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03/21/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Lynne Fruth, Max Fisher, and Lance Wheeler · The Dave Allen Show

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up on the show this morning, Canaan County Commissioner Lance Wheeler is going to
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be stopping by it. We're also going to spend some time talking about human
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trafficking a little bit later on in the show, but before we get to
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that, I want to welcome back to the show, Lynn Fruth and Fruth
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Pharmacy. You know, full disclosure of one of the sponsors of the Dave
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Allen Show, but not here to talk about that. She's actually here to
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talk about some legislation that was pending in the legislature of last time. She
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well, obviously legislature, that's where the legislative things go. But nonetheless,
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you were here a couple of weeks ago, Lynn, and you are as
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my old Wyoming County grandmother would say, if Matt is a web hen,
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but you seem to be a little bit in a better mood today, Well
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just a little bit, just a little bit. You got a smile on
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your face this morning, not so much last time. You're what was it
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that you were upset about and what has made it better for today? Well,
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as we reported, you know, to you and other news outlets,
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we had had been provided information that showed that PIA patients were certainly being overcharged
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on a number of drugs, and it was reported by the Capital, Ohio
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Capital Journal that there were times that the PBM, or the pharmacy Benefit manager
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for PEIA, was paying itself as much as one hundred times the cost of
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the drug in West Virginia as it would had it been filled in West Virginia.
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So this kind of just opened the door to a lot of what we
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felt was some profiteering at the expense of PIA patients in the state. So
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the bill, Senate Bill four fifty three addressed that it had its ups and
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downs, but it did finally pass. It passed unanimously in both the Senate
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and the House, and it's now sitting on the Governor's desk, and you
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know, we're just here to make sure that the teachers and public employees are
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continue to reach out and let the governor know you need to sign this bill.
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I don't understand why the governor wouldn't want to sign it if may go
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in if just as sitting on the desk, but this is a pretty groundbreaking
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bill that's going to provide a lot of transparency and maybe we'll find out that
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there's money to be saved there, considerable amounts for both the employees and the
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state. So if people weren't listening, Lynn, and I think it was
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two weeks ago when I had you on the show and you broke it all
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down and made it really easy to understand for what exactly was the issue here,
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kind of go back, reiterate again what that issue was touched on a
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little bit to begin but let's break it down specifically what was going on here
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and what does this bill that's waiting on the governor's signature, what do we
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hope will come from it now? But just take it from the top.
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Sure, So, what a patient came to us and ask, based on
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what they were seeing in their log in for Peia that different pharmacies were being
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paid significantly different amounts of money and that didn't make sense to them. We
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found out through that data that truth and most of the West Virginia independent pharmacies
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were being paid some of the lowest reimbursement generally below cost. A lot of
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the national chains were being paid much higher reimbursements, and that caused us to
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ask a lot of questions. There. It led to some other data that
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said patients were being overcharged and there were some particular drugs, generic specialty drugs
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that patients were being forced to fill at a mail order facility that's owned by
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the company that has the business there, Express Scripts, and the data showed
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that this drug was a forty dollars drug could be dispensed at Fruit Pharmacy or
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any local pharmacy for forty dollars and the patient might be being charged as much
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as two hundred and fifty dollars a month. But on top of that,
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the state was paying another five thousand dollars. So that's where that comment came
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from. The article in the Capital Journal that Express Scripts was paying itself one
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hundred times the cost of the drug. So that means two things. Number
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One, the patients the PIA members were really being ripped off and the state
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was being ripped off even more so. This bill forces transparency and a study
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to be done. And prior to this, West Virginia did not get to
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see their own data, so they didn't see what they may be. That
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may be the one thing that was the most mind numby to me that when
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I had you and the other gentlemal on the show a couple of weeks ago,
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was that west Ford, the state of West Virginia, was not allowed
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to even see the data correct. And I will tell you that several of
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the legislature members were incredibly shocked by that as well, Like, we're spending
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four hundred million dollars in this program and we don't get to see a transactional
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level breakdown of the data. That's preposterous. Sure, So this bill does
