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forget about it though, Time to get back to work. Now coming up
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a little bit later on the show, Republicans Try to Just Rob Cornelius is
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going to be stopping by, as well as local restaurant owner Sandy Call Now
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coming on the heels of the closures of the Chop House and Tide Water Grill
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last week. We got word late last week that another Iconickeeter in Charleston was
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closing Bridge Road Bistro. Sandy, of course, is the owner of that
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establishment. She's going to join us to talk about it. Plus your calls
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and text are welcome. Sue. I'm going to bring in Republican candidate for
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Secretary of State, Doug scaff momentary, but I didn't want to get something
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briefly off my chest. Beautiful day Saturday here in the canav Valley. I
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started the day with our sister Station ninety eighty seven the Mountain at the Putnam
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County Fairgrounds in Eleanoris before I headed north. That was with the Food Truck
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Festival, of course, before I headed north for the West Virginia Broadcasters Associations
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Annual Awards banquet in Mortgagtown. Great night for WCHS Radio, by the way.
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I'll talk about that at that time a little bit later on. But
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while I was at the Food Truck Festival, my phone started blowing up,
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the people telling me about some event that was going on in Charleston. Now
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seems a group of nut jobs all packed themselves into a U haul. I'm
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not making this up. They came in you hauls like you know, a
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couch or something, and we're yelling something something nonsensical, blah blah blah.
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They covered their faces, had the American flag upside down, which is a
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sign of distress, and you get the picture. The whole thing came as
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quite as surprise, I think, to everyone. As far as I know,
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no one in the media was alerted about it, and chances are no
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one would have known about it with the ten thousand other things going on on
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a Saturday morning that can all av out except for the people. It just
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happened to be driving by at that time. So what you know, white
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nationalists, supremacist whatever that. What do you do with garbage like that?
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Simply ignore it, period. You don't broadcast it, you don't film it,
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you don't give them the satisfaction because engagement and giving them legitimacy, folks,
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is what they want. Now. They have every right together. You
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know me, I'm a big First Amendment guy. They have the right to
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free speech, they have every right together, had the right to protest or
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whatever the hell they were doing. But don't engage it, ignore it,
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which is what I'm doing now. Republican Canada for Secretary of State Doug scaff
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Good morning, Welcome to the show, sir. Good morning, Dave Well
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said, my friend will say, and that's the last you'll hear about that.
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How's campaign been so far? You know, fifteen days, nine hours,
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but who's counting? Brother? May fourteenth right around the corner. It's
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a big state. I've got to do. Ay a lot of neat places,
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try a lot of great restaurants and meet fantastic people. Was there an
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area of the state that you travel to that you hadn't been before? Because
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I know you've been all over the state in your various things you've done in
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your life, but was there an area of the state maybe that you had
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not that you've not been to. There's always in Coverag. I've been to
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the eastern Pannin for but it's so beautiful over there. Just spending more time
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whether I'm going back to it's just a whole different part of the state.
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And northern Panhew have been too numerous times, but just see the growth up
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there and what they're doing in downtown Wheeling and the redevelopment, and it's just
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it's neat to see. Visiting of Richie County, I was a Richie County.
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I was one of the first times I've been in a Richie County over
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the weekend. So yeah, a lot of new places. Now. You've
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been a successful businessman, owner, president of course of HD Media and folks
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behind the Caazette, Mail Hunting ten Herald, Dispatched, several other publishing interests
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as well, and a huge online president logan banner logan. I'm aware of
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it. I've heard of it. You're involved in other businesses, So why
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do you want to be Secretary's Day? Yeah, Secretary of state. It
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gets a lot of attention for being the elections office of the state, but
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really seventy five percent of that office is the chief Business Office of the state.
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You literally to do business in West Virginia. You're the front door for
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any business, whether you set up your LLC or es Corp. Or whatever.
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From a registration standpoint, you look at that website. There's a plethora
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of stuff you know for business owners and so much but when you start a
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business, and I think it takes a business owner to know how to run
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the Business Office of the state. I've owned businesses of all sizes. I
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know how to make payroll and know what it's like during tough times during COVID,
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I have employees. I have a business with three employees, one with
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two hundred employees. It takes a business owner to know what type of office
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you need. When you're going out there and recruiting businesses to come to West
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Virginia. You want they want ease of access, they want transparency, they
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want consistency. They want to know what it's like and then what are you
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going to do for them when they do get established. I think there's so
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much more. We need a more user friendly website, we could create an
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app. Everybody's doing app on the phone. We need to get into the
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school systems to not only educate our youth about why it's important to get involved
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in the election process, but if there's on a job here for them,
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they can go create their own job. They can be entrepreneurs. Talk about
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putting people together, give them the tools and resources they need at a younger
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age so that they'll stay here and they won't just leave the state. You
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are a longtime Democrat switch parties? What do you say to people who may
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question your motives and the party switch, Because, let's face it, I
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mean a person is free to switch parties anytime they want, as long as
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course it falls within the proper guidelines for the election at a lot of people
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in West Virginia. I talked about it last week, Doug. A lot
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of people have switched recently from Democrats to Republican as you did. Some long
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time Republicans seem to be pushing back you. They used terms not just about
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you, but others as well as rhino and things that nature. How would
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you address that? You know, I say this all the time. I
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won my first election as a Republican in two thousand and four. A lot
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of people don't know that I ran for House of Delegates as a guy's a
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recent college graduate in mand County back before there or as hardly any delegates that
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were Republicans. I won my first election, and then I took my first
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job and moved to state and gain a chance to actually serve. But I
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won my first election. I was recruited, It's kind of funny by then
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chairman of the party, Chris Warner, So he recruited me back then and
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even just recently last October, he welcomed me back to the Republican Party.
