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05/15/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor David Fletcher, Jeff Jenkins, Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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the bizarre story out of South Charleston yesterday where there was a shooting at crow
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Jeff Jenkins is going to join us from the newsroom to talk about that coming
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up a little bit later on. Plus lots about party changes here as of
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well, this is not something new that we've had a lot of people that
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have been changing parties with the last several years, most let's say, the
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overwhelming majority going from a Democrat to a Republican. A high ranking person in
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a very well known person in Kanau County has announced, actually didn't announce it,
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it showed up on the Secretary of State's website that they have switched from
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Democrat to Republican. And we're going to talk to Republican strategist Greg Thomas about
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that, coming up a little bit later on. What's up with all these
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people switching parties? We want to talk about that with Greg coming up a
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little bit later on. But stra callson textter welcome Biggley, Piggley Wiggily hot
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you know every Monday we bring a different mayor into the show to talk about
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things going out of their town. Making his debut on the show today.
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I'm very happy to have with us another Dave Steve Fletcher, the mayor of
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Belle. Good morning, sir, how are you? Good morning? Dave?
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Stepping a little close to that microphone for me there and here you go.
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How's that? Good morning? But doing very well and glad to be
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with you today, just to talk about a few things that's happening up in
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the Bell area. And it is, as you said, it is my
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first time here and but I'm glad that you invited me and glad to be
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here. What's new in town? Had been You've got a specific at vent
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work. We'll talk about that's happening this weekend. We'll talk about that a
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little bit later on. But other than that, what's new going on to
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Bell? What you got? We've actually been doing some work, uh,
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kind of on our beautification projects. We've got the main facade that's when you
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come into Bail by the four lane and everything there. We've actually been talking
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about getting that painting. We have started painting some of the bus stops and
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everything in Bail. Our neighboring partners at Bell Chemical Company. Actually when you
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come out of the old DuPont Plan underpass, which now the Kimore's Plant and
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then the other partner in there's Bell Chemical Company. Bell Chemical Company is actually
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going to paint that underpass and everything. So trying to spruce Bell up in
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the area somewhat. And besides that, our infrastructure is old. Most of
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the infrastructure was put in the ground sewer and storm rains back in nineteen nineteen
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twenties and thirties by WPA. And for the record, you weren't there then,
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Oh no, I wasn't there. Okay, wanting to twink one.
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My dad's up let to clarify that. Okay, go ahead. But we
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have actually done some work on started on one street now. We were actually
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able to pick up a grand about eight hundred thousand dollars. The project was
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right at eight fifty. So we're pretty uh, you know, happy to
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get that done and at least to start that street and I actually get some
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other things started. We have not replaced the whole sewer line or storm brain
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line in the town of Belle Forever, and so that's very important to us.
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We really have a lot of aging problems. We go in and doing
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a lot of patches and everything else. And the good thing about that was
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was we were able to partner with Westini American Water, so they actually have
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gone in there and now they're replacing the water line on that street and Mountaineer
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Gases come in and replace some of the liter roles and everything on that street.
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So when we get this street paved, possibly about the first of June,
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this street, we're hoping that no utility companies come in and I actually
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dig it up again to disturb that brand new street. We're talking with David
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Fletcher's the mayor of Belle here on five eighty Live. It's smare money.
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Give us some highlights, mayor of living in Bell. What makes Bell such
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a town. It's it's a small, sleepy town. We have very little
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crime. We've got police officers, uh you know, patrolling right now.
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We do not have twenty four hour protection, but you know, we're constantly
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looking for police officers, which you know, you hear that every day about
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police officers in West Virginia. Everybody has a hard time just retaining them,
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so you know, that's the big thing. And you know, our community
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mainly is a lot of retired people, most of them retired from like the
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area DuPont Plan and our occidental chemical which is now long gone, but it's
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a just a small, sleepy town. You know, we're still looking for,
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you know, a grocery store, We're looking for restaurants, We're looking
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for anything to come in. So we're all the time, you know,
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trying to figure out what we can bring in to just kind of jump start
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the town a little bit. What let's talk about when you go on the
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lookout trying to bring it, let's say, a grocery store in or a
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restaurant or something like that. What goes into that? And how do you
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decide who to talk to and do you have a good team around you?
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How does that work? Yeah, I mean our recorder and council members now,
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I mean, you know we pretty much talk about that almost ever council
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meeting. And then sometimes if we're just sitting around just discussing things or talking
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amongst herself, it's always something. And the thing is we're kind of landlocked,
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you know when you come past the old DuPont plant came horse Plant,
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and then come up to the other end of town, which is where Boyd
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Caterpillar is now formerly Walker. So you know, from the river to the
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hillside, it's pretty limited, you know, spaces that we've got we had
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the Family Dollar go out of there. We were trying to look for something
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there and then we ended up with a storage facility that went in there.
