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11/06/2023 The Dave Allen Show - Steven Allen Adams, Terry Burns, and Mayor Amy Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Chapmanviille. Coming up a little bit later on the show, Terry Burns is
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new candidate stick at his foot in the water. We'd talk to him a
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little bit later on. Plus, we get our monthly visit from Mayor Amy
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Schuler Goodwood on the Mayor Monday. That's coming up a little bit later on
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in the show. Want to welcome into the show first though, our good
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friend from aug the newspaper, Steven Allen Adams. Good morning, sir,
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how are you? Good morning? I guess if the mayor is going to
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be here, then it's not like last week where I got the facto take
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over the entire Canal Valley as the acting mayor. No, no, she's
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she's back. So now you know you are no longer the mayor. Well
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you have been. You have been upended from your your position. We've got
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a new title for you man, your public enemy number one in the world
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of media. Of course, I'm referring to the controversy that developed between you
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and I understand there's been, you know, a little bit of a peace
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offering now between yourself and the State Center and candidate for Attorney General Mike Stewart
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on this very show last week. Mister Stewart said, we'll say this and
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we'll move on to other things. He says he doesn't necessarily have a problem
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with media members, I guess, like myself or hobby, because we don't
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portray ourselves, in his words, as journalists, but more of opinion holders.
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And I've said from day one doing the show, I am not may
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have been a journalism major, but I'm not a journalist by any true I
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don't really know what I am, but I'm not a journalist. But took
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some issues with the way you had covered certain things. You care to address
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that, no one move, of course. Yeah. I won't talk about
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the specifics of our conversation because that was off the record, but it was
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a very good conversation and we talked it out. I mean, I have
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a weird kind of position where I write daily and cover things daily, but
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I do have a weekly column that I use for news analysis. I try
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to take a look at political situations, kind of take a look at it
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using my background in history and as a reporter and as a former state government
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media flat once upon a time, and kind of take a look at the
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sore stuff. There are a couple of things that he had taken personal which
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were not meant to be personal. And again, we talked this sour stuff
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out, which is what should have happened all along anyway, versus having it
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get splattered on social media. But we're good, and I think we're at
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a good place right now. And that's really how you got to do it
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with that sort of thing because you were just better off, especially when you
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have those type of beefs to get that behind you. It's not good for
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a candidate because it's hard to fight with people, you know, the old
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adage. You can't fight with people that can buy ink by the barrel or
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people with you know, fifty thousand WAT transmitters exactly exactly. But you know,
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you got to build those type of relationships up. So hopefully that puts
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all that stuff away and things will be calm from here on out. Yeah,
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and that's that race for Attorney General, I think. And there's I
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mean faces Stephen. I mean, and I mentioned this to somebody. I
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think it was on the show last week. I said, look, come
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January twenty twenty five, when when everybody knew other than Kent Leenheart, the
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entire board of Public Works is going to be somebody different unless something major changes
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between now that I mean, it's going to be including the governor. Yeah,
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I mean, and I'm sure I'm not a Westernginian history, and you're
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much much more so than I am. On that I'd like to go back
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to and find out has has it ever happened? That way that you had
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that many people that were that were new to the border PubL Works not in
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some time. And I made a point a long time ago to people back
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in twenty sixteen, back when you first had JB. Mccusky running, Mac
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Warner running, others running. You know, we had you know, Republicans
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took the entire Board of Public Works that year except for one and that was
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John Purdue, the state treasure at the time. And I had made a
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point then, you know, man, the bench, we don't have much
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of a bench yet as far as the Republicans for those type of positions,
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well they got one now. And to the point where you've got multiple seats
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now that are being contested, and you've got you know, people that have
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been in politics for a while, You've got some young people that are getting
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in those races, and you know, it's creating people butting heads. We've
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already seen some friendships kind of kind of ruined the world and JB. Mccusky
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thing as an example of that. And yeah, it's just it's a very
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contentious thing. So not only do we have people that can run for those
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seats, but we multiple people and contested primaries and that always creates friction.
