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01/04/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Kris Warner, Ben Salango, Bill Bissett · The Dave Allen Show

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At Charleston City Council meeting last night, I'm gonna ge into that a little
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bit later on in the show. Kind of a wild scene there at Charleston
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City Council last night, and we'll talk about that comeing up. We'll have
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more on the LG announcement yesterday in Charleston. Cannot canicmmission. Bensulango will be
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in a little bit later on. Also, the new head of the West
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Virginia Manufacturers Association of the State, Bill Bissett, will be stopping by the
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studio as a well. But I want to welcome in now to the show
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candidate for West Virginia Secretary of State, Chris Warner. Good morning, sir,
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how are you. Good morning, Dave. Thank you for being here,
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sir. It's great to be here. Big announcement yesterday, or did
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you just mention the LG announcement. We're excited to have LG located in West
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Virginia. Now you are. We're going to get into your racial Secretary of
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State comeing up, but in your other job till that time, if you're
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lucky enough to win, and I want to get into your bio a little
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bit later on, but you were part of that announcement yesterday. Talk about
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that well. The West Virginia Economic Development Authority provided fifty four million dollars to
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match the seven hundred million dollars that LG is bringing into the state of West
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Virginia. You know, Governor Justice and Secretary Carmichael and our chairman Larry Pack
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worked very hard to bring LG to West Virginia along with President Gordon Gee and
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Brad Smith. So it was an exciting day. It looks like a lot
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of activity will occur in Morgantown and Huntington, and then the third phase will
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most likely be focused in the Eastern Panhandle. Yeah, and we don't know
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exactly all the details yet. I know those are going to be worked out
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to be announsets at a later time. But again, it's pretty exciting,
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pretty exciting time to be in West Virginia, Chris. From an economic standpoints,
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there's some big time things going on here in the state. Man.
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It's everything focused around healthcare and energy efficiency and artificial intelligence. So o'kay,
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real high paying jobs. One hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year jobs
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two hundred and seventy five of those in the state within the first five years.
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That's that is certainly great new And again, all the tales we announced
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on that they'll be coming over the next year or so. All right,
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So let's get to you. You're a pretty well known guy around the state
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from the world of politics, and you've heard you've had a lot of different
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roles that you've done different things. I think just about everybody knows the name
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Chris Warner. But give us the quick bio on Chris Warner. Quick bio.
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I grew up here in the Kannall Valley Public School system. I are
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in the rank of Eagle Scout in high school. I'm married to my wife,
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Joyce. In fact, we just celebrated thirty five years last week.
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Congratulations. We have five kids. All five of kids have either attended or
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graduated from the Air Force Academy. Are there now. My youngest daughter is
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still there as an instructor pilot. Four of those kids still serving the Air
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Force ones an investment banking analysts down in Charlotte, North Carolina. I was
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elected county chairman for the Republican Party in Montgelia County. My talents were recognized
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and was then elected state chairman in the early two thousands for the Republican Party.
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So I served as state chair for five years and then was elected National
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Committeemen for the Republican Party and then was appointed by President Trump to serve as
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the State Director for Rural Development, and then so I served in the Trump
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administration and now I'm serving as the West Virginia Economic Development Authority Executive Director under
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Governor Justice. So with all these things, why do you now want to
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be Secretary of State? You know, Dave, I have. I've fought
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for Republican conservative values for over thirty years, and there's no way that I
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can sit by now and let a Republican and name only walk in and nact
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a woke agenda on the people of West Virginia and destroy our values and all
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of the hard work over the last thirty years. I mean, all those
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positions that I've served in have been volunteer positions, and it's all in an
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effort to be able to attract our kids back to West Virginia to live and
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work and play here. I'm gonna ask you to be a little unbiased here,
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Chris, since the current Secretary of State happens to be your brother.
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But the truth is, during his two terms of Secretary of State, the
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office under Macwarner has won various awards for renovations on the business side of things,
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as well as charities and elections. So the next Secretary of State,
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no matter who it is, he's going to have some pretty big, big
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shoes to film. Well, Dave, I know you worked in the Secretary
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of State's office. You helped make some of those things happen. We've you
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asked me to be unbiased, but I mean, I've heard Hoppy say it
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several times on his show, the great work that's been done by the Secretary
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of State's office. And I think we're all aware of the fact that Mac,
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working with the county clerks closely and the staff that has been assembled there,
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your good friends, you know, have removed four hundred thousand names from
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our voting roles that shouldn't have been there. And that's four hundred thousand chances
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of election fraud occurring. And so you know, it's been a tremendous job,
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big shoes to fill. But I think we're in the best position to
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do that of the candidate's running. And I had the current secretary on the
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show last week and he talked about the need for more poll workers in West
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Virginia. Are poll workers and I know, for my time in the office
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are getting up there in years. Many of them I've even told the story
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about one particular lady I talked to you down in Nicholas County that said,
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you know, I'd love to give this up. I enjoyed the civic duty
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this time for somebody else. Any plans on how what we can do to
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recruit more poll workers, well, I think some of the things that are
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already being done. You know. The most recent effort was to focus on
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veterans I know in past election. You know, those are people that took
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an oath to do a duty. And you know, when you're retired or
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leave the military, that doesn't mean that you're you're no longer committed. So
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I think that, you know, that was great. A couple of years
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ago it was you know, realtors. But you know, I can tell
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you things are a lot easier now than they were in the years past.
