08/11/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Robert Stonestreet, Kris Warner, Mayor Frank Mullens

We are getting ready for next week’s Paint the Capitol City Green. Robert Stonestreet from the Marshall University Quarterback Club of Charleston is here to discuss, plus West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner and South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullens.

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more information. Coming up on the show this morning. Well,
first of all, I want to say hope everybody had
a great weekend. We had a busy weekend at the
radio ranch. I'll get into that. It's a little bit
later on if we have time. West Virginia Secretary State
Chris Warner is going to join us in the second
segment of the show, already talking about the election next year.
There is a need, and we have actually have a
story posted about at at wv metronews dot com. There

(01:59):
is a constin need for poll workers in the state
of West Virginia. And again there were some municipal elections
this year in twenty twenty five, but not much else.
But next year is going to be a little bit different.
You're going to find that there are several state Senate
races available, there will be several mayoral races, and of
course House of Delegates are on about every couple of years.
So we're going to talk to Secretary Warner about the

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need for poll workers. If you've ever considered being a
poll worker'd be a great time to do it. You
can get a little cash, and it's a long day,
but it's worth it. So we'll talk to Secretary Warner
about that. Also, if you're going to be traveling in
South Charleston, there could be some issues on Jefferson Road.
Mayor Frank Mullins will join us to talk about that.
Plus Summerfest kicks off in South Charleston, l this week.

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We'll talk to Mary Mullins about that too, And as always,
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zero zero. I want to tell you about a big
event happening one week from this Thursday, the twenty first,
at the Marshall University Bill No Flight School but West
Virginia International Yanker Airport the annual Paint the Capital City

(03:03):
Green event. Here to talk about it Robert stone Street
or the marsh University Quarterback Club, Charleston. Good morning, sir,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Good morning day, thanks for having me, Thank.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
You for being here. First of all, how many years
has this event been going on? Do you have any
idea of godish.

Speaker 7 (03:14):
It's been over ten years, maybe even fifteen. We've changed locations,
we've been at the flight school now this is our
fifth year, which is hard to believe. We started that
with COVID when remember when we couldn't be inside together.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, that's how the whole thing happened. But the flight's right.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
So we got the big hangar up there and decided
we'd have an outdoor ish event and everybody loved it,
and we've kept doing it every year since.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
And I will tell you that if you've never had
an opportunity to go up to the Bill and no
Flight School up at Yager, yeah, it's absolutely fantastic. And
this has actually turned out to be a great venue
for this, and so if you have, I'll go ahead
and tell you now, if you're heading up for the event,
you'll see the signs pointing you in the right direction.
You'll walk in through a main area and then you

(03:56):
walk kind of across the way at the tarmac a
little bit and they'll point to everybody in the right direction.
And as you said, Robert, it turns out to be
sort of an indoor outdoor event because it's actually in
the hangar there at the at the Bill and No
Flight School, so you've got that open air thing. We
got fans going, but it's it's a great event. Plus
it shows off the bill No Flight School because they

(04:18):
always have their planes and whatnot there, so it's kind
of a win win for them and for those that
don't know this, this Bill No Flight School through Marshall
University up at the airport. This's a fantastic thing.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
It is.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
It's great venue, it's a great event. We're expecting north
of three point fifty maybe four hundred folks this year.
A lot of great sponsors. Shout out to Steve Ellis
and Elko Mechanical, longtime supporter WVRC Media for having us
We appreciate you guys, and we've got a lot of
other sponsors. Paul Smith with ten ten Bridge is going

(04:51):
to be catering Chef Paul. Yes, so if for no
other reason you should come for that.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Now, where do people get tickets? Because here's the same
the reason I I throw this out now, there's a
reason we have you on. It's not till next Thursday,
one week from this Thursday. But the reason we're throwing
it out there now is because their tickets are going
quickly and they are getting scarce.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
They are.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
We've got over thirty table sponsors so far. You can
get tickets at the Marshall Biggreen dot org website. Individual
tickets are only fifty dollars for adults. That includes all
the Chef Paul food you can eat and beer you
can drink during the advantage.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
You look at me when you said that all the food.

