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10/19/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Crescent Gallagher, Rob Cunningham, Jan Hanlon, Jonah Adkins, Brian Dayton · The Dave Allen Show

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in the show. So lots to get to this morning. Kress and Gallagher
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from Americans for Prosperity Joints. Is Christin, Good morning, Welcome to the
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show. How are you, sir? Hey, Dave, thanks for having
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me. You know, mentioned all these things got coming up on the show,
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but we start with you. Yeah, well, Dave, I think
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you're having me on today to talk about our poll. Yeah, we did
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a poll October third through the fourth. We you mean the Americans Prosperity Americans
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Prosperity in the pool, and we were talking the voters about issues, how
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they viewed candidates, general direction of the country. But also most importantly and
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probably the thing you're most interested in, is the governor's race. But we
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did a live calls, which is the gold standard for polls these days.
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We talked to likely Republican voters, so that's your people that are registered Republicans
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that vote often in primaries. Also independence they are likely to vote in a
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Republican primary given that that's where a lot of elections are going to be decided
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this next year. And so we came up with a lot of results and
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we got a lot of data back that he'll help us with our strategy here
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with Americans for Prosperity. Now, let's get right to the numbers according to
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this poll, and if I get any of these wrong, just let me
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know. Attorney General Patrick Morrissey in the lead according to your poll twenty nine
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percent. Delegate more Capito is next to eighteen percent. That's followed by Secretary
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of State Mac Warner at eight percent, Auto Magnet Chris Miller at six percent,
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and Rashida Yost at one percent. Yep, that's right, Dave.
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Attorney General Patrick Morrissey still has a strong lead. He's still the leading candidate
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in that race for governor, had a eleven point lead over his next leading
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opponent, Delgate more Capito. And we also found that Attorney General Patrick Morrissey
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has high favorabilities, high name id with these type of voters, and that's
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leading to him leading early in these polls and being the leading candidate for governor.
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People know who Patrick Morrisey is, they know his record, they know
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he stands for West Virginia valleys and jobs. Consistently over the years were the
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other king and it's struggled, and whether it need to make up ground is
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name I d fifty percent of people had never heard of Deliatemore capital I think
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seventy percent for Secretary of State Matt Warner and eighty percent for Chris Miller.
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So those candidates are trailing. There's still about seven months until the primary,
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but they have a lot of ground to make up where Patrick Morrisey is a
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well known figure in West Virginia politics. Now is it is it safe to
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say? And I know this poll is different than than an endorsement, It's
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not necessarily that, but is it safe to say that you folks are backing
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Patrick Morrisey. Yeah, I mean, no secret there. We've endorsed Patrick
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Morrissey. We're out there knocking doors. We plan on knocking two hundred thousand
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doors and make sure he's the next governor of the state. We will do
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our usual tactics of paid media as long to back him as well. But
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you know, this poll was unbiased. It was a It was a benchmark
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for us to understand where the race is at, what voters care about as
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far as issues and favorabilities and the margin vera for this was three point point
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four percent, which is pretty good for a poll these days. So despite
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our endorsement and where we're out on the race, it's clear that Patrick Morrissey
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is the front runner. You know, there weren't a lot of things in
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the poll, to be honest with your Crescent that surprised me. But one
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thing that did. I guess is you asked the question, and I guess
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it goes back to name recognition about the gubernatorial candidates, and you asked the
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dread had never heard of them or no opinion? Either way, twenty nine
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percent of likely GOP voters either have no opinion or have never heard of Patrick
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Morrissey, forty five percent, as you said, for Capito, sixty one
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percent for Macwarner, seventy percent for Chris Miller. And full disclosure, I
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used to work for Macwarner and I'm not publicly backing anyone in this race.
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But how is it that sixty one percent of the GOP electorate has never heard
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of Macwarner. He's a two term secretary of State. He's like the you
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know, the other constitutional office holders, Morrissey, Riley Moore, mccoskey,
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Kn't Lee and Hart, Chris crossed the state from one end of the other.
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I just didn't understand that that that response. Well, and Dave,
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I used to work for the Commissioner of our Culture currently in Heart and the
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thing I always heard was, oh, we always vote, but I didn't
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know we vote for Commissioner of our Culture. And it's like, well,
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are you sure there's always a drop down on a ballot. People want to
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go and vote for the president, they want to vote for US center.
