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01/29/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Terrell Ellis, John Corbett · The Dave Allen Show

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All right, so lots to get to this morning hope everybody had a great
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weekend. Saturday at midnight was the filing deadline for those wanting to run for
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office in the May primary. So names you may have heard of have thrown
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their proverbial hats in the ring. One of those is Don Blankenship, and
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we're gonna go over some of those names with you a little bit later on.
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Also, the state Republican Party did have their winter meeting in Charleston over
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the weekend, and starting in twenty twenty six, the Republican primary will be
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closed, meaning if you're an independence you'll only be able to get You'll only
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be able to vote. You can't ask for a Republican ballot or you know
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if you That's just the way it's going to be. And a lot of
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controversy with that. I'm gonna talk about that coming up a little bit later
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on. Plus, there was a big event happening this weekend and Hurricane Hurricane.
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I live there and I just pronounced it hurricane. I can't believe that
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hurricane to benefit the Special Olympics. John Corbett, No, not that John
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Corbett. It's a different John Corbett, not the actor. I was going
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to join us to talk about that as well, plus sure phone calls the
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zero zero. What to welcome into the show? Taryl Ellis who is the
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executive director, the president, the CEO, whatever title you want to give
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her. She's a boss at Advantage Valley. Taryl, good morning, Welcome
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to the show. Good morning, Thanks for having me, Thank you for
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being here. You folks at Advantage Valley just completed a housing study for the
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valley. Now it's been well publicized the fact there it was a public event
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held last week in one of my hangout, Sleepy Hollow there in Tayese Valley.
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What was the purpose of the study? Well, thanks for having me,
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Dave, and I think if we could all sit back and think about
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what we know about housing in our region. And let me be clear,
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the region is the Charleston and Huntington metro areas in some of the surrounding counties.
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I think we all understand if you've tried to go out and buy a
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house lately or run an apartment, that you're having a hard time, and
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whatever inventory is on the market might might not suit your needs. So the
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purpose of the study, we intuitively know that we have an issue with housing.
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And by the way, housing is really a national housing issue. It's
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not just for the Advantage Valley region or West Virginia. Nationally, we have
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a housing crunch. So what we wanted to do is better understand how our
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housing market is evolving, and particularly in the light of all the great announcements
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that we've heard in the region in the past couple of years, New Core
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Berkshire, Hathaway Energy, a stamp, Toyota's adding jobs. I mean,
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the list goes on, and we're seeing tremendous investment in the region, creating
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new jobs. And if we think that we have an issue with housing now,
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we want to know how are those investments going to impact our housing market
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in the future. So that was kind of the primary reason, so that
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we could better articulate that. So overall, and we'll get specifically just a
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bit of an overall what did the study find. Well, it found some
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things that I think I think we all knew, but it also pointed out
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some really other interesting facts. Before we get into the findings, I want
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to make sure that people understand that this wasn't like some consultant sitting in an
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office somewhere in Columbus, Ohio who just concocted a bunch of numbers and then
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gave them to us. We had over twelve hundred people respond either through interviews
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or surveys. We made a real point of talking to employers about the housing
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issue as well, and nearly thirty percent of employers in our region indicated that
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they had difficulty attracting or retaining employees due to housing issues. Their employees could
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not get housing close to the place of employment, and almost seventy percent of
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employers said that they were likely or somewhat likely to employ more people in the
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next three years if additional housing was built. I think you know everybody.
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The response the residents and commuters who responded to the survey indicated that there was
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a high need for certain types of housing. And we talk to developers as
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well about what's keeping you from not building more housing, and it is a
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lack of land and infrastructure and the cost of materials right now that's keeping them
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from building more housing. So what are some of the key things that we
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found out while we all knew that there were new jobs coming in, the
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number of new jobs and how that multiplies in our economy was quite eye opening.
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So we look at the fact that after talking to employers, assessing all
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the data that's out there about new jobs coming in, there's over five thousand
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new jobs that are projected to come into the region. Those are direct jobs,
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most of them in the manufacturing sector, but those all have a spin
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off effect. So if I'm an employee a new job at new Core or
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one of these other manufacturers, for every job that comes in, there's a
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multiplier effect for people. You know, I need to go by gas,
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I need to get my haircut, I need to go shopped at the grocery
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store. So we looked at how many indirect jobs are going to be created
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by that. So there were nearly fifteen thousand new indirect jobs coming in.
