Talkline| Oct. 29, 2025

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It's got a lot of news to get into.

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From yesterday the Fourth Circuit courts with a major ruling
involving the opioid case in huntingson the sale of John
Mansion Center Marion County can proceed, and w Medisine Children's
getting a big gift.

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All of that and more.

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Good Morning, Welcome into the program mentioned his talk line.

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Dave and TJ both in the Encode Insurance Studios South.

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Today.

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We are in the Charleston A studios this morning because
well I got to catch a flight with the thunder
and heard football team a little bit later this afternoon.
Not that that matters to you at all. Good morning
to you, Ja, Good morning sir.

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Nice to see you here. I'll deck down in your
green your green tennis shoes. I really like I've got
the green shoes.

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You gotta have on the proper attire for the travel
party later this afternoon.

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Were you guys eating tonight?

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You know that is Mark Martin's job.

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Part of his job description on the broadcast crew is
to find the best local eateries, so I lean on
his expertise such areas. I know tomorrow we're gonna go
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from where we're staying. Blueberry pancakes, blueberry everything. Blueberry is fantastic.
That's where we're going tomorrow. I mean, you can't go

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wrong with Benjamin's either, right, just going to Benjamin c
sure sure.

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My wife always says all you do on those trips
is eats.

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Yeah, that's kind of what we do when we were
not actually working. Welcome into the program, already in progress.
Betch your news talk line this morning from the Encove
Insurance Studios. Jake Link runs the video stream. Ethan Collins
is our audio producer. If you're listening in on one
of our great affiliates across the state of West Virginia.
Tony Magestr Going to join us, coming up just a bit.

(02:39):
He's the attorney, one of the attorneys representing the city
of Huntington, a major victory yesterday in the lawsuit against
the Big three drug manufacturers. We'll get into that. Stephen
Allen Adams all Good Newspapers, he's sitting by patiently. We'll
talk to him about a couple of things. Brad McElhenny
a little bit later on as well. Also, Rick Hildreth
is going to join us. He is the mid Atlantic

(03:01):
regional vice president for the American Federation of Government Employees.
I will talk to him about the government shutdown, because well,
we got I don't want to say two classes of employees,
that's not a real good description, TJ. But we have
employees who are furloughed and not getting paid, and we

(03:21):
have employees such as corrections officers at the Federal Penitentiary
at Hazelton.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You can't just not work. They're working and not getting paid.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, we'll talk about that, and the union pushing back
wanting that clean CR passed so they get this government reopened,
so we'll get in all that.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Unions and employees. Yeah, it's funny day. They don't care
about the politics. They want to work and get paid.
However that gets done, Yes, and if a clean cr
is there and we can get back to work today
and get a paycheck, boom path of least resistance. Well
that's not happened.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
And the thirteenth time they rejected that yesterday or it
failed to get the sixty votes necessary in the Senate yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
So we'll get into all of that.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
We're gonna get Tony Magestro on the phone, but let's
take a quick early break.

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That way we can.

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Spend some time with Tony, spend some time with Stephen
Allen and Stephen Allen Adams as well Dave and TJ.
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Met News talk Line Dave and TJ together in the
Encode Insurance Studios in Charleston. Yesterday, a major victory for
the City of Huntington in its lawsuit against the Big
three drug manufacturers in the opioid epidemic. The US Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a ruling vacating a
lower court's twenty twenty two decision that a marisurce Bergen,

(08:10):
Cardinal Health, and McKesson were not a public nuisance under
West Virginia law in the opioid epidemic. The case has
been remanded back to Circuit Court to be reconsidered. One
of the attorneys working on the case, as Tony Magestro.
He joins us on Metro News talk Line this morning. Tony,
good morning, thanks for joining us. Appreciate appreciate you coming on.

(08:32):
Put into context how and this isn't the victory, but
how big of a victory is this in this ongoing
legal battle to have.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
This case reconsidered.

Speaker 13 (09:01):
Because Metro's gonna go into a team's petto ads say,
the jumping, the really the goals in the West Virginia's
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(09:22):
federal says, because it's not like a victor were going
to cattle. It's a step in the right direction.

Speaker 14 (09:27):
This has been a journey that we'd been on since
twenty seventeen and a half of the city not into
the capital can vel pot see that's been.

Speaker 13 (09:35):
Really put onst as a real pity in the horse
Ben sent the re fls closing with a private company
set a horse past the real capacity Jos Tuesday to
give involved in the place. That means from anti ken
Aryan John Hoop host after Jack Kircly like the hospital

(09:56):
house in cant eastern section.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yes, I'm I do want to go back to the
Supreme courts. They had a chance our Supreme Court, Tony
had a chance to certify a question on this and
they punted.

Speaker 15 (10:07):
Was that a mistake?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Tony Majestro joining us one of the attorneys in Huntington's
fight in the opioid epidemic. So for us non legal
ease guys got to explain what the Fourth Circuit ruled
and how this is going to impact the case moving forward.

Speaker 11 (12:15):
From about.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
What yuh.

Speaker 16 (12:33):
Want?

Speaker 8 (12:34):
Want to stop.

Speaker 17 (12:39):
Quant about the.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Fine out.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
With that Fourth Circuit ruling, Go ahead. I was just
gonna say, with that Fourth Circuit ruling, how does that
align with other precedent from other circuits in the in
the country.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Talking to Tony Machestro, one of the attorneys representing the
City of Huntington in this case over the opioid epidemic,
and what's it stake here, Tony. The possibility that Huntington
could receive up to two and a half billion dollars
for a fifteen year abatement plan and that is huge
for a city that was ravaged.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
In the opioid epidemic. Talk to us about timeline, How

(16:12):
quick does this all happen?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
It is the lead story over at our website this morning,
WDV metro News dot com. Tony Magestro, one of the
attorneys working on the case representing the City of Huntington.
Thank you, Tony so much for joining us this morning.
Good work and we'll check in again as this case continues.
Tony Magestro, attorney working on that case. And again that's
the lead story this morning over at wvmetronews dot com.