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Ye, they're less likely, and the numbers are always big on presidential use,
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much more than what they are non presidential. And you and I kind
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of live in a political bubble. We've worked for these people, We're friends
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with these people. People know them in Charleston, but they just don't know
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folks outside the state. I think where Patrick's done a really good job is
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he has a great record for attorney general and also he just goes out and
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communicates very well about what he's doing. He chriss crosses the state. And
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I think a lot of people who are statewide elected officials, your state auditor,
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your commissioner of agriculture, they just take for advantage that are granted that
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maybe people know them more than they really do. So to any candidate out
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there that's been elected, you got to keep working the guy, be telling
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people what you're doing and why you're doing it, and making sure people know
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who you are. You know. I think it's kind of interesting that this
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is not really what we're talking about today, but I do find it very
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interesting. As you said, you and I are both kunt of political junkies
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that come twenty January twenty twenty five, one way or the other, every
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position is going to have a new body in there, except for the Agriculture
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Commissioner, ken Leehard because he's now somebody can still file a run against him,
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But as of now, I don't think anybody else, as I could
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be wrong about that, but there's going to be, one way or the
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other, a new Secretary of State, a new auditor, a new governor,
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new attorney general. It's but there's gonna be a whole lot of people
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in the Capitol trying to figure out where the toilet paper's kept. Yeah,
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and that's good for the health of the Republican Party. It's also why we
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focused on a lot of issues understanding where people are at because these voters are
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going to decide, you know, who's going to win these offices in the
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Republican primary. So where are they at on school choice? Where are they
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out an open enrollment? High support for that stuff. We asked the question
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about taxes, and we framed it a little differently. Obviously Republicans want lower
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taxes, but are you okay with lower taxes and fewer services? And overwhelmingly
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people said that's the case too. So you know, we're with Republican supermajorities,
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Republican state wide officers. If you want to be one of those bodies,
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you have to be knowing what the candidates and your voters care about.
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So these issues matter. Candidate quality matters, and it's a good thing that
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we've done a lot of school choice, a lot of keeping the budget flat,
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because that's what voters really care about. We know that. On the
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other side, that it has been announced that Steve Williams is He's not I
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don't think publicly filed yet, but he did make an announcement at the UMWA
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deal in racing back on Labor Day that he's going to run for a governor
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on the Democratic side, we don't know if anybody else is going to run.
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Your take on the Steve Williams candidacy. You know, Dave, I
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want elections to be competitive, but I just don't think right now it's a
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good time to be running as a Democrat in the state. I think a
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lot of those cases, a lot of these races will be decided in the
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May primary. And that's why we focused on these voters because honestly, these
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are the decision makers of the state. So understanding what they care about,
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where they're out on candidates, how they view candidates is important to our strategy
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as far as who we back and how we get involved in these races.
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that there was a headline I think was in yesterday's is that Mail about the
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amount of money that Patrick Morrissey has raised. I mean, he's just far
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and away, way above anybody else. So and what that means is is
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that some of them, you know, a lot of the money. As
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with these candidates, all of them is going to come from out of state
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in many cases. What is it about Patrick Morrissey that appeals to people outside
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West Virginia They get involved in all these races, not just West Virginia but
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other states as well. Christ Well, it's just as the attorney general.
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People care about the attorney general regardless of what state is, and he's done
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a great job of leading coalitions of attorney generals across the country for big wins
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at the US Supreme Court. So, you know, as much as we
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want to care about the state auitor, the attorney general has a great impact
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at the US Supreme Court, the state Supreme Court, and they can do
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a lot together as coalitions. Arguably the most impactful position beyond that is ad
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Commissioner because there's a lot of ad policy that's done in Washington, d C.
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So I think people care about Patrick Morrisey because he's that fighter. He's
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fought for West Virginia values, jobs, he's led those coalitions at big wins
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at the US Supreme Court. What are some of the other polls that you
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guys may be coming out with as we get closer to election. Any other
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plans for other polls. Well, we always want benchmarks. We want to
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show our impact, so we might do polls later down the road, maybe
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in March or near the election. You know, we're keeping looking at races.
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AFP Action endorsed rally more for US Congress in the northern half of the
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state. We're going to get involved in some state legislative races. I think
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we expect some endorsements, our first round endorsements by the end of the year,
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but once polks file in January, we'll have another round of endorsements.
