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10/30/2023 The Dave Allen Show with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Greg Ingram and Mike Stuart · The Dave Allen Show

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on in the show, we at State Senator and current Attorney General Canada Mike
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Stewart will be on the show a little bit later on. Plus, I
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want to I got a couple of things I want to get into today.
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A little bit later on the show, I want to get into the Steve
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Williams story. Steve Williams, of course, the mayor of Huntington, of
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making it a fish show it can't really be a fish ul till January,
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but making it as close to official as you can. He filed his pretty
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candidacy papers to run for governor or the Democratic side, and I got a
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path where Steve Williams can do well. I'm not going to say where he
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can win, but I got a couple ideas on how he could do a
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little bit better. Does that make any sense. We'll to talk about that
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coming up a little bit later on as well. And I've got some other
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things in the news I want to get to as well. But it's Monday,
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and you know how we do it. Every Monday, we bring a
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different mayor in from one of the fine municipalities here in the area, in
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our listening area. This morning we have the mayor of Montgomery, Greg Ingram
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on the show. Good morning, Sarah, Welcome to the show. Good
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Dave. How are you to do? I'm doing fine, Thank you for
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a being here. One of the many cool things about your town. A
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lot of people may not know this is it actually straddles two counties. It
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does not only it's not the only city in the state. I don't think
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that does that. It's still a pretty cool factor either way. None other
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ones. Okay. One of the things I learned in my time in state
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government, in dealing with the city of Montgomery, is that your city hall
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actually straddles two counties. Not anymore, not anyway, doesn't do that any
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We moved into one of the other buildings. Oh that's right, Okay,
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I saw your picture that you posted that up. But we used to straddle.
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We were in both counties. In the county line went right down the
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hallway. It was unique. When I was covering an election there, no,
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actually what Yeah, I was covering an election there one time. And
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you know when I worked for one time, I worked for the Secretary of
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State's office, and we would go out to all these different municipalities whatever.
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I was able to cover two counties in one building. Yeah, mister Carver
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used to say when he made me mad, I just moved my desk over
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in Fact County. That was like one of the coolest things in the world.
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Mayor Greg Ingram, give us some of your background. Well, to
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tell me about you. I was born in Run County, Spencer, West
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Virginia, grew up a little bit in Walton, grew up a little bit
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in Dunbar, grew up a little bit in Cabin Creekshulliona area. Bill,
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Did you just keep getting run out of all these communities? Yeah, you
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know, they don't put up with me for so long. But I finally
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ended up in Montgomery and graduated from Westvirginia Tech, graduated from East Bank Eastbank
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High School first, of course, and then worked for the Walker family and
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Walker Machinery. Probably one of the best career choices that anybody could make.
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That was just a fantastic family at work. How long were you there forty
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two years, forty years, forty three years? Yeah, wow, with
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one company. Yeah, and you saw a lot of different changes with that
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company. I'm sure we did. And I tell you again, I can't
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say enough about the Walker family. Their just first class all the way.
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So let's talk about the town. Give me the elevator speech about Montgomery.
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Well, you know, we took a couple of gut punches there back in
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seventeen when West Virginia Tech was moved to Beckley and then Fatcast School was closed
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to high school. So that was just one gut punch right after the other.
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And I knew that the college was leaving before from mayor, and I
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just thought that maybe I had the skill set to try to weave our way
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through that and hopefully, but I can't do it. I certainly don't do
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it all with myself. I've got the best staff of any mayor in the
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county. I mean, any mayor anywhere. We all have good staff,
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but the Montgomery staff is just outstanding. But anyway, so we started rebuilding
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and started working on the town and doing little things. And it takes a
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long time. I've been mayor now seven years. I'll be up for election
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next year. But we've done a lot and we've had a lot of outside
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help, we really have. The Governor's helped us a lot with the Challenge
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Academy. Put the Challenge Academy in Montgomery. You know, those kids that
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come in there really need they need the Challenge Academy. I always say,
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they come in looking like slinkies and they leave standing attention. Uh it's a
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it's a transformation of the mind. That is amazing of what what the Challenge
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Academy does for our kids. And uh, of course we you know,
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Montgomery was blessed with two colleges. We had Westernior Table, we have Bridge
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Valley Community Technical College, and Bridge Valley is still there. They're expanding their
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program. Doctor Casey Sachs on the show on Friday, she spoke very highly
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of you and your administrative absolutely, And I tell you Casey is she's she's
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a real sharp individual and she's got a lot doing a lot of good things
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for Bridge Valley, not only in Charleston or South Charleston, but also in
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back or Peckley. In Montgomery, we've had a lot of programs that are
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expanding up there. We've got a private high school there now, the Montgomery
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Preparatory Academy. So we still say it's you know, the old Montgomery High
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School used to say that where the river flows in, uh, education the
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seed of education. Uh. And it's still that. It's still that way.
