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06/12/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Scott James, Jason Huffman · The Dave Allen Show

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Scott James and Saint almas Is with us on Mayor Monday. Good morning,
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sir, how are you? I am wonderful, good morning day. Thank
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you for being here with us today. Lots going on and to talk.
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Let's talk about here on this rainy Monday. Some exciting times in the City
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of Red Dragons, with Yakfests coming up this weekend. We'll get into some
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other things in Saint Aubuns, but I do want to start with the yak
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Fest happening this weekend. This is pretty much like the premiere event in the
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area there right it is. You know, this is our fifth year.
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The last two years we've approximated between eleven and twelve thousand people in Old Maine
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between Friday and Saturday. We have music playing all day, starting at four
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o'clock on Friday, starting at two o'clock on Saturday. Streets full of vendors.
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We've got food vendors, art vendors, craft vendors, drink vendors.
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There'll be kraft beers, there'll be domestic beers all kinds of food. There'll
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be outdoor vendors and you know, we started this to celebrate the Torticol and
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it's in its twentieth year and they'll probably be eighteen hundred two thousand kayakers going
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down Cold River Saturday morning. So we're excited, man, we're looking forward
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to it. Talk about the planning that goes into this. It's one of
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those events that, Okay, it wraps up, you know on what Sunday,
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Saturday, Saturday wraps up Saturday. Then on Sunday you start planning for
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next year. That's uses the way it works. But talk about the amount
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of planning that goes into this. Yeah, well, we will take a
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couple of weeks off, we get back together, we evaluate the good,
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the bad, what we can do better, and then we start meeting about
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once a month, and then as we get closer, it's twice a month,
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right, And we've got a committee. They do a fantastic job.
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And like I said, it's grown from about eight thousand people the first year
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to eleven and eleven to twelve thousand, and people come from all over.
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We have people from other states all around the state of West Virginia, and
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they just have a good time. It's it's it's a great time to listen
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to music. It's a great time to see old friends and just sit back
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and relax and enjoy yourself. And let's talk about the timeline of events.
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When do things kick off? Four o'clock Friday. We've got our lineup Friday
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night. At four o'clock we got Wee Kim Warriors on stage. Then at
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five we got Buddy Allen and the Cheap River Band. From six to eight
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we got Craig Gerty's and then eight to ten. And I had never really
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heard of her, but I've been on YouTube and I've washed your hand at
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Dasher. She's out of Nashville, does a fantastic job, a lot of
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fun, a bundle of energy. And then on Saturday we get started at
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two o'clock. Opening band is Thieves and Beggars. Three o'clock Low Jam,
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four to five Dave McCormick and his Dangerous Band. I've heard it. I've
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actually heard Dave played number of times. He's really good. They are good.
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And five to six we got Bent Whiskey. Six to eight we have
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an up and coming star, Bucky Covington. I think he was eighth on
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America's got talent on one of those shows, and he's got a couple of
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hits that I'm sure he'll be playing. And then from eight to tim we're
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closing the event out with the Davison Brothers. You can't get better than the
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Davison Brothers. Man, they're fantastic. Again. We're talking with Mayor Scott
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jamesonsont Albans on Mayor Monday, talk about the economic impact Mayor to the city.
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Well, we consider the economic impact to be mid to high six figure
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impact for us, possibly up into the seven figures. It's harder to determine
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exactly, but I know our businesses in Saint Albans have record weekends every every
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year we have yake Fest and early on some of the businesses on Old Main
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they didn't like the fact that we were closing the street down for two days,
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but they learned to keep their doors open and great things have happened for
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that many people in town. And one of the things about Saint Albans,
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and I've talked about this in the past, Mayor with you, is I
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really like the fact that you do have these little shops in Saint Albans.
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It's a cool little place with everything that's going on there. Well, thank
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you, Dave. You know, when we took office, there are seven
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or eight empty buildings on Old Maine and we've got one now and I think
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it's going to be filled soon. But it's become a destination spot. You
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know. We've got some established business owners that have been there for a long
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time, Chandler's Colonial on Tears, a little bit of Heaven, on and
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on, and then we've got some young entrepreneurs that have taken a chance.