Speaker 7 (05:28):
But anyway, and kids under fourteen are only twenty five dollars.
They don't drink as much beer, so we well a
little cheaper there.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hopefully they don't, right, Yeah, So what is the whole
idea behind this? I mean, it's obviously it's getting you know,
it's that time of year. Everybody's excited in Huntings and
everybody's excited in Morgantown and every other city around the
nation right now gearing up for college football. But what's
the whole idea up behind this thing.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
Well, this is the kickoff for fall sports for Marshall University. Obviously,
football season is a big, big deal. We've got a
head football coach, Tony Gibson new ad Gerald Harrison. But
it's also we have some other fall sports folks there.
We've got Corney Jackson, the men's basketball coach, will be there,
Julie Fulkes for the women's coach, and then some Olympic

(06:14):
team coaches will be there as well, and Steve Cott
and the Voice of the Herd will do a sort
of an interview panel with these coaches and they'll talk
about their teams and what they're expecting and it just
it's a good tailgate atmosphere and get everybody excited for
for football and other fall sports.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, exact, we're talking to Robert soon Street from the
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coach the basketball coach, Corney Jackson is going to be there.

(06:55):
Coach Gibson is also, yes' going to be this and
we'll be there and there is here's the thing there,
there's a lot of excitement about football season this year
in West Virginia. Again, we all know about coach Rod
in Morgantown, but also in Huntington. And I love the
fact that we have our basketball coach who is from
Oak Hill and the fact that we have our football
coach who is from van in boone County two West Virginia.

(07:18):
People coaching the two leading teams at Marsh University.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yes, it's very exciting.

Speaker 7 (07:24):
We're very lucky to have both of those guys there.
And there's a lot to look forward to, a lot
of new things. I mean, as mentioned new ad, we've
got fifty some new players.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
I think we got more than that.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yeah, I mean it's a brand new team.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
There's been twenty new players since we were sitting here.
That's the landscape of college athletics right now, Robert sadly.
But it keeps it exciting. And again, anytime there's a
new coach in town, there's always you know, a bit
of a bit of excitement about that. And we have
a new ad too, And I'll tell you, mister Harrison
the new ad. I mean that press conference he had

(08:01):
me ready to run through a wall. I mean, this
guy is a fiery guy and I've never met him.
I'm looking forward to meeting him.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
Yes, Yeah, we had a lot of exciting things going on.
I also want to note, even if you're not a
football fan, we do have an opportunity to go see
Zach Bryan. So if you're a Zach Bryan fan, we're
going to have two sweet tickets at the Jones Stadium
that's going on for a live auction during the.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
He's an up and coming country singer. He's about the
hottest thing going right now in country music, and he's
going to be playing a concert at the Jone Jonesy
Edwards Stadium in Huntington on August thirtieth.

Speaker 7 (08:34):
So if you're not going to Georgia for the opening
Marshall away game, and you want to see Zach Brian
in Huntington. You've got a chance to get two sweet
tickets at a live auction, so.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Come for that.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, and a lot of other great things are always
available doing the auctions as well.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
We've got a trip with the team to the Coastal
Carolina game on August thirtieth, so you would fly down
on the team plane, have meals with the team while
you're there, have a VIP experiences at the stadium, and
then fly back with the team after the game.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
It's all good stuff. Again. Robert stone Tree for the
marsh University Quarterback Club at Charleston, and again it's it's
just something and it was sad that we had to
move it there because of COVID, But at the same time,
I don't think we're going to be leaving anytime soon
because that is just such a great atmosphere for an
event like this.

Speaker 7 (09:22):
It is great and it's outside and some people think, hey,
you know, August outside, but it's in the evening and
and it all the years we've had it there, it's
really been Coach.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Giant fans going and we have the doors open up
there and everything, and plus, I mean, these are opportunities.
You don't get a whole lot of opportunities where you
can just hang out and talk to coach Tony Gibson
and talk to coach Corny Jackson and all the other coaches.
And there's Marshall officials. We mentioned, the new ad is
going to be there normally, the cheerleaders are there, they

(09:53):
will be there. The marsh University cheerleaders will be there.
We have other other folks within the organization there and
again the whole idea behind this is raise money for
the Big Green.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
Right, President Smith has anticipated to be there. He's always
a great person to listen to. And yeah, we'll be
raising money for the Big Green, particularly the football program
because we are the Quarterback Club.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Of Charleston And just got confirmation this morning the Charleston
Mary Amy Shuiler good One is going to be giving
the opening address there that night. And of course she
she has dual citizenship, as she frequently says, because she's
a WVU person, but she I think she's got one
kid in Morgantown and one kid in Huntington, so so
she'll be a big part of as well. And I'm
gonna be serving as the MC and I always look

