Senator Shelley Moore Capito discusses representation in Washington and gridlock in congress, Delegate JB Akers announces his run for re-election, Melissa Stewart from the Patriot Guardians Program, and Putnam County Chamber of Commerce Director Ashley Alford-Glance on the "Get A Life" program.
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right off the top, Senator Shelley Moore. Capito, Good morning, Senator,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Senator Capito, Hello, mute, Sorry you had morning.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's all good, it's all good, it's all good. How
are you, Senator?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You know it is drizzling here in Washington, DC. Is
it raining at home?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Not at all? I mean, we can't. We haven't had
We haven't had rain here in Charleston other than last
Friday night since like nineteen seventy eight or something. Senator,
It's it's been, it's been. It's very dry, and it's
expected to remain that way for like the next week
and a half. Zero rain insight here. Well, it is.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Raining here a little bit, since I guess that's a
welcome thing to green it up. I can tell you
my front yard in Charleston's not looking too good.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, I mean I walked through it the other night
and it was not your front yard, my front yard,
I should say. I walked through it in Putnam County
and it was like walking around in Fredo's or something.
Everything was crunching here in Arizona. So what are you
up to today? I get several things we want to
talk to you about, but specifically, what are you doing today?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Well, we're obviously trying to move the President's nominations through
in a better fashion, to go back to the way
we used to do it when we had cooperative, a
more cooperative Senate and leadership work together. And Senator Schumer
has just been obstructing every single one of the President's
team and it's taken too much time. So we're going
to go back to the way it used to be,
where you could put them in a block of forty
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or fifty of bipartisan. They've come out of committee bipartisan,
and we're now going through the process to be able
to do that. So that's what's on the Senate floor today, tomorrow,
and probably as we finish up the week. You know,
in my committee, I'm having a hearing on wildfires and
other things on my Environment and Public Works Committee, and
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that I'm working hard to make sure that there's no
government shut down.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And then our.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Appropriations bills, eight of which we have out a committee,
including mine, are able to be passed on the Senate floor.
So it's busy time. Plus seeing constituents. I saw the
Parkinson's community came to visit me, George Manahan and others yesterday,
So it's always good to see see folks from from home.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, go back to the delay and the confirmations, if
you will, I mean, is this just in your is
I mean to state the obvious? Is this just an
old fashioned politics, the delay tactics.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
This is beyond that. If you look at like the
number of nominees that were confirmed by either voice vote
or unanimous consent, for instance, under Obama eight hundred and
fifty six were under Biden's term five hundred and thirty
under this president's term zero. They will not you know,
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even ones that come out of committee with full bipartisan support,
they won't let go on the Senate floor by unanimous consent.
And what that does is it just blocks the time.
We can't get to the important issues that we need
to get to. We have to spend so much time
on our nominees. And this is a broken system that honestly,
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Chuck Schumer broke at the beginning of this term, and
we're going to fix it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Talked again with Senator Shelley Moore Capitso, I had a
question here that the news team asked me to ask you.
And I'm always glad to keep the guys upstairs a
little bit happy and has to do with broadband expansion.
The state submitted a proposal to the FEDS for about
six hundred million. The state initially was going to get
one point two billion, but we're told that the Trump
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administration pulled back the whole program for review. And this
is what came out, is that accurate.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
The Trump administration did pull the program back for review.
I think the governor announced last week and I've been
in close contact with the Broadband Council submitted West Virginia's
new plan according to what the Trump administration. The Trump
administration wanted to look at a if there is a
more less expensive way to deliver this service to the
more rural reachable areas and include some satellite we know,
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and we tried to make the case. We had the
head of the Antia who makes this decision, Ariel Roth
is her name, and she was down in White Sulfur
with us where we had a meeting with all the
providers and we basically said, in West Virginia, it is
almost impossible to be served adequately by any kind of satellite.
There's latency, you can't get it. You know, the trees,
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the hollers, all of those things and so really we're
trying to make the case that hardwiring or fiber is
the only way to go, which is more expensive. So
they've submitted and this will reach almost every West Virginia
and they've worked really hard on it. The Broadband Council
has and Kelly Workman and her group, and so hopefully
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it'll be successful.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
We'll know.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I think they have a sixty day period to review
it and then the money should start flowing by the
end of the before the end of the year. But
keep in mind, this has been four years of bureaucratic stuff.
I was going to say something not as nice stuff.
Yeah stuff, And you know, we got people that don't
have service. We've got people that have inadequate service, businesses, individuals.
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It's just folks in West Virginia are very anxious, restless,
and waiting for this. So I hope we get our
one point two billion. I'm going to hold the Trump
administration speak to the fire that this is what we've
been promised, this is what we should get.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And of course, last week the announcement was made about
the Ascend West Virginia program comed in it's already been
in the Greenbrier Valley Eastern Panhandle of the Elkins area,
some of other areas. Now it's going to becoming This
is kind of the brainchild of Brad Smith and his
wife at Marshall University and now it's coming to Charleston
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and in order to hat now and again when you
talk about in this is your area, when we talk
about the Charleston area, you know, we don't have nearly
as many problems as what some of the other areas do.
But we're trying to get people here into the area.
And they're still hollers and stuff around Charleston, and so
you know, the broadband part of it is a major
major part for these for these folks to come here.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Well, it's necessary because a lot and I say congratulations
to Brad and Lee Smith for putting this together. I mean,
it's so great to have a successful program that's drawing
more people into the state, particularly younger people. And but
they have to have broadband access and it can't be
just minimal service. A lot of these folks have jobs
that they're going to be telecommuting. They have to have
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full and vibrant service. You know, in Charleston you can
go out to Cistinville and start to lose coverage. Uh,
and that's just on the outskirts of you know, central Charleston.
So it's it's not like we can assume because it's
the capital city that everybody in Kanauk County is served,
because they aren't. And so I think that's going to
be a major, a major part of the ascent program,
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but also of this bad program that should be bringing
the money into into the state.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Before we let you go, because I know you're on
a tight schedule, I want to go back and I
want to ask you you kind of touched on a
potential government shutdown and the need to fund the government.
I mean, we hear every couple of years, we hear
about these things going on. It's almost nonsensical in my
eyes and the eyes and ears of a lot of
listeners out there, Well, what are we doing to make
sure this doesn't happen?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I mean, if I was not where I am but
just listening to your show, I would be rolling my
eyes right now. It's deja vous all over again. It's
the same thing of the thread of a government shutdown,
and I'm going to do everything I can to prevent that.
I've said every single time it's a misery march, it's
a road to nowhere. It hurts people, it hurts businesses,
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it hurts our standing internationally because of the uncertainty. So
what we need to do by the end of September
is past what's called a continuing resolution while we work
these issues out. Our big hope is that we'll have
at least three bills in there that we can say
are fully accomplished for the twenty twenty six fiscal year.
Now that doesn't sound like a whole lot from the outside,
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but it's three more than we had had over the
last several years. So I'm very hopeful there. We're working
together across party lines, across the House and Senate, but
we've got to get back to regular, regular procedures with appropriations.
This is we're on track to be much more functional
in that area. That means we can have new starts,
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we can get rid of programs that are no longer useful,
we can hold the line on spending, we can do
the priorities that I think and the President thinks are
what are in line with the desires of the American people.
And so hopefully no shut down September the thirtieth and
we'll just continue on here in the next two months
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to try to wrap the thing up.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Senator Shelley More Cabito, It's always a pleasure to have
you on the show. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Thanks a lot, great to talk, Thanks a lot, Thank.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
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Delegate for the fifty fifth District Republican Jbakers, Welcome to
the show, sir.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
It's always awesome to see you. I got a little
pressure today though. In addition to Ryan watched me through
the grat glass, TJ. Meadows is also in there.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
It puts a little heat on.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Me to make sure well. I think Ryan's on you
got to watch for I mean TJ. TJ hides behind
the sunglasses. We don't know exactly what's going on in
that head.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Of his that makes him dangerous.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, look at you. I mean yeah, and he's
got him on the got a secret service agent in here.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
He looks like.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
I got to gossip with him a little bit. The
business summit the Chamber of Commerce puts on a couple
of weeks ago, so I got to sit next to
him and.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Talk for a little bit. So that was nice. Mm
hmy got to hear TJ unfiltered for a little while.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Tj unfinness. Yeah, tj unfiltered, tj unfilter. It's not a
whole lot different than TJ on the air. You know,
he s the but anyway, anyway, he's a good guy.
Just don't tell him I said that. I hope he's
not listening. All right, So you're running for reelection. I
guess the official announcement was made. I think everybody kind
of expected you would. So what went into the decision
to stay where you are in the House of Delegates?