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There's still a lot of educational optunity and Montgomery Montgomery General Hospital of course,
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is still there and they're doing fantastic. Got an AMFM radio station up
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there now, and television station is there. Local it's just a community talper
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right, community community access. So we've got those things going on, and
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got a new bridge, not a new bridge, but a rebuilt bridge.
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It's about thirteen million dollars worth of renovations the Montgomery Bridge, and I hope
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we can get the rest of it painted. They painted half, we got
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the top half done. So there's a lot of things going on, but
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we've had a lot of outside help. We do have another company that's going
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to come in from North Dakota. It's called Education for Prosperity and it's a
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they design and manufacture robots for interactive robots for museums. The kids can play
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on these things, so they'll be hopefully we get the documentation done with WU
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and we'll have a robotic museum in Montgomery and they teach. It's called if
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you wanted to see it on the website's Education for Prosperity. That's the nonprofit
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division, and there's a profit division where they manufacture these robots. So I
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think that's going to be a big plus. And you know, the owner
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of that organization was in and and just so happened that the Boy Scouts were
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in up and up on New River Gorge, and so we took him up
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there, brought him down the Clay Center. He got to see a lot
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of the museums and the type and went to Tamarack and those things. So
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he'll be here. He's excited to be here. Sees a lot of opportunity
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here. But once to get out of North Dakota as quick as you can,
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he said, text me the other night, I said it was two
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degrees so he was looking at our weather. He said, I want to
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be there. Well, it's going to be much cooler this week here,
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But I I could certainly understand that what kind of a time frame are we
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looking at for this when this thing maybe up and running. Man, Well,
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he actually wanted to be here before snow flew in North Dakota. I
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don't think he's going to make no because generally found know a little bit about
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that part of the world. You normally in September October you usually get a
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pretty big snow. In the case of everything missed that everything goes really well,
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hopefully in the spring, spring, midsummer. But how many approximately,
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how many people we think will be employed there? He will bring five with
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him, and he has said probably eighteen, maybe microm of eighteen people.
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As he gets up and running. They build all their own stuff there on
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site. They have their own three D printers and they print their own parts
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and they do those type of things, so they'll need people to help me
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in the middle. Well, and anytime that a business comes in, I
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mean, and not everything's going to be new Core or Toyota as we say,
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but every little bit helps, every little bit that's good, and that's
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going to spurn some you know, local other other entities hopefully to come in
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exactly or at least benefit. And the Upper Cannol Valley of Montgomery too,
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we're pretty much land locked up there. I mean, every available lands have
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something on it. And so these these small small companies that come in,
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every little bit helps, and it's jobs. It provides some income for people.
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And you know, of course, we've got my opinion of beautiful city
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in West Virginia right here in Charleston. I mean, the access here and
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the things that are here in Charleston. We may not have it Montgomery,
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but we're only thirty miles away. And the other good thing is we're only
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thirty miles from the New Room Goards. So and now now with that being
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a national park, I mean, yeah, it's kind of puts us in
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a good spot. Yeah, but very peaceful and pretty safe up there.
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You know I always say we'll never get hit with a nuclear bomb unless they
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miss somebody else. That's one way to put it out. Yes, we're
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talking with the mayor Montgomery, Greg Ingram here on Mayor Monday on the day.
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Allan. In addition to being the mayor, you've also annound you're going
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to be running for the House of Delegates district I am, I'll pre candidacy
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paper have to run for District fifty two. That's the Upper Kannov Valley Kannall
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City to Montgomery. And you know, as you said, it covers all
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of Montgomery even a little piece of Fat County the other end. So and
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you can do both. You could be mayor and serving the how they're both
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part time jobs. Okay, so after as somebody who is I guess retired
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as far as your your John with Walker and you're the mayor. So now,
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why do you want to add House of Delegates in there? Well,
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I think there's so many things that needs to be done in the Upper Kannal
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Valley and that's the district I live in. I believe that I do believe
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in regionalism. I think that you know, the we have nine municipalities in
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the Iprakannov Valley, and I just say, why there's so many things and
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regionalism is not something you just flip a switch. I believe regionalism is something
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that you start making services, regionalize the services emple. Why wouldn't you have
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one fire department and different different stations throughout. Why don't you have one police
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department after kanav Valley. Those are kind of the thoughts that I think of,
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and then eventually you can move into regionalism, maybe as as one unit.
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But I do believe that public service is something that we are going to
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have to in West Virginia. We're gonna have to regionalize to survive because you
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know, I'm from a small community and I know what the struggles are.