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require the PBM to provide that level of data, and when they do that,
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then the state will be able to look at that and say, why
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are we paying five thousand dollars for a prescription that could be and is being
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filled in West Virginia by Medicaid and being reimbursed reimbursed at forty dollars. There's
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an instance of a drug that is filled in West Virginia or Kentucky. It's
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being paid at the cost of the drug plus a dispensing fee for nine hundred
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dollars. That's an expensive drug. The state of West Virginia is actually paying
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close to thirteen thousand dollars for that drug. It doesn't take a lot of
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abuses like that to rack up millions of dollars that the state's being overcharged,
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and that trickles down to thousands of dollars that patients are being overcharged, and
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premiums keep going up and no one can explain why now. And what we
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do want to reiterate is I talked to you a couple of weeks ago,
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and again we're talking with lin and fruit pharmacy. Yeah, Fruit pharmacy was
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affected by this, but so was every other independent pharmacy in the state of
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West Virginia, the smaller guys, and more importantly, who's take the businesses
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out of it. Who's really been screwed in this whole deal were the workers,
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you know, those on pea in the state of West Virginia. That's
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who was really getting the raw end in this deal, not pharmacies. Yeah,
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but that's not really what this is all about. That's true. And
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the part that was so just completely unacceptable to me was and I even said
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these words to different different you know, Governor's office and other place like this
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is just wrong. How can you allow someone to charge a custodian, a
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teacher, a cook, a first responder, you know, two hundred and
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fifty dollars a month for a cancer drug or a drug for a MS or
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something that you have to treat, when this drug could be purchased at a
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fraction of the cost, and then on top of that, the state's paying
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another two to four or five thousand dollars. It's just it's just mind blowing,
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and the fact that people just wouldn't want to immediately address that and make
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it right because premiums are one thing. But even if I have a uramium
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I can afford if then when I go to pick up my medication, I'm
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looking at an amount of money that might even be greater than my premium one
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thousand dollars copay. I can't do that. As a state employee, I
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can't afford that. So that's really what I want to make sure gets fixed
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with this bill is that patients get access to their healthcare, that those working
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in the school system and the municipalities and our police officers have access to fair
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Okay, So like when you were here, you were on your way
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to the capitol. I know you're on my show. You talked to Hoppy.
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I saw you on with our good friends over to over WWK. You
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made the rounds of all the television stations and whatnot, and you knocked on
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enough doors and you got it off because this was pretty much dead. I
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mean, it wasn't even it was kind of dormant, and it was taken
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up. Now you're just waiting on on the governor's signature. And one one
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of the things I like about this is you had once once the from what
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you told me, Lynn from once, the legislator's really got a handle on
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this. What happened. They were all on board with fixing this. Republicans,
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Democrats, liberals considered. They said, I mean, we got to
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fix this, and it looks like at least they have at this point.
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Now we're just waiting on the governor signature. Yes. And I want to
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say that this was kind of my first experience doing this with the media,
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and it made me realize that it's really important for people to hear the truth.
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And I appreciate the fact that the West Virginia media was thinking about the
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employees and the state and got this story out because I do think it really
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impacted where it had just come to a stall. It brought enough attention to
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it that we couldn't just shoven under a run. And I think sometimes in
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government we would rather continue to do something that's probably not the best then maybe
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admit we've not been doing something very well. But there's literally millions of dollars
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at stake. So it did force people to really look at it and say,
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I'm going to have to defend why I don't support this, and I
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really don't have a good reason to do that. So you know, now
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we're just asking the teachers and other public employees and general citizens. As a
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citizen paying taxes. I don't want to pay sure, you know, ten
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thousand dollars. I don't want the state to pay ten thousand dollars for a
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drug that costs nine hundreds sh effects everybody. And again, this story,
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we've got to wrap it up. This story is going nationwide. Matter of
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fact, somebody sent me information out of out of the Stay of New York,
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out of Illinois. I mean, you are now in demand because people
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are contacting you and going, hey, this is going on in our states
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as well. How do we do how do we do the same thing?
