
- 13:12Speaker 4: tell us about you for those that may not know you.
- 13:14Speaker 4: Give just a little bio on Becky Jordan.
- 13:16Speaker 8: Sure, I'm Becky Jordan. I've grown up in Charleston all
- 13:18Speaker 8: my life. I'm a graduate of public schools in Kannall County.
- 13:24Speaker 8: I married a man that's also a graduate of public schools,
- 13:27Speaker 8: raised four children in the Kannall County school system. I
- 13:31Speaker 8: am a clinical therapist at a local hospital. I do
- 13:37Speaker 8: different therapies behavioral health, addiction and something I've done. You
- 13:45Speaker 8: know a long time.
- 13:46Speaker 3: And how long have you been on the school board.
- 13:48Speaker 8: I've been on a school board for twenty four years?
- 13:50Speaker 3: Okay, So why did you run in the first place?
- 13:52Speaker 4: Because I want to just say, my of the changes
- 13:55Speaker 4: you must have seen in public schools, it's twenty four
- 13:57Speaker 4: hours we're talking about that.
- 13:58Speaker 3: But what made you run for more of education? To
- 14:00Speaker 3: begin with? Back?
- 14:01Speaker 8: Okay, when I first ran twenty four years ago, I
- 14:03Speaker 8: was very involved. I had four kids, all in every
- 14:06Speaker 8: different age group of school system, and I noticed that
- 14:10Speaker 8: everybody on the school board was retired and it was
- 14:13Speaker 8: very unprofessional. I remember walking my baby watching it and
- 14:18Speaker 8: they were yelling and it was so unprofessional. So I
- 14:21Speaker 8: ran my first campaign as a paranorm board and I
- 14:25Speaker 8: will be professional. And do you know I worked hard
- 14:29Speaker 8: when I got on that board that if I disagreed
- 14:31Speaker 8: with those board members, I made sure that when I
- 14:33Speaker 8: left that boardroom, I was talking to him when we
- 14:35Speaker 8: walked out, Because you can't have a board and not
- 14:38Speaker 8: work well with everybody, and I felt like I've always
- 14:40Speaker 8: worked well with all my board members, Okay, and.
- 14:44Speaker 3: That's a big part of it too.
- 14:45Speaker 8: It is because we have a lot of work to
- 14:47Speaker 8: do together, and why don't we agree or not. We
- 14:49Speaker 8: got to work on.
- 14:50Speaker 3: It, right, right.
- 14:52Speaker 4: What are you most proud of so far? One or
- 14:54Speaker 4: two things that you're most proud of in your service
- 14:57Speaker 4: WO to the people of kanawaccounting some.
- 15:00Speaker 8: Of the beautiful schools that we've built. Herbert Hoover. I mean,
- 15:03Speaker 8: I think it's the prettiest high school in the state
- 15:06Speaker 8: of West Virginia, and those kids deserve it. I mean,
- 15:08Speaker 8: living in portables for so many years, and so many
- 15:11Speaker 8: of them lost their homes during a difficult time. So
- 15:16Speaker 8: many of the different programs that we have in our
- 15:19Speaker 8: school system, the different arts programs that we have, vo
- 15:22Speaker 8: tech programs, We've always maintained a balanced budget. Our special
- 15:28Speaker 8: head programs, our gifted programs, our music programs, our counseling programs,
- 15:34Speaker 8: our professional development programs for our staff. We've done so
- 15:41Speaker 8: much and we've had to close schools. Yeah, and more
- 15:44Speaker 8: of that was just in the past few years.
- 15:46Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's what that kind of leads me to
- 15:49Speaker 4: my next point again, we're talking to Becky Jordan for
- 15:51Speaker 4: the Kenawh County Board of Education.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Last few years, Becky's you.
- 15:55Speaker 4: Well know, have been tough on public education, not just
- 15:57Speaker 4: in Canawha County but state wide nationwide. You know, first
- 16:00Speaker 4: we had COVID that you had to deal with, then
- 16:02Speaker 4: consolidations due to population loss, and dealing with aging buildings,
- 16:07Speaker 4: aging infrastructures, things of that nature. And for better or
- 16:11Speaker 4: for worse, more and more parents are choosing other ways
- 16:16Speaker 4: other than traditional public school like you and I, you know,
- 16:20Speaker 4: went to more and more people for one reason, another
- 16:22Speaker 4: choosing that being homeschooling, private schools, charter schools, you know, hope, scholarship,
- 16:26Speaker 4: whatever the case may be. As a board member, how
- 16:30Speaker 4: do board members and school staffs navigate through all that,
- 16:33Speaker 4: because that's a lot.
- 16:34Speaker 8: It's difficult. You know, when we lose in Roma, we
- 16:37Speaker 8: have to cut staff and we lose funding. But we
- 16:41Speaker 8: feel like, I mean, you know, we're always going to
- 16:43Speaker 8: advocate for public school and I think parents should have
- 16:46Speaker 8: a choice. They're the parent they know best for their child.
- 16:50Speaker 8: But I'm a big supporter because I grew up my
- 16:53Speaker 8: memories of my public schools and walking to Jay Robbins
- 16:56Speaker 8: and Woodrow, Wilson and Stonewall. I mean I just had
- 17:01Speaker 8: the best memories and going to sporting events and pep
- 17:05Speaker 8: rallies and everything I had the opportunity to have. That's
- 17:09Speaker 8: my job to help provide for children here in Kannall County,
- 17:12Speaker 8: the ones that their parents choose that for them. And
- 17:14Speaker 8: I feel like we have lost a lot of parents
- 17:16Speaker 8: that have left our community, you know. But yeah, a
- 17:20Speaker 8: lot have chosen to take the Hope money and do
- 17:23Speaker 8: other education.
- 17:25Speaker 4: Yeah, we're talking to Becky Jordan again from the Kadah
- 17:27Speaker 4: County Board of Education who is running for reelection. Yeah,
- 17:30Speaker 4: it has been a very difficult time. I mean navigating through,
- 17:34Speaker 4: as I said, through COVID and all these other things.
