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06/22/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Patrick Morrisey, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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we're gonna get to Attorney General gubernatorial candidate Patrick Morrissey coming up in just
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a matter of moments, Fossil. A little bit later on the show,
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we're gonna be joined for the second consecutive week by the State Democratic Party Chair
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Mike Pushkin. You know, I had Pushkin on the show one day last
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week, and then on Tuesday I had Tony Hodge on the show. Tony,
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of course, is the co chair of the State Republican Party. I'm
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not exactly sure what it was, but there was something that Tony Hotts said
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that Mike Pushkin didn't take too kindly too. So Pushkin sent me at Tacks
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and said, hey, I'd like to come on the show to refuse as
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I said, Hey, man, equal opportunity, All are welcome. So
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five zero zero Aid. Want to welcome into the show Attorney General and goognatorial
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camdet Patrick Morrissey, Good morning, Sarah, how are you. Good morning,
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Dave. It's good to be with you today. A lot going on
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and I appreciate everything you're doing. Thank you for being here. We'll get
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to the campaign a little bit later on, but I want to talk about
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We want to talk about drugs, as your office frequently does and quite frankly
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served with good results. You've joined another multi state coalition, this time twenty
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three states I think it was, are involved in a letter urging the US
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Senate to immediately pass something called the Halt Fetnel Act. Now what exactly other
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is that, other than what the name implies breaking down for US? Yeah,
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absolutely so. I think many people are listening. They know that fetnel
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has been highly destructive here in West Virginia, in particular, because you have
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the base ingredients. They frequently come from China, they get shipped to the
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Mexican drug cartels. They package the products together, and they come in either
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through the ports of entry or sometimes between the ports of entry, and West
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Virginia pays a very heavy price for it. Number one in the nation in
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terms of fetnyl overdose depths, and obviously between the ages of eighteen and forty
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six, this has been devastating our country, the number one cause of death
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for our young people. That's got to stop. So that's part of the
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reason why I've been signing on and generating a lot of ideas to push back
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against the fetnyl menace that's killing on slaughtering our citizens. So we called for
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fetnyl to be listed as a weapon of mass destruction because we think that would
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provide additional tools to help block fentanyl. And I also called recently on the
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US Senate to pass that hall Feentnel Act. And what that does. That
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legislation is going to permanently schedule all the current and future fetnel analogs, kind
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of the derivatives Schedule one drugs, which really lets people know this is a
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serious issue. There's no real medical use for all those analogs. And the
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House of Representatives path that bill with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, and I think
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our coalition of Attorneys general is hoping the Senate's going to do the same because
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we have to give our law enforcement those additional tools to fight back against fanel.
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There needs to be more prosecutions. I think we have good US attorneys
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here in West Virginia, but they need a lot more help from the federal
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government and they need those tools. This is just going to be another one
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of them. And as you said, this is a bipartisan effort, is
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it right? Yeah? It is. I mean this has been a big
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bipartisan effort, a path in the House, in a big bipartisan vote.
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That's certainly important, and I think when it comes to the drug fight,
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they should be. You know, I want to commend all of the delegates
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and the senators and the counties and cities. They had just supported the big
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structure we created to house all the settlement funds. You know, Dave,
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what was the last time you heard something that has the potential would be so
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controversial, supported by every county, by every city, by every delegate,
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every senator, and the governor. Yeah. Well, the structure to deal
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with the settlement funds and attack that drug problem holistically was done that way,
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and I'm excited about it. We need to be aggressive in dealing with us
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to ensure another generation doesn't fall prey to senseless staff. Talking to Attorney General
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and gubernatorial candidate Patrick Morrissey here on five eighty five. It's nine to fourteen.
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I want to switch here and talk about charter schools, sir. Earlier
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this month, the State Supreme Court, and we actually talked about this a
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few weeks back on the show. The State Supreme Court decided to say no
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to a preliminary injunction that was issued by a circuit court, as I understand
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it here in Kanawha County against the law which gave the Professional Charter School Board
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the power to authorize charter schools all over the state. Now this gets a
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little in the weeds here, ag as I understand, and correct me if
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I'm wrong. You were saying that state leaders, meaning the Senate President,
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Speaker, the House, and so on and so forth, we're not the
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proper parties to be named in this preliminary injunction. Now, I'm not a
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lawyer, sir, you are, so explain what all that means. Absolutely
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So. This is actually a good example of some of the nonsense that we
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see when people file suits. I think it wastes taxpayer money. But for
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those listening and thinking about filing suits in the future, it's always important to
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think through separation of powers. We have the judicial branch, we have the
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executive branch, we have the legislative branch. Once something leaves the legislative branch,
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traditionally and it goes to the executive branch, and maybe it's the governor
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that's in charge of it in any given day, could be the attorney general,
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it could be the treasurer, or it could be the charter school board.