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So this is not just a West Virginia thing. No, I really think
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West Virginia is leading the way in this and we've been contacted by at least
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fifteen states legislators, pharmacies, teachers, representatives, public employees. This is
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really going to be a very groundbreaking bill, which is why I'm urging Governor
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Justice not to just let it pass. Sitting on his deck on the desk,
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make a statement, make a statement and sign this bill. Support the
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public employees, sign the bill, and then let West Virginia lead the way
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again in some of this reform. Because we're starting to pick up some notoriety
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as being the state that is addressing some of these issues in healthcare in a
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very positive, proactive way. We have a chance to be a leader.
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Let's do that, all right. We'll leave it there, A good way
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I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. Been a pleasure to Dave
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day three zero four eight one four two five zero nine. This best legislative
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session which just ended a couple of weeks ago Saturday. Some hits and some
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misses, depending on who you ask. One group that wasn't happy with a
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particular piece of legislation that did not cross the finished line is a West Virginia
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Faith and Freedom Coalition Max Fitcher. Max Fischer is a lobbyist with the group
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West Virginia Faith and Freedom Coldition. He joins us now via the big Lely
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piggly wiggly hopline Max good morning, welcome to the show. Good morning,
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Thanks for having me and appreciate it. Now. Maxis has to do with
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House Bill forty six sixty six. What was the bill? What would it
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have done and what happened to him? Yeah, So this was our big
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one. Four six sixty six was sponsored by Steel and Westball, and the
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bill was to increase and establish penalties for human trafficking and related crimes. So
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the proposed legislation defines human trafficking for both adultson and the science respective penalties including
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imprisonment, fines or both. The bill also elucidates distinct penalties concerning forced labor,
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debt, bondage, sexual servitude, and patronizing a victim of special servitude.
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The important thing is that it does offer immunity for minor victims of sex
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trafficking and specific circumstances, with provisions for their treatment of abused children. So
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this passed the House unanimously, right, and we expected a lot of support
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for this in the Senate, and there was, I mean when I talked
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to certain centers, especially Grady and Woodrum and Stewart, there's wide support for
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this generally speaking in the whole Senate. The issue was that it went to
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Senate Judiciary Committee and it went to Charlie Trump, and Trump never introduced the
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bill to be read. And this is now for the second year in a
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row. He timed this bill out. I tried to get meetings with him
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through his front office. That never happened. As I understand it, Delegate
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feel talked to him personally and Charlie Trump told him that he would introduce it,
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but he didn't. I know that there were other House Delicate members who
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went and talked to him privately as well, and essentially the feeling was he
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just didn't want to deal with it as he was, you know, as
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he's currently running for Supreme Court Justice of West Virginia, so you know,
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personally, my biggest problem with it is that he never questioned the language.
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He didn't form any challenges, he had no suggestions and had he done that,
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that to me is a completely respectable thing that is part of the process.
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But he decided not to bring it up at all, and that was
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very disappointing for us, to say the least. And we don't exactly understand
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why. But those are the facts. So again we're talking to Max Fisher,
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who is with the Western Dean Faith and Freedom Coalition about this bill's House
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Bill forty sixty six. And again, Max, for what I'm hearing from
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you is again you you are you feel or you really don't know how you
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feel because other than being upset, because you really don't know why that that
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it wasn't taken up. As you said, it started in the House,
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and this is I'm basing this on on your words. It started in the
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House, went to the Senate. There was some support there. You mentioned
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a couple of senators Grading and Stewart and others. Uh, but it just
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didn't It just didn't get there. And what you're saying is, is you
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you think that in your organization thinks that that perhaps it had to do something
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with the with mister Trump and his running for Supreme Court. I can only
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go on the facts, okay, and so that that is my opinion based
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on evidence. But that is an opinion of mine. I cannot get inside
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his head inside the park, right, I have no idea is that the
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House is closest to the people of West Virginia. So when something passes ninety
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seven to zero, at the very least, at the very least, the
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Senate should introduce it to discuss it. That seems to be to be the
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work of the people and also the will of the people. And again,
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I want to be very clear, had he brought it up and had they
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come up with different language or different concerns. I think that's absolutely part of
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the American process. Yeah, but he didn't, and he timed it out.
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And he also again as far as I understand it, promised Delegate Steel
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that he would bring it up. So if that is in fact true,
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and this is you know, this is here sam by part but you know
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he lied to Delegate Steel. And this is the guy who is running unopposed,
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you know, as a as a Supreme Court jodesh West, Virginia.