Speaker 11 (14:59):
Uh, well, I mean number one, it's uh. I just
really enjoy working for the people in my district. The
best part of the job for me is actually meeting
people and talking to them and being face to face
with constituents and.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know, a big picture.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
We can talk about this a little bit more later,
but big picture, I really I love and I don't
use that word lightly. I love working on economic development
issues and trying to attract job greater to this day,
or helping businesses who are here expand but helping someone
get their road fixed, or you know, helping with some
smaller local issue.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Uh, just really is satisfying for me as well. And
I like I like people. I mean, you run into
some knuckleheads every once in a while, Dave.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But well, but enough about our building. That's that's right.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
I mean, I mean outside of this building, everybody's good.
So I actually really do enjoy talking to voters. I
really do enjoy going to community meetings and being around folks.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I just I like people. So it's, you know, one
of the main reasons I ran for this job.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
So that played into it. And then also, you know,
I didn't get into politics. I mean I've I've been
involved in other people's racism, been around politics for a
long time, but I didn't run for office myself until
my wife and our kids had gotten older. Our oldest
daughter was going to college and our twins are now
seniors in high school. So you know, I never would
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have wanted to have done this when they were you know,
much younger and they needed both parents around as much
as possible. I think they still need this around, but
so you know, they're they're you know, they're more independent now,
so that also plays into the decision.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And speaking to my.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Wife, she just finished a murder trial a couple of
days ago, you know, Mary Clareakers. And anyway, my thoughts
are still that family. Just terrible set of circumstances.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And I said this with that verdict that came out yesterday,
and to be honest with you, Delegate, I said this,
when the when this horrific crime first took place, I
mean three three lives ruined, you.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Know, since I mean I can think of say senseless
is a good.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Way to put it. I mean, and you know, the
obviously the store clerk that was that was killed doing
and we're talking about the the obviously the situation with
the tobacco show up in North Charles with the two teenagers,
and the clerk was killed complying doing everything that he
was that he was told to do. And now these
other two who were tried as adult, you know, mid
level teenagers and the guilty murder. They get life sentences
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with the possibility of parole. Don't know whether that'll happen
or not, but either way, and their lives are ruined.
Even if they do get the parole, their lives, their
lives are ruined. It's totally senseless. But again we're talking
with Jaba because you mentioned economic development. He picked up
an award. I saw that on the social media. What's
that all about?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, that was And I want to talk about this briefly.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Not so much for the fact that I got the award,
which won't matter to most people, but it was an
award from the Manufacturers Association, which is why it makes
it important to me. And I think, I mean again,
you've got to patch yourself in the back a little
bit when you run a for office and tell people
you accomplish something, otherwise have now reason to vote for
you to keep you in office. So you know, I consistently,
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ever since I ran the first time, consistently now and
always will tell people that my focus is.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
On you can nomic development and jobs and job creation.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
And one of the ways I think that you prove
that you mean that is through the recognition of people
who are job creators. The Manufacturers Association West Virginia is
an extremely important group that represent people from like a
really small bomb and shop, you know, manufacturers who might
make just one small product up to extremely large you know,
multinational corporations who have a presence in West Virginia are
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also a part of that organization. So I got one
of their annual legislator awards a few days ago. So
did Senator Robbie Morris here in West Virginia. Then and
a lot who's the House communications director, got a staff award,
which was also nice to see. But that award is
given out to you know, I'm not on their board,
but it's it's their board's way of saying, these are
legislators who we believe are have their eye on the
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ball and the right issues, which is economic development and
job creation. So that's an award that again, when I
tell people that's the focus of what I do, that's
a way for me to say, Look, that's not just
me saying it. There's least some recognition there that I
am one hundred percent focused on job creation in the
economy of the state, which has got to get better
and we've got to make to me, the business of
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our legislature has to be about business.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
But this last session, you know, and I know you're
just one, You're just one of one hundred. There a
lot of focus on things. And I'm talking and when
you talk to people like maybe maybe the Chamber of
Commerce or maybe some of those groups like that, some
pretty conservative Republicans will say that not a whole lot
got done. Yeah, I mean, listen, when it comes to business.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yes, I mean there was.
Speaker 11 (19:32):
I'm one who will say there was some frustration from
me on that. But I'm also not going to say
we got nothing done. You know, the House Bill twenty fourteen,
which has been talked about before it to Mike ur
Griz bill I think has a huge amount of potential
for the state, the one stop you know licensing, the
universal Licensing Bill. You know, we had some things that
were definitely business oriented, so we got some stuff done.
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You know, the issues they're more the cultural issues always
draw in more of the media attention. But I will
say we probably did have more of that than if
you're asking me that I'm comfortable with as as it
opposed to focusing on things that are purely about making
the average West Virginia's life better through their you know,
economic prosperity. You know, if I could personally work only
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on economic issues every day, then that is what.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I would do.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
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interims a couple of days ago, and there were there
was a lot of hope in a lot of people's
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eyes going back a couple of weeks ago that maybe
while the legislators were in town we might get into
a special session about Peia. Didn't have.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Do you think there was really a lot of hope
from a lot of people that we'd have a special session.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I think I think to get something worked out about Peia.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
There was probably, yeah, I mean we obviously that's something
we've got to figure out long term for our state
employees and anyone who's on PA to make sure that's
a stable and sustainable program. But you know, it didn't
seem like there was a consensus on what to do,
so a special session probably wasn't the best thing at
this time. We did still have interims and for folks
you know, who aren't real familiar with interim process, we
don't take votes on issues during interims. Those are more
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educational sessions for the members, which is good. I mean
they believe it or not, some of us actually want
to understand and what we're voting on.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Wants to get to a regular session.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
What a novel concept.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
Yeah, So interims are more of a time when we
have people coming and present on important issues. These are
things that may turn to bills later. So in my
particular committee, I'm the House Judiciary Chairman, which is you know,
not pat myself in the bike. It's an important job
over there. And we had interim sessions on you know
that My committee deals a lot with courts issues, for example,
so we dealt with or took a look at day reports, centers,
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community corrections, alternative sentencing, which is important in a lot
of different ways. County jail bills in West Virginia are
exploding a lot of counties. You've heard this camp can't
even afford their jail bill. So I'm taking a hard
look at ways that we can.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
You know, not everybody should go to jail for every crime.
I mean, you got to be held accountable for sure.
But we have existing community corrections right now. These day
report centers are important part of it. So if we
can keep people out in society while being held accountable,
but they are still productive. Uh, And we're reducing the
county jail bills, if there's a balance there that we
can obtain, then we need to maximize that as best
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we can.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I mean we don't. I think sometimes live it in
you know, areas that aren't doing too badly, like a
Canawa County or Poddam County or somewhere or Arount Cabal
County or in this general area. Get into some of
these counties. I mean, like, and I'm not picking on
these people because it's not their fault, but at Clay County,
Work County, Calhoun County, they have a choice pretty much
when it comes to their jail bill. Do we pay
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the jail bill or do we pay the power bill?
I mean, and I mean this thing just keeps going
up and up and up, and I don't know what
the answer is, because crime is not going to stop.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Well, and you know, again, just so people understand when
I talk about, you know, maybe community corrections, we're talking
about from non violent offenders who haven't you know, done
anything that's hurt anyone else. These are you know, So
if someone's a violand offender, I'm like, yeah, send them
straight to jail. Obviously, that's that's a no brainer. But
you know, some of these people who are just caught
up strictly in terms of like substance abuse for example,
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and you know, they're not drug dealers, but they get
caught with drugs and they're going to potentially want up
in jail. I mean to me, you know, get this
people and some sort of you know, make sure they
can still maintain a job if possible, you know, make
sure they can still pay to take care of their
kids and their family and other things that are important,
because otherwise they just want.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Up potentially reoffending later.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
So and again, like you said, some of these these
rural counties, they literally cannot afford their jail bill right now.
So we've got to think a ways to alleviate that
pressure while still also holding people accountable, so.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Out of a texture, thank you for you, It says,
I wanted to say thank you for quickly arranging the
FEMA information meeting their Allen Creek for the twenty twenty
four April floods Texas. Is I just live. I live
past South Ridge in in April, those rushing floodwaters took
out supports under our driveway bridge. We had no idea
would even start to reach out for help until we
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heard the notice on this station. Pat on the back
for us that you had put the meeting together. That
meaning you. They helped us so much we were approved
for funding, got the bridge supports place. Thank you again, sir.
