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01/16/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Chrissy Bailey, Judge Maryclaire Akers, Mayor Amy Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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morning, as Carrie and Caton and Jeff at the Joni throughout the morning,
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it should expire at that time. After that just gonna be cold, and
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I mean really really cold, especially overnight tonight and tomorrow morning. We'll talk
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about that a little bit later on. Plus, Judge Mary Clair Akers is
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in the studio this morning, as is Charleston Mayor Amy Schuler Goodwin. The
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mayor set to give her State of the City speech tonight as part of the
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city Council meeting. Details and all that coming up, But first I want
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to get to this. You gotta have something to put you in a good
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mood on a winter day like today, maybe warming up a little bit.
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How about some chili. Well, we all love a good pot of chili
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on a cold day. And for this event, though, you may have
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to wait a couple of days because it's actually this Saturday, the Adam Creek
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Alliance is sponsoring their first annual Chili Cookoff starts at ten am this Saturday morning
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at the Washington District Community Center on Sandplant Road in South Charleston. Christie Ball
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is from the Allen Creek Alliance and she joined us. Now Christy, good
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morning, Hey, good morning Dave. How are you doing. I'm doing
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fine. Thank you for being Are you staying warm and saying safe this morning?
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Oh? Yes, I'm hibernating today as as am I, you know.
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And it's a great time. I actually my wife and I actually she
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did made a pot of chili here yesterday at that. It's a great time
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for chili as we as we head into this the coldest of winter months.
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What did this idea for the chili cook off come from? We get in
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all the details a little bit, but where does the whole idea come from?
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Yeah, so we are the Allen Creek Alliance, like you mentioned,
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non proper organization. We represent the community, do a lot of things in
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the community, provide scholarships, work with the elementary schools utterly and the Washington
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District Community Building is new. It's a new built for our organization. It's
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also there's a South Charleston Fire Department located in it as well. But we
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are now able to have community events and do things like this Blake the chili
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cook awesome. We pro hand on in the future having more events and more
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things going on at the Washington District Community Center. Now, I've got a
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flyer posted on my social media on the ex formerly artist woman on this Twitter
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and also on Day Down the Radius might be able to check that out.
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But in addition to the chili cookoff, we'll get back to that at the
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moment. There's also a cornhole tournament going on as part of this. Is
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that right? Yes, yes, this cornhole. So chili's not your thing
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and you want to show off your cornhole skills, we will have that as
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well, and it's not too late to sign up. But yeah, absolutely,
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there'll be a cornhole and the chili both And as far as the chili
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cookoff itself goes, what are the rules this time around? Because there are
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you know, I've been a part of various chili events in my time.
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I'm a kind of chili aficionado. How are you working this one out?
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So? What are the rules? Yeah, so there's not a whole lot
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of rules. But you can't either make the chili at home and bring it
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in a cross plot, or you can make it at the District Community Building
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Center. You can make it there, So either way, either way you
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can make it so we just try not to if there's anything in it people
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that will have allergies, we just ask that you let others know in case
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peanut allergy or whatnot, till we do ask that you list the ingredients such
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into Chile. Yeah, well that's kind of important. Right now, again,
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we're talking with Sticky Bailey from the Alum Creek Alliance about this big event
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that's going to be happening this week. You get back to the Alum Creek
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Alliance for a moment. You gave us a little bit of the background on
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that you do, scholarships and things of that nature. How did this organization
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come into beings Gosha Allen Crik Aliance has been around for many, many years.
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It was originally started Clyde Wooten, who is a lifetime long member.
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He has been in the Allen Creek Alliance for I believe might quote me wrong
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in this fifty years, So it's been around for a long time now.
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During COVID we didn't do anything. We backed down and nothing's been active for
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the past three to four years. But we are now getting back into and
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starting again. We do have thirteen fourteen members are growing. If anyone's interested,
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go to our Island Creek Alliance page and we do our welcoming new members
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right now. All right, we'll get back to that a little bit more
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a little bit later on again. Christy Bailey's with us from the Allen Creek
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Now back to the Washington District Community Center. I mean, it's so important
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for these local communities to have community centers like this one. Chrissy, and
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this is another one of the great ones that we have here in the Canalvaldi
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because I know it's very much utilized and appreciated by the community there. Yes.
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Yeah, So it's open to the public during the day. You can
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go in, you can shoot some hoops through basketball courts. It's a huge
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gem. And you can also rent it. So if you're having a private
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party, birthday party, or anniversary party or get together, you can rent
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a building as well, and and again we'll get to give you that information
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if you're interested in doing a rental on the building a little bit later on.