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Once that happens, you can't just name the legislators who might have voted
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for a bill, because in most circumstances they're irrelevant to the process. That's
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the legislative branch, that's not the executive branch. And so here we had
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a situation where people were naming the wrong parties, and we thought it was
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a really basic case because it really was about separation of powers. And the
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Supreme Court, of course, agreed that you don't sue these legislative leaders when
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you're dealing with issues involving the executive branch, and just because people think that
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it's unconstitutional, you actually have to get your pleadings right. And so we're
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hopeful that this is another example and when people start thinking about their frivolous cases,
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that they could say, oh, we have to do it right because
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we waste so much time defending stuff that, quite frankly, is so basic.
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And I know our record is really good on this, but you know,
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there seems to be a mountain of money on the other side that,
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regardless of the merits of it, these becauys just want to file suits and
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slow everything down. Just take the time, do it the right way.
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If it's a meritorious claim, then of course the court's going to hear it,
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they're going to make a decision. But the legislative branch is different to
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the executive branch, indeed, and it becomes a big waste of taxpayer of
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money, you know, along the way as well, Speaking of the courts,
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Um, you've been busy in the courts since the last time you're on
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so or another case I was reading about and you had your office joining with
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other attorneys general in several other states in a case and it had to do
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with meetings being held about gender identity, he said with a question mark.
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So, so, basically, as I understand this, what happened in another
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state and you signed on to this. There were some meetings, there were
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some educational effici that had meetings with a student, a public school student,
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as I understand it, talking about options that this student could undergo as it
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comes to gender identity, and their parents were shut out of these. Is
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that correct? Yeah, that is correct. And by the way, let
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me go back one just on the other case for just a moment. The
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other point, and I didn't mention earlier, but it's really important is that
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the governor, because these guys focused and went after the governor in that case,
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and he doesn't control the actions of that board, that charter school board,
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and so that was a big part of the question as well about the
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governor's authority to call an election and what the governor's power was. So I
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wanted to picture I mention that. But going back to this case, Look,
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we look all the time when parents' rights are being trampled, and we
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have learned that there was allegedly secret meetings that these schools were being that were
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being held about the gender identity of the kids. Now, I'm a big
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believer that if you're a child, that your parents need to be able to
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know what's going on, and the schools shouldn't just be able to have meetings
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in secret and talk about things without informing the parents. I mean, after
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all, we live in America, and individual students are eligible to become I
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mean, they become Americans and they start to begin to gain their their rights
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as they get older and older. But when they're so young that, you
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know, the parents need to play a prominent role of that, and I
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think that's critical. And when I hear of situations like that, and this
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is something we obviously join related to Florida, I want to step up and
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make sure that parents' rights are really emphasized. And that's certainly what we're doing.
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To me, it's clear that the parents possess what a child lacks,
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since some of the maturity and experience and the capacity for judgment. And I
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think that it's important that across the country parents' rights continue to be asserted.
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It's nine to nineteen. I want to switch gears, sir, and now
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let's talking. Let's wrap it up, but talking about the campaign. Of
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course, you are a candidate for governor, and I'm sure what the fourth
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of July holiday coming up you and the other candidates we outed about. What
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are your plans are going into the summer, and what are you telling perspective
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voters who may be on the fence about which Republican to support come next spring.
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And because let's face it, there there are a lot of you out
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there. So what's what's the campaign look like ahead, you know, going
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into the summer. Now that the summer is here and fourth of July,
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and what are you saying to people? Absolutely well, first of all,
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Dave, we're going to be out in force, and I think that's beginning
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July. First, we're going to be down in Logan County and we have
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some events, and then we'll be out heading out to the eastern Panhand on
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the second of July, and then we have some events I think in Mason.