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He actually recruited me and said, hey, you should think about running for
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Congress. He usued tod run for this through the years. In twenty thirteen,
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I was recruited by the Republican Party to run for Congress when they had
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Evan Jenkins former Democrats switch parties. I was recruited to run at the vacated
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seat by Cheryl Shelley Capitot when she ran for US Senate. I was recruited
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by a Republican Party then twenty fourteen, Bill Cole recruited me to run for
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state Senate. Twenty sixteen recruited again, and so now I actually do switch.
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I was recruited to run for Secretary of State this time because of my
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experience and because of my conservative values, and because just because a person was
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registered one way or the other, you shouldn't you should get to know that
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person. That's what really upsets me. You know, a lot of this
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outcry and all this stuff. Oh, you're right, I do have some
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bad votes out there. At twenty two, three hundred and thirty two votes
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cast, you're gonna find some. Hell I don't agree with them, you
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know. I say. The bottom line is what people can change as you
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get more information. Not only do you change your party affiliation when the party
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leaves you, maybe your votes change, maybe how you feel on things.
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I mean, I'll give you an example. There's a lot of us made
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about same dey voter registration. Did I support a bill back in twenty twenty
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one for same day voter registration? I did a lot of people made that
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No. But guess why what else happened in twenty twenty one? That was
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COVID. We did a lot of things differently that year. The mac Warner
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Secretary of State, he sent out absentee ballots Willie niey to everybody, no
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questions asked that year. I'm pretty sure he doesn't agree with that now.
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I don't agree with same DA voter registration, but I did back then because
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I thought that's what we needed to do when everything was changed during COVID.
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I don't agree for dropboxes never did. I think the voter ID law is
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on the books that should stay, and we could even strengthen it if you
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want to. I'm all about not sending out absentee ballots without proper documentation and
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making sure. I think we need to partner with Marshall University to make our
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elections safe and secure with their new cybersecurity school. What's partner with them,
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What's stay on the forefront. That is the most important thing we can do
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is secure our elections. Keep you legals out of our state from working,
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keep you legals out of our state from voting. What did you learn,
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Doug, in your time in the legislature and for that matter, in the
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business world, that you think will serve you well as secretaries? So secretary
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say, it's a different office. It's not just running for a political office,
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you know. I mean there's a lot of treasurer and auditor and all
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that stuff. The experiences you have to be an effective communicator. Secretary of
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State. You are the chief of the RARA for elections, the rah RAH
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for businesses. You got to be able to go into the schools. It's
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hard to teach an old dog new tricks and said, how do we increase
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voter participations? Right? You know what I would do. I would go
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into the schools and start with those eighteen year olds that are recently eligible to
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vote and talk about the importance of getting involved in the process. The importance
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is staying in West Virginia and going to school and getting a job here and
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working. You need to be an effective communicator, a good leader, and
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be able to work with everybody. I'm pretty sure when you go home and
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do these voter drives, you just want people to register to vote. Okay,
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That's what a good Secretary of State should do. Be able to be
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like a referee, work with everybody. Democrats, Republicans, unaffiliate. Whatever
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it takes to make sure the county clerks have the tools and resources they need.
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Shouldn't matter if it's a Democratic clerk or Republican clerk. You give them
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the adequate tools and resources they need. Business Office of the State. I'm
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pretty sure on that business application. As you know you work with a lot
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of businesses. It doesn't say are you a Democrat own business or a Republican
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owned business. We got to treat everybody the same in the state of West
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Virginia, open and welcoming the businesses. I just want jobs. I want
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to put more money back in people's pockets. That's not partisan. You know,
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what can we do to help West Virginians be more successful? I'm sick
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and tired. You know what I want to do a Secretary State. I
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want to clean up all this rhetoric and all this crap that you see out
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here. Can you do that as Secretary of Stake? Yeah, I think
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you can. You can work with the legislature and you can clean up.
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You know, you have to get the packs, the gray money, dark
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money in the packs. All this negative attacks you see on me, it
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comes from a pack. I hate that. People. If you want to
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go and attack me, put your name on it, tell me where it's
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coming from. Don't hide behind the pack. I hate that that happened federally,
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but locally, yes, we can, we can. We can make
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some restrictions here locally, we can try. It won't pass, but we
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can try, and we can make a fuss about it. But yes,
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I just think it's awful. If I'm gonna attack my opponent, I want
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you to know what's coming from me, Doug scaff And here's why I'm not
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gonna hide behind something. I hate the negative politics. I don't know how
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many mailers you got last Wednesday, but I got eight mailers in my mailbox,
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and everyone want in the trash, went in the trash. Tell me
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what you're gonna do. This is what I want to say to say.
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Tell me what you're gonna do. Wh do you vote for Doug scaff or
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not? And if it's a requirement that you have to be a lifelong Republican,
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then just stop listening to me now. But I'm pretty sure I'm not
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the first and i won't be the last. Like Donald Trump, he switched
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his party affiliation, We've embraced him here. Like Jim Justice seventy four percent
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popularity, we've embraced him. Five current sitting state senators former former Democrats,
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one fourth of the delegation in the House of Delegates, former Democrats, hundreds
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and hundreds of city and county officials across West Virginia. But I get to
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be the one that they want to single out this year. So hey,
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I can take it. I'm a big boy, you know, I get
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it. Like I said, I've cast a lot of votes, but that's
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the beauty. I've been elected by the people six times after all those votes
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were cast. I continue to be re elected because they know me. That's
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what politics we lost. That you got to get to know the person.