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And as I said, these community centers are so so important to local
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communities like that, and I know it's very much appreciated by the community there.
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So in addition to the chili and the coin alturn, but what else
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you got going on there this Saturday? We have some awesome door prizes and
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raffle tickets, and trust me, you don't want to miss the door prizes.
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They are awesome. GI me an example some of those door prices.
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Oh, we're going to have as far as I know, we're going to
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have a big stone griddle grill like their grill, and we also have a
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small basket. So it's going to be a small Bliss gift certificate for two
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hundred dollars along with some other items that ladies will really Enjoyeah. That sounds
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like it's going to be a great day. And again weather not looking too
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good. I think we're going to have some snow they tell us back at
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forecast Thursday and Friday, but hopefully by this weekend things will kind of clear
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up a little bit. Get everybody out there. But it is going to
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be so it'll be a great time at temperatures both Saturday and Sunday are supposed
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to be in the twenties, so it'd be a great time to go enjoy
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some chili and cornhall and to check out that center too, because it's an
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opportunity for people that may have heard about the center but have never been there.
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It's an opportunity for them to be able to go and kind of tour
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the facility and find out what it's all about. Yes, absolutely, that
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is a great opportunity. Like you just said, did you come out and
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least toward the building and that way if you're interested in hosting an event or
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ranking it, or even just going to walk and shoot some hoops in the
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wintertime. It's just a great facility. Indeed it is. Again Chrissy evolves
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from the Allen Creek Alliance. I do appreciate you taking time to join us
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on the show today. Now again, where could people learn more? Go
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to the Allen Creek Alliance Facebook page. That's going to be your best bet.
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We have links out there provided with QR codes to sign up. If
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you're it's not too late. To sign up for the chili or the cornhole.
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But it provides all the information on our Facebook page and there's also information
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about the Washington District building as well. All Right, Chrissy, appreciate you
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time. Take you time on your schedule to join us this morning. Best
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of luck for your event this weekend. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot,
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sounds good. Thank you having good day. All right? Thank you
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Christy Ball again for the Creek Alliance. And again, if it's chili you
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like or corn hole, this is definitely the event for you. It's sponsored
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by the Allen Creek Alliance. Is Saturday starting at ten at the Washington District
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Community Center. That's the thirteen thirteen Samplant Road in South Charleston. Information posted
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about it on Dave Island Radio on Facebook and the Dave Island Show on x.
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want to welcome into the show Judge Mary clair Acres, your judge ship.
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Good morning, Good morning Dave. And they did sit me in your chair.
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So I'm right here in the middle. I feel like I've I've got
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the master plan right here. I can touch anything, change anything, mess
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anything up. I'm really excited. That's probably not necessarily a good idea.
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So this means I get to go sit on the bench. That's right,
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That's fine. I'll trade you, okay, I bet you would. My
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job is a hanging a lot easier than yours. I was joking with somebody
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earlier. I said that two acres is for the price of one. Because
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I had your husband and then was member of the legislator jb Acres out of
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the fifty fifth on the show yesterday. JB of course appointed the position last
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week just prior to the start of the session, replacing more Capito, who
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resigned to focus on his race for covernor. As someone who's been in office
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for a while, and I know you got to watch what you say,
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whatever, But any advice for judge Acres as you have been an elected official
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now he is one. Well, you know, it's funny you mentioned the
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rules. So we have rules as judges. We are not allowed to endure
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any public official or any candidate for office, even if we're married to them.
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But I will say this, he is the much better Acres. He's
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way more fair minded and he is he's much smarter than I am. So
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I'm very proud of him. Our whole family is. I know he's going
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to do great things. I'm just very very excited to see everything that he
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does. As for you know, I can't tell him, tell him what
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to do in office, obviously, I can tell him what to do at
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home. And yeah, yeah, as long as he keeps in doing those
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things and keeps in those roles, and I think he's going to be okay.
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And that's general advice available for any candidate, so so again that is
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not an endorsement by any of the imagination. That's exactly right. I will
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spend some time Judge talking about the judicial races here in Kanah County, because
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I've had several candidates on the show and others wanting to be on, and
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there's several people that want to be a judge here in Kanawh County. But
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for the voters, Judge, it can be a bit confusing figure out who
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is running against him. So take him slow. Because I'm not very smart.
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I mostly look explain the way this entire thing works. Well, there
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are currently seven divisions in the thirteenth Circuit of Kinnall County. Then that's our
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circuit, the thirteenth Circuit currently as it is right now. The confusing part,
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I think is that people don't understand that there are seven different divisions now
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and in the upcoming race in twenty twenty five, there will be eight divisions.