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Then we'll be in Alderson, and then we'll be up I believe in
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Ripley and some of the other places on the fourth. So it's going to
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be an incredibly hectic time and that's good and I'm excited to get out and
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have a chance to have good conversations with people. And what I tell folks
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is that this race is very straightforward. There may be some good people,
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there may be some good positions they're serving, but there's no other candidate who
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is the proven conservative with elector of results. You can look at everyone and
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they're going to articulate conservative positions. But there's no other candidate who's worked on
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every big issue and one and move the needles substantially protecting our jobs, not
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just the fights against the EPA where they're trying to shut down all of our
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energy jobs, but the big waters of the United States rule where they're trying
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to label your backyard ditch and you're a femeral stream, I'll regulate it like
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the Potomac, the Ohio, the Mississippi, kind of nonsensical things. We
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stood up, we fight, We protected jobs, educational attainment, we stood
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up, and we've been able to prevail and win defending charter schools, defending
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the Hope scholarship and school choice. When it comes to our values, conservative,
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the proven conservative for our Second Amendment rights. So all of these issues
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and the ones that really will matter to move the state forward, to address
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the workforce participation issues, drive educational attainment, build up the infrastructure we need.
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We've worked on. We've been wildly successful at Not one other candidate can
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say that they just don't have the same kind of experience and they're not a
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proven conservative. They may be nice folks, and I'm not going to make
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this personal because I don't think that's what this campaign's all about. But experience
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and being a proven conservative with a track record matters. That's what our state
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needs right now. That's why I say that we're getting so much support and
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we're going to just keep going and asking everyone. If you have questions,
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you can go to our website at Patrick Morrissey dot com. Learn a little
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bit more about our campaign and you'll have a chance to see people. Probably
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next year there'll be some debates. You're gonna see people live and in person,
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and I think the differences are going to be clear for folks that have
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worked in the arena and one big for our state versus other people that you
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know may be fine, but this is just not a position that they're ready
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to fill right now. Toorney General Patrick Morrissey, is always a pleasure to
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have you on the show, Sir. We'll talk again soon. Best to
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luck to you, and I said we'll talk soon. Thanks a lot,
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twenty election irregularities for lack of standing, the idiot Morrissey whined about dismissals on
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Party Chairing Delica Mike Pushkin, this here, good morning, How are you
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morning. I was just listening to your texts that in response to your first
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guest, and man, he I mean, he brings in some more negative
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texts tonight. He's a popular man. He does, he does. He
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elicits response as we say, so, all right, so you're an old
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guy, as m I a little. I'm a little older than you.
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What is about what is it about our age? I'll let the last statement
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go. What is it about our age that makes you wake up as I
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did this morning for no good reason, not being able to move my neck.
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I don't do anything physical and I wake up this morning and I cannot
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move my neck. Well that might be I think you have the key rate
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there because you don't do anything physical. Yeah, maybe if you moved your
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neck more often, it wouldn't stepping up on you. Ah, maybe you
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need a better pillow. Maybe you should call Mike Lindell. But my pillow
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deck, I'm good. I don't need to call Mike Lindell. Seriously,
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before we get into politics, I want to get your feelings on the whole
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bob hugging situation, and I want to get your take on it for a
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couple of reasons. Mike. Number one, you're a w VU guy.
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Number Two, I know you're a huge sports guy, and although you do
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have a tendency to share for sometimes the wrong professional teams. And Third and
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I hope and I feel confident I'm not getting too personal here, but but
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you've been very upfront about some of your battles with addictions and problems in the
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past, something that I respect you for more than you will ever know.
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Um. All that having been said, coach Huggins arrested in Pittsburgh for duy
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a Friday night. We talked about it all week, copies, talked about
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it. He resigned over the weekend. Your thoughts on the whole situation.
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Oh, well, that's not what I expected to talk about. Well,
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we're going on a sports show. But I can handle that. I am
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a huge sports lifelong I mean, I was a WFEW fan for birth.
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I was born into you know, the two WFU uh alums as my parents
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and um uh so yeah, and I'm I'm a big and I'm a fan
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of Huggins. I mean he's been He's brought a lot of a lot of
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winning to the program, and he's really put our program on the map.
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And and like you said, yeah, I don't, I don't, you
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know, shout it from the rooftops. I don't talk about it publicly too
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much. But yeah, I'm awesome, but I'm not ashamed of it.
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I'm actually proud of it. I am a person in long term recovery.
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Um so, and this is and and that is what this issue is about.
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And I can just say that, you know, left untreated, Uh,
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the disease doesn't just get better and it's progressed. It doesn't stay the
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same either. It progresses, it gets worse. And so when I see
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you know, the comments of like, well what was he thinking? You
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know, that was poor judgment, It's like, well, if you're exercising
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poor judgment, you probably don't have a problem. I mean it's people who
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suffered from addiction and alcoholism. Uh, well, we exercise poor judgment when
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when we're in when we're in it, when we're in active addiction, and
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um, we don't wait around for the most opportune times to really screw up.
