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07/06/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Robby Queen, Ryan Weld, Deb Rusnak · The Dave Allen Show

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Ryan Weld, who is a candidate for attorney general, also of course
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a sitting state senator, and h here's gonna talk a little bit about the
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campaign. But something that's kind of piqued his interest here as of late has
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been and it's peaked everybody's interests has been AI artificial intelligence. It's all you
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hear about everywhere you go. And he's got a little background on this,
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and so he's going to join us to talk about that a little bit later
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on. Plus we're gonna continue focusing on some of our races for next year
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already for twenty twenty four, and we have a candidate for prosecutor here in
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Konon County, Dev Rusnick, who is going to join us to a talking
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about her Campaign'll give you an opportunity to get to her, to know her
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a little bit as well. So we've got lots to get to. I
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want to want to get to my old friend, well, younger friend,
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but god, I've known a long time actually since he was a kid of
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a boy. Robbie Queen from the c AMC Foundation, Robbie, good morning.
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How are you, sir, Dave. I'm doing great. It's great
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to be back here with you. Thinks great to have you here now you
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are with the c AMC Foundation, and you got some folks. Folks got
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some big stuff coming up talk about him. We do have some big stuff
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coming up. So this Saturday is our c AMC Foundation's boar bora Adventure at
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the Clay Center here in Charleston, starting at seven pm. And this is
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a continuation kind of of what we did last year. So when the pandemic
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hit, we typically have had a black tie galo which benefits our c AMC
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Women and Children's Hospital and all the services that happen over there. And with
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the with the pandemic, it, you know, we were all could not
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be indoors, close proximity, whatever. And so last year we came about
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this idea of doing an outdoor kind of beach casual event and we did it
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was a great success. Our guests love the concept. So here we are
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back in twenty twenty three with CIMC Foundation's word Bora Adventure again on Saturday,
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July eighth at the Clay Center outdoors. We're hoping that the weather cooperates with
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us. We're prepared if it's not um but this this is an event that
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is you can put on your Hawaiian shirts, your flip flops, your sun
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dresses, come out and have a great evening to support CMC Women in Children's
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Hospital. It's hard after the pandemic, Robbie, to get people back in
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black ties again. Anyway, it is. It's hard. It's hard to
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get me in a tip period, let alone a tuxedo. But you know,
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last year we saw a great deal of success with this event, and
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already this year we have We're we're anticipating about six hundred guests for the suvent
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this year, which is quite a bit of an increase from last year,
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up by about one hundred, and ticket sales are still happening. I'll talk
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about what the and you've been on the show several times talk about what the
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foundation actually does. The c AMC Foundation, Sure, so CIMC Foundation has
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been here in the community since nineteen seventy six, we're coming up on fifty
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years, and it is the nonprofit BIBO one C three arm of the c
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AMC Health that works to raise funds for various parts of the health system,
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various needs within the system. For example, this particular event, as I
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said, UH is benefiting Women and Children's Hospital. And you know things there
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such as our Family Resource Center which provides education and resources to families as they
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you know, maybe starting a pregnancy or after birth with with some training classes.
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Also our need neonatal Intensive Care Unit where some of our smallest babies with
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their biggest medical problems are are first placed out of out of birth. And
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you know, UH, for example, the giraffe bed there can cost tens
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of thousands of dollars, and that's that's one of the beds that you see
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when you see pictures of a nicku or if you've been in a nice it's
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the bed that they put the tiny baby in and it gives them a sterile
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environment to get them nurtured. Up to how much of those things again,
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I'm going to say around the fifty thousand dollars, Wow, Wow, so
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you know, funds raised at an event like this help fund projects like that.
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And recently here within the last year, we've been able to provide some
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updated beds two Women and Children's Hospital through the CMC Foundation. Additionally, our
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Children's Cancer Center is very important at Women and Children's Hospital, and when a
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child is successful with their treatments and has completed everything there and it's time to
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ring the bell three times, the staff overt Women and Children's they are able
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to provide a celebration for the patient, including some very nice gifts, and
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again that's something that the c AMC Foundation is proud to support. So you
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know, for Women and Children's a wide array of services. Additionally, the
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c AMC Cancer Center through preventative services, their transportation, lodging education programs.
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So about three and a half million dollars a year comes from the c AMC
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Foundation to help train the next generation of nurses, nurses, other allied health
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professions here at CMC, so we touch every point of the hospital and are
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All right, Robbie, I come out to show up Saturday night.