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And I will and let me just jump in here and say that if Senator
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Trump wants an opportunity to talk about this on the show, he's more than
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welcome to come on to tell his side. I just don't want to present
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one side, but I would be more than willing to have that conversation with
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him, as it sounds like you would be willing to more than have that
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conversation with him. Absolutely, and and also to show you know, a
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bit more pattern of behavior. Or I also have to talk about build four
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three one three, which is establishing the parents' Bill of Rights. That was
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delicate. John Contenson and there were others from right now are escaping my mind.
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The purpose is to establish protections for West Virginia parents fundamental right to direct
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the upbringing, education, and healthcare of their children in accordance with their family
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values. This passed the House and it died in the Senate Judiciary again because
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it was not brought up. And you know, there are already parents in
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West Virginia whose rights, from my perspective as parental rights, have been already
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been violated. And besides that, parental rights throughout the country is pulling unbelievably
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high right now among independence as well as conservatives. Seems to be a top
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issue for them, and we have already seen secret social transitions in conservative states
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done without the knowledge of the parents. This bill also wouldn't change any kind
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of status quo about current abuse cases, and unless the parents are proven unfit,
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you know, we generally believe that the parents know what is best for
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their minor children. So this was another one that was not introduced. And
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again I am sound like a broken record, but it's the same thing.
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Had he introduced it and discussed it, that's fine. But I respect,
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I respect any kind of debate about any issue. But when you refuse debate
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and you have the power not to debate. And you also have a Senate
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President, Craig Blair, who I did speak with, and you know,
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in a sense my experience was, you know, factually talked out of both
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sides of his mouth. One is that he's not a micromanager, okay,
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you are Senate President, and the other side is that you know, he
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would talk to Charlie. So I'm not sure if he did lush help there
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either. And I think that there are a lot of social conservative issues that
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this last session you know, proved to be disappointing from the standpoint of Faith
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and Freedom Coalition. I also just want to I also just want to clarify
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one thing. I'm not a lobbyist for them. I'm an advocate. I'm
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an ambassador and also special advisor on Israel for Faith and Freedom as well.
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And there was also another Israel bill that I think a lot of people were
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behind. It just didn't catch enough same early on, and I did have
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the event to speak to the House of Delegates about the commands Israel war.
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I was there in early May as part of a solidarity trip and that was
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facilitated by Delegate Longen Acre. And also currently right now there is an initiative
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that's been sent over to Jim Justice to see if he would like to spearhead
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taking surplus equipment of the West Virginia National Guards state Beliefe Sheriff's Department sending it
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over there, you know, during the war effort. So that's another thing
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that we're working on as well. How last thing back to you know,
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back to sort of you know, socially conservative issues. In this last session,
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Build four eight sixty seven require pornography websites to utilize age verification methods to
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prevent minors from accessing content. This was sponsored by Delegate share Rally and uh,
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this one did pass the House, and it's a tough one. And
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I understand why it's a tough one because a lot of people had very legitimate
26:41
concerns when they said, well, wait a second week, we we maybe
26:44
behid the intent of this, but behind the overreach of government to do something
26:48
of this sort. And there was a lot of conversation back and forth in
26:52
the House, and you know, after educating them and showing them data and
26:56
showing them what I consider to be some of the unintended consequences of this bill,
27:03
which basically is that there's a lot of pornography websites that just choose them
27:07
not to do business in that state. And what that also sends a message
27:11
to them is that the things that they do that are on the fringes,
27:15
that have to do with human trafficking, that have to do with underage you
27:19
know, filming, they they feel that another state is watching and that makes
27:25
them very nervous about the way that they conduct business. That did get to
27:29
the Senate. The Senate had a they wanted to amend the title of the
27:37
bill. I don't know why, to be frank with you, it got
27:40
sent back to the House, but again it just got introduced. The amendment
27:44
was just it was too late, I would I would say that it was
27:48
in a way where really there was virtually no time for the House to take
27:52
a look at it and see what it is that they wanted to do.