(10:33):
forward to that. Normally it's Steve Animal and myself, but
we announced it last week. On the first and third
Thursdays of every month, we do a live event at
five Street Brewering so on Summer Street. So that's gonna
take mister Animal away. So you're gonna be stuck with
me serving as your MC, myself and Steve Cotton.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
Yes, well, I'm sure you will do a fine job,
you and mister Cotton.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
It'll be highly adequate. I'll say that, we'll look forward
to it. And the food, man, I mean, it's just
classic chef Paul Tailgate food, the wings, the dips, all
the stuff and plenty of things to keep you hydrated
to It's going to be a great, great night as
we get ready to paint the Capital city green. This
is in the Quarterback Club of Charleston has a couple

(11:17):
of big events every year. We do something, usually around
Valentine's Day. This year we did a spring like a
beach party. A beach party over to Embassy Suiteset was
a lot of fun. But this is this is the
big event and it draws in Marshall fans from not
only the Kanaw Valley, but people in Huntingson make the trip,
people from Boone County and Mason and Jackson, they're all

(11:39):
there as well. It is always a great, great turnout
for this event. And I don't know what a sell
out is, but it comes pretty close.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
It's getting close. I think we can get about four
hundred in there. That's forty tables and we're approaching that.
So if you want to come, go to Marshall Biggreen
dot or org under the events tab and get your ticket.
Individual tickets again, only fifty dollars or table sponsorships are
available starting at teve hundred dollars for ten seats.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
All right, Robert, appreciate you being here and looking forward
to it. It's going to be next Thursday, and information
is available all over social media and as you said,
you can go to the website as well. We want
to see everybody there Thursday the twenty first. We'll start
about six six o'clock.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
Doors open at six.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Doors open at six, get you out of there by
usually eight eight point thirty something like that, and you
get to meet the Marshall coaches. There's the cheerleaders.

Speaker 8 (12:24):
There.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
It's just all around great night as we get ready
for another Thundering Herd football season. Appreciate you being here, Robert,
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to the Show Now, West Virginia Secretary of State Chris Warner,
Good morning, sir.

Speaker 8 (15:25):
Dave. I'm blessed to be calling in from Webster Springs
this morning. We're hitting our fifty fifth County courthouse to
meet with county clerks and their staffs.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Well, while you're there in Webster Springs, you'll have to
make it a point to stop my custard hot dog
stand while you're there. It's like their headquarters there. You
know that, right of course you knew that.

Speaker 8 (15:45):
You know. And I got Lea Dean with me, so
you know we can't pass the hot boy.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Never met a hot dog you didn't like, I'll tell
you that. And that's that's the pot called on the
kettle black, I'll tell you that right there. Thing the
thing I remember about about going to Webster Springs in
that courthouse, it was quite a haul up those steps,
you know, for somebody that carries a little bit too
much around their midsection, like I do. I would get
to the top of the courthouse steps there and be

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out of breath before somebody told me, you know, you
can just go around the back.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
Hey, Dave, I resemble that remark, so I know exactly
what you're talking about. I'm looking at him right now.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
But yeah, they I had been going there, you know,
when I worked in state government for like several months before,
somebody said, you know, there's a back entrance, right because
I was walking in the office all like out of
breath and stuff. They think, yeah, there's a back entrance.
So just note that for the record. All right, So
Secretary Tomorrow's National poll Worker Recruitment Day and there is
a move on to line up poll workers for the

(16:46):
upcoming elections next year. It's it's been kind of quiet
this year. I mean, as far as most people are concerned.
I know that in the quote unquote off years, and
with the Secretary of State's office, there's no such thing
as an off year. But there's a lot of municipal
elections this year, but those are starting to get those
in a review mirror right now. But twenty twenty six

(17:07):
is going to be a big election year with various
seats up. I mentioned earlier there's some state Senate seats
up next year. Also, the House has to run every
a couple of years, so it'll be a busy time.
Why should somebody want to be a poll worker?

Speaker 8 (17:20):
Well, I tell you what, there's no better way to
be civically engaged. It's a great way to see folks
in the community. And it's very important for voters when
they're coming through the door to see someone that they
recognize from the community and being a poll worker. And

(17:41):
I've found it to be very rewarding, and we have
people that like to come back and work year after year.
But at the same time, we need to get the
younger generation ready to go and to take over the
poll working. It's just to part of our constitutional republic

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and we can't let it slide.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
And does it seem to me or maybe your office,
that it's been a little bit harder to find poll
workers over the last couple of years, and look a
lot of it. If that is the case, I'll let
you answer it. But a lot of that has to
do with, as you said, a lot of the poll
workers are getting older. They got a little bit of
age on them, and some of them would like to say, well,
I've done this for thirty forty years. Maybe it's time
for younger people to get involved. But it's very important