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I remember when you know, the county chairmen were responsible for turning those lists
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into the county clerk and trying to find Republican poll workers was extremely difficult when
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we were out numbered eight and nine to one. Yeah, I'm from southern
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West Virginia, man, I know all about it. I mean I know
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all about it. Yes you do, Yeah, what are some of the
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innovations, What are some things that you'd like to do in the secretaries if
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you're liked well. Number One, we we've got to be able to keep
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up with you know, being the equipment, the the updating that needs to
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be done with computer programs. You have to invest heavily to be able to
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keep up with the times. You know. One of the things that I've
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recognized, just because I've talked to and I've worked with the folks in the
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Secretary of State's office right now, there's an attitude that if you see something,
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say something on a report, for example, if you're in an election,
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I think we could probably be more aggressive and reassign two workers within that
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office to be auditors, if you will, not only on the business side
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for business reports being turned in, but election reports as well, and to
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look for the bad actors. Not just looking for a technical error like you
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might find right now if somebody in the public sees something on an opponent's election
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report, but by reassigning a couple of workers to workers to audit every line
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of every report coming in and then investigate and build a case if that's necessary.
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You're talking to Chris Warner again, who is Republican candidate for Secretary of
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Chris's crowded field for Secretary of State. We have yourself. You have current
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Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood, former House Minority Leader in the head of HD
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Media, Doug scaff Delegate Chris Print, former legislator can read. And if
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fil Imperier's not even started yet, that's the people that have already announced.
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And I'm sure there'll be some folks on the day, at least one or
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two on the on the Democrat side as well. May see some more Republicans
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jump in. The names that are already out there, the ones that I
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mentioned. What makes Chris Warner the better candidate for Secretary of State. I
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think that I'm measured and tested in the toughest environments of the state and federal
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government. You know, we're out competing for economic development projects. I have
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provided visionary leadership for the West Virginia Republican Party starting back in two thousand,
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you know, when we challenged every legislative seat, and we've been able to
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take the majority in every measurable term. So we've got to remember, you
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know, in this Republican primary, it's really a nominating process for our party.
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You know, some states don't have elections, you know, they'll have
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conventions for this. And I don't think that there's anyone that has put in
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any more time for building the Republican Party than I have. Where can people
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learn more about your campaign? We have a website, Chris Warner WV on
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the web, Okay, trying to check it out there, and I'm sure
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you're all over social media as well. What's campaign strategy look like? I
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know you've already been out there a little bit, but as we get a
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little closer to the main primary, will be out there again. What are
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you telling noble when you go out there? Let me ask you what are
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you telling people and what are you, in turn hearing from people when you
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talk to them. You know what I hear from people is that they think
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that Doug scaff quite frankly, is going to be the one that pours the
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most amount of his personal wealth into this and that that's you know, that's
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who my opponent is. I wouldn't disagree with that. I don't have a
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thing negatively to say about any one of the other candidates. They're all good
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people. But you know, we can't have a guy that, just less
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than a year ago, as the Democrat Leader of the House, was the
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sole sponsor on same day voter registration. You know, someone that is you
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know, thinks that it's okay to bust a group of people across the border
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and register out of voting location and then vote and then leave that upon our
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county clerks to try to figure out whether those people are are citizens or not.
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So we will do what we have to do to raise the money necessary
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to compete against someone that will self fund their campaign. I mean, the
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final thirty seconds, why should somebody vote for Chris Warner for Secretary of State?
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You know, the most important thing we have Dave is citizens is our
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vote, and we can't sacrifice our principles because someone sees an easier path to
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get themselves elected and diminish the value of our vote. And again I've put
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in the time. I think I am in the best position to carry on.
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Quite frankly, what mac has started, the folks that worked in the
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Secretary of State's Office working closely with those fifty five county clerks and understanding that
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it's the county clerks that run their elections in each of those fifty five counties,
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and that we, as the Secretary of State's Office, will be there
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to support those county clerks. Chris Warner, Republican candid for Westerndinia Secretary of
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State. I appreciate you being on the show. Thanks a lot, best
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of luck in the campaign. Thank you, Dave. It is nine twenty
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A couple of texts to get to and then we got knaw unticchemister Ben
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Salango here, Uh, tex says, ask Chris to defend Ruby Freeman and
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Shay Moss. They were the Georgia poll workers defamed with dangerous lives about election
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fraud? Does he stand for the truth. I don't know anybody in West
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Virginia has anything to do with what's happened in Georgia. Uh. I saw
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McCoy Warner holding a stop the steel sign of knowing any lie about stolen election?