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The owners of the Tapu we got, of course, the cafe, we
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got, Shuckers, drummers, and these are these are places that people come
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from not just Saint Albans or can Valley, but other counties to partake in
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our businesses. And you know, I've said in the past, I know
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Becky, she's a paralegal and one of the lawyers that she does some work
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for him and his family have come to Saint Albans for the day on a
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Saturday, do some shopping, stop and get lunch and then go by a
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little bit of Heaven cupcakes, get some dessert and uh, it's it's it's
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a great event. It really, truthfully, isn't. I tell you what.
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Timing is a big aspect, Dave. I think people are tired of
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going out and fighting the South Ridges and what we have is what I call
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unique or family owned businesses, and it's not the same thing you get when
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you go to all these chains. And that's why people are coming, not
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only the Saint Albans, but other communities around West Virginia that have done the
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same thing. And it's almost like an old school type thing. And you
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know where people go to town on a Saturday, you know, and go
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and as you said, and they go. They visit these shops that you
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can't necessarily that you don't see out of the out of the strip malls or
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whatever. Mayor, I want to switch gears and we'll go back to the
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access here in a couple of moment. I want to talk about some demolition
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projects. Of course, the school there is probably the biggest one. That's
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one it gets all the attention to talk about where that is. Okay,
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they began abatement a couple of weeks ago. They finished in one area.
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So Rodney Loftus is coming in starting either late morning or early afternoon tomorrow.
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He'll let us know today exactly what time, and he's going to start tearing
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that part of the building down. Now we're super excited about this. You
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know, that's been an isore for over thirty years in Saint Alban's. We're
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getting torn down within six years of our administration. And when I say our
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administration, i'm talking about myself, but also city council who's played a major
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role in funding this. And so it's just going to be exciting. It's
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going to start bringing property values up. It brings the safety value up to
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where kids and vagrants can't get in that building once it's torn down, and
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then it'll be up to city Council what we do with the property afterwards,
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because we do own the property. Any thoughts, anything you can put out
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there yet ors just too early. Well it's a little early. There's been
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a couple of things I personally wouldn't mind selling, dividing it up, selling
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two or three lots and build single dwelling homes or condos that you buy.
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I'm not looking for rental property by any means, and start bringing property values
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back up again in the area. A park has been mentioned, so we'll
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have that discussion at city council soon, so we'll see what happens. You
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know, I'm looking for grants for pickleball courts for sure. We've got to
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get some of those that might be an area we could possibly put pickleball courts.
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So pickleballs huge. Oh it is used. Yeah, But we've several
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pieces of property that were donated to us through this demolition program. You know,
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We've got forty two structures torn down during my tenure, all right,
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and the fiscal years getting ready to start July first, so we've got a
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few more stragglers there where we'll get torn down. So it just helps the
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overall appeal of our city when people are coming to town. Any new businesses
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or any new developments going on in town to talk about. We had a
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ribbon cutting last Saturday. It's just outside of Saint Albans, but still part
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of our community. It's uh sight sounds and speed. Yeah, yeah,
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Actually what he was from my sister station ninety eight point seven to beat to
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the live broadcast on there on the Friday before that, and I stopped in
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to see what he what a man. That's a fantastic shop there it is,
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and the gentleman that owns it is a wonderful guy. So excited to
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be where he is. Yea, I talked to him. And then we
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have a ribbon cutting on a up on Old Maine Wednesday at noon, small
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gift shop type deal, and so you know, it just continues to grow,
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and that's what we had to do. We had to because we don't
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have direct interstate access and all the logistics that these chain stores want. We
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had to make Saint Alban's a place people wanted to be part of. And
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cleaning the town up was a big aspect of that. Reducing crime was a
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big aspect of that. So we continue to move forward. We got more
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work to do. I have announced that I am going to run again next
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year for a third term, and to be honest with you, if I'm
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blessed and God willing and happened to win, I'll be sixty nine when that
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turns up, so it might be time to write off into the sunset.
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Now then you can run for city council. Yeah, and be on that
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end of it for a while. Well, me and my wife might do
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some traveling. Okay, all right, all right, Mayor Scott James is
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so wrap it up by talking about yak Fest again this weekend. Where can
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people learn more about all that? Because you throw around a lot of information,
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I mean social media website where you gain yeah, Yakfest wv dot com.
