Talkline| Oct. 30 2025

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We'll check in with him coming up at eleven forty five.
See what's happening at the beach. Our good buddy, Mike
McKenna the Washington Times, stops by at eleven thirty three.
He's got a couple of commentaries out this week that
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discuss it, among other things. At eleven oh six, we'll
also get into this idea about the NC two A
putting gambling restrictions or actually opening gambling restrictions on some
of these athletes. We'll talk about that. Brian Dayton of
the West Virginia Chamber stops by at ten forty five.
I believe he has thoughts on what I'm affectionately calling

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the Make Electricity More Expensive Act the MEME Act. If
you will, we'll get into that. Jared Halprin has the
latest on that Trump deal from the White House. We
begin today with the chair of the West Virginia Democratic
Party delegate here in Kannall County, Mike Pushkin. Mike, I've
been called a liberal when it comes to my thoughts
about the electricity issue. Am I a liberal? You're one?

(01:56):
Am I a liberal? Hang on one second? Am I liberal?
I know?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I know you've fairly well. I would not characterize you
as a liberal, but you're more than welcome. We would
welcome you with open arms. But no, I think that
you are a capitalist, and I think that the and
believe in a free market, and I think your arguments

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are fairly sound. I've been following this debate, that's what
you want to call it, between you and Senator Helton,
and I would say that your arguments are pretty sound
and based on your life experience actually working in that field.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, you know, economics will get you there almost one
hundred percent of the time. And that's really what this is.
It's just an exchange of ideas around economics. But he
has his opinion, I have mine. I appreciate the dialogue.
He's been nothing but cordial to me. We're not name
calling or anything like that. We're just having an exchange
of ideas. Well.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, but the scary part is it could be more
than an idea when you have this many folks on
the other side of the aisle for me actually talking
about this proposal which will cause people's rates to go up,
and with inflation at the grocery store, inflation everywhere else,
and you know, all these uncertainties in life these days.
To say the least, I think the last thing we

(03:10):
want to do is cause West Virginians to have even
higher electric bills. But when we know that we're already
paying the highest rates in the country right now. It's
just it's simply not This is not good policy, So
I can't back anything. It's going to cause people's rates
to go up even higher.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Governor Patrick Morrissey announced a donation drive with matching state
funding of up to thirteen million dollars. The state had
already allocated one point one million. All of this comes
Mike amidst of the shutdown in Washington. We're now in today.
Thirty SNAP benefits are about to run out November. The
first I want your reaction to how the governor has
handled this well.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
First of all, we're in this crisis right now with
the SNAP benefits not going out from the USDA because
the Trump administration has instructed the USDA to freeze their
contingency fund and their carryover fund. The money is there.
There have been shutdowns in the past, there have been
other emergencies in the past, but the money still goes

(04:07):
out to feed people who need it. Here in the
United States of America. The money has always gone out.
What's different. What's difference is it's being used as a
political weapon this time, where they're the money as a
policy choice. The Trump administration has told the USDA to
freeze that money, and that's why we are where we are. However,

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we are where we are, and yes, we need to
do something about it.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Now, the governor, well, hang on, before we move, let
me ask you about the USDA. They say that money
should be used for things like hurricane relief, actual disasters.
What we saw with flooding McDowell County in Asheville, North Carolina,
those places. That's their retort and their claim. You would say,
what to that, it's it's it's there for this reason.
And their lawsuit right now over it.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Over this with some several states that have the benefit
of having attorneys general who actually, you know, fight for
their states, we did not.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
West Virginia didn't sue.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, we don't have the benefit of having an attorney
general that's willing to join in the more.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
He's not going to suit the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
She's no longer the attorney general. But I get okay, yeah,
we are where we are, and I'm you know, I
you know, I highly uh, you know, I'm glad people
are generous in the state and are stepping up to
donate to Mountaineer Food Bank into facing Hunger Food Bank
over in Cable County. But even and they do a

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tremendous job. Okay, they do, and they deserve every donation
that we should be donating. As you know, the private
citizens should be doing all they can to step up
right now and help each other. But they know the
food banks even know that they're not going to be
able to cover all the gaps. I mean, there's numbers
from Feeding America, which I believe is the the like
the parent organization that provides direct food to both of