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Also at WDV metronews dot com. This morning, Governor Morrisey
announcing a donation drive for matching funds for food banks.
And Snap benefits are about to dry up as well.
You know, government shutdown rolls on I.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Think twenty nine, day twenty nine, is that what we're
on twenty nine? Hey, and Snap bitter Look, Snap benefits
going to run out at the end of the week.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
That's going to impact some forty million Americans across the country,
about to two hundred and seventy one thousand here in
West Virginia. We'll get into the deep details of this
and a little bit with Brad mclelhenny. But Steven Allen
Adams all the newspaper columnists, Capital Reporter. He was at
the news conference yesterday as well, covering Governor Morrisey.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
He joins us in the studio this morning. Hey Steven, Hey, gentlemen,
how's it going going? Pretty well? Good idea, bad idea,
but raise it's something. It's better than nothing.

Speaker 18 (18:20):
I think some people would say, of course, it's only
assuming that the thirteen million that the governor has promised.
I mean, this is kind of like a pledge drive
in a way. They're they're going to do matching funds.
They want the public to donate to the two major
food banks, Mountaineer Food Bank and Facing Hunger Food Bank.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
They're going to split the donations.

Speaker 18 (18:39):
Evenly between each other, but they want to see those
food banks get combined, you know, thirteen million dollars, and
then the state will front another thirteen million dollars in matchup.
That's twenty six million dollars assuming that they're able to
get donations in pretty quickly. But that only covers about
half of a month's worth of snap benefits. And of
course these aren't going to snap it's not like you

(19:01):
can use these on your card. It's meant to provide
these food banks the ability to buy foodmediately, to be
able to assist people. They're going to have their SNAP
benefits pause, to be able to go to these food
banks and go to partnering food banks.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Local food banks get the food that they need.

Speaker 18 (19:17):
So it's better than nothing, for sure, But obviously some
aren't happy with The Democrats aren't particularly happy with it.
They want to state to just pony up between forty
five and fifty million dollars that were going to need
for the.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Month, which is what Louisiana did Republican administration. They funded
their SNAP. Yeah, just put it on the EBT card,
whatever you want to call it. Nothing changed, no food banks.
I wonder if the food banks can really handle the
distribution because most people go to the store use their cards,
and now it'll be the inverse of that, right.

Speaker 18 (19:45):
Well, I mean the way that they're getting around that,
because that's a good question we asked about that. That's
part of the reason the National Guard West Virginia National
Guards being mobilized. Up to two hundred members of the
Guard are going to be used for distribution and logistics.
They've done it before. They they do it during flow,
they've done it during COVID, so they already have experience
with this and they'll be able to help with some
manpower issues at the food banks. And I think that's

(20:08):
the way they're getting around that. I mean, the question is,
why don't we just fund it fully. I get the
impression that I think our officials, like the rest of us,
hope that this government shut down wraps up, hopefully next week.
I'm not predicting that by any stretch, but I think
people are wanting to pressure them ount you know, from SNAP,
from other things. You got the public employees. They also

(20:31):
said they want to clean cr You got insurance rates
that are going to like start to go up for
the open enrollment. I think they're hoping all these things
will pressure the federal government to open up. Because here's
the thing. We're putting two point five million already today
into these food banks because of this program. We're not
getting reimbursed.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
For any of that. So you're saying that there won't
be any kind of reimbursement as the FED would reimburse employees.
We're not going to get our normal SNAP benefit that
we would normally get from the federal government money we're
going through.

Speaker 18 (21:05):
Governor Morrissey said yesterday during the press conference that we
will not get reimbursed for the money that we're putting
into the state's food banks in this program on the
back end because of snap. They don't see that as
a possibility. So it's this money that's going to be gone.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's money well used, don't get me wrong, But again,
state's on the hook because the federal government's dysfunctional. Federal
employees are on the hook because the federal government is dysfunctional.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Get it together. Get it together, man.

Speaker 18 (21:37):
I think that's why they want to do it slowly
instead of just throwing thirteen million completely into it.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
They want a matching program.

Speaker 18 (21:44):
So they want the public, individuals, businesses, organizations the donate
to these two food banks.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
They did it smart.

Speaker 18 (21:50):
They could have sewed up source kind of like that
Donortor that donated one hundred plus million dollars directly to
the federal government to keep military employees, which there's ethical
issues involved with that. There's some ethical issues involved with
us too, but at least it's going directly to the
food banks versus to the state. And then the state
will match those funds because I think the state wants
to do this incrementally. So if the government shutdown ends

(22:12):
next week, it SNAP resumes, we're not out a whole
bunch of taxpayer dollars on the state in I still
got a lot of questions about the reimbursement.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
I mean, take it from contingency fund, take it from
Rainey Day. We take loans from Rainey Day all the time.
And if we fuel it into the SNAP program, I
would think the FEDS would make us whole. But I'd
defer to the governor.

Speaker 18 (22:29):
Well, and apparently this money is coming it's civil contingency,
governor's contingency money, but he said it's some sort of
leftover COVID funds.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 18 (22:39):
It surely can't be ARPA, but it's leftover COVID funds.
That's how they're doing this. But I think we know
and we don't have a solid number on it, but
there's more than enough money in the Governor's Civil Contingency fund.
Or you could just do this as a check and then,
of course, if the government shutdown ends, then you don't
have to have all that money sitting in there you

(22:59):
can pull it back and put it back in civil
contingency and have money left over. But I mean, and
who knows what will happen if this continues down the road,
maybe they'll do something like that.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Thirty seconds are the squirrels? Okay?

Speaker 18 (23:12):
I have asked about this, and I've been told both
directly by the governor and a spokesperson for Governor's office
that there is no squirrel genocide on the Capitol grounds.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Squirrel genocide. There is a ceasefire with the squirrels.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm glad we got that peace deal worked monumental piece
deal worked out. Steven Island Adams on the newspapers. You
can read his work in a publication near you. Yes,
next stop, But well, thanks for sticking around.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks showmen. Coming up, we're going to talk.