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So now you're looking at approximately twenty thousand new direct and indirect jobs coming into
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the region and this is projected over the next five or six years. So
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what does that mean in terms of households? Right our demographics, we were
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on a trajectory of losing households. With this information, with those new jobs
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coming in. We now are looking at increasing the number of households in the
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region to the tune of about thirteen thousand, which is pretty significant. That
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reverses a decline that we've seen for a long time. I mean that's and
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again go back ten fifteen years ago, and you've been in economic development in
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this sort of realm for some time, and I've studied it. I'm certainly
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not an expert, but I mean to think about this time in twenty fourteen
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or two thousand four or whenever, that we'd be talking about adding thirteen thousand
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households. I mean, that's that's incredible, right. So we were looking
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at, you know, by about twenty twenty eight, being down to about
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you know, two hundred thousand households in the region, and with this new
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edition of households, we're now back up to about two hundred and thirteen thousand
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by about twenty twenty eight. So we're delighted about that. But what that
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points out is, you know, if we have a housing issue now now
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we're adding new households, so what is the total magnitude of that issue before
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we get to that though, one thing that we discovered through this process is
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not just that we need to add new rental units, new single family homes,
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but we also looked at affordability in our region and how many units are
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available right now to people in certain income categories. And it was very eye
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opening. If you look at the top thirty five occupations in our region,
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and many of them are service industry, forty nine percent, almost fifty percent
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of the people in those top occupy top thirty five occupations cannot afford to pay
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whatever fair market value is for a two bedroom apartment, and seventy nine percent
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cannot afford to buy a home and what the average home rate sales price is
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in their county. So and on top of that, not only is the
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price point not in their range, but they can't even find anything. For
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the entire region, we had a one percent vacancy rate for rental units we
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surveyed, Like the consultant literally got on the phone and called over ten thousand
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apartment building or ten thousand units, you know, covered apartment buildings with ten
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thousand units. One percent, one hundred were vacant in the entire region.
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How the healthy market, you should have between four and six percent vacancy so
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people can move around. Sure, we don't have. In Kannaw County,
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zero point six percent were vacant. So we've got an issue with accessibility and
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affordability and on the in the existing trends for for sale housing, and people
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have said, well, what did interest rates do? I mean interest rates
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went up and shouldn't that have depressed the market so there should be more houses
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available? Well, yeah, in twenty twenty three there were fewer houses available
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on the market than twenty twenty two. And you would have thought that pricing
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would have gone down. It did not. Pricing rose continued to rise.
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So over a three year period from twenty twenty to twenty twenty three, we
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saw a sixteen percent increase in our pricing and it doesn't look like it's coming
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down. So and again, I know your role in this whole thing.
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And again we're talking with the Taryll Ellis of the Advantage Valley on this housing
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survey and the findings were released last week. So your role is to kind
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of bring all this down. And I know it's not to how to fix
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it, but I'm gonna ask the question, how do we fix it?
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How do we fix these problems? Well? Can I talk about one more
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things? So we go to how to fix it. Yeah, sure,
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because we've kind of talked about what's existing here already and now we're adding thirteen
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thousand more units. So what does that mean in terms of the number of
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more rental and for sale single family homes that we're going to need in this
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region over the next five to six years. For the entire region now we're
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talking ten counties, we're looking at needing an additional eleven thousand rental units over
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the course of the next five to six years, and for single family for
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sale housing, we need about twenty thousand more units. Now, let me
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be clear, that's to address the vacancy rate, the lack of vacancies,
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to create more of a healthy market. So it's to allow for everything from
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the lower end of the market to the higher end of the market in terms
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of creating more housing for people here and to accommodate the people coming in and
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in Canaw County because I know, you know, particularly Knawk County and Putnam
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County. Canaw we're going to need about twenty eight hundred more rental units and
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Putnam's going to need about thirteen hundred more, and in Kana we need about
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fifty three hundred more for sale housing and Putnam twenty seven hundred. So those
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are they sound like they're daunting numbers, but again we're breaking it down over
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five or six years. So your question is what are we going to do?
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And it's a very good question. It's a complicated issue. I think
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that the state has done a couple of They've created the Build West Virginia Act.