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It does, it does. Indeed, an now what we're seeing this is
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not that different than what the Democrats did for eighty three years. I mean
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when you think about it. But now, I was at an event this
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past week that Senator Craig Blair was there, and he was just talking about
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the state of politics of West Virginia and apparently, you know, there are
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people and you know who I'm talking about, there are people in the legislature
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that don't think that the leadership be at Hanshaw or Blair or tar throw him
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in there aren't right wing enough. Oh yeah, they wanted to take it
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further, right. Oh, it's great that you bring it up, because
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I showed, like an AP reporter in the state this old headline from around
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twenty ten where Craig Blair was pushing drug testing for welfare recipient. So I'm
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like, this is a guy who is now considered to be a Rhino now
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and very much a moderate to liberal Republican, and this is a guy that
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ten years ago was doing that. So now you have to really be the
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Craig Blair's right to say that he's not right enough. And that's the situation
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we have right now, we are seen some factionalization. You see it in
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the legislature of people that would be normal conservative Republicans ten years ago that are
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now being considered the moderates, and you've got people further to the right of
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that, and it is creating a lot of friction. And we'll see after
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twenty twenty four whether it gets better or it gets worse. Growing pains basically,
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I mean, and you could easily have predicted this was going to happen
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again. We're talking to Steven Allan Adams from Ogden Newspapers. Since you and
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I last talked, Steve Williams has made it official or as official as you
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can in November that he is going to be running for obviously made the announcement
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that he would be running on the Democratic side in race scene at the Labor
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Day picnic. But he's come out more so now. And of course not
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every not anybody's an official candidate, I guess till January, but he's going
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to run. I had him on the show last week, and you know,
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I think it was maybe Monday of last week when I was kind of
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giving a game plan off the top of my head for the things that I
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thought that Steven Williams would have to do. Steve Williams would do if he
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was going to have a chance to win the governor ship. Comes on the
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show whatever day. I had him on Wednesday or Thursday last week, and
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I said, one of the things he has to do is he has to
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denounce the National Democratic Party. But I got it. He did it on
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this show last week. He pretty much said, I think the words were
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in talking about the AOC's of the world and the others. He said,
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they're not going to be buying me lunch, and nor would I accept it.
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So he did exactly that. He basically said I'm not a part of
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them. Yeah. We had him on the Mountain State Views podcast and he
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said kind of the same thing. He said he was a fiscal conservative,
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he is limited government, he is free market, and he loves Ronald Reagan.
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Yeah, then getting a lot of the people in the far right right
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now don't love Reagan anymore. Reagan is considered a rhino to something. But
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point being, he made sure to kind of burnish the fact that he doesn't
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care about des and ours and really in his city, he's not been a
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partisan that I've really seen so, I mean, I think he's proved it
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as it should be. By the way, his hoppy point out is commentary
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today. In his background is business and finance, and he's just not a
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partisan in the typical way. He is really kind of more of what West
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Virginia's kind of expect from a Democrat. And yeah, he's really kind of
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backed away from the hard left stuff that has kind of latched onto the state
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about this opioid settlement money and some criticism that not everyone Stephen has been fully
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upright on some of the meetings that were scheduled. There were some people that
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I think were a little bit concerned about there talking about this West Virginia First
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foundation You're taking them. Yeah. I followed someone that on social media.
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You have Katie Coin with West Virginia Watch that had been spent pretty much Friday
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and Saturday trying to chase this down. Now there's going to be a meeting
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scheduled actually in the next little bit, Yeah, nine thirty. It's going
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to be over at the Truest Building. It is now a public meeting,
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but there was some question as to whether it was going to be a public
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meeting or whether their meetings were going to be public at all. There is
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something in their memorandum of understanding that basically says our meeting should be public,
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whatever that means, because that should, you know, could also mean well,
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maybe it should not. You had people that were on the committee talking
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about this meeting and hoping it would be public, but nobody knew. And
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we still haven't ever gotten a media advisory saying one way or the other.
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The only thing we've seen is a social media post that was pushed by the
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Attorney General's spokesperson. So now we know it is open to the public.
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And actually, while we're sitting here, we just got a media advisory from
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the Attorney General's office for a media availability with Western Unity First Foundation board members
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this afternoon at four o'clock at the Attorney General's office. So it's a little
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I guess better late than never, but it would have been certainly nice to
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have some proactive efforts to reach out, particularly to meeting, because there's a
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lot of eyeballs on this right now and we're a billion dollars. Yeah,
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with our state right now being one of the biggest victims of the opioids and
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substance use disorder and that sort of thing, one billion dollars can go a
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long way to turn them some things around. So we need some transparency on
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it, and they should have been proactive. And the excuse Return General gave
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me on social media on direct message was well, so they're just now organizing,
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which is true. They don't have an executive director yet. This is
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literally their first meeting and that's part of what's going to happen today, right,
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That's exactly that they're going to accept their organizational rules and how they're going
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to operate that sort of thing. But in lieu of that, then I
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think it's Theryan General's officers job to put out media advisory at the end of
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last week saying there's going to be a meeting come cover it. Does that
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mean that some of this could be taken into executive session today, that there
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could be certain parts of them. Yeah, I'd say about half the meeting
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will be I think they're going to the first half up until lunch time will
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be public, and then after that they'll do some things in executive session.
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Yeah, and as you said, the eyes of the nation literally are watching
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West Virginia right now because of the huge settlements that coming here. We're talking
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about well over a billion dollars and that they've got to figure out how to
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distribute this and who gets it and so on and so forth. That's why
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there's been so many again, not just West Virginia's eyes, there's media across
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the country that are looking at this. Yeah, it's it's a hiccup.
