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01/25/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dewayne Duncan, Jon Hoover, Brian Wood, Dale Cooper · The Dave Allen Show

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little bit of time talking about Taplet's current Putnam County Clerk and candidate for Secretary
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of State, Brian Wood is on the show today. John Hoover, who
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is running for a judicial slot if Putnam County, is on the show today
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I want to start by welcoming into the show a gentleman making his debut on
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the show and he'd like to be your next commissioner in Kenawha County. It's
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Dwayne Duncan. Dwayne, good morning, Welcome to the show. Morning Dave,
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thanks for having me, Thank you for being here. Give us the
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lowdown on Dwayne Duncan. Who are you? Give? Brio man started out,
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I grew up in southern West Virginia. Okay. I got asked,
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what part down near Raleigh County? All right? I just got to ask
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Logan County boy, all right, Okay, yes, all. Somebody in
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the green room was asking me about my Southern accent where I was from,
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So you know, I don't know. I ain't got no Southern accent.
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Man, I don't know what they're talking about. But anyway, go ahead.
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So yeah, I grew up down the are in the southern coal fields,
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and then the nineteen ninety I came to Charleston. I went to the
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University of Charleston and then proceeded to go to Marshall to get a master's degree.
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Okay, And what was your field of study, if you don't mind.
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My field of study biology degree from University of Charleston, and then I
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went to Marshall to do education, to have an education degree. So that's
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what I have a master's in special education in school administration. Okay. And
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so are you an educator or what is it that you do with that?
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I am in real life. I mean I was currently in a past life
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an educator, a principal, worked at the state Department of Education. But
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now I do real estate, real estate development, Okay, So that's what
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I'm doing now. So why do you want to be a Knawa County Commissioner?
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I feel like right now is a really good time to be the commissioner.
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I know a Commissioner Silango, I know Commissioner Wheeler, and I just
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feel like I'd be the third who could really move things along, work with
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him in conjunction to get some things going in in Kannak County. We don't
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know at this point what the current holder of the one that's up this time,
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Kent Carper, is going to do. But I mean I have not
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heard. I've heard these is gonna run, not gona run. I don't
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know what that is. I'm not going to get into all that because I
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want to talk about about you. What do you see the biggest needs being
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in Kanagh County Twain? Do you know? I think one of the biggest
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issues that we have in Kanak County is what are we doing to you know,
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have families moved to Kanank County and then what are we doing to retain
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those families in Kanak County? You know? And I you know, that's
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one of the things I'd like to see us try to do, is fiel
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that question, figure it out, see see what we could do better for
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families to attract people. Because we have a lot of resources here. We
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have wonderful schools. We have colleges institutions that are just right here in our
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back door. Practically, we have a thriving business downtown the community. Not
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that we don't need more, because I do believe we do need some more
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definitely, So I'd like to work on that kind of real estate development opportunity,
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use my expertise in real estate and real estate development. And you kind
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of touch on this a little bit. There has been quite a bit of
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growth here in the Kanal Valley over the last couple of years from job development
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and creation we are seeing in that. I'm talking about the valley as a
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whole, not just downtown Charleston, sports tourism with the Shawnee Sports Complex,
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the proposed Capital Sports centers. So we've had these good things going on.
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So how do we continue to make these things happen in this area and get
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more of it, because, as you said, we need more of it,
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absolutely. I mean, I do believe you know, we're doing a
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really good job. I think people are starting to take a look at like
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what we can offer people, and I think our recreation is a huge thing.
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We are in the Mountain State. We have beautiful surroundings I think taking
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advantage of that. I think we saw a lot of success with Shawnee Park.
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I think that demonstrated that, you know, if you build it,
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they will come. I'm in support of the capital complex that's going to be
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downtown. I think there's something desperately needed in that area to kind of spur
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and spark and regenerate that area since we you know, since we have that
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situation with them that you might be aware of. Yeah, I've heard,
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just briefly, just heard we're talking to Dwayne Duncan again, who is a
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candidate for County commission here Republican or Democrat? Republican? Okay, all right,
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because I know sometimes I feeled asked that and somebody will text me Republican
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and I'm totally Republican, pro life conservative. Okay, all right. So
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we we talked a little bit about about the business growth and things of that
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nature. But as you know, Kanaw is the biggest county in the state,
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there's a whole lot more out there than in here. And what I
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mean by that is you got a whole lot of uh rural areas and things
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like that. What do we do for those people? I mean, because
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you know, we have. We have issues with flooding continuously in certain areas,
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and you're you've been around a while, you know all about it.