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That's created some incentives for developers. That's great, and we need to
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get our communities to engage with that and get designated, you know, as
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an area that they can execute on that program. I think one of the
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things we need to do is make the development community aware of the opportunity here.
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You know, West Virginia gets overlooked a lot in terms of development,
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and there's other places that people are going to develop housing right now. We
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need to make sure that developers both in the state, in our region and
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outside the state are aware of this opportunity. So we're going to be spending
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a lot of time talking to the development community about this. But I also
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think it's incumbent on us locally to start looking at our community and say where
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can we identify sites? Because you know, the first thing to turn a
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developer off is if they come into your community and say, well, I
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see that there's a great opportunity here, but where can I you know,
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where are the sites? And we're like, well, we're not really sure.
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Maybe over here, maybe we could create some infrastructure over here, and
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that'll be in a couple of years. We've got to get our acting.
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We don't have a couple of years. We don't have a couple of years.
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You're exactly right. So education and outreach to the local community and doing
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things to get our act together locally, as well as making sure the word
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gets out. I think, you know, the governor has a proposal to
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create a fifty million dollar incent a fun to incentivize more housing. I don't
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know much about the details of that, but I think anything that the public
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sector can do to help drive down that cost for development right now, I
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think we need that to jumpstart what we need in the area. And there
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were some articles I know yesterday Arrrell's. We started to wrap it up,
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I know in the I actually my mind still thinks the Sunday paper, but
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then the Saturday paper, that's the weekend paper, I guess for the zet
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mail. There was an article about some about some housing developers and things of
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that nature in there. I know where outsaid I live in Putnam County.
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I know there are units going up, but we we simply need more.
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We simply need more, and we did take that into account in our report,
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any projects that were already underway or already permitted. And there's a lot
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being talked about and that's great, so we just help hope that those come
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to fruition. Where can people learn more about this stuff? Because I know
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I'm kind of a geek about this. I can spend all show on this,
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But where could people learn more about this survey or about Advantage Valley as
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a movement in general. Well, we welcome you to come to our website.
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It's pretty simple, Advantage Valley dot com. If you're only interested in
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learning about housing, there's a housing tab. You can see the entire report.
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There's a great executive summary. And the other thing is that every county
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this is a ten county study, so every county has its own chapter.
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So if you're only interested in Connaugh County or Putnam County, you can download
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that as well and read that. All right, Cheryl, fascinating stuff.
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I appreciate you being here, Thanks lot. Cheryl ellis the president's CEO of
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Advantage Valley. I appreciate you being here hanging on, thanks a lot.
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Executive Committee made the decision on Saturday at their meeting here in Charleston to close
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the primary to independence, but it won't be to twenty twenty six. We're
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going to get into that a little bit later on as well. This Saturday,
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it's going to be a huge event at Hurricane City Park. It's a
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twenty twenty four polar plunge, or it's called freezing for a reason. Love
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that name. It's a benefit for Special Olympics. John CORBTT is here to
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talk about it. John, good morning, Welcome to the show. Good
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morning, Dave. How are you, sir? I'm fine, Thank you
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for being here. It's this Saturday, starts with registration at three point thirty
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at Hurricane City Park. It's going to be a huge event, John,
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talk about it. It truly is. Not only is it a huge event,
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it's also a fun and entertaining event. We have folks come up from
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throughout the area to come have a little fun jumping in the pool in the
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middle of winter and do a wonderful job raising funding for Special Epics West Virginia
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and thousands of Special Epics West Virginia athletes throughout the state. So it's going
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to be a great time as always, and like I say, an entertaining
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time. I'm looking to head to the extended forecast right now. My weather
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people always tell me, you know, you can't put that much into a
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four caca that far in advance, But it looks like it's not really going
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to be freezing, but it could be better. It's going to be about
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forty or forty one off for a high on Saturday. But it is at
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least going to be sunny, at least that's what it looks like right now.
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That's true. Mother nature always wins. That's one thing we have learned
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over the years. But you know, we're we're planning to set the pool
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up Friday and so it filled it up and let it sit overnight so that
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we can get the pool as cold as possible. We'd like to give everybody
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the full polar plunge experience. If you know what I'm so you're gonna add
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on too. It's like kind of like making fake snow at a ski resort.