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So yeah, coming out on you know what a month after he was
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almost lost his job for doing an interview that he was definitely not prepared for.
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Who knows what he was doing, you know, prior to the interview,
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and if you listen to the interview, it was just ridiculous at a
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really poor attempt at at you know, locker room humor, and he and
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he and he ticked off a lot of people. He offended a lot of
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people, and he was given another chance, and then he screwed up again.
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And uh, I think he his blood alcohol level was like nearly three
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times the legal limit. Yeah, uh so, yeah, he needs to
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Uh. I hope that he finds the help that he needs. But I
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also think that you know, it's not a The disease doesn't just affect one
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aspect of your life, so it would have to. I mean, it
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affect It affects everything, and not just your judgment, not just but um,
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but put this up. I think that you know, the program is
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going to be okay. I hope that he's okay. I hope he finds
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the help that he needs, and I hope we find it a great coach
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who can devote their entire attention, uh to building a building on what he's
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already built on and and on a willing winning basketball program. But you know
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what, they're more important things in life than basketball. Yeah, I would,
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I would agree, And when I had Jim workmanon will move on.
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But from while he Whippy's earlier this week, you know, he talked about
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the people that immediately said, Okay, who's the next basketball And that's what
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sports fans do, that's what we do. You know, we're all about
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the next game. But this is this is not a sports story. This
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there's there's a whole lot more to it than that one other thing. And
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I mean I can definitely, I definitely have empathy for him, Uh definitely
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do. But I hope and I think a lot of people do because he's
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beloved in this state. You know, I hope we can show that same
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empathy to other folks who suffer from the disease of alcoholism, disease of addiction,
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who don't happen to you know, make four million dollars. Yeah,
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I agree that don't happen to just win basketball games, but a lot you
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know, we need to show that that type of empathy to you know,
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I have Tony hod John, vice chair of the State Republican Party, on
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Tuesday's show. It was Tuesday, Tuesday, yesterday. I get a text
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from you. I think it was early yesterday when you said I'd like to
24:53
be able, or maybe it was TUESDAYSPIDS when it was going on. Okay,
24:56
well it was later in the day, so but but but you text
24:59
me it regard listen. You said, can I go on? And I
25:02
can? Can I respond to to Tony Hodge What exactly is the problem here,
25:06
Michael, what's the problem. Yeah, I don't mean I don't have
25:08
a problem. I just like coming on the show. First of all,
25:11
I think what it was. I think on that day I was listening live
25:14
and actually I was out running on the boulevard. For some reason, I
25:18
decided to listen to your show. Maybe it's because of the feelings that it
25:22
gives me when I hear such misinformation and and uh, you know, just
25:26
mischaracteration, mischaracterization said, it's it's easy. I mean, it's it's it's
25:33
a nice way of saying lies. But maybe when I hear that, you
25:37
know, it brings something out in me that makes me want to train harder.
25:40
Maybe that's why I listened to you when I was when I was running.
25:42
Now he brought up, like, you know, something on on Twitter
25:45
that, uh, you know, I responded to him just I don't know
25:49
what. He kind of attributed some sort of motive to it. Now I'll
25:52
tell you what the motive was. Tony seems to be very obsessed lately with
25:57
tweeting um about people who have a different sexual orientation or gender identity than he
26:06
does. Seems to be really fixated on it, like an unhealthy fixation.
26:11
I'm not sure you know what's what that's about. That's and that's fine,
26:15
that's for him to to figure out on his own. But there was one
26:18
tweet in particular that I responded to because I felt it was really dangerous rhetoric.
26:23
And it's not a new tactic, but what he was doing, he
26:26
was attributing this like false power to a group that doesn't have that kind of
26:30
power, a group that has historically been marginalized, and he attributed them with
26:37
this power. And then in the second part of the tweet say they're trying
26:40
to take your rights from you, they're trying to silence you, and that's
26:44
Um. We've seen that type of rhetoric before in history, and it's dangerous
26:48
when you falsely attribute power to a group that has never had it and then
26:55
make them the scapegoat. It's dangerous. And I feel that if you have
26:59
a position of power, you're the you know, the second in charge over
27:03
at the West Virginia GOP. Um, be more responsible with your words.