- 17:37Speaker 4: When you're out on the campaign trail, or even when
- 17:39Speaker 4: you're not campaigning, Becky, when you're just talking to people
- 17:42Speaker 4: at you know, Kroger, you're at church or wherever you
- 17:45Speaker 4: may be. What do you hear from parents, grandparents of
- 17:48Speaker 4: students in Kanawh County.
- 17:49Speaker 3: What do they tell you?
- 17:52Speaker 8: Well, it just depends what's going on at that time.
- 17:59Speaker 8: Years ago, you know, different parents wanted to transfer maybe
- 18:03Speaker 8: different schools and schools were more crowded, we couldn't do that.
- 18:10Speaker 8: You know, it's all, it all varies just what's going
- 18:14Speaker 8: on in the community.
- 18:17Speaker 11: I feel like overall, I mean, they know that their
- 18:21Speaker 11: staff is always approachable at their schools are even our superintendent,
- 18:26Speaker 11: you can get a hold of her any day.
- 18:28Speaker 8: So not everybody's always going to be happy, but I
- 18:31Speaker 8: feel like if they have an issue, they can get
- 18:34Speaker 8: answers and almost in the same day from our staff.
- 18:38Speaker 4: And you know, we talked about consolidation earlier, and let's
- 18:41Speaker 4: be honest here, nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants
- 18:44Speaker 4: to see their community because when in my opinion, I
- 18:49Speaker 4: saw it happen, you know, time and time again of
- 18:52Speaker 4: my time on Earth is when communities lose those schools,
- 18:56Speaker 4: a bit of the community goes away with it. But
- 18:58Speaker 4: sometimes it's a economics. Sometimes it just costs more to
- 19:02Speaker 4: keep those schools operating. And sometimes I think maybe those
- 19:06Speaker 4: outside the realm don't don't understand that that that you're
- 19:10Speaker 4: putting more a lot more money into it, right, and
- 19:14Speaker 4: that can be very.
- 19:14Speaker 8: We have a lot of we have a lot of
- 19:16Speaker 8: older schools and one thing I didn't I failed to
- 19:19Speaker 8: Menia something very proud of is you know, when I
- 19:22Speaker 8: first started on the school board, I think I can
- 19:25Speaker 8: think of one school that had security system to get
- 19:29Speaker 8: in and I remember at the time thinking it was
- 19:31Speaker 8: kind of city elementary, I think, and I remember thinking
- 19:33Speaker 8: why would they have that? And now we don't have
- 19:37Speaker 8: one school that doesn't have security system. I mean, it's
- 19:40Speaker 8: just changing of what's going on in our world too. Yeah,
- 19:43Speaker 8: And we spend a lot of money to keep our
- 19:45Speaker 8: schools safe. And we have the different officers that are
- 19:49Speaker 8: in plain clothing that are in schools every day, and
- 19:52Speaker 8: then we have other officers that are in their uniforms
- 19:55Speaker 8: that are in the schools. I mean, we do everything
- 19:57Speaker 8: to keep our children safe.
- 20:00Speaker 4: Have definitely changed, I mean I can I can remember,
- 20:03Speaker 4: you know, back in the day, you know, parents coming
- 20:05Speaker 4: to school or anybody just just walk right into school
- 20:08Speaker 4: and go. But it's different times, you know, you certainly
- 20:10Speaker 4: certainly can't and some of the schools that I have
- 20:12Speaker 4: traveled to back in a former job, and I used
- 20:14Speaker 4: to go into a lot of public schools around south
- 20:16Speaker 4: of West Virginia when I was I was working in
- 20:18Speaker 4: the Secretary of State's office and used to go to
- 20:19Speaker 4: voter registration drives, and I mean I could have gotten
- 20:22Speaker 4: into Fort Knox.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Easier than that. Couldn't these schools.
- 20:24Speaker 4: But but but it is, it's part of it, you know,
- 20:29Speaker 4: it's I mean, it's part of where we are right now.
- 20:33Speaker 4: So when you go out on the campaign trail, I
- 20:34Speaker 4: ask you what people say to you? What do you
- 20:36Speaker 4: say to them?
- 20:37Speaker 2: What? What?
- 20:37Speaker 3: What? What's your message to them?
- 20:40Speaker 8: Well that our goal was always to educate and to
- 20:44Speaker 8: help our children, prepare our children for the next step
- 20:47Speaker 8: in life. And that's our goal in kind of county schools.
- 20:50Speaker 8: And our goal right now is we want all of
- 20:52Speaker 8: our children to graduate with their cohorts and and the
- 20:58Speaker 8: staff know that we were with them. We don't want
- 21:02Speaker 8: any child left behind. We want them all to graduate
- 21:05Speaker 8: so they have many opportunities when they do.
- 21:08Speaker 4: And it is amazing to me, Becky, some of the
- 21:13Speaker 4: stories that we hear from our public schools and how
- 21:15Speaker 4: far our kids go from West Virginia, you know, I mean,
- 21:18Speaker 4: we all know that every boy and girl in those
- 21:20Speaker 4: classrooms have got potential in some way, and it's just
- 21:24Speaker 4: I guess up to the teachers and others to try
- 21:26Speaker 4: to bring that out to them and let's in your
- 21:29Speaker 4: twenty four years you've been on the school board. You
- 21:31Speaker 4: know the parenting situations have changed too. They're at home situation,
- 21:36Speaker 4: and I think sometimes forget that teachers in twenty twenty
- 21:40Speaker 4: six are asked to be so much more than what
- 21:43Speaker 4: they were thirty years ago.
- 21:44Speaker 3: Oh.
- 21:45Speaker 8: Absolutely, And that's another reason that I am a big
- 21:48Speaker 8: public school supporter, because I feel like adults need to
- 21:51Speaker 8: put their eyes on children. Are they being are they safe?