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Is that right? That is absolutely right. We traditionally have a little
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ice form on the pool overnight and we make sure we build in some time
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to break that ice and get it out of the pool before folks start taking
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the plunge. But we promise it'll be nice and cold just for them.
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there's going to be a costume contest. What kind of costumes are you hoping
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from superheroes to the crew from Scooby Doo, etceter. But we also have
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some folks that get very creative and come up with their own costumes. We've
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had ice cubes, frozen bags of peas, doughnuts, and hot chocolate,
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homemade costumes, just whatever moves people as long as it's in good taste.
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We encourage them to come out and compete in the costume contest, and then
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most of them actually take the plunge in their costumes as well. So it's
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always a sight to behold when we see some of those costumes. Well,
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let's talk about exactly what goes on at the polar plunge. I know,
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everybody gets cold and everybody you know gets dunked in water, but exactly how
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does the whole thing work? Yeah, we set up a rather large pool
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there at Hurricane City Park with a help of volunteers and the Hurricane City staff
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and get that ready for everybody. It's four and a half feet deep.
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Folks can plunge two at a time, but there's only one exit ladder,
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so that's always entertaining to watch folks fight for the exit ladder as they try
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to get out of the pool. But they basically show up. They can
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plunge with a friend, a colleague, a coworker, or by themselves,
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but up to two of the time under the water and we count them down.
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And I have found that if folks don't actually jump off the ladders,
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the crowd will boo them, so there's a little warning in of vans.
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But it's a simple concept. Folks go out and raise money to support their
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participation in the polar plunge. They show up the day of registration starts at
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three point thirty and goes up until the plunge time at five. We get
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them in line, we get them in and out of the water. We
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have changing barns there that they can go change their clothes and get warm afterwards,
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and then we have an after party at fireside grill so it's it's a
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full evening. I want to mention the folks that at Fireside Grill, it's
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one of my favorite places, Rob and Judy and the entire folks. Anything
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going on in the community there in Putnam County, Man, they're all about
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it. They just so hats off to them. Yeah. Absolutely, we
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think that folks that have braved the cold water deserve to come join us for
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a couple hours afterwards and share their plunged ventures and eat and drink and have
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a good time. And when we recognize those folks who raise the most money
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and and have the best costumes at the after party as well. So always
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a lively evening. And you got some swag, I understand for the people
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that take the plunge, Is that right? Yeah, everybody that plunges and
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raises them in dollars gets the Polar Plunged T shirt. But we do have
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folks that like to get the hoodies and some other prizes. So the more
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they raise, the more they get, and the more we appreciate that and
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us all the proceeds benefit to Special Olympics. And I know we spent a
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lot of time talking about Special Olympics here on the show, John, but
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talk about your involvement with Special Olympics and how special it is. For lack
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of a better term, Yeah, we serve literally more than four thousand individuals
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in West Virginia that have intellectual disabilities, and some of them also have physical
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disabilities, and we give them opportunities for year round sports training and competition.
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I think we all know how enjoyable sports can be, and these individuals who
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have disabilities also enjoy and love the opportunity to play sports, and so we
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give them that throughout the year. And we actually have two of our six
24:37
state events are held right here in the area. Our Summer Games, which
24:42
are typically their first weekend in June where they'll come in and compete in track
24:45
and field and swimming and softball and bachie and tennis and some other sports.
24:51
And also our state bowling Championship is held here in the area in December.
24:55
So we make sure they have opportunities to play sports, show everybody what their
24:59
cap of accomplishing when given the chance, and we recognize them for their accomplishments
25:03
and send them home champions. How many people typically take the polar plunge,
25:08
Jean, We have typically over the years have between one hundred and one hundred
25:12
and fifty people actually plunge, and of course there's another two three four hundred
25:17
people in the audience cheering them on or who in an awing as they hit
25:22
the cold water. So it's a it's a pretty nice event for us.
25:25
And so for those people that maybe like myself or or maybe Ryan, my
25:30
producer, who really don't want to take the polar plunge but we'd like to
25:32
cheer people on, is there something for I mean, can we still contribute?
25:36
Because you can they still make donations? How does that work? Absolutely,
25:40
we welcome any donations and you might find somebody, you know, again
25:44
a friend of coworker, a family member who is willing to take the plunge
25:45
and you say, you know, here's some money for you. It's a
25:48
sports your participation. But even if that's not the case, you know,
25:52
donations can be made, and we have a website dedicated specifically to our polar
25:56
Plunge, which is a soowv dot org backslash Polar Dash Plunge, and they
26:04
can go there and there's a donate button and they can either say I'm going
26:07
to support an individual nor I'm just going to support the ben itself and so
26:12
again give us that website so we can make sure that everybody has it.