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And a secretary of state, I want the most user friendly app where you
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can really engage and interact and know your candidates. Get to know them just
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more than a Facebook page. Really get to know them and interact with them.
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That's what I encourage all these put those mailers aside, put all that
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garbage you see, just put it right in the garbage where they belong.
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But the bottom line is get to know the person you vote for. Yes,
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are there votes that I wish I could take that, But what about
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the other candidates. There's other I'm not going to mention their names with other
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people I'm running against they have a track for come on, come on,
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oh, I'll mention Chris Warner's name right now. He called me out on
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this show his track record as a chief physiness office, say, I think
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you should really look into it. I would not put somebody who has numerous
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bankruptcies on his belt, somebody who has committed almost election fraud when he's running
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the state party into the ground. He had to sell the state party headquarters.
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Here's something nobody knows. He sold the state Party headquarters building in two
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thousand and four because the party was in such disarray. Guess who built the
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Republican Party out? Then? Who bought that building? Doug scaff Senior.
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My dad bought the building to help the Republican Party out. So those people
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want to question my values and my family's values, we're here. We're not
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changing. But you got to look into the people you want to look and
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criticize me. That guy was very critical of me on this radio show,
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talking about you got to know the person, get to know him, get
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to know how much back taxes he owes, how many leans are out there
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on him. Is his wages still garnished because of all the money that he
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owes this state. We cannot afford to put person like that. There's some
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great people running Brianwood fantastic person. He's a great county clerk. He's done
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a phenomenal job. He might have a little short on the business side,
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but he's probably the most qualified when it comes to running in elections. Ken
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Reid, stand up guy, small business owner. There's other choices. So
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if you don't want to vote for Doug scaff, that's fine, But I
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this is gonna be my next question as we close is going to say
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you're running against Chris Warner, former Republican State Party chair and brother Mick Warner
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Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood. You mentioned Ken read formal legislature. What makes
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you the better candidate? Misr Scaff I'm real, I'm a real West Virginia.
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I don't see it behind it. I've made mistakes. I'm not perfect.
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I'm just like you. I want to take care of my kids,
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I got three small boys, seven, six, and five. I wanted
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to grow up here and chase the West Virginia dream. Get to know the
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person I care about this community estate. I don't need a job. I'm
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not running like Chris Warner because i need a job. He's been appointed and
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paid for and bought and paid for by the taxpayers of West Virginia to pay
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his debts for the last eight years. I don't need a job. Either
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does Ken or Eaters Brian. They have great jobs. I'm doing this because
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I love the people to state. Think we can do better. I think
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we can make the office more user friendly. We can put those tools and
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resources there to help business owners of all types and sizes, and we got
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to be more proactive. The palm of your hand. Put all the resources
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there on the palm of your hand. God bless what they do right now.
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God bless the county clerks. Give them more funding. Go up there
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and fight the legislators and get some of that taxpayer we spend over three hundred
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million dollars and gave to out of state corporations. You know what I did,
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as a Democrat, stood up and offered an amendment to give the money
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back to the taxpayers first, give it to those small business owners. That's
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what we have to do. As your Secretary of State, I will do
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everything in my power to put West Virginian's first, West Virginia businesses first,
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and keep illegals out of our state from voting they be working now. You
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know, now, I'm gonna push you back a little bit on it.
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You know you cannot, as secretary of State, do anything about it.
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What do you go? What? Let me ask you what are you going
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to I'll tell you specifically, I'm going to create a verification source on that
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website right now. So you you, mister homeowner, goes in there and
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getting ready to put a roof on your house, you can check them the
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palm of your hand, if that's a legitimate business in West Virginia, if
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they employ US citizens, if they employ West Virginia's, if they pay their
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taxes. That is one little thing we can do. We don't do now.
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If you're a little, my little old lady, my grandmother's there wants
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to know, Hey, Doug, should I go and give two thousand dollars
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a posit to this company right here? They could check right there in the
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palm with their hand on their phone. If it's a legit business that pays
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their taxes and does things right, that's one thing you do to keep illegals
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out of West Virginia. Second thing is go to your phone. When it
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comes to app. You should be able to update your voter registration, check
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your app check and make sure these people are legit right from the palm in
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your hand when you're out there campaigning. I went over three thousand, five
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hundred and forty two doors this campaign cycle. That's a lot. I got
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to know the people, you know what they said, Hey, clean up
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those voter roles regularly, keep you legals out of voting in this process,
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and make sure our elections are safe. I can't control that. Okay,
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there is a little things you can do. I mean, yeah, I'll
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give you one more example. All right, people asked, I'll give you
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last time. All right, last time. When it comes to the Business
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Office of the state, the bottom line is this, we need not take
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things for granted. But in the legislature up there, they're just giving out.
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They're giving out taxpayers money to I'll just take corporations they're an investor.
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What about the small business owners who are the backbone of this day. Create
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a SOOSB fund, save our small business Fund. So when people like Sandy
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Call and the Bridgerow Bistro wanted to raise their hand and say, hey,
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what can we do to help you stay open? There should be a fun
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there, a local fund that we could help them put investors together to save
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our West Virginian businesses. Always a pleasure to have you on the show.
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Thank you. You got a website Facebook, while you get dougscaff dot com.