- 21:56Speaker 8: Are they being harmed? Are they being fed? Are they
- 21:59Speaker 8: getting medical attention? And that's something adults will know if
- 22:04Speaker 8: they're around their children, And that's so important.
- 22:07Speaker 4: Talking about you, Jordan again from the Knawk County Board
- 22:09Speaker 4: of Education, who's running for reelection to the board. The
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- 22:32Speaker 4: so if you are re elected to school board kind
- 22:34Speaker 4: of what's on your wish list? I know you're part
- 22:36Speaker 4: of a board, so you can't go in and just say, well,
- 22:38Speaker 4: I want to do this and this, but what are
- 22:39Speaker 4: some things you'd like to work on in the future
- 22:41Speaker 4: if re elected with who whomever you are elected with,
- 22:44Speaker 4: what's some things that need to be done in Knoncundy
- 22:46Speaker 4: schools in your opinion?
- 22:47Speaker 8: Sadly it's not a happy goal, but we will have
- 22:50Speaker 8: to consolidate some schools. We will be closing schools because
- 22:55Speaker 8: we have to balance our budget. But the goal will
- 22:59Speaker 8: always be to provide our kids with the best education.
- 23:03Speaker 8: You know, wherever we're putting them in schools, it's all
- 23:06Speaker 8: about getting them the best education, really and we will.
- 23:09Speaker 8: I will continue working with that and provide our staff
- 23:12Speaker 8: with the tools to do that.
- 23:15Speaker 4: You have a Facebook or website or anything like that
- 23:18Speaker 4: people can find.
- 23:19Speaker 9: I do not.
- 23:20Speaker 8: I do not, but anyone anyone can call me on myself.
- 23:23Speaker 8: Look on kind of County school website. My number is
- 23:26Speaker 8: posted on it and feel free to call me.
- 23:30Speaker 3: I don't mind at all, and trust me, people do
- 23:33Speaker 3: call you.
- 23:33Speaker 8: Sure, that's fine.
- 23:35Speaker 3: I've told this story before.
- 23:36Speaker 4: My cousin was the president of the school board in
- 23:40Speaker 4: another county, and he told me about the kind of
- 23:43Speaker 4: phone calls that you guys. I mean, you know, you
- 23:45Speaker 4: sign up for it, but sometimes it can be And
- 23:47Speaker 4: I had another friend who served on a board of
- 23:49Speaker 4: education in northern West Virginia. He said, everybody should have
- 23:51Speaker 4: to do it. It should be like jury duty. Everybody should
- 23:54Speaker 4: have to do it. So I do a thing with
- 23:56Speaker 4: every candidate. Beck you call the final thirty and I
- 23:58Speaker 4: just basically ask it. I don't time, so it's totally
- 24:00Speaker 4: your time. Why should someone vote to keep Becky Jordan
- 24:03Speaker 4: on the Kenaw Candy Bard of Education.
- 24:06Speaker 8: Because I do, I do listen, and I've been very
- 24:11Speaker 8: accessible to everyone in this community for the past twenty
- 24:14Speaker 8: four years, and we are going through some troubling times
- 24:17Speaker 8: with our enrollment and staffing, and with my institutional knowledge,
- 24:22Speaker 8: I feel that I can stay on the course for
- 24:26Speaker 8: a successful system. I appreciate your vote.
- 24:28Speaker 4: Becky Jordan for Canon Candy Board of Education for reelection.
- 24:31Speaker 4: We appreciate you being here. Thanks so long, Thank you
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- 27:31Speaker 4: Welcome back to the show, twenty five minutes in front
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- 28:01Speaker 4: twenty six National Cheer Association and National Dance Association College
- 28:06Speaker 4: National Champions over the weekend in Daytona. Indeed, congratulations. State
- 28:11Speaker 4: Treasurer Larry Pack is here morning, sir.
- 28:13Speaker 7: How you doing great? How are you beautiful morning?
- 28:15Speaker 4: It is a beautiful morning, so they tell me, I
- 28:17Speaker 4: wouldn't know. I'm trying to get a window, Larry, your
- 28:22Speaker 4: State treasure Can you get me a window?
- 28:23Speaker 7: So oh absolutely, I think we can do get this.
- 28:25Speaker 7: I mean just so I could just like see what's
- 28:27Speaker 7: out there. It is absolutely gorgeous. Look at it, gorgeous
- 28:30Speaker 7: spring morning. No class.
- 28:32Speaker 4: I want to talk for a moment about the Hope
- 28:33Speaker 4: scholarship applications. Now well over what twenty thousand?
- 28:37Speaker 3: Talk about them?
- 28:38Speaker 7: Yeah, we want to give an update, so that mostly
- 28:42Speaker 7: we give an update so the legislature, governor, everybody knows
- 28:44Speaker 7: how many people are signed up. So we got about
- 28:46Speaker 7: twenty thousand students signed up. It's about eight thousand new
- 28:49Speaker 7: students from last year. So it seems like we had
- 28:52Speaker 7: a lot of activity. Not every student from that was
- 28:56Speaker 7: Hope last year is also signed up, but twenty thousand total.
- 28:59Speaker 7: We've got two months left in sign ups. We're going
- 29:02Speaker 7: to go to June fifteenth. We're estimating somewhere into thirty
- 29:05Speaker 7: thousand range as far as parents and students that will
- 29:09Speaker 7: take advantage of the Hope Scholarships. So again we're trying
- 29:12Speaker 7: to build awareness, trying to make sure everybody knows that
- 29:13Speaker 7: you got too much to sign up. We try and
- 29:15Speaker 7: encourage people to sign up early so we don't have
- 29:17Speaker 7: a big rush toward towards the end. But you know,
- 29:20Speaker 7: when it comes to education choice, I don't think there's
- 29:22Speaker 7: anything other than maybe the face journey of your child
- 29:25Speaker 7: that the parents work on more and think about more
- 29:27Speaker 7: and pray about more. So a lot of parents are
- 29:29Speaker 7: taking advantage of this alternative for their children.