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It's climate controlled and all that. So those are you know, something that
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you know has come into town. Now we picked up the bank uh there
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approximately almost year and a half, two years ago. Now, uh,
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Honeyton Banks had had an office there and decided to close one branch in West
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Virginia and it was the branch in Bell. Uh so I sought out you
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know, some some banks had a couple of bids from a couple of different
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banks and everything, and Whitesville State Bank won that bid, and so they
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opened up there and uh, you know it's been good for the bank.
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It's growing and and everything is looking up, you know, on that side
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of the economic status for Bell. We've got our local places that have been
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there for years. Boyd Caterpillars there. You know, we still got our
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funeral home, we still got the Parmar store in town U and then besides
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that, we've got uh you know, wholesale transmission, the bank, and
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then we've got Perry's Animal Hospital and you know, several things there. But
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we are missing kind of the restaurant or small Delhi or something some kind of
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a little small convenience store other than Parmo, because you know a lot of
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people will go to Parmer and pick up things every day, but it'll be
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nice to have an actual restaurant there. So attention entrepreneurs if you're listening this
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morning, to be a great place to put in like a little diner or
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as you said, a Delhi or something like that Shorewood, and we would
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welcome, uh, we'd be glad to talk to them and uh, you
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know, try to see what we need to do to help them out and
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make things happen there. Another thing that we really in most towns are in
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Canoa Valley area has been working on is dilapidated structure. Oh yeah, uh
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we've right now we've got about seven structures and a mark can him in the
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town of Belle and uh so we're working with Kana County Commission and to have
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that, you know, had those places taken down hopefully maybe spurs mentors either
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with some new housing or new business places up front. We're talking with the
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mayor of Belle, David Fletcher here on the mayor of Monday on five eighty
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live. It's nine to seventeen. You mentioned your town recorder. I got
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to give a shout out to your town recorder, John Signer. You know,
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he and I have been friends. We met in seventh grade. He's
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a he's a good Logan County boy. Fun fact you can use at your
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next meeting. In school, we called him slick. His nickname was Sack.
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I don't know why because he's far from slick, but that's all we
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called him. So, so make sure you make a know that for the
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next councilor. Well, and let me just mention that now and I'll let
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Slick know. But uh, you know, it's great to uh Actually,
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this past year when we had our election, we've had the first father and
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son combination, which is John and Jacobs Hunter Jacobson counsel. John's a recorder.
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And then we had the first father and daughter which is David Fletcher's the
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mayor and Cole Fletcher as a council keeping in the family there. So it's
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great. And my granddad was mayor there back sixties and I'd always said,
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hey, I'd like to be how long have you been mayor? Now?
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Five years and I've served as a city recorder for sixteen years, which is
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the job that John Slick. Are you never going to forget that now,
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are you? I don't know. Let's get to your big event in town.
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You got a big, big thing going on this weekend here talk about
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him? Yes, sir uh ut her Belltown Festival and Car Show for two
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thousand and twenty three. We held one two years ago in two thousand and
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twenty one. We are going to start up this Friday, May nineteenth at
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four o'clock in the evening and go to approximately ten o'clock at night, and
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then on Saturday we'll come back in at nine o'clock and go to three.
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Uh. The kind of the things that we're doing is we are renting vendor
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spaces, so we do have people coming in with jewelry, wood, working,
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quilts, food, many food vendors, and so we've got several things
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going on right now. We've got about thirty three vendors coming in and so
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we'll stack those along DuPont Avenue. We will, and just a note here
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is that we will close DuPont Avenue down Friday afternoon about one o'clock and we'll
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divert traffic around Seventh Street out Riverview and then back at the end of thirteenth
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Street up by the Boyd Caterpillar area, and so you know we've contacted karts
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many places like that to let them know. Friday evening we will have an
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Elvison personator from four to six. Right after that we'll have the Esquires from
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seven to ten, and the Esquires out of Austin here is celebrating sixty years
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and their musical icons they are they are. Saturday afternoon we've got Darren Cooper
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and Mountain Gold from two to four. We'll have a hard Reign with Chad
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Jones from four thirty to six thirty, and then we'll have a band out
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of the East Bank area, the ex House, which has been around for
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many years, and they'll be there from seven to ten. Another important thing
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about our fair will be without the doo Wop in Charleston this year. We
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have, you know, also brought in our car show again like we did
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last or two years ago, and car show before had about eighty two I
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think eighty five cars somewhere in that range right now. From just the guys
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it's working this and have received phone calls and everything else. I've actually put
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it out on the Charleston doo Wop site and everything else. They're thinking right
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now that we may see one hundred to one hundred and twenty cars minimum,
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and so we're really excited about this weekend. Uh, looking at the weather,
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Friday looks great. Saturday, I'm not so sure I could change.