(18:28):
to get the younger people involved to want to be
pole workers.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
Secretary right, I got a first of all brag on
Putnam County and Conall County and Barber County. They say
they do not need help with poll workers. They got
all the poll workers that they can use, but the
other you know, fifty three counties, fifty two counties can

(18:53):
use the help. And you know, again, younger people can
help move ballot boxes around, voting machines around, moving boxes
that some of the elderly folks can't. But the elderly
folks need to be there as well to coach the
younger generation along and let them know how they run

(19:14):
their election in that county.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Talk about the pay a poll worker gets, sir.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
You know, our pay ranges in each county from anywhere
from one hundred and fifty dollars on the low end
up to three hundred dollars. And I'm glad you brought
that up because it's you know, there's a two hour
training that is included. You get paid for the two
hour training and then working a very long day. I
don't want to mislead anyone. It's a long, hard day

(19:44):
to be a poll worker. But one of the things
we're going to try to do in the next legislative
session is at least introduce the idea of equalizing pay
worker pay across the entire state. You know, whether you're
working in Clay County or in Berkeley County, your work
in the same long day and deserve the same pay.
So that's one of the things we're going to introduce

(20:06):
to the legislature and see if we can reimburse the
counties because it's more than just county races on the ballot.
There's state races on the ballot, federal races as well,
and we're going to try to see if we can
equalize pay worker pay across the state.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
And it is a long day because polls open in
West Virginia six thirty AM, the close at seven thirty pm.
Most poll workers need to be on the premises by
about five point thirty in the morning. One of the
great things though about the modern election system, so as
opposed to what it used to be, is generally speaking,
and there are going to be exceptions here and there,
but generally speaking, in West Virginia's fifty five counties, polls

(20:46):
close at seven thirty With these modern voting machines, I mean,
it tabulates, and it's not like the old days. It's
tabulated quickly and usually poll workers are in most cases
on their roads and back to their beds in like
an hour or so after the polls close.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
You're correct, but there's also an executive order out that,
uh you may interfere with.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
That, Dave.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
And so we are planning in West Virginia. Quite frankly,
we have a Plan B and a Plan C based
on whether we're going to be able to use the
machines that we have used in the past. So we're
we're hopeful that that's going to be the case. But
we're unpacking that uh presidential executive order right now and

(21:30):
uh and working. We're just in a national conference in
Mississippi and uh, we're we're trying to get caught up
to date on that and we're going to have to see,
uh you know, how the court system looks at the
executive order as well.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Can you are you, I mean, are you in a
position to elaborate on what you're referring to, sir?

Speaker 8 (21:49):
Well, there there may uh you know, there may not
may not be able to use the machines that we
have used in the past, and may not be able
to use the scans that read the paper ballots that
are printed out from what I call the marking machines.
Must will refer to those as voting machines. So we're

(22:11):
coming up with a plan that if we have to
print you know, there, I think it's nine hundred different
ballot styles in West Virginia because of all the different
races and all the different counties and senatorial districts and
the rest. But we've got to be ready to print
all those ballots if they have to be hand marked,

(22:32):
and if you depend on how you read the executive order,
that may be the case, or we might not be
able to use the electronic scanners to count the ballots
for the unofficial results on election night. Again, we hope
we're able to use the machines and the poll workers
will be able to continue to run the elections the

(22:55):
way that they've been running the past here in West
Virginia in recent hit history, but we have to plan
if that's not the case.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Talking to Westervirginia Secretary of State Chris Warner. All right,
so let's get back to the training. What kind of
training does a poll worker need and how many workers
are needed per precinct?

Speaker 8 (23:14):
Yep, So there's there are five workers in a general election.
Typically that is two Republicans, two Democrats, and then the
fifth can be a non affiliated worker, but that's decided
by the county clerk. It is by law. It's the
responsibility of each of the county executive committees to turn

(23:36):
in the names of the poll workers that will represent
that party at the polling place, and then the county
clerk assembles those and makes the final determination. There is
also an alternate list, and so that's the number of
poll workers. But we have a two hour training session.

(23:58):
Some counties run multiple training sessions. Smaller counties will run
one training session, but it's it's pretty straightforward and a
two hour training session and then you're ready to work
in the polls on election day.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
One of the questions that you frequently get, Secretary is
people will say, okay, and I'll just use my home
base as an example. I live in Putnam County. My
my polling place is Mountain View Elementary School. People will say, well,
if I'm a poll worker, do you put me at
my polling place here?

Speaker 8 (24:32):
To address that, yeah, that that is decided by the
county Executive committee and the county chairman for each of
the parties. They turned that information in to the county clerk,
and ultimately the county clerk you know, certifies that that

(24:53):
list to make sure that they have everyone necessary. So
the county clerks are the ones that are running the election.
In each of their accounties, were there to help assist,
for example, with the training material and what's needed to
operate on election.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Day, and who's eligible to be a poll worker.