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Make it as easy as possible, Doug scaff skaff dot com. I'm
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excited, full of energy. I got my I was gonna say, I
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knew when you came in the door drinking a Monster energy drink that I was
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in for it. And then I got Cornelius after you, which is so
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you know, I don't think. Hey, listen, I've lost thirty five
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pounds on this campaign trail. I've covered a lot of steps. I need
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to meet the people. That's the win or lose. I got a chance
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to be to visit some great places and meet some wonderful people. All right,
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Doug, we got to leave it there. I appreciate it. Man
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we get to Rob Cornelias, I got some texts to get through. Your
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text says doesn't scaff take COVID funds for his businesses? If so? Were
21:18
those loans forgiven? What a Scaffs takes on student loan forgiveness? Uh?
21:22
Texts said it's non non partisan? Why did he jump ship on his brother
21:30
Democrats? Text says why did scaff let the DIMS appoint a seat before he
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changed it, would Scaff like to fill his old seat? Now? Would
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there be something the SOS does about squatters if he starts in West Virginia.
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Uh? Uh. Those morons in the White Nationals group are an embarrassment to
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the white race. Now. I can't wear a navy blue T shirt with
21:56
khaki pants or shorts without thinking that other folks may they come and support of
22:00
those morons. Voting for Donald Trump, says a textra MAGA candidates is supporting
22:04
those white nationalist morons. Will Scaff set up legal punishment for businesses who hire
22:11
illegals and enforce the punishments. Text says, uh, I don't want to
22:15
hear about the border. I want to hear about the jobs Biden is bringing
22:18
to the state and how you're going to keep it keep it going. Say
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just got two billion dollars, but high speed internet to the entire state.
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Different structure bill, and stop the war on women, says a texture.
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All Right, Doug Staff is not accepted by the West Virginia GOP's long studing
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Democrat caucus leader. Not a true Republican, says a Texture talk line.
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Dave Wilson for Hopey coming up A ten and sixth Senator Shelby Moore Capito on
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the show, Stephen Albadams from aug to the Newspapers, Joe Bricado talking little
22:45
sports and more. Rob Cornelia, Hey, buddy, how are you good?
22:49
You have been friend of wasting like for the last six weeks and so
22:52
I saw you. You sound terrible, you know, and everybody else.
22:53
Man, I don't know what it is. Is this super long COVID.
22:56
I think it's super long polling is what it is. Okay, I had
23:00
to wash the car, all right. So all right, So early voting
23:03
begins Wednesday. Primary election of course, Tuesday, May fourteenth? Are you
23:07
excited for it? Are excited to be over your political junkie, I'm I'm
23:11
excited to vote. I'm excited to get my vote in and I'm excited want
23:14
to do it, to go about and work for some of the candidates who
23:15
I support or want me want me to support them, and vice versa.
23:19
Nom's a lock one of what you're you're sitting in. This is going to
23:23
be maybe the most expensive week of TV advertising in State of Western applical history.
23:29
We're very close. This is going to be if your political spectator.
23:32
This is beyond the super Bowl. This super Bowl fifty holograms are all these
23:37
dead Hall of famers. This is the week and next week, this is
23:40
this is the time. Man. Can we get a little of that to
23:42
dripped on the radio. You're getting some I think other network buys or local
23:47
biyes, but everybody's buying. Well, we'll take what we can get.
23:51
Am I getting preempted right now? No? No, actually, no,
23:55
no no. This was a text from the other side of the booth.
23:56
This says tell Rob. I said, nice track house shirt. Of course,
24:00
of course off the air, I didn't do it all. No,
24:03
Dan Swarez is having a terrible year than his fluke win at Atlanta. But
24:06
that was nice for him and he gets to keep his job at least for
24:07
next For my producer, Joe, No, I see him. I see
24:11
him. He's not turning my head. I know what he's talking about.
24:11
I know he's about all right. So last week Governor Justice officially endorsed former
24:15
Delegate More Capital for the Republican nomination for governor. Did that surprise you at
24:19
all? And doesn't move the needle on the race, Because I saw another
24:22
poll that says now that more Capito is ahead of Morrissey. Yeah, there's
24:25
a lot of fake poles out there right now. You knew Justice was going
24:29
to endorse. But what was funny is the day before he had refused to
24:32
in a fairly public press conference, and the day before that he had asked
24:36
the Otto do he lose to raise money for him, and they did,
24:37
saying he probably wouldn't endorse anybody, you know, because they're all Chris Miller's
24:41
buddies. And then he comes through for Shelley on the on the final day
24:45
of that. What good is an endorsement. I don't know his endorsement,
24:48
didn't say Dave McKinley. Dave McKinley got stomped like a narket a biker rally.
24:55
So I don't think there's a reference today that's to Dennis Miller joke from
24:57
Make eighty seven. I'm just stealing. Yeah, all right, that's right.
25:00
So I'm hearing now could be a two man race. I mean,
25:03
with all due respect to Mac Warner and to Chris Miller. I was talking
25:07
to folks of the Weekend. They think, you know, early though he's
25:10
not even started yet. Who knows what's going to happen. But I'm hearing
25:11
it's coming down, starting to look like at this point it could be a
25:15
two man race between more seeing we have Ma's never been a serious can it
25:18
never raised any money. Chris, his performance of these ads was I didn't
25:23
expect this, but I kind of did. You've run eight, nine,
25:26
ten messages, you don't stick with one, You're all over the map,
25:30
and it didn't develop a lot of your own positives. And I have never
25:33
seen women more repulsed by a campaign than this one. That's what shocked me
25:37
about how this came down. I thought Chris Miller is a really good looking
25:41
guy, would do pretty well. But women do not like this. I
25:45
don't know whether they don't like him, they don't like the issues have gone
25:48
with, they think it's too short. What are you basing this on?
