Reid Kane
Reid Kane (Liberty Union Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Vermont. Kane lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Vermont
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Vermont on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
 | Bernie Sanders (Independent) | 67.3 | 183,649 | |
 | Lawrence Zupan (R) | 27.4 | 74,663 | |
 | Brad Peacock (Independent) | 1.4 | 3,787 | |
 | Russell Beste (Independent) | 1.0 | 2,763 | |
 | Edward Gilbert Jr. (Independent) | 0.8 | 2,244 | |
 | Folasade Adeluola (Independent) | 0.7 | 1,979 | |
 | Jon Svitavsky (Independent) | 0.5 | 1,280 | |
| Reid Kane (Liberty Union Party) | 0.4 | 1,171 | ||
 | Bruce Busa (Independent) | 0.3 | 914 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 294 | ||
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| Total votes: 272,744 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- H. Brooke Paige (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Vermont
Incumbent Bernie Sanders defeated Folasade Adeluola in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Vermont on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bernie Sanders | 94.4 | 63,322 |
| Folasade Adeluola | 5.6 | 3,748 | |
| Total votes: 67,070 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Vermont
H. Brooke Paige defeated Lawrence Zupan, Jasdeep Pannu, and Roque De La Fuente in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Vermont on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | H. Brooke Paige | 39.6 | 9,805 |
| Lawrence Zupan | 37.9 | 9,383 | |
 | Jasdeep Pannu | 18.3 | 4,527 | |
 | Roque De La Fuente | 4.3 | 1,057 | |
| Total votes: 24,772 | |||
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Independent primary election
No Independent candidates ran in the primary.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Cris Ericson (Independent)
Campaign themes
2018
Campaign website
Kane's campaign website stated the following:
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This campaign stands for the principles of liberty and democratic self-government upon which this nation was founded. For working people, liberty means self-employment. Yet the wealth of society is overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of a tiny class of investors—the capitalists—who thereby monopolize the means of employment. Working people are dependent upon and subordinate to this ruling class and the bureaucrats that do their bidding in the public and private sectors. Self-employment is impossible for the immense majority. Under capitalism, production has long ceased to be individual, becoming social and collective. Practically everything is made or done by thousands, or even millions of people — often separated by seas or continents — working together for the same end. But the working people have no control over what they make and how they make it, and no claim to the profits of their labor. From this springs all the miseries, disharmonies, and contradictions of our society. This nation was founded on the promise of economic independence to each individual. But under the guise of defending private property, capitalism is using our political institutions to make it impossible for the vast majority to ever become economically independent by owning the means to employ themselves. Life, liberty, and happiness have been reduced to empty phrases. Capitalism is the enemy and destroyer of essential private property, grounding society in an economic slavery that renders intellectual and political tyranny inevitable. It has divided the people into a ruling capitalist class and a subordinate working class. Yet these two classes are not fully conscious of their distinction from each other. The lines of division and interest are not yet clearly drawn. The Democratic and Republican parties alike struggle for power to perpetuate the dependency and degradation of working people and maintain the rule of the capitalist class. In their hands, the state is an instrument by which the capitalists maintain their power over working people. The socialist program is not a theory imposed upon society for its acceptance or rejection. It is but the interpretation of what is, sooner or later, necessary. Capitalism already constantly undermines itself. It is a world in continuous crisis. The capitalist class is no longer competent to organize or administer society. The capitalist state attempts to compensate for this incompetence through regulation of industry, redistributive welfare programs, and other policy measures, but these reforms never resolve the underlying problem. The majority remain unfree, unable to determine their own lives, unable to take responsibility for themselves and their society. Into the midst of this crisis of civilization, the socialist party comes as the only conservative force. If society is to be saved from the universal disorder that presently prevails, the working people of all nations must unite and take responsibility for it. The socialist party offers the only program for intelligently and deliberately organizing the labor process for the common good of all human beings. It proposes that humanity, for the first time, dedicate itself to the conscious and rational organization of social life, so that every individual can freely and fully realize their potential. Socialism means that all those things upon which the people in common depend shall by the people in common be owned and administered. It means that working people will control the means of their own employment; that all production will serve the interests of the producers; that we will all be workers together, and that the opportunity to live freely and pursue happiness will be equally open to all. It means that every individual will securely possess the private property in the means of life upon which the liberty of being, thought, and action depend. It comes to rescue the people from the successful assault of capitalism upon the liberty of the individual. Working people must organize themselves to take complete control of the powers of government, to thereby establish the co-operative commonwealth. The socialist party stands to oppose the power of the capitalist class in society as well as the electoral arena, and to offer working people the opportunity to represent themselves. To that end, this campaign raises the following demands:
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| —Reid Kane’s campaign website (2018)[2] | ||
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Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Reid Kane’s campaign website, “Platform,” accessed October 18, 2018