27:07
I mean, that's really dangerous rhetoric. But I mean, as the as
27:14
the co head of the of the particular party, would you not isn't that
27:18
his job is to do? That is to is to state the other side
27:22
or what the party or what the party belief is. Isn't that what his
27:26
job is? Well, I don't know if it's really I mean he's bringing
27:30
up conservative policy or talking about legislation. It was. It was, um,
27:36
what I would consider dangerous rhetoric. Like I said, when you say
27:40
this group over here who has been kicked around for years, Okay, yeah,
27:45
I mean back when we were growing up, growing up and still now
27:48
people were getting beat up for that. Okay, they have been marginalized,
27:52
there is no question about that. And then to say, hey, they're
27:56
actually the ones in charge and they're taking your rights from you, that's as
28:00
rhetoric. So I felt that I would exercise my free speech and respond to
28:03
them. Okay, I did, and you did and I did. So
28:07
are you done? Now? Can you leave? Now? I'm kidding,
28:08
I'm kidding, all right. So that having been said, the governor got
28:12
an extension for his Senate campaign financial documentation. Brad's got a story posted on
28:18
the online the campaign. Now Mike has until August twenty fourth to file a
28:22
report that's following this ninety day extension. And we've reported on this and it's
28:26
on the front page of the paper for this morning. An order came down
28:29
tuesday from US District Court for the Western District of Virginia that coal companies run
28:33
by the Justice family have to pay more than four hundred thousand dollars off.
28:37
Now, when you hear these type stories, and they've dominated the news,
28:41
really Mike ever since Governor Justice became Governor Justice, and even before that,
28:45
about his issues with finances be at his personal or family business. Now possibly
28:51
campaign as someone who sits on the other side of the aisle. Your thoughts
28:56
when you hear all these things, Well, I think that we need to
29:00
be transparent. There's a reason why we fill out uh these um uh financial
29:04
disclosure forms to the Ethics Commission, and then everybody puts your name on the
29:11
ballot, and anybody in public office, it needs to be very public about
29:15
first of all, where their income comes from, and who they owe money
29:18
to, who they haven't paid, uh and things of that nature, because
29:25
just to show that there isn't even a uh you know, uh a conflict
29:33
of interest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, Well, there was
29:36
a big fundraiser last night for the governor in DC. I understand, I'm
29:38
taking it you weren't invited. Um well, no, I wasn't. In
29:44
they had one in my district. I wasn't invited to that. Well imagine
29:47
that. Yeah, well I wasn't either. If that means anything to you,
29:51
uh, well, they know you work in radio. Is that that?
29:52
Well, I'm I'm a member of the media now. But which,
29:56
by the way, I hate that. I mean they're probably going after some
30:00
people that can you know, poor to pay the ten thousand dollars match and
30:03
I haven't have no money, but I wasn't. I was a part of
30:07
the situation. So there was an editorial I think it was this morning in
30:11
the gazette about Alex Mooney, you know, is I guess making some noise
30:15
about the governor and all of his problems. And they kind of talked about
30:18
this kind of the pot calling the kettle black hair with Mooney and his ethics
30:22
problems, calling out the governor with his problems. I agree. I think
30:26
both of the candidates, well there's more than two, but the two top
30:30
candidates that are running for Senate on the Republican side are very flawed candidates,
30:36
and both of them have shown that they have. They both had their issues.
30:38
Whether it's you know, Mooney that is under investigation for misuse of his
30:44
campaign funds, is find you know, campaign funds money that's meant to be
30:48
used for his campaign and being used for Chick fil A or family vacations,
30:55
uh and their you know, ongoing investigation of that, or the fact that,
30:59
um, you know, Governor Justice doesn't like to pay his debts,
31:00
whether it's vendors that his companies working with, whether it's uh, you know,
31:04
paying off fines that they have accrued over the years, or whether it's
31:08
paying his taxes and also doesn't really like showing up for work. And every
31:15
single aspect of state government is a reflection of that, whether it's our our
31:21
jails and our prisons that have been at crisis level for now for a year
31:26
and nothing's being done about it, nothing at all where a dangerous but it's
31:30
dangerous for the people who work there, it's dangerous for the people who are
31:33
who are incarcerated there, and it's dangerous for everybody because it's when when you
31:38
have that sort of situation, it sometimes influences the sentencing of sometimes dangerous criminals
31:44
