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01/15/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - JB Akers, Ashley Alford-Glance, Bryan Hughes · The Dave Allen Show

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three five five zero zero eight. Well, we have a new House of
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Delegates member representing a large portion of Charleston More Capita was the House member representing
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the district. He opted to resign to concentrate on his bid for the Republican
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nomination for governor. Go to Justice last week made his choice. It's jb
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akres to fill that role, and he joins us now. He's already been
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on duty though at the capitol. Jb good morning, How are you?
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Thanks man, I really appreciate you having me. Thank you for being here.
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So kind of got thrown into the fire. There really wasn't much of
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a of a law there. I mean, you pretty much were named a
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hand your book and said go right. Yeah. I mean I had less
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than twenty four hours notice. And you know, it's funny because you had
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to apply to get the seat first. First of all, she could to
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apply, and then out of the county they named three people and sent those
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three names to the governor. So I can't say that it was a complete
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shock that I was picked only because I was up for consideration. But I
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had had good friends who you know, during that process, which it only
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was a couple of days from the time we got our name submitted to the
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governor until I was chosen, and I had some friends who are like,
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oh, you know, what's going to happen? Tell us, what's going
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on. I said, I really have no idea, because the only thing
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you can say about Jim Justice in terms of knowing what he's going to do
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is the only thing predictable is he sometimes I'm predictable very often. Yeah.
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I mean, although I certainly appreciate his confidence in me, and I'm really
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humbled that he chose me, but I really had no idea what was going
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to happen. I was actually in a deposition because I'm a lawyer. It's
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my full time job and I've got law practice in Charleston. So I was
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in a deposition and I got a message and said, hey, can you
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take a phone call? And that was I guess that was Tuesday afternoon.
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Yeah, it was Tuesday afternoon late and they called me and told me,
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which was great, and you know, it was extremely excited about that,
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but I had to go right back into a deposition. Then there was a
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press release right after that, and I had less than twenty four hours to
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get all my stuff together. I want to say quickly that evening, aside
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from getting a phone call and being told that I was to pick, the
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best part about that day was my wife. I actually didn't got to swear
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me in in the House of Delegates chamber because my wife is Mary Claire Acres.
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She's a Kenall County Circuit judge. She was very well known and well
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respected in the community. So she got to go with me and my kids
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and she actually swore me in and they told me and this is, you
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know, hopefully true. They think that that's the first time that a spouse
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ever swore in their spouse in the House of Elegance, which that was really
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cool. Well, and she probably she's like most why she probably swears at
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you, but this time she's swearing you in the thing. It was a
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positive swearing in this swing out, that's right. Yeah, when you got
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home was a totally different story. Now you mentioned your an attorney, JB.
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Give us the rest of the bio and Jbacres, where are you're from?
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How did you get here? It's the whole deal. Well, my
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background is really important in terms of this district because I was initially I was
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actually born at bar H Hospital in Raleigh County. My family lived in Fayettevie
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at the time, so I was raised in Fayetteville, which everybody knows well
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obviously, And they've got great news recently they're part of the National Park System
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now over there. But I was raising a more smaller town until around second
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grade. We moved to Cable County when I was young, and then I
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graduated from Milton High School, which was a smaller high school, a very
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small triple A high school. So I know what it's like to live in
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a smaller community and be raised in a more rural environment. I've been in
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Charleston now though for about almost twenty five years, so I've been in the
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city for a long time raising my family here. But I have a good
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understanding of what the people in the more ruralers urban suburban areas want either their
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delegates, while also knowing what the folks in the city of Charleston want,
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which is important because this is a very diverse district in terms of the makeup.
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It's a pretty big district. It makes up about south of or I'm
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sorry, about half of South Hills or maybe a little more than half.
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It's almost all of Kanall City, but then the rest of it is it
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goes down the river east and then is the almost the entire portion of what
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really is the entire southern portion of Kanall County. Then it runs over west
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and takes up the Tornado area and then runs back east again towards South Hills.
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So it's a mix of urban, suburban and rural communities, and I
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understand the needs of all those folks. Yeah, and that's interesting that,
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you know, Thank you for pointing that out, because sometimes with the districts
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the way that they line up, it's pretty much all the same types of
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people, the same backgrounds and things that nature. And certainly not with that
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district that you're talking about. You couldn't get any more different. No,
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No, it's really interesting because a lot of folks. Obviously, people say
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West Virginia is a red state, which by and large it is, but
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we have some very deep pot it's a blue and Charleston is one of those
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places. My district they call purple district. It's really split about fifty to
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fifty between Republicans and Democrats. It's pretty close. But one of the reasons
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I think I never asked the governor. But one of the reasons I think
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that I was chosen is because I had good success here back in twenty eighteen
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when I ran for mayor. Some folks may remember my name from the mayoral
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race which of course I lost that race, and I don't like to lose,
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but it was a close race, and the area is importantly. Two
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of the areas I won in that race in twenty eighteen included I won all
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of South Hills and I won Kennall City, So those places are in my
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district now, which I think is important because those folks obviously voted for me,
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and I'm a Republican. So for me to have a close race back
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in twenty eighteen, because you can remember this too, Charleston demographically is still
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largely a Democrat city. Back in twenty eighteen, it was fifty two percent
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Democrat, only twenty four percent Republican, and it's still pretty close to those
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same numbers. I think Democrats are now about forty eight percent, but Republicans
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are still only twenty four percent in the city. So for me to have
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a close race in twenty eighteen, that means almost every Republican had to vote
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it for me, which is a compliment and I'm glad of that. And
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I had to have a lot of Democrat crossover too, I mean a lot
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of Democrats had to vote for me, and it was close. And you
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look at twenty eighteen No at large city council candidate. He was a Republican
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one, which was the first time anybody remember that happening. So just was
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not a good Republican year yet ed Gone she was in the state Senate.
