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02/22/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Kent Leonhardt, Brad McElhinny · The Dave Allen Show

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is this situation with the state Transportation Director, jimmy Riston. We're going to
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get into that's a little bit later on in the show. Plus Brad mcilhoney
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Hill, he'll weigh in on that from the Capitol. Also some other things
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that are going on in state government. We'll cover those with But right now
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I want to welcome to the show of the show. State Agriculture Commission Kent
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Leonhard, Good morning, sir, Welcome to the show. Good morning,
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Dave. I'm great to be here, Thanks for having me on. Thank
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you for being There's been a while since we've had you on. What's new
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with you, sir. Well, we're obviously in the middle of the legislative
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session, but at the same time, we are out there working to promote
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agriculture, and I'm proud to say it's a great time to be in agriculture
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in West Virginia. The National ad Statistics released some figures last week that were
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great. One thousand more producers from seventeen twenty seventeen when I first took office
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to twenty twenty two. Red meat productions up over fifty percent. We've got
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retail sales sales for retailers up fifty seven percent in that timeframe. Cattle numbers
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are trending up. Everything's looking great in agriculture, and it's because we have
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all our partners and at higher education just working together. And speaking of which
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I know that there were some announcements made about some things going on in the
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realm of higher education, including over at West Virginia State. There's some exciting
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things going on there as it relates to agriculture. There's a lot of programs.
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It's great because you have Parkersburg and WVU and West Virginia State and Potomac
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all trying to develop agricultural programs. That just shows the enthusiasm that's out there
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for agriculture in the state of West Virginia. This week is National FFA Week.
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I visited three schools in the last two days and talked to the students,
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hopefully inspired them to continue even if they don't stay in agriculture when they
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leave those programs of the educated consumers. But the neat thing about it,
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Dave, is we have a record number of students enrolled in FFA in West
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Virginia of all times. That's awesome. I mean, it really isn't.
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And I think when you go in and you talk to these students, mister
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Commissioner, I think that you tell them, look, you don't just have
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to be a farmer. I mean they are not novig anything wrong with farming,
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but there are other ways you can get paid, have a good living
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in the agriculture community. Oh absolutely. Look at some of the economic development
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we've brought in as since I've been commissioner, like Mountaintop Beverage up in Morgantown.
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That's to it aseptic milk processing and creating three hundred jobs that help fill
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that void when we lost my land. Farmers markets have tripled. There's we're
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working with nonprofits like the Food and Farm Coalition and the Farmers Market Association,
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and farmers markets have almost tripled since I've been in office. There's a lot
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of different things. We've got research, you've got chemists, you've got microbiology,
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you've got economic development, and you've got agritourism. You can't forget that
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too. That's a big thing right now. Agriturism is becoming a big thing
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across America. It sure is becoming a big thing. And you know,
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I like to tell a little bit about you know what makes ag I mean
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tourism in West Virginia so wonderful. It's our clean waters and our beautiful forests.
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And your Department of Agriculture plays a big part in that. Talking again
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with State agricultur Commission knt Lee and hard you mentioned the session. What have
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you been keeping an eye on as far as the session goes, Well,
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we're work on trying to get some truth and labeling things, going to make
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sure that people know what they're eating, you know, because a lot of
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people are worried about the sale based meats and things of that nature. We
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hope that gets through the legislature. Obviously, the budget's always a big concern,
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and we're also trying to make sure that we do something on protecting our
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farmlands from foreign lands. I know that's a big thing. It wasn't long
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ago when everybody was touting about China coming in and the oil and gas industry.