It's the small things to make the biggest impact to others.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Oh well, that is that's extremely nice. You know, sometimes
you get text Davy. You might get some after I
leave that aren't so nice, but that one is. Whoever,
that texture was, thank you so much.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
You know.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
I don't do this for recognition, but I said when
I first came on today that that's one of the
reasons why I like being in office is helping people
in those situations. And so that that was a good meeting,
and that that's from a part of the county in
my district. My district is about half of it is
part of Charleston. The other half is really mostly almost
all of southern Kenal County, which is more rural, and
a lot of those communities get forgotten, and I think
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they feel that way, so I try to emphasize and
make sure they know they're not forgotten. And that was
an example of one where I didn't ask them to
come to me. I went to them on that issue
and I organized. We had I don't know a dozen
different people there who were able to provide help and services,
and I said, let's take these people into the community
that's affected, not make them driving to Charleston for this,
So that's take it to them.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah, that's right. I thought that was important, and thank
you to that. Texture.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We had another one here for you that wanted me
to ask you about helping make our schools more safer
and maybe doing some policies that would produce severe penalties
for harming our students, teachers, and staff.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah. Well, I mean we have.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
That's one thing the legislature has done the past couple
of years i've been there, including this past session, is
we have increased penalties for violence against children. That is
something that I'm not going to apologize for. I'm in
favor of those types of penalties. I mean, we talk
about alternative sentenzing for non violent offenders, but crimes against
children we've seen increased penalties, and in terms of school safety,
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that's actually very timely for me. Right now, I can't
promise this will happen, but I have been working the
past couple of weeks legitimately on trying to increase the
communications capacity at our schools in the event that there
is an emergency situation. That's something that I've talked to
our county Sheriff Joey Crawford on also some people from
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some other first responders responder services, and not sure yet
if we'll get the funding for that, but I have
been working on that, and Sheriff Crawford's great by the way.
I've been trying to work with them on a way
to make sure that our communications systems and our schools
when there's an emergency is it's ironclad and works no
matter what, when you might have people making a million
phone calls in a community to find out what's going on.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
So that is something I'm glad that text brought that up.
I didn't intend to talk about that today, but I'm
trying hard to work on those issues as well.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Talking to give a Dell a good Jbiacres before we
let you go. We don't know, I mean, it's still
early on. We don't know whether you'll have opposition in
the primary, more than likely have opposition in the general
action next year. What do you want people to know
about about your term and at you about your time
and off.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
I want people to know that I'm always accessible. I
always return phone calls and emails, even during session when
things get kind of crazy. And you know, I mean,
you know, I'm in a party. I'm a Republican. You've
got to run with a party label. But I don't
ask people what their politics are when I talk to them.
I could care less whether you're a Democrat Republican. You
can look at my social media when I get off
here and see that I'm not someone who's a negative
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person about politics. I try to always post positive news
and tell people what's going on. So I'm here to
represent everybody who may need my help, and I'm proud
to be, you know, in this district. So I think
that's the most important thing is just making sure that
you know, as tribal and as negative as politics can
be these days, you know I'm going to maintain a
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positive presence and I'm going to help you no matter
who you are, and if you need me, I'm going
to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
And that's just who I am.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
And home always going to be and I'm going to
work every single day that I can to make your
economic life better in the state and try to figure
out ways to make sure that our kids and our
grandkids can either stay here or come by home and work.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Delli good jb Acres, and I'll be looking through the
glass in here, and when you look up the term
worst retiree ever, our former general manager who's also in
the House of Deligates, Joe Parsons Greats, showed up here.
He's been here two days in a row and he retired,
but he's getting two days in a row.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
He'll never be retired. He's one of those guys. He'll
never give it up. So he's another great guy. People
in his district very fortunate to have him, just like
he's another very positive person as.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, and he does but I will say this about him,
he does address a little bit differently than what he
was when he was here.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Full he's entitled to do that.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
He's entitled to do that. He's earned it. He's earned it.
Deligaan Aker's always a pleasure to talk to you, man,
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Criminals should be in jail full stop, says a Texter.
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Going back to we were talking about broadband with Synator Capito,
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it from Patriot Gardens. Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Good morning, Thank you for being here, first time on
the show. Yes, it is right.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Tell me what Patriot Gardens it coming that microphone a
little bit closer. Tell me what Patriot Gardens is.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
Patriot Gardens is a program out of the West Virginia
National Guard military Authority the state side where we work
with our veteran and military members and their families, trying
to help them learn not only agricultural I guess practices,
but also look at entrepreneurial opportunities while they're in uniform
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or even in retirement.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I actually got very familiar with this program when in
a former life when I was working at SEE government
with the Secretary of State's office, and I remember we
had done I think we'd done some more. It's a
fantastic program. Talk about how it works.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
How it works.
Speaker 15 (32:53):
So we look at first and foremost our National Guard members,
trying to see where there are a lot of them are,
you know, five ten years out from retirement, so they're
trying to figure out what in retirement they want to do.
As an ag based program, of course we see the
benefits of agriculture for peace of mind, you know, a
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diversion from real life at times we all do that,
go out in our gardens. So trying to show them
what self sufficiency could look like for their own family,
but it quickly stares stepped into is this something that
could be a retirement or a side hustle. A lot
of them looking toward retirement or thinking about how do
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they continue to serve?
Speaker 14 (33:39):
So to us.
Speaker 15 (33:41):
The best way to serve is they help feed people,
to help take care of your own family, and actually
engage back in the community. And this is a program
that helps them really start to reintegrate even.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And you see, I would think that if somebody is
a good military person, that they I mean, you know,
if you're in the military and you're good at what
you do, you tend to be very meticulous. You tend
to be I mean, I'm a son of veteran. I
know what my father was like. You know, everything's about time,
everything's about doing things just right. I would think that
would that that would lend itself very helpful to what
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you're doing here exactly.
Speaker 15 (34:18):
And that's kind of some of our things that we
have found is that meticulous nature, especially when you're you're
catering to the needs of plants and animals, being on
a schedule, being able to look and fine tune some things,
when you're looking at the quality of what you're producing,
what you're growing, that attention to detail. A lot of
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times in our civilian culture we're not as on top
of it. When you bring in the military brain. They
are so procedural in nature. It has been an amazing blend,
and we've seen really it help on our local food's
economy here in the state, getting some of these individuals
to become the those producers with high quality produce and
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feeding into our local restaurants or other established How does.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That work that you deal with our local restaurants.
Speaker 15 (35:10):
We have been blessed with the likes of Chef Paul
and Chef Chase with a Bruisy in ten ten. They
came on board from the beginning, and so we've been
trying to not only on our side do production out
of our urban farm and illustrate what the market opportunity
is for many products that the chefs haven't been able
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to find here locally, but then take it the step
further and teach our participants how to grow these things,
and then the chefs buy directly from them. So we're
kind of starting a streamlined approach of Hey, Chef Chase
wants whatever it might be, then we connect a grower
to be then that person who grows it and sells.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It back to the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Got a question here for you an of the text line,
does this agriculture program for National Guard members also extend
active duty members who return home to West Virginia after
their service.
Speaker 15 (36:04):
Exactly. The procedure we're looking for is anybody who has
a military affiliation cleared down to what we say, one up,
one down. So if you're if your parents served, or
if your child serves, we see that as military family.
So trying to embrace the entire military culture in the
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state and bring everybody together around that that gift the
service type mindset.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
So yes, anybody talking with Melissa Stewart again from Patriot Gardens,
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Speaker 14 (36:46):
We did.
Speaker 15 (36:46):
We were honored, to say the least, that the Charleston
Area Alliance chose us to be. Let me get the
name here. We received the Jeff Miller Sustainable Development Award
last night.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Okay, and what does that And.
Speaker 15 (37:00):
That was looking at sustainability in what is being developed
through our program and really more back to our base
innovations there on Smith Street.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Right across from Capital to get into that.
Speaker 15 (37:14):
Yeah, Okay, since we've been more embedded in the community,
I think that is showing some positive attributes to our
program and how we can engage outside of just simply
the national garden our military.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
All right, let's talk about this Base Innovations.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Okay, go ahead, explain it.
Speaker 15 (37:36):
So Base Innovations it initially spurred out of the mindset
of small business development and how can we help any
of our aspiring service members really go into small business ownership.
So we have a fifteen part or a twelve part
series excuse me, that really handholds them through that process.
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So at the end of it, they have a business plan,
they're ready to go to the one stop shop and
actually become a LLC or whatever it may be that
they've determined. With that, we also are putting in a
small commercial kitchen, so we've been working with ZMM. They
have our design contract and we're getting ready to put
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it out for bid for construction. So with that said,
any of our entrepreneurs that are looking at value added production,
then we'll be able to utilize this kitchen to then
go from cottage industry to full fledged production.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
And that's an incredible idea, it really is.
