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01/26/2024 580 Live: Kent Carper, Pet Adoptions, Elections, and More · The Dave Allen Show

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Doctor Casey Sacks. Abridge Valley is here, and Hannah Gardner from the
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Canal Charleston Humaine Association is here with this week's not Me Please Pet of the
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Week. But before we get to all that, yesterday, to the surprise
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of some Canawa County Commissioner Carper filed to run for re election for the county
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commission and Commissioner Carper joins us now. Commissioner, Good morning, welcome to
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the show. Well, good morning, Dave. Were you surprised when the
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bulldogs won? The Georgia Bulldogs? Yeah? Well who else what the dogs
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are? Well, there are no other dogs as far as I'm concerned.
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The Georgia Bulldog. I'm always I'm a diehard, but haven't been since I
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was a kid, a big Georgia Bulldogs. Yeah, so, Commissioner,
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I think there had been some some speculation that you was questionable. Right now,
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I give the answers. I haven't given the question yet, but I
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know what the question is going to be. Yeah, you said it twice,
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now, all right, speculation I wouldn't run, yes, some reason.
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Well the speculation has ended. Okay, you made it official earlier yesterday,
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I guess, or that's when it all came out. Yeah, about
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for four or fifteen something like that. If you go back and look,
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you won't find a foul photo of me. Ever, I think in twenty
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years, registering, I mean registering is dropping a piece of paper at the
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clerk. Saw. It is, it is, and it's become a lot
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bigger than that because people make a big deal. Oh it, it really
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doesn't. You get the same piece of paper no matter what. So I
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suspect other people will file for that office and they'll make a big show out
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of them. Usually you have people that are failed candidates, they've lost a
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couple of races, and they'll foul looking for something to do. So we'll
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see, it's up to the voters of Kennall County, pure and simple,
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and it's no singer. There had been some controversy surrounding you of the last
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year or so. We talked about that. We don't know what the future
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holds, but you feel you have a shot to win reelection. Now,
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I mean the voters have have done it every year, so I wasn't a
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fould if I didn't think I could. Right right, you stepped down as
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commissioned President Lance Wheeler is a new president, with your blessing. With your
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blessing, I may add, why did you choose to step down as president?
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Well, I chose to step down for a couple of reasons. Number
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one, I don't think it's any secret that others wanted that position. That's
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number one. Number Two, I'd held it for twenty years. You to
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be twenty years or someone breaks that record. So I'm in good shape for
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twenty years. Well, we wish you the best of luck. What do
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you want the voters of Kanawak County to know? Sir? Whenever I have
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any any other candidate for office on the show, I always say, I'll
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give you a thirty or so seconds uninterrupted. Why should people vote for you?
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So now that you are going to run for reelection, Commissioner Krper,
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what do you want the people of Kanawa County to know about you? For
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over twenty five years, I've had the privilege of serving the people of county.
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I chose to run again. It's not my seat, it's your seat.
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It's up to the voters. I think if we'd spend a little more
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time on my record here today, I've got a pretty good record, I
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believe, but that's up to the voters. So I want them to know
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that I'm willing to continue to serve it. To allow me to do so,
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it would be a great privilege under honor, talk about that record.
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Give me a couple of examples of things. And I know it's only like
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a five minute segment, but give me give me a couple of examples of
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things maybe here during your last term that you were particularly proud of. Sir
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Well, I don't really consider the last term any more important than my first
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term or the terms in between. I mean, there's no secret we wouldn't
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have the public Safety Complex with the Sheriff's Department and the Prosecute Attorney's office if
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it wasn't for me. That sounds like I'm bragging. And of course the
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taxpayers paid for it, so I know that. But I negotiated to work
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with the power company and got the building. I think that's made a big
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difference for public safety in Kennall County. Everyone agrees. I believe that I
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had a lot to do with saving Jaeger Airport, not once, but at
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least twice. The list is pretty long. You don't have enough time in
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five minutes. If you want to invite me back, I'll do it.
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And it sounds like I'm bragging, but you asked the question. Yeah,
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I'm trying to answer it. Well, you're always welcome. You're always welcome
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on this show, and I would be remiss, sir. And you've been
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on the show since these allegations have come out. Is there anything you'd like
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to say about about some allegations that have been floated around today? You brought
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it up. You brought it up five or six seven times. I think
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there's probably enough in one five minutes. Okay. I want to give you
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the opportunity if you'd like to time out, but if you don't, that's
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fine too. Well, Well, I did comment on it. I've known
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my statement on that's all I appreciate. I appreciate the op turning be on
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your show. All right, Well, you're always welcome, sir. We'll
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talk to you again soon. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you,
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thank you. Come mister Kent. Carper. Again, it is nine
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fourteen. It did surprise a lot of people today because there was speculation.