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And I will say I don't think it's intentional, but it also kind of
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it's not like they have a lot of experience with this either, you know
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what I mean. That's right, but it does kind of put every you
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know them on a bad footing with the media right now. Yeah, which
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is something that no one, I don't think whats right now? What else
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are you looking at? What's on your agenda today, Steve Sure, I'm
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going to be kind of looking into There is an alternative plan being put out
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there by a group of anonymous business faculty from WU on how to get to
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the same forty five million dollars savings that W is looking at through their academic
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trans information and these job losses and things that they're doing right now that would
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do it without having to shut down any of the academic programs or get rid
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of any professors. And it's a very interesting document. I'm trying to track
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down who came up with it, and I'm trying to track down and see
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if W might possibly be taking it seriously because it involves getting rid of a
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couple of leadership positions, and at least one of them is already going out
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the door to be robbousop. So it's a very interesting document. I'm trying
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to get to the bottom of it. And a reminder where people can read
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your stuff. Sure, Parkers Producing Sentinel, We're Wheeling Intelligencer and News.
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Register to weird in Daily Times, the Inner Mountain and Elkins the Martinsburg Journal,
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and you can follow me at Steven AAMSWB on x formerly Twitter well and
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as we are right now, I mean, you know when you talk about
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the newspapers, everything's online, everything, everything's X now formally Twitter. As
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you said, so you're you're everywhere. I am everywhere you and whether you
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there would be one wherever awhere no matter what. All right, Steve and
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welcome into the show Terry Burns, who is a Republican candidate for a House
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of Delegates District fifty three. Is that right? Yeah? Fifty three?
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All right, Terry, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here.
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Nice to be here. Thank you. First of all, tell us,
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Terry, what makes up District fifty three? What areas were talking about?
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We're talking Camel's Creek, Witcher's Creek, Kelly's Creek, a little bit
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of Charleston, not a whole lot, but those areas. So tell us
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about Terry Burns. Who is Terry Burns? Give us a bio. I
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have lived and grew up in Camels Creek my entire life, so basically it's
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about sixty three years. I was born and raised there. I'm still there.
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What is your profession? What have you done? Are you retired or
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what are you doing? I am retired from the Division of Highways after almost
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twenty years. What kind of worked did you with the divisional Highways? The
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last job I had? I actually trained our highway and in our inspectors for
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construction. Gonna say, because when you're part of the Division Highways, you
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do a little bit of everything, don't you. Yeah, that's it's a
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big, big, organization and there's a lot of different jobs in that organization.
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So with that, then at this point in your life, as you
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said, you're retired and family, you got all I mean wife and daughter,
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wife and daughter. Okay, why do you want to be a member
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of the legislature. I just think West Virginia can do better than we're doing.
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There's a lot of areas that needs fixed, and I don't think they're
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getting the attention that they need to be getting right now. Recently, the
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water company is asking for a big rate increase, which is nothing new for
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the water company. But I don't think the PSC really represents the people anymore,
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and I think that needs to be reorganized. I think the Welfare and
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Social Services d h HR, I think that needs to be reorganized. Division
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of Highways, I believe, is more corrupt now than it's ever been.
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Really oh yeah, it's really bad now. I mean you got the commissioner
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gives his son jobs and they don't think there's anything wrong with that. I
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think that ought to be investigated. I think it ought to be looked at
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and find out exactly what happened these things that you're talking about. Do you
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think that you would have help from some of the other legislators. I mean,
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if you talk to them already have some of will be on board or
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what I've talked to Mike Stewart a little bit about it. I think he
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would be on board with it. I think everybody needs to get involved with
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it. I don't as far as the PSC goes, I don't think the
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radar increases are going to stop until the legislature steps in and stops it.
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Water Company's got something like fifteen rate increases in the last ten years or so.
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That's got to stop. West Virginia's got poor people that can't afford that.
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Now they're to play Devil's advocate here, Terry, they would say,
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And I've heard their spokespeople say that it's because of infrastructure, because they have
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to They've got to be able to upgrade, to act to in order to
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better serve their customers. Your thoughts on that, well, my thought would
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be, if I have a restaurant and my ice cream machine breaks, I
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can't raise my rates to fix my ice cream machine. That comes out of
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my pocket. So at what point does the repairs come out of the Water
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Company's pocket. Who's making millions millions of dollars every year off of us.
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We give them our water. It's after a resource we give them. They
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are to treat that and then they sell it back to us. But half
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the water, not half, but a lot of the water that they treat
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doesn't make it to our outlets. So why are we not charging them for
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the water that doesn't materialize? I mean, if they had to pay for
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the water that you can't account for, I'll bet you they would be Johnny
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on the spot to go out and fix the water leaks. Talking with Terry
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Burns, who again is a Republican candidate for House of Delegates in District fifty
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three. So getting back, I hate to keep harping on this whole water
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issue. But now there was a public hearing I think that was held last
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week. How well was that attended? I think there was. They had
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like fifty three comments. Okay, there was quite a few people there.