27:55
So that again is another is another thing that it did not happen that I
28:00
think that, uh, while they're completely legitimate concerns about the overreach of government
28:07
storing data without going into a longer conversation, the bill has provisions and and
28:15
and suggestions and and explanations for that how that would not be But the but
28:21
the the real intent would be to take a shot at human trafficking. No,
28:26
and with the open border that we have right now, you know I
28:30
can show you data that this is a bigger problem than ever. Let me
28:36
before we let you go, and Max, I want to ask you overall
28:40
now, you brought up a couple actually two three different things here that you
28:44
felt were left undone by the legislature. Overall. Uh and this has been
28:48
kind of a recurring theme of various people have that on the show. As
28:51
somebody who keeps a close eye as an advocate for the group that you are,
28:55
how would you rate this session? I would say I would rate it
29:03
probably about a C or a C plus, you know, something of that
29:07
nature. I think that I may be able to answer your question in a
29:12
better way by reframing your questions. I'm not I've been in West Virginia for
29:19
about two years now, and I can tell you that outside of West Virginia,
29:25
a lot of people think that this is the reddest, most conservative state
29:27
in the country. And what in fact is is a one party state.
29:33
And you had the Democrats and now you have the Republicans, and it's very
29:37
chaotic in a way. Because a lot of the the Republican tent is very
29:42
very wide in West Virginia, and we all know that there are some people
29:45
here who run with an R next to their name and not a D because
29:49
they know that it's very difficult to win an elect And so that is that,
29:57
to me, is an issue that it's gonna take real leadership by whoever
30:03
becomes governor in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five actually, and whoever is
30:07
going to be to send a president to gather everybody together and say this is
30:14
the Overton window for conservatism Republicanism. And again I'm all for. I mean,
30:21
I'm from the Northeast corridor man, like I. You know, we
30:23
have all sorts of different republishers there too. I get it. But there's
30:27
got to be leadership to say this is the Overton window. Visa the parameters.
30:33
Let's get in line and do the bidding of the people of West Virginia.
30:38
All right, Max, we'll leave it there. I appreciate you joining
30:41
us today. Thanks a lot. Be safe out there. We'll talk against
30:45
Sue buddy. Thanks a lot, Thank you very much. I appreciate it
30:47
all the best. Twenty two minutes away from ten. Max Fisher again is
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SB four five three two. That was the bill that Lynd Fruth was referencing
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religion lobbyist. He said he's an advocate, not a lobbyist, in the
36:12
state for two years telling homegrown West Virginia Republicans how to run their state.
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Will this play says A texture TEXTA says the faith and Freedom frauds cared about
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sex abuse that start with the Catholic Church Southern Baptist Church and Boy Scouts.
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These groups of collective centuries of abuse, more than one hundred thousand victims,
36:30
just can't demagogue and scare regular folks. And lets you talk about scary brown
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immigrants as a Texter Commissioner Andn's Wheeler is here morning, sir. How are
36:38
you good morning? How are you doing? I'm doing fine. Thanks for
36:42
being here. I ask you to be on the show this morning because Commissioner,
36:44
there's a public event happening this evening starts at five at the courthouse to
36:49
discuss the usage of the opioid settlement funds. How's this whole thing work?
36:52
Where to come from? What's going on? Well, I know you and
36:54
your listeners probably understand. We've talked about this for months now, but one
37:00
the West Virginia won a settlement with the opioid manufacturers and distributors up to a
37:04
billion dollars. And why that's important is because that is actually the largest settlement
37:08
win for per capita in the nation regarding the opoids settlements that we've seen nationwide,
37:15
and a lot of that is due to the counties coming together with the
37:16
state Attorney General Patrick Morrissey and his team did an absolute wonderful job and we
37:22
wouldn't be in this position today if it wasn't for him and his team,
37:24
and so I think the kudos need to go out to them. But this
37:28
is important because now that we have this billion dollars, what do we do
37:30
with it? And we've got this money for abatement due to the openoid epidemic
37:35
that US homegrown West Virginians have seen for the last decades, and so can
37:39
all kind of commission was awarded seven million dollars of that one billion, five
37:44
hundred million going to a foundation created by the States that we have a representative
37:50
on with there, but seven million is directly ours and so we need to
37:53
distribute this, but we need to do it smart. I think we all
37:55
realize that this money can help, but it only can help if we do
38:00
it the right way. And the Kenawllan County Commission, with Commissioner of carp
38:02
Purcelango myself, we believe the best way to do that is being transparent,
38:06
and so tonight we're going to have our public hall where we're going to have
38:09
during our commission meeting, a public meeting on a public agenda with the record.