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But again, you know, I reached out to Commissioner Carper. I said,
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would you like to go on the show and talk about it? And
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he did his He did his part, and who knows. And it is
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important to note that in this country everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and
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that there have been no charges filed against King Carper. So I'm not saying
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that there won't be or there will be. I don't know, and I
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don't have a crystal ball, but nothing as of yet. Man, he
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is running for re election. I keep hearing he's a Democrat. Of course,
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we had a Republican person on the show yesterday that's going to be running,
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and I keep hearing that there's going to be at least one more Democrat.
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I hear speculation that as somebody who's very very well known in the political
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realm as a Democratic former statewide office holder is going to be filing for county
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commission. But they've got the rest of today until midnight tomorrow to file.
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So let's move on. Let's bring in a Handah Gardner with the Knaw charst
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Humaine Association with this week's Adopt Me PA Pet of the Week. Hannah,
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good morning. How are you? I'm gret, how are you? I
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am doing fine? You could follow up, can't carper? Now we get
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to go to talk about dog. So here we go. Awesome, let's
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talk about this dog known as Martha Stewart. That's the dog's name, and
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as always our doc Mey, please put the week's pictures posted Dave Allen Radio
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on Facebook and the Dave Allen Show on ex tell us about Martha Stewart.
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All right, well, Martha Stewart. She is a very sweet girl.
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She is a female. I don't think she's fixed yet, but of course
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she will be before she leaves the shelter if we can get her on the
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schedule in time. If not, she'll always be brought back to be six.
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And she is around one year and six fish months. Again, we
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estimate by their guns and their teeth, so it could be a roundabout,
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but she is around a year old. She has microchips vaccinated as astray to
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us, along with what we assume is maybe her brother. And his name
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if anybody's curious about him, is Notorious Doog. So yeah, he and
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her are both available, but she is our start today. So she's very
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very friendly, very very good with children from what we have seen in our
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care. Of course, we always it as caution with kids and dogs,
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and as well as other animals as well. She is good with other animals
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dogs for sure, we know I'm not sure about cats, but she does
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put for commer dogs. When she's in the playgroup, she is kind of
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staying to herself or hanging out with her brother, but she does kind of
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hang around the other commer dogs. But I think that's just because she's more
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sha she's more kind of hesitant to going out and playing with all the other
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dogs. I think maybe once she warms up, but she'll definitely come out
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of her shawl a little bit. But she is pretty laid back. She
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will play every now and then. But she's a good family dog, I
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would say. So. She is a social butterfly with people. She definitely
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loves people. She can be a little bit shy at first going too fast
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with her and stuff, but she's very very sweet and she is ready for
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a good home. And I believe she is around thirty one thirty two pounds.
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She's probably not going to get any bigger, right, I mean,
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that would be a good discussion. She's definitely not going to get any bigger.
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Might get she might get a little fatter like I do, But you
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mean she's not going to probably grow much, right, right? Should I
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get bicker? But she ain't getting bigger? Yeah? I get you.
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Let me talk about something you have going on to Shelter Hannah, and it's
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called this pick your Price deal through Sunday. Tell us about that. Yeah,
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so pick your Price. We used to do that more often than not,
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but recently we've been doing a bunch of other events lately. But this
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event is called pick your Price and it goes on until Sunday, which is
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the twenty eighth. We included pretty much all of the animals this time.
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We included cats. We included all of our adult dogs, and then most
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of our puppies are included as well. We try not to include the ones
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that are rather new, just to give them a chance to get a home,
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or if they have been in our care for a while, or if
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they've been medical cases or anything like that. It's really just dependent. You'll
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have to look on their cages or ask one of the staff members. But
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most of the puppies are included, so I would definitely go and look at
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them. We are open from twelve to six today, so if you don't
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come today, if you come tomorrow or Sunday, we're up in until five
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twelve to five, but definitely come and check it out. It is pick
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your price, so that is literally picking your price whatever it is that you
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have or want to pay. It can be more than the adoption, less
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than the adoption, or it can be very very minimal. But we are
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just thankful that people are trying to help sign homes, cities babies. Absolutely,
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before we let you go, give you about thirty or forty seconds here.
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What are you currently in need of at the shelter, Hannah? Yes,
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so we have I believe upwards of like two hundred and seventy two hundred
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and seventy two something like that animals in our care, So we definitely still
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always are needing blankets, sheets, and maybe not like the big, big
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big comforters or anything like that, but just big blankets and sheets and stuff
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like that. Dog food, we are always in need of dog food lately
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where we've had so many animals, Puppy food is definitely something we need and
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colors and leashes is something that we always need. And then we also have
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our wish lists on our website for Chewy and Amazon, and then we also
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have our wish lists for just physical donations that you can bring up to the
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shelter. And if you can't donate, you can always volunteer and help out
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or just spread the word. You're always thankful for everything that we can get,
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all right, and I appreciate it and we will talk to you soon.