25:49
I'm seeing, I'm seeing polling. I'm seeing anecdotal things. Women do not
25:53
enjoy this. And the thing I don't enjoy what the Chris Miller ads.
25:57
It's there's actually polling that says women don't enjoy women don't enjoy him, and
26:02
don't you enjoy these ads? That's tough because I thought he would do well
26:03
because he's a frankly good looking guy. Again, you and I because because
26:08
that's because that's what women that's how they choose their candidates on whether they're good
26:12
looking. A lot of them do. A lot of people don't. Don't
26:15
take this as super seriously and get offended about getting direct mail like you do.
26:18
Most people do get offended by getting how does this person make me feel?
26:21
How does this person make me feel? That's why I seriously tell me?
26:23
Why make people seriously telling me? Cridel used to That's that's that's how
26:27
you think that women choose their cannons. You put him in a focused group,
26:30
you sit on the other side of a double mirrored glass, and you
26:33
watch him talk about it. And that's what. So they're not going to
26:34
say I like his politics, to say I like his abs, not necessarily
26:37
his abs. I think he's a little better up top, you know,
26:40
more of a V shape. But what I'm saying is the bigger picture is
26:42
people vote on things that are a whole lot more surface than you want to
26:45
admit. I always tell candidates when you make your ad, I'm going to
26:48
watch the first time with no audio, just like I can see how I
26:51
feel about you, because most people aren't paying attention to TV that closely.
26:53
They're not going to read the you know, the paragraph you put on screen?
26:56
Do they do? They like the way you look, they like the
26:59
way you sound. Maybe that's all this is. It's a popularity contest.
27:03
I'll give you that. It's student government. It's only the right top of
27:04
ticket, Senator, governor that we might even talk about an issue you care
27:07
about or don't care about everyone else. I hope I like the way you
27:10
look on first clans or the first thing you say. That's it, speaking
27:14
of which I don't quite understand this. Maybe this is what the polling says.
27:19
You can explain it to me. You're the expert here. What is
27:22
with the Republican Gubernatoyo candidates and their obsession with the trans stuff. It's a
27:26
little weird to met Miller went that way first. I think a lot of
27:30
the problem and that's that's what started this trash fire. But simply because the
27:34
polls, most of them, have shown that the economy is what people want
27:38
to talk about, and the page of people are trands to begin with in
27:41
West Virginia, And why the hell are we so upset? About this stuff.
27:45
It's a shiny thing. I'm it's a shiny thing. It's virtue signaling.
27:52
Everyone pretty much agrees is running on a ticket. Yeah, don't kill
27:55
babies. Yeah, guns are cool, carry more. Yeah, we probably
27:57
shouldn't be sterilizing our kids. But not well whatever, you get the idea
28:03
of that. Again, what are the big macro things here? That is
28:06
an issue that is super hot to four or five percent of people, And
28:07
now it's one of the hottest issues on the board. But it's four or
28:11
five percent, it's not fifty or sixty, which is where almost regardless of
28:14
the season, jobs, economy and this cyco inflation all combined, that's going
28:18
to be more than half your people. And if you're not serious or not
28:21
believed on that, it doesn't matter how many times you blame someone for not
28:25
being gunny enough or for liking the trans stuff too much, but that thing.
28:27
Don't choose a micro issue, choose a macro issue, establish room bona
28:32
fides, and then go after people on micro issues to disqualify them. This
28:36
was done in the wrong order, and now everyone's had to talk about transit
28:40
or Trump. Who loves Trump more? Well, I mean, there are
28:42
three candidates talk about Trump, there's one that doesn't. No, as far
28:48
as I know, all four talk about it. You saw the last form
28:52
and one the Channel thirteen. Did I mean more Capito never actually said he
28:55
would vote for Trump. I have to go back and watch that again.
28:59
Yeah, it's very sotle point. But that's the issue and the people that
29:02
run his campaign a gay more capital. Then well there you go. That's
29:04
your guy. I don't have a ganging rates. I don't have a ganger
29:07
rate. Well you can't. It's you're neutral. Absolutely. I try his
29:11
best way. All right, So what's on your mind? You said you've
29:14
got with me last week? He said, I got something on to talk
29:15
about, So so go ahead. I didn't come here. You didn't come
29:18
here for us to fight. So no, no, no, no,
29:18
we never fight. Had some good ideas last week, gots some news elements.
29:22
We're going to drop that, frankly, haven't. We're getting short on
29:25
time, I mean two weeks this thing period, you know, in terms
29:29
of what's happening. I mean, scaff was just in here. You know,
29:32
he's talking about Warner thinking hit him pretty hard. You know, Warner.
29:34
Warner's had a lot of problems Warner is a guy that owes millions to
29:37
creditors. Warner is a guy that has, you know, a lot of
29:41
garnishments and problems. And in terms of the Publican Party, you know,
29:45
I'm not a huge fan of anyone who's running, but he's the guy who
29:48
I think is just probably disqualified himself the most. From the Secretary of States
29:51
race. Yeah, you've got the views, and opinion should not necessarily reflect
29:55
those go ahead, No, and they certainly don't. But he is the
29:56
person that is probably the most dangerous. He's needs a job guy, and
30:02
as a family there needs a job guys, and if they're not employed by
30:04
the public sector, that there's nothing there for him and I mean for for
30:07
Warner. You know, you can say he's turned his life around after bankrupt
30:11
the Republican Party and all the things he's done that were negative of the last
30:14
twenty years, but you know, as recently as last cerem of the guy
30:17
was bound since property tax check period. These are he's a bad dude.