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Because the reason I say that, Terry's because sometimes you know, when they
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have these public hearings, whether it's water companies or any other public entity,
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what normally what sometimes happens is is people are all up in arms over it,
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but life happens, and they get kids and they get jobs and they
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got so on and so forth. They don't always get an opportunity to attend.
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But I mean that's a pretty healthy number in my opinion. Yes,
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there was about fifteen people that actually spoke out against the water rate increase,
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which I think is way above normal than what actually usually attends. But again,
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I don't think that the PSC really takes anybody serious. I mean,
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everybody sits there like not on log and they don't answer questions that they basically
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sit there and listen to everybody complain. And I think their minds are already
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made up before the hearing ever takes place. I mean Charlotte Lane came out
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and started making excuses as to why the water company ought to get the rate
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increase before they even have the evidentiary hearing. I think their minds are already
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made up. And I think it's going to take the legislature to stop it.
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And again, there's a way, maybe we make them make a pay
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to actually apply for a rate increase. Maybe it's ten percent of what they're
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asking for, because everybody knows if they ask for three hundred million, they're
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looking for one hundred million. They're always asked for more than they get,
23:07
right, yeaw Terry, What experiences have you picked up You mentioned that you
23:11
were retired from the Department of Highways, But what experiences have you picked up
23:15
there or anywhere else in your adult life that you think would make you an
23:19
effective legislator? You know, I don't. I think if you if you
23:23
just connect with the people. You're there to represent the people. So the
23:29
majority is supposed to rule. So if you talk to your constituents and they
23:33
say this is what we would like to see, I think you need to
23:37
go and look and see. Is it possible to do that? Now?
23:41
Obviously you can't do it by yourself because you're one of a hundred, you
23:45
know, But I think if you get other legislators involved, I think you
23:48
can get the ball rolling. And I think as you get older, I
23:52
think you learn things life experiences, yes, life experiences, and you have
23:57
to figure out how to work with people get things done right. And I
24:02
think I can do that. So you've spent a little time talking about,
24:06
uh, the Public Service, Commission of Water and things of that nature.
24:10
What are some other priorities if you're elected to the House that you'd like to
24:12
work on. I think that the d HHR and our child services really need
24:18
to be looked at. I know of two families now who had kids taken
24:25
away, and the d HHR never never even attempted to find out if there
24:30
was a family member that would take those children. They automatically put them into
24:33
foster care. One of them was lucky enough to have enough funds that he
24:37
went and got a lawyer, and it took him two years, but he
24:41
finally got his grandchild. That shouldn't happen. And my question would be,
24:45
how many more of those seven thousand kids in foster care could be living with
24:51
a grandparent right now, But but they can't because DHR decides we're not gonna
24:56
We're not gonna look, We're just gonna do what we want to do,
24:57
and we don't care about the kid, we don't care about the grandparents.
25:00
I think there are family members out there that can take some of these children
25:03
we have in foster care. What about the prison system that's been I mean,
25:07
we've seen this story and horrific stories over the last week or two that
25:11
have come out of the Southern Regional Jail in Beckley, and there's been some
25:17
heads rolling there. As far as you know, people facing criminal charge and
25:19
things of that nature. Talking generally speaking about the prison system, the correction
25:23
system in West Virginia, therey, I think it needs to be looked at
25:26
as well. I mean, the governor says he didn't know anything about it.
25:32
I don't know how you couldn't know anything about it when you've had complaints.
25:34
There had to be complaints went to the governor's office about the prison system.
25:38
I know the legislature instituted some raises for correction officers. I think that
25:42
will help. And a lot of this maybe happened because we didn't have any
25:48
correction officers in place. So maybe if you have enough people working in the
25:52
jails, maybe you could help some of this stuff and keep it from happening
25:56
again. But you have to have somebody at the top that knows what they're
26:00
doing too, and I don't know, we didn't have that. We may
26:03
have it now, but we didn't have it then. And I think that
26:07
has a lot to do with a lot of this, and that goes all
26:10
through state government from the from the top all the way down. I mean,
26:12
there's leadership that just doesn't know what to do. I mean exactly when
26:18
I worked for Division Highways. During my career, there was at least four
26:22
occasions when I was told it's not your job to save the taxpayers money.
26:27
If it's not an employee's job to save money, then whose job is it?