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How do we help the areas outside what we think of as Charleston proper so
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to speak. You know, Here's what I've started to do. I have
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started already the conversations with mayors in cities and towns on the outskirts of Charleston,
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realizing that those there's there is important. They're part of Kannak County.
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And really, if you think about it, you take a town like Clinton
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and you just see how quaint it is. I don't know if you've ever
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visited, Oh yeah, there is. When I go through Clinton and and
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I visit and I go have an ice cream up there at the little ice
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cream shop. I mean, people are craving this kind of life. I
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mean there are people in cities who love to come out to these quaint towns,
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relax, hang out, kayak down the river, things like that.
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I think we've got to meet. I have started meeting with mayors, meeting
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with city leaders, champions in their communities. I want to figure out who
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they are, identify them, and really try to identify young entrepreneurs. And
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the key would be young entrepreneurs because we're all getting a little bit older.
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So we need to spur some excitement with our youth because you know, I
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mean my generation once we I'll be fifty too soon, so I mean,
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once our generation gets to a certain age, we need youth to back that
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up. And that's what I've been doing, trying to spur real estate and
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Charleston backing people, helping people get started in business. And there have been,
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you know, a lot of studies that have been done about just what
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you mentioned about West Virginia as a whole, not just canall County being a
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place where people may want to come. Now that people, you know,
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COVID showed us that people can work remotely. They are craving the things that
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we already have here in all of West Virginia, from the streams to the
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mountain, things that people like you and I may have taken for granted all
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these years. They want that. I was gonna say, Dave, I
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have friends who come from all over the country, all over the world to
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visit me in my little slice of having over on Davis Creek. I have
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a little farm over there at thirty two acres and I am telling you without
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fail every time they come to visit me, they are very endous. They're
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endous. They hate to get back to their city lives or another country they
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love. They love West Virginia. Doctors that I talk to who are from
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Dubai in places they come here, they love this place. I mean they
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love the If you think about it, you can live. It's easy to
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live here. I've always said the people I've really not met people who are
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not unkind. We're a kind group of people here in Kanan County, West
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Virginians anyway, but here in Kanon County in particular, I've always felt welcome.
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So how do we go about marketing this area to other areas? I
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mean, that's a BIG's that's a big I know that the county commissioners we
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have now I think do a pretty good job. Well, we got to
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do even better than what they do. Not again, I'm not throwing off
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on that they're doing a great job. Really they do a great job of
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marketing in this area. But how do we how do we get people from
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those areas you mentioned interested in Kanah County because there's a lot of growth going
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on around soate of West Virginia right now. But a lot of it seems
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like it's going up north, it's going to Morgantown in places like that.
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How do we get these people in Kanah Valley? Do you know what?
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I think? I think we do. We're good. It's we can't let
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it be a kept secret anymore. I do believe we can be. I
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believe we should be in Kana County probably. I think we should be,
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in my opinion, the most viable county in the state. And I think
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we should be. I think we have all the elements here. I think
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it's just it's I think a key to that, Dave is reaching out to
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these community leaders, meeting with community community leaders, listening to them, actually
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listening, developing plans, and then acting on those plans to make this happen.
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I mean, look for resources for them, figure out what they can
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do, what they can't do, what they need. And I don't know
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that current commission's doing that. That's just something that's the way I operate,
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listening and then helping people connect the dots. Boy Duncan is with us.
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He again, he's a Republican candidate for County Commission. The Dave Allen showing
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All right, Well, Dwayne, it's been a pleasure having you on the
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show. I'm going to give you final thirty seconds uninterrupted. Why should people
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vote for Dwayne Duncan for Kanah County Commission? I think if people in Kanak
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County are ready to have someone who's not a career politician, he's ready to
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sit down with him help them tackle the issues. You know, Dave,
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we've got to start thinking about families, hard working families in Kanak County,
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what their struggles are, what they're going through. As a teacher, as
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an educator, as a public servant. I've seen that. So we've got
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to help them with all of those things so that they can focus on the
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things like growth in their community. We've got to help them with their personal
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lives. So that's what I'm going to focus on the people, like just
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focus on people, focus on making their lives better, reducing taxes, anything
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we can do to help alleviate the stress and the financial burdens on families in
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Kannak County. I think we have to do it. Dwayne Uncan again,
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Republican candidate for County Commission. I appreciate it. I appreciate you stopping by
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for being here. Good luck out on the campaign trail. You probably got
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a lot of doors to knock on and things of that nature. You've got
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to get out there and do all that. Absolutely all right, we'll have
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you back on some time before the election. Appreciate it, great, I
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the Kittle Sum Convention Center. We'll spend a little time talking about that.
