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Voices in Robinson: Looking for change
Trib staffer Cindy Culp talked with a few of the voters at Robinson City Hall, 111 Lyndale Ave.
Lori Boyett, 36, a registered nurse, said she’s voting for Barack Obama because he represents change. She doesn’t like Hillary Clinton, she said, and added that Hillary in the White House would just be a continuation of her husband’s presidency.
She dismissed Clinton’s contention that Obama lacks leadership experience. “That doesn’t necessarily mean anything,” Boyett said.
She also backs Obama because she believes “I think he’ll do what he says he’ll do.”
Joanna Iturbe, 23, said she feels Obama and Clinton are similar on a lot of issues, but Obama gets her vote because of his immigration policy.
Her husband, she said, is a Mexican citizen who is in the United States on a green card.
“It’s just something that’s really important to us,” she said.
Other issues of important to her are the economy and the war in Iraq.
Suzy Seitzler, 50, whose husband Wendell is running uncontested for the Democratic nomination for Precinct 1, Place 1 justice of the peace, said she’s out there to vote for her husband but believes the presidential race to be important this year.
A court administrator for Waco Municipal Court, she declined to say who she voted for in that race, but said the important issues to her are the education of children and the Iraq war.
“I think we need to get it over with,” she said of the war in Iraq.
Other important issues for her are the economy — “gas prices, grocery prices, property taxes, senior citizens in general have to pay too much taxes. They (seniors) need some relief.”
Rachael Rogers, 38, an occupational therapy assistant, said she voted for GOP candidate Mike Huckabee because of his values.
She added that she believes he still has a chance despite John McCain’s near-lock on the Republican nomination.
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