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The legislature created another circuit court position for many different circuits here in West
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Virginia, and ours was one of them. We appreciate it, Thank you
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very much, Legislature. That's my plug and we will have an additional seat
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that is open that no one occupies. Now that will be created, so
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there will be eight different divisions. The new one is designated as the eighth
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division. The other thing that will change is our circuit number. We are
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changing from the thirteenth circuit to the eighth circuit. I don't think that's really
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that big of an issue in that confusing, but I do think that the
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different divisions are you know, for example, my own mother called me yesterday
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and asked me if Stephanie Abraham was running against me. She is not.
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She occupies the seat that was formerly held by Judge Bloom and she's running for
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reelection. But that's just an example of kind of the confusion that it causes
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people. I think it's it's hard to figure out who's running for what,
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and they're if they are opponents and if so who, So be careful to
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look for the division numbers, I think is the best advice I can say.
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Again, we're talking to Judge Mark their acres here of a Dave Allen
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show, Inside Alive and you are a Canada judgement. I am. We
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are running. All of us are up at the same time. Our general
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election is actually the primary because it is a non partisan election, so we
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will be finished in May. That's another thing that I think voters maybe don't
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understand or isn't as clear, is that when you're voting for judges in May,
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that is the election. That is it for us, So come out
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and vote. And I think it's also hard to get people kind of engage
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in the judicial races. People don't really want to be involved in the judicial
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system. I don't really blame them, and once they're there, you know,
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they understand a little bit better. But it is hard to communicate to
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the public why it's important to come out and vote for your judicial officers.
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Yeah. Sometimes I think that those judges seats with all due respect in some
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of the other nonpartists, and that's not the one that gets all of the
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attention when it comes to advertising and things of that nature, simply because again
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the rules, according to Westervirginia Code, the rules are a bit strict on
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what you are allowed to do. And sometimes you know those and the think
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about a judge position or maybe a magistrate or somebody like that is people will
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say, well, I don't know who they are because I've never been in
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front of them. Unless it makes unless it makes news stories you know,
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on our station or others, and sometimes people don't realize that, but those
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are are very, very important, and especially right now. And you and
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I and the other candidates for that matter that have and sitting judges have talked
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about this in the past. With the things we have going on with the
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opioid to deal oploid epidemic and the crisis we have from the foster care system
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and so on and so forth. I mean, the role of the judge
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is probably now more important than what it's ever been. I think so.
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And I think it's hard to translate to people that, you know, how
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judicial officers and judicial decisions impact their daily lives. I think people are starting
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to see that. I think the media has been good about educating the public
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regarding those issues and how people can see it working in their daily lives.
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And I'm glad you brought up the magistrates because the magistrate court system here in
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Kanna County has actually gained three new magistrate court positions. So right now there
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are ten magistrates on the ballot. In May of twenty twenty four will be
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thirteen. They also have different divisions and their rules are different regarding who runs
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where but it's important for people to know there are going to be three extra
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positions for magistrate open. And you know, if you're thinking about getting out
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there and running, those are good races to get into. There's three new
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positions up there for anyone to grab that won them. Yeah, and again,
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finally period rolls through the end of the month, so you still got
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time twenty seventh, I think it is on that Saturday, so you've still
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got time to file if you if you'd like to do that. But Dave
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don't know, can you? Now? As we mentioned earlier, Judge the
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judges teacher are non partisan, which I think people need to know that now
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obviously everyone everyone running has a party in West Virginia. Even if you don't
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have a party, still have a party, if that makes any sense.