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Okay, it covers all the entertainment, the schedule, uh, the
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vendors, sponsorship if anybody wants to become a sponsor. Uh, so you
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know, and that's something we couldn't do yak Fest without. Was our sponsor
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yea, and Canall County Commission is a big sponsor in COVID uh and and
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many others. But uh, I can't remember them all, list of them
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all. But but they'll be signage. I'm sure they're signage. And uh
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they're on social media posts that we have and everything else. So and so
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things start Friday afternoon, right after work. So don't even go home,
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man, just go straight there. Everything you can posit, your dinners,
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taking care of your drinks, taking care of your music, and of course
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you got several thousand people on the river too, so yes can. The
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good thing about this is, you know you got to pay the vendors,
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but you don't pay for the music, and it's free. It's free,
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free entertainment. Mayor Scott James and Saint Albus will talk soon. Man,
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Ryan Nicholson Desire Producer Today, I want to welcome to the show Jason Huppon
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from Americans for prosperity. Good morning man, how are you, hey,
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Dave, Thanks for having me on. Happy summer, but it's not I
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don't think it's officially summer yet, but it's too cold outside to see summer
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today. It was kind of nasty. I had to drive in on the
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interstate this morning, real nat But they say not to play you know,
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Tony Cavalier here, But they say that later in the in the day,
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we're supposed to test them sunshine, So that's good news. Jason. I
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was reading an op ed that you folks just put out and had to do
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with some energy policies, specifically as it pertains to Senator Joe Manson. Full
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disclosure, we still don't know what Senator Manson's gonna do next year. Is
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he gonna run for reelection to a Senate seat more than likely in that case,
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facing off against Governor Jim Justice. Is he gonna run for president or
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is he just gonna go to the House. Senator Mansion says he's not going
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to make an announcement until possibly the end of the year. Tell the folks
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what the whole basis of the editorial that you put out. Well, So,
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Dave, you remember in school when the teacher would break you up into
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different different groups in the class, and there was always that one kid without
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fail that wouldn't do the work but still expected all the credit for it.
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Well, that's pretty much what Senator Mansion. It was also me. But
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go ahead, So you say that Senator Mansion, Yeah, yeah, essentially,
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I mean, our folks on the hill tell us that he had very
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little to do with the Mountain Valley pipeline being included in the debt ceiling compromise
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between Speaker McCarthy and President Biden. But Mansion is still out here taking a
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victory lap on it. So we're just speaking truth to power a little bit.
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The fact of the matter is, for two years, Senator Mansion was
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essentially arguably one of the most powerful men in the free world because he wanted
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real permitting reform done to get these infrastructure products projects going. He would have
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done that, but he did not. So what would you have preferred to
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hit him to do differently other than I guess be more active. What would
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you like to have seen him done in the sense of Jason Well, going
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back to that particular deal that he cut with the President and they sponsored a
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bill together the Inflation Reduction Act. You know, that would have been the
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time to really step up for We're folks in West Virginia that want reliable,
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affordable energy again. And what was this landmark, you know, achievement during
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that time, The Inflation Reduction Act, which spent trillions of dollars, meant
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tens of thousands of new IRS agents, created a new tax on natural gas
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that's going to make energy more expensive. We generally think that was a pretty
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big boondoggle. That was a failure on the part of Senator Mansion. So
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what we're doing with our commentary now and our efforts on the ground, with
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our activists and staff across the state prosperity as possible. We know that Washington
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DC is broken, but it doesn't have to be. And if folks like
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Senator Mansion will stop playing politics and stop Kyle telling to the Biden minister and
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really stand up for taxpayers and stand up for citizens in West Virginia, we
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think that we can have prosperity again. Right now, we're in economic Doldrum's
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not seeing the sense of the harder administration. Inflation is still too high,
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energy prices are up. We really want to see some action out of Washington,
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DC, and so we're asking uh, senators in seven different states to
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simply do better. A Senator Mansion would would probably I'm sure he would take
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issue with that because he would say, well, I'm not the one playing
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politics here. He said, I'm the one that's I'm a dealmaker. That's
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what he would say. Well, I mean, you know, Pop Call
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and Kennell Black to some extent, Senator Mansion not playing politics is a bit
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of an irony to me, but in any extent, I think, you
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know, at the end of the day, listen, is it good that
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the Mountain Valley pipeline is going to be completed? Yes it is, and
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you know, uh, thanks to the lawmakers that did step up to the
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plate, and we're really hard to get that done, you know, Congress
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Blome, Carol Miller, Senator Sholling Moore, Capito, and obviously Speaker m
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Arthy. But again, we just want to call the balls and strikes like
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we see him, Dave, and I think that's important. You know,
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right now, Joe mentioned his poll numbers are the worst that they've been in
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his entire political career, and so naturally it would make sense that he's trying
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to score a win here and there, and we just want to hold him
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accountable and say, hey, there's a bill in Congress HR one, the
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Lower Energy Costs Act, that we think and we know based on proven policy
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principles, would lower the cost of energy, would make more affordable, reliable
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energy for folks. They had that bill in the US Senates past the House.