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Speaker 17 (24:03):
West Virginia Metro newsim Jeff Jenkins. A federal appeals court
says that dumping of millions and millions of opioid pills
into West Virginia, contributing to the opioid epidemic can be
considered a public nuisance under West Virginia common law. That's
different from Federal Judge David Faber's original ruling in that
case in twenty twenty two. Claimings Attorney Paul Ferroll says

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this isn't final victory for Huntington and Cable County, but
it's a step in the right direction.

Speaker 14 (24:27):
You know, this has been a journey that we've been
on since twenty seventeen on behalf of the city of
Huntington and Capibell County.

Speaker 17 (24:33):
Huntington and Cable County are seeking more than two billion
dollars from the Big three opioid distributors. The four Circuit
Court of Appeals also ruled the distributors can be held
responsible under federal drug laws. There's a green light now
for the Morrissy administration to go through with Friday's closing
with a private company selling for state owned hospitals to
that company. A Marion County Circuit judge refusing Tuesday to

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stop the sale the Mansion Clinic and Marion County, essentially
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transact of all four hospitals to Marx Development, including Mansion,
Hopemont Hospital, Jackie Witrow Hospital, on Lacoln Hospital. Governor Morrissey
was hopeful heading into Tuesday's court here.

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I get it that there are people that get concerned,
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Then we'll get into the text messages coming up just
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the video stream. W Medicine Children's Hospital received a transformational
gift yesterday from entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Golisano, a twenty
eight million dollar gift to accelerate the mission of the hospital,

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which will now be known as W Medicine Golisano Children's
Please Welcome to the program, President and CEO of W Medicine,
Doctor Michael Grace. Doctor Grace, good morning, thanks for joining us.
Appreciate you coming on this gift from Thomas Galasano. What
will it do for the hospital moving forward as it

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completes and strives to complete its mission of helping children
across the state.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
You talked about the mental health space with children. Talk
about that. What are you seeing? What's the need out there?
How does that manifest?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Talking with WW Hospitals President and CEO, doctor Michael Grace.
With this donation, the WW Medicine Children's will also join
nine other hospitals across the country in the newly created
Galasano Children's Alliance. So we're talking about Penn State Health, Children's,
University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Vermont Children's Hospitals.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
How will patience benefit from this alliance? Una, Yeah, I

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want to focus in on this alliance. I was watching
a documentary a while back talking about the Mayo brothers
and their dad and the Mayo Clinic and how doctors
would come from around the country, around the world to
the Mayo and they would all exchange ideas and new
procedures and techniques. I would think with this alliance, the physicians,
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those folks to share excesses failures learn from each other
that kind of thing. Doctor Michael Grace is joining us.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
He's WW Hospitals President and CEOW Medicine Children's receiving a
twenty eight million dollar gift will now be known as
WW Medicine Dolisano Children's. Doctor Grace what impressed mister Gallisano
about WW Medicine children so much that he said, you
know what, I would be part of this. Many of

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us don't have the means that mister Gatlessano has, but
we may want to help. Maybe someone's listening to this
conversation and they like what they're hearing. They want to
drop you a couple hundred bucks. How does someone do that?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
How do they get involved in as an average person
and further the mission of WU Children's.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Doctor Michael Grace, W Hospital's president and CEO. We've got
the details of the story post at WV metronews dot com.
Twenty eight million dollar gift to W Medicine Children's now
known as WW Medicine Colisano Children's Not Grace, congratulations, appreciate
you coming.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
On this morning. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Absolutely coming up other side of the break, mister Meadows
and his commentary this morning pointing out the obvious, but
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Speaker 2 (40:03):
A couple of texts three oh four talk three oh
four guys, I was a Democrat, but they've gone off
the rails on this government shutdown. I hope that all
forty million people within the country and West Virginia that
are intentionally affected by the Democrats do like I did.
I changed parties and for sure will never vote Democrats again,
says the Texter. Uh three or four talk three oh four.

(40:26):
Your guest has never visited Oceania.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
There used to be a.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Town and small cities that are no longer there. All
of the coal fields were decimated. Big Farma needs to
be held accountable for everyone, not just a city here
or there. Sure the surviving cities deserve something, but the
people do too. To make things right, the surviving families
should get a monthly payment for living through the surmoil
and money lost due to Big Farmer's intentional actions. We
need a big class action suit that represents the people,

(40:50):
not only the local governments.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
We had one, Yeah, we had one.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Huntingson's the one Huntington opted to go on this and
this Capital County and that as well.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
They are they opted to go alone though. Yeah, that's
why this case is still going on with which.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Could have been a gamble, I guess right, But it
seems to be paying off to this point because we
have the opioid settlement money. That's where you get the
West Virginia First Foundation and what it's trying to do
and distributing that.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
So, yeah, we did have a class action. You could
put four billion, double it, put four billion, put eight billion,
And I don't know that you can fully repair the damage.
If I'm being frank, Do you remember I will never
forget this, and I can't remember the year. I say
I'll never forget. I can't remember what the year was.
But the image it's really either the low point or
the high point of the opioid epidemic, however you want

(41:34):
to look at it.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
But crime had gotten to the point overdoses were so
high that the National Guard had to be called in
to help patrol Huntington. There were National Guard helicopters patrolling
the city of Huntington. I was driving in for a
Marshall basketball game, coming down Third Avenue watching National Guard
helicopters circle Huntington patrolling, and I was could not believe