Speaker 15 (38:43):
We're excited about it. It was made possible through Capito
and actually a Congressional direct spending appropriation, so to be
able to see this come into fruition and how it's
going to help our participants and then others too. It
doesn't have to just be a military service member who
can utilize this.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Before we let you go, you don't have to mention
a name, but I want you to give me, off
the top of your head a true one of your
one or two true success stories that you've seen with
this program. Again, no names needed, and I know you've
probably got plenty, but just give me one that really
sticks out as a selling point for this program.
Speaker 15 (39:21):
Okay, we have a military family that actually homeschools their
their kids and the husband is still active Guard and
the wife is retired military and they, I think embody
everything that this program brings to the table. They engage
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not only in our education and bring their kids along,
but they also then participate in our market, the pop
up market across the street there at Capital Market, and
I think they show how this program can help take
somebody to that next level.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
It's good stuff. Remind people where they can learn more. Website,
social media, We're can pete people learn more about we.
Speaker 15 (40:11):
Are on Facebook under Patriot gardens. Now it's gardens spelled
not like gardens, but the guard.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
So it's g U A r D E n s.
Speaker 15 (40:20):
And we have a website at Patriot Gardens.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Dot com and it is guard as in guard not
I mean, not not garden, but.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
G U A r D is sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 15 (40:31):
And you know, through any of those outreach mess methods
or even on our messenger with our Facebook page, a
lot of times I'm the one actively answering a lot
of those questions.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
All right, Hey, Melissa, it's always pleasure talk to you,
and it's a wonderful program. Anything we can do to
help out our men and women that have that have
served or are serving now, we're one hundred percent behind it. Here,
I appreciate you being here, Thanks a.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Lot, Thank you. I appreciate it hanging out with you.
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Speaker 5 (44:00):
Get a life? How many times have I been told that?
Speaker 3 (44:04):
In like, I don't know this morning, people in the
office say, get kidding about that. There's a wonderful program
though that's been going on for some time in the area,
and it's called get a Life. And here to explain it.
One of my good friends who has told me to
get a life on several occasions, Ashley offer Glance Putnam
County Chamber of Commerce. Good morning, my brother, and welcome
to the show.
Speaker 13 (44:24):
Good morning.
Speaker 16 (44:25):
How are you? I don't recall, Well, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Be nice to me now because I'm giving you free airtime,
so you're gonna be nice to me now. And for
people that are wondering why I and I'm meant to
quickly tell the story. The reason that I refer to
Ashley as my brother is because I don't have a brother,
and she and I have been friends for quite a
number of years, and I always thought of her as
the little brother I never had nor wanted. So that's
why she'll always be brother Ashley to me.
Speaker 16 (44:49):
Well, I appreciate that, Dave. I think our brotherhood is
something to.
Speaker 5 (44:57):
To be old all.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Talk about the program Get a Life. How many years?
Because I mean, I know this has been going on
to Putnam County through the Chamber of Commerce and other
entities for some time under the Treasure's Office is involved
in this, but talk about how long the program has
been going on and exactly.
Speaker 15 (45:11):
What it is.
Speaker 16 (45:12):
Yeah, So Get a Life program is actually a program
through the West Virginia Treasurer's Office, and it's been going
on for quite some time. I'm not exactly sure how long.
But here in Putnam County, we partner with the Treasure's
Office as well as the Putnam County Schools to deliver
this program to all of our eighth grade students. And
this program is really great because it teaches our students
(45:36):
how to budget. That's something that's not taught, you know,
every single day in our school system, and things that
kids don't necessarily think about and so through this program
they are able to see, you know, how much it
actually costs to live, and what the price of housing
is and cars and insurance and how much the gas
(45:56):
that car you bought is and all of that. And
so they go around a different during the activity. They
go around to different booths and they are given a
budget and a ledger sheet and they have to actually
buy all of those things and then figure out how
to use the money that they're allocated properly. And so
it's really eye opening for a lot of the students
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and our chamber members volunteer at the event and always
have a great time.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
And I've done this program in the past and it
really is interesting because again, as Ashley said, you know,
they bring in these middle schools that they and I'm
assuming it's going to be at the Armory again, is
that what you said?
Speaker 16 (46:36):
Yeah, so it's at the Armory. So this program is
available statewide and anybody that's interested in getting a part
of it can contact the Treasurer's office. But how we
do it here in Pundham County is we bust all
of our eighth graders over two different days over to
the Armory and our volunteers join us there and then
the kids come over as a little field trip, they
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participate in the program, and then we send them on
back back to school. But we're able to take all
eight hundred ish approximately. I don't know the exact number
of eighth graders we have in Putnam County this year,
but as you know, it's close to eight hundred through
the program over those two days. So it is we're
really grateful for the Armory for allowing us to utilize
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the space, and for Putnam County Schools for being on
board with this program because they handle all the logistics
of getting the students over to the activity.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
And so I'll tell you one of my most memorable
moments that I had in to get a life program,
and this is that I did this for several years,
was you know. And the way it works is again people,
these kids, as you said, they go table to table
and they have to buy life insurance, they have to
buy a car, and we give and you give everybody
a lot in life. Okay, you're a single mom, next
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kid may be Okay, you are a male married to
you know your wife, and you got four kids and
you have a college education. The next one has a
high school education, next one has a PhD. And it
kind of gives them an idea. But the one memorable
thing that I remember is the one kid that looked
at me, I don't know, five six years ago and
I did this with you and the kid said, you know,
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he was like, man, now know why my parents are
always in such a bad mood? And I thought that
was great. That was great. Let's talk about when it is,
where it is, and how people can get involved.
Speaker 4 (48:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (48:22):
So every year, like I said, the Putnam County Chamber
partners with the Treasurer's Office and Putnam County Schools to
do a two day event. It'll be September sixteenth and
September seventeenth. And if you are looking to get involved
and volunteer at this activity with us on one of
the one or both of those days, you just email
us or give us a call here at the Chamber.
(48:42):
We'd love to get you signed up about a eight
am to a two pm commitment both days, and you
can volunteer for one or both. And it's, like I said,
the sixteenth and the seventeenth over at the Joint Forces
Reserve Center of the Armory as people call it in l.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yeah, and it's and you're very very good about the
scheduling too, because I mean I've known people in the
past that said, well, you know, I will be there
as soon as I can. I'll be there at at
ten or eleven and I could jump in, or I
could be there both days and I could. It really
is a good time. And you know, without the buy
in from the community, obviously this wouldn't happen. And you
always have a great bank of volunteers, not only Puttnham
County but in the surrounding areas. And they do it
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in other counties as well, because I've also done it
in Knall County in the past too. Give me your
phone number again, Ashley.
Speaker 16 (49:27):
Yeah, three, four, seven, five one zero, all right.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Look forward to it. I wish I could make it,
but they tie me to this radio board now, you know,
seven or.
Speaker 16 (49:35):
Eight hours a day. So real job I got.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I always had a real job. Come on, come on brother,
all right, Ashley, we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot,
all right, I have a great day.
Speaker 16 (49:45):
Thanks Dave you as well.
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County as well. Let mean not I got a couple
of texts here, Tex says Dave Florida guy here, if
the races were reversed in the Charlotte train stabbage, Charlotte,
North Carolina would be in flames and Al Sharpton had
been cromp. Democrat, liberals and fake news media would be
on a war lot of war footing selective outrage. Every
time I know the story, I'm familiar with it. I
will get into it as best I can at a
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later time. But yeah, my wife was actually briefing me
on this story last night. It's a horrible story. That
happened in Charlotte, and I think you probably have all
seen it by now. Texas, Dave, I I've lost confidence
in the GOP. They are worse than the Democrats. Economies
hit rock bottom, and freedoms are being taken away. Independence
for change, Texas. Some kids problem is they have what
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you throw impulse items during the outing, tempted to buy
it or pay your bill? That's actually one of the
things that because you know, when you're thirteen fourteen year
old kid, especially a boy, not trying to stereotype, because
there's girls that think that way as well. They want
that big, expensive car, and so yeah, this is get
a Life program. Let's say, you know, I used to
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role play there. I'd say, yeah, you need to seventy
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and the boys would fall for it every day. Time,
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right off the top, Senator Shelley Moore. Capito, Good morning, Senator,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Senator Capito, Hello, mute, Sorry you had morning.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's all good, it's all good, it's all good. How
are you, Senator?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
You know it is drizzling here in Washington, DC. Is
it raining at home?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Not at all? I mean, we can't. We haven't had
We haven't had rain here in Charleston other than last
Friday night since like nineteen seventy eight or something. Senator,
It's it's been, it's been. It's very dry, and it's
expected to remain that way for like the next week
and a half. Zero rain insight here. Well, it is.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Raining here a little bit, since I guess that's a
welcome thing to green it up. I can tell you
my front yard in Charleston's not looking too good.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, I mean I walked through it the other night
and it was not your front yard, my front yard,
I should say. I walked through it in Putnam County
and it was like walking around in Fredo's or something.