26:17
Yes, it's soowv dot org, backslash Polar Dash Plunge. And also know
26:25
you have a presence on social media. I went on your social media page
26:27
here on Facebook and stole the graphic that I did in my preview this morning,
26:32
so you can also check it out there. So it is this Saturday
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at Hurricane City Park twenty twenty four, Polar Plunge, Freezing for a reason,
26:38
the benefit Special Olympics of West Virginia. Registration starts at three point thirty.
26:44
It's going to be a huge event, it always is. All kinds
26:45
of different prizes available if you want to take the plunge, if you just
26:48
want to cheer people on, if you want to sponsor somebody, get with
26:52
John, or just show up there at Hurricane City Park this coming Saturday at
26:56
three point thirty. Then go party with Rob and the fine folks fireside grill
27:00
afterwards. John, I appreciate you being here. I know. Also this
27:03
wouldn't be possible without the City of Hurricane, So a big shout out to
27:06
Mayor Edwards into Amanda and all the folks there with the city as well.
27:08
Absolutely there are always a huge help. And Dave, just in case you're
27:11
curious, we do have room in the pool for you if you want to
27:15
join us, well I'll consider that. How's that fair enough? John,
27:21
I appreciate you being here man, Thanks a lot. Thanks Dave, we
27:22
appreciate you as well. All right, John Corb. But again with the
27:25
Special Olympics. The Polard Plunge is this Saturday at registration starts at three point
27:30
thirty at a Hurricane City park and again a big shout out to a Mayor
27:34
Edwards and Amanda and everybody with the City of Hurricane because they're the ones that
27:37
really kind of hike this thing up and make it a huge, huge We're
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talking about a couple hundred people that are going to be there and they're all
27:44
gonna take that plunge. It again, long range forecast doesn't sound like it's
27:48
going to be all that cold, but it's still gonna be forty degrees and
27:51
they're gonna do something to make the water maybe a little bit colder. But
27:53
a lot could change between nowaday, but it's a great event and again it
27:56
all benefits Special Olympics here in the area. So hats off to John and
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the folks at the Hurricane City Park and the City Hurricane for making this thing
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Friday Show, and man, what a show Friday once. That's all I
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got to say. One of those has to do with the Friday Show.
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And this came in late Friday, didn't get a chance to read it.
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Said, Hey, Dave, I thought Fridays were a fun, politics free
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you know, I've been doing the Shit Show for four years in May.
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I'm not sure the exact date off the top of my head, but sometime
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in May. It's been four years since, and I've done different things,
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and I've you know, did the Friday Funhouse and the guest host and Mayor
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Mondays and you know, things of that nature. And you know, I
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just like to kind of change it up a little bit. And as we
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are heading into the heart of the political season. Remember the filing period just
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ended at twelve oh one am Sunday morning. Uh so it doesn't Linda,
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you know, I got people that reach out, they want to go on
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the show. So just gotta kind of make it happen. So, you
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know, I changed it up a little bit. I don't know, Friday
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fun House may come back. I don't know, we'll see. Uh.
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Texts says this is from Friday as well. Not even a mention of Trump
29:45
blowing up border discussions, said, well, I had other stuff on Friday,
29:49
like five guests on the show on Friday, but uh yeah, and
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what the texture is referring to, and of course this text came in on
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Friday is a former president and that Donald Trump is urging a no a no
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vote on any bills concerning the border crisis. So maybe we'll get into that
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if we can a little bit later on a couple of news note see what
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couple of quick notes here. I haven't brought this up for a while,
33:51
but the potential closure to the Postal Services distribution Center at South Threege it's still
33:57
a thing. First of all, on front, the West Virginia Senate adopted
34:02
Senate Resolution sixteen to show their support for keeping the facility open. Now,
34:07
there's going to be a meeting held tomorrow at two thirty at the Coliseum of
34:12
Convention Center to address this potential closing. Now, I'm not sure the exact
34:16
format or the details of the Jeff Jenkins is in. What do we got,
34:21
Jeff? They postponed the meeting. They postponed the meeting. Yeah,
34:23
yeah, so the meeting. We found out over the weekend that the meeting
34:28
will take that story down from our website. But the meeting has been postponed.