(05:51):
these food banks, and they will tell if you go
to their website for every one meal they can provide,
SNAP provides nine. Uh. SNAP is cheaper and more efficient.
So what we have done with the Democrats in the
House of Delegates here in West Virginia, don't we are
asking the governor to fund SNAP so the money goes
out on the cards and people are able to go

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out and get food from their local grocery stores. That's
another part of the equation that we haven't talked about,
that that they're still going to take a huge hit
under the under the government's plan. But I just think,
you know, what the government's doing is just simply it's
not good enough, and it's it's not efficient and it's
not going to cover all the gaps.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
So let's let's break that down a little bit. The
State of Louisiana, I think has fully funded their program.
That's a Republican red state administration in Louisiana. I pointed
that out yesterday. I believe they have done it so
that the money applies to their cards, so their normal
distribution process would be in place. Yesterday on Metro News
mid Day, Amanda Baron had an interview with the governor.
I listened to it. I heard the governor say that

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our vendor here in West Virginia has said we can't
do that. We can't get the state money onto the
current card system.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I know if other states are doing it, I don't
know why we would be unable to find a way. Right, Yeah,
we can find a way, But that's the way it
needs to happen. Like I said, it's one to nine.
That's a pretty big ratio. For every one meal that
these great organizations like Facing Hunger and Mountaineer Food Bank,
for every one meal they can provide, SNAP provides nine,
They're not going to be able to fill the gaps

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and people are going to slip through the cracks. And
unfortunately here in West Virginia, people will be very hungry.
And we know that nearly a third of the SNAP
recipients in West Virginia are children, and that's simply unacceptable.
So we're asking the governor to do is take the
money out of whether it's his contingency fund, which we
know has about fifty million dollars in his contingent that's

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in his contingency for why the governor has to have.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
He needs legislative authority to spend that.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, there's no I don't believe so not to spend
his contingency fund. And that's where you know, unfortunately, you
see a lot of that spent around election time when
money comes out of out of politicians contingency funds. You
can call them a slush fund if you want, that's
what they are. The House of Delegates has thirty million
dollars in their contingency fund. The State Senate has everybody's

(08:12):
thirty thirty million dollars in their in their contingency funds,
last Adam Bring Fund, and of course we have the
Civil Contingency Fund which has hundreds of millions of dollars
in it. So money is not the problem. We have,
the money is there. It's it's about the political will
and and uh, you know, and our priorities in this state.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well, what's the political will then? Why would you not
want to feed people? I do well, I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm saying because we already we already I don't know,
I mean, I don't, I mean we There are the
work requirements already in place for this program. Okay, there
are already work requirements in place for SNAP. Okay, we're
talking about our children. One third of the recipients are children.
There are people with disabilities, there are seniors who rely
on this. Most of the folks are working right that

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they're not able to make ends meet. That's what we're
talking about. So now the political will needs to be there,
and we're going to keep asking the governor do the
right thing, do the efficient thing, and do the thing
that's actually going to work instead of, you know, having
a go fund me or a bake sale.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Talk to me about let's get into the motivations a
little bit. I know you're not on the national level. Frankly,
I don't know that it helps much for elected officials
here to talk about what is going on at the
national level. So I don't want to ask you why
we are where we are, but let's let's put your
party chair hat on, because I think that's fair game.
Then there was a chance yesterday was it thirteen fourteen

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times on this CR vote that it didn't go through?
If you'd have a few more Dems come over, it
would loosen things up. Why not do that at this
point because what.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Are they what are they continuing it is? It's a
spending bill. No, it's not making the point would be
for the Republicans to sit down with the Democrats and
negotiate on healthcare because people shouldn't have to make the
choice should we be able to eat or should we
be able to go see a doctor pay for our medicine.
But unfortunately that has been the choice that many West
Virginians have had to make prior to any of this,

(10:08):
or can we pay for our meds or can we
pay for groceries? And this will only make things worse
because we're talking about a spending bill that just barely
squeaked by without any kind of bipartisan support. A spending
bill at the point of it was to give tax
breaks to the wealthiest one percent in this country. At
the expense of everybody else's healthcare in West Virginia is
going to be disproportionately hurt by this because small business