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Thanks a lot, thank you and a gardener again from kennaw Charlesty,
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Maine Association. With this week's Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week, let's
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review Martha Stewart is her name. Pictures posted on Dave Allen Radio on Facebook
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and The Dave Allen Show on x She's a female came in as astray with
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what they believe to be her brother. The brother's name, by the way,
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the notorious dog. I love that they can be adopted separately, though
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they don't necessarily have to go together. One years old, vaccinated microchip not
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fixed yet but will be. Would probably do best with calmer, laid back
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dogs. Likes to be alone, super sweet and loves attentions. And cuddles
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would be good on aleish around thirty two pounds. That's about as good as
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she will get. So if you're looking about as big as you get,
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I should say if you're looking for a perfect small dog, this would be
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your dogg And you go over to Dave Allen Radio and Facebook or the Dave
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Allen Show and X take a look at the picture and then get in touch
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with Hannah and Foks at the charlest Ney Main Association and let's get Martha Stewart
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a couple of texts here, let me see. Uh, okay, I
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can not reading that. One text says, Uh, Commission Carper came across
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his little jerk on the radio. Well, I don't. I don't know
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if I would go along with that or not, but that's the opinion of
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the texture. Uh that interview was embarrassing, says a texture. Well maybe
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it was. Uh maybe I'm the one that made it embarrassing. I don't
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know. H let me see, okay text, So so what I take
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from that interviews? Mister Carper was dodgy. The allegations question, didn't you
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want to say whether they're true or not? I was accused of doing something
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like that, I would at least say the allegations are totally false. And
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that did not do that now or ever, says a texture. Text says
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at some point, can't you just want to enjoy life? Let it go?
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You can barely walk? Okay? Texture says that interview is awkward.
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Well, I do read. I do make interviews awkward sometimes, tex says
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Dave All and Kent Carper. There's no more awkward and cringey interview in the
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radio every single time. Just saying I don't know if that's because of me
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or because it can't. I don't know which one it is. Is all
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Carper about a controversial subject when you're running for public office? Who do you
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in cheek. Okay, that's so move on, doctor Casey Sachs from Bridge
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Valley's here. How are you, doctor Sam Deve? I'm great about you.
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Oh, you know, just just plain radio. I don't know how
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I how I recover from that, but anyway, I mean, you're living
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the dream. I am living the dream as they say, I've I've been
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living this same dream for thirty six years almost, but it's going out a
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Bridge Valley. I know you've had a lot of things actually over the last
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couples looking, you know, kind of scrolling on the social media there,
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and I mean there's been a lot of stuff going on out there. You
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had your win Academy talk about that and talk about the information, and the
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time is yours, doctor, So I actually, first I want to hand
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listening audience is also welcome to a ten Please go online and get your tickets.
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It should be a really fun celebraty a fancy thing. You sure you
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want me there? Yeah, I mean, I think you can pull off
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Fancy Dave obviously haven't met me. Okay, cowboy boots are welcome, all
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right, all right, all right, very good. But we're pretty excited
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about it. The college has never had something quite like this before. We're
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and it should be a good night. It should be a really fun time.
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And again, this is the tenth anniversary, the tenth anniversary of the
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college. We're so young, Yes you are, you are indeed, so
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talk about some of these other things going on here. You get this Win
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Academy. They had an information session I think help this week. Was that
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last night? It was it was last night. It was terrific for I
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haven't heard you on the show before. Doctor Sachs talk about what the Wind
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Academy is. So, the Wind Academy is a public charter school for eleventh
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and twelfth graders. It's a high school experience that's specifically designed to make sure
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students can get a nursing degree. And we're expanding in the fall to allow
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students who want to get a manufacturing to degree to go after that, and
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so a lot of other states have these early college academies. It's just new
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here in West Virginia. And the idea is, how do we get you
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on a pathway and how do we make sure that you're getting the same job
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and the same experience that students have who come to us as traditional college students.
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So it's very boutique and it's designed for students who already know that they
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want this experience. And our info sessions have been so fun because students are
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bringing their grandparents, They're bringing their parents and their older siblings. We have
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a couple sisters who I know the grandfather was trying to talk the older sister
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and coming with her little sister. So that's all been really wonderful just to
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see families come out and talk about what a great experience this has been for
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their kids and what a good opportunity it is for kids who want to sign
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up. And you mentioned parents and grandparents, and I know a lot of
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our folks that are listening right now know what the term FAFSA means. That's
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financial Well I don't exactly what does it actually its financial aid, but what
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does it actually stand for? The Federal Free application for federal student aid.
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Okay, So at the federal government, if you want access to federal dollars
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to go to college, they make you fill out this form. They've changed
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the form this year. I was gonna say, haven't there been some problems
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with the form? It's it's been kind of rocky. The intention was Congress
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said make the form shorter. It's too long. It's fifty pages long.