26:32
It should be every employee's job to save the state money. I mean
26:36
the state is the taxpayers. One would think, yes, we work for
26:40
them, I mean we should be saving them money if we can't. But
26:44
that's not the way the leadership thinks anymore. It's a bit early now again,
26:49
you can't even officially file until January, but you've announce said, what
26:52
do you anticipate your campaign? Looking like, I'm sure you're probably already out
26:56
there working now, but what do you anticipate the campaign? Are you going
26:59
to be a door locker going door to door, attending political forums a little
27:03
bit of each? What do you plan to do? I would like to
27:06
knock on doors. But the problem with knocking on doors now is this this
27:10
area you're talking about, Camill's Creek, Kelley's Creek, Waitress Creek. You
27:12
know there's there's houses that are spread apart. You people have dogs, that
27:18
sort of thing. You have to be careful. A lot of people don't
27:21
want strangers knocking on their doors, right, yeah, yeah, I mean
27:23
you just have to be careful. So, I mean it may be internet
27:27
ads and can't go wrong with radio ads, you know, No, no,
27:30
it can't do as be a good thing. We got a whole team
27:34
up there. I'm sure pounced up on you when you came in the building
27:37
this morning about that and eventually, now you do you have a website?
27:41
Do you have social media? Do you have all that? Is it coming
27:42
or what do you got? Yeah, I've got a website, Terry Burns
27:45
dot org. Okay, it's up now. Okay, I'll try to keep
27:48
it updated as we go along. But again, like you said, you
27:51
can't file till till January. Yeah, and we'll see how things go.
27:56
But do you anticipate it being a crowded field? There could be other people
27:57
running for the office or you know, I don't know if there will be
28:00
anybody else running really, I mean last time there was two people, okay,
28:04
you know, and Chris Print was one of them. He's running for
28:07
Secretary of State now, yeah, so he's left the door open. Uh.
28:11
Last time I ran for the Senate against the CUBO and you know,
28:15
the first time, I ever rank didn't spend a lot of money, but
28:18
I got three percent of the vote. So I thought, you know what,
28:22
let's just try the House of Delegates here and see what we can do.
28:25
And it's a smaller district'd be easier to get to, so we'll see
28:29
how good What did you learn in that race? He said that you ran
28:32
for Senate and it was a failed campaign. But what did you learn from
28:33
there? Your takeaways that you can utilize this time. There's there's people out
28:38
there that like to spend a lot of money to get elected for a job
28:41
that doesn't pay what they spend. Uh that that doesn't make any sense to
28:45
me. But I mean, you know, if you're want to if you
28:49
got a job it's gonna pay twenty thousand dollars a year, why do you
28:52
spend a million dollars to get it? You know, I know it's a
28:56
power thing for some people, but for me, it's not. For me,
28:59
it's it's just trying to help the people. And I think we if
29:03
everybody would think that way, and if candidates would get in the race and
29:07
their only thing would be to help the people, I think we would be
29:10
way better off than what we are right now, here's your final thirty Terry.
29:14
Why should somebody vote for Terry Burns for House of Delegates because I would
29:18
like to represent them. I think we can make West Virginia a better place,
29:22
and I think we can make the fifty third district a better place.
29:25
You know, we had some floods. There was people trapped in their houses,
29:29
didn't get any help for four or five days from power company, water
29:32
company, those types of things. I think we can change some of that,
29:36
but it's I need help, and it's going to take more than one
29:40
and it's going to take the voters to get involved to make the changes.
29:41
All right. If people are listening today and they like what you're saying,
29:45
how can they get ahold of you? Just go to your website website Terry
29:49
Burns dot org. They could give me a phone call. I think my
29:52
phone number is on the website as well. Okay, all right, just
29:56
call me up. All right, Terry, it's been pleasure getting to know
29:57
you can get your meet today. We'll talk against the best LUCKI your campaign.
30:02
Thanks at thanks a lot for having me, and I hope we can
30:03
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For a Republican to survive an election in West Virginia, they have to
33:22
pledge allegiance to a rapist and show they love the rapists more. How pathetic
33:27
Texas sounds like Terry's already made up his mind. If he's seriously considered the
33:30
water company issue, why doesn't he have an actual plan? Texas? Terry's
33:35
approach to governing is novel. If you get more people on your side.
33:37
You can legislate, genius. Why hasn't anyone else thought of that? According
33:42
to a Texter, uh, let me see. Texas is not sure if
33:47
PSC rules for public hearing, but with lawmakers they cannot respond. According to
33:53
a texture, Texture says, did your guests just say the Department of Highways
33:59
is more corrupt than ever? Hmmm? Tex says this guy makes sense.
34:02
He sounds like a Democrat. I don't know if Terry's still listened to the
34:07
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34:08
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Charleton Mayor Amy Goodwin is with us right now. Amy, good morning.
34:25
You were commenting on my producer Hollywood, Jeff Petty and how he's representing like
34:31
five different colleges of West Virginia State University with stinger on his sweat short thank
34:37
you and then go go heard Marshall University. Would you like to play for
34:43
Marshall because we can use you. We've we've dropped five in a row.
34:45
So if you'd like to revive that middle school football career, Hollywood Wicket,
34:51
you look like a football player. I actually, well, Dave actually nailed
34:54
it. I was a middle school football player at one point, got to
34:58
high school and discovered what partying was in my grade so well and being in
35:02
middle school. He was twenty seven in middle school, so they asked him
35:06
to lead. That's pretty much what the problem there was. I love it
35:08
all right. Well, you know, I got to say this real quick.