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So we're looking at other races. You know, there's gonna be a lot
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of great competitive ones. A lot of these races gonna be decided in the
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primary, So we're gonna get involved and make sure aligned candidates who care about
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the right issues get elected. And you and others from Americans for Prosperity have
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been on the show in the past, but again kind of give us the
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mission statement if you will, the mantra of Americans for Prosperity. Well,
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we're a right a center organization. We're a grassroots organization in fifty states.
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We work with connecting voters and citizens with their lawmakers, that make sure good
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policy is enacted at the state level. So we're focused on issues like tax
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reform, controlling spending, criminal justice, healthcare reform, things like that.
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So we're a grassroots organization. First, we knocked doors, we talked to
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voters, and just make sure good policy is passed at the state level.
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We've been in West Virginia since twenty fifteen. We've played an important role in
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the tax reform and the Hope Scholarship programs, and there's still a lot to
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do in the states. So that's why we're still involved in these elections.
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Know where can people learn more about Americans for Prosperity. You can learn more
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at Americans for Prosperity dot org. Greston's always a pleasure to have you on
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an event called the West Virginia School Safety Conference being organized by the Mouth and
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State Educational Services Cooperative. I had a full house here to talk about it
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this morn. Rob Cunningham is the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security in the state
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and a member of the West Virginia School Safety Committee and a member of the
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Putnam County Board of Education. Chan Handling is executive director of the Mountain State
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Educational Services Cooperative. And Joan Adkins is the director of pre K through twelve
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Academic Support for the West Virginia Department of Education. And they're all inside the
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parm Maarstore studio this morning. Welcome to the show, one and all.
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Rob Welcome, Well, thank you, Dave, Jan and Jonah say you're
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helloes. Okay, I don't have a mic for Janna and Joan in here.
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Ryan, try that again. All right, there we go, there
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we go. You to see you Jan Hanlon and I just so you guys,
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No, Jan Hanlin and I have known each other for seventy eight years.
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Can we look good? Yes? Jane and I go way back we
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go. We'll get to that story a little bit later. Robert Rod,
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I want to start with you with the overview here and the others can jump
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at anytime. What is this all about? One hundred percent. It's about
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school safety and keeping our children safe. I got involved with this last year
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when Governor Justice started the initiative for West Virginia to have a school safety program,
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and it has done nothing but grow. And we have many partners with
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Jan and and and Jonah at Education uh D h h R. This the
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Fusion Center We've got many aspects of state government working in one direction to keep
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our children safe. John, let's go to you now. Now tell us
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what it is that you do. So. I serve as the director of
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the Office of pre K twelve Academic Support, but I'm also the school safety
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contact for the Department of Education. So Rob Jan we work very closely together.
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We also work with our School Safety Officer program Dana Chapman, who is
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our state school Safety Administrator. We've you know, we've developed this partnership over
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the past couple of years, and we work collaboratively on about all of our
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projects because it is a it's a concerted effort. UH. And and Dave,
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I'll go ahead and say now we say this every time we have the
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opportunity that you know, while while you know, Rob led this initiative and
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we work as a collaborative team. School safety is everyone's responsibility, community members,
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school personnel, UH, students. Everyone has the responsibility if you will
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to if you see something or if you suspect something, then let someone know.
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And Jam let's bring you in here. What is your role in all
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this? My role is you know, I was watching the Univaldi shooting in
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Texas, and I called the state superintendent at the time and said, you
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know what, it's about time that we have a school safety conference. So
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he led me to Rob and Jonah and then together, like Jonah said,
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we form this collaborative effort because we know hurt people hurt people, so we
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want to do a lot of things on the front end, the preventative end,
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to keep anything from like that happening in the state of West Virginia.
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Now, Rob will go back to you. By the way, we have
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to day give us, give us all the details on them. October twenty
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sixth and October twenty seventh. It's going to be here at the Charleston Convention
22:30
Center. It's not open to the public, but it is for law enforcement
22:34
and education personnel. And that's the real purpose, the people who are boots
22:41
on the ground to get some information to help them keep our children safe.
22:48
And so what do you I mean, how do you go about inviting people
22:51
for this? As you said it's open to law enforcement personnel, I mean,
22:55
yeah, who gets in jam everybody? We want K twelve of course,
23:00
we want public schools, we want private schools. But also you know,
23:03
you have large hospitals that are going to send people to it, and
23:07
also churches. You know, there's churches are always in danger of something happening
23:15
there. So we have some church folks that are going to join us as
23:18
well, and also like mental health workers counselors out there in the community.
