Chuck Ellis sits down with Diana Kushner, Republican candidate for Maine House District 109 in Gorham. She shares her family’s journey from Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union and what pushed her to run when the seat opened.

They discuss affordability and spending in Augusta, parents’ role versus schools and the state, local control for growing towns like Gorham, safety-net cliffs that punish work, family stories from the USSR, and why close House races decide who writes Maine’s rules.

Find Diana: kushnerformaine.com