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This is ridiculous. Make it shorter. So the Department of Education in DC
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has been trying to make it shorter, and it has not been a smooth
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transition. The new form is supposed to pull data directly from your tax return
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and directly from sources the Feds already have. It's not working quite as they
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hoped it would. So once they get the bugs iarn out. We are
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really hopeful that it'll make the process easier for families. We'll have kids who
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are in the foster care system who don't have access to parents information to fill
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out the form, and so this should help. But we're not there yet.
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And that you all offering some help with this program for parents and grandparents.
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So Bridge Valley is doing Fastfoo workshops for folks. We want to make
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sure that people understand how to fill out the form. I know when I
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was a student, my parents had never gone to college, and so my
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mom said, great, fill out whatever forms you have to fill out.
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And I remember sitting at the kitchen table crying, being so frustrated trying to
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fill out this form. And so we try and make it easier than that
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for families. We don't want other kids to have the same experience that is
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just that frustration of not knowing how to do it. And I do want
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to mention that I get some information from the Kanaw County Board of Education last
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week. I was kind of going back, or actually earlier this week,
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and I think I'm working with the Brianna and the folks in the Board's office,
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and I'm going to have someone from the Kanaw County School System on the
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show next week talk about that because they're doing some things as well, because
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it is very, very difficult, and you know, going back, as
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you said, you were someone like myself, my parents also did not go
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to college. I think my mother made taking a couple classes here there,
23:15
but it did not have a college education. And sometimes you're asking people to
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fill out forms and maybe have zero experience with them. Now it can be
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dated and let's be honest. Let's be honest, actors. Acts. The
23:26
government doesn't always make things easier. No, No, it's all well intentioned,
23:30
but really more complicated than any one of us might make it. But
23:33
you're right. Kennaugh County Schools is doing FASSO workshops for students and families and
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we're a part of that too. We're really excited to be able to help
23:40
reach out into the school district and really anything we can do to help our
23:44
families be able to get access because so many folks can get this money and
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have then their college costs be much much lower. With the West Virginia invest
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Grant in community colleges, that makes the tuition covered for families even if you
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don't qualify for the federal aid, but you still have to fill out the
24:00
federal form. So we want to help folks. Appreciate you doing that,
24:03
and I know, as you said, the folks in the Kaana County school
24:06
System and another school system around the area trying to help out with that as
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you, doctor Sax. Earlier this week, there was an open house about
24:34
the FAME program, and we spent a lot of time talking about Fame.
24:37
Not the Irene Karra song, but obscure reference there. So tell us about
24:42
the FAME program and tell us about the open house. Yes, so that
24:45
FAME is the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education. It's a group that Toyota actually
24:51
started in Kentucky and they've replicated here and so the Federation is a group of
24:56
manufacturers who have collaboratively said we don't want to steal talent from each other,
25:00
we want to help grow talent in our community. So they pick an education
25:03
provider. They picked Bridge Valley and they work with the Putnam County Development Authority
25:07
to help recruit students to come into manufacturing, and the fame businesses select people
25:14
and they work three days a week at a business and they come to Bridge
25:17
Valley two days a week for school. Business pays them while they're going to
25:21
school, and we do all of the classroom instructions so that they are able
25:25
to go into advanced manufacturing technology. Most of those fame companies hire students when
25:30
they graduate, about nine out of ten end up with jobs at those same
25:33
companies where they've got And that's amazing to me because looking back one hundred years
25:37
ago when I was in college, thinking that, Okay, I'm working at
25:40
a place you're paying me to get educated, and not out of ten of
25:45
those students have a job waiting on them at the place that they've been working.
25:49
Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's really how we should be doing things.
25:52
It's just it takes that real collaboration between employers who have stepped up to
25:57
say we don't want to poach town from each other anymore, we want to
26:00
work collaboratively, and they've all agreed Bridge Valley is the place to send people
26:04
for the training that they need to get the job skills that exist in the
26:08
community. And then the Putnam County Development Authority acts sort of as an intermediary
26:14
where they're out talking to other businesses to recruit them to be part of the
26:17
group and talking to kids in schools to say, hey, you really should
26:21
make sure you're signed up for this training at Bridge Valley so you can get
26:22
these jobs. It's great for all of us. And you mentioned Toyota.
26:27
I don't think sometimes people realize what a good community partner. Somebody who lives
26:32
in Putnam County. I know what a good community partner that Toyota has been
26:37
ever since they've been here, and not only just for Putnam County, but
26:38
the entire state of West Virginia. They do it right, they really do.
26:42
They've been wonderful. We've always had an executive sit on Bridge Valley's board
26:47
for the last ten years, as long as we've been to college. We
26:49
run all of our manufacturing programs out of Toyota Hall out at the Tech Park.
26:53
They just gave us another scholarship for a group of students. We do
26:59
a summer stem camp, so we bring in middle schoolers and high schoolers to
27:03
help teach them about science, technology, engineering, and math. It's a
27:07
summer program that we like to do in Toyota. Help sponsor it. They've
27:10
been a sponsor for the last ten years, so really, you're right,
27:14
they're wonderful community partners. Talk about some of the other training programs that are
27:18
available out of Bridge Valleys as the face of education, as we talk about
27:22
all the time when you're on the show, the face of education has changed
27:26
in higher education. Talk about some of the things that are offered out at
27:29
Bridge Value people possibly may not be aware of. So one program that we
27:33
have that gosh, hospitals are screaming for more people out of this program.
