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nine three five five zero zero eight. Want to welcome to the show this
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morning to Republican candidate for Secretary of State, Chris Warner. Chris, good
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morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave. Here are you.
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I'm doing fine, Thanks for being here great. Thank you. It's
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been a few months since you made your announcement to run for Secretary of State.
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We had you on the show at that time, and I know you've
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been Chris crossing the state since then, how's the campaign been so far to
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give you an idea, sixteen counties in the last twelve days. Yeah,
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and keeping a full time job going at the same time. But it's it's
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been good. It's been a reunion of sorts, you know, for my
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days as state Republican Party chairman and county chairman up in Montegelia County again,
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it's been like a reunion seeing folks just on Sunday afternoon again in Upshur County
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and Lewis County, and it's quite frankly, it's amazing to see the size
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of the crowds coming out for Lincoln Day dinners and that sort of thing.
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By the way, Kennall County is having their Lincoln Day dinner this Saturday,
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the twenty seventh, and they're still accepting ticket purchases for one more day at
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KCREC dot net. But these things even in the small counties. Wetzel County,
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one hundred and twenty people were out, so you see a number of
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the folks that I was involved with years ago and new faces. There's the
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Republican Party is alive well. And that's the subject of Hoppy's commentary. If
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you get a chance to read it today about the costa with the most recent
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voter registration numbers. I'm going to get into that a little bit later on
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a good chance you may want to go read that because exactly what Hoppy is
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talking about. And I'll get a plug in for Putnam County because they have
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their Lincoln Date dinner on Thursday night. We'll be there Thursday night, Sleepy
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Hollow too. Can't let Kenaw County out do Oh no, yeah, Putnam
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County always has two hundred and fifty almost three hundred people, so they do
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well. So as you're out on the campaign trail, Chris, and as
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you said, you've seen the Republican Party grow, I mean as somebody and
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I'm gonna get into this letter somebody who's southern, from southern West Virginia.
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To see the growth of the Republican Party in West Virginia's is truly remarkable.
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And of course, you know, as you said, former GOP party chair,
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even then, and I know you had high hopes for the party,
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but did you think that it would grow like it has? We knew it
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at one point, you know, we didn't know when, but we knew
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at some point, everything would go Republican just like it had gone Democrat,
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and that it is done. You your southern West Virginia counties that are all
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flipping you know, red Republican red. Now I think we have forty five
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counties where the Republicans hold the majority. And that's a complete switch, you
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know, one hundred and eighty degree turn since I got started, you know,
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as state party chairman in two thousand. Why do you think that is?
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Chris? Why do I think what is? Why do you think that
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we've seen such a decided change in all these the flipping the parties going back
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to too, I mean because this predates Trump. I mean this was actually
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starting before Trump. That certainly helped add added added to it. But why
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do you think that we've seen this switch? I think people like to point
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to various political figures, but I would tell you the people of West Virginia
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have always been conservative. They've been a hard scrabble, hard working conservative people.
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And we now have representatives that match the people in the district, you
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know, you know, single member districts now will allow the Republican Party to
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match the people that they represent, you know, for the next thirty or
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forty years, but it's been an effort of you know, back in early
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two thousand, we realized we had to challenge every one of the one hundred
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House of Delegate seats, every one of the seventeen state Senate seats, and
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as a state party chairman, we recruited those folks and when we were able
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to match up campaign dollars with challenge in every one of the seats, that
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was the magic for us because the Democrat Party didn't know where we were focus
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in our effort, and we would focus on ten or twelve seats at a
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time, and it took, you know, eight or ten years, and
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we've built the Republican majority, the Conservative majority in both the House, the
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Today, as you're out campaigning for Secretary of State, Chris, what are
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you hearing from the voters? So I'm on the campaign trail, the voters
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on the campaign trail. It is tough as candidates to get people engaged in
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the race. You know, we think this campaign's you know, coming down
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to the end. But what I've learned from voters is most people are just
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now starting to pay attention. So I know that sounds crazy. Candidates out
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there that have been running campaigns for a year and I've been in the race
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since January, but most people are just now starting to pay attention. So
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I'm encouraging other candidates to you know, now is when they need to make
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the push and make sure they're messages heard. Now. You mentioned some of
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the Lincoln Day dinners that are covered up Pydnam County Thursday night, Knawa County
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on Saturday night. Are there any debates, Chris or forums that are planned
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that you know of involving the candidates for Secretary of State? Not that we've
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been invited to. I haven't heard anything. The closest thing that we came