Speaker 8 (25:13):
As long as you're a registered voter by the general election,
you can sign up and be a poll worker. Just
as long as you're a registered West Virginia voter, you
can work on our polls.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
And look, you know when we talked about the need
for getting younger people involved in this and the rate
of pay, as you said, can go up to three
hundred and some dollars. I mean it's a long day,
don't get me wrong, but it ain't like I used
to tell people segregated. It ain't like you're digging ditches,
you know. I mean, I mean you're in the primarily
and air conditioned facility. It is a long day. But

(25:47):
for a young person to be able to set behind
a desk, and again I'm not trying to diminish the
work that poll workers do, but I mean you're setting
behind a desk. It's a long day. But to be
able to walk out of there with in some cases
three hundred dollars paycheck. I mean, that's that's not bad,
that's not bad work.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
Yeah. But David, again I'm making light of this, but
you know you got to remain awake the full period
of and you can't use your phone.

Speaker 11 (26:13):
No.

Speaker 8 (26:13):
Yeah, So if they can't check their phone every fifteen minutes,
that you know it's going to take somebody that is
ready to work.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, you're exactly right. Where can people learn more information?
If they're listening to this and they say, you know,
i'd like to be a poll worker, what's the best
the best plan of action, your securty? What do they
need to do?

Speaker 8 (26:32):
The best plan of action is go on the internet
to go vote WV dot com. Again, go vote WV
dot com and you can register there to be a
poll worker in any one of our fifty five counties.
The other option is to contact your county chairman or

(26:54):
county clerk in your home county. But the best way
is go vot WB dot com.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
All right, Secretary of State, Chris One, are always a pleasure, sir.
Enjoy Webster Springs today and find out about how that
where that back entry is to the courthouse that it
took me about a year to find. I appreciate it, sir,
thanks a lot.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
Hey, thanks Dave Siah.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Secretary of State Chris one Er, twenty six minutes away
from ten. I can tell you again, as I've been
honest with people, that I'm a former employee of the
Secretary of State's office and I did the kind of
work that what I wasn't Secretary Bunny stretch of the imagination,
but I did work in that office, and I could
tell you that the biggest problems that were the two
biggest problems listeners have heard me say this before that

(27:36):
we had and on an election day we were in
all fifty five counties. We would go out just to
make sure everything was going okay, and you know, ninety
nine point nine percent of the time it was biggest
problems we had was we had to tell people you
can't have your cell phones. Doesn't mean if you're a
poll worker that you have to totally leave it in
the car, you know, between six thirty am and seven

(27:56):
thirty pm. But nothing, nothing goes further to a road.
Trust when you walk into a polling place and you
see someone on their phone, because automatically you're thinking, well,
what are they doing on their phone. So that's one
of the big things. You got it, you just can't
stay glued to You can have it, you just can't
stay glued to it all the time. The second thing
that we had was there were a lot of people

(28:19):
that in this era we have to document everything. There
were people that wanted to go inside the polling place
and take a picture of themselves voting. Cell phones are
not allowed inside the voting booth period, and we had
people that would go in, you know, young people as
their first time and they're very proud of the fact
that they're voting for the first time. That's great. You
can't do a selfie inside there, and you certainly cannot

(28:41):
take a picture of who you voted for and posted.
That's illegal. That's one aspect of it. The other aspect
of it is you cannot walk into a polling place
with a T shirt, a jacket, a hat that says
vote for so and so for board of education or
president or whatever the case may be. You can't do that.
That's considered electioneering. So just just a reminder that when
you head to the polls next year, keep those things

(29:04):
in mind. You cannot walk into a polling place within
one hundred feet with a T shirt. Offices vote for
John for sheriff because that's considered electioneering and it's illegal.
Doesn't mean you have to, you know, take your shirt
off because we don't need to see that, but if
you can at least cover it, turn it inside out
or what that seemed to be the biggest problems that
we that we encountered when I was a member of

(29:27):
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Text says Chris Warner really encourage me to sign up
to be a poll worker. He needs a spokesperson, says
the time. Well, I think he's got a few of those,
but you can send your resumes to the Secretary of
State's office. Mike Queen will be happy to take those

(33:13):
I am sure, so welcome into the show now. South
Charleston Mayor Frank Mullins, Good morning, mister mayor, Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 14 (33:21):
Good morning day, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Thank you for being So what's going on on Jefferson Road.