(41:56):
that the city had got to that point and it
was all opioid epidem I can't remember the year, but
I was working in Huntington at that time off of
six half Venue, had a building there.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Oh and uh yeah, man every day and some of
the stuff you saw just walking from the office to
your car. Oh sure, I mean it's incredibly sad. Broad
Daylight yep three or four talk three or four is
the text line. Over at wv metro news dot com
this morning, TJ has a commentary.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
I love the headline. If you needed proof Washington is broken,
well you've got it and you get into it.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
And it's all related back to this government shutdown. And
here we are, day twenty nine, Day twenty nine. Common
sense you would think, and you know this is gonna happen.
I mean, before I get into it, you've had how
much time to plan for this. You know you're going
to come up against it, And now you're up against it.
Nothing has happened, you know, if you're the FEDS. Actually,

(42:55):
I think Shelley Moore Capito was right in saying, let's
vote for a car out on snap. If we can't
agree on the other things, surely we can agree that
we need to feed people. And look, I think does
SNAP need reform? I think that's fair. I think we
should talk about what the government does, what role they play.
I also, though, Dave, I don't think it's fair just
to pull the rug out from other people. You have

(43:17):
to do that gradually and have some kind of systematic
change in it. So just not funding it, going cold
Turkey whatnot. That's not going to work obviously, So why
not do the car ve out, have the money, you
can move on with the other things. Ran Paul makes
a great point. I try to stress that in this commentary,
sign the r do the SNAP benefits. Get three Democrats,

(43:39):
three Republicans in a room, a conference committee. They hammer
it out, figure it out by the end of the year.
Because we've burned four weeks out of the seven that
we wanted to get us to November twenty first, Well, one,
they're probably going to have to do another spending bill, right,
I mean this, Yeah, the CEE ours at this point.
Move But ran Paul's point, which I think is a
good point, you brought it up yet today you mentioned

(44:00):
the commentary. It makes sense, it's common sense.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
But we can't even get to there because we can't
get Democrats on board in the Senate or probably in
the House either.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Nobody voted for it.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
There just to continue spending at current levels so we
can get the government reopen. We can't even get there
at this point because both sides are apparently entrenched and
think they're winning. I don't know what they think they're
winning either. I mean, I said this yesterday. I don't
mean to say it flippantly, and I don't mean to
make light of folks who are struggling because they're not

(44:33):
getting their paychecks, whether the government employees, whether they're not
going to get benefits that they count on.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
But do you see a lot of people walking around
worried about this?

Speaker 15 (44:43):
No?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
No, So it's political points to the base. I think, yes,
I think you're exactly. It's political points to the base.
And in the piece I talk about the fact Roger
Hanshaw made some comments during Governor Morrisey's presser yesterday and
he said the federal government has abdicated its role and
both sides are to blame. Now, do I think Democrats
could easily cure this situation today, get enough to vote

(45:07):
for the clean cr and move on. Absolutely that onus
is on them. But the point I think Hanshaw was
talking about, the greater point and the one we've tried
to make on this program. How many times if the
situation is turned, have we seen the Republicans be able
to not do something. It's both sides because they play
to the base. So in the yes, maybe it's the
Democrats turn. This time, it's the easiest thing to do

(45:29):
would be to sign the clean cr But consistently, holistically,
over the history of Congress, both sides are to blame
for these kinds of things, and you shut downs. I'm sorry,
I'm not gonna let them off the hook for that.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
You don't have to go back that far. When Republicans
were trying to repeal Obamacare, right, Yeah, crazy outlandish demand
that was not going to happen. So we shut the
government down for how many days that time around? And
what you had people like Democrat Tim Kaine, Oh, this,
open the government up when we can, we'll negotiate on
the same arguments are being made.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
We've just flipped them over this time. Just open the
thing up so we can all move on. Let's talk
about the state response for a second. What the governor's
doing this thirteen million dollars that I guess is mostly
COVID leftover money. Is the way I'm understanding it, that
he'd already point what one point one million in, so
we're like fourteen a little more than fourteen million deep
from the state. The idea that there could be up
to another thirteen if people match, So I guess overall

(46:25):
you could have twenty seven million dollars. It takes forty
seven to fifty million dollars to runt SNAP. This money's
not going to SNAP, is going to food banks. So
there's going to be distribution challenges even without or even
with I should say, the use of the National Guard.
Pony up the fifty million.

Speaker 8 (46:41):
We have it.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
We know we have it. Pony up the fifty million,
put it into SNAP so that we can get reimbursed
for it. Let people go to their normal location. Distribution
is going to be a huge challenge here. You've got
to think about, Okay, what happens if somebody gets left out.
We don't know about this. I mean, there's just too
many things that could go wrong here, just fun whether
that's his contingency fund, take it from the rainy day.

(47:03):
I don't think we get gigged for that with the
rating agencies. I don't how often, at least once a
year we take a cash flow loan from the rain
joy they don't gig us for that.

Speaker 8 (47:12):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Maybe I'm wrong?

Speaker 2 (47:14):
In the Grand Scheme? This only in government do you
say things like this in the Grand Scheme. It's fifty
million dollars in the Grand Scheme? And know how many
billion dollar budget or how many what do we have
in the rainy day now?

Speaker 1 (47:26):
One point three one point four billion one something like that,
and then another what five hundred six hundred million in
the Personal Income Tax Sure Reserve fund. So let's just
round up. Call it two billion dollars that we've got
hanging out there somewhere. Round it up. It's just two billion.
But people, you know what if you really need assistance

(47:47):
and you're going to bed at night, well, they're trying
to get it to the food bank. We don't know
if we're going to have enough at the food bank.
We don't know if they're going to be able to
get it to us, and distribution how that works. Take
all of that off the table and just put the
fifty million there.

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Not enough votes in the US Senator pass a bill
for some of the federal workers who are currently working
without pay during the federal government shut down to receive pay.
You're Senor Shatty Moore. Capito says enough Democrats would not
agree with the pay bill on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
I just think that we would do better to open
the government. We've tried to get appropriations bills going.

Speaker 10 (49:48):
They will not do that.

