Organizers for the Sare for Senate 2024 campaign manned a large campaign booth during the 12 days of the huge New York State Fair in Syracuse, in the heart of the state. Some 300 people became contacts and over $2,500 was raised for the campaign. The fair in Syracuse is in the heart of the dairy belt, not far from the Oswego nuclear power plant, and close to many industrial plants. Families, couples, and grandparents with their grandchildren were most of the visitors to the booth. Teachers, nurses, state workers, engineers and steelworkers were among the people who signed up.
The most attention-grabbing Sare for Senate signs at the booth were “Nuclear Power Not Nuclear War,” and a sign of a montage of a nuclear mushroom cloud, with Biden eating an ice cream cone in the foreground, and the big headline, “No Joe.” There was heavy polarization over the Trump candidacy and the legal lynching effort. Sare’s leaflet, “It’s Not About Trump, It’s About the Republic,” was often effective in getting people to think.