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But I think if you look at some of the areas that that are not
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a municipality, like Shillian Cabin Creek, Little Creek Area, Campbell's Creek,
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those folks need services that we all have, and uh the only way we
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can do that is is to regionalize and try to bring in UH. So,
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I don't know that I can do that, but I can certainly carry
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that that word to the State House and try to push that that agenda.
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Talking again with the Mayor of Montgomery, Greg Ingram. I want to wish
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you the best, mayor is both mayor of Montgomery and also your bid for
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the House of Delegates. I will say that you folks do a great job
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on your town Facebook page because I was kind of stalking a little bit last
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night and get some notes together for the show. I think you just had
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a big fall festival, trunk or treat or something just happened there Trump and
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Tree. Yeah, and so I know you. I'm sure you got big
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things coming up as we headed into the Christmas season as well. We have
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Christmas Pate. Christmas Parade is December first, first Friday of December every year.
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Unfortunately, I'll be in Washington, DC that day, so i won't
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be there for the parade, but I'm sure i'll see it on Facebook.
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Okay, Mayor, I appreciate you. I'll have you back on again.
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Thanks a lot. Absolutely, It's Mayor the Mayor of Montgomery, Greg Ingram,
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here on this morning's Dave Allen Show. Hang out with me just one
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Today, State Senator and candidate for Attorney General Mike Stewart is here. Good
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morning, sir, how are you hey? Good morning? Thanks for having
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me. Boy. It feels like faul, doesn't it It does. It's
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gonna feel more like fault here in a couple of days. They tell us
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it is. But I tell you, I've blown those leaves so many times.
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I'm ready for it to end. Well, they're just gonna blow back
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again, you know. That's why I tell my wife, They're just going
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to fall again, if not this year, next year. So last time
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we talked to you were headed to the border. How was your trip?
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I tell you a remarkable trip, And I tell you what It opens up
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your eyes. I mean you can see the stuff on television, you can
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see the challenge across the board, but it changes everything, I think,
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to see it up front and in person, to talk with law enforcement who
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worked that border every single day, To be in some of those boats going
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up and down the Rio grand to be able to see and you get disoriented.
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Actually, when you're looking what you think is south, it's actually American.
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When you're looking what you think is north, it's Mexico. And so
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we need some billboards on that border to say welcome to Mexico on the US
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side. That way, when they get there, they're like, oh my
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god, I need to turn around and go back. We went the wrong
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direction. Mike. I think it was a legitimate, legitimate question. It
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was after me after the last time you were on the show. Somebody Texas
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and I know you went on the trip. There are a couple other legislators
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that went, when do you go? Would you take a trip like that?
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Who pays for those sort of things. Yeah, so I paid my
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flight, the accommodations at the hotel, and I guess the tour itself,
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whatever that cost was paid for a group by a group called a Federation for
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American Immigration Reform. Not unusual. But I paid my own flight down,
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which is the biggest piece of that. But I think it's important that we
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see these things straight up. And some people say, well, geez,
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what's the matter to a candidate for attorney general or a state senator? My
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goodness, have you seen the numbers? And West Virginia's not immune from this
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challenge? Have you seen the folks on the Terror watchless that have made their
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way across that border. There's going to be a serious issue moving into the
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future. And when you see the mere numbers almost three hundred thousand in the
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last month coming across that border, the number of folks, especially with a
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world in chaos and the challenges we face as a country, that southern border
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does matter. With respect to what we're seeing in Israel today or what we're
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seeing in Ukraine. It all ties together. We need to be smart,
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we need to be prepared, and I think it's important for policymakers to see
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these things upfront, close and personal. Again, we're talking with the state
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senator and Candida for Attorney General, Mike Stewart here on the Dave Allen Show.
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It is a three person race, Sir for attorney General, now yourself
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state auditor or state senator rather Ryan well as well as State Auditor JB.
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Mccusky on the Republican side. It's kind of a little ugly. I mean
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a little ugly, just a little note. I mean, I don't know
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if it's ugly. Listen. I think it's fair to be able to talk
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about record. That's all I talk about is the record. And if we've
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gotten to the point in Paul that we can't talk about people's voting records,
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because I've seen this time and time again. The reason people are so cynical
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is guys during a campaign season, they hear folks say this is where they
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stand, they get elected, they go someplace completely different. Listen. It's
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really a two man race, let's be honest about it. It's a race
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between JB. McCuskey and myself. I think Ryan Weld has a chance at
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all. I mean, go out there and run your race. I like
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Ryan. He serves with me in the State Senate. He's a he's a
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good young man. But I think it's a two person race from all indications
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as we travel the state, as we look at whatever pole happens to be
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out there. But listen, he could run an incredible race, pull a
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surprise that happens all the time. But it's a two person race right now.
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And the questions I'm asking are at the look at the record. Look
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at the record. Where do you stand on the Second Amendment? JB.