who maybe aren't getting incarcerated because there's no place to put them. It's a
31:48
dangerous situation. Or you know, or the DHHR that the legislature has had
31:52
to split up into three departments because it was such a mess, which which
31:56
affects everything. When you have over seven thousand children in the foster care system,
32:01
Uh, we had we don't have enough teachers in our classrooms. Um,
32:06
you know, we've heard I've been getting uh you know, letters from
32:09
engineers who are leaving the Department of Highways in droves because of the of the
32:15
toxic environment over there, it's like, not a single aspect of our state
32:19
government is working the way it should be right now. It's because the boss
32:22
doesn't show up for work. So yeah, I'd say we have two very
32:24
flawed candidates on the Republican side for that US Senate race. Go back to
32:29
twenty sixteen for a moment when Jim Justice was a Democrat. You were not
32:34
in the Justice camp? Is that right? In twenty sixteen. I mean,
32:37
I know you supported him because he was the nominee, but initially were
32:39
you in the gym Justice camp? I did. I did not vote for
32:43
him in the primary. And that's okay, Okay, well that's fine,
32:45
and that's and that's kind of I mean, you know, I will support
32:47
our party's nominee, but he was not my choice in the prim But I
32:52
mean, here's the thing I don't I don't get about Governor Justice. Okay,
32:55
A lot of people and I don't mean this to be I'm just gonna
32:59
state what it is. Is. I mean, despite all these things that
33:01
you said, he had a he had a history or at least a perceived
33:05
history of not paying bills. And before well before twenty sixteen, he gets
33:09
elected, he you know, is still one of the most popular top five
33:15
whatever poll you look at, top five, top eight governors in the entire
33:19
country to this point. Why do you think that people look at this Mike,
33:22
he's the He's definitely the front runner. Uh. He's blowing Alex Mooney
33:27
away in the polls right now in the primary. Why do you think that
33:30
is why you just don't care? The poll that you're referring to, I
33:34
think was had an issue. It was they were polling general election vote.
33:38
It was a poll among likely general election voters. From what I understand,
33:42
it wasn't a poll of just Republican primary voters. Okay, I think the
33:45
very race is much place closer than people realize, and I would not count
33:50
Alex Mooney out. Is that an endorsement for Alex Mooney by you? It
33:52
is far from it. Far from it. Endorishment of reality. I think
33:58
it's going to be a much tougher I don't think people really, I don't
34:01
think so. I don't think it will see. I mean I think and
34:05
with the type of money that's going to be maybe there's hasn't been enough of
34:07
a light Uh shine up, Oh, there's going to be on some of
34:10
the front I don't know that people I don't think, I mean, they
34:14
knew all this in twenty sixteen, they knew that moving forward through his term
34:19
as governor. I don't think people care. I really don't. I mean,
34:22
and then this week we see the thing with the baby Doll Baby dog
34:27
sweepstakes. CBS News comes out through the report. Now that's kind of been
34:30
settled. It was kind of blown out of proportion. How is it blown
34:32
out of how is it settled? Well, what happened was was and the
34:36
governor talked about this. What happened was was CBS News put together this story.
34:39
Their story apparently was more based on the inflated prices of the vehicles that
34:45
were given out as opposed to what the governor did. There's no wrongdoing,
34:49
they're not. I mean, well I think that. I mean, that's
34:51
what the investigations about. They're paying too much for these vehicles. Well,
34:54
who are they paying and how do they choose which dealerships are getting more than
35:00
and the market value of these vehicles. So people, and that's public funds
35:04
and it wasn't meant for a sweepstake. So that was COVID relief money that
35:07
was from the first batch of money the Cares Act that came down uh to
35:12
you know, help businesses that were struggling due to COVID, not just car
35:15
dealers, but all businesses that were struggling due to COVID. It was about
35:19
helping people. It was about helping our state. And the governor didn't do
35:23
anything with it for way too long, and they decide he's going to spend
35:27
it by having this baby dog sweepstake. Oh look, we all love the
35:30
dog. I love dogs. Okay, every Friday I tune in listened about
35:35
the dogs that are the adopt me please pay. Yeah, I think it's
35:37
great, and I'm all for dogs. You know what, adopt, don't
35:40
shop. However, however, the baby dogs, how did they choose the
35:46
car dealers who were getting overpaid for these vehicles? And then you know,
35:52
when when somebody wins one of the vehicles, they're gonna have to pay the
35:57
inflated taxes on it because of what it put them in a bad situation.