23:25
We think we have a great lineup and they'll take something back with them that's
23:29
going to help them in their position at all. Three of you. I
23:33
did not meet Joanah until today, but the other two I've known for quite
23:36
some time. As I joked about my you know, knowing knowing Jane handling
23:38
from it wasn't really seventy eight years, I promise. But but all of
23:41
you have been in the education system. Rob of course, you know you're
23:45
a remember of the Putnam Cannyboard of Education. Jan you know you've been held
23:48
several positions in the in the school system. Life is different now in twenty
23:55
twenty three. You know the what it was. It's a it's a I
23:57
mean, may as well be two hundred years from when any of us were
24:02
in school as to what these kids and educators have to go through now.
24:04
Absolutely. You know, Dave, I've been on the Board of Education almost
24:08
eleven years now, and during that time period, we've gone from not having
24:15
very many man traps to putting man traps in nearly all of our schools in
24:19
Putnam County. And we are now to find what man trap. The man
24:22
trap is the little room that you come into when you first enter a building,
24:26
So you have to be buzzed into the first part and then you're stuck
24:30
in there until they'll buzz you into the next part. So you have access
24:33
to the school. So just simple things like that. Ten years ago,
24:38
we didn't have secondary access to school, so someone cut the power. You
24:45
couldn't get into our schools. Well, now we have alternative methods so first
24:52
responders can gain access to our schools in emergency situation. Now, as far
24:56
as the two day session, you've got some pretty heavy hitters coming in to
25:00
to speak and to present, I mean talk about that, okay, So
25:06
we have we have several keynote speakers. We have doctor Steve Webb who has
25:10
twenty seven years of experience in education and emergency preparedness. Uh. Doctor Webb
25:15
has developed his own safety technique called safe and it's designed for children and small
25:18
businesses to use during you know, an unexpected violent situation. We have doctor
25:25
Peter Langman, who's a psychologist who has actually written a book, uh you
25:27
know, and it's the book is entitled Why Kids Kill and it's inside the
25:32
mind of a school shooter. Uh. You know. As Jan mentioned earlier,
25:34
hurt people, hurt people, uh you know, and as as we
25:37
see a lot of people that a lot of students that deal with trauma uh,
25:41
you know, and a lot of the things in their life. Unfortunately,
25:44
those uh, those traumas that they experience do have negative consequences. We
25:48
also have Michelle Gay who as an educator but also unfortunately lost her daughter in
25:52
the Sandy Hook shooting and she will be she does a lot of speaking around
25:56
the country. We have Paul tim who is the director of Education Safety at
26:02
Allegiance and he is actually Paul has actually worked in West Virginia in the years
26:06
past doing some consulting statewide. And then we have doctor Jim Harris. Doctor
26:11
Harris is at Marshall University and he is the Associate director of Training at the
26:17
West Virginia Autism Training Center and he specializes in behavioral health. Doctor Harris,
26:22
I know him personally and it does a fantastic, fantastic job. Knocks it
26:26
out of the park every time, he really does. And Dave, the
26:30
good thing about the conference this year is we've got some excellent breakout sessions.
26:34
I mentioned we're going to do a debrief on Uvalde and you know, kind
26:38
of examine what went wrong there so we don't do that in West Virginia.
26:45
And we also have Crimes against Children. One of the new things that we
26:48
added this year, Dave, and I know you'll be interested in. It
26:52
is security at athletic events. You know, we practice in the regular school
26:57
all the time, school safety protocols and procedures, but you know, are
27:03
we really doing that at an athletic event. And there's been a rise of
27:08
violence at athletic events around the nation, so we're going to focus on that.
27:14
We also have like substance abuse drug usage in the state of West Virginia.
27:18
And then one of the breakout sessions that you might be interested in is
27:23
a session called sextortion. And we have a House of Representative member from South
27:30
Carolina whose son was involved through gaming like Xbox, PlayStation and things like that,
27:37
was involved in sextortion. I didn't even know what that was, and
27:41
he didn't want to be an embarrassment to hisself, so he ended his life.
27:45
So we're going to do some emotional intelligence, you know, how you
27:51
react to trauma and how you react in different difficult situations. So I think
27:56
that there's going to be a lot of things for a lot of people.