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Why not try to cobble together a couple of votes of moderate Democrats in
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the Senate and try to get that bill done. And I want to talk
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about the pipeline and for just small we're talking to Jason Hoppman from Americas for
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Prosperity about the pipeline at about the deal that was struck. Jason, the
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Democrats, many of them weren't happy. Not the moderates that you mentioned,
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but the you know, a little bit more far left. They weren't happy
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that the pipeline is gonna live to see another day. More right leaning Republicans
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saw it as the party caving. So overall, and you've touched on a
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little bit your thoughts on the bill and the deal that will truck. Overall,
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I mean, it's imperfect, but I think you know, had Republicans
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in Congress walked away from the deal that that Speaker McCarthy had had got for
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them, which largely, for all intents and purposes, they won on that
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deal. Had they walked away from that deal, you'd seen Chuck Schumer go
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over to President Biden's office and they would have had a clean debt ceiling increase.
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And so I think in the posture of Congress right now, as much
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of a winn as they were going to get. Remember, they got um
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some spending reductions. Obviously, we need to do more in terms of transformational
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reforms to how we fundamentally budget in this country. You know that the trillions
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and trillions of dollars of debt that we're in are unacceptable and frankly, they're
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they're taken away from our dren, children's children's future. So we've got to
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do serious work there. But with what they did on the debt ceiling compromise,
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I think Republicans called that a win. It's nine thirty five any line
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Pharmacy. Text line says Jason Huffman for Governor. Hey, maybe one of
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these days, Dave, I don't know, somebody talk me into it.
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Uh, not exactly h in the in the cards right now, Hey,
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retirement project, get I get it. Yes, you are young. Well
23:48
let's go back to Mansion for a moment um. What would you prefer to
23:52
see Senator Mansion due in twenty twenty twenty four. I mean I mentioned could
23:56
run, you know, I mean as a stand and you know it's a
24:00
lifetime away as it stands right now. Jim Justice, you know is probably
24:04
is probably going to be the Republican senatorial candidate, with all due respect to
24:07
Alex Mooney. He's miles ahead of Alex Mooney in the in the polling.
24:11
That could change, as we've seen it change in the past. So Justice
24:15
runs against Mansion. Justice trounces Mansion in my opinion, with all due respect
24:21
to Joe Mansion, I mean Justice wins that. And I think Joe Mansion
24:23
probably knows this, and he knows he doesn't have a serious chance to be
24:26
elected for president, but he's just throwing that out there. What would you
24:30
like to see Mansion do in twenty twenty four? Well, okay, I'm
24:33
gonna put myself in the headspace of let's say I'm a Mansion consultant right now,
24:37
right what am I thinking when I look at this landscape? You know,
24:40
he's got some of the lowest pole numbers that he's had in his entire
24:42
political career. You know, there's been talk about him doing some you know,
24:48
third party run for president, and he's continued to kind of flip flop
24:52
on this Inflation Reduction Act, where he has essentially you know, when the
24:56
bill passed, he said, I think President Biden for signing the bill so
25:00
quickly. Then he said, well, you know, they're not implementing this
25:03
the way they said they would. And then last week he resumed defending the
25:07
bill after he had said that he would vote to repeal his own bill.