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I was one of the state leaders that was not in favor of that,
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and fortunately it did not happen. But now we're trying to get some
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things codified. Our bill proposal uses Trump's executive order just listing those countries that
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are on the terrorist state to make sure that they can't come in and buy
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lands in West Virginia. There is a lot of concern about the matter of
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fact, Commissioner, I was reading an article about that the other day,
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about China coming in and buying up. As you said, at one time
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it was considered to be oil and gas. Now it's farm land that they're
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trying. That's correct. Fortunately for West Virginia, I've checked. We don't
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really have any of that going on right at this time, but we want
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to make sure we're wary of that. You know, there's other states that
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are bigger in agriculture that are a greater target. I've checked in with the
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see where the industries are doing their research, and there's folks that want to
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make sure there's research is protected because some of the foreign companies do do research
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right here and we want to benefit from that as well. It's a very
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complicated issue. We don't want to take a person's property rights away from telling
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to whoever they want, but we also want to make sure we protect agriculture.
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Very complicated. I don't know if we're going to get that across the
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finish line this year. I tried last year to get it across something stopped
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it. We're trying again this year. There's been some debate in of course
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it's under the dome, but also has been talked about in the media as
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it pertains this whole raw milk thing. Do you have an opinion on that,
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you're a farm guy, I don't completely understand it myself, but do
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you have an opinion on that? Well, my opinion on it is that
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people have a right to choose and if they want to drink raw milk.
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Let them go drink. Let them drink raw milk, but they need to
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know what they're getting into. People do get sick from raw milk. It
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does need to pre properly labeled and there should be some things on the label
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that tells when the milk was produced and what the shelf life is and how
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it should be marketed. I prefer to use the old pasteurization myself. It's
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worked for a long time. It's worked for a long time. But there
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are people that are passionate about it, and they should pursue their passion,
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but just be careful on how you do. Say Agriculture commission can't. Leonhardes
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Saturday to be exactly annual Winter Blues Farmers Market happening one toll six at Thekyble
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Seaman Convention Center, So talk about that. Well, this is a great
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event that we have every year. It's getting bigger and bigger every year,
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and I want to assure those that showed up. Last year. We had
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so many people come in, it was very crowded and it was tough to
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get through. So the space has been expanded, the aisles are wider.
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We hope you have a better It was a great experience for everybody. We
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had record sales and we hope to break those records again this year, but
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it should be a little bit better experience during the high times, and we
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also extended it an hour for this year's show. We tie it in with
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the Small Farms Conference where we bring people in and we teach them how to
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do a small farm in West Virginia. We do this with one of our
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partners at WVU Extension and it works out great every year. So proud to
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be hosting this again this year. I want to switch gears here for a
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moment. You've announced, sir, that you will be running for reelection as
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Agriculture Commissioner. You have at least two other opponents that I'm aware of.
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Why should the voters of West Virginia reelect can't leenhard to state agriculture commissioner?
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Well, obviously probably, I'm already proven. I kept agriculture open during COVID,
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which was no small chore. Exactly, our stores were fuller than our
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neighboring states. I talked to these ag commissioners. My peers elected me to
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be the president of the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture Big states.
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How cool is that West Virginia, not a big ag state as like Georgia,
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Florida, and Texas, gets elected by those individuals to be the Southern
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We did that in twenty twenty two. I'm currently vice president of the Southern
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US Trade Association, again elected unanimously by my peers, and in eighteen months,
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if re elected, I'll be the president. Now, we don't do
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a lot of foreign trade, but I want to be able to invite food
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processing into this like we did with Mountaintop Beverage. And I know others that
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want to come to the state. We're going to be working on that,
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and I can look them in the eye and say, if you want to
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get into foreign trade and help with the economy in West Virginia. I can
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help you. If I sit back and don't do those type of things,
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we'll never get anywhere. So that's some of the reasons why they should re
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elect me. And again we talked about the statistics. It's growing. Even
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though I don't run FFA, our numbers are growing in FFA because we're partnered
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with all those the schools, Department of Education, the USDA, got great
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working relationships with them. I've testified before Congress on chronic wasting disease getting those
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studies improved. There's an awful lot of things that I do at the national
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level, and currently I am chair of the Rural Development and Financial Security Committee
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of the National Association Departments of Agriculture. So we're very much involved. We're
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very much engaged. We're moving West Virginia agriculture forward. That's why I'm going
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to ask Beta Real at Kent Leonhardt, you know that just occur to be
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We'll let you go on this one on a kind of a high note here.