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What am I going to see there? I know you got to flip flops
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in the sundresses and the Hawaiian shirts and everything, but what else? Absolutely
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show up Saturday night, seven pm. You'll be welcomed by some still drums
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from Saint Mark's still here in Charleston, West Virginia. They are a great
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addition that we brought on last year and they really help set the mood,
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you know, make you think you're in the Islands, although you're, you
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know, just in the Clay Center Square. Up front, we have tinted
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up, or we'll have tinted up Saturday morning, the outside of the square
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to provide for some tables and some seating in addition to some tropical decorps.
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Our headline entertainment of the night is Jukebox. They come to us from the
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Northern Virginia, DC metro area. Their band members individually have performed with justin
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Timberlake, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle. So there's quite a bit of an
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experience in that band, and they are a very high energy band. So
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as the sun goes down, the entertainment comes up and it's time to have
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a really good time for an incredible call. And now I want to hear
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about the food, you know. So the food, Yeah, the food.
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As I was coming in, I realized I didn't bring the menu.
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Then I thought, I'm on Dave's show, so I'm hurting he'll want to
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know about food. So, partnering with our friends at Embassy Suitets, we
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have quite a selection of food and drink to kind of be themed around the
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tropical islands Bora Bora. So we have ahi tuna one times, fresh spring
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rolls, Mahi mahi with a pineapple relish, smoked salmon, a carving station
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of sirloin. We have tropical dessert shooters such as pineapple upside downcake, keilim
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pie, coconut cream. Our beverages are our Simi. Our signature beverages will
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be a Tahitian punch, a ginger island margharita, uh Bora Bora teeny bikini
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said that again? Can yeah, Well, I managed to do it twice
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now don't ask again, all right, go ahead. Uh. And then
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in addition to you know, soft drinks and any other beverage you would like
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to partake of. So we've really tried to work the menu so that there's
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something for everyone, no matter what your palate might be, but also reflect
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the Islands where we want to keep this fill of the tropics and just have
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a nice evening of relaxation and celebrating the donors that have contributed to this event
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as well as the benefactors of the event, which are our children and women
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and children. And what a cool concept too. Again, as you said
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this, we came out of COVID and you know you used to do the
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black tie and it was that was a huge success. But then you thought,
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well, in order to get people back, we're going to have it
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a little bit more late back to the islands type thing which which you started
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last year and continue. Do you see this continuing? Is this going to
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be a thing? I mean, this is going to be like what you
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know when you think the c AMC Foundation and they're big gala, this is
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what you think I do. Uh. You know, last year we did
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this as a means to just kind of get everyone back, re engaged,
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and to try to get our feet back on the ground. And I think
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probably before that night was over, at eleven pm that night, the decision
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had pretty much made. Plus you bought all those decorations. We have all
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the decorations. Um, but no, I don't know these things. I
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do see see it continuing on. Uh, it's definitely unique to us,
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it's unique to the Clay Center, it's unique to Embassy Suites. Last year
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was the first time they had done anything like this. They've never used their
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front driveway as a party revenue space. And we did it, and we
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did it successfully. Uh. You know, I think in twenty twenty six
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that'll be a special year for us. It'll be our fiftieth anniversary. So
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perhaps something in a little different that year, but at least leading up to
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them, we're anticipating keeping the same concept. We have quite a great response
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to it. And you got to have speaking of response, you got to
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have a buy in from the community and the business community. You want to
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talk about some of those folks, sure, Dave. You know, the
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community here in Charleston and the greater region have been incredibly generous to the CMC
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Foundation for years. That didn't stop during the COVID pandemic and it's continuing on
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today. You know our sponsors last year, they showed up in great numbers.
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This year they're exceeding last year's numbers. Just in people in seats were
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one hundred person increase over last year, which is remarkable for us. We
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last year exceeded financial goals and this year are certainly on track to exceed those
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goals as well, both financially and with and again that buying is I mean
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with the sponsors and everything that made it all possible. That's without a sponsor
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or sponsors of this event, this would not be possible. Um. They
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are are incredibly generous and certainly take to heart the good work that is done
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at the foundation and ultimately in our hospitals. At c AMC where can people
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learn more and our tickets SALIVATAB Tickets are still available, so we will sell
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tickets until four pm tomorrow, Friday, July seventh. Tickets can be purchased
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online at www dot CMC Foundation dot org. They can be purchased by calling
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our office at three oh four three eight eight nine eight six zero. We
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can take credit card information over the phone. You can do it online.