(10:31):
owners and entrepreneurs, independent contractors in West Virginia are set
to see their premiums go up at a greater percent
than any other state in the country. West Virginia leads
the country in this unfortunate statistic that you know, people
that are in the ACA marketplace here in West Virginia
are going to see the sharpest rate increase in the
entire country. And that's what Senators Capito and Senator's justicehould

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be more concerned about, rather than whether they get into
the into the frame with the leader Thune for photo op.
That's what they should be concerned about. That's why they
need to go to the table, and if they want
those Democrats to vote for it, they have to make
it more palatable things that we support, which is not
kicking people off their healthcare. So you're asking the Senate

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Democrats to vote to kick people off their health care.
They're not going to do that. That's not what Democrats
stand for.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
What about ram Paul's plan of doing a cr now
or some revision that gets things running, and then between
now and the end of the year, he wants to
put together a conference committee three Dems, three Republicans and
work out the ACA independently. He's trying to broker that pledge.
He was on the Sunday shows. I think he actually
had Tim Kahane right in the frame with him when

(11:38):
he was talking about it. Is that a good idea?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Look, I'm open to any ideas. Obviously I'm not there sure,
but we don't want to see a continuing resolution that
continues this spending bill that kicks people off of their
health care in order to make up for a tax
cut for billionaires, because that's what it does. They weren't
looking for any kind of bipartisan support when they push
that bill through. Well, now they need sixty votes and

(12:02):
that's why that that's why that threshold is there to
bring people to the table. So the Republicans need to
go back to work. They need to go back to Washington, DC,
get to work incident and actually negotiate a deal to
protect the healthcare of of of working class people in America,
especially here in West Virginia, because like I said before,
West Virginians are going to be disproportionately.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Hurt by this bill.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Holly, that's what it's all about. That is what it's
all about.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Holly wants a carve out on Snap. I know he's
been floating legislation. It's introduced, don't think it's went anywhere,
not up for a vote. They tried to get something
up last night that I think came from your site.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, just a fun snap.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
I'm sure that they should have votes for that, but
they're not willing to negotiate, and that's the problem.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
But that's a good idea, you think, Yeah, I think
I think that everybody would vote for that.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, they should, but the Republicans didn't vote for that.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
What was the vote count last night? Off the I
don't know, was it part of any Republicans?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, you know, the World Series was on last night, PJ.
Sorry I didn't. Yeah, I wasn't watching c SPAN, but
I know, you know, we knew it wasn't going to
pass because they're the sides is simply aren't talking to
each other. But let's get back to the original point. Yeah,
the money is there at the USDA. They have a
contingency fund, they have a carryover fund. So this is
it was a policy decision from the Trump administration to

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freeze that account, and that's why the money isn't hitting
the cards on the first That's why.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I hope it goes to game seven. I want seven
full games. It's a it's a very good world series.
It is a very good World series.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Very well, but you know, we're more concerned about what's
going on at the national level and why this money
isn't hitting the cards and it's going to disproportionately hurt
people in West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
While all this has been going on and we're talking
about these very important issues, well, state Democrats have been
going around the state having kitchen table meetings. I'd like
to know what are you hearing? What are you hearing?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
You know, every every stop And we're now on the
you know, the tenth one is coming up on Monday
evening in Beckley at the Beckley Women's Club. We are
going to try to schedule a couple more, but originally
we had scheduled ten and I've been able to attend
all of them. And it's like each each region has
its own personality and different things, like we heard a
lot about about rural issues that I need to be

(14:13):
more familiar with when we were up in flachworks in
flat woods, like about the timber industry. You know, folks
in the district I represent don't often come to me
with issues with the timber industry, but they definitely did
up in Braxton County, and we had folks from Calhoun County,
and we had folks from Webster County, where of course
with the timber industries very big. But the point is
there's been a lot of differences, but the one commonality

(14:36):
that we've had is it's always been about kitchen table issues,
the issues that people talk about in their homes, issues
that affect their day to day lives. What we haven't
been hearing anything about are these culture war, devisive wedge
issues that we tend to hear around election time and
that the other side seems to be so fixated on

(14:56):
and uh, you know, just obsessed with. We're not hearing
a whole lot about That's not what the people want
to talk about. They're talking about healthcare, they're talking about education,
they're talking about roads, they're talking about clean drinking water,
they're talking about broadband. That's what we're hearing about.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Mike, we got to leave it there. I appreciate your time.
It flies by, because it does. It does, It flies by.
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Oh four Talk three four. In the text line is lit.
Text says TJ. You probably won't read this. That really
doesn't matter one way or the other. If you say that,
it matters what you say and whether or not I
can say it. But here goes. After fifty five years
of being a Republican, I changed independent because this Trump
led MAGA party majority does not represent anything that I represent.