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So we're stuck in the mud here because it does
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Speaker 17 (49:53):
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(52:07):
to be happy until millions lose their healthcare. Republicans want
rid of affordable care. The Dems won't budge on that.
It's millionaires and billionaires fighting or pouting online. Congress needs
to lose all financial salaries, staffing, travel, allowances, et cetera
in order for a snap to be funded that would
light a fire under Congress, says the Texter, I don't.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Know what you want from the House.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
They passed the CR weeks ago, passed two weeks ago.
Now they could be working on appropriations bill. There are
some things they could be doing. But I mean, the
House did its job. This is on the Senate side
and Democrats. And again I'm putting this one on Democrats
because this is a continuing resolution, this is a clean bill,
this is funding levels at their current levels.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
I get the leverage play. I get what you're doing.
But this one's on you. It's their turn. Yeah, it's
their turn. You could pass it today. You get into
all of this madness today. You could pay people. You
can ensure that when people go to the airport for
Thanksgiving travel that they're not going to set for three
days because the plane can't move because there's no air
traffic controller.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
You all are oversimplifying the causes of the government shut
down by being willing to let forty million people lose
their healthcare as if that's no big thing. While Speaker
Johnson keeps the House on vacation his take it or
leave it demand same in the Senate.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Is not a negotiation. This is cruelty, says the Texter.
They've said the negotiate, they've said, and.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
There's a willingness there because Republicans can see the political calculus.
They can see it all right, Gotta take a break
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(54:33):
stops by a little bit later this hour. We'll get
more into the Governor's announcement yesterday for a matching fundraising
drive for the food banks in West Virginia as snap
benefits run out at the end of the week. We'll
get into that with Brad coming up, a lot of
texts to get to. We'll have some open line opportunities
as well. At three oh four talk three to four,

(54:56):
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say good morning again to TJ.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Meadows morning, sir. It's kind of nice being in the
same studio, you know it is, could reach over and
just slap you. Well, session coming up, you'll be able
to do that, what three days a week at least?

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Oh, I was thinking about that. So not only that's
brought this up yesterday to H. R. Kelly, who's also
like assistant producer Kelly.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
You know, she does a lot of things. She does
it all.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
She pretty much runs the whole company, leads to the
band at halftime, and I brought that up and she's like, oh, yeah,
I have to make sure you have a place to sleep,
and she goes, what about the election? And I didn't
even thought, I know, it's it's almost November, that's not
until May. But we will go through the holidays, hit
the first of the year, basketball season flies by, and

(55:42):
then you have the basketball tournament. You take an half,
you wake up and oh, it's primary election time. Already
in twenty six. I like that though I like to
be busy. I like to feel like things are going
on when you do what we do. It's good to
have things going on.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
But also, having been in this business a while, when
things are going on, and that's when you look up and.

Speaker 21 (56:00):
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Speaker 1 (56:02):
Did anybody get the phone lines? Do we have head sets?

Speaker 5 (56:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:08):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
But yeah, what January fourteenth, I think's the first day
of the legislature.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Yeah, so you know, you get through New Year's right,
and then you got two weeks. Buckle up, get ready.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Get your Christmas presents wrapped up, get your returns back,
and then the legislature gets underway. No month buffer zone
this year, introduction of the Make Electricity more Expensive Act
coming here way. Calling it that's what it does. Why
not call it what it does? But that that is
still months away. Enjoy, Thanksgiving, Joy, Halloween. First, you got

(56:38):
Halloween plans. I'll see you Friday. I'll be back Friday.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Wait till you see my costume I'm wearing on Friday.
Oh boy, looking forward to that, all right.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Awkward transition federal government shutdown rolls on day twenty nine
Democrats again refuse to support the Clean Sea Heart to
reopen the government yesterday.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
That means programs like we mentioned snap running out.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
At the end of the week. We'll have more coming
up with Brad in just a little bit. Of course,
it also means federal employees many are either furloughed and
not being paid, or they're working and still not being paid.
The American Federation of Government Employees represents some eight hundred
thousand workers across the country, issued a statement this week
urging Senators to approve the clean cr and get the

(57:22):
government reopen. Rick Heldreth is the vice president of the
American Federation of Government Employees Mid Atlantic Region and joins
us on Metro News talk line. Rick, good morning, Thanks
for joining us, and I'm doing well. Appreciate you taking
some time. What are your members saying over the last month?

Speaker 1 (57:42):
How are they getting by? Before we go deeper, put

(58:30):
a name on that what director? Who are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Hey, you had a lot I remember that appointment, Rick
in talking with folks inside the union and there was
a lot of hope there with that appointment initially.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Do you tend to lose employees during things like this?
They've had enough, they throw their hands up, they go
somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
And if you were a corrections officer working over at
the penitentiary Federal Penitentiary in Hazelton, not going to work.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Is not an option.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
I mean, I'm not trying to make light of the situation,
but calling off isn't really an option because your buddy's
got to go to work. You can't have that understaff
or you're going to put your friends are going to
be put into harm's way. You're in a no win
situation there, aren't you? Rick, What if they did do that?

(01:00:35):
What if they did I mean, would that be a
catalyst for I mean, something's got to move Congress. Rick

(01:01:29):
Hildreth is joining US mid Atlantic Regional vice president of
American Federation of Government Employees. So Rick, the national office
came out with came out with a statement this week
urging lawmakers to pass the Clean Sea RC get this
thing reopened up. That carries some significant weight given how
many employees, how many people you represent, And I think

(01:01:51):
the message was clear and sent to Congress.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Unions traditionally are more associated with the Democratic Party. That
may be changing. There's a lot of variables at play,
but the way you are moving forward and calling for
this clean cr Is it a time for the labor
movement to reevaluate that relationship?