28:00
And one of the guest speakers, I guess when I was looking at the
28:03
lineup that you had there and I didn't catch your first name, but miss
28:04
Gay whose child was killed Sandy Hook at Sandy Hook. And that's one of
28:12
the interesting things about this, guys, that I had seen that a lot
28:15
of times when people and we saw it at Parkland, and we saw it
28:18
at Uvaldi, and did these different places. These parents and grandparents and loved
28:23
ones of these kids or sometimes educators that lost their lives, they want to
28:29
get out there and they want to tell stories, and they want to talk
28:32
about things to look for that maybe maybe the parents or others or teachers didn't
28:37
notice in the kids, you know, different behaviors that they had, and
28:41
they want to get out there and they want to help others lobby one way
28:44
or the other. Some of got involved in gun issues and some of god
28:47
just school safety issues. And to have somebody like that to come in and
28:52
tell her story is simply amazing to me. It is it's so personal.
28:57
Yes, yeah, all right, so uh thankfully And this is a fingers
29:03
crossed you know, you don't want to face you don't want to tempt fade
29:06
or anything. But I'm not saying it can't happen here, like you know,
29:08
a Colabine or Sandy Hook or whatever, But in West Virginia, we've
29:11
never really had an issue like that. There have been threats and there have
29:15
been some minor issues, but we've never had anything like that. But we
29:18
don't want people in West Virginia to think it can't happen here, because it
29:22
certainly can happen here and sadly probably will happen here at some point. And
29:26
this is the that's the message that we want to get out to people.
29:29
Robin, yes, sir, And you know, we've had some some real
29:32
close calls and we've had some great response from UH educators and administrators in the
29:37
schools and also a law enforcement that we've been able to prevent really tragic events
29:44
from happening. And you know, that's the big thing, is to make
29:48
sure we're all prepared to deal with it if it happens. But number one
29:51
we have to prevent. In a way to prevent is to for everyone to
29:55
be involved. For everyone. If you notice something, make sure you let
29:59
someone no so we can stop something. Back from hal give us all the
30:03
details on the conference again October twenty sixth and October twenty seventh at the Charleston
30:10
Conventions. Okay, and where can people learn more on your websites or whatever
30:14
whatever you get Yes on the Mountain State Education Services Cooperative website at ell miss
30:21
esc yeah dot yes, or they can google the West Virginia School Safety Conference.
30:30
Make sure they put in twenty twenty three Yes. Last year's will pop
30:33
up as well. There's also some information on social media on the Mountain State
30:37
Education Services Cooperative Facebook page. All right, well, guys, I appreciate
30:41
you being here. Rob Cunningham is the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security and also
30:45
as a member of the School Safety Committee and a member of the Putnam Coundy
30:48
Board of Education. Jan Hamlin the executive director of Mountain State Educational Services Cooperative,
30:53
and Jonah Atkins, a director of pre K through twelve academic support for
30:57
the West Virginia Department of the Education. I appreciate everybody being here. Thanks
31:02
a lot. We'll talk again soon and best of luck with everything next week.
31:03
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Good morning, sir, how are you. I'm Will Dave. It's great
35:29
to be here again. Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to
35:32
be here. You know, Brian, there's all kinds of big job announcements
35:37
that continue to come to West Virginia. But the one thing that doesn't seem
35:42
to get any better, or at least on the surface, it does,
35:45
and that's what we're here to talk about today is workforce participation rates. Now
35:49
again for me talk about this. I'm not talking about those who are too
35:52
old to work or those who physically can't work, talking about able bodied adults
35:58
of working age who, for one reason or another choose being the keyword,
36:01
choose not to work. And we had stories on this morning on the Morning
36:06
News about that, about this thing that we're seeing after COVID, when people
36:09
just chose not to go back to work. You know, they're not getting
36:13
benefits or not getting the COVID stimulus, they just chose not to go to
36:16
work. But now last week I mentioned something on the show about it,
36:20
and you sent me a text and said, I'd like to come on because
36:23
there there could be some headway being made here. Is that what you're you're
36:28
gonna compare with the good news for us today, Brian, Well, at
36:30
least some maybe positive news that half small, half smile. I like that
36:36
term. All right, go ahead. So workforce participation rate is something we've
36:40
really been paying attention to for quite a while the Chamber, because we are,
36:44
as you mentioned, bringing in a lot of big job announcements and new
36:46
opportunities coming to the state. Those are things that we were really praying for,
36:52
you know, eight ten years ago, to change our policies to get
36:54
them here. We're now seeing them. They're coming last year in new Corps.