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He lost because he got beat largely in the West Side. He lost to
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rich Lindsay that year. So I didn't like to lose. But if I
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look back and I'm realistic about it, I take it as a compliment that
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I it was a close race because I had so many people who supported me
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from both sides of the aisle. And I think that was important in this
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pick because I'm going to have to have, you know, the ability to
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talk to people who are Democrats and Republicans and get folks to come together and
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unify their their voice and their needs. But you learned a lot from that
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race too. I did learn. The first was that's the first time you'd
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ever run for office, first time I'd ever run. I have and again
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like I have almost no one in my family who went to college, no
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one directly who was you know, a lawyer, nobody involved in politics.
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So you know, when I came to Charleston, this was not my background
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and The first time I ran for office was in twenty eighteen, and really
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just worked my way up through that process by building relationships. And you know,
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I'll tell you Dave again, I've been a Republican since I was eighteen
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years old. That's the only party I've ever been registered to, So I
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can literally say I'm a lifelong Republican. And while I moved to Charleston in
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ninety nine, a lot of times there was no one for me to vote
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for in the primary, and when you got to the general, the choice
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was already made. I mean, whoever the Democrat was won the race,
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But I was Republican anyway, and I actually volunteered. Didn't know her at
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all, but I volunteered on now Senator Capitol's first congressional campaign in two thousand,
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just because I thought it was important to have some balance and have a
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Republican, you know, win that race. And I was a big,
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you know fan of hers, just the things she said and what she stood
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for back then. So I got involved almost immediately, just trying to help,
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you know, like minded folks win some of these races. And I
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built relationships over the years, but always still being someone that I feel like
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people can talk to. So you know, I've got most of the people
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my family are Democrats. You know, some of that was out of necessity
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so you'd have somebody to vote for, but a lot of them still are.
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I've got people in my family who are labor members, teachers. My
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family comes from a coal mining background, So i understand the needs of that
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community and those voters and those folks, and so I'm always going to be
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somebody you can you can talk to. Now, one of the things I
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learned in twenty eighteen, unfortunately, is some people don't want to talk to
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you. Some people just want to, you know, criticize you. And
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that comes to the territory. So you've got to have a thick skin in
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this as well. You have to be willing to take criticism, which you
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hope is constructive because I'm not always going to be right, but I'm always
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going to listen. And you know, I'm going to have to work very
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hard to meet the diverse needs this district and I will. I'm confident that
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i will do that. Talking again with the new delegate for this for the
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fifty fifth rightif district redistricts, we're now fifty five, it would have been
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thirty five before, but right now fifty five jb Acres is with us.
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So I know it's early, and as I said, you literally got thrown
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into this thing early. But what's your impression been so far? Well,
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I can say without a doubt that and I hope this continues as long as
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possible. But folks in the Capitol have been extremely supportive and helpful to me.
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I've walked around tried to meet as many people as possible, but as
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soon as I walked in, I had people coming up to me and said,
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hey, congratulations, let us know what we can do to help you,
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which is you know, we hear a lot of negative things about politics,
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and there's certainly criticism that to do, but you know, Dave,
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most of the people who go to that capitol, Republican or Democrat, go
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there with the right intentions. They want to go there to try to help
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people and get things done. You know, there's some folks who I think
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we can maybe be a little more critical of than others, but by and
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large, those are nice folks who you know, we may disagree with them,
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but we should at least give them a chance. And you know,
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they've been very receptive to me, and I will say that right away.
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People you know, and trying to be helpful, started putting some bills in
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front of me saying, hey, do you want to sponsor this am I
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you know, i'd have to say, well, I need to read it
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first. Yeah, I want to see what you Yeah, I want to
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see what's in it first. It's very important to me and actually know what
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the bill says. I'm never going to be someone who if a person,
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even if they're a friend or some special interest I generally support, if they
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walk up and say, hey, we you sponsor this bill? You know
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you know us, I'm still going to say what's in it? Right?