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Friday look bad when we first started looking at it. Um. We've got
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some good vendor prizes and everything. For the car show. We'll have fifty
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fifty tickets sold. We've got a couple of callers that boyd cat Is donated
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to actually wrote or donate or raffle off. So we are going to do
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some fifty fifties for that. There'll be fifty fifty car show from nine to
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three that day. Uh. We'll also have some gift cards and other prizes
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that many of smaller sponsors have donated to us. UM. You know,
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I'll just mention a few. One is the Parmar Store. Uh, they've
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actually presented some stuff. We've got o' rallies, we've got Advanced Auto,
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we've got Auto Zone, We've I actually had one of the sponsors of the
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Charleston doo Wop was the Hot Degity Dog they've even provided some things for us,
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and so you know we've gone from uh, you know, the Glasgow
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area down too close to the Polk area and just picking up prizes and everything
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else. Everybody coming together for that. Everybody is and it's really a group
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effort. We've had a committee of about ten people working for several months now,
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and you know, I just like to really think, you know,
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many of the large sponsors that really help us with this show and help pay
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for the bands and things like that. But State of West Virginia Cultural Center
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always does a contribution for the town of Belle canall County commissioners. I'll tell
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you every time you just ask them. I mean, it seems like it
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it comes through for you. So can't thank the commissioners enough. Whitsville State
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Bank, Try and Engineering, Bell Chemical Company, BOYD Caterpillar, and Wholesale
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Transmission. So those are main sponsors and you'll see some banners and everything hanging
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up with their names on it. But you know, if not for those
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and then actually town putting some money into it, it would be a far
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thing to take care of and just make sure that we have a successful festival
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and car show. Where can people learn more about the festival and the car
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show and everything for this well, they can go to the on Facebook there
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is a two thousand and twenty three Belltown Festival and Car Show, or call
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town Hall and we can actually give some specifics there. Three oh four nine
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four nine three eight four one. How mare sounds like you had a light
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going on there. I appreciate you being here today. Thanks light, I
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appreciate it day. Appreciate being here and glad to be with you today.
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May David Fletcher of a Bell and again the all the activities going on this
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Friday and Saturday, Friday four to ten and Saturday nine am twill ten pm.
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Lots of music, lots of great cars, vendors, food, and
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a whole loup more So go check it out. It's nine to twenty four.
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We're gonna take a break. When we come back, I want to
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talk about this situation with his shooting that happened yesterday at at the Kroger in
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South Charles and Jeff Jenkinson joinings from the room to talk about that. Plus
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Republican strategist Greg Thomas is here. We're gonna talk to him in a couple
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of moments. I want to bring in Jeff Jenkins though from the newsroom.
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Jeff m a a very very strange situation yesterday at Kroger in South Charleston.
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Talk about that, well, there was an argument between three women and escalated
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into gunfire and a woman was shot in the back by another woman and that
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woman was charged. It happened late morning, Riverwalk Plaza, Kroger Mother's Day
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morning, and so, um, you know there's some people around. I
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don't obviously, it's not the busiest time for Kroger. I was in there
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at nine thirty Saturday night getting some Mother's Day stuff and that was a quite
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busy time. Yeah, but uh yeah, So it's a lady was shot
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in the bike. Now we don't know her condition. We're hoping to get
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an update on that from South Charleston Police, but they do have. They
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did arrest a woman charged with attempt to murder and a couple of other charges.
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So do you have any idea like what led to this? Yeah,
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I think it was a I mean, yeah, that's part of the investigation,
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but I don't think it just kind of randomly, right, Yeah,
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it wasn't a random thing. And it said that they knew each other,
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yeah, each other, Yeah, and they didn't know each other. So
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it's just it's it Obviously it's a concern anytime, but it's a concern when
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you get in among other people. Sure, yeah, right public, yeah
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exactly, And so it's uh, you know, so it's pretty Actually I
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came by there about an hour later and it's pretty still a pretty good,
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pretty presence there, but the story was open, so people are still going
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in and out about an hour later, so we'll get more. But it
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sounds like obviously a domestic um and you know, they have a they've got
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a woman in custody, so we'll we'll find out more. There was some
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stuff in the criminal complaint, but you know, we'll find out more today,
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hopefully about the person's condition kind of what led to this. Jaral Lewis
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has got a story post to wv Metro News dot com and also at WCHS
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Network dot com will of course be following the story throughout the day, both
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on air and online. Jeff, I appreciate again thanks a lot bizarre story
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in, pickup or delivery. Publican strategist Greg Thomas is with us. How
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are you man doing well? Buddy? How are you? I am doing
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well and I want to get this in there real quick. Little programming note,
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just so it's not a shock to everybody's system. I'm gonna be taking
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some time off. On Thursday of this week, I will be off.