27:37
It's called Medical Laboratory Technology or MLT, and the job is people who you
27:42
know, once you've had your blood drawn at a hospital, someone has to
27:45
look at your blood. They have to decide are you sick, do you
27:48
have COVID or do you have the flu? And whoever is looking at those
27:52
cells their medical lab techs. So we have a program that trains people to
27:56
be medical lab techs. It's a great paying job. All of our students
28:02
are getting employed, but it's one of those jobs that people don't automatically know
28:06
about. So we've been recruiting in science classes, we've been recruiting from high
28:11
schools. We're really trying hard to figure out how do we get more people
28:14
to know about MLT because there's such a demand in the community and it's such
28:18
a great program. So that's a good example. Another example of something we
28:21
have that's just highly in demand is the CDL program. You have to have
28:26
a CDL even just to be aligned with rcial Driver's license h marcial Driver's License.
28:30
So one of the projects that we're doing right now that we're pretty excited
28:33
about is we just started working with an engineer to tear down a couple of
28:37
old buildings in Montgomery that nobody's been using, and we're going to pave the
28:41
site and we'll have a big flat area finally in Montgomery where we can do
28:45
some really formal CDL training, okay, like on the job, I mean,
28:48
you know, actually steering wheel and hand kind of trying will in hand.
28:51
We put in some really state of the art simulators too, so we
28:55
can teach you how to double clutch without getting you in the real truck first,
28:57
and once you know what the skill looks like, then we can put
29:00
you in the real truck. It's amazing right now. I've said this before
29:04
that if you have a CDL license in this country right now, you have
29:10
so many opportunities. And people say, well, I don't want to drive
29:11
a truck, Well, there's a whole lot more to it than just the
29:14
truck driving and driving you hauling goods. There's so many If you've got a
29:18
CDL lies, you've got a ticket pretty much to do a whole variety of
29:22
things, doctor Sacks. We have two million CDL truck drivers in the country.
29:26
That's more than there are people in West Virginia. It's a huge We
29:30
need more, ga we do, and we really need more. And locally,
29:33
one of the things that I hear from lots of local employers is CDL
29:36
long haul is a great job, and if that works for you, that's
29:38
terrific. But lots of folks want to stay in town and want to be
29:41
home when their kids are home at night. Yeah, and the city can't
29:45
find people to drive trucks. The school districts can't find people to drive school
29:48
buses. And those are all folks who have to have a CDL. Indeed,
29:52
where can people learn more about any of the activities that we talked about
29:55
to give us the website and whatnot. Bridge Valley dot edu. Right,
29:59
Doctor Sacks, is always a p pleasure to have you on the show,
30:02
and I can tell one of the great things I like about having you on
30:03
the show is that you truly believe in the mission of Bridge Valley. I
30:08
mean you tell by looking at you and listening to you, you're really excited
30:11
about the work that you folks are doing out there, and that's great to
30:14
hear. It's a wonderful college. The people there are terrific. They've been
30:17
there a long time and I'm thrilled to get to be part of the community.
30:19
I will talk to you again soon. I appreciate Doctor Casey Sachs again
30:22
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show now though Tristan Levitt, he's a candidate for House in District fifty three.
33:49
Is that right? That's right? All right, welcome to the show.
33:51
Good morning, Thank you, Thank you so much for having me.
33:52
Thank you for being here. Now you've been on the show before. But
33:54
tell us a little bit about Tristan Levit. Give us the bio on yourself,
33:58
sir, Yeah, absolutely so. Up in rural Idaho, the oldest
34:00
of seven children. My dad's a small business owner, did drywall. My
34:04
mom stayed home to raise us. I grew up with him. He needed
34:07
help, so I grew up doing in the summer's doing drywall. So I
34:09
learned the value of hard work at an early age hanging she rock and money
34:14
was always tight, so I also learned the value of watching every dollar making
34:15
account. I met the love of my life, Brittany Atkinson, in college,
34:20
and so I first came to Charleston in two thousand and five. She's
34:22
a lifelong resident. She was born and raised in Knaw County, and so
34:27
I knew when I married her, I was married into West Virginia for life,
34:30
and so we Our oldest son was born here at Women's and Children's in
34:32
two thousand and seven. I worked here at Steptoe and Johnson twenty ten as
34:36
a lawyer, and I thought we would stay here, but I had a
34:37
very unique opportunity to go work for Senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate ju Shurry
34:42
Committee in Congress and as a lawyer investigating waste fraud abuse in the federal government.