Everything was crunching here in Arizona. So what are you
up to today? I get several things we want to
talk to you about, but specifically, what are you doing today?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Well, we're obviously trying to move the President's nominations through
in a better fashion, to go back to the way
we used to do it when we had cooperative, a
more cooperative Senate and leadership work together. And Senator Schumer
has just been obstructing every single one of the President's
team and it's taken too much time. So we're going
to go back to the way it used to be,
where you could put them in a block of forty
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or fifty of bipartisan. They've come out of committee bipartisan,
and we're now going through the process to be able
to do that. So that's what's on the Senate floor today, tomorrow,
and probably as we finish up the week. You know,
in my committee, I'm having a hearing on wildfires and
other things on my Environment and Public Works Committee, and
(03:50):
that I'm working hard to make sure that there's no
government shut down.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And then our.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Appropriations bills, eight of which we have out a committee,
including mine, are able to be passed on the Senate floor.
So it's busy time. Plus seeing constituents. I saw the
Parkinson's community came to visit me, George Manahan and others yesterday,
So it's always good to see see folks from from home.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, go back to the delay and the confirmations, if
you will, I mean, is this just in your is
I mean to state the obvious? Is this just an
old fashioned politics, the delay tactics.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
This is beyond that. If you look at like the
number of nominees that were confirmed by either voice vote
or unanimous consent, for instance, under Obama eight hundred and
fifty six were under Biden's term five hundred and thirty
under this president's term zero. They will not you know,
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even ones that come out of committee with full bipartisan support,
they won't let go on the Senate floor by unanimous consent.
And what that does is it just blocks the time.
We can't get to the important issues that we need
to get to. We have to spend so much time
on our nominees. And this is a broken system that honestly,
(05:09):
Chuck Schumer broke at the beginning of this term, and
we're going to fix it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Talked again with Senator Shelley Moore Capitso, I had a
question here that the news team asked me to ask you.
And I'm always glad to keep the guys upstairs a
little bit happy and has to do with broadband expansion.
The state submitted a proposal to the FEDS for about
six hundred million. The state initially was going to get
one point two billion, but we're told that the Trump
(05:34):
administration pulled back the whole program for review. And this
is what came out, is that accurate.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
The Trump administration did pull the program back for review.
I think the governor announced last week and I've been
in close contact with the Broadband Council submitted West Virginia's
new plan according to what the Trump administration. The Trump
administration wanted to look at a if there is a
more less expensive way to deliver this service to the
more rural reachable areas and include some satellite we know,
(06:04):
and we tried to make the case. We had the
head of the Antia who makes this decision, Ariel Roth
is her name, and she was down in White Sulfur
with us where we had a meeting with all the
providers and we basically said, in West Virginia, it is
almost impossible to be served adequately by any kind of satellite.
There's latency, you can't get it. You know, the trees,
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the hollers, all of those things and so really we're
trying to make the case that hardwiring or fiber is
the only way to go, which is more expensive. So
they've submitted and this will reach almost every West Virginia
and they've worked really hard on it. The Broadband Council
has and Kelly Workman and her group, and so hopefully
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it'll be successful.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
We'll know.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I think they have a sixty day period to review
it and then the money should start flowing by the
end of the before the end of the year. But
keep in mind, this has been four years of bureaucratic stuff.
I was going to say something not as nice stuff.
Yeah stuff, And you know, we got people that don't
have service. We've got people that have inadequate service, businesses, individuals.
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It's just folks in West Virginia are very anxious, restless,
and waiting for this. So I hope we get our
one point two billion. I'm going to hold the Trump
administration speak to the fire that this is what we've
been promised, this is what we should get.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And of course, last week the announcement was made about
the Ascend West Virginia program comed in it's already been
in the Greenbrier Valley Eastern Panhandle of the Elkins area,
some of other areas. Now it's going to becoming This
is kind of the brainchild of Brad Smith and his
wife at Marshall University and now it's coming to Charleston
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and in order to hat now and again when you
talk about in this is your area, when we talk
about the Charleston area, you know, we don't have nearly
as many problems as what some of the other areas do.
But we're trying to get people here into the area.
And they're still hollers and stuff around Charleston, and so
you know, the broadband part of it is a major
major part for these for these folks to come here.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Well, it's necessary because a lot and I say congratulations
to Brad and Lee Smith for putting this together. I mean,
it's so great to have a successful program that's drawing
more people into the state, particularly younger people. And but
they have to have broadband access and it can't be
just minimal service. A lot of these folks have jobs
that they're going to be telecommuting. They have to have
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full and vibrant service. You know, in Charleston you can
go out to Cistinville and start to lose coverage. Uh,
and that's just on the outskirts of you know, central Charleston.
So it's it's not like we can assume because it's
the capital city that everybody in Kanauk County is served,
because they aren't. And so I think that's going to
be a major, a major part of the ascent program,
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but also of this bad program that should be bringing
the money into into the state.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Before we let you go, because I know you're on
a tight schedule, I want to go back and I
want to ask you you kind of touched on a
potential government shutdown and the need to fund the government.
I mean, we hear every couple of years, we hear
about these things going on. It's almost nonsensical in my
eyes and the eyes and ears of a lot of
listeners out there, Well, what are we doing to make
sure this doesn't happen?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I mean, if I was not where I am but
just listening to your show, I would be rolling my
eyes right now. It's deja vous all over again. It's
the same thing of the thread of a government shutdown,
and I'm going to do everything I can to prevent that.
I've said every single time it's a misery march, it's
a road to nowhere. It hurts people, it hurts businesses,
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it hurts our standing internationally because of the uncertainty. So
what we need to do by the end of September
is past what's called a continuing resolution while we work
these issues out. Our big hope is that we'll have
at least three bills in there that we can say
are fully accomplished for the twenty twenty six fiscal year.
Now that doesn't sound like a whole lot from the outside,
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but it's three more than we had had over the
last several years. So I'm very hopeful there. We're working
together across party lines, across the House and Senate, but
we've got to get back to regular, regular procedures with appropriations.
This is we're on track to be much more functional
in that area. That means we can have new starts,
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we can get rid of programs that are no longer useful,
we can hold the line on spending, we can do
the priorities that I think and the President thinks are
what are in line with the desires of the American people.
And so hopefully no shut down September the thirtieth and
we'll just continue on here in the next two months
(10:37):
to try to wrap the thing up.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Senator Shelley More Cabito, It's always a pleasure to have
you on the show. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Thanks a lot, great to talk, Thanks a lot, Thank.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
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Delegate for the fifty fifth District Republican Jbakers, Welcome to
the show, sir.
Speaker 11 (14:01):
It's always awesome to see you. I got a little
pressure today though. In addition to Ryan watched me through
the grat glass, TJ. Meadows is also in there.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
It puts a little heat on.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Me to make sure well. I think Ryan's on you
got to watch for I mean TJ. TJ hides behind
the sunglasses. We don't know exactly what's going on in
that head.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Of his that makes him dangerous.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, look at you. I mean yeah, and he's
got him on the got a secret service agent in here.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
He looks like.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
I got to gossip with him a little bit. The
business summit the Chamber of Commerce puts on a couple
of weeks ago, so I got to sit next to
him and.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Talk for a little bit. So that was nice. Mm
hmy got to hear TJ unfiltered for a little while.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Tj unfinness. Yeah, tj unfiltered, tj unfilter. It's not a
whole lot different than TJ on the air. You know,
he s the but anyway, anyway, he's a good guy.
Just don't tell him I said that. I hope he's
not listening. All right, So you're running for reelection. I
guess the official announcement was made. I think everybody kind
of expected you would. So what went into the decision
to stay where you are in the House of Delegates?
Speaker 11 (14:59):
Uh, well, I mean number one, it's uh. I just
really enjoy working for the people in my district. The
best part of the job for me is actually meeting
people and talking to them and being face to face
with constituents and.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know, a big picture.