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I'll be doing some traveling. I'm back on Friday, but then next week
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I'm off all week. I'm drinking Corona's on an undisclosed beat somewhere. That's
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all I'm gonna say about that. Dale Cooper will be filling in for me
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this Thursday and then again I'll be back on Friday, and I'll be gone
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all next week, no show. I'm on World Day. So my first
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day back will be Tuesday, May thirtieth, And believe it or not,
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Greg, I got a little anniversary going in there this will and actually won't
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be here for it. I'll be on vacation. May twenty six, my
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third year of doing this show. Well good, seems like it was just
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yesterday. I feel like it's seeger than that. I mean, I feel
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like I've been on a lot. I mean I feel like I listened a
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lot. Well, you know, and you thought you think about that,
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greg about what all has changed. I mean, when I started doing this
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show, everybody wore masks. Um, the building was pretty much close to
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the public. I mean, you know, we almost all my guests were
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on the phone. Um we were. The whole world was practically still shut
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down at that point. Uh. We were just talking about Trump Biden and
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oh here we are again on that. But but anyway, I just kind
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of wanted to wanted to get that. Uh. And there you have a
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good Mother's Day weekend with the family and whatnot. Yeah, it was good.
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I actually got to spend a little time by stepmother on Friday, which
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was nice for me. So wow, you reached out to me, um
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last week about coming on greg Amo. Among other things, in your mind,
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was a pretty significant party change. Uh here in Kanaon County. Well,
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as you know, I mean obviously there's been a ton of uh switching
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parties. I mean not just from voters but also from you know, elected
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officials. And you know, look, we've seen that over you know,
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more than a decade now in West Virginia. But this one really and it
25:07
was brought to my attention, sort of caught my eye. Apparently local Circuit
25:12
Judge Tera Selango has been a Republican since like January, and they didn't put
25:19
out a press release announcing it. I didn't, you know. I guess
25:22
you'll have to ask Pushkin if you know, if he knew about this,
25:26
or you know, does he does he know? Am I telling him about
25:29
it? Did he know about it? You know? But I think it's
25:33
it's I think there's a couple things at play here. I mean, one,
25:36
there's certainly a trend among uh, personal injury lawyers and those sort of
25:41
interests to become Republicans. I mean this is you know, traditionally in West
25:47
Virginia, right, I mean, the Democratic Party was, you know,
25:49
the two revenue streams for them were always labor unions and personal injury lawyers.
25:56
The personal injury lawyers. Though you know, there's been some union folks that
26:00
have become Republicans here and there, or there's always been a little bit of
26:03
you know, kind of labor friendliness amongst some Republicans. But the trial lawyers
26:07
are just jumping ship, right, They've they've abandoned the Democratic Party. Um,
26:12
you know, uh, why why is it profit over principle? They
26:19
want to make money, dude. I mean it's a lot of money.
26:22
Mean, those personal injury lawyers. You know, before we started really enacting
26:25
a lot of tort reform West Virginia, you know, we were the worst
26:29
legal system in the country, you know, for a for a business,
26:32
um, and they made million you know, not just hundreds of thousands,
26:34
but these guys were making millions of dollars. And so that has been throttled
26:38
back because the court system is getting better and they've just you know, they
26:45
want to make that money. You know, it's it's about you know,
26:48
it's greed, I mean, just greedy. Personal injury lawyers are gonna do
26:51
whatever it takes. They're switching parties, they're doing it. Um. But
26:55
I mean, okay, on average, how how do unless they just look
26:57
at how how do people know? Because if there are a personal injury attorney,
27:02
they're not that's not going to be listed in their advertising or anything.
27:04
They're not going to be in a Yellow Page, Adds or Google or whatever.
27:07
No, I may say that. I mean, well, anybody who
27:10
is advertising is a personal injury lawyer, though, you know what I mean,
27:12
Like like defense lawyers don't advertise, right, Like that's you know,
27:17
businesses. I I guess my question is is when when you say that they're
27:21
switching for financial gain or whatever, because because they want to they want to
27:26
go back to the bad old days of how having policies that are friendly to
27:32
lawsuits like they want law they want they want to go back to having a
27:36
broken legal system that has litigate that is litigation friendly. Um. And so
27:41
you know, if they got to look at it and say, well,
27:44
you know, I was a Democrat, and you know I supported the Democrats
27:47
on a lot of issues. But the only way for me to get back,
27:51
the only way for us to get back to having you know, a
27:53
broken legal system is for us to you know, get in and take over
27:57
the Republican House Judiciary Committee or for us to stay. You know, the
28:03
State Supreme Court is in a much better place than it used to be.
