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Voices at Dewey Recreation Center: ‘Lower gas prices now’
Kwan Boggess, a 33-year-old school teacher at Meadowbrook Elementary, voted for Hillary Clinton at the Dewey Recreation Center, 925 N. Ninth St.
“Not just because she’s a woman,” she explained to staffer Tommy Witherspoon. “I just feel like she is better prepared for the position. I feel she has a bit more experience.”
The most important issues to her are the Iraq war and education.
“We need to be done with the war because too many people have lost loved ones. … It’s time for it to be over,” she said.
She said she’d tell the new president: “We need lower gas prices right now.”
Barack Obama was the choice of Raven Hawthorne, 25, a merchandising supervisor at Sam’s Club.
He represents a change in the direction that the country moving in, she said. “We need somebody who is strong about making decisions, not afraid of confrontation or debate, and with strong leadership abilities.”
Children’s health insurance and the Iraq war are top concerns for her.
She would tell the next president to look out for kids and the middle class, those trying to make it in life, and “not those sitting down and capable, but not willing to work.”
Another vote for Obama came from Julie Holt, 75. Why? “Because I like him,” she said.
Health care and getting out of the war are priorities for Holt.
She said she would tell the next president: “Good luck and God bless you. I’ll be praying for you daily.”
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