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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Diana Florence | Candidate, Manhattan District Attorney | 10-14-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2828 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Diana Florence, running for election for Manhattan District Attorney on an Independent ticket, makes her debut on the program with Sid to discuss her motivations for running, specifically criticizing current DA Alvin Bragg for his performance and politicization of the office. Florence emphasizes her commitment to depoliticizing the DA's office and ensuring justice irrespective of political affiliation. She also addresses her career background, her reasons for being a better choice than her opponent, Maude Maron, and her plans for improving the DA's office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

7.50 on your cloudy Tuesday morning back on sitting friends in the morning. Still a combo

0:05.6

Dietl. The misfit patriot. I love this guy. In all likelihood, the rabbi Joe Potasnick will stop by

0:13.3

and Michael Goodwin. But sitting in front of me right now is a lady running for DA here in Manhattan.

0:19.9

Her name is Diana Florence.

0:21.3

She comes highly recommended to me from my dear friend,

0:24.0

the comedic actor Michael Rappaport,

0:26.3

and Madison, who works in her campaign also in studio.

0:29.6

Now, I have endorsed Maud Marin,

0:31.4

but, but with this race,

0:33.7

it's kind of like anybody but Mom Dani in the mayor's race.

0:37.3

I've endorsed Curtis. Curtis is one of my dearest friends. I've been endorsing Curtis for six years, dating back to his race against Eric Adams. But if you told me today, Andrew Cuomo beats Mom Donnie, I'm in. So same thing here. I just want Bragg to lose. He's a bad person. He's a horrible DA and a lousy

0:56.2

person. Alvin Bragg and Letitia James are the same person. One has a penis, one has a vagina,

1:02.6

but they're the same person. Is that fair to say, Diana? You wouldn't put it out. You wouldn't put it

1:07.6

that way. That's not the first question I thought you'd ask me, said. Well, if you know me, then you know it's very unpredictable. Well, good morning. How are you? I'm great. Thank you. I really, I really appreciate you having me. And especially, I do know that you're supporting the Republican, and that's fine. But, you know what? I think that we're so divided right now.

1:28.1

And I'm just thrilled that, you know, that the fact that you're open to having someone who, you know, is not exactly, you know, aligned with you on every little bit. I appreciate you. No, you got that. So, um, I guess we'll start with this. You're not a Republican, but you're not a Democrat either. Are you running on an independent line? I am. I like to say that I'm a you know like Goldilocks. I'm just right. I'm a lifelong Democrat. But you know, I worked for the DA as office for 25 years. I was hired by Robert Morgan Tha. And one of the greatest ever. One of the greatest ever. I worked for him for 15 years and then 10 under Vance. You know know morgan not one of the greatest ever not at all the opposite i would say right good

2:05.1

and what i would say about you know morgan thought was one of the wonderful things about working

2:09.3

for him um was that we never had an idea that he was a politician there was no politics in that

2:15.3

office and that is the problem that is the reason frankly That is the reason, frankly, that I'm running.

2:19.0

Two reasons, really.

2:20.0

Alvin Bragg has utterly failed to do his job.

2:22.2

We are far less safe than we were before he took office.

2:26.6

And number two is that we need to pull politics out of the DA's office.

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