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I think that's extremely important. I want to ask you about a couple of
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those things. And I know, as I said, you're still kind of
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learning your way around over there. But a lot of talk about the governor's
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budget, specifically his spending plan and propose pay raises for public workers, including
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teachers. Any any thoughts on that, well, I mean the raises for
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the public employee employees. I mean some Republicans you know, want to cut
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government every single time. You know, sometimes you just can't. I think
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the pay raises are going to be necessary because the pe A situation until we
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get a handle on pe i A, which is easier said than done,
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and make it so that people, you know, the public employees aren't seeing
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increases and they're PI premiums, which you know sometimes are just significant. We're
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going to have to offset that somehow. So you know, I'm going to
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be in favor of that. In terms of the raises, I think the
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public employees are going to need that. Some of the other budget proposals,
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I mean, he has a flat budget. He's taken some money out of
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the surplus I think to make up for some of his increases. But you
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know, I think if you look at the governor's proposals and ideas this year,
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he was actually I think it was a very sympathetic or maybe empathetic proposal
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in some of these things trying to He had some mental health money in there,
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which I think is important that a lot of times gets overlooked. Some
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family initiatives, some childcare initiatives, which I think are also important, which
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we should support those as much as we're able to. You know, I
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would say there's some things where I maybe would look for some tax decreases in
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some areas he didn't mention. Of course, those are always again easier so
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than done, which you have to build a pay for him. But I
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thought overall it was a modest budget proposal. I know got some criticism,
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maybe especially in the Senate side. It seems to be where most of his
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friction comes from, but it wasn't anything extreme that I saw, so I
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think I think most of it was pretty well received, and then we're just
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going to figure out how to get the details. One other thing I want
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to ask about before we let you go. Center President Craig Blair and also
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another Senator, Mike Stewart, both gone on record as saying that they would
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support bringing back the death penalty, particularly for those who would manufacture or distribute
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Fittonel. Where are you on that? That is, Well, let me
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say this, I think in terms of I think that there are people who
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commit crimes that are so heinous that, in my view, you know,
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you could be subject to that penalty under certain circumstances. But I'll also say
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that as someone who respects the right to life, which I do, I'm
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a pro life person, and there are many bones about that I think we
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should be consistent. So we're going to have to work out how do you
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subject someone to that penalty, And to me, it probably needs to be
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something more than more than a beyond a reasonable doubt standard. I think we'd
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have to do something. We'll raise a burden to proof if we're going to
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talk about reinstituting that, if we're going to respect the right to life and
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make sure there's no possibility that an innocent person could ever be executed, and
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that's happened before. So if we have a standard, for example, where
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there's beyond any doubt whatsoever, or we have an admission by someone who commits
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a completely heinous crime, you know, I at least would be one to
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discuss those things because I think some folks you know, could subject themselves to
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that. But that that's gonna be an issue where, you know, I
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don't want to just make that a red meat issue and say, you know,
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I'm a Republican, I'm hardcore, I'm against crime, which I am
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all those things. I'm against crime. I think people who hurt others should
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be subject to penalties and punishment, But we got to do it the smart
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way. Are you going to run for reelection? Absolutely? Yeah, I've
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already filed, so you know, I'll tell people. I don't have a
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website up yet. I didn't have time for that, but I'm going to
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be available anytime. I've got a you know, my numbers in the legislative
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website. I do have my picture number up there, at least my emails
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on there. I got emails this weekend this weekend from constituents, which I
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responded to already. I always invite people my personal cell phone numbers on my
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legislative website. You can call that, you can email me, and I
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will get back to you. I'm very responsive to those things. And one
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of the things I actually like about this job is I actually like talking to
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people, meeting them. Well, you're in the right business for that.
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Yeah, well, I mean it's by necessity, but I actually enjoyed it.
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I like, I like solving problems, and you know, this is
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not a way. Yeah, you know to me, some folks I think
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if they get elected to the local office, they think the next step is
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a presidency. I'm focused on making sure the people this district are taking care
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of. My main focus day of is jobs in the economy. Where I
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ran from mayor, that was the main thing I talked about with jobs in
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the economy that has not changed. There are other issues they are important too,
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but I want to get people to work and make it so that we
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can raise our families here and get some big wins. I'll see this quickly.
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The state of West Virginia has had some big wins in the past couple
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of years economically. We cannot deny that, regardless of what your politics are.
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We've had some large projects moving to the state, but some of those
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need to be closer to the Canall Valley, and I want to get us
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in the conversation to restart some of our large industries here in this area.
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That would be great. It's just better for everybody. Look and jb Acres,
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we wish you the best of luck. Congratulations on the new seat.
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Dan. You've already said that you will be running for reelection. You'll be
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filling out more capitols than you're running for reelection, so we wish the best
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of luck. Will have you on a couple of times you're in the session.