35:10
I was one of the judges mayor for the mac and Cheese event a
35:14
Capitol Market on Saturday benefiting the Childhood Language Center, thirty two different macaroni and
35:19
cheeses. And then I went to Nitro and did the Chili Fest for Joe
35:23
Stevens and the folks there and for Mayor case Bolts. It was hospice and
35:28
also some animal charities there. So I did thirty two mac and cheeses and
35:30
twelve chilis month on Saturday. Wouldn't you like to be my wife right now
35:35
Saturday night, wasn't that Hurbys really like what? Well, I will say
35:38
this. The Childhood Language Center, I know a little bit about them,
35:43
and you know, an agency that takes care of children with autism, Aspergers,
35:46
speech in language disorders, children with cochilar implants who are learning to speak,
35:52
and the challenges they're around. They're exceptional. I mean, they don't
35:57
charge their their patients, their clients, which are the littles I call them,
36:01
they have done monumental work. And the folks at Hospice, I mean,
36:06
jeff Zsichorowski is one of the best humans on the face of the earth,
36:09
and for good reason he's there. Folks at Hospice just do an amazing
36:14
job. Both of my families have been touched by both of those organizations.
36:17
And good for you, Good for you. You had a busy weekend.
36:21
I did. I had a busy weekend. Yeah, I bet you didn't
36:22
have to cook at home. No, I was good. I went home
36:25
outside you know, dans like, what do you want for dinner? I'm
36:28
like, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. For a while. So
36:30
there was a press conference. Mayor Hill too recently talked about the economic successes
36:32
of Charleston from the concerts and festivals and the Coloseum of convention Center. Let's
36:37
talk about the you know, it was it was a great opportunity for us
36:40
to highlight some of the things that we're doing at the coliseum and convention Center
36:45
and not only talk about that, but I did an op ed over the
36:49
weekend in the Gazette now about sports tourism and talking about the Capital Sports Complex,
36:54
which is actually I think you and I talked a little bit about it
36:57
the last time we were here. You know, we changed. You know,
37:00
I said when I got into office, to build a facility, and
37:02
the Jones administration did that. They built this beautiful facility at the Coliseum and
37:07
Convention Center. And I walked in and I felt my job was, Okay,
37:10
now I have to fill it. Now I have to go and say,
37:15
okay, we spent one hundred and you know plus million dollars on this
37:17
beautiful facility. How are we going to get the money back that we need?
37:22
And so we hired a professional organization ovg UH to come in because you
37:27
know, it's it's not friend business, it's show business. Let's let's get
37:30
acts in here. Tool. If you if you went or heard or saw
37:35
Tool this past weekend, my phone was blowing up. Apparently I was the
37:38
only person that didn't go to based on my social media. I mean,
37:43
man, everybody looks like and the leads and I'll admit I don't know the
37:46
first thing about the group Tool, but I will say that their their lead
37:50
singer was supporting a Jerry West Jersey forty four man. That's like totally in
37:54
touch. So you know, the and the thing about it is, you
37:58
know when we look at pre pays endemic numbers, we're crushing it now at
38:02
the Coliseum and convention Center. Not only were crushing at the Colosseum and Convention
38:07
Center, which has been fully updated. Of course, we need new seats
38:09
in our coliseum. That wasn't something that was done and we're working on trying
38:13
to figure out a way of how do we pay for that and get new
38:15
seats there because we host you know, boys basketball brings in millions as you
38:20
well know, Dave. But you know, the Municipal Auditorium is a facility
38:24
that we now know, you know, prior to OVG coming in and us
38:29
hiring a professional organization to come in, we were booking three, four,
38:32
five, six events a year. Now we're twenty six, twenty seven,
38:37
twenty eight. There is a niche for this. Somebody asked me over the
38:40
week and do we need the municipal Auditorium. The short well, the quick
38:45
answer is you better believe we do. But just as we have learned how
38:50
to fill the colisseum and convention center, we're learning what works at the municipal
38:55
Auditorium. You can't. And then the books, the acts that you Dave
39:00
Chappelle, Joe Coy, Nate Bargetzi, are you kidding me? I mean,
39:05
these are some of the best comedy acts you know on the circuit right
39:08
now, on topshow. Then you get somebody like Lana del Rey. So
39:14
it is, it is certainly there is a method to the madness of booking.
39:19
It is about connections. It's not just you know, it is banking
39:22
on those bread and butter things that you get. You get the home show,
39:25
and you get the car show, and you get the you know,
39:28
it's nice to have the but we the money comes from when people come in
39:32
to spend not only one night, but two nights. For us, the
39:37
more of the evening of the Lanna del Rey concert. My husband was up
39:40
at Walgreens and he was standing behind a mom and daughter who were maybe arguing.