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John Hoover is here, candidate for Putnam County Circuit Court Judge. He joins
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us Now, John, good morning, welcome to the show. Good morning,
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and thanks for having me. This morning. Thank you for being here.
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Give us the background on John Hoo's John Hoovery many people in Udham County
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know who I am, but lifelong resident of Putnam County. I was a
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little young blondhair boy that grew up in Woodland Forest over in Winfield, graduated
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from Winfield High School, and went off to the Army, served in the
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US Army Jag Corps. Thank you for your service, by the way,
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I appreciate that, and then returned back to West Virginia to practice law and
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raise my family in Hurricane, West Virginia. All right, So you're unlike
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a lot of people that live in Putnam County like myself, you're actually from
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there, actually actually from there. Played sports at Winfield High School. I've
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lived in various parts of the county. I know the county from Bancroft to
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Hurricane to Night Road to Buffalo, so I know the county very well.
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The thing about Putnam County, what I always say, is is that,
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and I guess this is true of a lot of counties. I've lived there
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for ten years now. People have a tendency to think that Puttnham County is
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Tys Valley, which which is where I live, and it is that's a
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big part of it. But there's a lot of bang Cross, there's a
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lot of red houses, there's a lot of Freight your Bottom, and a
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lot of other places in there as well. That's that's correct. And you
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know, I view Putnham County as the most idyllic county in the state of
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West Virginia. And I based that on the fact that I've litigated cases throughout
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the state of West Virginia, and it always dawns on me that Putnam County,
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in all areas, whether it's socioeconomic or judicial, we set the standard
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for this state and it is just an idyllic place to live. It has
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always been an idyllic place to live, regardless of where you whether you live
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north of the River or south of the river. And I want to serve
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Putnham County in the same capacity as I did in the US Jack Corps.
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The next Circuit Court judge for Division one, I want to talk about that.
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So why why make this decision at this point in your life to be
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the circuit judge of Putnam County. Well, we had, we talked earlier
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and this has been a dream of mine ever since I had a conversation with
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former Judge Hobby Spouting, and Judge Spouting really pushed me into the professional law
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and I saw the type of judge that he was. And as I've litigated
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cases throughout the state of West Virginia and including Putnham County, I would love
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to bring his standards back to Putnham County as their Circuit court judge. And
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I believe that I'm at a time in my career with my experience in all
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facets of the law, whether it be civil, criminal, abuse, neglect,
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or juvenile to serve Putnam County in that capacity. I know you just
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officially signed up to run. What are the plans for the campaign strategy?
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Because I talked to a lot of judicial candidates here. I've had a few
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on this week as a matter of fact, that are going to be serving
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in one way or the other in the court system. And it's not like
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your traditional campaigns. You know, you can't really go out and trash opponents
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and things, at least you're not supposed to do things like that. So
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what's the campaign strategy? I mean a lot of people already know you,
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but there's some that don't. Yeah, there's some that don't. And really,
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what I'm going to do and what my focus is is is what's my
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vision for Putnam County and what the vision that I have in contrast to what
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currently exists. There's going to be a lot of door to door. Unfortunately,
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I have a face for radios. I think a lot of people in
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Putnam County are going to get to know me and experience me for firsthand.
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But we're going to do We're going to walk it. I'm going to earn
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every vote, every vote north of the River, south of the River,
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by meeting people individually at their homes, at civic events, things of that
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nature. And also they'll be a heavy social media presence. I mean,
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that's the time, the current time that we live in. I'm a lifelong
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Republican. I have been unabashedly a Republican. I didn't just simply change parties
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to run in this race. I am proud of my Republican values. But
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I also think that my vision for the Circuit Court is attractive to everyone regardless
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of political perspective. On the spectrum, We're going to have a consistently hard
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working circuit courts. As the judge, I am going to hand down the
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maximum penalty for any crime in Putnam County that is allowable by law. Obviously,
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we have preceentencing reporting and things of that nature, but I can tell
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you it will quickly be known that if you commit a crime in Putnam County
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and mister Hoover is your judge, you can expect the maximum criminal penalty allowable
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by law. What other changes, if any, would you bring to the
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cervic courts as well. I think the biggest change that I can bring is
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I'm going to work. I think circuit courts should be accountable to the citizens
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of the county. And what I mean by that is, if you show
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up on a Monday or a Friday, whether it's in the am or the
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PM, you can expect that I'm going to be on the bitch and then
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I'm going to be effectively administrating justice. The problems that we have now and
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then it's not just in Putnam County but also statewide, is we have very
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slow court dockets. And I don't understand that I had horror continuances, and
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we have far too many continuances in civil cases. We have far too many
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continuances in criminal cases. And that's just not going to happen with me.