34:46
And my first investigation was into Operation Fast and Furious, and so for
34:50
the next really ten years after that, my career was just working with whistleblowers
34:52
to find and fix problems in government. So we have five kids. We
34:55
moved back here to raise those five children they wrenched from a junior we were
35:00
at Capitol High School down to a kindergartner at Refere Elementary who was just honored
35:02
this morning. We were just there for her leadership with some of her peers
35:07
and there. Our kids are just involved in all sorts of things. So
35:08
you'll find us at school sporting events and you know, performing arts activities in
35:14
Canas City soccer games and Applechian Children's Chorus in River City, East Bala.
35:19
So we just love this community, are really proud to be a part of
35:21
it. If you don't mind asking, how did you end up in West
35:22
Virginia? So I had the opportunity to work remotely after working with whistleblowers for
35:27
so long, I had the opportunity to work remotely when I was nominated to
35:30
position and confirmed by the United States Senate, and it was to be as
35:32
a judge to hear appeals from federal employees who had either gotten in trouble for
35:37
doing bad things that we wanted to get out the door, or those that
35:39
were whistleblowers being retaliated against. So as soon as we had that opportunity to
35:43
work remotely, we moved back here, which again, we talked about for
35:45
years and it's been the biggest blessing for us. Now, you know,
35:49
you're a multi faceted guy, and you've kind of gotten into that a little
35:52
bit. But with all of those things that you've done and all this experience,
35:54
why do you want to serve in the house. So this is really
35:58
a unique opportunity for West Virginia right now. A lot of West Virginians,
36:02
including those in eastern Kannak County where we live, are really hurting. And
36:07
in part that's because of national things like Bidenomics and killer inflation that are really
36:10
hurting people in the pocketbook. But a lot of it's really unique to our
36:14
area. Right so for many years, jobs have been leaving, people have
36:16
been moving out. Of course, the flooding, really severe flooding last two
36:21
summers really you know, devastated a lot of folks. And so people need
36:25
a government that works for them. And my background is in finding and fixing
36:30
problems in government, and so I really want to help to champion in West
36:32
Virginia. And I believe that, you know, we can make this state
36:36
a place where my kids can stay to raise their families. And as a
36:38
West Virginia by choice. I believe I'm you know, uniquely qualified also to
36:43
help champion policies in the state House that will attract more people here to live,
36:46
work and raise a family. What are some of the policies that you'd
36:50
like to work on to try to champion, as you said, so some
36:52
of them that are really close to our heart. You know, this is
36:53
Education Freedom Week, and one of the things that we really had followed closely
36:58
before we moved here was the education the school choice provisions. So the Hope
37:01
Scholarship is something that we're beneficiary of. Our daughter has multiple learning disabilities,
37:06
and four of our kids are in public school, but she's at Trust Montestory,
37:07
So expanding the Hope Scholarship is something that's very very important to us.
37:10
Additionally, even though there have been all these amazing economic development announcements over the
37:15
last couple of years, I've talked to a lot of companies and people still
37:20
look at our public school numbers and say, is this the place where I
37:22
want to come? And so I'm very passionate about improving our public schools.
37:25
Not everybody's going to have, even with the Hope Scholarship, the opportunity or
37:29
the ability to go to a private school. Obviously, homeschooling and micro schooling
37:32
are possible with hope, but so lots of policies like that. I think
37:35
the tax cuts are things that will draw people here to our state and so
37:39
identifying, you know, pro growth policies that not just bring in the businesses
37:45
but bring in the families and individuals to work. Those those are all things
37:49
that any smart legislator should be very focused on. Bea And we're talking with
37:52
Tristan Levit, who's a candidate for our house in District fifty three. Phone
37:54
calls to the show service of Big Lee, Pigley Whiggly and our Texi service
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provided by Fruit Pharmacy or Hometown Family Pharmacy for seventy one years. It's been
38:04
a lively session so far. Tristan, anything in particular that you've been kind
38:09
of keeping an eye on or anything you'd like to comment on so far.
38:13
I've been following almost everything I've been I've spent as much time as I could
38:15
down at the State House just to follow and learn as much as I could.
38:19
One thing that I'm really excited about actually comes from last year. I'm
38:23
on the board of the West Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition, and so my
38:28
fellow board member Andrew Garrett, and I were at one of the two crisis
38:30
pregnancy centers here in Charleston last fall, and we had a really great conversation
38:36
there about the importance of caring for young mothers not just through conception and birth,
38:40
but with the challenges they faced there, especially those were single mothers.
38:44
And so Faith and Freedom has helped to get a bill introduced that would remove
38:47
the sales tax for baby formula, for bottles, for diapers, for car
38:52
seats, and so we're really excited about that. Obviously, there's a lot
38:55
of other a lot of other issues that are going on, and so finding
38:59
things that will not just again attract people here, but protect families, protect
39:02
children. A lot of that has been discussed. Finding the right way to
39:06
do it is can be complex, but you know, there's exciting things happening,
39:09
and there's some there's some you know, there's a lot of proposals that
39:14
will have an impact on people one way or the other, for better or
39:15
for worse. I didn't mention at the top of the show, but I
39:17
guess people can kind of tell by listening to you that you are a Republican.