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There are no physical tickets for the event. So if you're if you've already
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signed up, um, you know, you're on a guest list. Come
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check in as you enter the event and you're good to go for the rest
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of the evening. If you're just signing up, uh, you know,
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well, we'll get you on the guest list. We would love to see
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folks there. It should be a great evening. Get those tickets though,
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because tomorrows to cut off what four pm seven, so there will not be
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any same day sales for four PMPM. What's it all right? Man?
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We wish you the best to like you to great work over your kid.
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Appreciate it. Robbie Queen from the c AMC Foundation. Five ety Line presented
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sir? Morning? Hope that you had a great Fourth of July you as
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well any any well, I'm presuming by being in Canada, you were probably
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out shaking hands somewhere on the fourth of July. That's usually what happens.
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Was that the case I was, we were in the Ripley Parade and then
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we traveled back home to Wellesburg. And you know we always sell snow cones
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of the Lions Club here in this parade, and so it was nice to
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finish off the evening back here with everybody at all of his friends and family
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here, you and the three million other people in Ripley for the Fourth of
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July. I was there a couple of years ago. Man, Is that
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is I mean Mayor Raider and those folks. Is that is that off the
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hook what they do in Ripley for the fourth of July? Or one?
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I think that we were floating number thirty two if I think it was one
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eighty five, and that's pretty impressive along that two mile round it is.
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Indeed, Senator, we're come to talk about your campaign a little bit,
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but I guess some other things I want to talk to you about. I
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want to get your opinion or get you to weigh on a recent column that
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you did in the Intelligence or a newspaper out of Wheeling, and it has
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to do with a hot topic these days, and that is AI or artificial
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intelligence. Everywhere you turn, people are talking about AI, the pros to
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console on and so forth, and this is something that you know a lot
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about from your days in the military. Thank you for your service, by
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the way, And I don't think people realize. And again, there can
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and has been good things obviously come from AI, but there's always these extreme
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cases when people use it for bad things. And I guess, Ryan,
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I guess I was both fascinated and shocked when I read the story and read
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the real life example using AI that happened recently. And you reference this in
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your column happened in Arizona. Recount that story, Ryan, as you did
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in the article. Sure, so I'm interested in this topic. As you
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said, my military background, I was an intel guy. It's been a
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lot of time attached to one of the agencies in DC dealing with cyber warfare
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and other cyber issues, and so that's what sparks my interest in AI.
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And the example I used, the story that I used in my piece was
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there was a woman in Arizona that got a phone call from her daughter and
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her daughter was frantically crying and screaming she had been kidnapped, and the woman
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knew it was her daughter. Her daughter was on a ski trip with some
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friends and as you can imagine that, I mean, the woman you know,
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went into to panic mode. A guy came on the phone and said,
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if I don't get a million dollars, I'm going to take her to
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Mexico and you'll never see her again. Well, it ends up despite the
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fact that this woman knew that she was talking to her daughter, it was
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her daughter's voice. Another family member was able to get in touch with the
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daughter and she was fine, she was safe. What had happened is that
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someone used AI to completely replicate this girl's voice to the extent that her own
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mom thought that it was her. And all they need is a three second
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clip and so you and I've already filled that requirement. Or in this show,
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so yep, our voices can now be cloned and ransom demanded for our
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return. I don't know if anybody would pay it, but they could make
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the demand. And so I used that as an example. AI is there
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are a lot of good things that it can do, but there are also
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a lot of frightening things that it can do. And I wrote that piece
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from the perspective of what can the West Virginia attorney General's office do to help
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protect people from the bad that AI could bring about. And that's kind of
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what I want to get into again. We're talking to Ryan Weld, whose
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States senator and also candid for Attorney General. You feel strongly that the Attorney
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General, the next Attorney General that stead of West Virginia or any state for
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that matter, has to be prepared for threats directly from AI. I do
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you know in particular identity theft, like we just talked about using what's called
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a deep bake to clone someone's voice or impersonate them in a video clip.