Speaker 14 (33:25):
Sir, Well, it's my today. What they did was they
close the southbound lane. So basically, if you're going if
you're coming from Route sixty to go south across the
bridge out to a quarter of g that lane's going
to be closed for a few days while they resurface
and redo the trap. The two new lanes to be
open next week, so it's an inconvenience this week. It'll

(33:48):
be a great thing at the end of the week
because we're going to open up some more lanes. And
anytime they can open up more lanes, that's a good
thing for our traffic flow.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
It is, and indeed it is. So you would just
tell motorists that go through that area, residents, folks doing business,
just to I guess, pack your patients with you.

Speaker 14 (34:01):
Is that what you're saying, Yeah, pack your patient. It's
just a section between the railroad tracks in Jefferson Road
what we're used to, but it's where you go across
the bridge to go down to the Cordy, so you
can still go. It's out on Jefferson Road to the corridor.
You just have to get on the other side of
the tracks first, so you'll be decorded around Montrose to
do that.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
And you're sure. I have plenty of signage up so
you won't catch anybody by surprise, right, Yeah.

Speaker 14 (34:24):
Well there's some signage out there. I actually just drove
it this morning myself to make sure I did it
and understood it. So if people call me, I I
can answer questions. And there are some detour signs there
taking you to taking you to Montrose, just kind of
you know, pay attention and look for.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Them, and do you tell people when they call you
mayor look, I just did it. If I can do it,
anybody can. Is that what you're telling them?

Speaker 14 (34:46):
That's right? If I just did it, anybody.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Anybody should be able to How are things been going
out there since all this because I had you on
a couple of weeks ago, and I know there's been
various changes out there. How are things going over on?

Speaker 14 (35:00):
I think it's going okay. I mean, you always have
you always have some things you need to adjust to.
But at the end of the day, I think it's
going well. The roundabout has been really well received. I know,
mostly what you see on social media or the mishapps,
but actually overall it's been very well received and it's
helped the traffic flow. No more rail traffic to deal
with because they fly over. So I think it's going
really well.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah, we're talking with South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullins. I
know this past Saturday you had a big event there
at the South Charleston Farmers Market. I presume everything went
well there.

Speaker 14 (35:29):
Yeah, I went there. I went there too on Saturday. Good,
good crowd, good event. Uh celebrating I think it's National
Farmers Week. We were celebrating, so we had a lot
of things there for folks to do and it went
really well. Farmers Market is doing great.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
It's a fantastic facility. I mean it really really is
if you haven't had an opportunity to check it out.
We had Sean Zuaniga on the show last week talking
about it. I mean, my wife and I've been there
several times. It is really really a gym there in
South Charleston, and really for the entire Kanaw Valley.

Speaker 14 (35:57):
Yeah, it really is, and it's really exceeded my expectations.
I kind of had a good feeling about it, thought
it was going to do well, but it's really kind
of exceeded it. And Sewn's done a good job with its,
as some of our other staff members. I keep adding
things to my staff's plate and they keep hitting the
whole run. That's gonna like to see.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Well, that's a sign that you got a good staff,
right there, is if you can keep throwing stuff out
of them and they say and they say next, come on, man,
they're bringing on bringing on all right ely.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
Right, sure, right?

Speaker 4 (36:20):
What's going on with the with the plaza out there
with them all, What's what's happening there? Anything new?

Speaker 14 (36:25):
Well, you know, we just had the groundbreaking for Kroger Marketplace,
the big first one in the state of West Virginia.
You guys have heard me say that before. That was
an Actually that's a big deal for us to get
that big box anchor store going. And and what that
does is that dominoes everything else. And we've already had
phone calls from developer they want to expedite some of
the other stores a little bit now. So I think
you'll see some more stores starting in September as well.

(36:47):
So it's off and running and we're excited.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
And before we let you go, I know everybody is
excited about Summerfest to getting under wayne South Charleston and
briefly talk about that.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
Great event every year, right, Dave. So it starts Wednesday thirteenth,
runs Wednesday to Saturday, as always a lot of live entertainment.
Uh talked to Mick yesterday, who's basically lives down there
this week. My park superintendent kind of handles things. He says,
we got more ventors this year than we've ever had,
so we have most vendors we've ever had, so we're
expecting a great event. Drone show Friday night, Saturday night
capped off the fireworks.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Everybody come down to this all right, Hey, Mayor, I
know you're busy day. We'll let you get back to work.
And remember, if Mayor Mallins can can survive this and
can do this successly, anybody can. Right.