39:22
I am a Republican. I'm a conservative Republican. Sometimes with some of
39:23
my guess I don't feel like I need to do that. They just listen
39:27
to you talking. You can say that you are a conservative Republican. I
39:30
am. I am absolutely yeah. So I'm actually a member of the kannak
39:31
Anty Republican Executive Committee. Right, right, So you're you weren't around in
39:37
West Virginia when West Virginia was controlled by Democratic you know, by the Democratic
39:42
Party for eighty eighty years. Well, again, I worked here at Stepto
39:45
during the time when that was. Okay, okay, but okay, yeah,
39:46
that's right, you are. You're my fault. But for the most
39:50
part, neither one of us were around for that eighty and before you say,
39:52
no, I wasn't around all eighty years, So don't don't even go
39:54
there. But my point in saying that is there's been a drastic change.
40:00
Obviously, that's the understatement of the year in West Virginia since you know,
40:05
late twenty eight, nine, ten, twenty fourteen, the end of the
40:08
two thousands. I'll just say that some have said it's not changed for the
40:14
better. I would argue that if you look at all of these economy and
40:19
I know it's not, as you said, Tristan, not just about the
40:21
economy. But if you look at all these economic announcements that have been coming,
40:23
starting well before the current administration and going back then, that something is
40:29
going. Something must be going right to again to have these businesses want to
40:34
come to West Virginia. That's the point I keep trying to drive home.
40:37
Yes, the economy may be growing in some areas, but there's a reason
40:42
why they're choosing West Virginia. So what do you hope to do to further
40:45
that people would want to choose West Virginia over any other state? So I
40:52
tend to think of this issue in two areas. This is the lawyer in
40:54
beginning getting in my way. But I think a lot of the low hanging
40:58
fruit for Republicans in twenty five fifteen, like changing right to work laws,
41:01
to reform you know, on the judicial hell whole list for a lot of
41:05
years, including what I was at a law firm here. So I think
41:07
policies like that are why states are newly considering West Virginia. Things have changed
41:10
in that way. That said, what's left, And of course the tax
41:15
cuts were a huge, huge accomplishment, and I hope we get down to
41:17
zero percent on the income tax. But though again that's kind of the that
41:22
was the low hanging fruit for Republicans, what's left, it seems to me,
41:25
are a lot of really complex issues. So again, if we don't
41:28
fix our public education, people may not come, and if they come,
41:30
they may not stay. The challenges with thorny issues that I haven't had the
41:35
chance to write my sleeve yet, but PIA and keeping EMT workers and teacher
41:39
pay, all of those things. So there are just some structural things,
41:43
and it's exacerbated by you know, lingering effects from the COVID pandemic that again
41:46
hurts small businesses. So as a small business owner in our home again,
41:51
my wife owns Nelly's Cookie Jar. I can't remember if I mentioned that earlier
41:53
and not, but we're small business and so she's a capital market all the
41:59
time. But so, you know, policies that benefit small businesses. I
42:04
understand the need to compete with other states with these huge, you know,
42:07
these huge packages to try and attract big corporations, but focusing on small businesses
42:10
here too, I think can really help, not just to benefit those that
42:14
already live here, but again attract more people to come. Give me thirty
42:17
seconds on why people should vote for Tristan Levitt for a House because I show
42:22
up and I do the work. And if you look on my social media
42:25
or talk to anyone who's in Kannak candidate's involved in politics, you will see
42:29
that that's the case. And so I absolutely want to as a conservative Republican
42:32
challenge or champion policies that will benefit West Virginia. And because of my background
42:37
in finding and fixing problems in government, I believe I can help government make
42:40
better for you, work better for you. I wish you the best to
42:44
luck out on the campaign trail. Tristan Levitt, Republican candidate for House in
42:46
District fifty three, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. Thanks for
42:49
having me. Next time, bring samples. Okay, we'll do I'm kidding.
42:52
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Desire producer. Today tomorrow is the last day for candidates to file to run
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for office for the May fourteenth primary election. Britney Westfall is the director of
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Elections for the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office, and she joins us.