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The AG's office here in West Virginia is charged with educating people and help protecting
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them from identity theft, whether it be beforehand, what do I need to
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do to protect myself or afterwards, what do I now need to do since
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my identity has been stolen? And help protect my credit, etc. And
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so that was one of the perspectives because that is a way that we have
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seen the use of AI unfortunately explode with criminal organizations, with criminals using that
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to steal someone's identity or essentially built people out of significant sums of money because
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they think a loved one is in trouble and needs money quick. The other
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part that I mentioned in my piece is the consumer Protection Division of the Age's
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Office, and that protects people from let's say you get a roof and it's
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got a five year warranty on it, and the following summer it's leaking and
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you can't get a hold of somebody and they're just completely go and you off.
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You can call the Attorneys General's office and they can help you as a
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consumer to try to hold back contractor accountable, or if it's just a product
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that you've bought that is completely faulty. But the way that I see it
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is that the Consumer Protection Division of the Age's Office can be used. You
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know a number of states, their attorneys general have gone on to protect their
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citizens in ways because they were seeing AI being used to make decisions that were
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negatively affecting people and ending in discriminatory practices. When it came to consumer lending,
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you're being discriminated on because AI is being used solely, you know,
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with no discretion looking at it numbers, it ends up an indiscriminatory result.
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Or when it comes to housing, and there have been number of states in
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the back the legislation to help protect their citizens through their Consumer Protection Division whatever
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they there like, you know division is or similar division to protect people from
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discrimination when it comes to decisions that are purely being made by AI. And
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again, you use this example from Arizona and soon will say, well that's
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extreme example or whatever, but similar things, Ryan, have happened here in
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West Virginia, and they have. I mean, we're all you know,
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the think of when you get the phone calls and it's someone on the other
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end, I'm going hello, yes, I'm here, and so they're trying
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to get you to say certain words, and then they're going to try to
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They're going to record that and then replicate and try to clone your voice based
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off of that. That is something that a lot of us have, those
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type of phone calls. I'm sure we've all received. I know I have.
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And you think again kind of I guess put the exclamation point on the
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on the theme of the interview. Ryan. You think, because of your
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military background and the things that you did in the military, that you are
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the person that can successfully navigate through these AI and other cybersecurity threats. If
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you are indeed elected as an next attorney general instead of West Virginia. I
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believe so. Yes, David, I this is again you and I talked.
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I think it was last December about the letter that I wrote to Governor
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Justice about banning TikTok on state operated devices and state operated network. Yeah,
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you know, the the cyber part of this. Because of my background,
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because of the agencies that I worked with that I was assigned to in the
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work I did in military, I'm just I find this stuff to be extremely
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interesting. And so these are the things that are going to be the next
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round of threats to our citizens. It's not just the roofing contractor that doesn't
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show up again the next year. When you have a leak, it's fraud,
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or it's theft, or its discrimination related to a complete different thing that
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some things that we can't even think of regarding AI because it's moving at such
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a rapid pace and being developed so quickly. Oh it is. And I
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mean, I know I wish Kid Dale Cooper, who is my boss here,
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you know, is on with the weekly on in the afternoons, and
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he's all of this AI stuff and and we talk about it all the time,
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kind of joke back and forth about it. But I mean we're already
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seen. Just like with every former technology, Ryan, we're seeing the pros
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and the cons at this point. It can do some amazing things when used
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correctly, but there's always bad actors out there that make sure that it's not
24:07
used correctly. Yep. And just last week I listened to Frank Sinatra,
24:10
singer will John song and perfect tune. I think that at that point in
24:14
time I might need to be stopped. Indeed, well and there and then
24:18
I can tell you that in the radio business, uh, it's it's been
24:21
a big concern because I mean, you know, technology has always been a
24:25
thing in radio, but now I mean people, ay, I could put
24:27
somebody like like like myself or Hoppy or any of us out of work.
24:30
So we got to stop it. Man, if you're elect Attorney general,
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stop it, Okay, just stop it now. That just couldn't happen.
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I mean, we couldn't have radio. I thought, I get it.
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are called three or four four four zero one one zero one let's talk about
24:51
the campaign. I know it's early, but in this stage of the perpetual
24:55
campaign, right, I know you and others I have already been out beating
24:56
the bushes. You mentioned being in Ripley another area. It's for the fourth
25:00
of July House of Camp Angling. So far, it's good, extremely busy.
