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We sit down with Diane Sare, a candidate for is U.S. Senate. Sare is running on the LaRouche Party line.
This hour, we talk with Sare about her background and her platform.
Our guest:
- Diane Sare, candidate for U.S. Senate
Key issues raised by candidate during "Connections" appearance:
- Sare addressed the difficulties that independent candidates face in trying to get on the ballot. "Frankly," Sare said, "I think it's a suppression of elections and free speech if you can't have minor-party candidates on the ballot."
- She said the top issue right now is peace. "We are headed in a very dangerous direction in a couple theaters, whether it's Europe or the Middle East," she said. "And the United States, rather than shipping weapons everywhere and encouraging war, should be working, in my opinion, with China, with Russia, on reconstruction, on economic development incentives and as a stabilizing force, not an incendiary provocateur."
- Sare thinks Russian president Vladimir Putin's election was legitimate. She said he was victimized by NATO, and his invasion of Ukraine is justified. She said he was trying to protect Russians in the Donbas, and he wanted peace, but the United States sabotaged peace efforts.
- She also criticized the state of how elections are handled in the U.S., claiming that in 2022, when she ran against U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, she went to bed with over 6,000 votes, and when she woke up the next morning, she had 277. "I went to the board of elections," she said, "and I did not get a satisfactory answer or a record on their time-stamped vote counting that made any sense." Host Evan Dawson challenged her, saying, "We are not living in a country where the results are flipped by nefarious purposes," and Sare replied: "Why are you so certain of that?"
*Notes: Sare has two opponents in this race: Kirsten Gillibrand and Michael Sapraicone. Gillibrand did not join the program for a campaign discussion, but she did appear on the show in June. To hear that conversation, click here. Sapraicone's team did not respond to multiple messages.
You can read more about this race and others you'll see on your ballot in the WXXI Local Elections Guide.