25:11
So I'm not even sure that he knows where he's at on that issue right
25:14
now. But what it telegraphs to us, I think is that his political
25:18
future is uncertain. Does he pull a Jay Rockefeller and say, Okay,
25:22
I'm going to ride off into the sunset and not end my political career on
25:26
a loss. Maybe I think a third party run for president seems more and
25:30
more likely, just based on the strength that Governor Justice has right now,
25:37
with the head winds that he's got behind him. So we'll see. I
25:41
don't know. I don't have a preference. We deal with the punchers as
25:45
they land, basically, and so we'll keep working toward good policy regardless of
25:48
who's in that seat. A little off topic here, and I have to
25:52
ask you, and again I'm not asking for an endorsement or anything like that,
25:55
because I know that you're somebody that follows politics closely in addition to your
25:57
job. You'd follow politics closely if you you know, if you worked at
26:00
Kroger. I mean, I just think it's who you are. What do
26:04
you make of all these Republicans run for governor? I mean, you know,
26:07
again, I'm not asking for you to endorse anyone anything like that,
26:10
but I mean you got Attorney General Patrick Morrisy, Secretary of State Mac warn
26:14
Or, auto dealer Chris Miller, auditor JB. Mccusky, delicate more capital.
26:18
What exactly do you make of all these people that have thrown their hand
26:21
in the ring to run for governor. Well, I think it's a it's
26:23
a good commentary on where West Virginia is politically. I mean, it used
26:26
to be the case that you couldn't get a Republican to run for office and
26:30
a fear of losing um, you know, back in the early for the
26:33
early teens. So I think Republicans in the state have come a long way
26:37
in terms of just how competitive their primaries are. I mean, it's it's
26:41
healthy to have a competitive primary system. It keeps folks accountable. It gives
26:47
voters, you know, a lot of transparency and options and the ability to
26:51
hold folks accountable. Uh. And I think, you know, when it
26:55
comes to the gubernatorial race, obviously, Patrick Morrissey is the front runner there.
27:00
He's somebody that has done a very good job as a trained general.
27:04
He has done a great job in terms of getting out there and talking to
27:07
voters and talking to citizens about the work that he's done as attorney general.
27:12
You know, several of the folks that are that are in that field.
27:15
Though, it's going to be competitive. I think it's gonna be one to
27:18
watch, and hopefully, as we continue to see competitive primaries in the state,
27:25
you see a benefit to that because what we're going to see, hopefully
27:27
is better policy outcomes. It's amazing to me, and I brought this up
27:32
time and time again Jason on the show, how far the Republicans have gone
27:36
in West Virginia. I mean, let's turn back to the clock, and
27:37
we don't I mean, we don't have to go back to the nineteen sixties.
27:40
Let's go back to you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years or
27:42
so. Go how far. I mean, we wouldn't even we wouldn't have
27:45
even thought in our wildest dreams of having this conversation about that many people running
27:51
for governor, you know, fifteen years ago. Yeah, And you know,
27:53
I think it's striking. We're the state of voted for du Caucus,
27:57
remember, and we've been in a demographic winter for quite some time. So
28:02
these are the same voters by and large that are making these decisions. And
28:06
I think obviously it speaks to that the Democratic Party has just thrown so far
28:11
away from from their roots and I think where people are at in the state.
28:15
So that's that's why you've seen voter registration roles changed so much in West
28:19
Virginia. Independents are on the rise, Republicans on the rise, Democrats at
28:23
the lowest registration rate that they've been going down. Yeah. Yeah, So
28:29
I think it's very telling though, especially as you continue to see lawmakers in
28:33
state House in here in Charleston just really transformational reforms left and right. You
28:40
see the largest tax cut in the state history that the lawmakers just got done.
28:45
We've become a leader when it comes to educational freedom now that we've passed
28:48
the first universal education savings account program in the country, and now you know
28:52
eight or ten other states have essentially copied our homework and done the same thing.
28:56
It's nice to be a leader on some of these freedom issues. Tech
29:00
says, you know who did nothing for the Mountain Valley pipeline. Alex Mooney,
29:04
Well, that's uh, that's potentially possible. I don't actually know the
29:10
answer. I don't actually know talk about the group, and you know,
29:14
you've been a regular on the show in the past, But for those who
29:17
may have not heard you before talk about the whole movement in Americans for prosperity.
29:21
What's it all about. Well, so we believe that, you know,
29:25
freedom and opportunity equal prosperity. What we want to do is create the
29:29
conditions for that through policy reforms, through good ideas that are common sense,
29:34
partnering with lawmakers to accomplish those, but largely we're a platform for people to
29:40
come together and make sure their voices are heard. We want to re energize
29:45
people to put their their voices into the policy making process. You know,
29:48
we just published our scorecard that you can find a WV scorecard dot com.