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Everyone is something. And I bring this up because I read an interesting back
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and forth on social media not long ago about this. One of the candidates
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who is running for judge doesn't matter who had done a boosted post, meaning
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that they pay Facebook, you know, to run their ads, and someone
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had asked what party the candidate was, and there was some back and forth
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between someone other than the candidate and this person, this commenter about what the
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party was Person two, and all this just hang with me here. Person
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two was just trying to explain that the seats are non partisan, while person
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one trying to make a big deal out of it, saying that the candidate
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was hiding what their party was and so on and so forth. I it's
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a lot of words solid on my part of a simple Google search, and
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that person could have found out what party the candidate was. Anyway. I
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say all that to say this just pointed out that the rules are a bit
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different when you are running for judge. They are. We actually did just
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get a brand new opinion from our judicial investigation Commission saying that we can't identify
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the parties that we are with, but we have to, in the same
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statement say that we are running for a non partisan position. So for instance,
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I can say, I'm Mary clare Akers. I'm running as a Republican
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for Division seven, that'll be the eighth Circuit when it comes up, but
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I have to say that that is a non part of that is a non
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partisan race. So I'm a Republican running in a non partisan race. I'm
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allowed to say that now. That opinion is fairly new, so I don't
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really know how it's going to translate across the state. As far as in
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the judicial races, I think some of the candidates are doing it, and
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you're right, doesn't matter who, but it is that is now permissible within
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the rules, where I think before people didn't realize that they could or maybe
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felt like they could not do that, and it does make the public think
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that judges are hiding who they are in their party affiliation. Well we're really
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not. There's just some uncertainty. We've got more certainty now, but before
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now we have not had a good indicator as to whether or not we should
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do that. So we don't and again I think that more than likely with
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West Virginia bean what it is right now, so it's such a bright red
23:00
state, but for years it was. Before we use the term red and
23:03
blue Western India, it was a blue state. I think that you'll probably
23:07
see a lot more of that in advertising now, where candidate X will say,
23:11
you know, as you said, I'm a Republican running, or as
23:12
they would have said twenty years ago, I'm a Democrat runner. I want
23:15
to make sure that people realize that let's talk about your campaign and more importantly,
23:19
the time you've already spent on the bench, Well, what kind of
23:22
questions do you have right now? I am I'm the chief judge of the
23:26
circuit right now, which a lot of people have congratulated me on. It's
23:30
not really an honor. We rotate that position every year, so I just
23:33
happen to be up. So it is going to be my job to kind
23:37
of oversee the courthouse and make sure things run correctly. I am the complaint
23:41
box and the suggestion box. So it's a place of a little bit of
23:48
uncertainty for me because I've never done it before and we're starting to deal with
23:52
some maybe judicial renovations depending on how the County Commission votes. Because we're having
23:57
these new offices, I will be helping with that and the other thing we
24:02
will be doing, which really doesn't the general public's probably like yawn when I
24:06
say this, But the Kanawah County Circuit is going to go to what's called
24:10
e filing. We've never done that before. It's going to affect all of
24:14
the lawyers and all of the different agencies that deal with the court system in
24:18
Kennall County. It's going to be a big undertaking for everyone, including our
24:22
clerk. So I'll be presiding over that kind of stuff, and you know,
24:26
if there's a problem in the courthouse, then I'm the first person to
24:27
hear about it and determine what needs to be done. But I would think
24:32
that the attorneys, though, would be much in favor of this to be
24:34
able to e file that, right. I'm sorry, Yeah, I think
24:38
so e filing has gone, has been implemented across the state, and I
24:42
think a lot of lawyers are used to it. We're just not in Kennell
24:45
County. They saved us as for one of the last because we're so big,
24:51
and I think they were you know, wanted to see how it did
24:55
across the state. So the ones Judge Mary Claire Acres here on the the
25:00
DAVA Allen Chill in five eighty live. It's nine point thirty one. All
25:03
right, So I'm going to ask you this and then we're going to go
25:07
to something a little bit fun. Why should people vote for Mary Claire Acres
25:10
for judge? Well, I think that I'm a very tough judge. I
25:15
think that that's my reputation, but I am very fair. I will give
25:19
people an opportunity, especially in recovery. If I feel like they are willing
25:23
to accept that they need help, I'm willing to give them a break on
25:26
the criminal side of it. If they really want to work on themselves and
25:30
change their lives, I love to do that. I'd love to see the
25:33
end result of that. I have. Actually in twenty twenty one, when
25:37
I took office, I had almost three hundred juvenile abuse and neglect cases on
25:41
my docket. I've been able to resolve it. We are down to around
25:45
one hundred, and that number of fluctuates, but that's just on my docket.
25:49
Just to remind everybody out there, I think we had last year a
25:52
little bit over eight hundred abuse and neglect cases just filed in that one year,
25:57
so we're all dealing those cases. I was just able to take a
26:02
backlog and work it down. It took about two and a half years,
26:06
almost three to get it done. I do have ajum and al abuse and
26:08
neglect prosecutor now assigned to my courtroom. Her name is Madison Tuck. Those
26:14
folks don't get enough recognition because those proceedings are private. They're clothes, nobody
26:19
can see them except the people involved. And she's doing a great job.