38:14
We're going to make sure that we're discussing how we're going to spend this
38:16
money, what's the best approach to do that? And I think we're going
38:19
to have some good transparency from this, and I think the people of Kenwall
38:22
County will be happy to know that they'll have some type of input on the
38:25
best way to do this. So this is going to be part of the
38:28
County Commission meeting this evening right, Yes, it starts at five o'clock.
38:30
Now, if folks want to come in wigh in, do they need to
38:34
sign in? Did you show up? You call it on people in the
38:37
crowd. How's the whole thing going to work? Now? So, we've
38:40
never had time limits, we never had sign in chets for public comments.
38:44
If you want to come and talk, you're invited to do so. Once
38:46
we get to this section of the agenda, which we'll do early, we'll
38:50
make sure that we ask for public comments and you can talk again. We
38:52
don't ask people to stop talking. We don't give them a red light green
38:55
light. What we do do is we ask them to be considered of the
38:59
time if they're sure. Fellow citizens and even our employees who are staying after
39:02
five o'clock for count of commission meeting so that way we can all go home
39:07
at a reasonable time. But we want to hear from everyone. We want
39:08
that input. I know this is something that Commissioner Slango has been very important
39:13
in making sure that we spread, is that we want to hear from the
39:15
people of Kennall County because we don't want to just be the last deciding factors
39:21
on this. We want to make sure that we hear from people boots on
39:23
the ground that this affecting the most, that they have their ideas of what
39:28
they believe this money can help with solution. Now, a commissioner, I'm
39:30
sure you being outed about as you are in the county and doing things,
39:35
you probably had people that have either reached out to you already, you know,
39:37
you ran into somebody at an event, or somebody called or emailed you
39:42
or whatever. What have you heard out there so far from people? Well,
39:44
once the announcement hit that we were going to be receiving seven million dollars,
39:47
my phone was blowing up. And of course it's people eager to help
39:52
and they have projects they've been working on or they want to start. And
39:55
that's why we're going to decide to do this the best way possible is just
39:59
like we did with the or ARP funding, We're going to have this as
40:01
an application process, and so we're going to have on our website starting April
40:05
first, an application that you can fill out for any request for this opioid
40:08
settlement money. And I think that's the fairest way to do this. Those
40:12
applications will be viewable by anybody on our website. So if you submit an
40:15
application for a request for the opioid settlement money, that will be viewable.
40:20
You can open anyone can open that up. We will then if we decide
40:23
to move forward with staff's recommendations, we'll have that on a public agenda,
40:27
you know, four days before we meet on Monday, and then when we
40:30
go in you'll come to us. You'll present recorded at a public event.
40:36
You're going to be telling us why you think this is the best way,
40:37
and Commissioner Carp Purslanga myself will vote at a public meeting. We will not
40:43
spend any of this, not a dime of this money outside of the public's
40:45
view, and I think that's important for the transparency. It worked with the
40:50
ARP application process, we actually received a lot of good, good remarks from
40:55
the state and even the federal government on how we did that, and so
40:59
we're going to it's not broke, don't fix it. Let's do that with
41:01
the opioid settlement money. But I think the fairest way instead of just getting
41:05
text messages to the commissioners and that's how you get this money. We need
41:08
to do this fair because out the tont of everybody, at the end of
41:10
the day, this is the people's money, and we've made that clear even
41:15
with the foundation that was set up by the legislature. Is making sure they
41:19
understand that this is open this money, this is the people's money, and
41:21
they need to know how this money is going to be spent because at the
41:23
end of the day, this is one time money. Once this is spent,
41:27
it's gone. So we need to make sure that we do this in
41:29
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I mean, I mean the cause there's got to be some kind of restrictions.