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Thanks for shiving vote for Mary Claire Acres too. She's running for Do
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you know she's on the show tomorrow? I didn't. Yeah, it's she
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really tomorrow was coming up soon? Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah,
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she's on the show. To mar she reached out to me. She's
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the more impressive of the two acres. Everybody please listen to her. She's
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she's a smart lady. She's great, all right. The JB Acres,
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can we talk about important things today? Like how the only constan of the
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last thirty years of the Cowboys underachieving and choking is Jerry Jones. I don't
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want to talk about it, Texas. I like jb Acres. He's a
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from his friends of the town of clen Dinna and always grateful how he and
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Mary Claire came up to our town in twenty sixteen after the flood and works
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so hard to help many of our folks to clean up and help get us
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back to their home. He's a wonderful, giving person. Thank you,
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Putnam County Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for their annual dinner. It's going
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to be held Friday, the twenty sixth to Valley Park Conference Center, always
20:56
the highlight of the year for business and residents too, a Putnam County normally
21:00
sold out crowd. Ashley offered Glance as the executive director of the Putnam County
21:04
Chamichi joins us. Now, Ashley, good morning, welcome to the show.
21:07
Good morning Dave, thanks for having me, Thank you for being here.
21:11
Big doings next Friday night at Putnam County. There are there are,
21:15
but before we get started, I also received texts when I'm on the show,
21:21
and I received a text that says, please ask Dave about the cowboys.
21:26
I don't want to talk about football. I hate football. I hate
21:30
football. I can't wait till I can't wait. No, we're bringing the
21:33
Reds Caravan back to Charleston next Wednesday, I think it is. That's my
21:37
focus right now. Is baseball, maybe a NASCAR. Well, I'm a
21:42
huge baseball fan and I can't stand football. And Ryan shut that up.
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Rights, they're losing his mind. Just stop, all right, all right,
21:51
all right, anyway, let's move on. Let's move on before I
21:53
cut you off. Go ahead, okay, okay. Back to the Annual
21:56
Dinner. Next Friday, January twenty six, the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce
22:00
will be celebrating with our annual dinner meeting. It's at Valley Park and it
22:07
is one of the largest networking events in Puttnam County and we're really really proud
22:12
to be able to host it here at our conference center. And we've got
22:17
some great things planned for our guests. And it's ice themed. So last
22:25
year, Dave, if you remember, it was fire themed and we have
22:27
some fire breathers inside. We have Valley Park, and so this year we
22:36
everyone makes fun of me, but I say we're cooling it down. Yeah.
22:41
Now, last year we brought you the hottest party in town, and
22:44
this year we're bringing We're cooling it down, so it's gonna be ice themed.
22:48
We've got Fireside Grow catering, We've got some great entertainment. We are
22:53
all we always love to bring some really fun entertainment to that event, and
22:57
this year where we've got some local entertainers that are going to be joining us.
23:02
I think people are really going to like it. Something you've never seen
23:04
before, which is also something we like to do. Let's bring something new
23:10
and new and exciting. What else, well, I know, tickets and
23:14
sponsorships go quickly. Are either available now, yes, yeah, So the
23:18
deadline is this coming Friday, which is what the nineteenth ticket for tickets right
23:23
for tickets and sponsorships. Both, yeah, tickets and sponsorships. So you
23:27
can there's a couple of ways that you can attend. You can buy an
23:30
individual tickets the price of one hundred and fifty dollars, or you can sponsor
23:36
the event and each sponsorship comes with an allotted amount of tickets depending on the
23:41
sponsorship that you that you purchase. And so we are really really grateful for
23:48
all of our Dreamer members who purchase tickets and who sponsor the event because this
23:51
is one of our largest fundraisers of the year for the Chamber as well.
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I know it's an exciting place to be. We got businesses opening up,
24:15
we got people back to you know, moving in almost daily. There's a
24:18
lot of buzz around Putnam County these days. Ashley, Yeah, there is.
24:22
We've got people moving in, we've got businesses opening. We have already
24:26
had let me think, actually we've already had. It's the fifteenth of January
24:30
and I believe we have already had hold on one, two, three,
24:36
four, five new businesses joined the Putnam Chamber just this year already, and
24:41
so we are really excited to be growing and be able to support these businesses
24:47
in the area. You know, a lot of times we talk a lot
24:49
about small business and that is something that is really important to us that we
24:53
at the Chamber have businesses from large all the way up to or from small
24:57
all the way up to large business is that we really like to work with.
25:00
So there's jobs. We have tons of employers that are hosting or that
25:06
are looking for qualified employees. So if you're looking for a job, feel
25:10
free to reach out to us here at the Cheaper And then another thing that's
25:15
really exciting, our Putnam Chamber Network of Women is launching this month our Comeback
25:21
Club, and that is a really cool thing that our women are doing where
25:26
they are helping women re enter the workforce. So if you have been out
25:30
of the workforce for a while and you'd like us to help you get reintegrated,
25:34
give us a call at the Chiever. I could talk more about that
25:37
later, Dave, but that's something that's being officially launched at the annual dinner
25:42
on the twenty six is to come Back Club. That's good stuff. Again,
25:45
we're talking to Ashley offer Glance from the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce and
25:48
I'll have you on again to talk about this in the future, but I
25:51
did want to get this in there. You're going to be doing another one
25:52
of these Dress for Success type events, so we'll have you on again to
25:56
talk about that at a later time, but give me the basic guy on
26:00
how that works. Yeah, so Dress for Success here's to Putnam Chamber.