Speaker 14 (37:29):
That's exactly right, Dave, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Martin appreciate you, all right. So that is South Charleston
Mayor Frank Mullins appreciate him taking time to be honest,
you have a little fun there with maryor Mallins. He's
a good guy and he and I like to go
back and forth with each other a little bit. And look,
I'll tell you we have I have to say we
have some pretty good mayors in this area because I
interview all of them from South Charleston to Winfield of course,

(37:53):
to Charleston and Saint Albans and Dunbar and Clinton, Dennon
and Hurricane. I know I'm gonna leave one out. I'm
gonna get in trouble, but the bell all of them
on the show, and they're always willing when I reach
out to say, hey, mayor, would you like to come
on and talk about this? They never turned me down.
They're always like, yep, we want to get some word

(38:14):
out to people. So just know what he talked about
was that Jefferson Road project. That construction is going to
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With this law define and lawless society that has embraced
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is this illegal concept you speak of? It seems that
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handle all the weight with the new croker coming to
The studies have been done, and again I'm not an engineer, architect,
or any of those things, but the studies have been
done and everything looks like sin It's going to be okay.
We certainly hope. So it was a busy weekend in
the valley. I want to say congratulations to a gentleman
by the name of David McNish of Saint Alban's. David

(39:18):
was our grand prize winner of the Royal Infeld Himalayan
Motorcycle and one thousand bucks in cash. We gave that
away Saturday at Trojan Landing, Corkorill Avenue. What a great
event that was. A couple of one hundred of our
listeners were there. Of course, when we do an event
like that. All of our stations take part, gave away
a ton of door prizes too. Great day, and I
want to say a very very special thanks to a

(39:39):
very nice lady that I met from Tornado. And I
apologize because you know, Pappall's hearing after wearing headphones for
thirty seven years ain't what it used to be. And
I didn't quite catch the lady's name, but I did
learn that she was from Tornado and that she's a
big fan of WCCHS radio. And she told me her
radio stays on w CCHS pretty much all day and

(40:00):
when we hear things like that, we appreciate that more
than you will ever know. So thanks again to everyone
at that event. And then Saturday afternoon, Steve Animal from
the Mouth and I packed up and headed to the
Red Carpet Lounge for Kegs for Cane Iine sponsored by
the folks at Dutch Miller Super A big shout out
to them for sponsoring that event, and to all of
those of you that came out to help us raise

(40:23):
some money for the Canal Charleston Humane Association. Anytime we
can get out and we can do things like that,
we certainly enjoyed. Steve and I had a great great
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get a big shout out to Dutch Miller Subaru for
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(40:44):
a few days off later this week. I'll be here tomorrow,
but then I am off Wednesday through Saturday. I will
be on the air, of course, as I am every
Sunday on ninety eight to seven a mouth and starting
at NUT. I will be back on this show next
Monday morning.

Speaker 15 (40:58):
Now.

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(41:18):
for allowing me to take care of some stuff I
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stepping in again. I will be back on the air
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Textas looks like the fascist Trump regime is targeted Washington,
d C. For another round of violent distractions from the

(42:02):
Epstein files. Yeah, I saw that. I was reading that
article this morning. Looks like the national Guard, the President
is talking about mobilizing the National Guard in DC when
in fact violent crime is actually down in the nation's capital.
But I'll about the guys on talk line handle that,
and we'll handle that on Metro News midday. How's that
coming up a little bit later out of the day.

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On this show tomorrow, you will recall Capital Market had
a biscuit and gravy making contest for charity last year.
One of the hardest things I ever had to do
was be a judge for a biscuits and gravy competition. Well,
I've signed up to do it again this year. Several

(46:23):
of us here from the radio rancher we're doing that
and it's not till the fall, but it's already being
planned now as we speak. So we're going to talk
to some of the representatives. Also just confirmed and that
Paula Potter, looks like tentatively the superintendent of schools in
Knawa County, is going to join us on the show
tomorrow as well. And of course it is it's back

(46:44):
to school time. Yeah, believe it or not, it is
back to school time. So that is all coming up
on tomorrow show. A couple of quick things in the news.
I guess we are now in the afterglow of the
Bernie Sanders visit to the Mountain State. He of course
was in Wheeling Friday night, and Leonore and Mingo County
and at the Conliseum here in Charleston Saturday night. He said,

(47:07):
at those stops, and this is a quote, Trump didn't
win West Virginia. The Dems lost it. I don't know
about that. Let me just say two things can be
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(47:27):
fumbled the ball across the country over the last several years.
And I'm talking more on the national level. Their imaging
is horrible and the old saying in marketing. As a
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(47:48):
your story, someone else is going to tell it for you.
And the Democrats, my opinion, the story, the story of
the Democrats, has been told by the Republicans, and many
Democrat still don't realize why Donald Trump won. Nonetheless, I'll
say this, no matter how you feel about Bernie Sanders,