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to a debate was a candidate forum in Harrison County. They had an excellent
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program on a Saturday morning. We went for about two hours and there was
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some good back and forth. But most of the times, these events all
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across the state, you got three minutes to speak. There's so many candidates
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running, you got three minutes to speak, and you're fortunate if they have
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a question answer period. Most of the public, Chris, when they think
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about the Secretary of State's office, they only think about elections, and elections
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are what gets the most interest. But somebody who used to used to work
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in that office, I realized that there's a whole lot more to it than
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just elections. I mean, you got it depends, you know, from
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time to time it changes. But you got maybe five seven people in elections,
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but you got you know, twenty five or twenty five, twenty or
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so in the business division. So when you're preparing to run for this office,
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and of course your brother is the current Secretary of State, but how
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how do you what's the education process like? Because you got you got to
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know not just elections, but you also got a no business and you've got
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no charities and notaries and what's the education process like that? Well, in
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each one of my stump speeches, if you will, I get the opportunity
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to talk about there are only six employees in the Secretary of State's Office that
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focus on elections. There are three times that many in the Business Registration Office.
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I've had the opportunity and we're proposed right here this morning in the business
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one stop that was created by the you know, the Secretary of State's Office
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and Secretary Mike Warner, that we create the Office of Entrepreneurship. And that
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can be done without hiring anyone else, Dave. It's not going to increase
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costs. It's a matter of training those folks down on the boulevard for this
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position. But it's going to allow entrepreneurs the opportunity to more government contracts,
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to expand their business, cut red tape, and streamline, but keep a
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real focus on entrepreneurs for the you know, thirty years prior to being appointed
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by President Trump to lead rural development in West Virginia, I created business and
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enterprise centers in Montegalia County and Mineral County and Barber County. Those were all
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private, no support from government. But I realized what is needed to help
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a small business get started. And I want to bring my business experience,
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not only from the days of creating business and enterprise centers, but also my
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time at Rural Development and now as executive director of the West Virginia Economic Development
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Authority, and bring that to the Secretary of State's office. Let's talk about
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elections instead of West Virginia. Chris has one countless awards for election security.
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And you know you hear all the jokes about election fraud and state as I
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mentioned from southern West Virginia. I've heard them all, but truth is reality
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now is in West Virginia. It's just not happening, at least certainly not
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to the scale that it used to happen. How do we keep that street
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going? Well, the work quite frankly, that you and others did in
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the Secretary of State's Office and working with the fifty five county clerks. You
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know that they've removed four hundred thousand names from the voter rolls. Those are
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people that have died, moved to another state, convicted felons. Well,
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we're still going to have people convicted of felonies, moving to other states,
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dying. Those roles need to be kept up. The Secretary of State's Office
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needs to provide the tools necessary for the county clerks to do their role.
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What makes Chris Warner the best candidate for Secretaries DAK I think the last thirty
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five years of being involved in elections, day of working with the Republican Party
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as county chairman, State chairman, Republican National Committee man. But then to
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mix in and add in the work of my business experience. You know,
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I'm going to give just one example. Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank was in
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about a month and a half ago and we met for several hours talking about
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businesses that he wanted to bring to West Virginia and a meeting with Commerce and
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Department of Economic Development, the Economic Development Authority. The Secretary of State's Office
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should have been right there in that meeting answering the questions he wanted to know,
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specific questions about businesses located here in West Virginia. It would have just
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helped that meeting go on and they should have been a part of that.
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I think now because of my role at EDA, that we would be able
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as a newly elected Secretary of State to have a seat at the table and
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be able to help answer questions that are needed on the spot. You know,
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we pride ourselves on being able able to pull everybody together, including the
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Governor's office and Commerce and Economic Development. When we have guests in from out
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of state that are looking at locating here, I think we need to add
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the secretary of State's office as well. Where can people learn more about your
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campaign, It's Chris Kris Warner. Warrwb dot com and give me the final
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thirty on why his people should vote for Chris Warner. I think it's the
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business experience, it's the election experience over the last thirty five years. But
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most importantly, I would bring to this office the last thirty five years of
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conservative values that I've been working and fighting for. There's never been any equivocation
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here. I'm the conservative Republican candidate for Secretary of State. Wish you the
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best of luck in the campaign. Chris, thanks a lot for being here.