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The Supreme Courts promulgated time standards for both criminal cases and civil cases. The
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rules and the laws are already on the books. We just need to effectively
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administrate them. And that's going to happen under me. We're not going to
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have I've inacdotally. I've heard from people all over the county and it's always
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well, my case took too long, or there was a continuance, or
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this order wasn't entered an appropriate time. That simply isn't going to happen with
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me as your Circuit court judge. Talking to John Hoover again, who is
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a candidate for Circuit Court Judge of Putnam County, the Dave Allen showing five
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biggest challenges facing the court system these days? I don't necessarily mean a Putnam
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county, but I mean just the court system in American general. What are
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some of the biggest challenges you know? I get this question quite a bit
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from individuals and enduring meetings with businesses, and I think the biggest challenge goes
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back to what I just said. We have a court system that is bogged
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down with litigation. When I first started litigating cases, you had an expectation
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that you could have the case litigated whether and I'm speaking in the civil context,
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you had an expectation that that case would be resolved within twelve to fourteen
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months. I just sat in a scheduling conference, and I'm not going to
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identify the circuit clurp, but I just set in a scheduling conference just yesterday,
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and the first available date for a trial was twenty twenty six. Now
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we just entered twenty twenty four, and it's disheartening for me to have to
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go back and tell my client, you're going to have to wait two years.
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Maybe he could go leave thee and what goes on in their life during
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that too, Exactly that that's the biggest issue that I have is and I'll
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put it in the context of a civil case. If you're a victim and
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you're in a PI auto case, there are going to be litigation costs that
22:08
accumulate. Well, those costs are passed on hopefully to the victim in a
22:15
settlement or a favorable trial verdict. Well, the costs are going to be
22:19
demnimous if we handle that case within twelve to fourteen months. But they exponentially
22:25
get higher and higher with each continuance and each year of delay, to the
22:29
point where that's less money in the victim's pocket. It's less money. It
22:33
costs more to litigate the cases for both parties, and that has an economic
22:37
impact throughout the counties. And we have major major issues with bogged down court.
22:44
Dokas and I firmly believe that if we returned to just administrating the time
22:48
standards that the Supreme Court is handed down to us, we could rectify that.
22:53
And interestingly, I echoed hobby Spouting earlier, and he's my model and
22:57
my standard eating get a continuance and Hobbys Court, you knew going into the
23:03
scheduling conference there's not going to be a continuance. There simply isn't going to
23:06
be a continuance outside of the death in a family or something of that nature.
23:10
It wasn't going to happen. And that's the type of court that I'm
23:11
going to administer. We'll talk to you about drugs. Obviously, drugs are
23:15
a scourage. We all know that. I don't know what the situation is
23:18
getting any better. It just seems it doesn't get better. It's just the
23:22
products change. You know. Back in the day, it was pills,
23:26
especially in certain areas of the state, worse than others. And it was
23:30
heroin, and it was fentanyl, And that's kind of where we are right
23:33
now. How do we as a as a judge a little late do You
23:37
can't do a whole lot to prevent people from using drugs, But as a
23:38
judge, how do you how do you handle the drug crisis? Well,
23:41
tangentially, like I said earlier, if you commit a crime in Putnam County,
23:45
you can expect the harshest most maximum penalty allowable by the statue. And
23:52
that's how I'm going to attack the drug problem. We've seen a commensurate rise
23:56
in drug use throughout West Virginia nationally, with also a commensurate rise in alternative
24:03
sentencing directives and initiatives to try to handle drug related offenses. You're probably familiar
24:11
with drug courts and things of that nature, and I know your listeners are
24:14
as well. What we're seeing recipiism rates of seventy to eighty percent in those
24:19
programs. Those programs have been around for quite some time, maybe four to
24:23
five to six years. That tells me, as just an average Joe,
24:27
those programs aren't working, and I think we probably need to return to let's
24:33
administrate this problem through the criminal process. Like I said before, I think
24:37
if you as a community have a reputation that you're just not going to put
24:41
up with that type of conduct and that you're going to penalize it criminally through
24:47
both aggressive prosecution and the administration of swift effective criminal sentencing, it'll have a
24:53
much deeper impact on the drug problem than what we're currently experiencing today. John.
24:59
Where can people learn more about your campaign? Oh? I would love
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for them to go to Hooverfjudge dot com. That's our website. It's went
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live and we're going to continue to tweak that. But you can go there
25:11
and learn my five points of that I am going to advocate throughout this campaign.