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Should I say something? That's a Texter text says a friend told me
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the state workers get election day off historically so they can work the polls.
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I've worked the polls before, and my daughter has a few times now.
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Okay, tex says, I'll give you a better campaign. Pitch for Chris
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Warner. Vote for Chris Warner because he's alt right. Come on, Dave,
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you know this is true. Look, I have candidates on the show,
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and the only thing that I do is I just tell them to you
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know, just just tell us about your campaign, you know, and why
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it is that you would be better suited for that position than other people.
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Tex says, I wonder if Chris Warner has the same feelings as his brother.
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Does he also think the United States CIA conspired to cause Joe Biden to
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fraudulently win the presidential election. Texas served in the Trump administration. That's all
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I need to know for a no vote, says the Texter. Tex said,
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isn't it true that Chris Warner nearly bankrupted the West Virginia GOP and gave
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us the debts that has been carried the president? I like, I don't
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I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, Ben Selango,
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I'm not a candy commissioner is here all? Are you? Man? We
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nee some serious stuff a little bit later, but uh been can can we
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stop with all these people saying that Detroit was robbed in the NFL game the
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Cowboys last week? And now look you you nearly being as big a cowboy
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fan as I am. I say nearly because I got a couple of years
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on you age wise. Uh. Yes. It was a bad call,
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all right, that reporting you know, the incident at the end of the
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Cowboys Detroit game. But even worse call was to call on the previous series
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when the refs literally called tripping on the wrong team. It was Hutchinson for
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the Lions that did the tripping, not the Cowboys. They literally said the
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wrong team. So had that call been made right, Dallas takes the penalty
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yards, runs out the clock and in the words of my good friend Pastor
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Collins here, Pastor Marlon Collins, miss me with that. I don't it
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doesn't sound as familiar as good when I do it as what does Marlon k?
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You did the hand gestures there they people can't see that. Yeah,
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yeah, So I just had to get that off my chance. Well,
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there have been some really bad calls in the NFL this year, and several
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have influenced the outcome of the game. But let's be honest. Detroit had
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three chances from the three yard line. I mean, you can't if you
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can't get it in three chances, just give it up. Yeah, there
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you go home. I mean it should just actually this should have kicked the
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extra point right and taken it into overtime. Yeah, but hindsight's doing it.
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But I will say this, I do like Dan Campbell, their coach.
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I like him a lot. And and he's a former cowboy. He
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is a former cowboy. And they always played the statistics. They knew that.
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I think there was a if they had gone for two statistically that had
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a fifty percent chance of winning. If they kicked ast your point, they
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had a forty four percent chance winning. So they went with the higher odds
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and it just didn't work out three straight times, all right, all right,
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So I had I just had to get that off my chest with my
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fellow about there's eagles though. Yeah, oh yeah, sorry, you're gonna
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get a lot of text on it. Yeah yeah, war are you Jared
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Page on that? All right? So the opioid money, let's get serious
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now, A lot of it heading in. Been a lot of questions about
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the way it's coming in and what will be done with it. Take it
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from the top. Yeah, you know, I've got to give credit to
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Patrick Morsey, the Attorney General, and also promo material right right there.
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Ben Selango just gave credit to Patrick More. Yeah, somebody will run with
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it. Oh my gosh, he was praised by a Democrats. I'm kidding,
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right, don't do it. Yeah, no, he you know,
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this was a this was a it's a lot of money. It's it's very
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complex litigation, you know. It's so there's a lot going on, and
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then Auditor J. B. McCuskey has come in to make sure that everything
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is spent appropriately. And you know that if you look at the auditors checkbook,
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you can go through and look at every penny that Kanawha County spends just
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by going to his website. And so the important thing about this money and
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we received about two point nine one five million in the first check. We're
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supposed to get another check. I'm not sure how much it's going to be
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this year. But everything will be spent in a public form. We're going
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to it'll be properly noticed, they'll have a public vote. There's not going
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to be any backroom deals where any of this money goes somewhere that it shouldn't.
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And that's the importance of having, you know, oversight, not just
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for Kanawa County, but but all the counties and all the municipalities who are
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getting this opioid money. It's got to be spent appropriately. It has to
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be spent within the guidelines, just like the ARPA money, got to spend
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it within the guideline, has to be related to the opioid epidemic. Now,
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that is very broad in and of itself, because Kanawa County, although
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we've reduced our jail bill considerably, and a big shout out to Commission President
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camp Carper, who's been working on this for years to get our jail bill
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lowered, we still spend about a quarter of a million dollars per month on
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the jail bill. So a lot of that is opioid fueled, you know,
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drug fueled, and so we can use it for some of that.