36:59
That is a major announcement. They're breaking ground tomorrow. So that these
37:02
are some really big things that are happening. Let me just real quick,
37:07
maybe for the benefit of your listeners, talk about that labor force participation rate.
37:10
So West Virginia's rate is fifty four point seven percent. I looked it
37:15
up this morning. What that number, how it's calculated is it's everybody over
37:19
the age of sixteen who is not institutionalized, and so institutionalized would mean active
37:24
duty military, if you're in If you're active duty military, you're not going
37:28
to be counted, as if you're in a prison, if you're in a
37:30
long term care facility, you're not counted. But it's everybody else above age
37:34
sixteen that's not institutionalized that's technically available for the workforce. The US average is
37:40
sixty two point eight percent. Right now, we're fifty four point seven so
37:45
we're a full eight points behind the US national average. Now, what's interesting,
37:50
Our employment in West Virginia right now is the highest it has been since
37:54
two thousand and eight, before the Great Recession, and it's continued to come
37:58
up and up and up. Right now, there are seven hundred and fifty
38:00
eighty eight hundred people working in West Virginia. That is seven thousand more than
38:07
last September. Our unemployment rates three point eight percent. I mean, that's
38:10
extremely low number. But the issue is we do not have enough people to
38:15
fill the job. So right now, through our Chamber membership, we believe
38:19
there are about fifty thousand job openings in West Virginia right now that can't find
38:23
the people to work them. So that's been the real issue is making sure
38:29
that we have the people to fill these jobs. As we're as Mitch Carmichael
38:31
and Mike Graney and their teams are out bringing people here, that we're going
38:35
to have the people who can go in and fill those jobs. So there
38:37
are a number of things I'll pause here and second, but there are a
38:39
number of things that we are working on to try to boost that. Okay,
38:44
what so good, great question. So let me just tell you directly
38:47
from the Chamber what the Chamber is doing on us. We have just received
38:52
grant funding for a workforce unifier that's being run through our foundation. The goal
38:57
for that is to bridge the gap between employers, the education system, and
39:01
our students to make sure that our students that are coming through school right now
39:06
are going to have the skills and the qualities and I said both hard and
39:09
soft skills for the workforce of tomorrow. So that is something that we're directly
39:15
working on. A program that we also have working right now is called Jobs
39:19
for West Virginia's Graduates. This program was originally started back during the Cecil Wonderwood
39:23
administration. It fell by the wayside several years ago, so the Chamber Foundation
39:28
picked it up and we re implemented it. We are in every high school
39:31
right now in Logan and McDowell counties. We are expanding to other counties right
39:35
now. But this program is a full credit elective course for students who may
39:40
need a little bit extra assistance. You know, how do you interview for
39:45
a job? What jobs are available? You know, just it's really targeting
39:49
those kids who may not have those all those opportunities and benefits to learn those
39:53
skills at home and providing them a lot help. The graduation rate for this
39:59
program is fantastic, and it also follows those kids for a full year after
40:04
they grow So didn't just turn them out, I mean, you know,
40:06
correct the track exactly what it is that they're doing. Yeah, that job
40:08
specialist follows that kid through graduation and then for a year after so it's depending
40:15
where they're going. They could be going to a four year institution, they
40:17
could be going to a community college, maybe straight into the workforce, maybe
40:20
the military. But that job specialist follows that student to make sure if they
40:24
need help, that they're with them to give them that assistance. And it's
40:29
really been incredible. Just as an example, last year, during the Chamber
40:32
hosts and an annual women's summit, so there were several of the female students
40:36
that were able to come to this summit. The connections they were making it
40:39
was right there. The opportunities that they're going to have for work in the
40:43
future, opportunities to go to colleges and universities they may not have had before.
40:46
So we are actively hands on working in those areas right now to try
40:51
to boost workforce. And there are a number of other entities and organizations that
40:54
are doing the same thing. One of the things that we're doing right now.
40:59
So, Okay, you talked about that program for the for the folks
41:01
coming out of high school and the younger people. What about middle aged people?