25:17
And you can also go on our Facebook page to John Hoover for Putnam
25:21
County Circuit Court Judge and you'll see the same five point plan that I have
25:25
for Putnam County. And I'm really excited to share that door to door and
25:27
at all the civil civic events that I can. Give me thirty seconds uninterrupted
25:33
by me. Why should someone vote for John Hoover for Putnham County Circuit Court
25:37
Judge. I'm a Putnam native, I have lived in the county, I
25:42
currently live in the county, and I'm raising my children. I want to
25:45
serve you. I want to serve you because my family, my friends,
25:51
my business partners live in the county. We have an ability to have the
25:56
best circuit court system in the state of West Virginia if we administer the court
26:00
in a timely and efficient way with maximum criminal penalties and also addressing the backloged
26:08
abuse and neglect and juvenile cases with swift, hard working judge. And that's
26:14
why I'm running. John. We wish you'd it's been a pleasure having another
26:18
show. We wish it the best of luck with the campaign out there campaigning,
26:22
and we'll talk again soon. Thanks, Okay, I hoped I'd love
26:25
to come back and thank you for being so gracious and I'm very appreciative for
26:27
the opportunity. John Hoover again a candidate for Putnam Circuit Court judge. But
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who turns a nonpartisan race for judge into a partisan affair. Tex says,
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I find it hilarious that these lifelong Republicans running for circuit judge don't tell you
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they are lifelong plaineiff's attorneys that have made a living suing businesses. When John
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has sued. Uh Tex says justice delayed is justice denied. Far too many
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courts forget this principle. Springing Brian Wood, Puttnham County, Clark, candidate
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for West Virginia Secretary to stay Brian, good morning. How are you?
30:17
Good morning, sir? How are you? I am doing fine? Thank
30:18
you for me. It's like a Putnam County theme today. Man. We
30:21
just had somebody that's running for judge on a couple of moments ago, and
30:23
now we got you running out of Putnam County running for Secretary of State.
30:29
Yes, sir, how are you doing to that? I'm doing I'm doing
30:32
good. So it's official. I found to get up to Charleston and do
30:37
it as I was going to do it today. The baby dog showed up
30:41
and signed up Trump and all that, and I thought, well, I'm
30:44
gonna get lost in the crowd there and then and then the snow hit and
30:48
and we got plenty of work here at the office getting ready to prepare for
30:52
the upcoming election. So yeah, that was asking you to be my next
30:55
point. You you announ saw on this show a long long time ago that
30:59
you would be running for Secretary of State. You've been serving as Putnham County
31:02
Clerk for some time, and now you have made it official. How many
31:04
terms have you served as clerk of Putnam County? Brian. I'm currently in
31:08
my fourth term as County Clerk for Putnam County. I had two terms as
31:15
master prior to that, but for four terms county clerk. So I think
31:22
that I think it's kind of entry. I was thinking about this last night,
31:26
Brian. All the people that you've seen that have walked into your office
31:30
at the courthouse to sign on the dotted line to run for office, now
31:33
yourself are signing or have signed to run at the state Capitol's that's got to
31:38
be kind of different for you. Yes, sir, it's the first time
31:41
doing that. Have you told me two years ago that I'd be up with
31:45
the capital signing up to run for Secretary of State? I told you were
31:48
crazy. But you know, just looking at it, looking at the candidates
31:52
and the different people that thought may run, I just I feel like my
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you know, twenty years of managing elections here at the county level, working
32:05
with pole workers, working with my team, there's there's no candidate in the
32:09
race that can compare to my experience. When it comes to managing the public
32:15
office with different departments within you know, employees, as an elected officer who
32:22
has the answer to the people, and I've answered to the people time and
32:27
time again. I'm proud of the work we do here in Putnam County,
32:30
and I'm blessed to work for the people of Puttenham County. But I just
32:34
fulfilled that people of West Virginia deserves somebody that's is you know, politics is
32:39
early there, you know, because it's part of the process. I'm here
32:45
for the work. I've already pledged that I'm not going to be running for
32:47
any higher offices. And Secretary of State I want to do it because I
32:52
feel I've got the knowledge to move the office forward and in a good direction
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and basically kept put the wheels on the bus and hit the ground running.