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They call themselves Christians, but yet they hate and they
try to destroy anybody who disagrees with them, and empathy
is not in their vocabulary. There you go. That one's
for Hoppy. We'll save that when Hoppy gets here. At
eleven oh six, with his commentary Texas says JB. McCuskey
would sue the federal government, but only if Democrats are

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in charge, or it was to specifically sue the Democrat. Look,
that's common. I mean, that's both parties, whoever's in power.
If you've got a dm AG, they're not going to
sue a Democratic administration. If you've got a Republican AG,
they're not going to sue a Republican administration. So that's
really nothing. Come news. That's old school. When you depend

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on the government, they have great control over you, says
the texture. Food banks should be the first line of
those in need, not government handouts. Notice how the Democrats
aren't advocating for getting rid of the filibuster. Now, getting
rid of the philibuster would be an inordinately just extraordinarily
bad idea. I don't care if you're dem Republican. It's

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there for a reason. It's there to ensure a certain
hurdle is hit. It's there to protect minority ideas. You
never know when you're going to be in the minority.
If we ever get back to the idea of governing
on issues and actually debating issues, you know it might
not be a party thing, and that's really what the
filibuster is there to do. Texter says, Pushkin is a liar. Okay, TJ.

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Why don't you ask Republicans why they haven't started negotiating
the health insurance issues during the shutdown. Republicans are liars
and will never negotiate in good faith. They are lucy
with the football. Quit being a servile to Republicans. We'll
pose that question. We get some Republicans on soon, impose
that question.

Speaker 15 (21:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Please fact check your Democrat guest. He's not telling the
truth and it's easy to refute. Okay, fair text, Tell
me what he's not telling the truth about, and off
fact check it. Uh TJ. No person with common sense
would support the Democratic proposal to send billions of dollars
to other countries that promote woke and dei ideas. Democrats
are ridiculous. Why is the governor making the state funds

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contingent on citizen donations? We have one billion in the
Rainy Day Fund, hungry kids and seniors in an emergency,
To say the least is just not accurate. Thank you
for having Mike Pushkin on today. So here's my thought
on this. I wrote about this in my commentary yesterday
at wv metronews dot com. I think there's plenty of

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blame to go around in Washington from both sides. It's
been broken for a long time. It's just break yesterday.
There's that number two. I appreciate the gesture. I appreciate
the idea of giving people the opportunity to help their
neighbor put their money where their mouth is. I'm a
big advocate of that. With that said, I agree the
best thing for the governor to do would have been

(22:28):
to fully fund the next month of snap. No restrictions,
no matching, find a way. If the vendor says it's problematic,
find a way at least knock yourself out trying to
find a way to let people go to their normal
distribution site. The Guard will do a fabulous job. Our
guard always steps up. But this is unlike flood relief

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that's contained to a certain area. This is statewide. Somebody
will be missed. Unfortunately, the best route would have been
to use the normal channel, if at all possible.

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Speaker 7 (31:39):
Good morning, sir, Good morning TJ. It's great to be
back with you today.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
You have an opinion piece. I believe, I don't know
if it's out today or coming out soon.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
Coming out, it's coming out soon.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
You have thoughts on the proposal that Senator Brian Helton
and others. The Senator has been on this show. We've
debated the proposal what his legislation would do that he
plans to introduce coming up in the January session upcoming.
It would mandate that power plants in West Virginia coal

(32:11):
fired power plants run sixty nine percent of the time.
If those plants do not run sixty nine percent of
the time, the owners of those plants would not be
able to seek great relief through a rate increase. Rate
adjustment through a rate case with the Public Service Commission.
I think I highlighted that right. You can correct me
if I'm wrong anywhere, but the Chamber speaking out on

(32:33):
that issue, what's your stance?