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We can use it, you know, for future issues to try to prevent
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the opiodemic, or we can use it to reimburse taxpayer some of the money
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they spent combating this. But here's here's the issue. I mean, two
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point nine million dollars is a lot of money. We're going to get a
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lot of money over the next ten years. It's a drop in the bucket
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to what not just taxpayers, but but families have lost. Yeah, you
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know, everyone knows someone including you know, I mean family members who have
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had problems with the opioid epidemic. It has especially in southern West Virginia.
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You know, I grew up in Raleigh County. A lot of my friends
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were affected. And you know, it's a lot of money, but it's
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it's just a drop in the bucket. Can you know, compared to what
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West Virginia has actually lost. Okay, you can't put a you can't put
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a price tag on that. You really can't because it has devastated and decimated
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families. You look at what's going you know, happen in Mingo and Logan
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and some of those counties. McDowell, My goodness, Uh, it was.
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It was terrible and it uh you know, thankfully a couple of lawyers
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and a great reporter got involved and brought all this to light, and you
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know that's what led to this litigation. Talking with Kennalla County Commissioner Ben Selango
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here on the day Vallance showing five eighty live. You want to talk a
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little bit. You told me earlier about the AEP rate increase, the rate
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case settlement. Yeah, so what a great gig. This is so ap
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lost a little money back in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two because the
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coal market and the oil gas market was higher than they anticipated. They made
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some bad decisions, you know, some bad purchases, some bad moves,
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and I think that maybe utility companies perhaps are the only companies in the world
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that can then go back and make up for those losses by charging rate payers
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and citizens additional money for their losses. So what they did was they lost
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about six hundred and fifty million dollars and they go in and they asked the
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Public Service Commission then to grant them current funds to make up for those losses.
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Can you imagine, you know, if can you imagine your advertisers if
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you say, if you sent them an en voice from twenty twenty one and
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say, you know what, our labor costs were a little higher than we
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expected. We need you to pay an extra you know, pick your numbers,
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people would lose theirm up. I'll tell you how that'll go over.
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There's a term it's just blank in a swimming pool, and I'll just leave
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it at that, but go ahead. Yeah, so that's exactly what they're
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doing. We've objected to it. We filed, you know, not just
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letters, we filed motions. We've intervened. Commission President Krper actually has testified
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in those proceedings to object to those increases. You know, the knaw count
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commissions. Funny. When I got on the Commission back in twenty seventeen,
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people did not understand the difference between the Public Service Commission and the County Commission,
24:37
and so rates would go up and I would get emails saying, why
24:41
in the world did you raise our rates? But I think now people are
24:44
starting to understand, because we've objected so many times, and we've been public
24:48
about it and opposed it so many times, that there is a difference between
24:52
the Public Service Commission and the Kenawu County Commission. We don't set the rates.
24:56
You know, the utility companies go in front of the PA Seed to
25:00
ask for rate increases, whether it be for the losses that had in twenty
25:04
twenty one, which boggles my mind, or perspectively they need vegetation clearance or
25:11
you know, whatever it may be. Expansions. Some of those I can,
25:15
you know, appreciate more than going back and trying to make up for
25:18
losses, because I promise you one thing in twenty twenty one. In twenty
25:21
twenty two, when they had their losses, they were still giving big bonuses
25:23
to their CEOs. Yeah. Yeah, I mean that never fails to not
25:27
happen. I mean that's always taken care of it sudden, suddenly, when
25:30
it's time to calculate the bonus. It was a good year. But now
25:33
you know, two years later after tex Cash you said, top of the
25:36
segment, it's good work if you can get it. That's good work if
25:37
you can get I got a text here for you. It goes back to
25:41
the opioid industry. Text said, ask mister Selango. How many people in
25:44
the opioid industry went to prison for all the deaths that they caused. Yeah,
25:48
I'm not aware of any you know. I think there may have been
25:51
one company, and I was not involved in this litigation, so I want
25:53
to be clear about that. So I don't know the details the intertail you're
25:57
speaking of, Count Commissioner. Yeah, I'm speaking And I did read Eric
26:00
Ayir's book Twice Death in Mudlock, which was a great book, and that
26:04
kind of that exposed a lot of it, and so I don't I'm not
26:08
aware of anybody you know the dealers went to jail, the users went to
26:12
jail, but as far as the actual executives, I'm not aware of anybody
26:18
was prosecuted. I would agree with that. But Dave Allen showing five,
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because what you don't know can't hurt you. Commissioner Slango, let's do a
26:44
little review of twenty twenty three and as I've done pretty much with all my
26:47
guests so far this week, the year that was twenty twenty three, as
26:52
it pertains to Kanawh County and the Canaan Kunty Commission, and what to expect
26:55
from twenty twenty four. You know, there's a lot going on, so
26:57
we've got obviously the Sports Complex, Capital Sports Complex, which is a big
27:03
project. We have been working through ironing, through the sludging, through those
27:08
details over the last year and a half. And you know, we've got
27:12
the board in place. We have we've got memorandums out to solicit bids for
27:21
banking. We've picked the architect, we've picked our consumer rep. We've done
27:25
all of those things. So it is moving. You know, Connaw County
27:29
has transferred five million dollars over. I believe the city's transferred some money over
27:33
just to get it going. So there's a lot going on there. And
27:37
that's just one thing. I mean we have. There's so many projects.