36:00
But I think that's what they're looking at, is why, you know,
36:04
how are these how are these car dealers chosen? And why was the state
36:08
using public funds, taxpayer money to give money to car dealers that were way
36:14
higher than the value of the At the end of the day, it had
36:15
very little impact on the vaccine rates anyway, if you remember, that's what
36:20
it was supposed to be about. And there's no there's no way to quantify
36:23
whether it actually helped or not. Hey, we're only I mean if if
36:25
you're just barely you know, if you just look at he's maybe it was
36:29
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Party Chair and Elega Mike Pushkin is here Texas. For Pushkin, I will
39:44
turn sixty six next year and have been a lifelong Democrat. Ask Pushkin to
39:47
talk me out of changing my registration to Republican. Well, I appreciate the
39:52
texture, and I appreciate your lifetime of being a Democrat. And I'm saying
39:58
just to say to stick with the party for the same reason you've always been
40:02
a Democrat. We still stand for the same things. I mean, it's
40:05
about, uh, if you get sick, you should be able to see
40:07
a doctor. You know, you put in your hours of works, should
40:10
be able to make enough money to feed your family, and you should have
40:14
a reasonable expectation of being safe on the work site. We should have good
40:19
schools, great schools for that are free for all of our children. That's
40:22
the education is the great equalizer. You know. We've always been the party
40:25
that's cared about these things. We're the party that brought Medicaid, Medicare,
40:30
social Security, take care of people when they're when they're done working. We've
40:35
always been the party that's looked out you know, for the for the for
40:38
the for the working people. And I mean to sum it up, I
40:43
think it was I spent the last week, up part of last week up
40:45
in Minnesota for stuff with the Democratic Party, and that's the home of the
40:50
late Paul Wellstone. I think he said it best. You know, we
40:52
all do better when we all do better, and that really sums up with
40:57
with the core values of the Democratic Party. Well, basically, we're the
41:01
party that gives a crap, So stick with us, man. I appreciate
41:05
you, and I know it's been rough lately, but we're going to keep
41:08
fighting and things have a way of turning around and the truth always comes out.
41:13
Text says Dave, You're absolutely right. Republicans and the majority of voters
41:16
in West Virginia, as you said, just don't care and that ladies and
41:20
gentlemen is the problem in the states. Tex says, the trans community is
41:24
the most politically and socially protected class there is. And no, that's not
41:29
just dangerous rhetoric. What is dangerous? How about this? Virginia parents can
41:32
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42:02
sounds like somebody uh is watching a lot of a different news for you know,
42:08
last night, I decided to flip around from different news channels and just
42:12
to see what different different news channels we're talking about. And it's like night
42:15
and day. It's like we live in two completely different realities and and you
42:19
know what, I know, neither of them are really the reality. But
42:22
the beginning of that statement saying that the trans community is the most protected uh
42:27
class, well that's just uh, that's just not true. They're they're not
42:30
a protected class in West Virginia by law. They're uh, you know,
42:35
the LGBTQ are not a protected class legally in West Virginia. Uh. Yet
42:39
they've often been the victims of violence and the victims of hate crimes, and
42:45
we don't have hate crime legislation that protects them West Virginia. So no,
42:49
they're the least protected class. You could be protected. You're protected, you
42:53
know, race, religion, political parties, um, those are all protected
42:58
classes LGBTQ. He is not a protected class in West Virginia, Texas.
43:01
The voters of West Virginia should care more about who they elect, but you're
43:05
correct, they don't seem to care. What a shame, Texas. The
43:08
only reason Jim Justice is deadbeat is because he's running for Senate. It is
43:12
a political witch hunt of biblical proportions. I think he was a deadbeat long
43:16
before he ever even desided to run for governor. This is not new Texas.
43:22
Justice is not liked around the states. He's corrupt. He needs everything
43:24
he owns taken away an auction to pay off creditors. Texas says, sorry,
43:30
Mikey, the Democratic Party has been hijacked my radicals. Well, I'm
43:35
the chair in West Virginia. Far from a radical, I think. I
43:37
mean, I'll tell you when I see some of the legislation, some of
43:42
the rhetoric that comes from the right right now of people who are actually intellected
43:45
office, sounds pretty radical to me. When they're up there fighting against an
43:52
investment. I mean, there were a bunch of them who are fighting against
43:54
investment that was coming, you know, because of the Inflation Reduction Act.
43:59
Let's not let's nothing, you know, make any bones about it, because
44:01
of the Inflation Reduction Act that has put historic investment in West Virginia in new
44:08
types of energy jobs. And they were fighting at tooth and nail, you
44:13
know, calling like the form energy. I think they referred to it as
44:15
woke batteries. A battery can't be woke or unwoke. Batteries aren't political.