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Before Rick heldret the joining US mid Atlantic Regional Vice
President American Federation of Government Employees. For folks listening, talk

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explain what a typical day is like or what corrections
officers who have to work at working at the peditentiary
in Hazelton are working at these federal corrections facilities.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
What do they face on a daily basis? Rick, One

(01:04:23):
of the things that infuriates me about all of this is, yes,
you'll eventually be paid, but there's no bonus, there's no
interest in it. There's nothing that would make you whole
for going without your paycheck. Now, talk about that. Why
hasn't that gotten through some of these conversations, so that
at least monetarily it can't make up for some of

(01:04:43):
these other things, but at least monetarily, there's some effort
to recognize what you went through and make you whole. Rick,

(01:05:32):
before we let you go, what do you want folks
in West Virginia listening right now? What do you want
them to know?

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Rick Heldrith, mid Atlantic Regional vice President of American Federation
of Government Employees. Rick, appreciate you coming on this morning.
Thank you very much. Absolutely coming up. We've got some
of your texts at three or four Talk three or four.
Brad Macklelheney joins us. Bottom of the hour. This is
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Let's get some text in through A four Talk threeh four.
Do you honestly believe if Democrats signed this cr bill
that Republicans would genuinely meet to talk about extending the
benefits They've been trying to get rid of the ACA
from the beginning. When Trump tells them to forget, that
is exactly what they will do. Do not trust Republicans.
They all lie just like their leader because they are
afraid of him. I do believe they're going to negotiate

(01:10:37):
this and here's why TJ. We've heard Senator Capito. Well, listen, one,
at some point you got to believe somebody. Number one,
Senator Capito has said she's willing to negotiate on this, and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
She's not dumb. She can see the calculus.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
How many West Virginians are going to be impacted by
these ACA tax credits, the expanded ones going away.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
That doesn't mean I like it, that doesn't mean they
like it, doesn't mean we.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Have the money to pay for it. But the political
calculation is you're taking a huge risk, huge risk by
not extending that expanded tax credit.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
I agree with you completely. The hard truth is the
ACA is not going to be what it is now.
It's not going to go away entirely. It's going to
end up somewhere in the middle. It has to. We
can't pay for it. And that's the reality. You can't
just get rid of it overnight. You can't continue to
keep it where it is because we can't fund it.

(01:11:32):
So whether you like it or you don't like it,
learn to love it because that's the way it's going
to end up. And I brought this up with Tom
Sussman yesterday, and you know the answer this question he
knew the answer the question. We all knew the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Democrats had the majority in the House and Senate when
they approved what two or three times they expanded?

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Why didn't they make him permanent?

Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Money's not there and you have to do this budgets,
you know, gimmick. We'll just put him out to hear
and that way it only costs that much. And then
you and up in this situation, the money's not there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Do we need to expand?

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Look, do we probably expand that or extend they expanded
credits for some time?

Speaker 15 (01:12:09):
Probably?

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Do we have a larger some sort of health bill
put forward. Yeah, I see that happening. Not by the
end of the year, but yes, in the future. The
problem is no one paid attention when this was done
in COVID. No one got that we're doing this because
COVID makes things hard. We want people to have more
access to healthcare. No one understood. No one heard that

(01:12:31):
it was temporary. And that's the problem with any kind
of pork barrel spending. Once people get something, I don't
blame them.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
You don't want to give it back. That's usually the
way that happens, isn't it. Three h four Talk three
oh four.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Another issue for the government workers when they are paid
for multiple work periods a big check with bigger tax deductions,
they're not allowed to change dependents to compensate for that
one big check. The public school system is already providing
free breakfast and lunch and sitting bag lunches home to
those enrolled. This is a taxpayer funded along with thirteen
million the state is now asking taxpayers to match. Two

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toy drives are asking for donations now through the week
of Christmas. I got a request to help with winter
fuel bills, and AARP is asking for monetary assistance for utterly.
The government has caused extremely difficult living situations, says the Texter.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
The government didn't do all of it. Let's be fair.
People living beyond their means has done some of it too.
I'm not trying to knock people who are having challenging times,
but let's just be straight. Maytimes have you've seen the
smoking habit get in front of things that should be
paid otherwise, I mean, I'm allying, no, you are not, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
We've all been there at the convenience store and seeing
it and look, I have bad habits.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
I spend money on things I shouldn't. But look, I'll
take the other side of this. When we're talking SNAP benefits.
It's not just kids.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
I mean there are Look, there are elderly folks who
have worked their entire lives that who are living on
Social Security fixed incomes, who rely on SNAP benefits to
help keep the French full, keep the pantries full.

Speaker 8 (01:14:08):
I get that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
I understand there's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Been a clean cr out there for how long I
keep going back to that one. I get the leverage play.
I understand the politics of all of it. It just
doesn't make.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Sense to me. That's all but your point. And I
took a little heat for asking Kelly Allen this question
earlier in the week. I wasn't trying to give her heat.
I was just trying to get to the I was
trying to illustrate the problem when you can only do
so much, Dave, you have to triosh. You have to
decide what you're going to do. Are we going to
continue programs like snap wick these kinds of things, or

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are we gonna continue the ACA because I don't know
that you can fully fund both. So are we going
to trim back the ACA so that we can fully
fund SNAP and Wick and all these other I mean,
there's only so many dollars, my friend. So I don't
think it's out of line to start asking what do
you want to do and what do you think is
less important? And don't tell me just raise taxes three

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or four talk three zh four.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
It's a sad day when grown ups and kids have
to go to bed cold and hungry in America.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
What the blank is going on?

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
What bugs me is how Republicans in Congress are conflating
healthcare with emergency room treatment. Everyone knows undocumented workers are
not allowed to get Medicaid, but anyone who gets seriously
injured in a car wreck will get treated and hospitalized
if necessary, regardless of status.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
But the GOP says, you see, we're paying for their
health care. What are we supposed to do?

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Let people die if they produce if they can't produce
their papers, says the texter.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
I think the GOP has kind of screwed up on
that talking line.

