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Modern to be joined today by Rileymore, West Virginia's state treasurer elected back in

2020 and now a candidate for Congress for West Virginia's second

district. Thank you so much Mr. Moore for joining the show. Oh thank you so much

for having me. So tell us just a little bit about, I'm curious actually, because you've been exercising your power as the state treasurer of West Virginia in some fascinating ways.

We're going to get into how you've tackled this enormous problem of ESG, really innovative stuff.

But now you're interested in running for Congress as well.

And I know you've talked about how the, and you are running for Congress, you've talked about how Congress has the power of the purse

Incredibly awesome and important power

Why why go from you know one office to the next what is it that attracts you to this position is it

is it really the power of the purse and how you can sort of tackle some of these

issues that are so close to your heart through through that office well that's

part of it right and that's what we've been able to leverage here is our tax

dollars to protect our economy, our jobs, our way of life, our culture in the state of West Virginia. And I think you could do that same thing in Congress. Certainly that's part of the reason why I want to run, but these are also difficult times and you know it's easy to be a member of Congress and easy times

But we need people to step up and I think I got a proven track record that speaks for itself of accomplishment at the state level.

I don't want to take that record of success and bring that to Congress.

Look, I'm a conservative fighter and not only, now everybody says I'm a fighter but I'm also somebody who wins.

I think that's a big distinction right is that we've got some wins that we're chalking up here in the state of West Virginia, particularly against the ESG

movement that had national implications now for the last several years since I've

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