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Now, Brittany, good morning, welcome to the show. Good morning,
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thank you, thank you for being here, fun times all the way up
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till midnight tomorrow night in the secretary of State's office. Right, that is
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correct. So I was looking at the numbers, and so far nearly five
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hundred people overall have filed to run for offices around the state, is that
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right? That's correct, Well, all around the state if you count the
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county offices, we're now over statewide seventeen hundred candidates. And there are as
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you said, there are many, not only statewide, but also you've got
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the local races as well. What does it actually take to file to run
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for office in West Virginia? Britney. So, to run for office in
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the primary election, you will need to file your certificate announcement candidate filing SEA
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and have that notarized or come here to have it notarized at the Secretary of
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State's office. So that is if you want to run for a state office
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or a multi county office. If you want to run for a county office,
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then you'll do that filing with your county clerk, so you'll need your
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certificate announcement. You'll need to make sure that is notarized and to have your
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file. Now our state capital, we are going to be open here until
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midnight tomorrow night, so from nine to midnight. For county offices, they
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will be open from nine to noon, but you should definitely contact your county
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clerk's office just to make sure. Yeah, because all of the all the
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courthouses, as you said, the county clerk's office, whatnot, they may
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be different. But at the Capitol, you folks are going to be there
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till midnight tomorrow night. And it's always interesting, even well before I started
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doing the show, Brittany, and before I spent my time working in the
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Secretary of State's office, it's always interesting how people will watch that website and
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watch to see who comes in because there are those, as you know,
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with the flair for the dramatic, and there's nothing wrong with that that like
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to come in at eleven fifty five, or they like to bring the entire
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family with them, or you know, the entourage with them and film it
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and so on and so forth. So there's a little bit of drama involved
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here, right well, I hope there's no drama. But yes, you're
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not on your end the drama on there, I mean, you know,
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definitely not on your end. Yeah. And you mentioned that they that they
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can file at the at their county clerk's office and so on and so forth
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and so forth, or come into the Secretary of State's office. And you
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folks have done a great job of keeping track of all the filings on the
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website as well. Well, thank you. Yes, we like to have
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those up. The public is looking forward to seeing those. Any any advice
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that you want to give to those that are on the on the on the
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fence right now as to whether they should decide to run for office tomorrow or
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not, Any any advice you want to give them. Yes, I want
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to be sure that if you are getting your filing in the mail, you
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want to make sure that is post office postmarked at the United States Post Office
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by tomorrow, by the twenty seventh. If you're coming in person, you
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know the hours now, so come see us. If you are mailing your
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form, you want to contact us just to make sure you're filling everything out
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right, because if that comes after the twenty seventh and there's mistakes, then
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we will not be able to accept that. So let's be very careful as
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we're following at the last minute to make sure you have all your information and
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requirements for running. All right, Brittany, I know you folks are busy
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in the offices as you head up into twelve o one am Sunday morning.
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I'll let you get back to it. Britney west Fall, I appreciate you
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being here. Thanks a lot, thank you, I had Britney Westfall again
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the director of Elections for the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office. Let me
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knock out a couple of texts here before we end it all for the week.
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Texas Dave Big thanks to Delegates Horset, Hornsby, thorn heckerd Height and
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Dean for introducing House Bill five thousand and eight to bring a true three hundred
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and sixty five day fishing license program to West Virginia, good for one year
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from dat to purchase. Hopefully it passes and we bring West Virginia fishing into
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the twenty first century, says ask Tristan. Why it is three point two
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percent GDP growth that last quarter under Biden is good federal money and the centers
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are the reasons for job growth. Stop lying to yourself and everyone else.
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Well again, why are they choosing West Virginia to come here though? Tex
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says, Dave don't need more women haters in the legislature. Social issues and
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the people needs to stop. According to a text, we're going to be
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keeping a close eye on the Republican Party's winner. Meeting tomorrow in Charleston,
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the Republican Executive Committee will meet to vote on a proposed resolution to close the
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Republican primary. This made anyone other than registered Republicans. So, in other
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words, if you are a registered independent, if this passes tomorrow what's being
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proposed, you would not be allowed to request a Republican ballot, as many
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independents frequently do. Again, if you're registered, it's nonpartisan. You are
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independent. You go to your polling place and you say, I am Dave.
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I would like to have a Republican or Democrat ballot. If some Republicans
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get their way, then you'd have to be a registered Republican, And if
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you're not, you would only be able to vote for the nonpartisan races.
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Your judge's magisters, whatever that's could be taken up at the Republican Party's winner
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meeting tomorrow and Charleston up scheduled for last week, but because of the weather
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it is postponed to this week. I'm not sure which way it's gonna go.
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Hoppy actually has a poll going on on X the artist wim me known
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to Twitter right now, so you could weigh in on what you think about
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that. I will say this editorial comment, I don't think it's a smart
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move on behalf of Republicans. I just I really don't. There are a
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lot of people that are registered independent, and these studies have shown they tend
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to vote Republican, and I think you run the risk, in my opinion,
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of peeing off a whole lot of independence. If this passes, we'll
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see what happens. It'll happen tomorrow. Also, Republican Party may be choosing
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a new chair tomorrow. Lja mccardo is going to be stepping down to perhaps
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run for a judicial position. All right, got to go. Thank you
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to all my guests today. Coming up on Monday show, chero Ellis from
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Advantage Value will be stopping by. Also John Corbett from The Special Olympics is
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on the show as well. Hobby Kercheville coming up with the news. My
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producer was the A Train Anthony Harmon, Thank you so much. Following the
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