30:22
I've been around him for twenty plus years. The views of opinions that not
30:26
necessarily got to make the lawyers happy, not necessarily reflect the opinions Okay,
30:30
all right, So what else you got? No, I mean think there's
30:33
a couple of things. I think there's a story brimming. I think there's
30:36
something coming in one of these judicial races here in the county that's pretty size
30:40
of what hasn't hasn't dropped yet. And the real the kind of the boner
30:41
of the week I saw is new ad out in the governor's race yesterday Sender
30:48
Capito endorsing her son, which is great, fine, do that, But
30:51
in the ad they've got the Center, the great Center from West Virginia got
30:53
her name miss spelled in the ad. It's misspelled, and disclaimers on the
30:56
second time that campaign has basically lifted something up out there that it's kind of
31:00
embarrassing, like that can't get the job done. Tex says, come on
31:06
more indoors Trump. So does Senator Capitam. No, he didn't. He
31:08
did not say he would vote for Trump in the in the debate. All
31:11
right, Well more Capital wants to go on the show and say that,
31:14
then well, if he be good, he can, that'd be good that
31:17
we would kind of equalize some things. Yes, all right, so what
31:21
else is going on? I mean, I know you've always got some of
31:22
you drop drop something else on Okay, what do we got here? When
31:26
we hit the Warner thing. You know, there's not a whole lot.
31:32
There's not a whole lot else. I think there's not a lot of things
31:33
that are unpredictable here in these races, with the exception of the governor's race,
31:37
I think everything else is everything else is pretty much a done deal.
31:38
Moony's going to close it up some with the governor, but that's that's a
31:41
very very distant, very very tough lift. You know, there's really not
31:45
a whole lot here that's moving. I don't think there's a lot of upsets
31:48
coming State Senate, state House, anything like that. But no, I
31:52
think we're all just kind of here sitting and watching inspectators. On US governor's
31:55
race, Tex says, you need to you need to clarify which one what
32:00
you're talking about. Remember, there are two warners run well, Chris and
32:02
Mac both them getting their wages garnished from the state, So they're the same.
32:07
So was Moni, but that was one of his jobs out of state.
32:10
The views and opinions on this show did not necessarily reflect those of the
32:14
staff and advertisers. Excuse me, says the text. I'm a fifty year
32:16
old woman and actually paid attention to the insanity that's been happening in this country
32:20
over the past four years or so. I admit I don't like Miller's auto
32:22
ads, but his issues based ads are a different story. By the way,
32:25
I do not find him attractive at all. Sorry. I want the
32:29
person who will defend the Constitution and refuses to cave to anyone that tries to
32:32
intimidate West Virginia to conform to Marxist policies. It's that simple, says the
32:37
fifty year old woman Texter. Well, yeah, no, I mean she
32:39
wants to put the socialist against the wall and do a way. That's fine.
32:43
I think a lot of folks agree with that. Candidate aglastic. Okay,
32:45
all right, we're going to leave it there. Thanks man, Well
32:49
have told you i'd come by it. I know, if you want me
32:50
to start a fire or not, well, you know, I like a
32:52
good trash fire too. Two weeks the election, Man, you roll through
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here and then you rouse everybody up, and then I got to deal with
33:00
It's kind of like the parent giving the kid mountain doing hershey bars, and
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I come in and going Okay, now it's time to go to bed.
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TV app. Text says I was a toss up, but Justice endorsement of
36:12
Capito moved my vote to Mooney for sure. Tex says Republicans are going after
36:19
the trans people because Republicans need a boogeyman to campaign against. They don't have
36:22
policies, so fear is their tool. Tex says, you're telling me the
36:27
CIA election conspiracy theorists and lead paint chimp aficionado Mac Warner isn't a serious candidate.
36:32
Almost fooled me, he says a text or. Texas says, with
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Tech says, is the Israel Jewish hate groups on the campuses and the hate
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and they all wear little masks on their fates. They are cowards. Tech
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says Doug Scaffson out to text on thousands of voters that included an erroneous date
37:00
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37:04
why should we trust him with a real election? Texas Brian Wood for
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news came out late last week that yet another iconic business in Charleston, bridg
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roa bistro, would be closing their doors. Lots of speculation as to why,
37:47
and of course it follows a surprise announcements last week unrelated that both the
37:52
chop House and Tidewater are closing as well. Lots of speculation. The person
37:54
who should know is Sandy. Call the owner and she joins U. Now,
37:58
Sandy, good morning, welcome to the show. Good morning, thanks
38:00
so much for having me to calming force. After having Doug scaff and Rob
38:04
Curdillias in here, just sing you up so thank you so much. Got
38:07
your husband here with He may not think you're calling for but trust me you
38:10
are calling forth. Thank you the great guys. Before we get to the
38:15
closure of your place, talk about the history of Bridge Rdbistro. Indeed,
38:19
indeed we opened in two thousand and four. The history is with Robert Wong.