Speaker 7 (32:35):
So let me go ahead and back up just a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
TJ do that.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
So, the West.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
Virginia Chamber represents members across the entire state of West
Virginia and in every industrial sector. Some of those members
are very energy intensive. So you know, I think we
all remember a couple of years ago we brought new
course deal to West Virginia. They're building that plant's going
to be operational within the next couple of years, but
that's going to be an electric arc furnace. That is
an incredible amount of power that they're using. I had

(33:02):
the opportunity last year to see steal of West Virginian
operation in Huntington. They too, are using an electric arc furnace.
So when you think about this, I mean the amount
of power that those types of facilities, those types of
manufacturers are using is incredible, and so they're paying tremendously
large electric bills. Now they're negotiating it, but anything that
can start to impact electricity rates beyond what is already

(33:24):
happening in the market, and we've all seen increases. You
felt it, I felt it. Everybody has felt everything's more
expensive everything. We went to the grocery store this weekend
and my eyes about popped out of my head. But
what you want to make sure you're doing is you're
not doing things that artificially inflate those costs beyond that.
And so the real concern that we have is that

(33:44):
if you start going ahead and dictating certain types of
energy sources be used when they're not the least expensive
on the market, that that's going to start increasing those costs.
That makes it harder to attract more investment, more development
to West Virginia. It makes it harder on the citizens
to pay their lifectric bills. But it also makes it
hard on those businesses who are operating here West Virginia

(34:05):
that do pay large electricity rates. It makes it hard
on them when they're they're having to pay more. So, really,
we understand the frustration with increased electricity costs.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
We get it.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
I think everybody's frustrated by that. But what you can
do can frequently be a lot worse. By trying to
intervene and get in place of the free market.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Full disclosure. I've written about this legislation. Helton and I debated.
If folks haven't read that commentary or heard that debate,
I don't like this plan. I think it will absolutely
drive electric bills higher. I've been clear about my stance
and why I think what I think. I'll play devil's
advocate for a moment. The Senator says this plan would

(34:48):
help the ailing coal industry, which we all understand hasn't
fallen on the best of times. He says it would
add thirty five hundred jobs. So I'm not trying to
put words in his mouth. That's one of the reasons
he wants this to try to help out the coal industry.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
And you know what I would say is, first of all,
you know, when you're going to be proposing something of
this nature, it's really important to get independent economic studies
on you know, where does it create jobs, where does
it potentially cost jobs? And so you know, I don't
think there's any doubt about it. Burning more coal probably
does produce more in the coal markets, create more coal jobs.

(35:25):
But you have to look at it. If the cost
of electricity goes up and causes manufacturing to leave the
state and then you've lost jobs over there. So that's
where I think. You know, I've heard the term thirty
five hundred. I've not seen the source on that, But
what I would say it's important to get before you
make policy decisions of that type, get a robust independent
economic study to take a look at it and say, Okay,

(35:47):
you know, is that the number that it would create.
Are there other conditions that will interfere with that number?
But then also can that policy cost jobs in other
sectors such as manufacturing, you know, retail, things of that nature,
And does it hurt or attract our ability to bring
people to West Virginia? What's that due to our cost
of living as you're trying to get more people coming

(36:07):
back here, because that's a large problem we have as
our workforce. But those are all the types of things
that you need to really look at. So I think
it needs to be a broad view on that.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
You've got some numbers. I have some numbers by my calculation.
I want to know if your calculations fall into a
similar boat here. If you burn a natural gas plant,
it's about on a fuel basis, about fifty percent cheaper
than what the fuel would cost in a cold plant

(36:37):
to get the same amount of electricity. Yes, and the
ratepayers to your point, especially those industrials, they pay for that.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
Yes, And that's the thing that we're looking at, TJ.
It's the same data you're looking at. You're looking at
sources from PJA and which is our regional grid, but
also the Energy Information Agency. I may have butchered the
title on that, but EIA. You want to take a
look at what those fuel costs are. So right now
you're seeing coal per megawatt hour is about thirty six dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
That's as of August.

Speaker 7 (37:07):
Of twenty twenty five, the most recent and natural gas
is about twenty four dollars, so coal's fifty percent more.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Now.