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Mccowsky four times voted against the Second Amendment and against concealed carry. That's a
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totally valid question race. Why do I have to raise these questions so early?
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I'm not going to be the deeply funded, good old boy candidate.
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That's not going to happen right Personal injury attorneys aren't loading Steward up with cash,
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nor would I take it. Folks that have been around for a long
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time that want that softer, easier, sort of traditional politician approach, they're
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going to be with JB. And frankly, he brought four hundred thousand dollars
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to the race from that failed gubernatorial race where I think he finished at three
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or four percent. Listen, this is going to be a Republican primary where
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conservatives get to come out and express their interest in whatever candidate they want to
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be the next attorney general. But make no mistake, the most important race
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on the ballot's not governor in the next election, it's attorney general. That's
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where the battles are fought in federal court. I'm running against the guy hasn't
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been a practicing lawyer for almost eight years at least. I think that's relative.
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I'm running against somebody who's been against the Second Amendment multiple times. I
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think it matters so on a host of different issues. It's not that I
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dislike JB. He's a friend of mine. I like JB. But these
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issues matter when it comes to attorney general, And unlike any time in our
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past, the next Attorney General is going to have to live in the federal
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courts. Whether it's transgenderism, whether it's tort reform. You got a question
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where you stand on tort reform, if you're taking tens of thousands of dollars
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from personal injury lawyers, whether we're talking about bail reform and cash list spail,
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where do you stand on these issues? So all I say is,
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let's have these debates, Let's talk about the issues. Let's make sure the
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public's well informed as to where everybody stands, so that when they go to
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vote, it's not about who has the deepest wallet. It's about who stands
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with the people of West Virginia what they want in the next attorney general.
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So you're open for a debate, discussion, forum, whatever. I'm sure
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it's going to happen at some point, but you're one hundred percent of board.
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I'm ready right now. We can call in and you we'll spend the
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rest of the day talking about these Listen. I'm not somebody who has a
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consultant behind me telling me what to think. I realize that I have opinions
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on things. But I can tell you this as I travel around West Virginia,
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grassroots folks are with me in this campaign. Why because they care about
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the issues that I care about. I care about those issues for them.
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I feel really good about where we're at. All right. I want to
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ask you. I'm going to ask you a tough question here, all right,
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and it has to do with the media. Now, you've had some
23:26
not so nice things to say about the media as of late. You and
23:30
I have known each other for quite some time. I think we're friends.
23:33
You know, I'm a member of the media, right, Well, say
23:37
when you make comments, though, Mike, when you say the media,
23:40
you're taking us all down. So here's the challenge, right when I use
23:44
the term the media, huh. Right, if I've got one hundred and
23:47
thirty two or whatever those characters are at on Twitter, listen, there is
23:49
a big difference. There's a reason your show starts with a disclaimer. I
23:53
think it's something like, the views and opinions expressed on this show are not
23:57
the views and opinions of WSA. Listen. I view the media those folks
24:03
who consider themselves journalists different than folks who are commentators or opinionists or editorialists.
24:10
I think that this show you do do a lot with respect to news and
24:14
information to provide to the public, But I don't think you hold yourself out
24:18
as a journalist. Journalist now, now there's a huge difference. My difference
24:22
comes with journalists, journalists who are drawing their personal bias into stories and basically
24:29
letting that feed into the public. I'll give you an example, CPS.
24:33
After the system ofvill incident, I let a week pass as I looked at
24:36
the facts and circumstances as a former federal US attorney, these things matter to
24:41
me. I can tell you this. When I was US attorney, despite
24:44
this opiate scourge that's poisoned our countryside and our families, I received three or
24:49
four times as many questions and concerns about things like CPS I issued as a
24:56
sitting state senator, a member of the Judiciary Committee, as a former u
25:00
US attorney, and is a candidate for Attorney general. A call for full
25:03
transparency on Sissonville and a full reveal as to how the operations of the entity
25:08
works CPS that is newsworthy. And so one member of the journalist community holds
25:15
himself out as a journalist, decided it's too late, it's not material,
25:19
doesn't matter. And so despite all those news organizations around the state, including
25:26
this one, who reported on that call, that important story that we still
25:30
don't have the facts on, this journalist said, no, no, no,
25:33
I just don't think it's relative or important. So all of the newspapers
25:37
in that family of that big company, their readers never got the story.