(48:09):
and I am no fan, he's out there. And I
didn't mean that like it sounded. I mean, he's in public.
I should say he's out there too, but he's also
in public. DJ Meadows is making faces at me here
because they said he's out Now. What I meant was
he's actually out among the people. Huh. And here's the
part where people are going to think that old Dave

(48:31):
has lost his mind, all right, which that happened a
long time ago. There are a great number of similarities
between Bernie and Donald Trump, a great number. Matter of fact,
I was talking to a good friend of mine who
is about the liberal progressive Democrat as you can get,
and they said the exact same thing. There are a

(48:54):
lot of similarities between between the two. Both Trump and
Bernie have found their niche in people who think they
have been marginalized by the ruling party. Trump won in
twenty sixteen because a lot of Republicans were left cold
by the status quo in the Republican Party. Same with Bernie.
A lot of Democrats weren't exactly enamored with the status

(49:16):
quo and the Democratic Party. And of course both Sanders
and Trump do have support from independence, so there are
a lot of similarities. We had another giant pothole situation
yesterday in Charles the multiple vehicles fell victim to it.
Metro nine to one one yesterday reported had happened yesterday
on seventy seven thousand New Leon Sullivan Way at mile
marker one hundred. It seems like it. It never ends,

(49:39):
Tex says well Trump deranging Trump derangement syndrome. Suffers aren't
going to like it. But Trump does have the authority
to activate the twenty seven hundred member DC National Guard
without approval of local officials. Unlike other branches, he would
not have to get the sign off of local authorities
to act, likely making the activation a tempting option. By
the way, DC is the most dangerous world capital according

(50:02):
to new data. So keep Winding says the texture. Well,
violent crime is also down in the nation's capital. That's
a proven fact. Violent crime is actually down. I don't know.
Maybe it is the most dangerous capital in the world.
I find that very hard to believe. I think there's
some South Americans, some Central American capitals may be a
little bit more dangerous. I'll go. We'll go with the
assumption that the texture is correct, though, but violent violent

(50:24):
crime is down in the nation's capital. But TJ. Meadows
is here. Last week I got myself into a little
bit of trouble because I started talking about violent crime
statistics in America actually going down.

Speaker 14 (50:34):
And my.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Theory that in America we are afraid of fear is
one of my favorite people, John Stossel, would say, we're
absolutely afraid of fear. People called me out on it
and said, well, the major cities don't contribute to the
FBI statistics. I did some research, and as I said earlier, TJ.
Two things can be right at the same time. They
didn't always contribute. The major cities New York, Chicago, and

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la among them, didn't always contribute to the federal crime statistics.
But they do now and on on a whole as
with DC, violent crime is going down in America. Good morning, sir,
Good morning. How's it going?

Speaker 20 (51:15):
Walk two blocks any direction in city center Philly? See
if you feel like crime's going down. But that's that's
my experience. Why does Bernie hate rich people? When did
it become a crime to work? Because America rich people.
I've been through this. We've looked at the numbers. Take
every penny of wealth that the top one percent has

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distributed over the other ninety nine percent, each household, we'd
get about three hundred thousand dollars. What happens when somebody
wins the lottery and gets about three hundred thousand dollars?
Quickly gone, quickly done. What's next? Yeah, what's next?

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Let me read this text here, Okay, get your opinion.
Bernie Sanders is the reason, says the textra why we
have Trump? If we would have had gotten out in
the if he would have gotten out of the twenty
sixteen election, we wouldn't be in this mass. Your take, Yeah,
I don't know. I have to think about that.

Speaker 20 (52:07):
So they're saying the reason we have Trump is because
Bernie Sanders was lighting everything up and don't.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
I get where you're going.

Speaker 20 (52:14):
I don't know, but yeah, Bernie, Bernie hates Bernie hates
rich people.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Indeed. I mean, look, we'll get into it and talk
a lot. I listened to the speech. I was not impressed.
All right, give me ten seconds. What's on the show today, Hayley.

Speaker 20 (52:30):
Bon stops Spy coming up at ten oh six. We'll
talk about this funding issue for the family treatment courts.
Want to get into that, that and a whole lot more.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
All right, quick text says you say crime is down,
like we shouldn't deal with Oh no, I am absolutely
the most redneck, hardcore person in the world when it
comes to dealing with crime.

Speaker 21 (52:45):
But gotta go see you later till they have fun.
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