33:02
From day one. It was a crowded field. At least it was at
33:07
one time. It's still somewhat crowded compared to some of the other races for
33:10
Secretary of State at Sate to West Virginia. Brian on the Republican side,
33:14
we know already earlier this week one person dropped out of the race, that
33:16
being Deuletgod Chris pretty announced on this show Monday that he would no longer be
33:21
seeking the office of Secretary of State, but would attempt instead to run for
33:23
state Senate. Now that leads former Legislator Ken Reid, Chris Warner, who
33:29
is the brother of current Secretary of State Macwater, and former House Minority Leader
33:31
Doug scaff and the race for secretary. Important to note, though, that
33:35
all candidates have until midnight Saturday to file, so there may be more that
33:38
jump in of those people that I mentioned, Brian, I don't exactly expecting
33:44
you to trash anybody anything like that, but other people I mentioned, you
33:46
feel pretty confidently though that you are the one for the job to talk about
33:50
that. You know, I believe they are all good people. Their some
33:55
that know better than the others. For me, it's not politics first.
34:00
I'm not part of the trost and in crowd. I'm not. I'm not
34:05
your typical statewide candidate. You know, I live paycheck to paycheck. You
34:10
know, my wife and I work hard just to you know, buy the
34:14
prom dresses from a junior in high school, and and and you know,
34:17
provide for our kids, and and you know, when the gas prices go
34:21
up, I feel in my budget this the same way as most West Virginians
34:24
do. Uh. But I also feel like, you know, it doesn't
34:28
always have to be the same same little Samuel and the same people, uh.
34:31
And that's in the circle get intelected to these these state offices. And
34:37
if there was ever a chance for the people in West Virginia to have somebody
34:42
that's not in the inner circle or interclique, that that knows the job that
34:47
I can't think of any other job in the world that that mimics the Secretary
34:52
of State other than a county clerk, because you know, to the secretary
34:54
state multiple divisions, county clerk multiple divisions. We both work with elections.
35:00
I'll know, just through my knowledge of twenty years of mannings and elections here
35:06
when people come to me with suggestions or problems or different things like that,
35:10
I don't know the nuts and bolts of it to make a good decision or
35:14
to talk with them about it in a sensible manner rather than having to learn
35:19
it, you know, the first two years and then run for office the
35:22
second two years. You know, it's about the work for me first and
35:25
then and then politics is just part of the process. Eight ten minutes away
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and Lumber of Windfield. Now, Brian, I know you've already spent a
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lot of time out on the campaign trail. What have you What have you
35:47
heard when you've been out talking to people around in the state of West Virginia
35:51
so far about the Secretary of State's office and about the race. Well,
35:55
people love my story. They love the fact that I put my pants on
35:59
just like they do. Uh. They love the fact that I'm humble in
36:02
that you know, Uh, I don't I'm not owed to anything, but
36:09
you know, I still have the passion to serve. They like the fact
36:14
that of the experience aspect of it, and they like the fact that hey,
36:17
it's a it's a different choice. You know, we don't have to
36:21
keep on the same old Samuel. I've been to more fairs, carnivals,
36:27
parades, and and UH dinners than all three of the opponents combined. Right
36:34
now, UH and I knew that I was gonna have to get out on
36:37
the road early and work on that because I wouldn't have the self financing aspect
36:43
of it, or the you know, the the infrastructure uh that's built through
36:52
the politics standpoint. I've got to rely on the people in the in the
36:58
little white houses that go to work every day, uh, to grassroots to
37:04
tell other people. I got to rely on, you know, other county
37:07
officials to tell people about me. I'm the only one that you know,
37:14
somebody could call somebody in Putnam County and say, hey, Kyle's Brian do
37:17
down there? You know? Is he a good clerk? You know?
37:21
Is his office responsive? Uh? Has he? You know, how does
37:24
he perform? I've got the resume, you and and I've got the and
37:30
I've got the that you know that the references that people could call and uh
37:36
and check on me. Uh. The the others you know that they don't
37:39
necessarily have that. They've always been in private business. They are always in
37:43
uh hidden behind layers of bureaucracy, and uh, there's no accountability. You
37:47
know, if if I mess up election, it's gonna be on front pages
37:51
of paper and everybody knows that you know if I if I'm not a good,
37:54
uh local candidate here, I wouldn't be in office for as long as
37:59
I've been. And so I just you know, I'm not hopefully I'm not
38:06
coming to office being harsh on the to the other candidates or anything like that.
38:13
But I'm not going to minimize what I have to offer to the people
38:16
in West Virginia. And I hope that the people offer the people in West
38:22
Virginia would appreciate it and give me the opportunity to work for them, and
38:30
I would appreciate their support and their vote, and please talk to their friends
38:34
and family and say, hey, let's let's give this guy I try.
38:38
Before we let you go, tell us about Brianwood, the guy. I
38:40
mean, we know that you've been a four term Putnam County clerk who were
38:44
a magistrate before that, but personally, just just talk about your personal life
38:47
a little bit. Who is Brian would Well, I'm a faith based person.
38:52
You know, I'm a lifelong West Virginia. I'm a lifelong Republican.