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Dave, Thank you. Chris Warner, Republican candidate for Secretary of State.
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up, it says a Texas Steven Allen Adams has risen up to be on
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the show with us today. I think, Stephen, good morning. You're
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one of the hardest working journalists out there, and you called yourself going on
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vacation last week, you and the lovely Jessica sailing the ocean blue. But
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while while you were out at sea, you are also writing news, no
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risks, no rest for the wicked man. Well, I can't turn it
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off. I'm two OCD for that. So I get it. I get
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it, and I don't want to be caught flat footed when I get back
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from vacation. So I kept track of everything that was going on, even
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out in the middle of the Caribbean and on the eastern side of Florida,
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off the continental shelf. I was keeping track. I know you were,
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so a couple of endorsements. I want to ask you about. Governor Justice
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has endorsed former Delegate more Capital for governor Jess Yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin,
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who is not seeking another term as senator, Endorsedheey mayor Glen Elliott for the
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Democratic nomination for senator. We already know former President Trump has endorsed Jim Justice
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and the Republican race for senator. Senator hoppied at an informal poll Stephen yesterday
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on AX asking people how much difference endorsements make to the average voters in political
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races, and the results weren't surprising to me. Sixty percent of people informal
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poll on Next, sixty percent of the people said it didn't matter at all
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to them endorsements, thirty percent said it mattered a little, while just around
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twelve said it mattered a lot. Again, don't be a surprise to me,
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how about you, sir? Yeah? In general, I would agree
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with that. For example, I don't know if my newspapers are doing endorsements
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or not. Sometimes I have editors that would really love to just do away
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with it. There probably will be endorse I would suspect, but I don't
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know how much of an impact those really have. You see endorsements from unions,
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from political organizations, from businesses, things of that nature. I don't
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know how much of an impact that has. I do think certain endorsements do
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make a difference. Did the Trump endorsement make a big difference from Jim Justice?
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I think it did at one point. In fact, I would say
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this far out, I would imagine people forgot that Trump even did endorse because
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he endorse so early in no race. In the case say of more capital
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in Jim Justice. In the short term, I think that helps more capital.
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In the long term, it's going to depend that they do any campaigning
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together. And in the case of Glenn Elliott being endorsed by Joe Manchin,
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I do think that helps in that field to some extent as well. So
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I think there are short term benefits to it. Long term, it just
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depends on how you capitalize on it. What do you think about Glenn Elliott?
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And here's the reason I ask. I've had Glenn on the show.
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I've never met him in person. He's been long time a mayor of Wheeling,
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but I heard him on on Talk line a couple of weeks ago.
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And as far as Democrats go, Steven He's not the most left wing guy
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out there. He's more of an older I don't want to say old school
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Democrat West Virginia old school democrat, but he's more of a I didn't even
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want to say moderate, in the middle of the road. He's not a
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He's not far far left. I mean, does that bode well for him
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in the Senate race. It certainly doesn't hurt. He reminds me a lot
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of somebody I worked for for a couple of years, and that his former
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Senate President Jeff Kessler, Democrat out of Marshall County, who was the last
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Democratic Senate president before the Republicans took over in twenty fifteen. I think Glenn
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Elliott has some progressive tendencies. I think there are areas in that that can
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appeal to some people. I do think, though, being a mayor of
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one of the state's major cities, politics don't really play until at least partisan
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politics don't really they should anyway, And he can work with Republicans, he
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can work with Democrats. He knows when to reach across the aisle to do
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this one thing with say a Republican, and he knows when to do something
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progressive, and he knows how to balance those things out. And I've always
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said it takes a balance of conservative and in progressive ideals to some extent for
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a government to function. So I think on that account, he knows how
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to kind of turn both of those things on and off. Say Sack Shrewsbury,
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he's very much onto full progressive Bernie Sanders far left contingent. Doesn't know
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how to turn that off, and turning it off means compromising, and compromising
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as we know today is bad. You got to have that or Don blanket
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Ship, who I'm not entirely sure what he's running on, but he's kind
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of running as a Maga Democrat. You got to have somebody that can balance
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at Boffalo's factions, a little Blankenship, I mean, Steven, let's be
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honest. Mike, Chip's just run to piss people off. That's the only
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reason he's running. I don't know why he's running. Told you to make
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people running, But I looked at the campaign finance numbers just yesterday. For
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that he's given. The only money he has is about eleven hundred dollars in
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all the pardon me he gave himself Like, so Don Blanketship's got more than
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eleven hundred dollars in his couch cushions, No, kiddy, So I don't
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under if the goals just say the troll Mitch McConnell, who we all know
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that he hates. Yeah, can't do that for eleven hundred dollars. So
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I don't know why he's running. I had a conversation with him a couple
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of weeks ago. I mean, he's got ideas, but I don't know.
