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Voices in Bellmead: ‘Words won’t cut it. We need real change.’
Tribune-Herald reporter Monica Ortiz Uribe was on the scene at the Bellmead Civic Center, and got these comments and observations from voters:
Donna Carroll made quite a drive to vote. The Bellmead resident works in Groesbeck, so she took a two-hour lunch break to return to her hometown to pick up her son and to cast her ballot at the Bellmead Civic Center.
The economy is her top issue this election. “Gas prices are eating me alive,” she says, adding that she’s had to cut back on food purchases so she can afford fuel.
She’s backing Barack Obama. “I’m hoping if he does get elected, I want him to create change — real change, not good-old-boy change like we would get from other people.”
But she wants action. “Words won’t cut it. We need real change.”
Alex Moorman, an international studies major at Baylor University with an emphasis on the Middle East, said foreign policy is his top issue.
He supports Barack Obama.
“The United States has spoken like we’re one way and then acted another way,” Moorman said. “We say we’re for peace and then act with aggression.”
Moorman said he supports Obama because, “I really believe he has the convictions to help people that are less fortunate than he.”
He said he plans to attend the Democratic caucus this evening, and afterward will watch election results with Obama supporters at Treff’s.
Tom Heaton, a retired construction worker, said he voted for Hillary Clinton.
“I think she’s experienced,” he said. “She’ll also have her husband there beside her. She’s been around the world and she’s talked to everybody.”
Heaton said the main issue for him is the war in Iraq.
“The main thing I’d say is that we need to stop this war, and get some of that money over here,” he said. “I’ve been in the service and I think this war is useless.”
Obama supporter Ryan Young puts out a sign outside the Wiethorn Visitors Center polling place on the Baylor campus Tuesday.
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