- 29:32Speaker 4: What's the biggest misconception about the Hope Scholarship to you, say, Traaserel,
- 29:36Speaker 4: I think the biggest misconception is that parents are not
- 29:39Speaker 4: thoughtfully making their choice.
- 29:42Speaker 7: I think people really get that wrong. I mean, again,
- 29:44Speaker 7: the majority, the majority of students will go to public schools. Right,
- 29:48Speaker 7: we go about two hundred thirty thousand into public schools,
- 29:51Speaker 7: So it makes sense we'll want to have some that
- 29:53Speaker 7: choose a different path. We know one size does not
- 29:56Speaker 7: fit all. I have six children, They're all different, they
- 29:59Speaker 7: all learn different, and that's really what parents are dealing with.
- 30:03Speaker 7: They're trying to get their children a good education, the
- 30:06Speaker 7: education that fits their child, which is different, and they
- 30:11Speaker 7: make really thoughtful decisions. And so what Hope Scholarship does
- 30:14Speaker 7: is give parents the option to make these decisions.
- 30:17Speaker 4: What would you say to those state treasurer who would
- 30:21Speaker 4: say it hurts public schools.
- 30:23Speaker 7: I really don't think so. On the margins, we really
- 30:25Speaker 7: believe that. We believe the very few students that currently
- 30:29Speaker 7: choose Hope Scholarship would have went public schools. We are
- 30:31Speaker 7: thinking of our current sixteen thousand for this school year,
- 30:34Speaker 7: we think maybe a couple of thousand would have went
- 30:36Speaker 7: to public schools. Otherwise, two thousand over fifty five counties
- 30:40Speaker 7: is not a lot of students, so we don't really
- 30:42Speaker 7: think that's the big driver. Most of our students that
- 30:45Speaker 7: are taking advantage of Hope Scholarship, we believe would have
- 30:48Speaker 7: went Hope Scholarship anyway, I excuse me, would have went
- 30:50Speaker 7: private school, would have went to homeschool anyway. So that's
- 30:54Speaker 7: what we're seeing so for and I think it's what
- 30:55Speaker 7: we're seeing seeing nationwide. But it is an alternative for
- 30:59Speaker 7: parents who think that their particular public school doesn't fit
- 31:02Speaker 7: their child's needs. It is interesting that you said that
- 31:04Speaker 7: about how every kid's different. I know a person who
- 31:08Speaker 7: has five kids and they were Of those five kids,
- 31:10Speaker 7: I think like two went to public school, one was homeschooled,
- 31:13Speaker 7: one went to private school. So I guess you know,
- 31:15Speaker 7: parents know their kids, as you said, parents know their kids.
- 31:18Speaker 7: And there's some there's some children you can put in
- 31:19Speaker 7: any setting, they're going to be successful. There's other children
- 31:22Speaker 7: that need to be and like I have one of
- 31:24Speaker 7: my one of my sons, he needed to be in
- 31:26Speaker 7: a smaller system. They just he worked, weren't worth much
- 31:28Speaker 7: better for him. But again, parents are thoughtfully making these decisions. Uh,
- 31:32Speaker 7: this legislation, this this program gives them an opportunity for
- 31:36Speaker 7: choice and again in basically the money can follow the parent.
- 31:40Speaker 7: So for all as the students who we think it's
- 31:41Speaker 7: a really good program, but we do not think it
- 31:44Speaker 7: is really creating a lot of the issues that the
- 31:47Speaker 7: public school system is and the public school system absolutely
- 31:49Speaker 7: is has a lot of issues. You know what a
- 31:51Speaker 7: high mark back number of years we had six hundred
- 31:54Speaker 7: thousand students over six hundred thousand students in public schools.
- 31:57Speaker 7: We're down about two thirty and we still have a
- 32:00Speaker 7: lot of the same infrastructure. So it's really difficult for
- 32:03Speaker 7: the public school systems to ract, particularly since we have
- 32:06Speaker 7: this very regimented system about how they're supposed to do
- 32:09Speaker 7: what they're supposed to do. And so I'm hoping that
- 32:11Speaker 7: we really get some focus on public schools. Our Board
- 32:15Speaker 7: of Educations, our superintendents, our teachers need help. They need
- 32:19Speaker 7: us from a big picture to really come down and
- 32:21Speaker 7: try to help them. And we need to make some decisions.
- 32:23Speaker 7: How many schools do we need to close, how we're
- 32:26Speaker 7: going to change it, change the funding port deal. Do
- 32:29Speaker 7: we want to pay teachers adequately or do we want
- 32:31Speaker 7: to pay teachers fifty percent we'll be in fifty percent
- 32:34Speaker 7: which we are now, or fiftieth place as we are now.
- 32:36Speaker 7: So I think we've got some big issues with public
- 32:38Speaker 7: school and I don't know other you know, public schools roads.
- 32:41Speaker 7: I'm not sure which is one and which is two
- 32:43Speaker 7: when it comes to state government, right, But they're definitely one.
- 32:46Speaker 1: And too.
- 32:48Speaker 4: When it comes to public We're talking to State Treasurer
- 32:51Speaker 4: Larry Pack when it comes to public schools, and I
- 32:53Speaker 4: wouldn't say, since you threw it out their roads, we'll
- 32:55Speaker 4: put them together. You think the legislature has done enough
- 32:57Speaker 4: in your opinion, state government and the legislature.
- 33:00Speaker 7: Well, I think in uh, first of all, go I'll
- 33:02Speaker 7: go go with the With roads, I think we've really
- 33:05Speaker 7: lost a lot of momentum the last couple of years
- 33:07Speaker 7: on roads. You know, think that the legislature has added
- 33:11Speaker 7: money to the budgets the last couple of years, uh,
- 33:13Speaker 7: money to the governor's budget for roads. But I travel
- 33:17Speaker 7: with Rest Virginia all the time. You know West Virginia's
- 33:19Speaker 7: we live on two lane roads. We don't live on
- 33:20Speaker 7: four lane roads. And our two lane roads need a
- 33:23Speaker 7: lot of help and they need a lot of attention.