Speaker 7 (01:15:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I never thought that was a good talking point. Yeah,
never thought that was a good talking point.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
The good talking point was the one they finally came
around to, like it's clean cr That was the good
talking Yeah, that illegals thing. I mean, you do a
little reading, little googling in like twenty seconds and you
that's moved even better. Even better would just have been.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Hey, they're trying to roll back everything in the one
big beautiful biddle. Is marketing that hard, teach its messaging
that hard. I feel like we could do a better
job of it. Yeah, but we're not the people they're
talking to. Back to our point, it's true. I mean,
you know, if if you believe everything that you're told
and you're not fact checking anything, that you're gonna you're
gonna swallow anything your gift squeeze. In a call, Mike

(01:16:22):
in Clarksburg wants to weigh in. Hey Mike, doing great, Mike,
what do you got? That's what Pat said, Hey Mike,

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we're up against the clock. Hey, appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
Hey, thank you for clarifying that. I really do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Thank you for clearing that up for us. We appreciate it.
But we're up against the clock. This is talk Line
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Speaker 21 (01:17:59):
Virginia Metroan whose I'm Chris Laurens. The sale of four
state hospitals to a private capity looks to be a
done deal now that a judge is refused to halt
the sale of one of them. Judge Matthew Dogotti vacated
a temporary restraining order sought for the sale of the
John Mansion Senior Healthcare Center in Fairmont. Fairmont attorney and
State Senator Joey Garcia filed the suit on behalf of
a resident who claimed the sale would jeopardize their quality

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of care, but the state argued the transition was already
in process and any ruling against the sale could disrupt
the care of thousands of patients. Judge do Gotti ruled
in favor of the state. The closure of the sale
of those hospitals to the Marks Development Group has set
for Friday. Along with the Mansion Center, they include the
Hopemunt Hospital in Preston County, Jackie Withrow and Raleigh County,
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million for the hospitals and has agreed to invest eighty
million to modernize them. City of Huntington and Cabal County
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Dot net today. A couple of texts in here at
three or four talk three four. Every other Western civilized
country in this world has universal healthcare. Having traveled over
to over twenty of them, I have yet to meet
a citizen who thinks universal is wrong. Every country visit
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about me. America thinks otherwise. How sad and the East
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Please be accurate, Well, I will accurately state once again
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West Virginia because of the No Common Sense decision to
keep the country closed. Anyone who sponsors and supports the
Democratic Party needs to have their brain examined.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Look, no, it is not over. No, it is not over.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
And you can look to New York City, you can
look to other states, California. The Democrat Party is not over.
In fact, I read an article this morning. We'll get
to Brad in just a second.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
It's a couple of days old, TJ.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
But I thought of you, well, no, because it speaks
to the area that you talk about a lot in
that sensible center. And it was an article on Politico.
I'll find it, I'll send it to you. Maybe we'll
talk about it on Friday. But it was just this
idea that democrats nationally and I can't I can't remember

(01:22:53):
what the think tank was. But move back to center left.
Continue to talk about universal health care, talk about the
issues that you are winning on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
Quit talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
The social stuff, the transgender the abortion, all of these
issues you're losing on. Talk about the economy, talk about
the issues you're good about. Move back center left, and
you can probably win some races and regain majorities in
the Senate and in the House. The Democratic Party of Truman, well,
common sense and listen. I would tell Republicans the same thing.

(01:23:26):
Quit moving far far right, be careful because the people
in middle gonna go No, don't like that either, We'll
go back over here. So common sense. Kyle Wiggs said
this a long time ago. To me, first party that
acts normal, this is going to be in control for forever.
If they can act normal or just opt out. I
can continue to say, be an independent, just.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
Opt out or or opt out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Brad McElhenny is opted in with the so with the
awkward transition there. Brad has a story at ww metro
news dot com detailing Governor Morrissey's a noun yesterday regarding Snap. Well,
it's not necessarily snap funding, but trying to raise funds
for food banks across the state, trying to pick up
the slack with SNAP benefits running out at the end

(01:24:12):
of the week.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Brad, good morning, how are you.

Speaker 8 (01:25:19):
Look.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
I don't think it's a bad idea for the public
to pony up, because how many times guys like me
have said that it's not the government's place to always
be charitable. Charity is best done through social organizations, individuals
stepping up so that part of it, I like, gives
people a chance to put their money where their mouth is.
But Bret the idea that we're going to do this

(01:25:40):
with the food banks and put stress on the food
banks despite the effort with the National Guard. I have
questions about just logistically how we're going to do it
versus if we just put the money into the SNAP
funds and let the process continue, I would think it
would be easier and we would ensure that no one
goes hungry that way, more so than what we're trying
to do with this plant.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
By the way, TJ put that in our T shirt
idea the whatever Brad said, unknown knowns. I love the unknowns.
We'll get that on a T shirt. Hey, I'm talking
to Metrogie. State White correspond to Brad mclinny. Brad, did
the governor explain how or why there is unused COVID
relief dollars just kind of hanging around.

Speaker 8 (01:29:27):
Brand?

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
Is it raining? I mean, we have a rainy day fund.
Is this raining? I'm not sure what raining is. I'm
trying to figure out when we use this thing and
when we don't. Mister News Date Wine correspondent Brad Mackailhenny.

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His story is posted at wv metrodews dot Com, along
with QR code that Brad described a little bit earlier.
Brad always appreciate it, buddy, thank you so much. I
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Eight hundred and seven sixty five eight two five five
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I believe the kick is seven thirty. I believe is
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on Friday. Let's go to the text line. Texter says,
what kind of substances do you guys have in that studio?
If a Democrat went center left and stayed away from
the social issues, neither of you two would vote Democrat.
You guys would vote Republican or for some third party
that has no chance. I don't agree with that. I

(01:36:16):
don't agree with that. I agree that many people want
to be independent, myself included, But as an independent, I
have never said I wouldn't vote for a Democrat.

Speaker 3 (01:36:25):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:36:26):
I've given money to Democrats. I think the people that
focus on fiscal issues, the people that focus on economic development,
the people that leave the social issues alone, are the
people that have the best chance of getting on the
ballot and doing something and the best chance of moving independence.