26:22
So I wanted to give her a shout out. Absolutely absolutely the day I
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26:40
loose. All right, you're going to be marrying up a lot of people
26:42
as we get closer to Valentine's Day. Well, have you on again to
26:45
talk about this? This is something that was started by another judge at another
26:49
time, but explain this whole marathon wedding thing that you're going to be doing
26:56
here soon. So on Valentine's Day, February fourteenth, we have the annual
27:00
King of Hearts Day to remember Charlie King who started that. He started he
27:04
had the original King of Heart's Day, and we do that every year on
27:07
Valentine's Day. We love to do it. People come in get married spontaneously.
27:12
We have people call and make reservations to get married, and that's what
27:15
we do. We decorate the courtroom. We spend all day doing weddings and
27:18
it's really fun. Since I've been judged, I think I've married almost three
27:22
hundred couples. Last year we did about one hundred and twenty. So this
27:26
year we're trying to break that record. So if you guys are planning on
27:30
a wedding out there and you're trying to figure out what to do, come
27:32
by my courtroom on February fourteenth. It's great fun. We have a blast.
27:36
And again that is actually going to be on a Wednesday, so it'll
27:38
be the middle of the week. A great time to go ahead and get
27:41
to and get married up. And I think that some of our people we
27:45
had a little meeting and we'll give you some inside baseball information. Judge,
27:48
we had a little meeting there at the station yesterday and I think that to
27:51
some of our promotions department want to get involved in that this year. So
27:53
you're going to be getting a call from Ashley in our promotions department, just
27:56
so you know, to see how we can kind of help you out with
27:57
this. Is that all right? I would love to do it. The
28:00
more word we can get out about that the better, because it really is
28:03
a fun day. Well, i'll have you on from before then, and
28:07
then I think last year you actually in between services called us up on the
28:11
on the show as well, so we'll talk to you. You did,
28:15
you actually called you actually put somebody's wedding on hold so you could call them
28:18
for a five minutfol conversation. I hope they didn't have in that time the
28:22
opportunity to talk to each other out of it or deported to get into a
28:25
fight. If they did, that's on you, no the one, right,
28:30
all right, Judge, Mary clare Acres. Always you're honor a pleasure
28:32
to have you on the show. We'll talk against all right, thank you
28:34
so much, Dave. All right, thank you Judge Mary Claire Acres.
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She's running it to tab late this morning because she's been working the streets.
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Probably could have phrased that better, but she is out with the street
32:37
crews this morning, I understand. So she just sent me a text to
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gain I remote. So whenever she gets there, she's just gonna jump into
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Charleston City Council meeting that starts seven. Of course, we'll have complete coverage
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I've got a moment and we're waiting on the mayor, let me tell you
33:05
about this event. We've been talking about it for a couple of weeks.
33:07
Now we are really really excited to do. We are going to be teaming
33:14
up with the folks at the Thornhill Otto Group, which is the sponsors of
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this show, for an event that we call drop your Socks Now. It's
33:22
a drive through event and it's going to be this coming Thursday. This is
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kind of the baby if you wild, the brainchild of our Morning gal on
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our sister station ninety six to one Superstar Country KWUS Rob Reel, hosts of
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Upril Early. He got this idea and I think he's probably done this in
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one of the many, many other markets he's been fired from. But to
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basically, what we're asking people to do is, starting early on six,
33:46
seven o'clock, eight o'clock or so on Thursday morning, stop by our studios
33:51
eleven eleven Virginia Streets in Charleston and drop off some packages of socks. We
33:57
want your socks. You can drop off a single package that you can pick
34:00
up at a dollar store somewhere, or we want an entire box that you
34:05
have gotten, you know, from whatever your favorite apartment store is and you've
34:07
ordered, or whatever the case may be. We're going to be working with
34:09
the folks at Mountain Mission to get those in need this winter time season.
34:15
And the timing we scheduled this thing, you know, a couple of months
34:19
ago. We had no idea that the weather would be like it is right
34:22
now. But we'll be out there Thursday morning. It's gonna be about seven
34:27
or eight degrees or so out there when Rob and myself and other people from
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all of our stations are going to be out there collective thes socks. You
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can do it throughout the day so you don't have to necessarily be there early
34:37
in the morning. We're gonna be doing it until about six o'clock or so
34:38
that evening. So please please please stop by our studios eleven eleven Virginia Street
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East and Charleston drop us off some packages of socks. We're calling it to
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Drop your Socks campaign And a big, big shout out to the sponsors of
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making it all possible. We couldn't do it without them. We appreciate them.
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We've already heard from several members of the community, uh, business community,
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otherwise, church groups, whatever it's saying that, hey, we want
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to take part, what do we need to do, and so they are
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they're they're they're arranging that for us right now. So we appreciate that.