34:32
There's no reset date okay yet. So we found out from the Postal
34:37
Workers Union they were supposed to have a informational picket today just to try to,
34:44
you know, get some information out before tomorrow afternoon's meeting. But now
34:47
there's been no there's no meeting, no new date set, but the Postal
34:52
Service says there will be a meeting at some point, a public meeting.
34:54
Okay, just don't know which. I'm glad you listened to the show.
34:59
Absolutely all right. Well, okay, so the meeting has been has been
35:02
postponed. We don't know whether it be so what about the informational picket?
35:06
Is that still going to be a thing that's postponed? So everything's postponed?
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All right, Jeff, I appreciate it. Man, think Jeff Jenkins with
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scheduled for tomorrow at Kyle Seamen Convention Center on the potential closure of the Postal
35:47
Services distribution center out near south Ridge that has been postponed. No date has
35:52
been given for a makeup as of now. All right, So elsewhere,
35:59
on Saturday, the state Republican Party held their winter meeting in Charleston, and
36:04
among the items covered was the closing of the Republican primary, which is going
36:10
to happen, but it's not going to be right away. There were those
36:14
that wanted the primary to be a closed primary as early as this year,
36:21
which was very problematic for a lot of reasons. They put it to a
36:24
vote of the Executive Committee and the vote went sixty five fifty four, and
36:30
the committee did vote to close the Republican primary, but again it will be
36:35
in twenty twenty six, not this year, which well, I'll get into
36:39
that a little bit later on. But the timing I think is very important
36:45
here because it would have been in my opinion and talking to those, and
36:47
I got a little bit of background and experience at this. It would have
36:52
been a nightmare for twenty twenty four to try to pull this off on behalf
36:54
of the county clerks and things of that nature. So it's now going to
36:58
be in twenty twenty six. Now what does all this mean, Well,
37:00
it means if you're a registered independent, you will not be able to request
37:06
a Republican ballot as it stands now, if you're registered as an independent or
37:13
no party on election day, when you walk into your polling place devote in
37:16
the primary, you simply state your name and say I'm Dave. I'm a
37:22
registered independent, but I'm requesting a Republican ballot or Democratic ballot as it were.
37:30
So the Executive Committee has spoken on this, and again I spent some
37:34
time talking about this last week. The parties themselves have the right to set
37:40
their own rules. That's just the way it is. This is not a
37:44
legislature thing or Secretary of State or whatever. The parties can pretty much set
37:47
their own rules. But the Executive Committee, many of whom in talking to
37:52
them, believed that there were far too many, as they call it,
37:58
rhinos getting involve they wanted to keep it to just Republicans, and again they
38:02
wanted to have it in this upcoming election. It's been put off to twenty
38:08
twenty six, So if you're a registered independent, starting in May of twenty
38:15
twenty six, you will not be able to request a Republican ballot. You
38:19
can still request a democratic ballot, or you can vote for the nonpartisan races,
38:22
meaning you can vote for judge or to education magistrates, etc. It's
38:30
controversial as well, in my opinion, as it should be. And I've
38:36
said, nobody really cares what I think, but I have simply said I
38:39
don't agree with him, but I don't know that again, anybody really cares
38:44
what I think. You have basically a lot of independence out there. You
38:52
know, the independent party or lack of party is growing in West Virginia,
39:00
and the polling numbers back this up that the majority of independence choose a Republican
39:10
ballot. So someone along the way got it in their heads that the so
39:17
called Rhinos Republican name only as they call them, have too much say in
39:22
Republican politics in West Virginia and they want to shut them out of the process.