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When that first Board of Public Works meeting comes up on January twenty twenty
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five, it's going to be interesting because there's going to be a new governor
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one way or the other because governor Justice is term limited. At new Secretary
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of State, Auditor at treasure, Attorney general, all those are going to
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be new people in those positions. You're the that makes you the veteran,
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sir, so that means you're in charge, right, Well, it doesn't
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make me in charge. The new government will be leading those meetings. But
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that's one of the decisions I made to stay agriculture and be commissioner so that
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we do have somebody that's with experience that are sitting on that board of Public
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Works. All right, ad Commissioner Kent Lee Hart. Always a pleasure to
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have you in the show, sir. Good luck with everything, including the
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big event at the Kyle sum Of Convention Center this weekend. We'll talk again
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a little bit later on, but right now I want to walk come into
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the show from the State Capitol. Brad Michaelhanny, Brad, good morning,
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how are you? Oh Hi, Dave. I've got to keep it short
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because these House Finance Committee has taken up some pay raises. I'm hoping to
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hear your name in mind, Well, that ship sailed with me when I
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ceased being the same employee a couple of years ago. So I am going
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to only keep you on here just for a little bit. A couple of
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quick things. Did you happen to hear the show yesterday with Great Thomas?
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If not, go back and listen to it, because he went after this
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legislative session uh, and the term lackluster has has been thrown about. He
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apparently thinks it's been a lackluster session. Brad, does that surprise you coming
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from Greg? You know, he is politically aligned with many of the people
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in charge of uh, the legislature and the chambers and who make decisions about
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the session. So it does, and that that actually gives it some credibility
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With me, I will say my thought is always that that the legislature is
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not here to entertain us, and there frankly, there is an entertainment factor
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because these are political figures and catching the public's attention is an aspect of what
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they do. I will say that a lot of when we say it's just
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between me and you, when we say it's boring, what we mean is
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I mean they're doing things but it's just not stuff that really catches the I
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not stuff that captures the imagination. It's just you know, bordler plate,
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we running the mill stuff. And in between all that is you know,
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things that that are you know, red meat issues or things that are that
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are more high in conflict. And so I would tend to agree that that
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there's been not a lot of ambition, not much that has been imaginative or
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inspiring out of this session. But to say they haven't been doing anything,
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which I don't think is the claim Greg May. But to say they have
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been doing thing is is you know, not entirely fair. Let me let
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me read to you out. Let me just get rid of all your listeners.
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They're gonna they're gonna their eyes a blaze over. Let me read you
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the the things up for passage today in the Senate, Establishing accreditation deadline for
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convention and visitors, revising service obligations for certain doctoral medical degree programs, Continuing
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and updating Board of Risk and Insurance Management, Clarifying compensation for county tax collector.
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So those are examples, and they're doing things, but they are not
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necessarily the things that capture the public imagination. You're right, Brad Macklheeney's here.
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I know you're on a time cratch, but I did want to ask
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you about this. You had alluded to this, and I read the story
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at wv metronews dot com that there could be a big honor coming for the
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late great Woody Williams. Talk about that. Yeah, every state gets two
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people to honor at the US Capital in Statuary Hall. One of your regular
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listeners, Derek Evans, may be aware of the contents of Statuary Hall and
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the kind of respect that is deserved by those honored there. There are two
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statues by West Virginia Francis Pierpont, who was founding father of the state,
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as well as Jonathan Kenna John Ken John Kenna, who was a political figure
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from West Virginia both in Congress and in the US Senate in the late eighteen
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hundreds. States can differ up who they put to honor there. And Woody
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Williams, who died two years ago, America's last living US Medal of Honor
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recipient, is well deserving, admired just across the board by people, both
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for his World War II heroics as well as his work to honor veterans in
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the years after that. So the Senate resolution is going to potentially switch out
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the John Kenna statue for a Woody William statue, and it would be there
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in perpetuity, not only for West Virginias to admire, but more broadly for
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people who enter the US Capital under routine, calm and approved can psicians to
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also admire. Finally, Brad, before we let you go to the Jimmy
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Riston story, and I'm going to talk about an end detail for the biggest
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part of the rest of the show lead STORYEWV Metronews dot com. Again,
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I've got a lot more information I want to get out there to the public
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about this, but from the surface. Before we let you go and listen
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to budget hearings, Brad, what are you hearing from the Capitol? You
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know, I think it's wait and see, and in fairness, that is
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probably appropriate. We do know that Secretary Riston was pulled over for some reason.