28:07
We've got this new Intermediate Depellate Court that's doing a great job. In the
28:11
one place left, you know, where there's still a lot of liberal judges
28:15
that are still you know, handing out big time money is at the circuit
28:18
level. Um. And you know, I've been saying for over a year
28:21
that that we're going to have some very competitive circuit court races here in Kanoan
28:25
County. UM. And obviously I'm not the only one that thinks. So
28:29
if if the you know, last Democratic candidate for governor's wife is switching parties,
28:34
um, you know, so obviously they you know, they're looking down
28:37
and they see the same things that we are that you know, this is
28:41
uh, even in Koong County, it's going to be a big Republican year
28:45
in twenty twenty four. UM. And you know, I've actually you know,
28:49
and I know these you know, I was, I knew that it
28:52
was getting better in Kongan County, but I really I went back to twenty
28:56
eighteen, which was the last time that that she ran for office, Judge
29:00
Lango, and even twenty eighteen, the Republicans. This is in Kanaw County.
29:07
Registered voters Kanaw County forty two thousand Republicans, thirty two thousand Independents,
29:11
sixty four thousand Democrats. Fast forward to last month here in Kanaw County twenty
29:17
three forty thousand Republicans, so down two thousand. The Independence is down to
29:23
twenty eight thousand. The Democrats are down to forty three thousand. So they
29:29
have lost. We've lost a couple of Republicans lost, a couple of thousand
29:32
independents, four thousand Democrats have lost twenty one thousand voters just since twenty eighteen
29:37
in Kanaw County. In Kanawk County alone, I mean, if you go
29:41
back, you know, she had you know, she had a very competitive
29:44
election against Dan Greer or that was shaping up to be a very competitive election.
29:48
They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money, you know,
29:51
which they get because he's a personal injury law yea, yeah, right,
29:56
so they can afford to put in hundreds of thousands of dollars into his
30:00
wife's race for Circuit court. And she won by twenty one thousand votes.
30:04
So her entire margin of victory is just evaporated through registration alone. Um,
30:11
so I think this, I mean, I look, they see that this
30:15
is going to be a very competitive election. Um. You know, we've
30:18
we've gotten you know, in the legislature, both the House of Douglas and
30:21
the state Senate. There's been a lot of trial lawyers, personal injury lawyers
30:25
running as Republicans. We're here, you know, as we go out there
30:29
and try to recruit people for this election, where. You know, I
30:30
think there's going to be a lot of you know, there will be a
30:33
lot of competitive elections because the personal injury lawyers are going out and finding people
30:38
to run as Republicans for state legislature and circuit court. I am told and
30:44
did a little digging on this store when I first became aware of it last
30:47
year. I am told that um that Judge Clango plans to run for re
30:52
election for that office. Because there always anytime somebody switches, sometimes there's there's
30:55
speculation no matter what the office is. Well maybe they're looking at a different,
30:59
different office. But I'm told for some folks, some insider folks,
31:02
that she's probably gonna run. Yeah, I don't look I don't know them
31:03
at all. I mean I'm not you know, you know, I look
31:07
at this as part of this this overall trend um. I think that this
31:12
probably to me, this just brings up a lot more quite you know,
31:15
I don't have the answers. I think it just brings up a lot more
31:18
questions, right, I mean, you know, are the you know,
31:19
are you know, has she gone? You know, are the local Republicans
31:22
going to say, oh, hey, you're a Republican now? Won't you
31:26
come in and talk to us and tell us why you're a Republican? Um?
31:29
You know, uh, you know, Pushkin and the and the Democrats
31:30
have put out very critical statements of other elected officials that have switched parties.
31:36
Um. You know, they did that with Glenn Jeffreys. They did it
31:38
with that delegate. They are count Fayette County guy a couple weeks ago.
31:42
Um. But to be there that guy's has changed party. It's like thirty
31:45
five times. And that's what I'm saying. I just don't know. I
31:48
mean, when you know, what did Mike Pushkin know and when did he
31:51
know it? You know about this and you know, so I think it's
31:53
I think it'll be I think there's a couple things. I think it'll be
31:56
interesting to see what the other Republicans say here. I think it's going to
31:59
be in rest in this here, what the local Democrats say. Um.
32:01
And then of course, you know, she really made headlines last year with
32:05
that abortion ruling. Right. Remember it was in the middle of Roe v
32:07
Way was overturned and um. And then she had, you know, the
32:10
the abortion clinic closed down, and then she had a rolling and then after
32:15
her rolling, it opened back up, and you know, so uh,
32:19
you know, you know, obviously some you know, somebody that knows more
32:22
about that stuff will come in and talk to you about it than I do.