41:05
I mean, is there anything out there for the guy or gal who's
41:07
forty years old that has just dropped out of the workforce and they're not getting
41:12
benefit because I think sometimes I'm not saying it's not There are people that abused
41:15
the system. There always have been, there always will be. But we
41:16
have a tendency to think, Okay, well people are just setting it home,
41:20
you know, draw and there are people like that. I'm not going
41:22
to deny that there are people like that, but there are a lot of
41:24
people that have ran, have just dropped out and are just not doing anything
41:30
now. I don't know how they're supporting themselves, because again, we're not
41:34
handing out money like we did before. We've made substantial welfare reforms over the
41:39
years. Probably need to do some more, but we've done substantial welfare reforms.
41:43
Is there anything out there or any encouragement from you know, the forty
41:46
forty five year old, as I said, to get off your butt and
41:49
go to work. Absolutely. I mean there are a number of things right
41:53
now. You know, community college, for example, is not just for
41:55
people who are coming right out of high school. It's available for anybody to
42:00
go back in. And our community colleges are doing a great job right now
42:04
trying to match up with employers who need to hire people and find out exactly
42:07
what skills they are needing. You can't force somebody to go to work.
42:12
I mean, that's that is a reality. You cannot force somebody. But
42:15
those those opportunities are there. It's trying to educate people about those opportunities.
42:21
There are a couple I was just in a meeting earlier this week. I
42:23
can't really say too much more about it just yet. It'll be we'll be
42:27
hearing more about it later. But really designed exactly for that. How do
42:30
you find you know, these people who are not working right now, who
42:34
may have a desire, they just don't know how how do we get them
42:37
plugged back in, find make sure they have the skills needed for the jobs
42:42
that are available. And because there are jobs available basically everywhere, and there
42:45
are so many different programs as you mentioned, not only through chambers, but
42:49
different things. There's different dress for Success programs where that because sometimes people have
42:52
said, well, you know, I need to go for a job and
42:54
I don't have I don't have the proper clothing. There are new I live
42:59
in Putnam County that Ashley and the folks at Putnam County Chamber do a wonderful
43:01
job on those programs of getting people the clothing that they get them a pair
43:07
of dockers and a tie or a dress or a suit of some kind to
43:10
go to a job interview. So there are people that are out there trying
43:14
to help me. Before I let you go, there's a text here for
43:15
you, says ask Brian if the Infrastructure Act and Inflational Reduction Act had been
43:20
good or bad for job growth in the economy in West Virginia. So I
43:23
think we're seeing the Infrastructure Act in particular, is really bringing some new opportunity
43:29
to West Virginia. One of the things that we have a strong benefit in
43:32
this state is that we're basically within an eight hour drive of almost half of
43:37
the population of the United States, and so we have ample rail, plenty
43:42
of roads, plenty of water and water for transportation. So that Infrastructure Bill,
43:46
we were very, very supportive of it because it's an opportunity to really
43:50
beef those systems up and make sure that we're available. I think that without
43:53
that Infrastructure Bill, I'm not sure we would have seen several of the announcements
43:58
that have come into this state. And I get it that bill has become
44:00
a political hot Potatia, but you know, it, but I think the
44:05
reality is we may not be seeing some of the announcements that have come in
44:07
had that bill not passed. Ran, I appreciate you being Let me get
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job participation, but before we let you go, we'll get into it greatly.
44:31
But we do have an election coming up. What are you guys looking
44:34
at that? Talking about candidates or anything like that, But what are you
44:37
guys looking ahead for twenty twenty four? Well, it's an interesting environment that
44:42
we're now in in West Virginia. You know, ten twelve years ago the
44:45
question was almost well, whoever wins the Democratic primary is going to be who
44:49
wins the general election. Right now, the election is largely going to be
44:53
decided in six months, six of months in May during the Republican primary.
44:58
So we are keeping very close to on that who's filing for the legislature,
45:01
who's filing for the state wide offices, And it's a daily thing that we're
45:06
paying attention who's running. You know, we have a lot of people who
45:10
are serving right now, I think for the right reasons that are rolling up
45:14
their sleeves, doing the hard work, casting the tough votes to just continue
45:17
moving the ball down the field. So it's very important that we continue to
45:21
support those individuals and help them do that. But yeah, no, ten
45:24
twelve years ago, it was the Democratic prime intact opposite the switch. I
45:28
heard Chris Steyer won't describe at one time that we were a two party state
45:30
for about fifteen minutes. Yeah, that's probably the most accurate description I've ever
45:35
heard. Yeah, Yeah, you're exactly right. I don't see it changed
45:37
any time soon. Hey, Brian, I appreciate you being here as always.