27:40
And a commissioner Wheeler is working on this, the half of the McCoy trail
27:44
out in the Tornado area. He he spearheaded that and he drove me out
27:49
there on the Saturday and told me his vision and I was blown away.
27:53
I kept thinking, why didn't I think of this? This is such a
27:57
good idea. Why didn't I think of this? But he's doing it.
28:00
And then your credit for the idea, I absolutely did not know. When
28:03
I showed up when we announced the project, I gave him full credit.
28:07
I said, I was I must have been asleep with the wheel because I
28:10
did not see this one, but he did. I mean, and so,
28:14
uh, you know that that kind of forward thinking and innovative thinking is
28:18
exactly what we need in in Kanawa County. So yeah, that that project's
28:22
moving forward. He's working very hard on it. So there's a lot going
28:26
on. I mean, we've got you know, we'll be going down the
28:29
PSC about every week or so and objecting to rate increases. We've got that,
28:33
we've got some infrastructure projects that we're working on, some water and uh,
28:37
some sewer and things like that. All Right, you got a text
28:40
here going back to the opioid settlement. Ask mister Selango if it's okay that
28:44
opioid settlements would allow the sacklers who created the problem to ev aid any further
28:48
liability in prison. Thank you sort of spoken that earlier. We go ahead.
28:52
Yeah, you know, I don't think that a civil settlement can avoid
28:56
a criminal prosecution. And that's just a general legal principle. You can't say
29:03
because you pay me money. Therefore, the federal government, for instance,
29:06
can't penam me to testify in the oprial lid case of the OPIALD criminal cases.
29:11
Now what it does what. Anytime you reach a civil settlement, there
29:14
is a release that is signed that releases them of not just past but future
29:19
liability, and so that that may be what they're talking about, but I
29:22
don't think it in any way prevents the US Attorney's Office or not just West
29:29
Virginia but elsewhere, to prosecute. I mean, if the evidence is there,
29:33
they can prosecute. The problem is when you're dealing with criminal as opposed
29:37
to civil, civil is more likely than not, right, it's preponderance of
29:40
the evidence. Criminal is a much much higher burden, you know, beyond
29:44
all reasonable doubt is a much higher burden. So they would have to show
29:48
and I swear I've seen some of these emails that that I think shows it,
29:52
But they would have to show beyond a reasonable doubt that they you know,
29:53
that they intended to this, and that's that's it is. Uh Texas,
30:00
please ask mister Solango. You're a popular guy today, Please say,
30:03
mister Silango. Why is Kent Carpers advocating for Westernginian American Water to take over
30:07
Union PSD, which would increase customers bills by two to three times. Well,
30:11
I'm not sure that he is advocating. What we asked the Union PSD
30:15
was to sit down with Western American Water and make a decision. And I
30:21
you know, whatever they decide, they decide. But one thing that I've
30:22
said, and I'm going to say again because I said it in public,
30:26
Mendia, I'm saying on the radio. If Union PSD decides not to sell
30:29
to Western American Water, that's certainly their choice. Just when things go wrong,
30:33
and they're going to go wrong, don't come to the taxpayers and ask
30:37
for money to bail you out. You know, there are a lot of
30:40
infrastructure issues, There is a lot of debt, There are a lot of
30:42
problems there, and I want to keep rates as low as possible, but
30:48
you've got to do it right. And if you're neglecting your infrastructure, and
30:52
if you have some catastrophic, catastrophic failure, don't come to the Commission Texas.
31:00
Will mister Selango be switching parties to Republican as his wife did. Somebody
31:04
asked me that yesterday and I told him, I don't foresee that in the
31:07
near future. Okay, in the near future, well, I mean I
31:12
can't tell you having twenty years from now. If the good Lord blessed me.
31:17
I'm still around. Who knows I got before we let you go?
31:19
Texas, says the Lions. Here we go. We started with football.
31:22
We're gonna have the football. Two cowboy guys here, the Lions. Only
31:25
to worry. The Cowboys won't let you down. What could go wrong will
31:29
go wrong. The Cowboys are an accident waiting to happen. Sincerely, Stephen
31:32
A. Smith. Apparently Stephen A. Smith listens to the show Who Knew?
31:37
Yeah, you know that. I've had many broken hearts because the Cowboys.
31:40
I remembered stinkly when Dwight Clark caught that touchdown pass and that comes on,
31:42
Oh my gosh, I forget how old. Oh I mean, I
31:45
was probably nine. Was that like eighty three January eighty two, so I
31:51
was ninety And I've handed the San Francisco forty nine ers ever since, and
31:53
I remember, I just remember how devastated I was. And I'm not sure
31:59
it's got a lot better since you know, I'll tell you a quick story
32:00
about that, because you'll appreciate this. No one else will but you will.