32:24
But I think that's going to be a big issue, right, I
32:27
mean, that's gonna be a big time thing that, especially among Republicans who
32:31
are overwhelmingly pro life, to have you know, a circuit judge that made
32:36
a decision that was not pro life, you know, to come in and
32:38
kind of find out, you know, why that happened the way it did.
32:42
And um So, anyways, I look, I think it's an overall
32:45
trend. We definitely notice it. I think there's a couple you know,
32:47
interesting things here. One just being the you know, we're gonna have really
32:52
competitive circuit court races here in Kanall County, uh and probably in other parts
32:55
of the state. Um, you know, there's a lot of candidates that
32:59
are coming from the personal injury side within the Republican party. And then I
33:02
just think that, you know, with those registration numbers that I rattled off,
33:06
look, you're probably going to have a competitive you know, county commission
33:09
race and sheriff race and prosecutor race and everything. Right, and then that's
33:13
something that we you know, you you end up electing a Republican every once
33:16
in a while here in Kodan County. But I think this is one of
33:19
the few, you know, the local city building in Coke Courthouse, or
33:22
one of the last few Democrats strongholds in the state. And I don't I
33:27
don't see that holding for much longer. I mean, and I think that's
33:29
interesting. And we'll say this and go to break as a as a strategist
33:31
as you are, and you work with these with these folks, I mean,
33:36
there's not and I know that you will somewhat be involved, and you're
33:38
keeping an eye. Of course, someone goes on and let's say the Senate
33:42
race or the governor's race or whatever, but it's going to be a Republican.
33:45
I mean, I mean, you know, regardless, think about I
33:46
mean, let's say exactly, that's a great point. And I look,
33:51
if you said, you know, right now, there's about forty three thousand
33:53
registered Democrats in Kodan County, there's forty thousand, six hundred Republicans. By
33:59
the time we get to May, that number is probably going to be like
34:01
even right, it'll probably be at you know, forty one thousand each or
34:05
something like that. And just like you said, all the competitive elections are
34:08
going to be on the Republican side, so Republican turnout is going to be
34:13
much much higher. So even if the registration is level, the turnout of
34:16
Republicans is going to be higher. I mean, this will be the first
34:19
time since I mean I've been doing this for over twenty years now, this
34:22
will be the first time we've ever had more Republicans show up in May at
34:25
an election in Colon County than Democrats. And it's not going to be by
34:29
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zero eight. Greg Thomas is here talking about party changes in a West Virginia
37:55
tech says Dear Dave. I was told us somebody in the Republican Party that
38:00
Senator Glenn Jefferies and delicate Elliott Pritt reached out to the party to discuss matters
38:05
before their switch the party, as I'm told, says a textured never heard
38:09
from Tara Solano. That's what I'm saying. I mean to I mean,
38:15
look to me, I could sit here and make assumptions about why somebody does
38:17
something. But to me, this just just triggers a lot of questions.
38:23
I mean, you know, why would you uh you know, And I
38:27
was I was told that this was done back in like January, um which
38:31
I'm not really you know sure that why that would have been the case,
38:34
but um so, I don't know. I mean, I just think there's
38:37
a ton of questions about this. I think this, uh really is telling
38:40
for the Democrats here in Kotong County and statewide for that matter. I mean
38:45
her husband was the nominee for governor last time. I mean, they're you
38:49
know this, this is a couple that gives out tens of thousands of dollars
38:52
per year to Democratic candidates. Um, you know, probably one of the
38:57
biggest donors you know, over the last few years the Democratic Party in general,
39:01
you know, and to just kind of switch parties and not say anything
39:05
about it, and uh, you know, I don't know, it's just
39:08
it's something else, something else. I got some text your tech says,
39:12
uh, Dave Hardy, Secretary of Revenue, switched from Democrat to Republican.