29:55
And basically what that does is print out the role calls of the most important
29:57
bills from each session, so folks know where the lawmakers stood on the issues.
30:02
And it wasn't that long ago that we didn't actually have access to how
30:06
lawmakers voted. And so we want to be a platform for accountability, transparency
30:10
and government and just getting things done common sense ideas and making sure people's voices
30:15
are heard. Said that lawmakers know, Hey, the people were with us
30:18
on this issue. Let's let's get it done for them. What does this
30:22
year look like for Americans for prosperity, because I mean, you know,
30:25
in the year of the perpetual campaign or the era I should say, you
30:30
know, we saw all these people announcing runs as I said, for governors,
30:33
Senate, you know whatever, you know, law, secretary of state,
30:36
these other offices law much earlier than what they used to. Well,
30:40
what does a year like this look for for you folks? So what takes
30:44
up your time right now at preparing for twenty twenty four? Well, right
30:48
now, we're doing what we always do, which is getting out there and
30:49
going door to door and talking to citizens about the issues to matter most of
30:52
them, just having those important conversations with people to keep them in the loop
30:57
on on the policy discussion. And um, you know, I think we've
31:00
we've knocked you know, ten or twelve or fifteen thousand doors, So I
31:06
haven't looked today though. You know, we've got staff all over across the
31:07
state and activists all across the state, and so, um, we are
31:11
really just doubling down on having those meaningful conversations with folks. And again,
31:17
uh, people don't understand how much power they have when it comes to the
31:21
policy making process. You know, if you make five phone calls to your
31:25
congressional office, if you're you're a member in Congress, they'll begin casework on
31:29
that UM. So you extrapolate that down to the state house level, it's
31:33
exponentially fewer calls. And you know, people are paying attention to lawmakers want
31:37
to hear from their constituents, and so we're we're endeavoring to make sure that
31:42
they that they do here for from them, particularly right now thanking them for
31:47
again the largest tax cut in state history, which is a monumental achievement that
31:49
I think people in West Virginia are are very excited about. Jason opening for
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Americans for Prosperity. I certainly appreciate you stopping by the shows you do from
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time to time. Where can people learn more about your organization? Right now
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they could take a look at the Prosperity as Possible dot Com Prosperity as Possible
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their lives free of discrimination? Text says it's ironic, but young people who
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I do not think with emphasis on social legislation now, it will get
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investigation into the lewd behavior allegations against Kanawa County Commissioner Kent Carper. As of
37:31
now, there is nothing new to report. Carper has been released from the
37:37
hospital, and it was announced last week that a special prosecutor has been named
37:43
moving forward. It's Logan County Prosecutor David Wandley. But again, there is
37:46
nothing at all to report at this particular time. I do know that several
37:52
media outlets, including this one, have filed what we call foyas or freedom
37:55
of information, trying to get footage, reports, documents, so on,
38:04
and so far anything related to the case, and so far nothing. We
38:07
will keep you posted on that as information becomes available, if and when it
38:14
becomes available. So the Trump indictment forty nine pages in all, how does
38:22
the indictment affect the Trump campaign? Well, the answer is not much in
38:29
fact, as I said on Friday, unless Trump is in jail. Come
38:32
late twenty twenty four, he'll be facing Joe Biden for president, despite the
38:37
fact that the majority of Americans don't want either one of them running for president.
38:40
That's where we are. It will be unless he's in jail at that
38:44
time. It will be Biden Trump Part two come fall twenty twenty four.
38:51
And I got the TV on here in the studio. Just saw a headline
38:53
a minute ago that came across one of the news channels here that said that
38:57
Trump is vowing that he is going to keeping the race no matter what.