25:44
So a journalist got to define whether it was news or not. That's my
25:48
issue, is that it's not. When it comes to shows like this,
25:52
you're allowed to have any opinion you want. You can think Stuart's a more
25:56
honor, you can support Stuart doesn't matter right on here purporting to deliver the
26:02
news to folks. The problem people have, I think, and I think
26:06
it's fair for me to say this. All across West vir Jan our country
26:08
are folks who define the news for us, what's material, what's not material,
26:14
whether they like Trump or don't like Trump. You've said many times,
26:17
Listen, Trump did some good things as president, but he's not my cup
26:19
of tea. Coming into twenty twenty four, we need another candidate. You're
26:22
totally entitled to that. You're not a journalist. Journalist though, should be
26:26
reporting on Donald Trump from the facts and circumstances. Let the opinions of the
26:32
public be determined by the facts, not by some journalists who gets in the
26:36
middle and defines it for us and tells us what to think and changes facts
26:41
to fit their personal buyas. That's my issue here, and I draw a
26:45
clear distinction between commentators and folks like Sean Hannity on Fox News, not journalists.
26:51
Not journalist, thank you, Lots of opinions but not journalism. Journalists
26:56
though, like Brett Baher and folks who work for a newspaper, folks who
27:00
hold themselves out as journalist should report the facts, let the public decide.
27:04
It's that simple. We saw him speaking of Trump, Mike. We saw
27:07
last week that the former president endorsed Governor Justice in his race for US Senate.
27:11
You headed up the Trump campaign in West Virginia twenty sixteen. Any chance
27:15
of a Trump endorsement for you, Well, sit listen. I'd certainly love
27:19
one, But I can tell you this, with Donald Trump, I leave
27:22
it to his campaign to make up all those determinations. I've been with them
27:26
from the beginning. I support President Trump. I am here today calling on
27:30
my opponents for attorney General to endorse President Trump. Both of them have been
27:34
on the record pretty critical of President Trump in the past. He's going to
27:37
be our nominee. There's no question he's going to be the next president of
27:41
the United States if we all get behind him. And I need those opponents
27:45
who are running for Attorney general to make it clear to the public where they
27:47
stand with respect to the former president being the next president. This is a
27:52
world in chaos. The economies in crisis. I look at families who are
27:56
struggling to get by every single week to pay for groceries, but food on
28:00
the table, to put gas in their car. Listen, Donald Trump.
28:04
I said this before on Hoppy Kerchival show. I wasn't supporting Donald Trump to
28:08
be my pastor. I was supporting Donald Trump to be my president. Why.
28:12
Because we need a tough leader and I believe fundamentally that if he were
28:17
president today, this world in chaos wouldn't be the case, and interest rates
28:21
wouldn't be soaring. Let's get back to you as attorney general. Why do
28:26
you think you're the best candidate. Well, I don't think there's any question
28:29
that I'm the best candidate. I think if you were to ask my opponents
28:32
in that secret moment where they weren't being recorded, they say Stuart's the best
28:36
candidate. You really think that JB. McCuskey and Ryan Weld are going to
28:40
say Stuart's the best candidate. Listen, they may. I don't think there's
28:42
any question. There's no question. Listen. My background far bigger from the
28:47
standpoint of the experience needed to be attorney general. I don't say it lately.
28:52
I'm not bragging about it. The facts are the facts. I've been
28:55
a practicing lawyer for more than twenty years. I've had a big record as
28:59
you attorney, prosecuting two members of the State Supreme Court. And trust me,
29:03
I've learned that prosecuting those two members of the State Supreme Court although the
29:07
right thing to do. They don't make it easy to run for other offices
29:11
because the good old boys take note. They're like, holy crap, Stuirt's
29:14
not going to follow our orders. And I'll say this that I'm not the
29:18
lobbyist favorite right because I'm not going to follow their charge every time they tell
29:22
me what to do. I'm gonna look at every issue independently. I don't
29:26
believe that there's any candidate in West Virginia. I'm not running for the title
29:29
of attorney general. I'm not running to be attorney general. I'm running to
29:33
do attorney general. There's a big difference. I'm not using this as a
29:37
stepping stone, regardless of what folks say. I'm not. So you don't
29:41
have any plans to make maybe after ag if you win this race of maybe
29:45
and I know you can't predict a future, but I mean, you're not
29:48
looking at that someday, maybe running for Senate or governor or something like that.