39:15
You know that would that one to me kind of makes a little bit more
39:19
sense given that he's worked for you know, I mean he he was appointed
39:22
by a Democrat governor who switched parties, um, and he's worked continued to
39:28
work for them, right, I mean, So that one, to me,
39:30
you know, limits a little bit more sense, um than than this
39:34
one. Text says I would love to find out how many progressives are changing
39:37
parties specifically to interfere in Republican primaries. And yes, that is being pushed
39:43
in conservative cities and states across the country. Oh, it absolutely is,
39:46
I mean, right, that's I mean, look, there were you know,
39:51
that's what the Chambercrats did forever, right. I mean you had a
39:52
lot of you know, a lot of business people twenty thirty years ago in
39:57
West Virginia that that weren't really Democrats, that's state democrats to run in their
40:00
primary elections and medal and you know, I think that's certainly what a part
40:05
of this is, right. I mean, it's not you know, this
40:07
isn't a principal thing. This is just somebody comes in and says, well,
40:09
you know, it's a it's a practical thing. It's like, well,
40:12
I want to continue, you know, we want to continue to have
40:14
these policies enable us to make the most amount of money. And the best
40:15
way for us to get these policies enacted or for us to come in and
40:20
you know, make sure we have Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee or whatever
40:23
that you know, kill any tort reform bill and you know, try to
40:28
go back to the bat Old days where you know, we sued all the
40:30
businesses out of town, Texas. Speaking of courts, what does Greg think
40:34
of Clarence Thomas not declaring bribes from his financiers. I think that that's not
40:39
true. So it's not true. It's not true. Okay, Texas,
40:47
be nice on the names. I just I just don't I mean, I
40:51
don't know. I guess I just don't believe everything I see on the internet.
40:52
Okay, text says, does the sleazy Thomas objective money only when it's
40:58
not funding his preferred candidates. He gobbled up all the dark miney he can.
41:00
What's is this money over principle? To not to say that the our
41:07
side has put more money into the court races than the personal injury lawyers is
41:13
an absolute lie on its base one percent lie. The numbers have never ever
41:19
bore that out. The personal injury lawyer interest had politicized this judiciary decades ago,
41:25
and our side caught up to it late. And you know, just
41:30
we're better. I mean, honestly, we were just better at it than
41:31
them, and we beat them. And now we're winning, and we're going
41:35
to continue to win, and we're winning by so much that obvious liberal judges
41:38
are switching parties to try to win. Texas, tell us how to see
41:43
party affiliation on the Secretary of State side. It's hard to I can't describe
41:45
it. I can't describe it on the air, but honestly, somebody sent
41:49
it to me. You can actually you can go and you can say and
41:52
I can't you know, I can't describe it whatever it is. Yeah,
41:54
but you go to elections on the Secretary of State side and you can pretty
41:57
much look up anybody, yeah, and find out how registered to vote.
42:00
I mean, it's a public record, and you can find out how anybody's
42:02
registered its public record. Did you happen to see Kabler's column in the Gazette
42:07
yesterday? He harkened back to election years past greg and saying that there may
42:13
be somewhat of a glimmer of hope for Democrats in twenty twenty four. I'm
42:16
calling bs on that. Your thought was, I don't, I don't really
42:22
Well, Well, he goes back and he talks about how some of the
42:24
past races, you know, think about when about about Underwood, and he
42:30
talked about arch Moore and it's too much to describe now, but I mean
42:32
he talked about the Clyde c race going back to nineteen eighty four, and
42:35
and that nobody gave in some of those races. People didn't give Democrats an
42:38
opportunity a chance of winning and they rebound. It's a different time. It's
42:44
point well taken, I will say this, but it is a totally different
42:47
time. Well you look, I mean if you look back to Underwood,
42:52
right, I mean, you had Joe manchin Um against Charlotte pritt Um.
42:57
I think in that race, though, you really did have a lot of
43:00
conservatives that were Democrats that that switched over to help the Republican. I just
43:05
don't think you have that many liberals that are Republicans. I mean, I'm
43:08
sitting here talking about liberals becoming Republicans. So I think that could be the
43:14
case maybe a decade from now, you know what I mean, But I
43:17
don't think that's the case right now. I mean, I just think there
43:20
are far too many conservatives in the state. I think there are far too
43:23
many conservatives in the state to divide it up. No. Look, I
43:27
mean if you had, you know, if we had a really weak candidate,
43:31
you know that got out of a primary, they could still win.
43:35
I mean, Mansion beat Morrissey, you know, a few years ago.
43:37
So I mean it can still happen. But I think that's really like the
43:42
Democrats putting their best person forward and the Republicans putting our worst person forward.
43:46
Maybe then, but just I just don't think that's the case outside of a
43:52
mansion kind of raised and all politics. You know, they say all politics
43:55
is local. I'm going to disagree. All politics in twenty twenty three have
44:00
become national. And I said this, and I had Doug Scaff on the
44:02
show the other day and on Friday, Scaff and I were talking about this
44:07
about how everybody identifies now with the national party. If you're a Republican,
44:13
than you're Trump. If you are a Democrat, then you are Chuck Schumer,
44:16
you're Joe Biden, you're you know, Barack Obama, or whatever the
44:20
case. Maybe it's Fox and News, CNN, man, it's the it's
44:22
the cable news networks. And it's just so many people are more informed or
44:28
misinformed for that matter, on federal on federal politics than what they were before.