44:21
A battery is that way to store energy. And you know what it was,
44:23
it was going into a facility that has been empty for years and to
44:28
provide jobs for people all over that part of the state. To me,
44:31
that's radical sitting there and fighting economic development because really because you're afraid it might
44:37
bring new people to the state who will realize you have no business being in
44:40
office in the first place. That's what they're really against it. It's it's
44:45
clear to see which side is radical. Texas people are profusely bleeding away for
44:50
the Democratic Party, especially since Pushkin became the party head. I don't think
44:53
that's that's a fair statement in my opinion. I think they may have been
44:57
leaving well before you ever got here. They're upset with the vice of wedge
45:00
issues as the Democratic Party coccority to a text. We're not the ones that
45:05
are bringing them up all the time. We're not going to bring it up.
45:08
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45:10
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45:15
perceived threats and issues that are just meant to divide people and get people anger
45:20
at each other and feel fearful of each other. And you know what,
45:23
Fear is a great motivator, and it's been used for years to get people,
45:28
in my opinion, to vote against their best interest. You know,
45:30
it doesn't work for Democrats. We can't do that. Fear doesn't drive people
45:35
to vote for a party that cares about working people. It doesn't drive you
45:39
to vote for a party that wants to protect your medicade, your Medicare,
45:43
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45:47
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45:52
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agree with mister Pushkin, the state GEOP has an unnatural fixation on the LGBTQ
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plus and women's productive issues. Yeah, you know, I you know,
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over the years, as I've campaigned, I try to get out too many
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as events as possible, make myself available to do not just voters, but
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to anybody in the district or outside the district even and you knocked on doors,
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and it's not an issue that really people are bringing up a lot.
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You know. They want jobs, they want good roads, they want they
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want to feel safe, they want good schools for their kids. That's the
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number one I don't hear about a lot of wedge issues when I'm out talking
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to people. I think that it's something that is gend up by the right
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because I said, fear is a great motivator. When you get people afraid
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of each other, angry at each other, sometimes it gets them to go
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against you know, just logic and reason and vote for things that don't really
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benefit them. Tex says they're not bringing them up. Question Mark, l
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ol. June is pride month, Mike is tone deaf. I mean it's
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there's all sorts of different months that honor different heritages and different groups. And
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I think that there's you know, that's fine. We should all be okay
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with that. It's just fine. Texas. Just remember every infrastructure and economic
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development property project rather currently occurring in West Virginia and for the next eight years
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is because of Democrats. Dark Brandon rises and lifts all into prosperity Texas.
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And you wonder why so many people, including myself, have left the Democratic
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Party and are leaving in droves. Look at how nasty, snide and rudely
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you talk about people you don't agree with and have the gall to lecture the
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rest of us, and how tolerant you are, how accepting you are,
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Mike. I think of myself a fairly accepted I like Tony and we went
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out and had tacos together. I just disagree with them, and I think
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he's got paid. You know, I think we went Dutch. Okay,
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all right, pretty sure. I think that we all Texas day. The
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reason we still have a Democratic party here. Going to say this is because
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of people like Mike Pushkin's one of only a handful of people and politics who
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actually speaks to truth to power, regardless of the consequences. Very refreshing and
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an overly conservative states text says Dems are bringing jobs to the state, not
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false promises like China's eighty billion dollars investment, two cracker plants, Ammo plants,
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etc. Etc. Well, used to be a democratic state, Mikes's
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texture Obviously, the people in our states see right through. What has happened
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to the party. As an ex Democrat, I'm disgusted. And what has
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happened to the party nationwide, well nationwide with the two years that you hadn't
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has been brought up several times just in the past couple of Texters. Actually,
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when the first two years of Biden's presidency, when the Democrats had control
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of the House and the Senate, look what happened? Look what they were
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able to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Bill that Trump tried to
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pass every other week, all sorts of historic legislation that has put tons of
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investment in West Virginia. And while Republicans are quick to go grab a golden
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shovel or a big pair of scissors to show up at a ribbon cutting,
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they had absolutely nothing to do with that. Not a single one unvoted for
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it. Final text says I love Mike Pushkin and support him and the things
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he works for for West Virginia people. He's a kind, fair, amanded
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man. I hope to shake his hands someday. Thank you for what you
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do. Ten seconds, well, thank you. I'll be leaving the studio
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in a second. You can shake hands, all right. We gotta go.
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Thank you so much, Mike, and also Patrick Morrisey as well.
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It's our Friday funhouse show tomorrow, loaded up tomorrow, we gotta go,
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hoppy and the news coming up. I'll see you tomorrow until they have fun.
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I love somebody. Why didn't you go see a six point five?
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Then tarletons one four point five cross lanes. I UVRC Media Station. We
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are proud to live here too,