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The initial call was described as erratic driving on Carlton East End. The
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pullover was actually shortly outside of that on I seventy seven. Apparently a state
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vehicle was involved, and it was maybe eleven o'clock at night. So typically
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that will be after hours, even for a secretary. And we finally know
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that the Charleston police are having a look at their procedures, so they're they're
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scrutinizing themselves. And beyond that, you know, we don't know if it
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was if a blood alcohol test was administered. It's always possible that somebody could
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be having like a low blood sugar situation. It could be that nothing was
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going on at all. We just don't know yet. But Riston has been
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a high profile member of the Justice administration because people care about their highways,
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So you know, everybody's kind of waiting to see what we can find out
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that is bankable information, you know, information you can trust, and we
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just don't. For the most part, we don't have that except for the
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basic outline. All right, Rad, go and enjoy the rest of your
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day at the Capitol. I know you will. If you are up for
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a raised, Dave, if there's a bonus or any more money being changed
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to your hands through an active state law, I will let you know it's
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probably not gonna happen. But okay, all right, Brad, I appreciate
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it. Man. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot, Brad, McIlhenny
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back to the interview I did with a commissioner Kent Leonhardt, Texas, ask
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him if pasteurized milk will still be available or we all have to drink raw
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milk. Now, that's a Texter, I thought. The commissioner answered it
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pretty well because he's a farmer, and I just you know, I said,
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what do you think about it? He said, well, you know,
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some people like the whole raw milk things. Some people like me.
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It's you know, kind of kind of silly. But you know, to
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each their own. As long as you do it safely, ain't none of
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my business. Hoppies back at the Capitol at ten oh six this morning.
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Among the guests today, Matt Roarbark out of Canawa County, the Deputy House
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Speaker Delicate Joey Garcia is on the show today again. He'll also have more
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than Jimmy Riston's story. Commissioner Leonhardt and Brian who you just heard on this
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show will actually make return appearances on hoppy coming up at ten oh six from
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the AARP broadcast location from the state Capital. Okay, so let's get into
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the end of the Jimmy Riston story. And and quite frankly, I'll be
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honest with you, it is kind of a bizarre story when it first broke
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yesterday morning. And even the way that this story broke was kind of strange
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within itself. I'll get to that here a little bit later on. So
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it looked like a simple story yesterday. And again, everything I'm saying are
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all allegations. Everybody's innocential proven guilty. Let's please throw that out there now
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to keep the lawyers happy and whatnot. But you know, someone has perhaps
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perhaps being the key word, a little too much to drink, attempts to
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drive drives radically, and it is and it's pulled over. Sadly, it
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happens all the time, but it is. It is a little different when
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your name is Jimmy Riston and you are the state Transportation director and you're driving
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a state vehicle. So let's review a call to Metro nine to one one
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late Tuesday night at around eleven o'clock or so, had said that the witness
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that witnesses or the person that called had seen someone in a state vehicle driving
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erradically on the east end of Charleston. So Charleston Police were dispatched and jimmy
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Riston was stopped on seventy seven near Leon Sullivan Way. And according to the
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statement that was released by the Charleston PD, the driver was identified as State
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Transportation Director jimmy Riston. Now, the release said he was not charged or
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sighted at the time. Now here is where it gets a little interesting.
