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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. -- Roughly 450 people will decide in a February vote who will run the Democratic National Committee moving forward. None of them were in the small Cheektowaga union hall Tuesday night as Idaho Democratic Committee Executive Director Sally Boynton Brown spoke.

The candidate for DNC chairperson came anyway, more than 2,200 miles away from her home in Boise, at the request of members of the Liberty Union Progressives. The organization originally formed to campaign for Bernie Sanders the presidential primary.

Member Jamie Diamond said she found a video of Brown speaking and was impressed. She reached out to her online.

"I said, 'why don't you come to Buffalo' and I was really expecting her to say something along the lines of, 'my schedule's really busy' because you know, you get that with leaders," she said.

Brown has made it a focus of her campaign to speak with any group that asks her to join them. She said not doing so would be hypocritical.

"It would be ridiculous for me to run a campaign saying that I'm going to return power to people and then not go out and talk to people and only focus on 447 people in our country when our nation is so large," she said.

Brown said she wants to represent the ideals of the party, not push her own on others. She wants to get back to local politics, communicate a focused message and said she knows how to organize.

"I'm a worker. I'm the executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party and I'm the president of the National Executive Directors so I hang out with the people in our party who get the work done," she said.

She also told Sanders supporters she knows she's an underdog in a contest with seven active candidates. The Vermont senator has already endorsed Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison. Former Labor Secretary and Buffalo native Tom Perez is running as well.

"Ultimately, I think all of my colleagues and I agree on what needs to happen," Brown said. "I think we definitely agree on why it needs to happen. I think it's the how that ultimately is what comes down to differentiating this race."

Diamond said it's good to have choices, but she's fully behind Brown.

"As I talked to her, I just really was able to relate to her and she kind of spoke my language so to speak," she said.

Brown said regardless who wins, this is the most important DNC chair election in her lifetime.

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