38:24
He was the first well he was the youngest executive chef at the Greenbrier
38:30
through the nineties. He actually was working when the Secret of the Bunker came
38:36
out, so he was always in charge of going in and stocking it every
38:39
every week and making sure there's fresh product. But he came to Charleston after
38:44
he did a few stints. I believe he ran a couple other resorts at
38:49
Glade Springs, he had rim Fire up at Snowshoe Hit other venues as well,
38:55
we started doing a venue up in Morgantown right when I came on board
39:00
with him in twenty ten. But the history is him coming to Charleston opening
39:06
it up in two thousand and four. I came along around twenty ten,
39:09
had a marvelous about a year and a half with him before we lost him,
39:14
you know, when he was playing tennis on the tennis courts. But
39:16
we've had a long run here in Charleston. We've been serving up dinners.
39:21
We did lunch up until twenty twenty. Of course, the shutdown caused us
39:24
to shut down for lunch, but COVID caused a lot of different things.
39:29
But we've been around for twenty years, serving up dinner, farm to a
39:31
table, supporting local farmers, going on these farms, and serving great weddings
39:37
and all the things, all the things. So the million dollar question is,
39:39
Sandy, why the decision to close. I think it's a culmation of
39:44
things. Mainly, I'm tired. I'm very tired. I've been doing this
39:50
since I was sixteen, so it's almost been forty years of being in the
39:52
hospitality industry for me alone. So that's a big priority for me, and
39:58
I just recently got married within the last two years, and I enjoy being
40:04
a wife. I'm going to enjoy being a godmother. I feel like I'm
40:07
absent a lot in my life. And if you want to be successful in
40:12
the restaurant industry, you're going to allow it to consume you. And that's
40:15
what I've done. It's a twenty four to seven and I'm sure, Sandy,
40:20
it was not an easy decision, not at all, not at all.
40:22
I love doing what I do. I love providing incomes for folks.
40:28
I love providing a great ambiance and a great place for everyone to go and
40:31
make memories. But there's a time and a place in your life where you've
40:36
got to care for yourself once you know, and that's what this is.
40:39
I'm sorry for myself. So you're closing effective Saturday. Saturday. Yep,
40:43
May the fourth be with you. I'm closing on Saturday. Anything special plan
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for the last We got Brian Diller on stage. I've got a lot of
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prompt students coming in. We've got some graduations coming in that I'm gonna do
40:54
some graduation parties with some folks our own. Little Sean Meyer's his birthday that
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day, so we got him coming in. So how about our Shawn Mayer,
41:05
Your Shawn Meyer. Yes, our sales tales. Weael is story me.
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He's amazing. He's helped me out for over five years. He helped
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me through the pandemic. He let me bring my little god daughter in here
41:14
and make little commercials, you know, thanking the public for their support.
41:16
So it's been a great good run. Now, now you didn't own the
41:21
building, is that right? No? No, I do not own the
41:22
building. It's been it's going to happen to any idea or a just pint,
41:27
do you care? I mean, you know right, Actually, the
41:30
landlords do not want it to be another eatery or a restaurant. So I'm
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going to auction off and liquidate all the assets that I have inside the building.
41:39
I have quite a few walk in coolers, walk in freezers, all
41:43
kinds of things, plates, glasses, civilware. You know. I have
41:46
all kinds of stock on hand that I need to kind of get off.
41:51
Is there a possibility that maybe we might see another location for you at some
41:57
point? Just asking? I think that's kind of a the air right now.
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I will tell you it's a very physical, demanding job. Sure,
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you know, in the last few years have not been easy. And you
42:07
and I have talked about this too, and I'm not gonna have this segment
42:10
be political at all, but it is what it is. It's very difficult
42:15
to find people to work. It is for one reason or another, and
42:17
you can discuss all the reasons why, but the bottom line is a lot
42:22
of restaurants, a lot of retail a time simply cannot find people that want
42:24
to work. We can't and that's my I think my number one problem.
42:30
You know, I can't find good qualified people to work. And you know,
42:34
Dave, once I do find those people to work, I've got to
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go to their homes, pick them up, bring them to work, work
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alongside with them, take them home because they don't drive. Indeed, they
42:44
don't a lot of them. There's a lot of them. They don't have
42:46
transportation, they don't have a license, they've had DUIs or driving on revokes.
42:52
And childcare. There's no childcare for these folks, you know, so
42:54
they bring their children to work. And if I don't allow them to bring
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their children to work, then I don't have them on staff, you know.
43:00
So there's a lot of different things that the climate has changed here in
43:04
the restaurant business all across the United States. It's not just me, what
43:07
about your employees. I mean, I'll have jobs. I was going to
43:12
say, I saw that posted somewhere that they've as I have a wonderful,
43:15
wonderful history in the area where I've been in the industry with either hazer Bush
43:20
or Red Bull North America, you know, out Back Steakhouse, O Charley's.
43:23
I have different walks of life that I've walked in that have paid off
43:28
now because now I can call Angela down at Angels on a River. Hey,
43:30
I've got a few folks that need a job. Hey, Donnie down
43:34
at the cafe. I've got folks that need a job. You know,
43:37
Adelphia, Tracy's great over at Sohos. Everyone's been so welcoming in open arms
43:42
for my staff to come on board with them, so they're not walking away
43:45
without a job. A lot of them are afraid because I am their first
43:50
and only job. But it's time to fly the nest, you know,
43:52
it's time to spread your wings, little birdies. But yeah, the things
43:58
that you brought up are definitely things that have been used in the equation to
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closing down. You know, it's a lot to think about. But dyve
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want to ask you this before we let you go. You also have another
44:30
successful line of things you do. The soup mixes you brought me in some
44:35
time last year. That absolutely delicious. Is that going to continue or I'm
44:37
going to continue with the soup. I'm actually going to try to grow that
44:40
even more. My goal is to do more tastings and Kroger's and Pigley Wigglies
44:45
food fares. We did a big tasting on Good Friday at the Tamarack and
44:50
we had over eighteen about eight hundred samplings, didn't we So yes, I'm
44:53
going to grow the soup mix. I'm still going to be heavily involved with
44:57
Girls' Night Out with the YWCA, you know how. So they're not going
45:00
to be around, So I'm gonna be around. I'm gonna be around.