32:05
I was, of course a kid growing up in Logan County at the
32:07
time, in sixth grade when that game was played, and uh, there
32:09
was our cable. Television was out at that point, and I was I
32:15
did not see the catch, but I somehow on my little transistor radio found
32:19
a broadcast of that game by standing on one leg and you know whatever,
32:23
uh and uh and and so I didn't see it live, but I actually
32:28
heard it on via my transistor radio because our cable was out there. We
32:32
did we did not have cable. I was the guy that cable that was
32:36
like three channels. Yeah, I was the guy that I would always have
32:38
to climb up on the trailer and adjust the rabbit here so we would get
32:42
signaled. I was also the guy that would crawl under the trailer with a
32:44
hair dryer and thaw the pipes. I was that guy. So yeah,
32:49
I remember watching that and uh just I mean I was just crushed. I
32:54
mean nine year old. I mean I had my Dallas Cowboys lunchbox, I
32:58
have my Dallas Cowboys jacket, and the forty nine ers broke my heart.
33:01
So yeah, I'm not a forty nine Ers fan. Well here's what happens
33:04
to Dallas. You know, we beat Washington this week. Yes, we'll
33:07
probably get a home playoff game. We go on the road and we'll probably
33:12
lose, but the home spring's eternal. This is the exactly right. Well,
33:16
I don't sleep on Washington because you know, they've not had a great
33:20
season, but their season they will consider it a winning season if they beat
33:23
the Cowboys. Yeah, exactly, exactly right. All right, We do
33:27
have one more question for you. All right. It says, could you
33:29
ask commissioner if the county has studied the impact of the Paint Creek chemical spill
33:34
on fish populations as part of their settlement, and is it healthy to eat
33:38
trout there anymore? So we have so that settlement, by the way,
33:44
all went into a separate fund, and we're going to use it for that
33:46
watershed, I mean to stock restock fish. But my understanding is the chemical
33:52
tests have come back good. Even though even today, if it rains,
33:55
you still see bubbles in the water, you know. And that's what I
33:59
kept asking in the trucking company. You know, there are no fish there.
34:02
Do you see bubbles? And how can you say it's not contaminated?
34:05
But I think it is doing a lot better now, and they've studied,
34:07
I mean, we've had you know, as part of the litigation. We
34:10
had them analyze the soil, the water, everything. Okay, so it's
34:15
it's looking better. Is it one? What I eat a trout in there
34:19
right now? I would not and I don't recommend that you do it,
34:21
but at some point we're going to stock it and uh, you know it'll
34:23
it'll be safe. If you need fish, maybe a safer bat, maybe
34:28
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new head of the West Virginia Manufacturer Association, Bill biss It, joins us
37:46
right now. Bill, good morning, congratulations on the new gig. And
37:49
I understand this is your first media interview. You are getting the exclusive Dave,
37:54
and I appreciate your interest and invite and go heard buddy. I haven't
37:59
seen in a while, so yeah, happy new year. Come it in
38:00
here. Rocking the herd gear always makes me happy. Big road win for
38:05
the Marshall basketball team last night, no doubt. Yeah, I think there's
38:07
a lot of excitement and excitement really all of you. Know when you look
38:10
at w and Marshall, I mean I think we're you know, there's struggles,
38:14
but at the same time, good things happen. What exactly does the
38:16
West Virginia Manufacturers Association do Now? I know this is only like day three
38:21
on the job for you, so you're still trying to find where the restroom
38:22
is, But I mean, what exactly does this group do? You know,
38:25
I've done similar work in the past for other state associations and chambers and
38:30
you know all that, But really, I think at the end of the
38:32
day, you try to provide a voice for people that do a specific thing,
38:36
and in my case, it's manufacturers. It's large companies that make things
38:39
that we depend upon, not only in West Virginia but nationwide, if not
38:43
worldwide, and that to me is a very important thing. Not to get
38:46
too preachy here, but I think we have disconnected ourselves from the means of
38:51
production. You know, we think the electricity comes from the outlet in the
38:53
wall. We think our food comes from the supermarket, and we think all
38:57
these devices and things that make our lives great are just exist. It takes
39:00
skill, it takes ability, it takes some investment to make all that happen.
39:04
And what's really cool, Dave, is we're at a time in West
39:06
Virginia, I think where great things are happening, and yesterday's announcement is just
39:09
another example that, Yeah, exactly and this LG thing. I mean again,
39:14
as I talked to my other two guests about, you know, we're
39:16
we're still learning about what exactly it's it's going to be. But the bottom
39:21
line is, anytime you start talking about people coming here or being here making
39:23
six figures at it makes me happy. Well, you and I, You
39:28
and I are in long in the tooth that we remember the day is when
39:30
that didn't happen or those companies were leaving. Yeah, so it's a very
39:32
different momentum. And the thing I always try to mind friends of mine,
39:36
and you know, whether it's apple action, fatalism, or just our nature,
39:38
we're so critical of everything. Well they didn't, they didn't explain really
39:43
what's happened. Well, okay, slow down. This is the private sector.