39:04
Polling released over the weekend from ABC News has Trump leading Florida Governor Rod de
39:10
Santis by thirty percentage points. And it's just going up with all this,
39:19
it's going up. And think about that what this has done. It's basically
39:27
just energized the base of Donald Trump, and it's going to continue to do
39:30
that. Indict throw out whatever you want to throw out. It's only helping
39:37
Donald Trump because the majority of his hardcore base. He said it himself,
39:44
and I forget the exact quote he said, but in the twenty sixteen campaign
39:47
he said something to the effect of and I'm very much paraphrase and I could
39:51
kill somebody in downtown New York City and they wouldn't care. And he's absolutely
39:55
right because they don't care. It is interesting enough to me, though,
40:00
that President Biden has had no comment whatsoever about the Trump indictment, which,
40:06
when you think about it, though, is understandable. I mean, he
40:08
really can't because it would be seen as trying whether he was really trying to
40:16
or not, it would be seen as possibly impacting the case. So imagine
40:22
this. And I'm not a legal expert by any stretch of the imagination,
40:25
but imagine this twenty twenty four. As I said, Trump is going to
40:30
be the nominee. There was a time when I didn't think he was going
40:34
to be the nominee. But you know, the more that comes out,
40:37
and we haven't even got to Georgia yet, all this stuff with Trump now
40:42
is just based on the documents in Florida. You know, the New York
40:45
thing was not a big deal. I mean it was a big deal to
40:49
the people involved, but in the big picture of things, not a big
40:51
deal. Even people that were anti Donald Trump said, this is not the
40:53
hill we want to die on. George is going to be the big deal.
40:57
And now Florida. But so we've not even got into Georgia yet.
41:01
But it doesn't matter because it's just again just continuing to energize the base.
41:10
Now, Trump is due in the Miami courtroom tomorrow and that he plans to
41:15
speak about the indictment again tomorrow night. This appearance will be pretty much like
41:22
the last one in New York. He'll show up tomorrow in court. They're
41:25
saying I was doing some reading on this morning. They were saying that he
41:29
could be fingerprinted and things of that nature. But they're not going to keep
41:31
him there obviously. And so when he's done, he makes his appearance in
41:35
the Miami courtroom, he hops on a plane and he goes back home,
41:39
back North. And it's looking like that a former Trump attorney is going to
41:45
be the star of witness against him, that being Evan Corkoran. Trump's former
41:52
attorney Bill Barr, made several media appearances over the weekend and said, quote,
41:57
Trump is toast. Now we're not talking about the cool Rod Blackstone kind
42:02
of toast. I mean that he's done and that again quoting Bill Barr,
42:07
He's not a victim here. He was totally wrong, even if half of
42:12
it is true, he's toast. That's according it's quotes from from Bill Barr
42:15
several media outlets over the weekend. Bars said that any idea that this is
42:20
a political witch hunt is ridiculous. Trump of courts, accused of story classified
42:27
documents at cardboard boxes. We've all seen the pictures over the weekend on television,
42:30
social media, whatnot in a ballroom and a bathroom and a shower off
42:35
of space, storage room, so on and so forth. And on the
42:38
morning talk shows yesterday morning and throughout the weekend, not just morning shows,
42:44
everyone from Jim Jordan to Lindsey Graham playing what aboutism, not really addressing the
42:52
Trump situation much at all. Did you see that it's changed between Lindsey Graham
42:54
and George Stephanopoulos on this week yesterday, Man, they went at it.
43:00
I mean they really, they really went at him. But in Jordan and
43:05
these others instead of talking about the Trump situation, instead talked about Hillary Clinton
43:09
and of course President Biden, and hunters, laptop and so on and so
43:14
forth. A great number of Republicans here in West Virginia, and I mentioned
43:20
this on Friday, release statements late Thursday into Friday about the Trump indictment,
43:23
including Attorney general in gubernatorial candidate Patrick Morris So Governor Justice, Congressman Alex Mooney,
43:29
Congressman or Carol Miller just name a few. Quick note here Congressman and
43:36
US send to Canada. Alex Mooney will be addressing the Trump indictment with Hoppy
43:40
today, as will State Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin. Pushkin, by the
43:45
way, it's going to be on this show tomorrow. Always a lively time
43:50
when we have mister Pushkin in the House. So be on Hoppy today,
43:52
then he'll be on this show tomorrow. I mean, I've got a couple
43:55
of texture before you go to break Texas. The indictment doesn't help the general
43:59
election. The disgrace Trump is a major loser, lost the House, Senate,
44:02
White House, and precluded the Red Wave in twenty twenty two. Face
44:07
it, your guy sucks. According to a text, okay, yeah,
44:14
and I said something wrong here, and I appreciate a texture. I referred
44:16
to Bill bars Trump's attorney. He was Attorney general, not Trump's attorney.