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But again we always say, whether it's this or whether it's any of the
35:15
other specific things that we do throughout the year, we have the best listeners
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in the entire city at Charleston, the entire state of my venue. You
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guys always come out for us and and help us out, so we appreciate
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you. Please do that again. It is the Drop your Socks event and
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studio right now. Just got a text from her a moment ago that she
36:12
was walking into the building. Run I was running in Actually, why I
36:16
mean, I don't run? Yeah, we'll slick outside, so this was
36:21
a slow slog jog. Well, I was saying, don't run. So
36:25
before we talk about the state of the city tonight, talk about winter in
36:30
the city. I'm channeling my inner John Sebastian and loving spoonful here. It's
36:35
been a rough couple of days for city workers. Another snow event coming at
36:37
Thursday night into Friday. Talk about the work that they've been doing there.
36:39
Yeah, you know when when you talk about municipal government, this is our
36:45
jam, this is our meat and potatoes. So we have had hundreds of
36:49
city workers out NonStop. These are folks that literally, and by the way,
36:52
the reason why I was late is I stopped I saw one of our
36:55
road crews out and stop to just give them our thanks. But you know
37:00
they're eating, sleeping, and around the clock thinking about the roads and keeping
37:07
their eyes to the sky. We have still left, believe it or not,
37:12
about four thousand tons of salt. But we've thrown down a lot of
37:15
salt. We've scraped a lot of roads constantly, seventeen trucks out. Mother
37:20
nature she's fickle sometimes. So we thought this storm was going to end,
37:25
and then it picked up a little bit, and so you know, I
37:30
was out driving on the roads yesterday and today. Just go slow. If
37:32
you're out and about, please go slow. And one thing I want to
37:37
mention is, you know Facebook, God God loves Facebook, because there are
37:40
very few people that do anymore. Sometimes. But you know, when somebody
37:45
says, oh, I you know our road didn't get scraped or salted,
37:49
keep in mind that even though seventeen trucks are out, some of our trucks
37:52
break down. You know, you use them constantly, and they're very heavy
37:57
and big pieces of equipment. It's not like your car, my car,
38:00
Dave, right, We're running the shop real quick and it's you know,
38:02
a thirty minute fixed. Sometimes it takes an hour or two if something goes
38:07
wrong. We had a truck on a route go down yesterday and kna sity
38:10
on some of the hills. So I saw somebody say, why aren't you
38:13
here? They normally are here by now. Well that's what happened, so
38:16
give them a little bit of grace, and that also includes our refuse.
38:20
By the way, they're out picking up trash today, Dave, and so
38:23
you know it's you know, they have until five o'clock tonight. We obviously
38:28
don't want to be out in dark picking up trash. So you know they're
38:30
out, but they're going slow, and they're going slower than normal, and
38:32
you want us to go a little slower than normal. So if you if
38:37
today is your trash day, buddy, they're coming. And if they normally
38:40
you know, come by this time, just leave that can out for us.
38:44
Please, we're going to get there, but it just may take us
38:46
just to heartbeat more of time today. And you know, I know that
38:52
our guys and gals really appreciate, you know, the high five. I
38:54
ran out of my house late last night to you know, honk and wave
38:59
and and thank our folks who are out there because that's that's what they do
39:05
and they're really good at it. You know, we have a lot of
39:07
good folks. We have a little new drivers who have trained for this and
39:12
who are out there just doing a great job. Today. Very few knock
39:15
on wood. You don't have any wood on your Deskave, Oh here knock
39:17
on? Would you know? Accidents? And it's because I think you know,
39:22
fortunately there's a lot of school kids and parents who are running late for
39:25
school are not on the roads this morning, so we're thankful about that.