Speaker 11 (15:13):
We can talk about this a little bit more later,
but big picture, I really I love and I don't
use that word lightly. I love working on economic development
issues and trying to attract job greater to this day,
or helping businesses who are here expand but helping someone
get their road fixed, or you know, helping with some
smaller local issue.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Uh, just really is satisfying for me as well. And
I like I like people. I mean, you run into
some knuckleheads every once in a while, Dave.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But well, but enough about our building. That's that's right.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
I mean, I mean outside of this building, everybody's good.
So I actually really do enjoy talking to voters. I
really do enjoy going to community meetings and being around folks.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I just I like people. So it's, you know, one
of the main reasons I ran for this job.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
So that played into it. And then also, you know,
I didn't get into politics. I mean I've I've been
involved in other people's racism, been around politics for a
long time, but I didn't run for office myself until
my wife and our kids had gotten older. Our oldest
daughter was going to college and our twins are now
seniors in high school. So you know, I never would
(16:17):
have wanted to have done this when they were you know,
much younger and they needed both parents around as much
as possible. I think they still need this around, but
so you know, they're they're you know, they're more independent now,
so that also plays into the decision.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And speaking to my.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
Wife, she just finished a murder trial a couple of
days ago, you know, Mary Clareakers. And anyway, my thoughts
are still that family. Just terrible set of circumstances.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And I said this with that verdict that came out yesterday,
and to be honest with you, Delegate, I said this,
when the when this horrific crime first took place, I
mean three three lives ruined, you.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Know, since I mean I can think of say senseless
is a good.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Way to put it. I mean, and you know, the
obviously the store clerk that was that was killed doing
and we're talking about the the obviously the situation with
the tobacco show up in North Charles with the two teenagers,
and the clerk was killed complying doing everything that he
was that he was told to do. And now these
other two who were tried as adult, you know, mid
level teenagers and the guilty murder. They get life sentences
(17:14):
with the possibility of parole. Don't know whether that'll happen
or not, but either way, and their lives are ruined.
Even if they do get the parole, their lives, their
lives are ruined. It's totally senseless. But again we're talking
with Jaba because you mentioned economic development. He picked up
an award. I saw that on the social media. What's
that all about?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, that was And I want to talk about this briefly.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
Not so much for the fact that I got the award,
which won't matter to most people, but it was an
award from the Manufacturers Association, which is why it makes
it important to me. And I think, I mean again,
you've got to patch yourself in the back a little
bit when you run a for office and tell people
you accomplish something, otherwise have now reason to vote for
you to keep you in office. So you know, I consistently,
(17:53):
ever since I ran the first time, consistently now and
always will tell people that my focus is.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
On you can nomic development and jobs and job creation.
Speaker 11 (18:02):
And one of the ways I think that you prove
that you mean that is through the recognition of people
who are job creators. The Manufacturers Association West Virginia is
an extremely important group that represent people from like a
really small bomb and shop, you know, manufacturers who might
make just one small product up to extremely large you know,
multinational corporations who have a presence in West Virginia are
(18:25):
also a part of that organization. So I got one
of their annual legislator awards a few days ago. So
did Senator Robbie Morris here in West Virginia. Then and
a lot who's the House communications director, got a staff award,
which was also nice to see. But that award is
given out to you know, I'm not on their board,
but it's it's their board's way of saying, these are
legislators who we believe are have their eye on the
(18:47):
ball and the right issues, which is economic development and
job creation. So that's an award that again, when I
tell people that's the focus of what I do, that's
a way for me to say, Look, that's not just
me saying it. There's least some recognition there that I
am one hundred percent focused on job creation in the
economy of the state, which has got to get better
and we've got to make to me, the business of
(19:08):
our legislature has to be about business.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
But this last session, you know, and I know you're
just one, You're just one of one hundred. There a
lot of focus on things. And I'm talking and when
you talk to people like maybe maybe the Chamber of
Commerce or maybe some of those groups like that, some
pretty conservative Republicans will say that not a whole lot
got done. Yeah, I mean, listen, when it comes to business.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yes, I mean there was.
Speaker 11 (19:32):
I'm one who will say there was some frustration from
me on that. But I'm also not going to say
we got nothing done. You know, the House Bill twenty fourteen,
which has been talked about before it to Mike ur
Griz bill I think has a huge amount of potential
for the state, the one stop you know licensing, the
universal Licensing Bill. You know, we had some things that
were definitely business oriented, so we got some stuff done.
(19:55):
You know, the issues they're more the cultural issues always
draw in more of the media attention. But I will
say we probably did have more of that than if
you're asking me that I'm comfortable with as as it
opposed to focusing on things that are purely about making
the average West Virginia's life better through their you know,
economic prosperity. You know, if I could personally work only
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on economic issues every day, then that is what.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I would do.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
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eyes going back a couple of weeks ago that maybe
while the legislators were in town we might get into
a special session about Peia. Didn't have.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Do you think there was really a lot of hope
from a lot of people that we'd have a special session.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I think I think to get something worked out about Peia.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
There was probably, yeah, I mean we obviously that's something
we've got to figure out long term for our state
employees and anyone who's on PA to make sure that's
a stable and sustainable program. But you know, it didn't
seem like there was a consensus on what to do,
so a special session probably wasn't the best thing at
this time. We did still have interims and for folks
you know, who aren't real familiar with interim process, we
don't take votes on issues during interims. Those are more
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educational sessions for the members, which is good. I mean
they believe it or not, some of us actually want
to understand and what we're voting on.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Wants to get to a regular session.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
What a novel concept.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
Yeah, So interims are more of a time when we
have people coming and present on important issues. These are
things that may turn to bills later. So in my
particular committee, I'm the House Judiciary Chairman, which is you know,
not pat myself in the bike. It's an important job
over there. And we had interim sessions on you know
that My committee deals a lot with courts issues, for example,
so we dealt with or took a look at day reports, centers,
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community corrections, alternative sentencing, which is important in a lot
of different ways. County jail bills in West Virginia are
exploding a lot of counties. You've heard this camp can't
even afford their jail bill. So I'm taking a hard
look at ways that we can.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
You know, not everybody should go to jail for every crime.
I mean, you got to be held accountable for sure.
But we have existing community corrections right now. These day
report centers are important part of it. So if we
can keep people out in society while being held accountable,
but they are still productive. Uh, And we're reducing the
county jail bills, if there's a balance there that we
can obtain, then we need to maximize that as best
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we can.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I mean we don't. I think sometimes live it in
you know, areas that aren't doing too badly, like a
Canawa County or Poddam County or somewhere or Arount Cabal
County or in this general area. Get into some of
these counties. I mean, like, and I'm not picking on
these people because it's not their fault, but at Clay County,
Work County, Calhoun County, they have a choice pretty much
when it comes to their jail bill. Do we pay
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the jail bill or do we pay the power bill?
I mean, and I mean this thing just keeps going
up and up and up, and I don't know what
the answer is, because crime is not going to stop.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Well, and you know, again, just so people understand when
I talk about, you know, maybe community corrections, we're talking
about from non violent offenders who haven't you know, done
anything that's hurt anyone else. These are you know, So
if someone's a violand offender, I'm like, yeah, send them
straight to jail. Obviously, that's that's a no brainer. But
you know, some of these people who are just caught
up strictly in terms of like substance abuse for example,
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and you know, they're not drug dealers, but they get
caught with drugs and they're going to potentially want up
in jail. I mean to me, you know, get this
people and some sort of you know, make sure they
can still maintain a job if possible, you know, make
sure they can still pay to take care of their
kids and their family and other things that are important,
because otherwise they just want.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Up potentially reoffending later.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
So and again, like you said, some of these these
rural counties, they literally cannot afford their jail bill right now.
So we've got to think a ways to alleviate that
pressure while still also holding people accountable, so.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
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heard the notice on this station. Pat on the back
for us that you had put the meeting together. That
meaning you. They helped us so much we were approved
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It's the small things to make the biggest impact to others.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Oh well, that is that's extremely nice. You know, sometimes
you get text Davy. You might get some after I
leave that aren't so nice, but that one is. Whoever,
that texture was, thank you so much.