39:27
Okay, that's the right of the party. Each party makes their own
39:30
rules for their party. I just feel me, Dave, just me that
39:37
they're making a huge mistake. I really really do, because there's a lot
39:43
of people in certain area, and I know I see this particularly in southern
39:45
West Virginia where people may have been a registered Democrat for many, many years,
39:52
got fed up with the State Democratic part or the National Democratic Party really
39:57
and they switch to independent. But they can still go in and request a
40:01
ballot, and they usually do request a Republican ballot. And if that were
40:07
to be the case in twenty twenty four, it's not. It's going to
40:10
be in twenty twenty six now if someone wants to I was talking to somebody
40:15
over the weekend who is a is a big time Trump supporter and is also
40:22
a registered independent, and that person said, there's gonna be a whole lot
40:25
of people that are going to be upset if they can't cast their vote for
40:30
Trump and they're a registered independent, they can only vote for again, board
40:35
magistrate, judge, so on and so forth. And who are they going
40:37
to blame for that? Well, in the moment, they're not going to
40:40
blame the legislature. They're not going to blame the party for doing this.
40:47
They are going to blame the poll worker. And trust me, it is
40:52
hard enough to get poll workers in West Virginia. So they're going to take
40:55
out if they come in and they're an independent voter, and they come in
41:00
and they say, I'm an independent, but I want a Republican ballot because
41:02
I want to vote for Donald Trump or fill in Republican here. It seems
41:06
to be Trump as the leading one, but it can be any of them.
41:08
They're not gonna think, well, the state party past this, or
41:12
why didn't the legislat They're gonna look an eighty eight year old Hattie here,
41:15
who is who is the poll worker, and they're gonna blame her or whomever
41:22
for it. By putting it off to twenty twenty six, it does,
41:25
at least, I will say, give them time to educate voters and to
41:35
explain to them that the Republican Party, or at least certain members in West
41:38
Virginia don't want you to be a part of the process. So it's over
41:43
and done. I feel it's very short sighted. We have the Republican Executive
41:46
Committee West Virginia, but again just my opinion, tex says the primary should
41:52
still stay open. Thankfully, some very smart, brave folks were able to
41:55
whip voats to delay this bad move till twenty twenty six. Hopefully West Virginia
42:00
Republican Party can reverse this foolish decision before the twenty twenty six primary. Tex
42:06
says, Dave, we can thank Trump for the closing of the postal facility.
42:10
It's his appointee that's wanted to close these facilities. For Trump, Texas,
42:17
at least the Republicans left the primary open for this election. Now I
42:21
can go vote against Patty Cakes. Morris, he go back to New Jersey,
42:24
Patty Cakes. That's a text, Texas said. Republican politicians are always
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There were candidates at the media putting pressure on the executive committee members to
43:07
close the primary, namely Chris Warner and Alex Mooney. Now that's from a
43:10
texture. I did not attend. That's the words of a texture text to
43:15
day. People should vote for whoever they want anytime Republicans want to control people's
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45:32
one am Sunday morning. Now, in the hours leading up to the closing
45:36
of the finally periods and interesting things happened, And you thought Kent Carper's decision
45:42
deciding to run for reelection to Knawk County Commission on the Democratic ticket while he's
45:46
facing was shocking. We editor's note here. If you haven't heard my interview
45:51
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45:55
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et cetera. Now, if you thought that was a little off the wall,
46:13
former Massy CEO Don Blankenship has filed to run for US Senate as a
46:16
Democrat, which could set up a ballot in a battle, I should say,
46:22
in the general election between he and Governor Justice. Justice of course currently
46:25
trouncing Congressman Alex Moody Napolie. So there's that. Former Secretary of State Natalie
46:31
Tennant is going back into politics as she has entered the race to run for
46:37
Kanawah County Commission. So, yeah, a lot of interesting things Texas,
46:43
Dave, I want to know how Putnam County Republican Executive reps voted. How
46:45
do I find that out? What I'm told? But it was my secret
46:49
ballot. So unless you know the people and you reach out to them and
46:52
you ask them themselves. There's really no way of knowing. Again, I
46:54
wasn't there. That's what I understand. I understand. We have a call.
46:58
Let's go to the phones. Good morning, and you're on the show.
47:00
Hey Dave, how are you? How do it fine? How are
47:02
you? Sir? Good? Listen there that independents are who helped the Republicans
47:10
eventually take over the House and the Senate. And had it not been for
47:17
the independent votes in the primaries years ago, they picked up the Republican ballot
47:23
because we were the only ones they could pick up. So most of those
47:28
people continued to vote Republicans even though they stayed independent. So once you vote
47:35
for somebody, you're likely to vote for him again. Okay, So I'm
47:43
going to read between the lines here, but I'll go ahead and ask you
47:45
the question. Do you support what the Republican Executive Committee did on Saturday?