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dot com. Steve what I talked a little yesterday with former mayor Danny Jones
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on the show about advertising. Uh, and it would seem if you watch
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or listen to the ads from Republican candidates for governor, the only thing that's
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an issue in the state is the whole trans thing and who loves Trump more?
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Who Trump loves more? You kind of get that idea too, Ah,
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for sure, for sure. You know, we've talked a little bit
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about all the ads of Chris Miller's ran, practically putting out a new ad
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every week. He's got a new ad up today, and we've seen the
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amount of just sheer volume in favor of Patrick Morrissey in that race, including
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Americans for Prosperity. We've talked about the mailers and that sort of thing,
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door knocking. You know, that's all well and good, but I do
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think that at some point there is a tipping point where you can oversaturate and
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you can cause a situation where people start to block out, ignore mailer,
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throw it away, that sort of thing. And I kind of feel with
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at least the Morrissey campaign and the Chris Miller campaign, we may have reached
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the desensitization oversaturation point right now where I think people are tired of it.
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I think that's while you're starting to see the candidates put out kind of some
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at least somewhat more positive ads. Morrissey's got one out, I think as
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the day and I said Chris Miller has one out that's got like a little
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softer tone to it, a little bit more positive. They all still Trump,
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you know, talk about the Trump stuff, but I think they're trying
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to be a little softer now. I think you might see more of that
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going forward, because it's just been bombardment with this stuff. Yeah. Well,
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and you know, you wondered when they when tv ads first started running,
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you wondered, at what point are one of these packs going to go
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after the Chris Miller TV ads and of him, you know, and in
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its context, I mean, yeah, he had the blonde wig on and
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he was doing the Trump thing and whatever. But you gotta understand if you're
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probably if you're not from this part of the state and you don't constantly see
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those Dutch Miller ads, you may be watching it in Berkeley Springs going what
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the heck is this? You know, And but it's context. But I
24:38
knew the minute that Chris Miller, who's been on the show and I considered
24:42
to be a friend. As soon as Chris Miller came on this show,
24:45
or as soon as Chris Miller announced he was running, I thought, well,
24:48
they're going to go dig up the ads, and by golly, that's
24:49
what they did. Yeah, Yeah, same here. I knew that was
24:52
going going to happen because there's all sorts of fodder that you could have with
24:56
that, because I mean, you're trying to sell cars and you do it
25:00
with some humor, which is what Chris Miller has certainly tried to do or
25:04
whatnot, which can be fun. But at some point, yeah, that
25:07
was always going to come back to buy them a little bit. I have
25:11
to think that they kind of knew that too going into it. So we'll
25:15
see if it has a negative effect, particularly in places of the parts of
25:18
the state. Eastern Panhandled obviously don't have a Dutch Miller dealership that don't see
25:22
these ads and aren't used to what they're seeing, So maybe it might have
25:26
an effect in the Eastern Panhandle. That's the thing to think about. Has
25:29
this race on the Republican nomination for governor Steven Has it been as ugly as
25:33
you thought it would be? Is it not really that ugly? Is it
25:37
too ugly for repair moving forward? What do you think? I mean,
25:41
I think the one person in the state above the fray on all this for
25:45
the most part, has been more capital Other than a little he's kind of
25:48
I think one of his ads he kind of got on the transgender thing too,
25:52
But for the most part he's been positive. I think Patrick Morrissey and
25:56
pro Patrick Morrissey groups certainly have tried to be very native, particularly in regards
26:00
to Chris Miller. As we just talked about. Chris Miller has certainly put
26:04
on the whole gambit against Patrick Morrissey, and it's been focused solely on that.