- 33:24Speaker 7: So the government, the legislature restored some of the money
- 33:27Speaker 7: that the governor cut out last year to the to
- 33:30Speaker 7: the to the road fund, but we need to do more.
- 33:32Speaker 7: I do think we're kind of going the wrong direction there.
- 33:35Speaker 7: And then with schools, we really we just haven't faced
- 33:39Speaker 7: the issue that our school systems are struggling, and they're
- 33:43Speaker 7: struggling because of the loss of students with basically the
- 33:45Speaker 7: same overhead. We're also struggling that you know, liked for
- 33:49Speaker 7: the last couple of years on teacher salaries, we've given
- 33:51Speaker 7: them a three percent raise, one and a half percent
- 33:53Speaker 7: raise the last two years. Inflation's just crushing this right, crushing.
- 33:58Speaker 7: Inflation has probably been seven eight percent. So we're paying
- 34:01Speaker 7: our teachers less than we were. We're still in fiftieth place.
- 34:04Speaker 7: So we're saying we're having trouble retaining teachers. We're having
- 34:07Speaker 7: trouble attacked tracting teachers, and it's because we're not paying enough.
- 34:10Speaker 7: You know, if you if you go to Western Attack
- 34:12Speaker 7: for four years, I'm a golden bear. You come out
- 34:15Speaker 7: in your starting salary about forty two thousand dollars. You
- 34:18Speaker 7: can go to Target without going for your education and
- 34:21Speaker 7: get the same.
- 34:22Speaker 3: We need to do better.
- 34:23Speaker 4: Talking to again with State Treasurer Larry Pack, I want
- 34:25Speaker 4: to talk pot for a moment, as in the medical
- 34:28Speaker 4: marijuana fund.
- 34:29Speaker 3: So now correct me if I'm wrong in any of this.
- 34:31Speaker 3: So the governor.
- 34:33Speaker 4: Vetoed Hbill fifty seventy four, basically changing the distributions in
- 34:39Speaker 4: the medical cannabis funding. So now the money goes out,
- 34:41Speaker 4: fifty five percent of the revenue goes to the Bureau
- 34:44Speaker 4: of Public Health. The rest of fund funds to fight
- 34:47Speaker 4: substance abuse, some for grants, uff law enforcement training, di
- 34:49Speaker 4: version programs.
- 34:50Speaker 3: Et cetera. So break all this down and explain what
- 34:54Speaker 3: it means.
- 34:54Speaker 7: Okay, So a couple of things that were happening during
- 34:57Speaker 7: this session. I think the first thing was happening was
- 35:00Speaker 7: we became aware I think last summer I became aware
- 35:02Speaker 7: of last summer, maybe maybe even earlier last summer, that
- 35:05Speaker 7: the money that was in the medical Marijuana Fund had
- 35:09Speaker 7: been frozen since the inception of the program back in
- 35:12Speaker 7: twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen, and it built up, and
- 35:15Speaker 7: so there's about thirty million dollars. And the reason it
- 35:18Speaker 7: was frozen is that when it was initially put in place,
- 35:22Speaker 7: the federal government took a really hard line on money
- 35:25Speaker 7: that came from the selling marijuana, even medical marijuana, So
- 35:29Speaker 7: we could not from the state standpoint, the two previous
- 35:31Speaker 7: treasurers couldn't figure out how to put the money into
- 35:35Speaker 7: the bank account so it could be spent. So it
- 35:36Speaker 7: was setting in a credit union. So we spent about
- 35:39Speaker 7: six months work through all that that got the money
- 35:41Speaker 7: freed up, and that happened about the time the legislature
- 35:43Speaker 7: was out of session that we finally got the money
- 35:45Speaker 7: freed up where it's now in the state's bank account
- 35:47Speaker 7: that can be accessed and go for progress. The legislature
- 35:52Speaker 7: what they were working on the entire session is they
- 35:55Speaker 7: basically went back and revisited the allocations that were set
- 35:58Speaker 7: forth back in the twenty sixteen t twenty seventeen and
- 36:01Speaker 7: probably the first or second year Governor Justice administration, and
- 36:04Speaker 7: they thought that it needed to be changed. So what
- 36:07Speaker 7: the legislature wanted to do in the bill was they
- 36:11Speaker 7: wanted a portion of the money just to go into
- 36:13Speaker 7: general fund and they wanted the other portion to go
- 36:15Speaker 7: through But basically some studies and some research the original
- 36:19Speaker 7: bill said again about half of it goes to public health,
- 36:22Speaker 7: half of it goes to some other things. So the
- 36:25Speaker 7: governor basically didn't like the new allocation. His veto message
- 36:31Speaker 7: kind of was a little confusion to me. It sounded
- 36:32Speaker 7: like he wanted more money for tax cuts, and really,
- 36:35Speaker 7: if he had let it go through, we'd had more
- 36:37Speaker 7: money in general fund.
- 36:37Speaker 3: So just basically we just changed.
- 36:39Speaker 7: We basically went back to the original allocation that was
- 36:42Speaker 7: in place in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, the legislature at
- 36:45Speaker 7: that time that they chose. So we're going back to that.
- 36:48Speaker 7: Half of it basically goes to the public health and
- 36:50Speaker 7: the other parts go to other directions, but none of
- 36:53Speaker 7: it will going to general fund.
- 36:54Speaker 4: Now, talk again with State Treasurer Larry Pack all right,
- 36:57Speaker 4: so I want to talk some politics.
- 36:59Speaker 3: You good to talk a little policy.
- 37:00Speaker 7: Sure, this is a season that four or four weeks
- 37:03Speaker 7: from today.