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Originally, originally it was thought that the person who called nine to one one
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to report the erratic driving was an off duty police officer. Well, it
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was later learned that that wasn't the case and that the person who made the
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call to nine one one was not in fact a police officer at all.
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Now this came out like late last night and in a big picture of things,
25:45
folks, you know, it shouldn't matter who reported it, but it
25:49
does matter if said person is misidentifying themselves as a police officer. I'm not
26:00
an attorney. I heard Tom Payton, we asked of law your saving with
26:03
Jeff last hour talking a little bit about it. But if you call nine
26:07
one one and you identify yourself as a police officer, as I think this
26:12
person did. And again, this story is changing right up to the minute.
26:18
Then that that's a crime in and of itself. Now, the governor
26:25
addressed the situation during his press or yesterday, and with all due respect to
26:32
our governor and candidate for state Senate Senate, he didn't get the story totally
26:37
right himself. The Governor alluded to mister Ristin being allowed to drive away once
26:48
it was determined that no charges were going to be filed. That's that part
26:56
of it. In fact, according to my sources, and I did a
27:00
little digging on this myself, that apparently was not the case. Now I
27:06
spoke with someone last night, completely off the record, but someone who is
27:11
close to the investigation, who told me that mister Risten did not drive away
27:19
and that in fact, someone came to pick him up. And I'm supposing
27:26
someone else came to drive his vehicle away. So that part of it,
27:32
in the initial reporting, or at least what the governor said in the press
27:34
y yesterday, was incorrect. That's where it looked. That's the way it
27:38
looks right now. New information has become available because originally, again it was
27:42
stated that the police officer investigated, and the police officer just let him drive
27:48
away. That's what the governor said. Well, apparently that wasn't that wasn't
27:52
the case. That someone came and picked him up, drove his car to
27:56
where the state car by the way, it is a state car to where
28:00
to go. So the media in the Charleston area was alerted to this yesterday
28:06
after receiving emails, photos, and videos from the traffic stop, not not
28:18
from the police, but from someone that alerted the media in Charleston about this
28:26
yesterday. Now, an internal investigation has been launched by the Charleston Police Department
28:33
as to whether or not proper police procedure was followed in allowing mister Ristin to
28:42
leave with no charges being filed. Now I'm told, for what it's worth,
28:51
I'm told by my source that mister Ristin did not tried to play the
28:57
do you know who I am card, as many many in the public guy
29:02
have done in the past and will continue to do. But apparently that wasn't
29:04
the case from what I'm told. In fact, I'm told again off the
29:08
record, that the police actually had no idea who he was and just were
29:18
following up on the nine to one one call, and they did not know
29:21
who he was. There saw a lot of explaining to do with this story.
29:30
He was apparently the driver apparently was driving erradically, perhaps perhaps intoxicated.
29:37
Perhaps important to note no charges were filed and it was in a state vehicle
29:48
after hours. Now, as I alluded to and talking to Brad, I
29:52
was a state employee for a time, and they pounded upon us the usage
29:59
of state VA vehicles, or even how to behave when we're on the clock,
30:03
when we're driving our own personal vehicles or a rental car, whatever the
30:07
case may be. Of course, let's be fair. I was never to
30:11
the level of transportation director, far from being anything. I had a title
30:18
in an office, but that was pretty much it. This story, though,
30:23
again, is just plain plain weird. I mean, it's not Commissioner
30:32
Carper in a park story weird, but it is weird nonetheless, and it
30:37
is an ever evolving story. As I said, it just broke yesterday about
30:41
twenty four hours or so ago, and then the governor had the press her,
30:45
which kind of mucked things up a little bit. And then late last
30:49
night Charleston Police Department comes out with a release, and then late later last
30:55
night they came out with another release. So apparently what they are doing is
31:00
they are going to investigate themselves as to whether or not proper procedure was followed
31:07
in the case. It is very important to remember, folks, and again
31:11
not a lawyer, don't play one on TV or even the radio. It
31:15
is very important to remember that no charges were filed in this case. Done
31:19
zero zilch. So that's kind of where we are right now. Jeff has
31:25
a story, and I think Jeff will probably have more stories and more stories
31:29
posted as well. All the media Charleston Ours of course is the most important
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on the story and we'll give you more information as it becomes available. The
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sister station is all over. Our sister station nine eight seven of them mountain
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to time as well. You know, Hooters in Kanas City is has been
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closed now since twenty twenty and it didn't survive COVID. Well, the building
32:46
itself is about to be torn down and some folks are going to do a
32:52
candlelight visual tomorrow night. And this thing started out as being tongue in cheek.