47:51
Absolutely not. I'm a former delegate. My name is Ron Walters, and
47:58
you know I had over twenty or of service. Had it not been for
48:00
the independent vote, we would have never taken over the House. Okay,
48:06
all right, Ron, I appreciate your phone call, but I appreciate your
48:08
input. Thanks a lot it's five minutes away from ten, So there you
48:14
go. I'm talking about so many people that file for August. I mentioned
48:17
that Natalie Tennett, former Secretary of State, has filed to run for Conaw
48:20
County Commission. Let me just say that's going to be an interesting interview when
48:24
I do it. Former Delegate to Joshua Higginbotham has filed to run for Agriculture
48:30
Commission. And doctor Casey Sachs, who was just on the show Friday,
48:34
doctor Saxonbridge Valley, has filed to run for Knawa County Board of Education.
48:38
I was unaware of that when I had her on the show Friday, but
48:42
I'll have her back on again as a candidate to talk about her run for
48:46
the Ward of Education here in Kanawah County. Let me go back to Don
48:50
Blankenship for a moment. He will be on this show soon and he's Hoppy's
48:55
first guest coming up at ten o six this morning on Talk Klinn. Also
49:00
on the show Matt Harridge, I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Who is
49:05
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four Dirty Birds schedule posted at their website that is Dirtybirdsbaseball dot com. Your
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hometown baseball team is a Charleston dirty Birds. Tech says the interview with Carper
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was bizarre. Not for you, but for Carper. It was weird,
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says a Texter text. I heard the Carper interview. King Carper was not
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thrilled with you. Hey, kind of got that impression. Kind of got
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that impression myself. The leads story this morning at wv Metronews dot com.
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A bill that would require eighth graders to watch a video showing insemination and fetal
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development has been put on hold for now. Rat mclhenny has the story posted
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on the website. It looked like the bill would be on track for passing,
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but on one Friday, senators referred to the bill's sp four to sixty
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eight to the Rules Committee, which can be where some bills go to die.
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I don't know yet. There is a section of the bill that would
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require eighth grade students to watch the video, the so called Baby Olivia Act.
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It is produced by the group known as Live Action, which is a
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nonprofit group that has been active and anti abortion campaigns. You can read all
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about the film and watch the clip at wv metronews dot com Texas. The
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Putnam County chairman was against closing the primary in twenty twenty four. Not sure
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how the other Putnam members voted, says a textra that was in reference to
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somebody asking how the Putnam County Executive Committee voted on the vote of the Executive
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Committee to close the primaries on Saturday. The Library Bill, the legislation to
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open up libraries for felony prosecution if miners gained access to so called obscene materials,
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has also been parked or should I say it's not hit the committee agenda
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yet it's house built forty six fifty four story by Brad posted at w metronews
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dot com. There was a public hearing about it last Wednesday, and by
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the way, I'm still getting over hearing that in some of the language we
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heard on the floor. It was on the agenda in Judiciary on the nineteenth
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of January but it's put on hold due to a snowstorm that day, if
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you remember, it was parked again due to the public hearing it. So
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has it come in front of a committee. The Library Association of West Virginia
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has been one of the groups speaking out against the bill. I mean,
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and I said this on the show last week. I mean, I get
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it. No one wants their kids to have access to porn, but are
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they really going to the library to get it when they can see unlimited smut
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on their phones and devices already, you know, the ones that parents usually
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use as a babysitter for their kids. We want to look at that stuff.
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When I was growing up, we had to work hard to get it.
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Now, apparently, according to some legislators, it's a problem in the
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libraries, which I'm not so sure that it is. Textays your Dave,
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your voice kind of trembles whenever you interview. Can't Carper says a texture.
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As a Republican says the text, I have to ask whose stupid idea was
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it? Basically tell independence who support we need to go pound sand. It
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should only be a short amount of time before you turn Westreet into back to
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blue. That we thought so hard to get away from after eighty disasterrous year,
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GOP screws itself every time according to a texture. All right, gotta
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go. Tomorrow Restaurant Week kicks off in Charleston. We'll talk about that a
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little bit, plus some real estate with Rich the Realtory coming up tomorrow,
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Hoppy coming up DoD blaken Ship at ten oh six. I will see you
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tomorrow till then, have fun. I love somebody. Fighthsam ninety six point
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