39:46
It's going to take deliberation, it's gonna take time, it's gonna take
39:49
investment, and there's always a degree of risk. You know, it's not
39:52
a there's not a large federal state government to backfill you if needed. A
39:55
lot of times people are putting their harder and money on the line, so
39:59
there is risk. But at the same time, when you look at new
40:00
Core, you look at Berkshire hath where you look at for a Energy,
40:02
you look at a lot of the developments and also existing employers that are expanding.
40:07
It's really exciting. And I'll be honest, I was there yesterday.
40:08
I thought it was a really cool event. You know, Governor Justice is
40:13
going to put his own kind of messaging on things. But at the end
40:15
of the day, boy, those those LG folks were all smiling and really
40:19
felt welcomed to West Virginia. Did he really give the CEO of LG a
40:27
photograph of baby dog wearing goggles? As I as I read online last night,
40:32
Dave, I'm gonna be very specific in my response to that question.
40:36
Yes he did. And you and I are jaded enough that we don't get
40:39
it. But if you saw the smile on that guy and how excited he
40:44
was, and how really kind of disappointed he was a baby dog wasn't there.
40:47
You know, maybe we don't get it, but boy, in the
40:50
outside world, it's sliced bread. Buddy, whatever it takes you get on
40:53
the bus, man, I'm telling you got you got in this new gig.
40:55
You got some pretty big shoes to fill. I mean, predecessor did
40:59
it a kick butt job there, she did. Rebecca's been a friend since.
41:02
Sub Member Rebecca McPhail, who's gone onto the American Chemistry Council has a
41:06
much larger nationwide role now, has done excellent work. And I'm cognizant of
41:09
that. Dave. I mean, you've got to realize, you know,
41:12
you want to take it to the next level, It's gonna be tough because
41:14
she did great work. I think she was a strong voice. We'll see
41:17
how I do. I mean, I want to do well. I've known
41:20
Rebecca since two thousand and two when we both worked at Marshall University. I
41:22
mean, but she's very capable, and you know, I'll do my best.
41:25
I got a lot to learn, but I like to learn. It's
41:28
kind of a fun thing. I had a great run with Senator Capitol.
41:30
It was an honor to work for her, and I think left on very
41:34
good terms. And the guy who replaced me, you'll probably do a pretty
41:36
good job. Yeah. Bill Bissett is with us right now from the Westernian
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The legislative session begins less than a week from the day. What are you
42:04
going to be taking a look at there? Well, I think there's a
42:07
lot of issues that affect employers that we've got to get serious about. You
42:09
and are just talking right before we went on the air about workforce, and
42:13
I know this is something we've talked about and talked about and questioning. It
42:15
does very poorly in this If we're not in the bottom of the rankings,
42:19
we're at the bottom. We have to improve that. We have to remove
42:22
impediments to people working. And I think one of the main ways when you
42:24
look at things like childcare, when you look at transportation, I know,
42:29
people coming from recovery to work is another thing that's we've got to be better
42:32
at that. And it's tough because you know, we're talking about how do
42:35
we increase our population, which I'm all for, but we also have to
42:38
create our increase. Are you know people that want to work and we're talking
42:43
about people that could work that choose not to and you don't. You can't
42:45
just make it punitive. You've got to talk to these folks and figure out
42:47
what is preventing from you from doing what you and I do every day,
42:51
which is get up and the hustle and all that. I was just talking
42:53
to some other folks in the hallway about that. There's got to be ways
42:55
we can do that. When you're talking about a single parent, you're talking
42:59
about all all the things that make it difficult, a car breaking down,
43:01
anything like that. We've got to find a way through, because I can
43:04
tell you right now, every employer that I talked to with US Senator Shilly
43:07
Moore Capito and now in the new rule manufacturers, that's all I'm hearing.
43:12
I can't find the people I need to accomplish my mission. Yeah, and
43:15
it's and it's a it's a problem, and it is continuing, and it
43:17
doesn't matter people's I've heard people say, well, you know, you if
43:22
you pay people living wage the work, granted, I get that, but
43:24
we're talking about higher paying jobs to a lot of higher paying jobs that people
43:29
are just choosing. I don't know if it's a gig economy. We're still
43:30
trying to get out of COVID because of what our government did to basically destroy
43:35
the country. Editorial comment on my part there not, mister Bissett. Uh,
43:38
you know, and we've got to figure out, you know, how
43:40
to get you know, to kick these people in the butt and say you've
43:44
got to go to work. You cannot, you can't keep doing this.