32:57
Well guess what, It's a nationwide story. Now it is now an
32:59
Internet national story. The London Times is covering this story about the Hooters in
33:05
Kanawh City being demolished and the candlelight vigil being held there tomorrow night. And
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we'll talk about that a little bit later on, but I got to get
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No no uh, texts says nothing is going to happen to Jimmy Rista.
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The guy is pretty much teflon. He awarded no bid jobs to a family
36:36
member's construction firm. Nothing happened. He's alleged to have ignored an alleged sexual
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36:51
those are allegations. Text says it's so cool that in twenty twenty four we'll
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go back to child labor, drinking, poisonous milk, creationism and vaccines,
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says a Texter. Going back to the Kent Leehard interview, Texas says China
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buys West Virginia Cole Exports. Does the ag commissioner not care about this?
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Text? Says the scanner. Traffic from the Riston traffic stop is quite interesting
37:19
if the news is able to obtain. Riston was followed for some time,
37:22
says it. You know, and I I don't really know what to make
37:29
of this story. I mean, when I first, like a lot of
37:35
you, probably when I first heard it twenty four hours or so ago,
37:37
I thought, well, okay, you know, this is not an unfortunate
37:39
situation. It's happened. But then when this story comes out though, okay,
37:44
the person is not a police officer that said that they were, I
37:51
mean, it just it all seems the whole story itself just seems a whole
37:55
lot more than just someone. And I'm not trying to diminish what is being
38:00
alleged here, that someone had a few drinks, perhaps had a few drinks
38:02
and drove. The governor actually said that yesterday. It seems like there's a
38:06
whole lot more to this story. I mean, I don't know. Maybe
38:07
I'm not a conspiracy theory kind of guy. But it just seems to me
38:12
like there may be a whole lot more to this story. But Dave Island
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is really a sate lack of integrity from the Charleston Police Department, especially just
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after we get a new police chief who has promised to clean things up.
38:39
Hard to trust yet another internal CPD investigation. The governor and Mayor's office both
38:45
old the public some more honest explanations, and as always I have a pretty
38:51
good relationship with the city at Charleston. I you know, the mayor and
38:55
I don't always agree on everything, but we've been friends long before before she
39:00
became mayor and we can talk about things. But I say that to say
39:05
this, I have an open door policy here on this show, and anybody
39:08
that wants to go on this show, from the Charleston Police Department, from
39:14
the Mayor's office to the Governor's office. All are welcome here. All are
39:17
welcome. I'll put anybody on the show. All they got to do is
39:21
ask, so I will spend I will send an open invitation out to and
39:28
I understand that they cannot say certain things because they don't want to risk an
39:31
investigation. I get that. But I have an open invitation to anybody.
39:37
And the people in the city know that, and the people in the governor's
39:39
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39:42
members of the governor's staff on the show. All you got to do is
39:45
reach out to me. I ain't hard to find. I'm the most visible
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guy around. I'm not hard to find. So anytime anybody wants on the
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show, they are more than welcome. Back to the legislature, the House
39:58
yesterday passed a bill that would allow teachers and other staffs to carry guns if
40:02
they choose to. Now. The bill passed eighty nine to eleven yesterday after
40:07
an hour or so of debate. It'll now head to the Senate. A
40:10
lot of back and forth on this one, as you may expect. It
40:13
was the Democrats primarily against and then the Republicans for it. Delegate Kaylee Young
40:16
from here in Kanawa County was no vote, citing her fears of safety.