- 37:03Speaker 4: I don't know whether you know this or not, but
- 37:05Speaker 4: there's there's an election coming. Yes, there really should be
- 37:07Speaker 4: more signs. There should be more has been traveling this week.
- 37:10Speaker 4: I've been watching seeing a lot of signs in the
- 37:12Speaker 4: last couple of weeks. So the governor UH and the
- 37:16Speaker 4: first Lady Secretary have been making endorsements out of the
- 37:19Speaker 4: May twelfth primary, endorsing some Republicans over others.
- 37:24Speaker 3: Your your thoughts on.
- 37:25Speaker 7: That, Well, it's it's the first time that in my
- 37:28Speaker 7: lifetime that that this has ever happened. And I've watched
- 37:32Speaker 7: and participate in a lot of elections over over over
- 37:35Speaker 7: my lifetime. So we've never seen a governor come out front,
- 37:39Speaker 7: UH and involve himself in in the primaries in a
- 37:43Speaker 7: very very forceful way and also raised you know, one
- 37:47Speaker 7: hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to UH
- 37:50Speaker 7: to beat some people and the election some people. So
- 37:53Speaker 7: this is really new territory UH for for West Virginia.
- 37:58Speaker 7: And it's created a lot of dissension.
- 38:00Speaker 3: I think.
- 38:00Speaker 7: I think we had a lot of dissension anyway the
- 38:03Speaker 7: last couple of years, and we've seen that in the
- 38:05Speaker 7: legislature from the lack of progress in the legislature, and
- 38:09Speaker 7: this is definitely going to it has tuned it up.
- 38:13Speaker 7: So there'll be millions of dollars spent in this election
- 38:16Speaker 7: at a lot of hard feelings I think are going
- 38:18Speaker 7: to be created. I don't think there's anything that's going
- 38:20Speaker 7: to happen four weeks in the day that's going to
- 38:22Speaker 7: change the trajectory of West Virginia that's going to help
- 38:26Speaker 7: West Vinia move forward. If anything, I think it's going
- 38:29Speaker 7: to harden feelings and I think it's going to be
- 38:32Speaker 7: more and more difficult to get things done going forward.
- 38:35Speaker 4: I said this on talk line when they invited me
- 38:37Speaker 4: on yesterday, Treasurer. I said, Look, nobody's naive enough to
- 38:41Speaker 4: think that in the past that a governor, no matter
- 38:43Speaker 4: who they were or what their party was, didn't have
- 38:46Speaker 4: in their mind who they wanted elected to certain seats.
- 38:50Speaker 4: I mean, and they may have made a phone call,
- 38:52Speaker 4: they may have gotten together for a cocktail or whatever
- 38:57Speaker 4: and said, hey, you need to support something. But I
- 38:58Speaker 4: don't know that we've again about said that's right or wrong.
- 39:00Speaker 4: I'm just not I'm like you, I don't know what
- 39:02Speaker 4: I've seen it as overt as what it is now. Well,
- 39:04Speaker 4: not only the governor but also the first lady out,
- 39:08Speaker 4: you know, basically saying don't vote for this guy, I
- 39:11Speaker 4: vote for this guy instead.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 39:13Speaker 7: No, I think it's exactly right there. So you saw
- 39:14Speaker 7: a little sneaking around and so forth. I think the
- 39:16Speaker 7: other thing is that for many years, and particularly when
- 39:18Speaker 7: the Democrat Party had the supermajorities, you basically had the
- 39:21Speaker 7: labor faction and the business faction. Right, this is a
- 39:24Speaker 7: little different in that if you if you look at
- 39:26Speaker 7: the at the at the slate, if you will, uh,
- 39:29Speaker 7: that's that's been proffered by the governor. They're basically those
- 39:34Speaker 7: those candidates, to me, they they they cover the entire
- 39:37Speaker 7: spectrum of a Republican or anything body you could call Republicans,
- 39:41Speaker 7: So they don't really fit in a box. And so
- 39:44Speaker 7: some of them are are what we'd almost call very
- 39:47Speaker 7: liberal Republicans, good people, but very liberal Republicans to the
- 39:50Speaker 7: most conservative conservative that you could think of. And so
- 39:54Speaker 7: so it's really kind of interesting how it's kind of
- 39:56Speaker 7: coming out. But I do think at the end of
- 39:57Speaker 7: the day, we're going to get back into next session
- 40:00Speaker 7: going to be very similar to this session. I'm not
- 40:01Speaker 7: running your bill because you worked against me, you're not
- 40:05Speaker 7: my friend, or the governor doesn't want this bill run
- 40:07Speaker 7: because he said something about that. So so just creates
- 40:10Speaker 7: a dissension. And we know that, you know, a house
- 40:12Speaker 7: divided will not stand right. So we're not going to
- 40:16Speaker 7: move forward to work on the things that West Virginians
- 40:18Speaker 7: care about. I think we're going to continue to pay
- 40:20Speaker 7: the play these petty politics. We're going to continue to
- 40:23Speaker 7: have a lot of infighting, and West Virginia is not
- 40:25Speaker 7: going to move forward.
- 40:27Speaker 4: And you know, you travel a lot, as you said,
- 40:30Speaker 4: and you're on your way out of here, head heading
- 40:32Speaker 4: somewhere else. What do you hear from people when you're
- 40:34Speaker 4: out there just about anything. I mean when you are
- 40:37Speaker 4: going to a town hall, or you're going to a
- 40:40Speaker 4: school or a city hall or whatever it is you do.
- 40:42Speaker 7: What do you hear from the people in West Virginia?
- 40:44Speaker 7: Therey West Virginians are the best people in the world.
- 40:48Speaker 7: But the end of the day, when you talk to him,
- 40:51Speaker 7: you ask him what's important to you. It always starts
- 40:54Speaker 7: with jobs. Jobs for my family, A better job from
- 40:57Speaker 7: me so I can I can raise my family better
- 40:59Speaker 7: and I can do some things for my family. Jobs
- 41:02Speaker 7: for my children, jobs for my grandchildren. You know, we've
- 41:05Speaker 7: got small town problems, We've got rural American problems, right,
- 41:09Speaker 7: but all these problems can be mitigated if they have jobs.