25:03
You know. I put over three thousand miles in that car just within
25:07
the past three weeks. I'm traveling today. I'm going to head down to
25:11
Nicholas County for for an event. I know that we've got some things on
25:15
the agenda for this weekend. And that's what it takes. You got to
25:18
you to have a strong ground game, be out there, because look,
25:21
I represent the Northern Panhandle and have for the past seven years, eight years
25:26
at this point. But it's so but it's important for me to get out
25:30
and hear concerns from West Virginia's from other parts of the state. Introduce myself,
25:34
let them get to know me. I want to get to know them
25:37
and see what they want from their next day gene and direction. They want
25:41
to see West Virginia headed in and so that's the name of the game at
25:45
this point. It's just meet as many people humanly possible, and that's what
25:48
we're doing. And when you attend an event like this, let's say it's
25:52
you know, a legal women voters of van or it's a Republican or Democratic,
25:56
but whatever the thing is, what is the message that you tell people
25:59
that don't know Ryan, Well, what does that message? Well, I
26:02
introduced them to talk to them a little bit about my background, where I
26:04
went to college, went to Ferrymant State, my time in the year Force.
26:08
You know, where I served, whether it's been Washington or Germany or
26:11
Afghanistan. And then the reasons why I came home, and then the reasons
26:15
why I got involved in public office in the first place. When I came
26:18
home, you know, my wife and I are from the same town here
26:22
in Wellsburg, and you know, we quickly realized that things needed to change
26:26
and we didn't have that big group of friends that was here because a lot
26:29
of them have left. And that's why we got involved, and that when
26:32
they look at their next ag they should want someone who has a track record
26:37
of leadership, whether that be my time in the military or as the whip
26:41
and the Senate, someone who's been in effective public servant. And I think
26:47
that my track record in the Senate clearly shows that and the things that I've
26:49
been able to get accomplished for my district, my constituents, and the state
26:55
as a whole, and once someone who's conservative as well. And I think
26:59
that again, I hate to use the word track record again or the phrase,
27:03
but I think that my track record. You and I have talked about
27:04
that on air. I think that that shows that you know, I'm the
27:08
conservative leader in this race, and I you know, want them to learn
27:14
more about me and ask the questions. And I'm happy to answer those questions
27:17
before we let you go, and to ask you a question about your current
27:19
role as a state senator. Where it is is that there will be a
27:22
special session as it wraps around interim sometime but probably the first week or two
27:29
in August. And I know Senator Blair, I think was on talk line
27:33
yesterday with Hobby and he was talking about that. Hopefully we're gonna be able
27:37
to get something done as far as corrections go. Do you have any comments
27:38
on that. Yeah, I think it's vital that we get that done.
27:41
As a former prosecutor, I worked with those guys all the time, and
27:45
I think that it is an area of the state that we have not paid
27:49
our due diligence too, and whether that's not just the legislative branch, but
27:53
everybody who's involved, because you know, it's an executive level of function administering
27:59
that we need to ensure that those who are looking over and looking at who
28:04
we want to keep off the streets because they're dangerous, are taken care of
28:08
and that we have a plan in place to ensure that those facilities are run
28:12
well and that they're maintained as well. Ryan, Where can people learn more
28:17
about your campaign or more about you in general. Ryan Weld dot Com is
28:21
my website and I'm also on Facebook and Twitter, Ryan Weld for West Virginia
28:26
and at Ryan Weld on Twitter. All right, great to have you here,
28:30
an interesting discussion on the AI stuff. I appreciate you being here,
28:32
sir. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot. Thank you for having
28:34
me Ryan, Well you as well. Ryan Weld, State Senator and candidate
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and so forth text I'm sorry, tweeted and said big news on Hoppy Kirchival
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of give a little bit of a teaser there about to Hopie show come up
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at ten o six where people are promising to announcement as it relates to the
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gubernatorial race from Ken. Gates was the one that tweeted that out. Somebody
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tacks it in and says it's ken't working for more capital. I do not
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know, not sure, so we'll find out. I guess everybody will.
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At ten h six. Deb Hnick is with US now Republican candidate for Knack
33:16
County Prosecuting Attorney. Deb Good morning, welcome to the show. How are
33:20
you good morning, I'm well, am. I need you to step in
33:22
that microphone a little bit. You got a kind of a softer voice there.
33:24
Chart that again. How are you? I said, I'm good.
33:27
How are you? I'm doing fine? Thank you for being here. Tell
33:30
us about deb and tell us about your background. So my name's Deborah Snack.
33:34
I am born and raised in Knall County from elk u Clinton and area.
33:38
Lived there my pretty well, my entire life. I'm forty years old.
33:43
I have a twenty four year old daughter, a twenty five year old
33:46
stepson, and a husband that I've been with for going on sixteen years now.