39:30
Gosh, you was even Marshall University stop their online classes or in person classes
39:36
today, so you know, it's it's it's serious, and it's serious because
39:39
of the temperature drop right so snow on the ground, yeah, that's troublesome,
39:45
but it's that ice and it's those freezing temperatures. As you dually note,
39:49
we are going to take a breath tomorrow, Dave, and then get
39:53
right back into it. That's why I know that number four thousand tons of
39:57
salt on the top of my head, because we monitor that how much we
40:01
need placing another order just in case. You know, people say all the
40:05
time you have all of that salt. Well, this is why, folks,
40:08
because sometimes Mother Nature, you know, she hits us twice in a
40:12
week, not just once. So Thursday into Friday, everybody still, if
40:15
you have Friday morning plans, just you know, maybe take your time,
40:20
maybe plan right now for then. And the problem with this Thursday storm as
40:24
we know right now, I'm not trying to take over Brian Hughes right,
40:28
his job he's got. There's a lot of Brandon and all of our good
40:32
all of our good friends who are true meteorologists. I just play one in
40:36
the mayor's office. But you know, it's supposed to be drivetime. We
40:40
think it might start around drive time, which is always the trickiest part for
40:45
us. So make plans now and then fortunately next week it'll probably warm up
40:49
a little bit. Okay, my meteorologists job is over. I'm done,
40:51
Dave. Well, I was gonna say, I was looking at the Extendi
40:53
forecast next week, they say one of the meteorologists of it morning said that
40:58
it may be close to sixty one nation. That's right, certainly, certainly
41:02
good news there. That's all all right, Let's talk about the state of
41:06
the city. What could your speech is tonight seven o'clock and part of Charltona
41:08
City Council. What can we expect? Yeah, I'm really excited about this
41:12
year. You know, I tend to say that every year. Last year
41:15
was you know, my start of my four year term that I'm currently in,
41:19
So this makes my I'm in one of I've got another three years on
41:22
this term, and you know tonight I started the State of the City five
41:27
years ago as a tradition that I personally started because I felt that, you
41:31
know, when you're in the Governor's office and you've worked under that Capital Dome
41:35
day for many, many years, it's a good starting point. Just like
41:38
we all do in January, what did we By the way, what did
41:42
we do last year? Let's take a look back, what did we do,
41:45
and then what are we going to do moving forward? We do it
41:47
with our own personal home life, our own personal self. We do assessments.
41:53
Normally people do them in January. I know I do, and so
41:57
we do for the State of the City. So the State of the City,
42:00
there are going to be a lot of folks and people. I think
42:04
they're going to be some things that people are probably waiting to hear and I'm
42:08
going to be talking about specifically for projects for brand new projects in the City
42:15
of Charleston. Two. You know about to a lot of folks we've been
42:19
working with, probably know about council members who have been meeting with us,
42:24
community members who have been meeting with us, that we're going to take a
42:29
big open door to tonight. During the speech, We're going to talk a
42:35
little bit about our city employees, obviously the backbone of everything that we do.
42:40
We're going to talk about our financial wherewithal. It's something that never makes
42:45
front page news. It never makes front page news, but you know something
42:51
tonight that I'm gonna make note of in the state of the city. You
42:53
know, when I got here five years ago, we only had four million
42:57
dollars in savings. That wasn't enough. So we made intentional steps to begin
43:04
saving. Who knew we were going to have COVID and you know URPA funds
43:07
and you know Cares Act funds come in. But besides that, we wanted
43:13
to make sure that we had enough in our back pocket for rainy days,
43:16
for things that are critical to continue to not only help a city sustain,
43:24
but grow and thrive. And so we went from four million, and now
43:28
we're sitting at seventeen million. That's something I'm incredibly proud of. We're going
43:31
to talk about that tonight. We're going to talk about the financial state of
43:36
the city, not just projects, not just the fun stuff that does make
43:38
normally you know, front page of the paper. We're going to talk about
43:43
the things that are actually important to city government, our employees. How much
43:47
growth we've seen in the City of Charleston over the past couple of years,
43:52
and so I'm really excited about the opportunity to do that again with talking Mayor
43:59
goodwe the state of the City speech at tonight at part of the City Council.
44:02
You no mare, I had Tim Brady from the CVB on a couple
44:05
of weeks ago, and I know numbers are still coming in for all intensive
44:08
purposes. It was a pretty darn good Christmas season in Charleston. One of
44:13
my one of my good friends and owns the business in downtown Charleston told me
44:17
that as a business owner, it was the best year in the history of
44:21
his company, which has been there to retail establishment, it's been there for
44:23
some time. From Holly Jolly Bradley to light Tonight. It was a pretty
44:27
special time. I'm INSI to see how these numbers play out heads and beds,
44:30
as Brady and I always talk about im as to see how these numbers
44:34
play out when the when the finals come out here soon. Yeah, you
44:36
know that's something and Tim knows this as well as anybody in the state of
44:40
West Virginia and quite frankly in the country. When you hear about tourism,
44:45
you think the fun people. Those are the folks who don't know. We're
44:47
not We're money people. I consider myself, Sill a tourism person. Being
44:52
the former sec Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Tourism, I can tell
44:55
you tourism equals jobs. We're going to talk about that tonight. That's going
45:00
to be a big chunk in the state of the city. We're going to
45:01
reflect upon. Oh hey, by the way, what did we get with
45:06
the USA Table Tennis, USA Volleyball? By the way, In October we
45:09
announced that USA Cycling coming to Charleston, West Virginia for five years. These
45:15
are cyclists, Dave that are going to be the winner of the Men's and
45:20
women's are going to be completing in Paris twenty twenty four, they're going to
45:23
the Olympics. Those you can't underestimate, mayor you can't underestinate. Let me
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interrust, we can't underestimate how big this thing is for Charleston. This is
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the biggest single event that Charleston has probably ever hosting. I mean, when
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you think about it, because you've got all these people that are going to
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be coming in, you got the press corps that follow them, and the
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journalists and so on and so forth. I mean, really, this is
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a huge, huge get for Charleston, and it is for what it's going
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to take to pull this off from your street department and architects and everything else.