26:03
We love to partner with Dress for Success of the River City, which is
26:07
a nonprofit organization that serves Putnam County as well as everything from Canal all the
26:12
way over to Cabal and surrounding areas. And we they do not have the
26:17
physical location here in Punham County, but we like to host a quarterly drive
26:21
for them at least, you know, from during our normal operating hours where
26:26
you can bring your donations here to us and then we'll make sure that they
26:27
get to them. So the next one is February seventh here at Area thirty
26:33
four. And then one other thing, Dave, We've got this week.
26:37
We have a lunch and learned with Metronom and it's about cybersecurity. All the
26:41
different acronyms that are being thrown around in regards to cybersecurity now. So we
26:45
have the folks from Metronom going to be here at Area thirty four on Wednesday
26:48
and they're going to be talking about you know what all those acronyms mean and
26:52
how you can keep your company and your personal and yourself safe from cyber attacks.
26:59
And again that's good beyond Wednesday, and all that information is available on
27:02
their social media and also on their website. I want to say this about
27:04
businesses and then we'll take it back to the dinner. We'll let you go.
27:07
One of the great things I like about Putnam County is it is a
27:11
unique mix of locally owned businesses from jewelry stores to restaurants, to craft shops
27:19
and things of that nature. But also you still have your Kroger, and
27:22
you still got your Target, which just opened not long ago. And there's
27:26
even another sign of another place is getting ready to open up there at Liberty
27:30
Square. I just saw that sign about a week or so ago there at
27:32
Liberty Square and Tays Valley. So it's a unique mix of just about something
27:37
for everybody there in Putnam County. Yeah, so that's what that's kind of
27:41
like what I like to say. I like to say, we have everything
27:44
you need and access to everything you want. So you know, within a
27:48
censor of your home here in Putnam County, you're going to have access to
27:51
everything you need, whether it's you know, shopping for groceries or clothing or
27:56
whatever it is, doctors, in your insurance agents, you're everything. But
28:00
then because we are centually located here in the metro Valley, we have additional
28:06
access to everything you might want. So we do have that new edition of
28:10
the Target obviously in our shopping posit here at Liberty Square. And then everyone
28:15
has seen the Michael sn go up, so we'll be welcoming them to Putant
28:19
County soon. Yeah, exciting stuff, and I know, you know,
28:22
for me, I always have to mention the food, the eateries, and
28:26
the restaurant Sergio's, which specializes in Italian food. They have opened up now
28:30
downtown Hurricane. I had food or had dinner there a couple of weeks ago
28:33
with some friends. The food, they're phenomenal. It's right on Main Street
28:37
and Hurricane, which is in the old Conley's Irish Pub, and Sergio is
28:41
just doing a fantastic job. I mean I've read, read, and seen
28:44
nothing but excellent reviews on that place. And it's a definite great addition to
28:48
the already to the several other great eateries that we have in Putnam County.
28:52
Absolutely you know that Sergio is. We're really proud of him and really excited
28:56
for him. He also is the owner of the Guadalajara Modern Mexican over Nitro,
29:00
so if you've been there, you're familiar with with his quality of food
29:03
and so excited to have that on Main Street. Love the renovations that he
29:07
did to the building. That building has been a couple of different things,
29:11
all things that we've truly truly loved having. But he did a great job
29:14
renovating it and getting it set up for his new Italian restaurant there on Main
29:18
Street. So you can go down there and enjoy, you know, a
29:22
dining experience, a shopping experience. We've got some great other local restaurants on
29:26
Main Street. Don't forget to, you know, check out Belknap Joe Company.
29:30
One thing too to mention about them. They have frozen fresh So if
29:33
you you know, if you like to just occasionally have a frozen pizza on
29:40
hand at home, these you can go down there and buy those. They're
29:42
frozen. All you got to do is sow them in the oven and then
29:45
they taste just like you were at a restaurant, all locally sourced, you
29:49
know, not not processed all you know, just the quality you would get
29:52
in the restaurant. But you can take that home with you. I love
29:55
having them. We could also make them here at Area thirty four. And
29:57
I promise I don't eat more than a week, not more than one.
30:00
You promised about that. Let's close it out by talking about the dinner again.