26:10
And then when you come to Mac Warner, who's just kind of trying
26:12
to find any type of pathway to get attention. You know, he had
26:17
a twenty paid i think nearly twenty page presterlies complaining about the Justice endorsement of
26:22
Capito, trying to bring Larry Puccio, famed or infamous lobbyist for Governor Justice
26:27
and former Democratic Party chairman, former Mansion chief of staff into the freight because
26:32
he donated to the More Capitol campaign. I got to tell you, someone
26:34
who's written about Larry Puccio for off and off for a decade, if it
26:40
was going to hurt people politically, it would have hurt Jim Justice in twenty
26:42
sixteen. It didn't hurt him in twenty twenty and I don't think it's going
26:45
to hurt Jim Justice or more capital in this election. But he's just trying
26:52
to find any pathway to try to get himself out or pull somebody else down.
26:56
And it is probably and I thought it was going to be. Here's
27:02
the thing I think sometimes that we we have a tendency to forget and hear
27:07
me out on this. I had an old radio boss one time, tell
27:11
me said, people on the radio don't listen to the radio the way that
27:15
the average person does. And I think that's probably true of any business.
27:19
You know, you don't view it to say the same as as as your
27:23
customers do you and I and others and Brad and a lot of the people
27:29
that write this stuff, you know, whether it's with the gazette mail or
27:30
whether any of the other publications that are out there, or Mark Curtis or
27:33
whatever. We tend to view politics a little bit differently because it is practically
27:38
our lives. I talked to eighty percent of what I talk about on there's
27:41
seventy to eighty percent of whant to talk about on this show. I don't
27:45
know that the average person. I mean, I had I was at an
27:48
event last week, Stephen, and you know, the television, airways,
27:52
radio, your post office box, online, whatever, you're constantly seeing ads
27:56
for governor and the Senate race whatever. I had somebody seemingly very very intelligent,
28:03
actually a couple of them last week, asked me who was running for
28:06
governor. Oh no, and look, I don't I'm not saying that in
28:11
a negative way toward them, right, I'm just saying they're not turned on
28:15
yet. That we have a tendency to think that everybody thinks like talking heads
28:19
like you and I do, and that's not necessarily the case. But oh,
28:23
completely agree with that, Completely agree with that. That's why you guys
28:26
stay plugged and you got to talk to people. And I think it explains
28:29
some of the high undecideds that you see in these polls. Even the West
28:33
Virginia Metro News wv pole rex repass poll came out at the beginning of last
28:37
week. I mean, the undecides are still high. Today is the final
28:41
day to register to vote or to update your voter registration prior to the primaries.
28:47
I had to pull out my calendar. You could correct me if I'm
28:49
wrong. I think early voting may start next week. First yeah, okay,
28:53
there you go. So I mean we're just now getting a point where
28:56
people are going to be able to vote. I think you're going to start
29:00
to see people engage a little bit more. I think possibly people are going
29:04
to tune in a little bit more. I have a feeling a lot of
29:07
them are tuned out onto full just gambit of ads out there, So they
29:11
may be tuning back in and they'll probably start making some decisions now on who
29:17
they support. But yeah, we're all plugged into this, So we're watching
29:19
We've been watching this for two years. Yeah, we're already thinking about you
29:23
know. I mean people in our business are already looking ahead to like two
29:26
years from now. Yes, you know, we're already thinking about that.
29:29
I will say this, I think it's going to be interesting, and I'll
29:33
be attending one of the political events here in a couple of nights. I'm
29:34
interested to see how what the interaction is like in the with the with the
29:41
candidates for governor for example. Oh for sure. Yeah, I mean at
29:45
this point, I mean, they got to pull out all the stops and
29:49
they got to get in front of people. I think that's what makes more
29:52
capitals campaign at least interesting. They're all going out the dinners and Linked day
29:56
events and that sort of thing, but more capitals certainly has hit the road
30:00
out there. It's why that endorsement from Justice is going to be interesting in
30:03
short term, it's good in long term. Unless they start campaigning together,
30:08
I don't know if it makes much of a difference. And Jim Justice really
30:11
hasn't campaigned. He hasn't had to. I mean, he's so far ahead
30:15
at this point right now, he hasn't had the campaign. But he's going
30:18
to have to actually start physically campaigning with more capital for that Endorsempait you think
30:23
about the matchup, and let's just and I with all due respect to Alex
30:26
Mooney, I mean, at this point, Jim Justice is so far ahead
30:30
in the polls. I don't know that. I don't know if that's going
30:32
to change. So let's say it is a matchup in the fall for the
30:34
Democratic for the for the seat that the Mansion has now pretty much it's Jim
30:41
Justice and Glenn Elliott in the fall. Who do how do you see that
30:44
race? I'm not asking for a winner, but how do you see the
30:45
race looking I don't I do think Glenn Elliott will make it competitive. Now,
30:52
I think he's going to run into a lot of the same problems.