39:45
She was teenager, he said, teenagers argue with their parents. Just
39:51
just smidge and I know this for a fact. And she said, no,
39:53
we'll go downtown and we're just going to get some snacks here, take
39:57
back to the hotel room. And of course my husband always likes ask,
40:00
hey, are you from out of town? You're in visiting. Oh,
40:02
yeah, we're here. We're here from Kentucky. We're here for the Londa
40:06
del Ray concert. That's what we want. That's exactly what we want,
40:09
that out of state revenue that's coming in. And I trust and I will
40:15
grant you that when they came in, they didn't just go for snacks for
40:17
the hotel. They probably I'm sure they did dinner. They're gonna do breakfast
40:21
the next morning. They're gonna get coffee. Absolutely, they're filling up their
40:24
gas, you know, their car with gas on the way, you know,
40:28
in or out of town. The return on investment that we have seen
40:32
from revamping the way, it's not just about listen, building things is easy.
40:37
It is. It's easy. You can build, I can, we
40:39
can build a beautiful building tomorrow a park. Let's use City Center at Slack
40:43
Plaza three plus million dollars for that park. I don't want to say it
40:47
was easy, but you you you hire good people and they build it,
40:51
filling it, making sure there's programming going on in it. And so that's
40:55
the challenging part because not only do you want to fill it brings life back
41:00
in the community. We've already received twelve million dollars back at City Center at
41:04
Slack Plaza because you build that park, build it, they'll come. Not
41:07
really build it, program it. Put the right people in to book things
41:14
to get the money back because oh, by the way, Dave, it's
41:15
your money. It's your money that built the coliseum and convention center, and
41:20
so how do we get that return on investment. The most significant thing is
41:24
we've proven that we can do it. We've proven that it works. You
41:29
know, you have to invest and spend some money to make some money,
41:31
but it's about investing in the right types of things. And that's why you
41:37
know, unanimous decision that city council when I went to them and said,
41:40
hey, let's build this sports Let's build a sports complex. You know over
41:45
in where the Macy's property is at the mall for those your listeners, Dave
41:49
who may not know where it is. Let's build it because the ROI is
41:53
significant. We're ting on investment. I mean it is. You know,
41:58
the sports tourism industry we have. I've lost so many opportunities by not having
42:02
a facility like this. The sports tourism industry was a nineteen nineteen billion with
42:07
a B industry in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Now it's over forty billion.
42:14
We want a piece of that pie. And our location is what is
42:16
significant. So yeah, we've taken a couple of victory laps over the past
42:22
couple of weeks, and for good reason. And it's not just Amy's patting
42:24
herself on the back. It's not me man who's booking these shows. It's
42:28
the people that we've hired and the people who were there working at Because I
42:31
say this all day long, I got seven hundred and fifty employees. I'm
42:35
just one City of Charleston worker. I'm just one. We've got an amazing
42:39
team that's churning and making these things happen. I want to ask you this
42:45
Mayor, because I've had several questions and comments about this to the show and
42:47
text, and I always said, I'll ask her when she's on. And
42:51
I know there was even some comments on your social media over the weekend and
42:54
has to do with the landfill and recycling. What's going on with that?
43:00
Are we on a lease for that? I've heard, because I've heard there's
43:01
there's information out there and I don't know what's true, what's not. Where
43:05
are the land Yeah, So the Environment and Recycling Committee had a great session
43:09
last week. I was unable to attend that meeting, but Chairman Burton,
43:15
Brent Burton, who does an amazing job on city Council, called that meeting
43:19
to order and they're talking about the expansion of the land because we're required to
43:24
write that we're running out of room, and so not only expansion of landfill,
43:29
but opportunities for recycling right here in the city of Charleston, rather than
43:34
trucking our recycling, which by the way, it's not just Charleston, it's
43:37
all of the communities around us. It is a requirement. It allgust to
43:42
Beckley is that right, it does currently now and we won't have to.
43:45
So that was something that really that people were really excited to hear that will
43:52
be you know, there's a cost savings to the City of Charleston and an
43:55
opportunity to not only have that cost savings but also to have an expansion of
44:00
recyclables and glass. Now they're trying to you know, they're still working out
44:07
on paper, but there is a better return on the value of recycling glass.
44:13
And so that's something that really peaked everybody's interest. And I got a
44:17
lot of comment not only DoD, I got a lot of Facebook comments.
44:20
I got a lot of texts like ooh, let me know and how can
44:22
I be involved? Because people are really passionate. We have an amazing green
44:27
Team committee and a great environment and recycling committee as well. Somebody I got
44:31
a text here through the show about the landfill, who actually owns a landfield
44:36
and is there release? I mean, how does that work? Yeah,
44:37
it is. We're working with waste management right now and we take all of
44:45
our refuse up to that site right now. But it is City of Charleston
44:51
and we're working to make sure the property is ours. The City of Charleston
44:54
will have that expansion. That's our property, but we're working right now to
44:59
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45:04
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Pinnacle Consultants because what you don't know can't hurt you. Mayor Amy Goodwin is
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here, Texas. Does the city have any policy that allows or prohibits and
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employee from promoting their personal business on city property? I need a little bit
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more information promoting their personal business on city property. Yeah, you can't.