45:01
I'm gonna help the symphony with Symphony Sunday. I'm still going to do my
45:05
philanthropic things that I've always done. I'm still going to be around. I'm
45:08
not going to be escaping. And I don't want to put words in your
45:10
mouths as we close it, but please state for the record, because we
45:14
lost Tide Water and then and we lost chop House and then the announcement that
45:17
you're closing these they had nothing to do with each other, nothing to do
45:21
with that at all. We don't have a blight over the restaurant industry in
45:24
Charleston right now, because there's a lot more restaurants now in Charleston than what
45:28
I remember in the past, and they're all doing pretty dang good. Yeah,
45:30
everybody's doing great. It's a great it's a great scene here in Charleston.
45:35
We're a bunch of foodies, and I think it's going to survive if
45:39
we all just support, support, support, And I know the economy's hard
45:44
right now. People are struggling to even get groceries. You know, that
45:46
kind of falls into the equation as well. You know, are you going
45:50
to go out and spend fifty dollars on a dinner for two or you're going
45:53
to go out to the grocer and get those groceries. You know, there's
45:58
choices people make now, hard choices. With my political candidates, I do
46:01
something I call the final thirty. But I'm with you. I'm going to
46:05
say I'm gonna give you thirty seconds, okay, just to say thank you
46:08
or whatever you want to say to the people of Charleston. Oh my gosh,
46:10
you're so kind. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you to the
46:14
peaceful people of Charleston, West Virginia, the tri state area for coming in
46:19
supporting us, bringing your kids in for dinner, bringing your little fur babies,
46:23
providing you know, me and my staff a living and a means to
46:29
the next day. It's my cup runneth over to everyone for bringing their heart
46:34
earned money to me to spend with the Bridgrod Bistro and you know, my
46:38
entertainment, my live entertainment. Those folks have been amazing. The Weekend Warriors
46:43
Gary Hayes, the Bandwagon, Brian Diller, all the things, Chet Louther.
46:47
I can go on and on and on with all the entertainment that's graced
46:51
our stage. And I want to thank everyone for supporting us all through the
46:53
years. Twenty years of success story. You know, I just can go
46:58
out better with on top, you know, like Jordan, we won three
47:00
years straight best restaurant in Charleston. So thank you Charleston, Thank you West
47:05
Virginia, Thank you Dave, thank you. All right, thanks Sad to
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call again. It is for Bridgard Bistro. We got to take a break
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chop House, and Bridge Road possibly combined forces to create one large food
49:37
conglomerate, all three in one building. That would be awesome, Like a
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Tutors and a Gino's, says a texture. Texas wise Chris Miller having his
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son text me to vote for Chris Miller. What a lame move, says
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a texture. Texture says, add the caveat can't find workers for our hourly
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wages, where our quality of workers reflects our hourly wages, says a texture.
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Folks at Bridge Road, Bistro, Tidewater and chop House fed Charleston very
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well for decades. As a texture, maybe if the folks chose local over
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olive garden, red lobster, Applebe's, they'd still be open. Great point.
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Actually, she said the business part was not the issue. I mean,
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they were doing well, but that's still a very fair point from a
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As a texta Texas and Davi is it true? Patriot Front was in town
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Saturday to protest recent restaurant closures. No, no, appreciate the humor,
51:09
but no, that was not the case. Well, as you know,
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there are a lot of people running for the Board of Education in Canawa County.
51:15
Thanks to a listener for pointing this out to me, there's going to
51:17
be a candidate forum for the Board of Education candidates till tomorrow, starting at
51:22
five at Emmanuel Baptist Church, fourteen oh one West Washington Street. The format
51:25
is as follows. The meet and greet with the candidates at their tables is
51:29
from five to six. Then there'll be presentations by the candidates and the Q
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and A to final Information about that posted online social media pages. Two days
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away from early voting here in the West Virginia, several spots Knawh County of
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Course of Voters building on Courier Street, also the Cross Lane Sheriff's Department,
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Bell Town Hall, Saint Albans City Hall, the Library in Cistinville, the
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Oak View Community Center, Marmette Town Hall, City of Nitro Police Department,
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and the Girl Scouts a Black Diamond Council building on the west end Putnam County.
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Early voting happening at the Courthouse in Winfield and the Valley Park Conference Center.
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Ten days of early voting, including the next two Saturdays nine to five.
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Information again posted on that on my social media pages. I will close
52:07
by saying this, we had a good time Saturday night in Morgantown for the
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West Virginia Broadcaster Association Awards. Great night for the station, pat ourselves on
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the back a little bit WCCHS but as well as Metro News. We killed
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Brad and the rest of the sports teams as well. But thank you to
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you the listeners for supporting us. You appreciate it. Coming up on tomorrow
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show, John Lovejoy from Fresh Air is gonna be stopping by State Democratic Party
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Chearing Dell and get Mike Pushkin and Kit Wilson from Bridge Valley all on the
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show tomorrow. Dave Wilson coming up a talk line. See you tomorrow.
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