30:55
We've seen this scenario before. We saw it in twenty twenty with Jim Justice
31:00
Kennell County Commissioner Ben Silango, so we've already kind of had a preview of
31:03
this to some extent. And I think Ben Selango Glenn Elliott, I'd say
31:07
their politics is probably about similar as far as that as far as that goes,
31:11
Ben Selango might be a little bit more democratically conservative, But I do
31:17
think we've seen this preview before, and I think they'll keep it competitive.
31:21
But I think there's too many advantages from Jim Justice for Glenn Elliott to overcome
31:30
right now, unless something drastic hap and something with Jim Justice's health, which
31:33
is really a possibility, you know, at his age and that you know
31:37
his girth, if you will, And there could be other things too,
31:41
There could be other business issues come up. He's big boned, big boned,
31:45
big bone. So we'll we'll see what happens. But I do think
31:48
it'll least be competitive, and I think he has the potential to get some
31:52
money, maybe not from the nationals, but from the locals that will probably
31:56
help him out a little bit too, So we shall see. How hard
31:59
do you think that, I mean, Manchin gave the endorsement to Glenn Elliott
32:02
yesterday, no surprise here. How much do you think, if at all,
32:06
Joe Manchon has involved in this race come the fall, Joe Manchin I
32:09
could definitely see probably going out to stump for Glenn Elliott. He did it
32:15
for Ben Silango. There were several events that the Jim Justice on Jim Justice
32:20
that Joe Manchin did. I think Joe Manchin will do everything within his power
32:24
to help, but will it be enough, I don't know. Keep in
32:29
mind he won in twenty eighteen against Patrick Morrisey by a round three points,
32:35
that sort of thing. So and the voter numbers of you know, the
32:40
registration numbers have changed even since then. I think it's going to be tough.
32:45
But I do think that Jim Joe Mansion will do everything he can.
32:50
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A couple things before we let you go, Steve and I have to say
32:57
you and I may be kindred spirits when it comes to advertising mailers, candidates,
33:02
candidates read my lips. Every single one I get goes directly in the
33:09
trash. I don't even look at them. I couldn't tell when I see
33:14
the glossies in my mailbox, they go directly in the trash. Every phone
33:20
call, every text, get your number blocked. We're just those grumpy old
33:24
men, Stephen, because I saw some comments you made on X yesterday.
33:28
We're just those guys. Man, You're nicer than me. Mine. I
33:31
keep mine so I can put them in my burn pit. I saw we're
33:36
on extra Conrade Lucas, former Republican Party chairman. Good guy, by the
33:39
way, good, good guy, good guy. Well, I'm going to
33:42
keep them on. Donate them to the Department of Arts Culture History. We'll
33:45
go for you. Maybe they'll put them on display someplace. Mine are going
33:49
in the burn pit. Sorry, what are you looking at today, Steve?
33:52
Well, we got the governor's briefend later on today, so we'll see
33:55
what the governor has to say about whatever he has the to say about,
34:00
because he has a lot to say. But when we ask him questions,
34:02
he doesn't really have specific answers to any of our questions anymore. So that's
34:07
it. I'm looking at some campaign finance numbers. I've got a big investigation
34:10
I'm also working on, which I'm not going to tease a whole lot about.