42:00
I mean, you're not going to go put in I don't know,
42:04
fill in name here. I mean, you've got to have some sort of
42:07
rules because everybody's going to want something out of this. What are some from
42:09
the I know it's a very very vague question, but from the top,
42:13
from the top of you, what are some of the things that the money
42:15
can or cannot be used for? Well, Dave, that's a great question
42:19
actually, and what first off, the common sense would tell you that this
42:22
money needs to be used for anything that has revolved around the opoid epidemic.
42:27
We did sign an MLU with the state that has certain guidelines of how we
42:30
can spend this money. Some of those guidelines are prevention of opoid use.
42:36
Some of them are for treatment, so treatment facilities. Anyone who's trying to
42:39
work in the treatment of somebody who is an active addiction. And also we
42:43
have reimbursements and we know I think it's no surprise to anyone that the amount
42:49
of resources for first responders in the last twenty years has been outenormous and we've
42:53
seen ambulances run on calls for overdoses. We've seen police officers having to go
43:00
on the scenes due to this opioid crisis. So we can look at how
43:05
can we take the taxpayer money that was spent in the last twenty years for
43:08
these events and services and reimburse those because that money was spent on those resources
43:15
when it could have been spent on something else that the community needs with our
43:17
first response. So what I'm hearing you say in your Commissioner is that it
43:20
has to be spent on something related to the opioid crisis to begin with.
43:24
You can't use this to fix potholes with no, you cannot, and we
43:29
would never built stadiums or anything like that. It has to be something to
43:31
do with opioids in some way, whether it's education, whether it's prevention,
43:37
more resource officers, or something to that effect exactly, and we would never
43:40
spend this money for any of those type of resources. We got this money
43:45
because of the opioid academic This money needs to go directly back. That's a
43:47
very important point because I don't want people showing up the night saying, hey,
43:51
we can get well, I can get my holler paved or something like
43:54
that. That's not going to happen. They're more than welcome to come and
43:58
tell you that, but they're going to be told no, because this money
44:00
is strictly for the open okay, and you got a lot of it.
44:02
We have there. We know that seven million is that seven million dollars right
44:07
now? We've received our first check. This is going to be over ten
44:09
years. That's how these settlements work. The first check that we received is
44:13
three million dollars. That's what we're working with now. I'm told that there's
44:15
possibility of another check coming later down the road, but I believe it's front
44:20
loaded, so we're just going to see lower increments down the couple of years.
44:22
All Right, I got a text here for you, something totally unrelated
44:25
to what we're talking about here. That's okay, soys can you check with
44:28
Commission Wheeler about the status of the chemical spill at Paint Creak Commissioner Selango said
44:31
on your show recently that it was unsafe to eat fish there. Yet the
44:36
state has been stocking trout there since the fall, and a lot of folks
44:37
are eating them that don't know any better. Yeah, So since that comment,
44:42
I'm sure we've worked with our legal team and the abatement of the chemical
44:46
spill has moved forward. We won that lawsuit, and it was if it
44:49
wasn't for the Kenaw County Commission, that lawsuit never went went forward. You
44:52
know, we saw the chemical spill go into the river, kill the fish,
44:57
and even contaminate the soil in the m embankment. We said that the
45:00
chemicals were still there. We were told they weren't. We demanded testing of
45:05
the soil and the testing came back to show that it was positive for that
45:08
chemical and that spill from that driver who was over three times over the legal
45:13
limit intoxicated driving. We sued the company. We won that and the abatement
45:16
has moved forward. We won about I believe it's one hundred thousand dollars at
45:21
end of day on our end, and we've made sure that that money is
45:23
going to go right back in that area in Paint Creek. We actually just
45:27
recently received a request from the Paint Creek Watershed where they're going to have a
45:31
fishing with Kids day and they asked us, they asked us for some money
45:35
to help with that, and we use that money to help them with it.
45:37
And so we're going to continue to work on that. But at this
45:39
point, I believe the abatements has completed and the testing has shown that the
45:45
soil is not contamind anymore. But if we never got involved, that would
45:49
not have been the case. So we're going to continue to keep our eyes
45:52
on it and make sure that everything looks clean. But at this point,
45:53
we're told things are healthy and the fish are coming back. All right,
45:58
got to wrap it up. But I do have one quick question before you'll
46:00
give you about thirty second stance or this. Can the county use the money
46:04
to pay the jail bill? No, So here's what I don't know who.