29:52
I can tell you categorically, West Virginia needs somebody like me. And
29:56
listen, I sometimes I get rubbed as being gruff and being tough and not
30:00
being nice enough out on the campaign. Trill, let me tell you what
30:03
you don't need as an attorney general in West Virginia. When the EPA is
30:07
breathing down your neck, trying to take your jobs, when the FTC is
30:11
coming after you, when those folks trying to take your guns on the Second
30:15
Amendment, the last thing you need is a nice, good old boy to
30:18
be your attorney general. You need somebody ready to roll up their sleeves and
30:22
get to work to fight. That's a job probably built for me. And
30:26
what I mean by that is somebody who has the experience to go in the
30:30
courtroom and win. One of my candidates hasn't even practiced law for almost eight
30:34
years, and the little experience he does have, and we can talk about
30:40
this later. Nicholas County, the flood, the flood issues. After he
30:44
had that big press conference, he rolls off to my office several days later
30:48
to say, hey, you need to take this case. You need to
30:51
take this case, but I can tell you it compromised my ability to prosecute
30:55
those cases. Why because of things that had been done in the field,
31:00
and so I've had lots of press conferences. My view is, though you
31:03
hold that press conference to you get all the facts lined up and you're ready
31:07
to move forward with prosecution, my rate is high. I've been very successful
31:11
in that respect, but I think more than anything, the people of West
31:15
Virginia need somebody like me to go in as Attorney general. Continue to be
31:19
aggressive, but also be prepared to fight. I'm not going to be there
31:23
to make anybody happier, to represent any special interest group, but the people
31:26
of West Virginia and those jobs as values we're fighting for. Whether it's transgenderism,
31:32
whether it's the Second Amendment, whether it's drilling, fracking, and mining.
31:36
These issues are real. You may not like that Stuart talks about these
31:40
things, but listen. If I run a campaign as a fighter, I'll
31:42
be an Attorney general as a fighter. I'm prepared day one. I don't
31:47
need to learn on the job. I know how to build a big organization,
31:51
be successful at doing it, and I can win in the federal courts
31:52
for our people. Attorney General candidate, State Senator Mike Stewart. It's always
31:56
a pleasure to have you on the show. Man great, thanks you.
32:00
It's pretty much you set me up for the rest of the week so I
32:00
can just talk about this interview. So that's all I have to No more
32:04
home right, just know. But I love the calls too. I love
32:06
the haters calling in to say how terrible Steward is. Well, not just
32:09
your family. This is Mike will talk again. Su Ben, thanks a
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Jeff, is that I don't pretty much have to do anything the rest
35:22
of the week. I can cancel all the guests. I can just read
35:24
the text when Mike Stewart is on this show, and I'll do my best
35:29
to try to give in anybod else. I got some news items I want
35:30
to get to as well, So let me go ahead and start with the
35:32
text. Tex says. So Mike's confusion then, is he's assuming everything he
35:37
says and does is newsworthy. Why, uh, Texas, David, I
35:44
appreciate you announcing at the top of the show that Mike Stewart would be on,
35:46
so I know to turn it off, tex says, Mike. How
35:51
many actual hours have you built since you've been back in private practice? Says
35:55
a Texture. Uh, compare records, ask Mike. I filed for another
36:00
office before he ever made a vote in the state Senate. He has zero
36:04
trial experience. Was a laughing stock of the US Attorney's office. He's nauseating,
36:08
according to a Texter, why did Mike Stewart vote against Peia reform after
36:13
it had been discussed for several months and it's costing taxpayers tons of money to
36:16
subsidize a government run health care plan? Another thing I've wanted for everyone.
36:22
If a jury of his peers finds Donald Trump guilty, what do people do?
36:27
According to a text Texas says. Yesterday, Mike Stewart tweeted that he
36:30
enjoyed speaking to the cabal Chamber and posted an article, but it was an
36:34
event from five years ago. Loved to know why he's posting five year old
36:37
stories and passing passing them off like their new content. Tex says, Mike
36:43
didn't say one thing there about how it affects West Virginia. I think he's
36:49
talking about immigration. We could actually use some of those immigrants here. But
36:52
the hammer only sees nails. Tex says concealed carry isn't the Second Amendment?
37:00
Thanks to Stephen Allen, Adams said he would take you more seriously, but
37:02
for the fact that you're hanging out with Ron Gregory. What about that?
37:06
According to a Texter, Tick says Mike, the drug problem got worse under
37:12
your watch. The gun problem got worse under your watch. Trump did executive
37:15
order and took bump stocks, called gun confiscation. According to a Texture,
37:22
ask Mike of his idea if it's his idea or someone else, is to
37:27
use tax funds as pre campaign ads, but putting the name of all US
37:30
Attorney psays before his pivot to run for office, breaking, says a text
37:37
Are. Total of more than ten million illegal border crossings in the US have
37:40
been reported since Joe Biden took office January twenty twenty one, the greatest number
37:45
in history and of any administration. This is more than the individual populations of
37:50
forty one states. Official US Customs and Border Protection apprehension data includes just a
37:54
bunch of numbers. I don't have time to get into all that. This
37:58
makes the com mind official apprehend the man has got to go talking about Joe
38:01
Biden. I think I appreciate all the numbers, but I just don't have
38:04
time to get into all the numbers. Jick says. Mike Stewart is a
38:10
silk Stockings lawyer, was a veneer of fake populism while exclusively representing big business
38:16
in the elite constantly sets their traps for the adoration of a rapist. Always
38:22
get behind a rapist, Mike Stewart twenty twenty three, says a Texter Mike
38:24
Mike Stewart. If he agrees that VP Kamala Harris can unilially reject Electoral College
38:30
voters and declare Biden the winner of the twenty twenty four election, tex says,
38:36
I doubt Stuart paid for it, talking about the trip to the border.