- 41:11Speaker 7: So people want jobs and want opportunity and want those
- 41:14Speaker 7: jobs today, you know, and we went backwards in jobs
- 41:16Speaker 7: the last the last couple of years. They also want
- 41:18Speaker 7: good roads, and no one's out there bragging on our roads. Right,
- 41:23Speaker 7: We're not at the place we were maybe ten years.
- 41:26Speaker 4: You get the people to do front end alignments, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 41:29Speaker 4: I think they're little sell tires.
- 41:30Speaker 7: Yeah, but they want roads, they want clean water, and
- 41:33Speaker 7: so it's just if they don't understand why. You know,
- 41:36Speaker 7: for example, the Water Development Authority has about eighty million
- 41:38Speaker 7: dollars sitting in the account for the last eighteen months,
- 41:41Speaker 7: and we've got areas in West Virginia that need clean water,
- 41:43Speaker 7: and we just don't seem to have a sense of urgency.
- 41:46Speaker 7: So what I get is, what are you doing to
- 41:48Speaker 7: help me? What are you doing to help me today?
- 41:49Speaker 7: You know, the cost of living is really hurting our citizens.
- 41:53Speaker 7: We're our per AFFID incomes fifty one fifty two thousand dollars.
- 41:57Speaker 7: Try to raise a family of four on that, with
- 42:00Speaker 7: the cost of electricity, the cost of medical care, it's
- 42:04Speaker 7: really really tough. And so just jobs, fix the roads,
- 42:08Speaker 7: good schools, pair teachers. That's the things that people care about.
- 42:13Speaker 7: And other than that, leave me alone. That's what westernini.
- 42:17Speaker 7: You leave me alone, more local control, less top down
- 42:20Speaker 7: stuff from state Earth.
- 42:21Speaker 4: I think that would have looked good better on the
- 42:22Speaker 4: flag than mountaineers are always free.
- 42:24Speaker 3: You just put this, Just leave me, leave me alone,
- 42:26Speaker 3: absolutely all right.
- 42:28Speaker 4: I want to ask you something. Okay, yes, you're always good,
- 42:30Speaker 4: great about answering any question. I asked a lot of
- 42:33Speaker 4: speculation that come twenty twenty eight, we might see Larry
- 42:37Speaker 4: PAX's named about it for Governor of West Virginia.
- 42:39Speaker 3: How likely is that?
- 42:41Speaker 7: I answered that question yesterday, So here's our answer. Yesterday
- 42:43Speaker 7: I answered the same day. Five years ago. I was
- 42:46Speaker 7: in the healthcare business, and then if you asked me
- 42:48Speaker 7: then what my plan was. My plan was to be
- 42:50Speaker 7: in that business until I retired because I love that business.
- 42:55Speaker 7: Five years hence I found myself as treasurer. So my
- 42:58Speaker 7: last five year plan didn't work out very well. I
- 43:01Speaker 7: saw'll leave the next five year plan at the Lord
- 43:03Speaker 7: and he'll decide where we're going to do and what
- 43:05Speaker 7: we're going to do. But we're going to continue to
- 43:07Speaker 7: work hard for West Virginias. We're going to continue to
- 43:09Speaker 7: travel West Virginia and try to understand better what West
- 43:12Speaker 7: engine want and bring that back to Charleston. But again,
- 43:15Speaker 7: as West Virginians, you know when you're in last place,
- 43:18Speaker 7: you've got to work together to get out a last
- 43:20Speaker 7: place or get out of forty ninth place. This infighting
- 43:23Speaker 7: is not helping West Virginians.
- 43:25Speaker 4: So Joseer, Larry Pack always a pleasure to have in
- 43:27Speaker 4: the show. I appreciate you being here, Thanks sir, and
- 43:29Speaker 4: it's ten minutes away from ten.
- 43:30Speaker 3: We'll take a break.
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- 46:42Speaker 4: says a tex Texas. The governor is using his super
- 46:45Speaker 4: pack with out of state money to elect his hand
- 46:47Speaker 4: picked candidates. Pat Morrissey tried to make West Virginia into
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- 46:56Speaker 4: Texas Governor, like Pac is the best. I hope he's
- 46:58Speaker 4: our next governor. He answered it very well when I
- 47:03Speaker 4: ask him.
- 47:03Speaker 3: About twenty twenty eight.
- 47:05Speaker 4: And I think a lot of things in my opinion,
- 47:07Speaker 4: and this is not me speaking for Larry Pack. This
- 47:09Speaker 4: is I think a lot of things depend on on
- 47:11Speaker 4: on other factors between now and then, and it's been
- 47:14Speaker 4: a meteoric rise for Larry Pack if you think about it.
- 47:18Speaker 4: He said, at this time five years ago he was
- 47:20Speaker 4: in the healthcare field, and now you know he goes
- 47:21Speaker 4: on to be chief of staff for the for then
- 47:23Speaker 4: Governor Justice and now he's state treasurers. So see what
- 47:29Speaker 4: happens is going to be interesting. One percent later Today
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- 47:34Speaker 4: today shall be back with us tomorrow on the show. Today,
- 47:37Speaker 4: our old friend Rob Cornelius, Hurricane Rob. I'm going to
- 47:40Speaker 4: stop by the show today, Jef Jenkins, We'll have the news.
- 47:42Speaker 3: TJ.
- 47:42Speaker 4: Meadows will stick around with us. Dave Weekly with commentary.