45:39
Man, Thanks a lot, Thanks, Dave, really appreciate the opportunity.
45:43
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Thanks to Biden for all these jobs coming to our state. Let's go Biden,
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says a Texter Texas says the able bodied, enable minded people that chose
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not to work should not be allowed to receive the thousands of dollars from the
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earned income tax credit, and they do. Dave says the text. Will
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you have more WU football tickets this week? And by the way, congratulations
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to the Mountaineer men's soccer team as well. I don't think I will,
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but youd never know. Federal grand jury supenas have been issued to the canaw
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County Commission and the canawh County Emergency Aimless Authority and others in the whole Kent
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Carper or deal. That is according to ww KTV thirteen. Now as of
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yesterday, no charges have been filed. And keep in mind that subpoenas don't
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necessarily mean charges are going to be filed. Sometimes it's just a way of
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getting information. It just means they're looking at stuff. Now, the big
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deal appears to be did Commissioner Carper offer a job via email to the girlfriend
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of a cop that was conducting the investigation into the alleged indecent exposure incident going
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back to May Daniel Boone Park And since the discussion of the interest in a
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potential job was done over the internets in the form of an email, that
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makes it a federal issue. Now again, that's all according to WWKTV thirteen.
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We will of course keep you updated as more official information becomes available.
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Now this is coming actually tomorrow nights. There's a big event going on.
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It's called Hajas for Tatas and it's for breast cancer, as you may well
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guess. At the holiday inn in Sweet Tomorrow Night, WWK TV's Amanda Barrow
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is going to be serving as the MC not only comedy Tomorrow Night, but
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also there's auctions as well, and the money raised again is going to go
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toward breast cancer care. Lots of folks are making that possible. We're going
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to spend some time in detail talking about it tomorrow. Amanda Barrett is going
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to join me tomorrow as my guest host. One of the comedians that is
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going to be taking part in the show Tomorrow Night is going to be on
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the show tomorrow as well, and I'm looking forward to having that gentleman on
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the show. And so that is coming up tomorrow on the show. So
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the endorsement that everybody thought was coming has happened, And you know the one
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I'm talking about. Former President Donald Trump has announced he will be endorsing Governor
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Justice in the governor's race for US Senates and for Alex Mooney. That's got
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a sting, Trump saying, quote, Jim Justice will be a great United
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States Senator and he has my complete and total endorsements. Quote. Of course,
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because it's Trump, there was incorrect usage of capitalization, et cetera.
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But I digress the former president making the announcement on his social media platform truth
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Social. Uh. He this is a quote. Now he will never let
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you down, said Trump again. End quote with improper use of capitalization.
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The governor said, quoting he is honored and thankful to be endorsed by Trump.
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Went on to say, quote, my opponent, speaking of Alex Mooney,
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is supported by one of the largest anti Trump super packs this election cycle,
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and of course was a reference to the anti Trump super pack, Conservative
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Club for Growth, which is pushing against Trump's reelection bid. Now, Mooney
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said he respectfully disagrees with the Trump endorsement of Justice. Mooney says he's the
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only true conservative in the race. Rad Mcalhonney with the story post at wv
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metronews dot com. Poll numbers have Justice way out of head and it's only
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this is only going to go to first. That's so this stands right now,
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get ready for Senator Jim Justice. In the meantime, a local judge
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of Virginia has a hearing except for next month, on whether the Justice families
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businesses have to pay up the three hundred million dollars in assets owed to the
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family's preferred lender, the one that they normally use, and the meantime to
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battle over the missing helicopter continues too. So all right, we gotta go.
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Thank you so much to all my guests for being on the show today.
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Brian Dating the folks from the school safety summit that's coming to next week
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in Chrescent Gallagher for Americans for Prosperity, Friday Funhouse coming up tomorrow. Amanda
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Baron's going to be here. Hannah Gardner with our Adopt Me Please pat of
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the Week. Niki Walters, also from Channel thirteen is going to be stopping
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by the studio tomorrow as well. Chris Lawrence High School football loaded up,
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Friday Funhouse coming up tomorrow, Hobbies up next. I'll see you tomorrow.
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Till then, have fun and love somebody when you see hs am he six
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point five at then Charleston one or four point five Cross Lane WUVRC Media Station.
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