38:42
If he can actually use campaign cash, he says he paid it himself
38:45
the trip to the board. He and I think there was three two other
38:47
state senators from West Virginia that took that trip. Will Mike Stewart tell us
38:52
his record as a private attorney representing big corporate interest, asked Mike Stewart,
38:57
when will he go after AEP and it's support for transgender or whatever bigotry that
39:00
he was talking abouts. I feel like this entire coming to election is a
39:10
choice between a pile and a steaming pile. I guess which category job abandoner
39:15
Mike Stewart falls into. The only thing Mike fights for his air since his
39:21
head is so far up his rear ouch Texas. Is interesting that Stewart says
39:29
he doesn't listen to lobbyists when he just got back from a paid trip by
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some Mayor? Steve Williams said he will run for governor of West Virginia the
40:20
Democratic ticket. Now, he had announced it on Labor Day at the annual
40:24
Labor Day picnic and racine. But last week he filed the pre candidacy papers
40:30
with the West Virginia Secretary of State's office. Now, someone asked me over
40:34
the weekend what I thought of Steve williams chances of being governor of West Virginia,
40:39
And uh, the answer to that again, not a journalist, as
40:45
Mike Stewart pointed out, not a journalist, just an opinion. Nor,
40:47
if you will, with all due respect to Steve Williams, slim to none,
40:53
slim to none, because I just don't see West Virginia electing a Democrat
41:00
to be governor or any other constitutional office at this time. I will say
41:07
I think that Mayor Williams is a good choice by the Democrats. He tends
41:13
to be a little bit more moderate and a little a little bit more like
41:16
the West Virginia dims of old. He's not Steven Smith type. With all
41:22
due respect to Steven Smith, of course. You know, I didn't see
41:27
Ben Selango as being that extreme either, but he never really had a chance
41:30
in twenty twenty. And Steve Williams is an interesting story. He's a former
41:34
member of the House and he's had a lot of real world success in the
41:37
world of business, which could appeal to the more business like members of the
41:45
electorate. And I will say this about Steve Williams. He has really done
41:50
some great things in Huntington. Huntington was on the verge of utter collapse when
41:55
Steve Williams took over as mayor. I mean, the city couldn't the bills
42:00
and they were facing This is not an exaggeration. They were facing ruin until
42:07
Williams got there. Huntington is thriving now, of course, having a bursting
42:14
at the seams Marshall University doesn't hurt. And you know, I'm in a
42:19
Huntington like once a week or so, and not just for Marshall things.
42:22
But I can tell you this, the Huntington of twenty twenty three is nothing
42:29
at all like the Huntington of thirty three years ago, when I was beginning
42:34
as a student at Marshall University already wasn't even the Huntington of the nineties or
42:37
the early to mid two thousands. Point blank is Steve Williams has done an
42:43
incredible job with that city. Now that having been said, I was asked
42:50
recently what Steve Williams could do to even have a shot to win the governorship
42:58
of West Virginia. I you know, I don't pretend to have all the
43:01
answers. If I did, I wouldn't be sitting behind this microphone right now.
43:05
I'd be doing political consulting. But there are a few things that I
43:10
think that Steve Williams could do. And if you're listening, Mayor Williams,
43:15
you can take note this is I'm not I won't even send you a bill
43:19
for Steve Williams, you know, doesn't need me to tell him how to
43:23
run his campaign, but I do feel that some of what I'm about to
43:28
say could be of use to him. First of all, he has has
43:32
has all capital letters. Has to distance himself from the Democratic Party on the
43:38
national level. He needs to come out, point blank, point blank and
43:45
say, do not time me to President Joe Biden, do not time me
43:50
to Chuck Schumer, AOC Pelosi or anyone else that's on the national front that
43:53
West Virginia's identify with the national Democratic Party. That's for starters. He needs
44:00
to not speak negatively or even speak at all against former President Trump. I
44:09
mean, if he's asked a question, skirt it, change the subject,
44:14
do whatever, because like it or not. And I'm certainly you know Stewart
44:20
even pointed it out there. I'm not a Trump supporter, I was not
44:23
now, but speaking against President Trump, I'm also not running for office.
44:29
Speaking against President Trump is political suicide in West Virginia. So in short,
44:36
I think that Steve Williams needs to become a West Virginia Democrat of old and
44:42
I don't know that he can do that if he wants support outside of West
44:46
Virginia. And make no mistake about it, as any of the candidates for
44:51
governor on the Republican side will tell you, and anybody that's run for a
44:53
state wide office or Senate or whatever over the last ten, fifteen, twenty
44:59
years or so, we'll tell you outside support is crucial to get intelected.