34:14
But yeah, it's gonna be like dropping a piano on somebody. All
34:16
right. I was not mean no, not you? Is it Ryan our
34:20
producer? Come on, Definitely definitely not. It's not definitely not Ryan,
34:22
all right, Steve. And I appreciate you being here working people. Check
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County Commissioner Ben Selango, who's getting to be kind of a regular on this
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Ben was on the Sho show I think last Friday, and he was
40:01
also on the show earlier in the week, but he will be on the
40:04
show tomorrow. There's a lot of big news going on here involving the County
40:07
Commission, City of Charleston. Of course, yesterday I had a chance,
40:13
along with several other members of the media, to tour the old Macy's location
40:19
at the Town Center Mall. The demolition work has already started, at least,
40:22
well I guess the pre demolition so to speak. Like I speak like
40:25
I'm an expert on demolitions, but I got to do some preliminary work to
40:30
get ready for it, which will hopefully make way for the proposed new Capital
40:35
Sports Complex. And I will say I have to admit it was a bit
40:39
sad walking around the building yesterday because remember it was Kaufman's before it was Macy's.
40:50
And I was actually texting with my wife and I was walking through the
40:53
building there yesterday and she informed me that her first ever credit card came from
41:00
Kaufman's and she got a set of Spuds Mackenzie glasses for signing up for a
41:06
credit card from Kaufman's and some people are scratching had going who is Spuds Mackenzie.
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I was also joking with some members of the media what it was like
41:20
to be a teenager and coming to the town Center with the waterfall and all
41:25
the excitement, especially around Christmas time and all the food choices at that time
41:30
during the food court area. You know, being a kid from southern West
41:32
Virginia, we didn't get McDonald's in my hometown until I was in college,
41:38
so that was in nineteen eighty nine. So the town Center at that time,
41:45
especially with the completion of one nineteen, you know in the eighties,
41:49
when you could get from places like Madison and Logan and Williamson in a short
41:53
amount of time to Charleston. I mean, the town Center was just was
41:58
just was everything, And uh it's sad. It's sad, really, and
42:02
people wish it would go back. But as my late great grandmother used to
42:07
say, you wish in one hand and you know what, and the other
42:08
one and see which one gets filled up more quickly. Uh, the Charleston
42:12
Town Center is not coming back to what it was not happening, no matter
42:16
who owns it, and and there will always be a place for shopping malls.
42:22
People that say that shopping malls are dead, I would say, probably
42:27
go to the Huntington Mall. I was at the Huntington Mall on a Saturday
42:30
afternoon a couple of weeks ago, and uh and it was thriving. It
42:34
was, it was just booming. Uh and uh so so they're not all
42:37
dead. There will always be a place. Even with online shopping, there
42:42
is always a place for people who like to just go and look at stuff,
42:45
you know, and kill a little time and grab something to eat and
42:47
just walk around a little bit. Look at South Ridge and the shops a
42:52
trace fork. What's going on with this? Uh? With with the construction
42:55
in South Charleston right now, and you know one of that there's so many
43:00
knocks on the town center. People say that you got to pay for parking.
43:04
Well, you've always had to pay for parking. This is not anything
43:07
new, and you just have to make make it work with what you have.
43:14
And I'm talking about the actual building or where the building is going to
43:16
be torn out. And I've said before in this show, folks, I
43:19
am one hundred percent behind the sports complex, the amount of money that it's
43:25
going to bring into Charleston, we can't even begin to imagine it. I
43:30
mean, look at what has already happened out at Shawnee. I mean,
43:35
the sky is the limit here. I mean a couple of weeks ago of
43:42
the tournament out at Shawne, thirty two teams came in for this tournament,
43:45
thirty two and the ratio is usually an average of about two people per player,
43:52
you know, eight ten, twelve players per team. All those play,
43:57
all those people got to stay in hotels and they're going to need a
44:00
restaurants sometimes with these tournaments. My friends that have kids who play travel ball,
44:04
say, you roll into town maybe on a Friday, and you don't
44:06
play again until Sunday. Well, what are you gonna do? You know,
44:08
for forty eight hours, You're gonna go shopping, You're going to go
44:10
to stores, You're gonna go stay in the hotel and whatever. So sky's
44:15
the limit for sports, uh, for sports travel uh all over the country.