40:21
A delegate at Nietra Hamilton from Montaguelia County, a delicate Sean Hornbuckle of Cabal
40:25
County spoke out against it. One of the folks who spoke for it was
40:30
delegated de Foggin out of Wood County, who himself was a high school teacher.
40:36
The teachers and staff would have to undergo training to be able to carry
40:40
if they choose to. And getting back to Delegant Hornbuckle, he asked,
40:46
what if the gun would accidentally be left lying around somewhere? He used example,
40:52
teacher sets it down to go help another teacher with something, or to
40:58
under the restroom, or whatever the case may be. Still a lot of
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unanswered questions in this The debate will continue, but again for now it has
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Today, Texas Dave City police have been ticketing cars like crazy on the boulevard
41:45
near the Moose was the state worker ticketed drivers into boulevard were there were no
41:52
no citations issue and if you're referring to the Jimmy Riskon situation, no citations
41:58
were issued as far as I know. I hope you had a chance to
42:04
hear the show yesterday, and if not, I would urge you to please
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stations or my personal social media. I had Republican strategist Greg Thomas on the
42:23
show yesterday, and he was calling out at least a little the legislature.
42:30
Brad and I talked about it a little bit earlier. I'll be honest.
42:35
When Greg first reached out to me and said he wanted to talk about the
42:39
lackluster performance his words, lackluster or the legislature of this session, I thought,
42:45
to be honest with you, I thought maybe he was being just a
42:49
little facetious. It turns out though he was serious. And the one thing
42:53
I have learned about Greg Thomas when having him on this show off and on
43:00
for the last four years or so, is that just when you think you've
43:04
got him figured out, he goes in the opposite direction. And he does.
43:09
He's his own guy. I mean, he really really is. Did
43:14
you happen to catch his disdain for Patrick Morrissey, who is now the leading
43:19
candidate for governor A Texter On the show yesterday, asked Greg point blank who
43:24
he was supporting for governor and he just came out and said, anyone but
43:30
Patrick Morrissey. That's what he said. And it's not like that was the
43:36
first time that he had said something like that anyway. Mister Thomas had sent
43:43
me one of what he called sent me what he called the top ten reasons
43:50
for the lackluster session, kind of going all David Letterman with the top ten
43:53
list, and I'll give you just a couple of them in case you missed
43:57
it yesterday. One a lame duck governor. And again, as he pointed
44:02
out, that is not the fault of Governor Jim Justice. He is.
44:07
He is a lame duck governor because he is term limited out by state code.
44:12
So he's done regardless that he's gonna run for State Center and some of
44:15
the major changes he's gonna win. So that's part of it. According to
44:19
Greg, the constitutional officeholders, the Attorney General, Secretary of State, all
44:23
of those are all running for other offices. All except the AG commissioner who
44:28
you heard from earlier. Can't Leonhart, So they I'm not saying that they're
44:34
not doing their jobs, because I'm sure they are. But Riley Moore is
44:37
running for something else. J. B. Mcuskey's running for something else.
44:39
Mac Warner is running for something else. Leonhardt's the only one that's left in
44:43
that room. So that's one of the reasons Greg's words. He referred to
44:46
a fractured, unprofessional socially conservative agenda, Ding Ding Ding. They have a
44:54
winner there, Alex. In my opinion, you get the point. I
44:59
would urge you to go back and listen to Greg's appearance on the show yesterday.
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Must listen to radio. Matter of fact, we even made a promo
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out of it yesterday with some of the words that Greg, that's how you
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know it's good. And Ryan will tell you that's how you know it's good
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is when we make a promo out of it, and we did, and
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All the federal money this state received is going to run out eventually.