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This is the biggest of it Charleston's probably ever done. Yeah, and
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you know, let me make that quick connection if we can. I know
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you probably have to go to break soon. I'm looking at the clock setting
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right in front of RN of front of your desk. But let me make
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this quick connection. We would have never had the opportunity to get this had
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we not paved roads, had we not come in five years ago doubled the
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paving budget and say let's get our roads into shape. Yeah, buddy,
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we got a long way to go still, and we still are keeping up
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that funding level. But when they came in, when USA Cycling came in
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and they did a tour of the roads, we came back to the Governor's
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or the mayor's conference room and we sat there and they said, your roads
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are great. We said, okay, well, if we need to make
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modifications, we need to pave, let us know. We'll put on the
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paving stage with the Yeah, I don't know, we'll think about it.
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But they look really good. We were, okay, great. That is
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what gets us their investment. We're going to talk about that keyword tonight is
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going to be investment. I'm going to say it about twenty seven times tonight,
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but in less and until we continue to invest in our structures, in
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our roads and our sidewalks, in our bridges, in the facilities that keep
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people coming and attracting people here, not only for the vibrancy, the vitality
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of a city and the people who live and work here already, but those
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who are coming in to visit. That is a big part of the speech
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tonight. All right, Mayor, we will be watching intently, and of
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course you can follow with the updates from Jeff and the new team at wb
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Metronews dot com, at WC at just Network dot com. Mayor, we're
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gonna let you get back out to your duties out there running stow. I
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got my boots on. I have my boots on, now, I have
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my heels on. Later on. I appreciate you stopping by the studio and
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we'll let you go. I'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot. Hey,
47:35
thanks Dave, appreciate you all right. We'll be back right after this
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surprised. Donald Trump onon the Iowa Caucus's big time yesterday to The New York
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Times called it a sweeping victory, and it was no doubts in my mind.
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I'm not sure what there ever was. Donald Trump will be the nominee
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from the Republican Party for president, setting up a battle that literally no one,
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at least seventy six percent of the population have said, according to polic
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that they don't want a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
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Now, if you're keeping score at home, Trump got fifty one percent,
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Ron Desatus with twenty one percent, Nikki Haley with nineteen percent, And
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I think this really says something about the power of Donald Trump. As I
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mentioned earlier turn back to clock eight years. At that time, Iowa voters
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were firmly behind Ted Cruz, basically rejecting Trump. And oh how that has
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changed. And interesting to note that change because, unlike many states to West
51:02
Virginia for one, the Republican establishment in Iowa has not exactly embraced Donald Trump
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even after he was elected president. The establishment wasn't necessarily behind Trump, talking
51:17
about your state gops and things of that nature. But obviously now the voters
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are Trump's thirty point win is far and away a record for a contestant caucus
51:30
in the state of Iowa. So now Nikki Haley and roberts Status will place
51:34
their attention on New Hampshire in South Carolina, while Trump will head to court
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today. And I will say this editorial comment here. If anything good did
51:45
come out of Iowa, it's the fact that Vivic Ramaswami has ended his run
51:49
for president. So he's done. So Haley and Desatus will stick around for
51:54
a little longer. But let's face it, it's Trump v Biden two point
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zero this fall, a race again that seventy six percent of Americans say they
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don't want. Fowls have also shown that had to head, Trump loses to
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Biden, but head to head, Hayley beats Biden. So there you go.
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I was done North Carolina or I'm sorry South Carolina and New Hampshire covered
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up af my thanks to Judge Mary Clair Akers and also do folks at the
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Adam creekle minus Christians Bailey for stopping by today. I think I got her
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name, Robert Chrissy for stopping by. Also to Mayor goodw Hobby's coming up
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next, Ry Nicholson to the A training, Anthony Harvet and my cat Grady
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for producing the show. Thank you so much. I will see you tomorrow
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