46:07
The text isn't what they were getting at, but I was thinking,
46:09
okay, well, a lot of the people that are in jail are there
46:12
because of opioids, you know, in one way or the other. But
46:15
I'll be quick because that's a long winded question by the way, but I'll
46:17
be quick. The reason with that I've heard this policy is coming out with
46:22
people running for office that oh, we can't you know you're gonna use it
46:23
to pay a jail bill. No, the part of that reimbursement is that
46:27
we can use the jail bill as a evidence that we did see a significant
46:31
increase because of the opido epidemic, and so we can reimburse ourselves and use
46:36
that money for whatever we want, which I believe we can use that money
46:38
to go back to our first responders. Meeting starts at five o'clock, and
46:40
again the public is invited to attend. You don't need to sign up,
46:45
just show up and be respectful of other people's time. You get seven million
46:47
dollars or so to spend, but it needs to be spent. This is
46:50
the opioid money. It's got to be spent in some way related to the
46:53
opioid crisis. Be it as I said, as you said, first responders,
46:57
or whatever the case may be. Five o'clock at the courthouse this afternoon.
47:00
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be inspired and to join the collective effort and making a difference. Not just
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a story, it's a movement of hope, inclusiveivity and try it reminding us
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that every individual deserves a chance to shine. West Virginia and beyond. Huntington
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is surely making a difference right here at home. See of video highlighting the
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five five zero zero eight Texas Day. We have the best county commission the
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States. We were flooded on Campbell's Creek at year ago and they've bent over
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backwards to help us. State never did help and hasn't according to a Texter
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hobby. Coming up a ten oh six with talk Line from the ENCOVID Studios
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and Organtown. Mitch Carmichael uh, the Secretary of the State Department of Economic
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Development, will be on the show today. Also, Brad will be stopping
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by to talk about the Gie governor's latest financial worries and more. That's talk
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Line with Hopey. Coming up at ten o six tomorrow. On this show,
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Hannah Gardner from the Kanawa charlest New Maine Association, as she is every
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Friday, here with this week's Adopt Me Please sput of the Week. Kanah
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antychmisster Ben Solango will be on the show tomorrow, and Jason Quintrel from Union
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Mission will be stopping by on the show tomorrow as well. Story is are
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out about the budget situation as it pertains as it pertains to Kanaw County Schools.
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Chef Jenkins has story posted at metronews dot com. The Board of Education
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is working under budget. And when they when I say that, why do
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I get a mental image of the superintendent of the board members doing math problems
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on an old school backboard blackboard. But that's just me. The county has
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lost more than five hundred students and in turn are losing staff members, and
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there is a proposal to cut approximately fifty five professional positions to make the math
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pardon the pun work. Superintendent Tom Williams says that cutting the cutting into fifty
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five jobs could possibly have been more had they not voted to close some elementary
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schools at the end of the school year. Now, there's going to be
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a public meeting held in the month of May, and I hate to give
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you the day now because you may forget about it between now and then,
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but I will say it's going to be the thirteenth of May. The final
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vote will be taken by the board on May fifteenth. Again, Jeff as
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a story post about all of this at wv metronews dot com, And I
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was on the phone earlier this morning with the folks at the board's office.
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I've got to Superintendent Williams on the show next Monday to discuss that end of
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tail closing. Have to say a big shout out to everyone who came out
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last night for the Three Things event presented by Westernian Public Broadcasting and Festival.
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I had no idea what to expect. They give you three topics, My
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first, my favorite, my future. Had to get up front of all
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those people and talk awesome experience and uh Daryl Miller of the Keep Your Faith
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Group and Jennifer Keener of Heart and Hand Out Breach were there, and let
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me just say, I felt woefully inadequate standing next to those two. All
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the great things that they're doing in the community. Well all I do was,
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you know, uh, talk on the on the radio. All right,
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gotta go. My producer was Hollywood Jeffetty Jeff, thank you so much,
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Hoppy coming up to talk line at ten oh six. Final the news
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