47:30
You can't like a like a maybe a poster or a signer. I don't
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know. That's what the text says is, Yeah, nobody can. Nobody
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can do that. I mean you can't post like you know, I call
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them yard signs. If the texture is talking about that, yeah, I
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mean please call my office and let me know. But yeah, that's not
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something that I would I would say we would not take exception to Texas.
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Dave can ask the mayor if a few of the one hundred and fifty is
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fireworks shows and Charleston next summer could be replaced by drone light shows. Drone
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light shows, that's the thing, listen. I will say this. I've
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learned a lot in the past. Oh it's going on. It's going to
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be five years here soon, my first first year, my second term is
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almost up here before too long. And I have learned this to be absolutely
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true. The only people who love fireworks are the people who are at the
48:22
fireworks show period and a paragraph. Everybody else does not, and that includes
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my dog as well. So I appreciate more than you know, to your
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Texters and to your listeners. We've actually worked with folks to make sure that
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we have limited fireworks and firework shows. But I appreciate that there are some
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new technologies they do drones and light shows, and those are kind of Those
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are kind of cool too. I think that probably in the next couple of
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years, you'll see more and more people doing that, and maybe us as
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well Texas well. The Convince Center host cheerleading competitions for West Virginia High school.
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My gosh, I would love it. I would absolutely love to have
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them back. We used to. As your texture may know this already.
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It is one of the things that I would love. You know, we,
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by the way, we're all good neighbors right cities. You know when
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we say, and I mean this, a thriving Huntington is a thriving Charleston
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and thriving Dunbar. Thriving Charleston is helpful to Dunbar. But we compete on
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these things too. You know. We love to have track here, we
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love to have basketball here. In the return on investment we get from those
49:30
are substantial. I would love to have cheerleading that It's one of the things
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that we've talked about for years. It went to Huntington actually right before I
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took over, and I'm sorry we missed that opportunity. But I would love
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it because, just like we know with sports tourism, because cheerleading, by
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the way, is a sport times ten that cheerleaders and their coaches, female
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athletes travel with more people dave athletes. And so when I have a female
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athlete in the city of Charleston, I know that not just amy is my
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opinion, it's a fact done testified by the research that we had done and
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has been done all across the country. For every one female athlete, I
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get three additional people that travel with her. Is it mom? Is it
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sister? Is it grandmother? Is it an aunt who's coming with her?
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So I get more people in, which is a greater return on investment.
50:27
So when you're talking about traditionally female dominated sports all day long, we'll take
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them. Give me about twenty seconds on this because I want to talk about
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the city council now. But you just wrapped up a series of meetings called
50:37
Here to Serve. There's a summary posted of what you learned on the city
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social media. Give me about thirty seconds in your takeaway from that, and
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we'll talk about city council. I started it in twenty nineteen when I first
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became mayor, because I realized that not everybody can make it to city council
50:50
meetings. Heck, people are busy, people have a hard time with transportation.
50:52
So we had these here to Serve meetings all across the city of Charleston.
50:57
We had lots of people show up in person. It was opportunity to
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sit down with every single person. My requirement for those meetings are the city
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managers there, the city attorneys there, the Director of Planning. If you
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have a question in the City of Charleston, there's somebody there to answer it,
51:12
because nothing is more frustrating than calling an office and not getting somebody.
51:16
So we do those great, great opportunity to talk to folks. And I
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got to say it was a smattering of stuff. Small business owners or somebody
51:23
confused about a b and O that they had to pay, or somebody said,
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hey, I want this house torn down. How's that process work?
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Or hey, I have great idea, how can I implement it in our
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ten year plan that we're currently doing right now? Talk about City Council tonight.
51:37
So City Council tonight, there's a couple of really great things that are
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happening, not only City Appreciation Parking, which happens Saturdays from November twenty fifth
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through December thirtieth, but we're going to have on the agenda tonight something that
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we've been working on for quite some time now. A new company moving in
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the City of Charleston. Plus one hundred and twenty five high high paying jobs,
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professional jobs moving downtown City of Charleston. It's going to be discussed tonight
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and we're absolutely thrilled listen to have a vibrant and thriving community. Yes,
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you need to have the things there that these companies want and we're getting them
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all right. Mayor good ones. Always pleasure to have you on the show.
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Thank you, appreciate you being there. Coming up on the show to
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Mark Chris Wthrow for the Benny Keatam Shrine and Dave Hardy State Revenue Secretary who
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now is a candidate for Knan county'sir A judge, will be on the show
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tomorrow as well. Hoppy has got Chelsea Ruby, who currently owns the job
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that the mayor used to have is secretary. She'll be on the show among
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others. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love
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