44:34
Right, I mean we and look, I don't work in a lot
44:37
of federal politics. I mean I work in the state level and kind of
44:39
local level stuff, and um, we work really hard to try to get
44:44
those issues talked about. And it's you know, you really have to break
44:47
through, you know, you really have to try to break through or tie
44:52
something that you're doing to something that's happened at the federal level too. But
44:55
um, and look, the reality is too is the federal government. And
45:00
it's just so big. I mean, it is so big. It is
45:02
in so many aspects of our lives. Uh that that is the thing that
45:07
people look at and think about because not only do not only is it forced
45:12
is shoved down their throat via cable news, but it's also on their text
45:17
reform, on their text forums and on their you know, at their jobs,
45:22
and you know the big you know green you know, New Green Deal
45:25
and all that stuff. I mean, it really is just being shoved down
45:29
on the throat. I see so many people Greg will go to break with
45:31
this, so many people that text this show that say, you know,
45:36
I am a conservative and the Democratic Party totally left me. I was a
45:40
registered Democrat for excellent. I mean, you know, look look at what's
45:44
going on in southern West Virginia. As I bring up Logan County, Mingo
45:47
County, these places that I'm very familiar with. I mean, in the
45:52
nineteen nineties, we didn't in Logan County, we did not have enough Republicans
45:57
to be poll workers we had to get permission to put Democrats in Republican poll
46:01
worker positions because we didn't have We used to joke and say the Republican Party
46:07
held their meeting in a chevette. You know, they went through the drive
46:09
through at Wendy's. And that was pretty much. And it's just totally changed,
46:14
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your Momas to the show. Greg Thomas is here, Texas. Greg Thomas
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is the epitome of don't believe your eyes. Don't believe your ears, only
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believe the party line says a texture, I mean okay, Texas, Texas
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to the previous text are obviously you object and condemned Republicans who stayed an election
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was stolen from them, Yet you push Hillary's lies about it forever. Correct.
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Let me refresh your memories before anyone says she never said that quote.
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You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and
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you can have elections stolen from you, Hillary Clinton, May of twenty nineteen.
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She did say that. Oh absolutely. I look, they know that.
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I mean, all these people that are trying to defend the Democrat positions
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know exactly that. You know, even the ones that come in here and
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you know, try to attack me on this stuff, they know they're lying
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about it. They don't care, you know what I mean, they don't
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care. Like that's they just don't. I mean, it's they just don't.
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Tex says, Greg knows that Justice Thomas is not reporting donations and income
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as required. That has been documented. Sure what hey, whatever, CNN
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to hold you whatever, man, whatever you say, Tex says, Notice
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that Thomas didn't disavow dark money. He loves it. I look the person
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personal injury lawyers have given five times as much money to judicial candidates in West
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Virginia than any conservative interests have at least five times as much and every and
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they all know it. They're just you know, they get they get mad
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because we won. Um you know, we won. You know, you
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guys made you know, the Democrats made the rules to all these elections.
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We'd win an election, they change the rules, we'd win the next election,
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they change it again. Then Republicans get in there. Not only do
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we not change the rules to make it harder for Democrats, we change the
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rules to make it easier for Democrats. We got rigistrate ticket voting. You
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know, we've done all these things that the Republicans when the minority, they
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said they would do. When they have then they have held and we haven't
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tried to change that stuff. You know, it doesn't matter to me what
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the rules of the game are. We're gonna win anyway. I want to
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ask you this before we go the national spotlight. Of course, this battle
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between Jim Justice and Alex Mooney, and let me mention Chris Rosen there too.
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He's going to be on Hopey a little bit later on today that's getting
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national attention, but also the national spotlight, Greg is this potential run from
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a third party stance from Senator Joe Manchon. It's getting more and more attraction.
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I got a little insider information last week that the Senator has been telling
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his friends here in Charles said that he's very serious about possibly doing this.
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Close with that, I'm sure that he is, and I think that I
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would I would say today, and look, I don't know him. I
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would say today, Joe Manson is more likely to run for president than he
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is for US Senate West Virginia. All right, Greg, I appreciate it,
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man. We'll talk soon. Ally. Thanks Buddy, phone calls to
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for a hometown family pharmacy. Right Nicholson has been our producer today thanks to
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Mayor Dave Fletcher from the town of Blair. Of not Blair to talking at
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Southern West Virginia is the town of Belle. I should say for being on
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the show. Their big festival coming up this week in tomorrow the show We're
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gonna talks to barbecue the Charlie West Barbecue Fests happening this Saturday. It had
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d Riverfront Park. We'll talk about that. Plus Brad mcahenny is here as
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well. Gotta go follow the news of the day wv Metronews dot com,
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