Speaker 12 (24:31):
You know.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
I don't do this for recognition, but I said when
I first came on today that that's one of the
reasons why I like being in office is helping people
in those situations. And so that that was a good meeting,
and that that's from a part of the county in
my district. My district is about half of it is
part of Charleston. The other half is really mostly almost
all of southern Kenal County, which is more rural, and
a lot of those communities get forgotten, and I think
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they feel that way, so I try to emphasize and
make sure they know they're not forgotten. And that was
an example of one where I didn't ask them to
come to me. I went to them on that issue
and I organized. We had I don't know a dozen
different people there who were able to provide help and services,
and I said, let's take these people into the community
that's affected, not make them driving to Charleston for this,
So that's take it to them.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah, that's right. I thought that was important, and thank
you to that. Texture.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We had another one here for you that wanted me
to ask you about helping make our schools more safer
and maybe doing some policies that would produce severe penalties
for harming our students, teachers, and staff.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah. Well, I mean we have.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
That's one thing the legislature has done the past couple
of years i've been there, including this past session, is
we have increased penalties for violence against children. That is
something that I'm not going to apologize for. I'm in
favor of those types of penalties. I mean, we talk
about alternative sentenzing for non violent offenders, but crimes against
children we've seen increased penalties, and in terms of school safety,
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that's actually very timely for me. Right now, I can't
promise this will happen, but I have been working the
past couple of weeks legitimately on trying to increase the
communications capacity at our schools in the event that there
is an emergency situation. That's something that I've talked to
our county Sheriff Joey Crawford on also some people from
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some other first responders responder services, and not sure yet
if we'll get the funding for that, but I have
been working on that, and Sheriff Crawford's great by the way.
I've been trying to work with them on a way
to make sure that our communications systems and our schools
when there's an emergency is it's ironclad and works no
matter what, when you might have people making a million
phone calls in a community to find out what's going on.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
So that is something I'm glad that text brought that up.
I didn't intend to talk about that today, but I'm
trying hard to work on those issues as well.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Talking to give a Dell a good Jbiacres before we
let you go. We don't know, I mean, it's still
early on. We don't know whether you'll have opposition in
the primary, more than likely have opposition in the general
action next year. What do you want people to know
about about your term and at you about your time
and off.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
I want people to know that I'm always accessible. I
always return phone calls and emails, even during session when
things get kind of crazy. And you know, I mean,
you know, I'm in a party. I'm a Republican. You've
got to run with a party label. But I don't
ask people what their politics are when I talk to them.
I could care less whether you're a Democrat Republican. You
can look at my social media when I get off
here and see that I'm not someone who's a negative
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person about politics. I try to always post positive news
and tell people what's going on. So I'm here to
represent everybody who may need my help, and I'm proud
to be, you know, in this district. So I think
that's the most important thing is just making sure that
you know, as tribal and as negative as politics can
be these days, you know I'm going to maintain a
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positive presence and I'm going to help you no matter
who you are, and if you need me, I'm going
to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
And that's just who I am.
Speaker 11 (27:45):
And home always going to be and I'm going to
work every single day that I can to make your
economic life better in the state and try to figure
out ways to make sure that our kids and our
grandkids can either stay here or come by home and work.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Delli good jb Acres, and I'll be looking through the
glass in here, and when you look up the term
worst retiree ever, our former general manager who's also in
the House of Deligates, Joe Parsons Greats, showed up here.
He's been here two days in a row and he retired,
but he's getting two days in a row.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
He'll never be retired. He's one of those guys. He'll
never give it up. So he's another great guy. People
in his district very fortunate to have him, just like
he's another very positive person as.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, and he does but I will say this about him,
he does address a little bit differently than what he
was when he was here.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Full he's entitled to do that.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
He's entitled to do that. He's earned it. He's earned it.
Deligaan Aker's always a pleasure to talk to you, man,
We'll talk to Thanks a lot, Thanks for your time.
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it from Patriot Gardens. Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Good morning, Thank you for being here, first time on
the show. Yes, it is right.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Tell me what Patriot Gardens it coming that microphone a
little bit closer. Tell me what Patriot Gardens is.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
Patriot Gardens is a program out of the West Virginia
National Guard military Authority the state side where we work
with our veteran and military members and their families, trying
to help them learn not only agricultural I guess practices,
but also look at entrepreneurial opportunities while they're in uniform
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or even in retirement.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I actually got very familiar with this program when in
a former life when I was working at SEE government
with the Secretary of State's office, and I remember we
had done I think we'd done some more. It's a
fantastic program. Talk about how it works.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
How it works.
Speaker 15 (32:53):
So we look at first and foremost our National Guard members,
trying to see where there are a lot of them are,
you know, five ten years out from retirement, so they're
trying to figure out what in retirement they want to do.
As an ag based program, of course we see the
benefits of agriculture for peace of mind, you know, a
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diversion from real life at times we all do that,
go out in our gardens. So trying to show them
what self sufficiency could look like for their own family,
but it quickly stares stepped into is this something that
could be a retirement or a side hustle. A lot
of them looking toward retirement or thinking about how do
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they continue to serve?
Speaker 14 (33:39):
So to us.
Speaker 15 (33:41):
The best way to serve is they help feed people,
to help take care of your own family, and actually
engage back in the community. And this is a program
that helps them really start to reintegrate even.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And you see, I would think that if somebody is
a good military person, that they I mean, you know,
if you're in the military and you're good at what
you do, you tend to be very meticulous. You tend
to be I mean, I'm a son of veteran. I
know what my father was like. You know, everything's about time,
everything's about doing things just right. I would think that
would that that would lend itself very helpful to what
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you're doing here exactly.
Speaker 15 (34:18):
And that's kind of some of our things that we
have found is that meticulous nature, especially when you're you're
catering to the needs of plants and animals, being on
a schedule, being able to look and fine tune some things,
when you're looking at the quality of what you're producing,
what you're growing, that attention to detail. A lot of
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times in our civilian culture we're not as on top
of it. When you bring in the military brain. They
are so procedural in nature. It has been an amazing blend,
and we've seen really it help on our local food's
economy here in the state, getting some of these individuals
to become the those producers with high quality produce and
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feeding into our local restaurants or other established How does.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That work that you deal with our local restaurants.
Speaker 15 (35:10):
We have been blessed with the likes of Chef Paul
and Chef Chase with a Bruisy in ten ten. They
came on board from the beginning, and so we've been
trying to not only on our side do production out
of our urban farm and illustrate what the market opportunity
is for many products that the chefs haven't been able
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to find here locally, but then take it the step
further and teach our participants how to grow these things,
and then the chefs buy directly from them. So we're
kind of starting a streamlined approach of Hey, Chef Chase
wants whatever it might be, then we connect a grower
to be then that person who grows it and sells.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It back to the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Got a question here for you an of the text line,
does this agriculture program for National Guard members also extend
active duty members who return home to West Virginia after
their service.
Speaker 15 (36:04):
Exactly. The procedure we're looking for is anybody who has
a military affiliation cleared down to what we say, one up,
one down. So if you're if your parents served, or
if your child serves, we see that as military family.
So trying to embrace the entire military culture in the
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state and bring everybody together around that that gift the
service type mindset.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
So yes, anybody talking with Melissa Stewart again from Patriot Gardens,
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Speaker 14 (36:46):
We did.
Speaker 15 (36:46):
We were honored, to say the least, that the Charleston
Area Alliance chose us to be. Let me get the
name here. We received the Jeff Miller Sustainable Development Award
last night.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Okay, and what does that And.
Speaker 15 (37:00):
That was looking at sustainability in what is being developed
through our program and really more back to our base
innovations there on Smith Street.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Right across from Capital to get into that.
Speaker 15 (37:14):
Yeah, Okay, since we've been more embedded in the community,
I think that is showing some positive attributes to our
program and how we can engage outside of just simply
the national garden our military.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
All right, let's talk about this Base Innovations.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Okay, go ahead, explain it.
Speaker 15 (37:36):
So Base Innovations it initially spurred out of the mindset
of small business development and how can we help any
of our aspiring service members really go into small business ownership.
So we have a fifteen part or a twelve part
series excuse me, that really handholds them through that process.
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So at the end of it, they have a business plan,
they're ready to go to the one stop shop and
actually become a LLC or whatever it may be that
they've determined. With that, we also are putting in a
small commercial kitchen, so we've been working with ZMM. They
have our design contract and we're getting ready to put
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it out for bid for construction. So with that said,
any of our entrepreneurs that are looking at value added production,
then we'll be able to utilize this kitchen to then
go from cottage industry to full fledged production.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
And that's an incredible idea, it really is.
Speaker 15 (38:43):
We're excited about it. It was made possible through Capito
and actually a Congressional direct spending appropriation, so to be
able to see this come into fruition and how it's
going to help our participants and then others too. It
doesn't have to just be a military service member who
can utilize this.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Before we let you go, you don't have to mention
a name, but I want you to give me, off
the top of your head a true one of your
one or two true success stories that you've seen with
this program. Again, no names needed, and I know you've
probably got plenty, but just give me one that really
sticks out as a selling point for this program.