- 47:45Speaker 4: There is some concern in Greenbrier County as we get
- 47:49Speaker 4: ready for the primary election. That redistricting there happened a
- 47:52Speaker 4: few years ago, and some are concerned that people aren't
- 47:55Speaker 4: going to know where to vote. Now, there's a meeting
- 47:57Speaker 4: being scheduled tonight to talk about it. The Greenbrier County
- 48:00Speaker 4: Clerk's office is involved, the ACLU Secretary of State's office,
- 48:03Speaker 4: so on and so forth. We're going to get into
- 48:05Speaker 4: that story a little bit, plus more fallout from the
- 48:09Speaker 4: Trump Jesus meme, and of course Open Line West Virginia
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- 48:22Speaker 4: May primary. We'll talk to Lisa Odie, who's hoping you
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- 49:04Speaker 4: And again, as I said, not everybody can have everybody
- 49:07Speaker 4: says I want the day early voting begins. It doesn't
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- 49:13Speaker 4: on at once. So I've got a Board of Education
- 49:15Speaker 4: candidate on tomorrow. I've got a Board of Education candidate
- 49:19Speaker 4: coming up on Friday's show, So get with me just
- 49:23Speaker 4: as soon as you can. And I will not be
- 49:26Speaker 4: on the show Thursday, the local show. I will be
- 49:28Speaker 4: doing Metro News midday, but I'm not here Thursday. Dale
- 49:31Speaker 4: Cooper will be subbing for me on Thursday as I
- 49:33Speaker 4: am about to get shot full of radiation, so I
- 49:36Speaker 4: may come back Thursday afternoon glowing.
- 49:39Speaker 3: We shall see.
- 49:40Speaker 4: Sad story Jeff Jenkins posted wv Metro News dot com
- 49:44Speaker 4: is show the story actually broke while I was on
- 49:46Speaker 4: the show yesterday.
- 49:48Speaker 3: The murder at Walmart and Nitro.
- 49:50Speaker 4: According to Nitro Police in Connaw County Sheriff's Office, Eric
- 49:54Speaker 4: Richmond is alleged to a shot and killed a worker
- 49:56Speaker 4: at the Walmart, Misty Williams, age forty, of Dunbar. She
- 50:00Speaker 4: went to a car to take a break from work
- 50:02Speaker 4: and never came back, and her fellow workers got worried
- 50:04Speaker 4: about it went out to check on her. Apparently, Eric
- 50:06Speaker 4: Richmond and Misty Williams did have kids together. Investigation continues again.
- 50:10Speaker 4: Jeff writes about it this morning wv Metronews dot com.
- 50:15Speaker 4: Now to quickly the Trump posting on truth Social.
- 50:19Speaker 3: You know all about it?
- 50:20Speaker 4: Trump sharing a picture on Truth's Social of him as
- 50:23Speaker 4: the Great Healer outraged people, saying some people said it
- 50:26Speaker 4: wasn't real. It was so apparently it was created months
- 50:29Speaker 4: before by someone else. But for those saying the President
- 50:33Speaker 4: didn't post it, he did. He admitted it that he
- 50:35Speaker 4: shared it, saying saying he saw it as him being
- 50:40Speaker 4: a doctor. Is it blasphemy? Many people saw it that way? Oh,
- 50:44Speaker 4: there's not so much. If indeed, as the President said,
- 50:47Speaker 4: he thought it showed him as a doctor, I think
- 50:49Speaker 4: that leads to bigger questions about his cognitive abilities. Someone
- 50:54Speaker 4: said it was just Trump trolling the pope. My question is,
- 50:59Speaker 4: why is the president of the United States trolling anyone?
- 51:02Speaker 4: And do you really want to pick a fight with
- 51:04Speaker 4: the pope, especially one from Chicago. I don't know that's
- 51:08Speaker 4: such a good idea.
- 51:09Speaker 3: TJ.
- 51:10Speaker 13: Meadows, No man, terrible idea. Okay, terrible idea to post that.
- 51:14Speaker 13: He had an opportunity yesterday to apologize, and this is
- 51:17Speaker 13: add's injury to insult.
- 51:18Speaker 3: He didn't do that. He said, yes, he posted it.
- 51:20Speaker 3: He didn't apologize for it.
- 51:22Speaker 4: So to all the people that said he didn't post that,
- 51:24Speaker 4: he absolutely did. He said it, said himself, he said it.
- 51:27Speaker 3: He didn't make it. I also don't buy that that's
- 51:29Speaker 3: a doctor. Look.
- 51:30Speaker 13: Doctors wear white coats, they wear scrubs, they have stethoscopes
- 51:33Speaker 13: around their neck. They use modern medicine and modern technology
- 51:36Speaker 13: to heal people. They don't lay hands on people as
- 51:39Speaker 13: that picture depicted. They don't have balls of light coming
- 51:43Speaker 13: from their hand. You don't interpret that as being a doctor.
- 51:46Speaker 13: And if you do you're either not reasonable or to
- 51:48Speaker 13: your point, you have some other kind of issue. So, yes,
- 51:51Speaker 13: yesterday was unfortunate. I do believe it is mocking God
- 51:55Speaker 13: as a believer, and you don't do that. I mean,
- 51:57Speaker 13: if the scriptures are very clear, you do not do that.
- 52:00Speaker 13: Trump had a chance to apologize, and to me, that's
- 52:03Speaker 13: even more disappointing.
- 52:04Speaker 3: He didn't do it.
- 52:05Speaker 13: So I think he lost a lot of support among
- 52:08Speaker 13: a lot of West Virginians yesterday who have backed him.
- 52:11Speaker 3: I do.
- 52:11Speaker 13: I'm telling you go go look at my comment in
- 52:13Speaker 13: my post on Facebook.
- 52:14Speaker 3: Okay, look how much you lost? All Right, He's lost
- 52:16Speaker 3: a lot.
- 52:16Speaker 4: But I will say, goes scrolling as I did last night,
- 52:19Speaker 4: and those are that are for Trump are still for him.
- 52:21Speaker 13: And I saw very good for him, very few and
- 52:23Speaker 13: they And that's fine. It's a personal decision, but I'm
- 52:26Speaker 13: not down with it.
- 52:27Speaker 4: All right, coming up on the show to Mark and
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