30:04
It's the twenty sixth and information is available on the website. Give us
30:07
the website again, Yeah, Putnam Chamber dot org. You can go on
30:12
there and get your tickets online. If you have any trouble, give us
30:15
a call. You can get tickets or sponsorships. And again, that deadline
30:19
is Friday. We'll also be giving away our Mayo Luster Community Service Award as
30:23
well as our Putnam Crew Young Leader Award at that event, so we can't
30:26
wait to tell you who those are going to be. All right, Ashley,
30:30
I appreciate you continue to do great things there in Putnham County. We
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will talk again soon. Thanks a lot, all right, Thanks Dave,
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Com. Everybody talking about the weather. Now, we had one round of
33:25
snow early yesterday morning. Most of you woke up with that yesterday morning,
33:30
albeit not a whole lot, but enough to create some driving problems. We
33:34
had some more snow that rolled through the area late last night during the early
33:37
morning hours this morning, there's more snow on the way. We understand one
33:42
thing for sure, as we had. Once we get this snow system out
33:45
of here, it's be a pretty dang cold by the time Wednesday morning rolls
33:49
around. I'm not a meteorologist, but he is, and he plays one
33:52
on television and he is in real life. Brian Hughes from Storm Tracker thirteen,
33:54
Good morning, sir, how are you? I'm great? You know,
33:59
I know I'm doing better than you, because you know, the Kansas
34:01
City Chief one, the Detroit Lions one, and your cowboys just sucked it
34:06
up, aren't you from Texas? I listen, I as a kid cheered
34:09
for the Dallas Cowboys. I will cheer for the day the Dallas Cowboys,
34:14
the day Jerry Jones dead, and and we can move on with live right,
34:19
all right, alright, alright, all right. So I'm gonna ask
34:22
you something real quick about before we get to the snow, and that's about
34:25
the wind. I don't know that I recall, and you're the expert here.
34:30
I don't know that I recall that we've had a significant wind events as
34:34
we've been having now not so much with this ticking around the snow, but
34:37
we had some last week, and we had wind advisories a week before that.
34:39
What's up with all the wind? Man? I really the wind.
34:44
The wind is just a product of the significant difference in temperatures and the pressure
34:51
gradients as well between the two. Between the you know, storm systems that
34:54
we've had. Because you've had a warm air that tries the work gets way
34:57
back in, you get that friction a between the two, you get air
35:00
that mixes, and so you get in extreme you know, temperature differences,
35:06
you do get enhanced an enhancement of some of the wind. All right,
35:09
Well, it just seemed like to me that I didn't recall having that many,
35:14
like back to back, like we had a right, let's talk about
35:15
the snow. As I said, we got some early yesterday morning. Churches
35:20
had to cancel some other canceling services and whatever, and then it was pretty
35:23
good later in the day. Then we had snow that rolled through the area
35:25
last night. I know when I drove in from tays Valley this morning,
35:30
Tayes Valley Road was in pretty bad shave had difficult time getting out of my
35:32
neighborhood. But the interstate was fine. But then as I got into downtown
35:37
Charleston got a little dicey again. I'm inside a room with no windows.
35:42
What are we looking at now, Well, we're looking at the snow showers
35:45
coming back in. We're starting to see the snow increasing across the area.
35:49
And you know, as anybody who's out there driving around listening to the radio
35:52
right now, you know that, you know, once you get in the
35:54
city streets and some of the neighborhood streets that it's treacherous. But the you
36:00
know, West Virginia Department of Highways has done a great job keeping up with
36:02
the main interstates. This morning, Turnpike as well, one nineteen has been
36:07
a little dicey because of the fact that you know, there's it's been snowing
36:13
more in the coal fields this morning in eastern Kentucky than it has anywhere else.
36:16
But that band of snow's moving back into the Charleston area right now.
36:21
So we've got a steady light snow that's continuing to come down, and really
36:24
I expect, you know, there's gonna be a couple of breaks in the
36:28
action where we don't get any snow, we're just gonna have flout thinking a
36:30
round off and onto there at the day. But once we get back about
36:34
five six o'clock, that snow starts to increase across the area into the evening
36:37
hours and it'll be pretty steady as we get all the way. It's about
36:40
eleven midnight tonight. And how much more additional snow were looking at for the
36:44
Charleston area, Well, at this point we're looking at an additional probably three
36:49
maybe it's the four inches of snow, you know, compared to what we
36:52
already have at this time. I am expecting, you know, us to
36:57
end up within the Charleston metro area with about four maybe five inches worth of
37:02
snow. There may be a spot or two around the Kanak Cany that might
37:07
hit six further south you go and on top of a you know, big
37:12
hill, but I'm expecting about four to five inch Charleston. It just slowly
37:16
tap resolved the further and once you go, once you go, you know,
37:19
once you get closer to the Ohio River, they're you know, one
37:22
to three inches, and you know, as you get down deep of the
37:25
coal fields, we're talking you know, the easy five to seven inches worth
37:29
of snell and that you cant acids. We draw a line now from around
37:34
Paintsville, about about fifteen to twenty miles north of Paintsville, all the way
37:38
up to about the you know, clay And and Nicholas County line back to
37:45
the flat woods, and you know they're up higher five to seven inches a
37:47
couple of spots by eighth. And once we get this system out of here,
37:52
then by the time early Wednesday morning rolls around, the snow is going
37:54
to be out of here. As you said, probably wrap up here in
37:57
the Charleston area late tonight. Could be some lee, lingering showers or flurries
38:00
early tomorrow morning. But the big deal after that, Brian's going to be
38:05
the temperatures. And it is going to be bone chilling cold, my friend.
