Janet Turvey, Katie Byrnes, Daniel Nethercutt, Renee Steven, Jillian D’Onfro (Luis Rendon)
“I care about people living on the streets. I care very much about homeless people and politically, Republicans don’t seem to care a damn about these people, how they’re going to get medical. As long as they’re okay they don’t care about anyone else and I don’t like living in a society like that.”
(Janet Turvey, who says she’s almost 62, Clinton, support staff member at Hamilton College)
“Anything to do with animal rights — I hate people who abuse animals.”
(Katie Byrnes, 18, of Watertown, unemployed)
“I’m Wiccan — so the environment, less littering in general.”
(Daniel Nethercutt, 27, of Watertown, gas station attendant)
“I guess taxes because I don’t think they tax correctly, especially in Syracuse. There are so many places that are tax-free and they shouldn’t be. So I think the more money you have, the more taxes you should pay. And the less money you have, the less taxes you should pay. But it doesn’t usually work that way.”
(Renee Stevens, who says she is under 30, of Manlius, adjunct professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University)
“I really care about healthcare. I think that’s something that we as a country we need to address a lot better and something that I’m hoping we’ll get a handle on soon.”
(Jillian D’Onfro, 20, of Syracuse, sophomore in magazine and information technologies at Syracuse University)
(Luis Rendon is a graduate student in magazine, newspaper and online journalism.)
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