33:51
I'm a prosecuting attorney. I currently practice at the Knack County Prosecuting Attorney's
33:57
Office and I am assigned to felony crimes that are assigned to Judge Selango's courtroom
34:04
in circuit Court. So why do you want to be prosecuting journey? Why
34:08
do you want to take that? But I mean, you're already doing some
34:10
of the work, But why do you want to make the step up?
34:14
Because I believe that in that position, it gives you a better ability to
34:21
not only fight for the victims and you know, members of the public at
34:28
large, but also the ability to kind of oversee what happens in the office,
34:36
which is really important when you're dealing with an office of forty some people
34:40
and you have to be able to you're responsible not only for your own cases,
34:45
but for every case in that office. So you have to be available
34:49
to those people and be the person that they want to follow, they want
34:52
to lead them, and and it's kind of a multifaceted role. Not only
34:58
are you practicing in the courtroom, you are managing that office, and you
35:01
are helping those people to take a file, pick through and kind of see,
35:07
you know, wear that white hat, I guess per se because you
35:12
have to be able to review a case, know what the facts are,
35:15
and understand who was wronged and who wronged that person, and make sure that
35:22
we are charging the right person with a crime, because as a prosecutor,
35:27
you know a couple of things we don't want. One is to accuse the
35:31
wrong person. And so being able to help people in the office to see
35:38
that this is a multifaceted role and that we are protecting the public, protecting
35:44
the citizens, getting justice for victims, but also ensuring that law enforcement officers
35:51
have the help in the resources they need when it comes to the legal aspects
35:54
of things, knowing that they are following things, following, you know,
35:59
going by the book per se and making sure that we are charging the right
36:04
people with the crimes they're charged with. We're talking with Deb Rusnick is a
36:07
candidate for Kna County Prosecuting new Attorney here on a five eighty Live. So,
36:13
in your role in that office, what experiences have you have you seen
36:16
that you thought, Okay, if I'm if I'm the head prosecutor, I
36:20
could do this a little bit better, or or I'd like to maybe change
36:22
this or whatever. I mean, you'd like walk around with it, maybe
36:24
with a notebook, taking little notes or what have you seen there? And
36:29
so I guess that kind of speaks to you. Know, my vision for
36:31
the office and the vision I have is to be a tough prosecutor, which
36:37
I practice every day in my life. I don't think that you will encounter
36:40
anyone that I work with, either in the office or on the other side
36:44
of the table there at any defense attorney that will say that I am not
36:47
tough on crime, because I am. And so I think being tough on
36:52
crime will help reduce the crime rate, protect victims, and require accountability,
37:00
and doing so by putting violent and repeat offenders in prison. I think it's
37:06
important that we know who our defendants are before we walk into the courtroom,
37:12
because what we are seeing right now are defendants who are repeat offenders and they're
37:16
going in and they're getting these extremely low bonds, and so they're posting that
37:22
bond and they're getting right back out and committing more crime, coming right back
37:27
into the court system. And so if we are able to go through there's
37:31
a case of State x Ral v. Giz that sets out all of the
37:36
things that judges and magistrates should consider in setting bond, and if we're there
37:40
to provide that information to the court, we have a very strong argument as
37:46
to why particular bond should be higher or lower. And so I think we
37:50
need to stop letting these people out on these low bonds. That's a huge
37:53
thing right now. And talk about the repeat offenders. I mean, off
37:57
the top of your head, this is like a ballpark figure here. I
38:00
mean, how many people do you see as a prosecutor or come through the
38:02
court system in general that are indeed okay, well, here we go again.
38:07
There is a significant number of defendants that are in fact repute offenders.