38:07
Yes, we're gonna have cold. We're not gonna we haven't had this
38:12
kind of cold since, you know, the since twenty twenty two of Christmas,
38:16
you know, So we're gonna have single digits from lows on Wednesday morning.
38:22
I think we'll be around seven eight degrees here in Aaron, Charleston.
38:27
You're gonna see wind chills are going to be around five degrees below zero in
38:30
some cases higher up to get in the mountain in West Virginia, you know,
38:34
fifteen to twenty degrees below zero for the extremes. But you know it's
38:37
gonna be one of those mornings. Listen, that's the morning that you also,
38:42
a lot of schools on Wednesday will delay or in some case they might
38:45
even close. The ol delay schools because you can't get all those buses warmed
38:50
up. Anything that's melted is solidly frozen. A lot of times. You
38:53
know, your your salt's not working too well, so you've got that going
38:58
on. But it's gonna be mostly sunny for the day. I mean,
39:00
you're gonna need the sunglasses that day. Thursday, we warm up to the
39:02
mid thirties oo heat waved. But but then on Thursday night going into Friday,
39:08
we get some light sun showers that one's could be a one to two
39:10
inch system, maybe three in a couple of spots. I think one to
39:14
two will be a general rule of thumb for possibly Friday. And you know,
39:20
and that's on the you know, that's right on the edge of an
39:22
Arctic blast that comes back in for the weekend. But just know this weekend
39:25
will be the last one. We will be the last time for this big
39:29
cold because next week we'll be in the forties and fifties for high Yeah,
39:32
I heard you talking about that this morning. So we can just hold on
39:36
and get to the next couple of days. By like midweek next week,
39:38
Brian, you said, we're going to be in the mid fifties, right,
39:40
mid to upper fifties. Possibly, everything's gonna be melted off. We
39:45
don't to worry about any of the snow hanging around, so you know,
39:46
the ice things that nature. Yeah, it's gonna be nice all next week,
39:51
but we do expect in the long range forecast, and you know,
39:52
once they get past today probably or at some point later today, we're going
39:57
to get back into our longer range and try to nail down much of February.
40:00
But much of February will be quite cold well, and it is winter
40:04
time, you know, keep that in mind. We've been we've been kind
40:06
of spoiled the last couple of years because you mentioned that really cold snap we
40:09
had around Christmas in twenty twenty two, and but we haven't had a whole
40:14
heck of a lot so well, Brian, you and Spencer and an entire
40:15
team there, Chris, keep doing what you do. You know, I
40:19
was hanging out in your studio Friday afternoon. You know I was. I
40:22
was on there. I was on the premises Friday afternoon. No one told
40:25
me about this. I'm very upset I did not get to see you.
40:29
But you know, see, my desire here is to be the king of
40:31
all media like you are. You know, I've got some TV spots that
40:35
are running on your station. I understand. I was talking to Mark.
40:37
I've got an upcoming appearance on Inside West Virginia Politics. I'm coming for your
40:42
job. Brian. Well, here's the deal. There's there's always that.
40:45
You've got a check mark, a couple of boxes. There has to be
40:47
a minor sex scandal and a in at least a stint in a brief stin
40:52
in a rehab. All right, so on you once you've done that,
40:55
your your next level. All right? Sounds good, Brian? As always,
41:00
man, I mean, in all seriousness, do you guys just do
41:02
a fantastic job, you and Spencer, Chris and everybody there. So keep
41:06
doing what you do. We'll talk againsuon my friend. Thanks a lot,
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or visit Meeks as we've got a couple of big events going on. I
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want to let you know about. First of all, this coming Thursday,
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the first time we've done this. We're teaming up with the sponsor at the
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show, the thorn Hill Lootter Group, to do with something we're calling the
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Drop your Socks drive through. Now we're going to be out on the cold
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parking lot Thursday here to eleven at eleven Virginia Street, Eastern Charleston, and
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we're asking you to bring new socks to us. It's not your old ones,
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okay, some new ones and packages. You can bring us a single
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package or you can bring us four or five boxes and socks. Whatever you
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you can afford. We're going to give it to actually teeing up with folks
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a mountain mission for this, So get your socks to us again. My
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about it last week comments sister station ninety six to one Superstar Country KWS.
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But we're all going to be involved in this. We team up with Thornhillotter
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early, before you go to work on Thursday morning. Also this weekend the
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And on the show on Wednesday, we're going to have someone on talk
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about the West Virginia Hunting Division Show, which is this weekend at the Connelseum
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As I mentioned earlier, new school today, courthouses, city halls, banks,
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post offices, et cetera. All closed. Several events are planned in
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the area to commemorate the King Holiday. One just got underway at the Culture
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Affairs. Also today at the Martin Luther King Community Center Donnalley Street. Here
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in Charleston, there is event scheduled to begin about six minutes from now.