38:57
I've been married for twenty two years to my life. We like wife Beth
39:00
and uh super proud of her. She's my best cheerleader. And I love
39:05
her to that. I've got two wonderful kids. They've got one that's a
39:08
junior at Winfield High School and uh she's in love for the first time.
39:14
So trying to get used to that, yeah, and trying to swallow the
39:17
calls of the you know, the prom dresses and things like that. And
39:22
then I got a son that's that ford Eisen High right now, is getting
39:24
ready to graduate next week. So we're excited about going down there and seeing
39:29
him graduate and come back and see what life has to hold for him.
39:32
Uh So I'm very extremely a proud proud of him as well. I had
39:37
served as the president of the County Clerks Association and the media past president of
39:42
the County Clerks Association. So I've got, you know, good relationships with
39:49
the county clerks throughout the whole state and uh and I know what their needs
39:52
are, I know what they're you know, when they're when they're hurting,
39:57
I know they're hurting, and when they're when they're doing all, I know
40:00
they're doing well. And the uh So I got that good communication. You
40:04
know, the elections worked through the clerks and then down and run downhill to
40:08
the citizens through through the poll workers throughout the state, and so I've got
40:15
that rapport there. I also serve as a as a board member of the
40:20
Western Virginia Association of the Counties. I'm on the West Virginia have a grant
40:24
board, which is you know, basically divisi up federal money, uh to
40:30
help support local elections. I'm a member of the Elections Assistants Commission for the
40:37
State of Westernian local representative for the State of Western Elections Assistants Commission. And
40:44
there's two representatives. There's one on state level and then one on the county
40:46
level. And on that Uh, I'm just proud of, you know,
40:52
proud of what I offered the people of Western or you know, Putndam County.
40:58
And and I don't know, I'm excited about the opportunity to run.
41:06
I know it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard. You know.
41:07
I feel like I'm running with one arm tied behind my back because you know,
41:12
I will not give up the the tension to detail here in Putnam County
41:17
when managing this primary election, because the people Western Putnam County deserve that,
41:25
you know. So so we're going to keep to make sure we daughter eisee
41:30
and cross our teas here in Puttnam County. But we're also going to give
41:34
the people we're a chance to vote for somebody that can hit the ground running
41:39
from day one. Well, Brian, I wish you the best of luck.
41:42
I know you've got a lot of work to do out on the campaign
41:44
training. You got to get back to your your regular job right now as
41:46
a as a Puttnham County clerk. Best of like to you, my friend.
41:50
We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot. Can we get some dates
41:52
out? Absolutely? Go ahead? All right? So well, one thing
41:58
you can visit my website would for WV dot com. That would the number
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four WV dot com if you don't want to learn a little more about me
42:07
with some date. So right now, we're in Canada filing on the local
42:12
level. By law, the county clerks will be open from nine to noon,
42:16
but the Secretary of States office is open until midnight. I believe the
42:22
absentee valet applications are open now from now until May. A voter registration deadline
42:29
is April twenty third. The early voting is will be May first through May
42:37
eleventh. The early voting May first through May eleventh, an election day is
42:42
May fourteenth, and then we'll canvass the elections on May twentieth. All right,
42:46
And I know you normally have a complete list of all those available on
42:51
the on the website. I'm talking about the Putnam County website, right,
42:54
yes, sir, yes, sir, absolutely all right, Ryan Bessel like
42:58
man. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, all right, you
43:00
have a great day. Thank you for the talk to you. All right,
43:01
Thanks a lot again. Brian Wood, the County Clerk of Putnam County
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towards better health Today. Texas Brian Wood is the most knowledgeable person in the
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race. Put him in a debate with the other candidates, and he would
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blow them away. Brian Wood is a hard worker and is a good man.
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Tex says, any day you could tune in to the show and here
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I'm the only one. I'm the most qualified, I'm the most conservative,
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I'm a lifelong blah blah blah. There's definitely a lack of originality among Republican
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candidates. As a Texter, I'll be back at the Capitol ten oh six
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with talk Line. Brad will be there from the AARP Broadcast Center. Also
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Senator Patricia Rucker and more talk Line with Hobby KIRCHWLL ten o six from the
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Belly of the Beast at the Capitol. Let me get this in real quick.
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The giant potholes are back again, particularly sixty four east at the Nitro
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Entryway. I saw cars line up like five or more this morning, all
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with busted tires on my drive in around seven fifteen or so of this morning.
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To be careful we're traveling in that area because next up we'll be the
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band aid repair, which you know what that means. That means we put
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a little band aid on it and then that snarls up traffick again. Then
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we have the next snow, which causes more potholes, etc. Etc.