45:05
I mean, I hate it, but that's just the way it is.
45:10
And as for how I think Steve Williams will do, I think it depends
45:15
on who the Republican nominee is. I think if he faces Patrick Morrissey,
45:20
hear me out on this, I think his chances are much better than if
45:23
he faces one of the other three major Republican candidates. With all due respect
45:30
to Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, he's not seen by a lot of people as
45:34
a very likable person. He comes across sometimes as being a very angry little
45:37
man. Most Republicans that I know think he's done a fantastic job as AG,
45:45
but they don't really care for him now much personally, And knowing mister
45:51
Morrissey like I do, I don't think he really cares. I think he
45:52
might wear that as a badge of honor. To be honest with you,
45:57
I mean, you got to ask you quite self a question, would you
45:59
rather have a beer or go issue with Morrisey or Williams. If it's a
46:02
battle with mayor Williams facing Capito, Warner or Miller, I think it's a
46:07
better matchup for one of them. You know, Williams is always smiling and
46:09
always seems to be in a good mood, not angry all the time,
46:13
as as Patrick Morrissey is. You know, Warner, Capitol, Miller.
46:16
They can all smile and joke. And I know all three of them and
46:20
work for one of them for four years. They're capable of, I think,
46:22
maybe relating more to the common people. And it's something that quite frankly,
46:27
again, with all due respect to Patrick Morrissey, I think he lacks
46:30
so if I'm Steve Williams, I denounced the National Democratic Party, maybe even
46:35
the State Party. Distance yourself a little bit from the State Party too.
46:38
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46:40
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46:44
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Teke says the reason Morrisy could lose is because he has a personality with that
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rock. According to a Texan, not my words, Not my words.
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So I've been watching this story out of Mond County mainly because it addresses an
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issue that we hear in Charleston and some other areas in the Canawa Valley face
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as well. Mike Nolting has a story posted at WV Metronews dot com and
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it has to do with panhandling. Uh. They're calling it the Montagelia County
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Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety Ordnance. And as Mike Stewart, Mike's story, not
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Mike Stewart, My story points out, the whole thing started with complaints from
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the public about solicitation near retail areas that have made some people feel unsafe and
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was creating traffic concerns. Now, Mon County commission Jeff Arnett says the commission
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was acting on safety concerns from residents there. Arnett goes on to say that
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services are available for those who want and need them. Sound familiar, They're
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available and sometimes unused here in Charleston as well. The Mond County Commission,
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according to Mike's story and from my Commissioner Arnett, gave about one point four
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million dollars annually to the programs that I mentioned earlier. And it's simply a
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safety issue according to Commissioner Arnett there, and I would agree. Now Hoppy
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talks about that in his commentary which is posted today. Now nowque the people
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saying it's poor shaming and it's a first First Amendment issue and one of the
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that's already happened. One of the groups in Mike's story is Mountain State Justice,
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which is a nonprofit group. Their attorney, quoted in the Notlting story,
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is saying, quote the act of asking for money is a First Amendment
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right in quotes, and that they will be closely monitoring the implementation of this
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ordinance. Now, on the first offense, police would take the name of
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the person and give them a list of service that are available in the area.
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Continuing violations could result in fines of one hundred dollars every time. Now,
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as Hobpy pointed out correctly and it's commentary this morning, in order to
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make this work, they got to crack down on all public banking. And
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that's what it is, whether it's the homeless, Little League teams, volunteer
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fire departments, et cetera. I personally have no issue with cracking down on
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it. You know, I don't see it as much in Charleston, but
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in some smaller towns that I travel to from time to time, if it's
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a pretty Saturday, there's going to be somebody standing in an intersection with a
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bucket out. Whether it's all all for great causes, don't get me wrong.
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From Little leagues, to scouts, to volunteer fire departments and so on
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and so forth. But it's a safety hazard. I mean, it really
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really is. Now in Charleston, they're more asking. They're saying they're homeless,
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and they're asking for, you know, for funds for that, and
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I think I think it sends the wrong message for kids, you know,
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and for anybody. If you want to do something, to work for it,
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you wash a car. And I will say for Ralston, it's not
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too good of a look. When you pulled into Charleston, the first thing
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you see is someone holding a cardboard sign asking for money when literally everyone around
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you is hiring. But that's another story. Go check out Mike's story on
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because what you don't know can hurt you, all right, I gotta go.
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My producer was Hollywood, Jeff Petty, thanking to Mayor Ingram of Montgomery
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and to us attorney or former US attorney, current candidate for Attorney General,
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and state Senator Mike Stewart coming up on the show to Margot and talks in
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real estate with Richter, realtor plus Ellen Allen from West Virginia's for Affordable health
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Care. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun. I
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