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This one is sponsored by the Links Corporation of Charleston, the Charleston Institute Chapter.
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This one is really aimed at kids who are out of school today.
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Our sister station what O seven three, the Beat, Woody Woods and g
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and DJAK Right, those folks have been really really active in helping to promote
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this particular event. Again. It gets underway at the King Community Center on
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don Lee Street starting at ten this morning. Several other sponsors are included,
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including the City of Charleston on that I've got information posted about that one at
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Dave Allen Radio and Facebook and the Dave Allen Show on x the artists formerly
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known as Twitter and their story about several of the other big events that are
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going on in this area and other areas around the state. Because it actually
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was started over the weekend. Mike Knowlton's got that story posted at wv metronews
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and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Well Mayor Goodwin is set to
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do her State of the City speech tomorrow night. Now, normally it's held
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as best I recall, and I could be wrong about this, but it's
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normally held a little closer to the beginning of the new year. But with
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the New Years and the holidays, Christmas and New Year's you know, falling
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on a Monday, presuming that's why it was moved up a little bit.
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Mayor Goodwin will be on the show tomorrow to talk about it. You know,
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the year twenty twenty here I am twenty twenty three was a fantastic year
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for the City of Charles. Lots of good things going on, but some
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some other things not so good. That comes from being the or just the
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city in the say of West Virginia, in the capital city. So what
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is twenty twenty four hold, Well, we're going to find out by talking
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to Mayor Goodwin on the show tomorrow to gain her State of the City speech
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will be tomorrow night. Also, I mentioned this earlier tomorrow, Judge Mary
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Claire Acres, the husband of new delegate from the fifty fifth JB. Acres,
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Mary Clare Acres, is going to be on the show tomorrow as well.
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And you know Ryan, you know I love to talk food. Well,
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there's going to be a chili cookoff happening soon in South Charleston. Talked
49:21
to Randy and those sign folks at the City of South Charleston about that a
49:24
couple of weeks ago. So we've lined up somebody to talk about that coming
49:29
up on the show tomorrow as well. And with the temperatures that we are
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going to be what we've already seen and with the snow and with the you
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know, when you head out to work Wednesday morning, it's going to be
49:39
five degrees with a windshill. Much is lower than that. Good time to
49:43
talk chili, it really is. I want to mention this. I've been
49:47
keeping an eye on this story out of Wheeling. Now. I know I
49:52
don't generally concern we don't generally concern ourselves on this show with things going on
49:57
in Wheeling being so far away. This one is a little different because it
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actually deals with an issue that we also face here in Charleston and for that
50:07
matter, several other communities here in the Kenawh Valley as well. And of
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course I'm talking about homelessness. Now. We have a story posted about this
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at the website wv metronews dot com. The American Civil Liberties Union the ACLU,
50:23
says that they may take legal action against the City of Wheeling regarding the
50:30
city's treatment of the homeless population. They're in Wheeling now, the city has
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had a plan to demolish homeless encampments, and this is not something Again,
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this is why I'm kind of tying this back into Charleston, because you remember
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this was a thing in the news with former Mayor Danny Jones at one point.
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But the city has a plan moving into the new year. They actually
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passed this toward the end of last year, and this new regulation basically from
50:55
what I understand, basically outlaw and camping unless you're in the woods and you're
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an actual camper. So they pass this legal action, and so now the
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ACLU is going after the City of Wheeling regarding this. On Friday, the
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American Civil Liberties Union said they are giving the City of Wheeling until tomorrow,
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in their words, to quote rectify constitutional issues end quote with that new city
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ordinance that went into effect again with the passage and the flip of the calendar
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in twenty twenty four. Arby Sparks, who is the director of the ACLU
51:34
of West Virginia, says the ordinance criminalizes being homeless, and that, Spark
51:38
says, is unconstitutional. Now you may have heard Wheeling Mayor Elliott on the
51:43
show with Hoppey talking about it from time to time. We'll see what happens
51:47
here, because again the ACLU sent this letter and I know it's Wheeling,
51:52
but it has ramifications perhaps for other cities including Charleston, around the state of
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West Virginia, so we'll see what happens. The ACLU has given the city
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of Waeling un till tomorrow, as they said, to rectify this situation.
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Read more about it's a pretty involved story over wv metro news dot com.
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We'll keep an eye on it for you, all right, gotta go.
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Thank you to our guests on the show today, the new delegate from the
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fifty fifth jb Acres, meteorologist Brian Hughes from Storm Tracker thirteen, and Nashley
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Offered Glance from the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce. Coming up on the show
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tomorrow again, we're gonna be talking chili with the South Charleston Chili cook Off
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Charleston marre Amy good Nor will stop buy as well as Judge Mary clear Acres.
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Keep a close eye on the weather and keep it take it easy on
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the roads. They are still and they're going to remain slick for some time.
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Hobby's coming up with talk line at ten oh six. I will see
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you tomorrow morning. Till then, have fun and love somebody whs A W
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