38:12
And whether it be that they have a criminal history where they're picking up new
38:16
charges every month or every couple of years, it's kind of indicative of what
38:23
type of person you're dealing with, you know. Are they charged with violent
38:27
crimes? Are they charged with property crimes? And so it's a significant number
38:34
of defendants. I can say, not to toot my own horn or anything,
38:39
but I have more recently, since I've been in front of Judge Selango
38:45
and then previous to that, in front of Judge Greer and Judge Evans and
38:49
Judge Stuckey, I've stopped seeing so many of the same people because I've been
38:55
able to get harsher sentences prisons in so a lot of those people are locked
39:00
up, a lot of those people will stay locked up. And how many
39:04
of those crimes are somehow related to drugs? There's a huge number. I
39:08
mean, I'm gonna say, you know whatnot out of ten, I mean
39:10
somehow there's probably drugs at the at the at the route. Maybe maybe eight
39:14
out of ten. Maybe I hate to put a number on right, Yeah,
39:17
but it is. It's a significant number, and that's part of,
39:22
you know, our job as well. Are we dealing with someone who legitimately
39:25
has a drug problem, or are we dealing with someone who is now in
39:30
prison and says they have a drug problem and wants to get out to go
39:32
to rehab because they don't want to be in jail anymore. And sometimes that's
39:37
hard. It's sometimes it's hard to determine what criminals are actual drug addicts or
39:45
drug users that are trying to fuel that addiction. But that's something that we
39:50
definitely try to do and we have a lot of resources available to us to
39:54
enable us to do so. Deb Rusnik is here candidate for Cana County Prosecuting
39:59
Charity. What makes a good prosecutor in your opinion? In my opinion,
40:01
I think you need someone who is level headed, someone who is tough on
40:07
crime, but also reasonable, someone who knows people and how to relate to
40:13
people, because we are dealing with people from every facet of life. I
40:19
mean, so many different types of people and they all come from a different
40:23
background and so being able to understand those people, understand the people that you
40:29
work with, the victims, the defendants, I think that you have to
40:34
be a strong person to be a prosecutor, because you're going to see things
40:37
that no one ever wants to see. No, it's a little bit early,
40:42
but what's the campaign strategy look like for you? I mean, because
40:45
you know, and I've said this with other candidates and similar offices that are
40:50
running for similar offices. You know, when it comes to election time,
40:52
people always think about mayors or sheriffs or governors or whatever, and prosecuting attorney
40:57
is one of those things that people may not have that big of an interest
41:00
in until it actually impacts them or their family. So when you're out and
41:04
about and you're whether you're going door to door, meets the candidates, forms
41:07
or whatever, how does how does dab rusnick? How do you? How
41:09
do you get that message across to people that this is what I'm going to
41:14
do and this is why you should have liked me. So I think,
41:16
first of all, I would urge everyone to do your research. Know your
41:21
candidates, do simple Google searches, find us on Facebook, see who we
41:27
are, what we're about. I do plan on being out there. I've
41:30
already been to a couple of festivals, meeting people, talking to people,
41:34
but going door to door and talking to people and introducing myself to them and
41:39
letting them know, you know who I am and what I'm about, because
41:43
I think ultimately, if the people do their research, they will vote for
41:50
whomever they believe is qualified, experienced, and has a vision for the office
41:53
that they like. Do you have website, social media anything like that set
41:59
up yet or I do. I'm on Facebook. My Facebook is debor rusnac
42:04
for Prosecutor, and I have a website, debor rusneck dot com that's still
42:08
under construction. Okay, but that will actually be out very very soon.
42:13
As you know. I talked to you last week. I just announced last
42:15
week, so we're still kind of getting everything up and running. But we're
42:21
excited and ready to do this and I fortunately have a lot of supports.
42:23
Well, we wish you the best to like final statement here, why should
42:27
somebody vote for you for Prosecuting Attorney Knock County Because I'm meant for this job.
42:30
I do it every day. This is not some political spill that I'm
42:36
giving people. This is what I practice every day of my life. And
42:39
I do have a vision for that office. I do believe that I am
42:44
the most qualified person for that office. I have prosecuted numerous cases sentence defendence
42:50
two hundreds of years sentence defendence to life sentences. And not only that,
42:58
but I care about the community, about the people I work with, about
43:02
the victims of crime, and I think that I am the best, most
43:07
qualified candidate for the position. It's pleasure to have you on the show,
43:10
and we'll have you back on again. I mean, it's you still got
43:14
you know, a little less than a year, I guess. But you
43:15
go out there pounding and pavement right now, meeting people, as you said,
43:19
and we'll we'll have you and all the others on the well before the
43:22
election against several times. I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot,
43:24
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the candidate to tell a specific charges, bond amounts, name of defendants,
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an outcome in these cases she is discussing, these are public records. Tech
46:45
says, how does the candidate reconcile her desire for higher bonds with current prison
46:50
crisis is overcrowding, lack of funding for guards, and the costs to the
46:53
county for keeping people in jail. Tech says, party affiliation please, she
46:59
is a Republican. She is six away from ten. Hoppy talked about this
47:04
as part of his commentary this morning. Knaan County Commissioner Ben Silango's decision not
47:07
to run for governor or the Democratic ticket next year, that story broke during
47:12
the show yesterday and I got it on the air, of course yesterday.