43:46
I don't know if you had doctor John Deskins from w On Your On Your
43:51
Show ever, but he he is very intelligent on the issue of workforce development,
43:54
not especially into how it affects every member of our society. If there's
44:00
no age issue, there's no gender issue, it's universal in this why aren't
44:04
people working? And he's really distilled it down to kind of give us a
44:07
better understanding that. But we have to enact I think, policies that allow
44:10
people to remove these boundaries. Yes, I mean to speak frankly, you
44:15
could be dealing with people who just simply choose to sit on the couch and
44:19
have a mailbox economy where the government sends them a check every a couple of
44:22
months. That's an option. But if there's reasons why they can't do it,
44:27
we, I think as a society have to figure that out because it's
44:29
going to start harming our economic development, it's going to start helping our job
44:32
retention here in the state. We have to find ways to help people succeed,
44:36
and I think post secondary educations in there too. If you don't want
44:38
to work. You're certainly not going to want to get up and learn things.
44:42
You know, in a post high school world, if you even complete
44:44
high school. We've got to do better on this front. And it's a
44:45
real it's a real challenge, and I think it's a culture change for West
44:49
Virginia. Bill. I know you're going to do a great job in your
44:51
new role. Bill Bis at West Virginia Manufacturers Association. Congratulations man, Thanks
44:55
Dave, appreciate it well. I have you on the show again soon.
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in Charleston. All right, Charleston City Council last night. Many in the
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crowd had hoped council would issue a ceasefire resolution in the Israeli Hamas War.
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Well, that didn't happen. The resolution was table Jeff Jenkins's story post to
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wv metronews dot com. Councilman Joe Solomon was the one behind this. He
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is Jewish. Council one Becky separately made the motion to table the resolution,
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saying the city had already spoken on the issue with its recent letter. Now,
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that letter was sent on behalf of the city and Council by Mayor Amy
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Goodwin and was sent to the state's congressional delegation asking them to work toward peace
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in the region. Now you've probably by now twelve hours or so removed heard
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or seen the response to some of the more vocal members of the crowd.
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We've actually played some of it on the morning news this morning. They began
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chanting shame, shame, shame, and they wouldn't shut up. So the
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mayor had to call for decorum, which wasn't happening. So that ended up
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going into recess. And I'm told, I'm told now I wasn't there.
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Some members were removed from the council chambers and there was a rally held I
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believe the last two nights on the steps of the City Hall. And I
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guess I, like many others, have a hard time understanding the need for
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this or the initial letter either. Now it is a tragedy. What's going
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on over there, Make no mistake about it. No one's going to argue
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that. But I'm not sure that why it is we need the City of
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Charleston to send a meaningless letter. I mean, it's not like those in
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charge over there are going to take a look at a resolution from Charleston City
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Council and the mayor and say, oh wait, they're right, we're gonna
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We're gonna stop this now. As a side note, as I said,
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I did not attend the meeting last night, but I read our story and
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saw some of the TV coverage as well the accounts of the meeting. And
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I got a text this morning from a member of the Jewish community in Charleston,
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and he, speaking for himself, asked for this to be read.
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And that is is that his words. The majority of the Jewish community in
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Charleston was not represented at that meeting last night. And according to this person
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from the Jewish community, this was a quote, we do not support a
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resolution like this from city council. We do not think this is a municipal
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issue in quotes. The person also went on to say that the majority of
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people there last night were Muslim, not Jewish. And this person said that
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seventy five percent or so were Muslim and the others were, in his words,
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liberals who couldn't find Gaza on a map. That is, according to
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a text I got from a friend from the Jewish community here in Charleston.
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Side note, Mayor Goodwin will be on the show next Monday. Her monthly
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Mayor Monday segment had to be shifting around because of the holidays and so forth.
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But she is going to be on the show next week and we will
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All right, let me see Texas, Dave, I wasn't a big
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Biden fan, but I am now. With all these jobs coming to a
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state, couldn't be happier for our state. Let's go Biden, says a
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texture Texas says, destroy the economy. Huh, all time record, highest
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stock market, all time record, oil and gas production, lowest unemployment in
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fifty years, more job creation in thirty years, historic investment, in infrastructure,
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real wage growth for the first time in a while, and more jobs
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are available to everyone, says a texture. So so far, the so
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called smoking guns and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein names have been offering nothing.
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We already know. The former President Bill Clinton's name is on the list,
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as is Prince Andrew and the late Michael Jackson. I think I'm close
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with this. I think a lot of people who are wanting to use this
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Epstein list as a sort of a gotcha moments for their political rivals are going
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to be greatly disappointed. It seems from what I have read, it's a
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good mix of Republicans, Democrats, and celebrities. So if you're planning on
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that, aha, those demonic Democrats are uh huh, those perverted Republicans.
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I think there's a lot of names of all sides going to be on that
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list as it comes out. All Right, we gotta go. Ryan Nicholson's
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my producer today, Ryan, Thank you so much, Bill Bissett, Chris
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Warner, and Ben Selango coming up on the show to morrow. Hannah Gardner
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with our Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week from the kenaw Charlest new Man
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Association. Tim Brady from the Charleston CVB, and everybody talking about the weather.
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Brian Hughes will talk about it from Storm Tracker thirteen Hobbies next. I'll
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see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody five e w
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