48:20
As a conservative Republican state, West Virginia shouldn't rely on federal funding to fund
48:24
the state government. Texas, I hope Steve Williams reference to the Huntington mayor
48:30
who is running for governor. Hope Steve Williams runs on not being a rubber
48:34
stamp for the ridiculous Republican legislators. We need some checks and balances at the
48:38
capitol, says a texta Texas Dave. We need a resource officer in every
48:43
school period, not teachers having such a heavy responsibility of carrying a gun in
48:47
school. Our lawmakers need to fund the funding for this, thanks, says
48:52
a Texter Texas. Isn't it funny that drag queens are dangerous, but deadly
48:58
weapons are safe around kids? Acording to the GOP. I think many in
49:01
the GOP are scared they'd be attracted to drag queens and need a tool to
49:07
compensate for their shortcomings, says a texture from the Tongue in Cheek department.
49:13
Now, this story first surfaced earlier this week. As you know, the
49:16
Hooters restaurant in Kanas City has been closed since twenty twenty and is going to
49:21
be torn down the building itself. It's set empty for some time. A
49:24
couple of guys locally, Leo Browning and Drew Cook, wanted to pay tribute
49:29
to one of their favorite places by holding a candlelight vigil tomorrow night. Now
49:35
this whole thing again is being done very very tongue in cheek, just trying
49:39
to have a little fun. Well, the story took on a life of
49:45
its own. In fact, it's not only gone viral and is being talked
49:50
about in our part of the world, it's gone nation and now world wide.
49:55
Now I was told by someone in the building, someone smarter than me
49:59
that acts reads the London Times, that this was covered by the London Times,
50:04
you know London, the big city in England. It was on Fox
50:08
News, etc. Etc. Well, this is the perfect, the single
50:14
perfect event to be covered by Steve animal on our sister station ninety eight to
50:17
seven A Mountain, Wild, Wonderful Classic Rock. In fact, the Mountain
50:22
myself included. Ryan will be there tomorrow night for the visual for the soon
50:28
to be torn down Hooters restaurant in Kenau City. Now, this candlelight vigil
50:34
starts at six point thirty tomorrow night, and I have been in contact with
50:43
one of the organizers of the event. Didn't know either one of these gentlemen,
50:46
but I got to know him. Had a couple of lengthy phone conversations
50:50
yesterday with one of the guys organizing, and it's a guy named Leo Brownie,
50:53
and he is scheduled to join me on the show tomorrow to talk about
50:58
this. And I know for a fact he's also going to be on a
51:00
Steve Animals show tomorrow morning on nine eight seven A Mountain Wild, Wonderful Classic
51:05
Rock. Bottom line in all this is is sometimes folks, you just got
51:07
to have a little fun. And I've seen chatter on social media people say
51:13
it's embarrassing to West Virginia, blah blah blah. You know, it's it's
51:16
supposed to be a little fun. And I don't think that either one of
51:20
these organizers. In talking to one of them, Leo yesterday, I don't
51:22
think he realized that it would be as big. He said. Look,
51:25
he said, look, Dave, I liked it. I just wanted to
51:31
have a little fun, gather some people together, talk about the good times
51:35
that we had at Hooters over the years. That's pretty much it, and
51:38
it's gone. I did a search. As I said on social media,
51:42
this story is huge and it's going to be a big deal apparently tomorrow night,
51:45
six thirty at the old Hooters location in Kenall City, and yes,
51:51
the Mountain will be there. Fun fact, I think I mentioned this on
51:52
the show yesterday. Steve Animal from our sister station nine eighty seven, A
51:57
Mountain, Wild, wonderful classic rock did a live broadcast at Hooters the day
52:00
it opened, and now he's gonna close it down tomorrow night. All right,
52:07
quick, says Dave. Jimmy was probably just dodging potholes, or it
52:10
could have been a reaction to raw milk. All Right, we gotta go,
52:15
thank you so much to a chimistry. Can't Lee and Hart Brad mcilhanney
52:17
to Hoppies Live the Capitol coming up on tomorrow, We're gonna talk more about
52:21
this thing in can All Sity with Hooters. District two congressional candidate Chris Walker
52:24
is on the show tomorrow as well as Hannah Gardner. I will see you
52:27
tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebodys. A W two four
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