44:21
Now, as for the as for the two restaurants that closed over the
44:23
weekend, we talked about a little bit yesterday. I am told that the
44:27
owners of Chop House and Tide Waters simply could not wait for the sports complex
44:34
to be built. They were one hundred percent behind behind it. And I've
44:37
heard you know, you see all the chatter online people saying, well,
44:40
that's why they're no, it had nothing to do with it. They actually
44:44
wanted this sports center to be built. Anybody with any sense wants this sports
44:47
center to be built at downtown Charleston. It's I mean, the rents were
44:52
going up and up and up, I'm told, and uh and and I
44:57
get it, and it's badly as I feel for the workers there, and
45:05
trust me, I really do, I will say that none of them should
45:08
have trouble finding a job. Every restaurant, country club, catering business,
45:16
anybody with tables and an oven and some silverware and napkins at this point is
45:22
chomping at the bit to hire these people because our restaurants are in desperate need
45:28
of people desperate need. I was in one of my favorite places over the
45:31
weekend over in Tay's Valley, and you couldn't have gotten another car on the
45:37
lot or another body in the ability. The only thing missing was the help.
45:39
And they did a fantastic job. I'm not throwing them under the bus
45:42
at this place I was at. But they're doing the best they can with
45:45
limited bodies. So it is an opportunity, a great, great opportunity for
45:50
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Mccusky's on with Hoppy today and measles are back on a surprise. WVU Medicine's
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chief emidemiologist, doctor Michael Stevens, will discuss plus more of the Trump trial
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all coming up a talk line with Hoppy at ten oh six, Texas.
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It's not so much happy to pay for parking, it's the women were the
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primary shoppers at the town Center mall and the parking garages were dark, dirty
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and dangerous, not an inviting atmosphere at all. Texas David Selango was governor,
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this state would be booming. He has energy to burn. Tex says,
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well, those other restaurants pay as well as chop House or Tidewater,
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not to mention seniority. Yeah, I can't answer that, and I would
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have much rather, as I was just trying to find the positive in the
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negative here. I would much rather that Tidewater and chopousees stayed open and kept
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those people employed. But that's not happening, that's not it. So I'm
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just trying to trying to look for the positives here. So I was listening
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to Hope East commentary driving in this morning and by the way. You can
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read it at wv metro news dot com. Today, of course, the
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final day Stephen and I talked about the final day the registered to vote for
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the May fourteenth primary Hoppy crunch. The numbers and Republican voter rolls continue to
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soar, while Democrat numbers continue to plummet. In some counties they just remained
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the same. Overall, forty point three percent of all registered voters are Republican,
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thirty point six or Democrats, with twenty four percent independent or no party.
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Now the rest are some other parties, Libertarian, so on, and
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so forth. Interesting to me in all this, though, and looking at
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the numbers, in twenty sixteen, only fourteen of the state's fifty five counties
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had a Republican majority. In twenty twenty, that number was twenty six.
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Now it is forty forty of the states fifty five counties now have more registered
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Republicans than Democrats or other parties. What is interesting to me here is not
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that the counties are necessarily flipping like they are, but rather some of these
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specific counties. I'll take Lincoln County as an example. Lincoln County was once
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a Democrat stronghold. For sure, it is now solidly, solidly read in
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Logan County, where I'm from. All and I may be wrong about this,
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and I know some people in Logan listen to me, you can correct
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me if I'm wrong. I think all but one of the elected officials there
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are currently Republican. And again I might be wrong about but I think all
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but one. I think the circuit clerk remains a Democrat, I think.
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But regardless, most were Democrats and of all flipped. It's amazing, and
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I've mentioned this on the show as well before. In the early nineties there
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were not enough Republicans in Logan County to have the number needed to work the
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polls. They had to have Democrats work in the Republican poll worker slots.
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The times they are changing, and for sure, there is zero evidence that
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this is going to change anytime. So I mean, even here in Kanawha
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County, once solidly blue, it's still blue, but not by much.
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And prediction is that'll change within a couple of years too. The party is
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even having trouble finding people to run for office. So okay, I'll try
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to hold on that text for tomorrow. If it's far far too long,
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all right, I will try to get to these text tomorrow because they're a
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little bit too long, all right. Thank you so much to Republican candidate
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for Secretary of State Chris Warner for stopping buying and Stephen Alan Adams from Ogden
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Newspapers for stopping by the show as well. Ryan Nicholson was my producer,
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Thank you so much. Coming up on the show tomorrow, can On Candy
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Mister Bensulango will be here as well as Republican candidate for Secretary of State Putnam
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County Clerk Brian Wood on the show tomorrow as well. Hopey's coming up.
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I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody point
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five then Charleston one oh four point five Cross Lanes a w VRC media station.
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