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You can't win nationally in this country today without independent support.
There's not enough Republicans, there's not enough Democrats to do it.
You have to have unaffiliated voters now do some of
those tend to swing one or the other. Sure, but
there's still, especially in the younger ranks, a growing amount

(01:37:07):
of people that want to take a look at an
issue and vote on issues, and not be aligned with
a party and simply take everything that party says as
the gospel. They want to be able to think for themselves.

(01:37:27):
How many Democrats right now in Washington go hop on
any of the major news outlets, you'll read these stories.
How many Democrats in Washington really want to vote for
this CR I mean, if Foon is to be believed,
there are those that want to do it. There's enough
to get to sixty, but they don't want to take
the chance of alienating Schumer, alienating the Democratic Party, so

(01:37:52):
they're not willing to come over yet. Like Angus King
and others have, they're out there, so I don't know
if I see it that way. The state's National Guard
was utilized to deliver the COVID vaccines, and I believe
that worked, maybe not perfectly logistically in all areas, but
it worked if you remember.

Speaker 22 (01:38:12):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
Look, I'm not questioning the Guard's ability to undertake this.
This is what they do. They have contingency plans in place,
and I'm sure they'll do a fantastic job. The point
here is that if we directly fund the existing SNAP
program rather than setting up this donation fund, rather than

(01:38:35):
sending those dollars to the food banks, those who have
consistently been on SNAP from the start and depend on
these programs would be able to go to their normal outlet.
That is the least risk option. And that's not a
Republican Democrat thing either. You've got the Republican administration in

(01:38:56):
Louisiana who has done just that. They've used a state
to fund the existing SNAP program. Now there's this question.
Steven Allen Adams brought this up. I'm glad he did that.
I think it was Bob Aaron from CCHSTV asked a
question yesterday. Would the state of West Virginia be reimbursed
for these funds or not? I'm told the governor said no.

(01:39:17):
I didn't hear that part of the presser. Will we
not be reimbursed because these dollars aren't directly going into
the existing SNAP program? Is that why we wouldn't be reimbursed?
Because I would think, just like the federal government is
going to make those employees who are working now whole.
They're going to pay them back. And by the way,
that's a different conversation. They're not making them whole. Those

(01:39:38):
employees that are working right now free for the federal
government are giving Uncle Sam an interest free loan and
it drives me crazy. But in a state like Louisiana
that is funding the existing SNAP program, if they're going
to get that money back and be reimbursed because they're
funding their program, you know, I would think that would
be a reasonable outcome. I don't see whether the federal

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government wouldn't do that. It's going to be allocated. Democrats
allowed four years of open borders, causing a severe strain
on Medicaid, SNAP and SSI. Republicans are protecting Americans more
by insisting on no more money to illegals, put in
the cr no more money to illegals, and shut down ends. Yeah,

(01:40:20):
the couple problems I think with that number one, this
funding illegals narrative. I get that it stirs up the
Republican base. I don't buy it. If someone illegal or
not comes into an emergency room and they don't have
health insurance and they have a catastrophic issue. They're going
to be treated, they're going to be seen, they're going
to be made stable. I mean, that's been in the

(01:40:42):
law for a long time. The better narrative I think
around what Democrats are doing is the fact that they
won't pass the clean cr when they've done that many
other times. So, yes, there's a lot of things you
can hang on Democrats. I don't think you can hang
the illegals thing. I just don't think that holds up.
Holds up with the basis, but maybe not with people

(01:41:03):
who are trying to figure out this situation and looking
deeper for an answer beyond the politics. Texter says, the
big question here is how do we get people off
snap benefits. Some people will always need them, but I
would love to know the number of people who are
in that fifty ish percentile of able bodied adults who
aren't currently working in the state. Instead of continuing to

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throw money into SNAP benefits long term, can we do
some sort of job training or maybe even some sort
of childcare program so people can work and support themselves.
That's an excellent point. I noted that in my commentary today,
two hundred and seventy five thousand people out of a
population of now what one point seven ish in West
Virginia and declining more toward one point six. That's a

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staggering number of people. And I get you have some churn.
People are always coming on, people are always going off.
But I do think it's fair to say, what can
we do to reduce the percentage of the popyl that
is continually on SNAP? That two hundred and seventy five
thousand people is too high? How do we reduce that?
It's a fair question to say, should the government always

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to the extent they have been be funding SNAP? How
much is too much? Where can we draw the line
because we're up against this fiscal challenge in America. Totally
fair debate. But you can't pull the rug out from
under people the way this is happening. You can't turn
it off. Cold Turkey eight hundred and seven sixty five
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People need to stop relying on the government for basic
living expenses and need to go back to local community
organizations and churches. There you go my point. We have
to dial back. We can't do it all. And before
you just increase taxes and how much can you dial back.
There's got to be that sensible center. I don't know
about you, guys, or Mike from Clarksburg, but if someone
promises money and then doesn't come through one hundred percent,

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they're subject to scrutiny.

Speaker 8 (01:46:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Look, I never mentioned the guy's name. I don't know
who the donor is, don't want to know who it is.
All I'm saying is as college sports evolves, administrations, WVU,
everybody else, they're going to have to have some contingencies.
They got to meet a payroll now, and you got
to know the credit worthiness of the people that are
there doing what they're doing or otherwise getta end up
in trouble. You got to make payroll, got to pay

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these people. That's way it works now. Amanda Baron, host
of thirteen News here in Charleston, also of Metro News
Midday in studio with me, guys, got on the show.

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A busy day that is dialing up for you here
coming up in the next couple hours. Governor Patrick Morrissey
is going to join us at twelve fifteen to sort
all of this out.

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We were able to bring.

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Everyone that news conference live yesterday and as everyone is
working to digest it. More questions keep coming up, so
we're going to work to get some answers from him
about some of that and just beyond that. To YOUJ,
there's like a there's a mental aspect to all of this,
and that's concerning for folks.

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