Speaker 7 (37:13):
Those markets fluctuate, you can go back and look over time,
but it has held fairly consistent within the last year.
But obviously, you know, if that inverts in the price
of gas goes up and coal gets cheaper than what
I think you would expect to see is the grid
say we're going to use more coal right now to
go ahead and provide that electricity. That's that's part of
the market driven approach. But you know what I would

(37:35):
remind people here is we produce a lot of natural
gas in West Virginia. In fact, we're the fourth largest
producer of natural gas in the country. So a lot
of that gas, even though it's not being generated here.
That's a whole other conversation. We would like to see that,
and I think we're we're going to meet.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Well, the gaperty is produced here, but it may go
to a power plan out of.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
Staate Binga, but we're going to try to bring some
of that generation to us first Energy I think just
announced a huge project, yes, and so that that's exciting.
But you know, we're producing that gas here. We would
like to use that gas here in generation capacity. But uh,
if you start doing things that favor one energy source
over the other, you could be hurting other sectors in
West Virginia. So ran a little poll on my Twitter

(38:14):
X what if we call that platform nowadays?

Speaker 3 (38:17):
At TJ Meatos three oh four. Here's what I asked,
Are you willing to pay fifty percent more in fuel costs?
Exactly what you just said on your power bill if
electricity generators in West Virginia would use coal instead of
other fuel sources like natural gas or nuclear. Because nuclear
has a big role in the market now to make electricity.

(38:38):
Eighty eight point five percent said no, three point four
percent are unsure, eight point one percent said yes they
would be willing to do it. That's two hundred and
thirty four votes in And if you want to vote,
you can at TJ. Meadows three oh four on x
or Twitter. But people want a cheap bill, man, They
don't care. They want a cheap bill because it's hard enough.

(39:00):
Whether that's John Hugh main Street or mister Industry, it's
hard enough. Well, and you know, TJ.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
We're not.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
You and I are both paying power bills as well.
And trust me, it's not fun. Once a month when
I sat there and I'm like, whooh, okay, it's it's expensive.
But we did one of the things we really wanted
to look at was are we increasing our costs faster
in West Virginia than other states? Because if we are,
then that that tells us maybe there's something wrong. So
in the past five years since the beginning of COVID,

(39:28):
because that's really been a kind of a shift in
place and everything hits then the price of electricity for
residential customers in West Virginia has risen twenty seven point
seven percent. That's pretty steep. It's risen thirty point one
percent in Ohio, it's risen thirty point eight percent. In Pennsylvania,
it's risen twenty four point seventeen percent. In North Carolina
they're not a border state, but close. And even in Texas,

(39:51):
which is not part of a regional grid. I mean
they have ur caught down there. It's risen twenty seven
point six percent. The two states that have seen slower growth, Virginia,
which is Northern Virginia, has a lot of job creation,
and then Kentucky has a lot of the Tennessee Valley
Authority subsidizing the western part of the stint. But we're
looking and saying these costs are going up everywhere, not
just West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Appreciate your perspective. We'll have you back, We'll have the
senator back continue this debate. Of course, the legislation said
to be introduced in the upcoming session in January. More
texts on the other side of the break when talk
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Speaker 3 (49:00):
Granddaughter is a school teacher and she spends a lot
of her money to make sure her class gets snacks
when they can't afford them. No child should ever be hungry.
I hear you. My mom was a teacher, I don't know,
forty odds some years whatever it is retired now. But
I joke if she would have let me invest over time,

(49:21):
the amount of money that she spent out of her
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Speaker 2 (49:29):
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She was more than happy to do it, wanted to
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In Hoppy's head three h four talk three oh four.
Just because there were bad people and actors involved in

(49:51):
January the sixth, there were also people who were charged
who only walked around in the capitol. For you, the
news media and Hoppy to group all persons involved as
mobsters and bad people, then what stops the judgment of
all based on what certain individuals do. It's like saying
all black people are criminals based on the bad ones. No,

(50:12):
it's not. That's not what was said at all. Look,
this was an individual person who had been found guilty
of the crime he was being tried for. During that conviction,
during that prosecution, nobody brought up January the sixth once
he was found guilty. It was brought forward in a

(50:32):
sentencing memo from prosecutors. It's his history, and yes, they
said he was involved in January the sixth. I would
imagine they went in more detail than that, and those
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(50:53):
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SNAP benefits will not be issued for the month of
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You got a hustle.