Speaker 15 (39:21):
Okay, we have a military family that actually homeschools their
their kids and the husband is still active Guard and
the wife is retired military and they, I think embody
everything that this program brings to the table. They engage
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not only in our education and bring their kids along,
but they also then participate in our market, the pop
up market across the street there at Capital Market, and
I think they show how this program can help take
somebody to that next level.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
It's good stuff. Remind people where they can learn more. Website,
social media, We're can pete people learn more about we.
Speaker 15 (40:11):
Are on Facebook under Patriot gardens. Now it's gardens spelled
not like gardens, but the guard.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
So it's g U A r D E n s.
Speaker 15 (40:20):
And we have a website at Patriot Gardens.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Dot com and it is guard as in guard not
I mean, not not garden, but.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
G U A r D is sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 15 (40:31):
And you know, through any of those outreach mess methods
or even on our messenger with our Facebook page, a
lot of times I'm the one actively answering a lot
of those questions.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
All right, Hey, Melissa, it's always pleasure talk to you,
and it's a wonderful program. Anything we can do to
help out our men and women that have that have
served or are serving now, we're one hundred percent behind it. Here,
I appreciate you being here, Thanks a.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Lot, Thank you. I appreciate it hanging out with you.
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and she and I have been friends for quite a
number of years, and I always thought of her as
the little brother I never had nor wanted. So that's
why she'll always be brother Ashley to me.
Speaker 16 (44:49):
Well, I appreciate that, Dave. I think our brotherhood is
something to.
Speaker 5 (44:57):
To be old all.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Talk about the program Get a Life. How many years?
Because I mean, I know this has been going on
to Putnam County through the Chamber of Commerce and other
entities for some time under the Treasure's Office is involved
in this, but talk about how long the program has
been going on and exactly.
Speaker 15 (45:11):
What it is.
Speaker 16 (45:12):
Yeah, So Get a Life program is actually a program
through the West Virginia Treasurer's Office, and it's been going
on for quite some time. I'm not exactly sure how long.
But here in Putnam County, we partner with the Treasure's
Office as well as the Putnam County Schools to deliver
this program to all of our eighth grade students. And
this program is really great because it teaches our students
(45:36):
how to budget. That's something that's not taught, you know,
every single day in our school system, and things that
kids don't necessarily think about and so through this program
they are able to see, you know, how much it
actually costs to live, and what the price of housing
is and cars and insurance and how much the gas
(45:56):
that car you bought is and all of that. And
so they go around a different during the activity. They
go around to different booths and they are given a
budget and a ledger sheet and they have to actually
buy all of those things and then figure out how
to use the money that they're allocated properly. And so
it's really eye opening for a lot of the students
(46:17):
and our chamber members volunteer at the event and always
have a great time.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
And I've done this program in the past and it
really is interesting because again, as Ashley said, you know,
they bring in these middle schools that they and I'm
assuming it's going to be at the Armory again, is
that what you said?
Speaker 16 (46:36):
Yeah, so it's at the Armory. So this program is
available statewide and anybody that's interested in getting a part
of it can contact the Treasurer's office. But how we
do it here in Pundham County is we bust all
of our eighth graders over two different days over to
the Armory and our volunteers join us there and then
the kids come over as a little field trip, they
(46:56):
participate in the program, and then we send them on
back back to school. But we're able to take all
eight hundred ish approximately. I don't know the exact number
of eighth graders we have in Putnam County this year,
but as you know, it's close to eight hundred through
the program over those two days. So it is we're
really grateful for the Armory for allowing us to utilize
(47:18):
the space, and for Putnam County Schools for being on
board with this program because they handle all the logistics
of getting the students over to the activity.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
And so I'll tell you one of my most memorable
moments that I had in to get a life program,
and this is that I did this for several years,
was you know. And the way it works is again people,
these kids, as you said, they go table to table
and they have to buy life insurance, they have to
buy a car, and we give and you give everybody
a lot in life. Okay, you're a single mom, next
(47:49):
kid may be Okay, you are a male married to
you know your wife, and you got four kids and
you have a college education. The next one has a
high school education, next one has a PhD. And it
kind of gives them an idea. But the one memorable
thing that I remember is the one kid that looked
at me, I don't know, five six years ago and
I did this with you and the kid said, you know,
(48:10):
he was like, man, now know why my parents are
always in such a bad mood? And I thought that
was great. That was great. Let's talk about when it is,
where it is, and how people can get involved.
Speaker 4 (48:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (48:22):
So every year, like I said, the Putnam County Chamber
partners with the Treasurer's Office and Putnam County Schools to
do a two day event. It'll be September sixteenth and
September seventeenth. And if you are looking to get involved
and volunteer at this activity with us on one of
the one or both of those days, you just email
us or give us a call here at the Chamber.
(48:42):
We'd love to get you signed up about a eight
am to a two pm commitment both days, and you
can volunteer for one or both. And it's, like I said,
the sixteenth and the seventeenth over at the Joint Forces
Reserve Center of the Armory as people call it in l.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yeah, and it's and you're very very good about the
scheduling too, because I mean I've known people in the
past that said, well, you know, I will be there
as soon as I can. I'll be there at at
ten or eleven and I could jump in, or I
could be there both days and I could. It really
is a good time. And you know, without the buy
in from the community, obviously this wouldn't happen. And you
always have a great bank of volunteers, not only Puttnham
County but in the surrounding areas. And they do it
(49:21):
in other counties as well, because I've also done it
in Knall County in the past too. Give me your
phone number again, Ashley.
Speaker 16 (49:27):
Yeah, three, four, seven, five one zero, all right.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Look forward to it. I wish I could make it,
but they tie me to this radio board now, you know,
seven or.
Speaker 16 (49:35):
Eight hours a day. So real job I got.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I always had a real job. Come on, come on brother,
all right, Ashley, we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot,
all right, I have a great day.
Speaker 16 (49:45):
Thanks Dave you as well.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
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(50:07):
you to another wonderful West Virginia and Fred Persinger will
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Baron and Me coming up new Twral three today on
the local show Tomorrow, We're going to talk to Hurricane
(50:27):
Mayor Scott Edwards. He was my feature on Mayor Monday
that we do on Metro News Midday and a lot
of big things going on over in Hurricane and he
dropped a big bombshell on us on the Mayor Monday
segment the other day about this huge outdoors event. And
again I'm having to do the homework on this. It's
going to be coming in the I think, I want
(50:47):
to say next month to hurricane this major social media
influencers coming in and everybody, and of course I rely
on other people to tell me about these things. But
we're going to talk to him about that. All the
thing I know is lot of people in Putnam County
are excited about this person coming to town, whoever they are.
We'll talk about it with the mayor tomorrow and get
the latest on some further development going out of Putnam
(51:09):
County as well. Let mean not I got a couple
of texts here, Tex says Dave Florida guy here, if
the races were reversed in the Charlotte train stabbage, Charlotte,
North Carolina would be in flames and Al Sharpton had
been cromp. Democrat, liberals and fake news media would be
on a war lot of war footing selective outrage. Every
time I know the story, I'm familiar with it. I
will get into it as best I can at a
(51:31):
later time. But yeah, my wife was actually briefing me
on this story last night. It's a horrible story. That
happened in Charlotte, and I think you probably have all
seen it by now. Texas, Dave, I I've lost confidence
in the GOP. They are worse than the Democrats. Economies
hit rock bottom, and freedoms are being taken away. Independence
for change, Texas. Some kids problem is they have what
(51:53):
my father called champagne tastes on a beer budget. Do
you throw impulse items during the outing, tempted to buy
it or pay your bill? That's actually one of the
things that because you know, when you're thirteen fourteen year
old kid, especially a boy, not trying to stereotype, because
there's girls that think that way as well. They want
that big, expensive car, and so yeah, this is get
a Life program. Let's say, you know, I used to
(52:14):
sell cars. That's what I did as part of my
role play there. I'd say, yeah, you need to seventy
five thousand dollars car out a twenty thousand dollars budget,
and the boys would fall for it every day. Time,
TJ Quickly, what you got coming up on the show.
Speaker 7 (52:28):
Today, Hoppy at ten oh six, Coming up an eleven, Dave,
we'll meet the West Virginia Teacher of the Year in
the Service Personnel Employee of the Year Ryan schmel stops by.
We'll talk with Delegate doctor Matthew Whirbach on that PEI
presentation that was made yesterday from that consultants and.
Speaker 3 (52:43):
Interesting what's going happening or not happening in the Raleigh
County courtroom today We're gonna talk about you got to
talk about that as well. The UFOs see you later
till they have fun and love somebody.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
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