From left to right: Ed Robinson, Jonathan Dear, Michael De Vivo, Shannon Murray and Ramon Rollé (Andrew Chernoff)
“No money for people you see on the street. These are veterans…Sometimes used to be taxpayers. There should be help for people like that. I’m a taxpayer. It’s hard when you can’t help someone that you see on the street that needs help. Where do you send them?”
(Shannon Murray, 42, of Syracuse, cleaner, Democrat)
“It seems like no matter who you vote for, it’s still the same. It’s still the same. Some of the ideas might variate a little bit, but in all actuality…to coin a phrase…’same old #expletive#.’ You can vote for him, her or it, whatever…”
(Ramon Rollé, 59, of Syracuse, on disability, Democrat)
“There’s some easy answers to healthcare. We got Social Security…We cut it off at $90,000. For everybody to pay into it, even a half a percent, we’d have all the money we need to fund that. So that health care, Social Security, wouldn’t be threatened all of the time.”
(Michael DeVivo, 60s, of Syracuse, project manager at Cadaret Grant, Independence Party)
“Health care is definitely one of the main ones because I got elderly people in my family…two that do need help with their medicating and stuff…They don’t have the strength to go to work and work for their money and pay for it. So that’s a big problem right there.”
(Jonathan Dear, 19, of Syracuse, bus boy at Kitty Hoynes Irish pub, unaffiliated with a political party)
“There’s just a lot of inefficiency and a lot of waste it seems like to me…I’m sure that everybody goes in with anticipation of doing good things, but it seems to get all monkeyed up in the mix. And I don’t know how you fix that. But clearly there are well-intentioned politicians that are not able to get the things done that need to get done.”
(Ed Robinson, 40, of Syracuse, self-employed business owner, Republican)
(Andrew Chernoff is a junior with dual majors in broadcast journalism and political science.)
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