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to night. Deale Cooper's with us Reds caravan. Man, it's back,
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yeah, Man, always look forward to this. You and I did this
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last year and had a good time. Had a few technical difficulties last year,
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and so this year we've gotten ahead of the queue a little bit,
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and so we're going to be over there, set up at their appropriate location
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and everything. So it's going to be a great broadcast tonight. Jeff Jenkins
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will be over there hosting the thing. You're going to be over there as
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well. The Reds are coming to town. They had a couple of changes.
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I want to get these out real fast. Not that too bad of
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one. Cam Collier is no longer coming. He's a minor league prospect for
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the Reds, but he's being replaced by Julian agiar who is one of the
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Reds. He was their Pittuer of the Year last year in the minor league,
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so he's a bonafide prospect. So he's going to be coming to town
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and said, and also for those of you that care about the executive,
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Sean Pender is going to be here. He's the senior advisor to the President
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of Baseball Operations instead of Sam Grossman, the President of Baseball Operations. And
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Benzinger's there too, Yeah, Todd Benzinger is still coming. You know Brian
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Bradley who works with us, and he's a super Reds mister mister Red's Wilfi.
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A lot of people knew him when he was a work mascot work for
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us. He does all the Reds events with us. But he was kind
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of grumbling to me last night. Benzinger's going to be here with the caravan.
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And one of the last fan events that Brian attended he paid for the
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autograph and autographs tonight. Of course we're free, so thanks free by the
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way, exactly, the whole thing's free. You can just show up.
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Obviously, we're going to be on air. It's going to start at six
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o'clock. The festivity start over there at five thirty, but we won't miss
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anything all that important. Before we go on air at six, we'll carry
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the Q and A, and then Jeff will have exclusive interviews with each of
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the folks that are going to come by. You can go over there though,
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at five thirty or before then and meet some of the players, shake
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some hands, get to know some of the folks with the Reds, and
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then participate in the Q and A. Say hi to Dave and Jeff while
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you're over there too. We'll be over there all right, Coop, I
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appreciate it. Man, thanks a lot. Read's caravan again starts at five.
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We'll be life in there starting at six. It's free an opportunity for
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you to come and hang out with the Reds tonight over the Colosseuma Convention Center.
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I got to get this in because I'm way short on time here.
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Yesterday at the Capitol, I was on the air while the public hearing was
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going on on HB forty six to fifty four that would make institutions such as
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schools, museums, and libraries criminally liable for displaying so called obscene material.
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Now, if it passes those institutions that I mentioned could be subject to prosecution
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for the distribution and for the display of so called again obscene materials to miners.
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Now. I went back later though, and watched the public comments section,
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and oh my, uh, let me, I have seen a lot
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in my time, not only in the media and the radio business, but
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also being around the world of politics as I have, and I don't know
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that I've ever heard phrases like blank eating and blank plugs, et cetera,
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et cetera on the chamber floor. And let me just close, let me,
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let me just say this. I am all for keep these items away
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from kids, but at the expense of possibly fining or jailing the already grossly
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underpaid library staffs. And by the way, for the grandmas that spoke and
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the other people, I applaud you for getting out there and speaking and speaking
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your mind and being a part of the process. But you do know that
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your kid can literally access anything on that iPhone or tablet that sadly a lot
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of parents placing kids' hands from the time that they were born as a babysitter.
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So just so we're clear here, okay, go ahead and take away
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their iPads and their iPhones if you really want to make a difference. And
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we have this foster care crisis in our state. We talked about it on
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the show. You know at nauseum, our kids' test scores are abysmal.
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But this is what we're worried about. Again. I'm all for my opinion,
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my opinion on it. I'm all for keeping this stuff out of the
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hands of my mind. But you better take their iPhones and you better take
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their iPad because trust me, they're not going to the library to look at
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porn. They're setting on their couch. All right. That's a davitorial by
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the way. All right, gotta go. Thank you so much for Ryan
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Nicholson, Brian Wood, John Hoover, Dwayne Duncan, and Dale Cooper.
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We'll see over at the Reds Caravan tonight again. We start at five point
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thirty, will go live from their Jeff Jenkins, myself and others starting at
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six a clock to night over the connin Seaming Convention Center. Coming up on
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the show tomorrow, Doctor Casey Saxonbridge Valley will be stopping by and Hannah Gardner
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with our DoPT Me please pped the week from the Canawal Charlestony Main Association hobby
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kerchim Alive at the Capitol from the aa RP broadcast location coming up at ten
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oh six. Follow the news of the day all day on the websites.
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