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You could have made that play if you've been.

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Open on the car ride home after the game. When
you think you're helping by telling me what I did
wrong and what I need to work on, Holly, here
is that I'm not good enough, that I'm supposed to
be perfect, that it's not okay to lose.

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On the car ride home.

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All I need to.

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Hear is how much you love me and enjoy watching
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that even on my worst day, I am worthy. That
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that is enough.

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The folks that stayed outside shouldn't be. But the ones
that went in broke the law. You know what that
sounds like to me? It sounds like common sense, doesn't
It sounds like common sense.

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Not enough votes in the US Senate ass a bill
for some of the federal workers who are currently working
without pay during the federal government shut down to receive pay.

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Mar Capito says enough Democrats would not agree with the
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I just think that we would do better to open
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will not do that. So we're stuck in the mud
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From the NBA.

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Last night, the Thunder a one forty one to one
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just one overtime. The Warriors beat the Nuggets one thirty
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On Thursday Night Football beat Minnesota thirty seven to ten.

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Squeeze a few texts in here before we get to
Dave Wilson. Three h four Talk three four is the
text client TJ. The deal was that everybody would have
to purchase insurance and be in the pool that would
make it cheaper. But Republicans did away with that mandate.
So why do we always have to use the stick?

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Why can't we ever use the carrot? Why can't we
make the plan so good that people would want to
opt out of other options private sector included and go
in to the public option, Go to healthcare dot gov.
This idea that we have to beat people into submission

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with mandates, I'm going to say it seems Unamerican to me.
I'm sorry, When did the come wrong to incentivize people
rather than mandating them? TJ? Who created the problem with soybeans?
Leave it to Trump? Creates a problem then takes credit

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for solving it. TJ. I disagree. A president who gets
rid of billions of dollars in regulations absolutely affects the
economy in a positive way, especially with small businesses. Also,
a president who brings manufacturing back to the country, particularly
in critical industries, absolutely positively affects the economy. And a
president who can have policies that raise the wages of

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workers also positively affects the economy. So let's break that
down a little bit. When it comes to the idea
of more regulation, I'm with you. There, a president who
decides to repeal regulation, get out of the way, let
the market work. I agree. Now, you've got to have

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some rules, right, You can't have just pure anarchy. They
got to have some rules. The other part of that
is the idea of manufacturing onshoring is a great love it.
Are people willing to pay for it. Are they willing
to see the price of goods go up at Walmart
to pay for that? Onshoring? I question that I don't
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Three oh four Talk three oh four is the text
line Texter says, in the case of the snap vendor
unable to receive moneys from the States, I would assume
the legislature needs to convene an emergency session and seek
another vendor. Hello, I don't have government experience. I have
a lot of private sector experience. I've seen issues where

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customers can't make payments, vendor issue with call center. You
got to switch that stuff quick. It can be done, Yes,
it can be done, even with a huge amount of money.
But that's private sector. I don't know what you got
to do in the government sector. Texter wants to know
any chance we can get a White House ballroom update
with Dave Wilson, Gone man, I wish I had read

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that while I was talking to Dave. The National Guard
is an expensive way to solve this problem. Use the
food banks. So, I mean, that's what's happening. The problem,
I think is well intentioned and by the way, if
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we can't use the EBT cards and just put money
there because of problems with the vendor. Okay, we just
talked about that. There's only those two locations, those two
food banks. That's why we have to use the Guard
because we're going to have to figure out how to
take those centralized locations and distribute that food out. The

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problem is that's not what the GUARD normally does. That's
a little bit different from flood relief. It's a little
less centralized. It's the entire state. Will they do a
great job, I have no doubt. Will there be some
people who are left out or who don't get things
and children are affected. I think so, And once that's identified,
I'm sure it will be handled. But there's going to

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be some people that get missed. It's logistics. We're humans.
Humans are involved. This thing's gonna have some problems. What
would stop the next administration from reversing many of Trump's decisions?
Absolutely nothing. When you do things by executive order and
that's the problem that we talk about all the time.
Congress has to step up and pass laws, laws prevent change.

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Then you would have to change the law again. See
when you do an EO, the next guy. If it's
an administration that it doesn't agree with the president, they
can come in and change everything. Metro News Midday coming
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