47:15
As soon as it happened. Ben a Slingo, of course, ran and
47:19
lost against um Jim Justice in twenty twenty. Selango says he just wants to
47:24
concentrate on his law practice and his role as Knaw County as a Knack County
47:30
commissioner. Now he's been filling in as president of the commission during the absence,
47:35
of course, of Kent Carper and a bit of a programming note for
47:39
my own show here. Ben Silango will be on the show next Monday to
47:43
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47:46
going on in the county as well. And and look, you know,
47:50
I get it. No matter who the nominee is, with all due respect
47:52
to Commissier Silango and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams, who will now more than likely
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be the nomintee on the dim cratic side, not officially announced yet, but
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he's more than likely going to run. No matter who the nominee is,
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the next governor is going to be a Republican. And I will say this
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now that Ben Slango isn't running. Steve Williams, Mayor of Huntington, it's
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about the best chance that the Democrats have to have a candidate from their party
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in the governor's mansion. Oh wait a minute's right, We've already termed the
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governor doesn't have to live in the mansion, so that parts out of the
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way. But anyway, Steve Williams, former delegate mayor of Huntington a couple
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of terms, is about the best shot that they have and the thing about
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about Steve Williams is and he's been on the show in the past. He's
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not very extreme. He's not a West Virginia can't wait type candidate and anything
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like that tends to be a little bit more centrist. But when you are
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the mayor of a large city, even in West Virginia, larger cities tend
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to be a little bit more room. And when you add in the fact
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that Huntington is a university town, well you know the rest. And of
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course, no matter who comes out of the Republican field, they are they're
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gonna exploit the fact that Steve Williams, if he decides to run, is
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a liberal. But with the field of thousands, it seems on the Republican
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side, who knows. I was talking to some you know, political person
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a little bit earlier today and they said, well, you know, maybe
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if the Republicans all just beat the crap out of each other, maybe it'll
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open the door. I still don't think that's going to happen, but but
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will say beast to luck though to marry Williams if he does decide to run
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again. Ben Selinga will be on the show next Monday. As for the
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City of Charleston and what happened to the homeless during the regatta. Yesterday,
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the Charleston Police Department released a statement on the whole deal, and I'm quoting
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now regarding the allegations that the Charleston PD targeted individuals who are homeless. On
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the morning of June twenty ninth, and that was editor's note here, one
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day prior to the regatta beginning, the Charlestown Police Department conducted this is their
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words, a warrant sweep for individuals with outstanding warrants. During the warrants sweep,
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officers served municipal warrants and officers observed other individuals violating city ordinances which were
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addressed at that time in quote now. In all, sixteen people were arrested
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on the day before the regatta started and for being at a public park after
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hours, and again talked about yesterday, there are those that are coming out
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well, I mean, the bottom line is being in a city park past
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eleven o'clock as a crime. It's crime. According to court records, eleven
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of those people were being held on that charge. And that charge alone I'm
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talking about. I don't know if it was exactly this is trespassing or whatever,
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but breaking the curfews in city park. Rachel Rubin, who's an employee
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of the Cana County Public Defender's Office, addressed City Council on Monday during their
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meeting and said, quote, this is the second year in a row that
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in order to have their big party, the city has undertaken the entire effort
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to disappear anyone they don't want to see ahead of the regatta in quote.
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Now the ACLU is getting involved out with the statements, so on and so
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forth. I find it interesting that the Good One administration, long accused of
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being superliberals, are now angering the superliberals who apparently have no issue with vagrancy
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in Charleston. And I say, editor's note, my opinion, bravo Charleston
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Police Department. I love it. And I said yesterday my only question is
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why can't we do this every day? Keep it up Charleston and do it
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year round. And I did reach out to the folks of the Good administration
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about how somebody off Charles to PD. Not at this time, but we
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will get him on in the future. But again I say, hey,
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more power, more power to you and forced to law all right, we
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gotta go. Friday Fund House coming up tomorrow. Charleston native and World rightowned
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voice of artists Amy Breedlove is gonna be my guest co host tomorrow. Hannah
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Gardner from the Canal Charles You Main Association, plus Chris Wthrow from the Benny
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Keatam Shrine will be by as well. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday folks.
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From our producer, Ryan Nicholson, thank you so much, I will
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see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody. Whs A
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