44:20
That's my fault. I don't know why I said that. I knew that,
44:22
but I appreciate the texture pointing that out to me. He was not
44:25
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Slash Events Tex says, my guests as Carper resigns from the Commission due
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to health issues and nothing ever comes to the charges his daughter claims going to
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a park notorious for that type of behavior? Is this symptom of heart disease?
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Texture, says Dave. This is not they're what a baodism? So
47:37
it could people's view in that term news slash. Asking legitimate questions about the
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different responses to an issue of a Republican in sea of a democrat is not
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I cannot stand hypocrites according to a texture. I understand texture what you're
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on that. In a Puttenham County courtroom today, the trial against restaurant owner
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Osha Sesi begins today. Now he's the owner of Fairways in Tay's Valley.
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Just before the show this morning, I talked to someone who was actually in
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the courtroom and they said it was packed. He's charged with sexual assault,
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abduction and unlawful restraints. Those charges came out in March. He is maintaining
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his innocence and has pled not guilty. The allegations go back to March twenty
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twenty two. Is bond will sat at one hundred thousand dollars which he posted
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and was ordered to turn in his passport. It's really a bizarre story from
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the owner of one of the most popular restaurants in the Canall Valley. Of
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course, are following the trial and we will have the latest. Who was
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available on air in a WV Metronews dot com at WCHS networked in the dot
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com as well. Mike Nolting has an interesting story posted now at WV metronews
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dot com and it has to do with Morgantown but you can substitute Charleston in
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the storyline and some other cities as well. A lot of similarities. A
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property owner in Morgantown, a general named Lucian Lewen, addressed Morgantown City Council
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about safety issues within his city, and he talked about large crowds gathering and
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loitering about town. Sound familiar. Lewin said, the downtown issues again we're
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talking about Morgantown, are preventing him for bringing new business to the area.
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And he talked about losing a potential coffee house that wanted to open up in
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Morgantown but they were scared off by the people sleeping in doorways, loitering,
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public drinking, etc. Again, it's unfamiliar. A lot of similarities between
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Morgantown and what we see in downtown Charleston every day. And I've said it
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on the show since I started doing the show three years ago, and again
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I'm talking Charleston now. I have no idea what the answer is. I
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mean, the city officials know about it, they see it daily, and
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I'm sure they don't like it either. I've had them on the show and
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they've talked about it. I had a little extra time early Friday afternoon before
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I was set to head out of town for an appointment. So I just
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kind of drove around Charleston a little bit, you know, twelve one o'clock
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or so on Friday afternoon, and what I saw wasn't good. There were
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a lot of kids going into Clay Center, and about seventy five yards away
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there were a bunch of let's say, less than Chamber of commerce looking folks,
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open containers, grown men, ridey little girls, bikes, etc.
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And I hate to be negative, but it's not a good look at all
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for the city, a city that has so much going for it. So
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what is the answer? Sadly, you know, I don't know, because
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there are so many legal ramifications of trying to clean it up. I mean,
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you can't tell people who don't have a home that they can't be on
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the streets. I know some cities are good, be Morgantown to look at
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panhandling ordinances, but a lot of times you get in the First Amendment issues
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there. And I'm not making the head up. By the way, panhandling
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ordinances have been struck down on the basis of free speech across America. The
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jails are overcrowded, and I'm not sure you can arrest your way out of
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this problem anyway. There are laws on the books against vagrancy, but it's
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very hard to enforce them, and I hate to bring up problems I don't
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have solutions for. That certainly is the case here. I'll say this and
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i'll close this. Some of these people, though, some of these folks
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downtown Charleston, morgantowns of these cities are going to happen upon the wrong person
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and it's not going to be pretty. And I'm not advocating vigilantism and who's
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French in the imagination, but it is what it is, all Right,
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we gotta go. Thank you too. Mayor Scott James is saying all the
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Jackfests, of course going on this weekend, and I think we're talking about
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again on the show on Friday, and also thanks to Jason Hopping for Americas
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for Prosperity Code up on the show tomorrow. State Democratic Party chairing Delicate,
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Mike Pushing's gonna stop by the Sudio. Plus we're gonn talk a little bit
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about the Wine and Jazz Festival which is happening this weekend. Ryan Nicholson was
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my producer today. Thank you so much, Hoppy and more coming up.
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I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun. I Love Somebody
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