Left to right: Phillip Carr, Joseph Bernardino, Michelle Davis, Ben Paz, Brandon Wolfenden (Bianca Graulau)
“More funding for buses. Better education for kids. More jobs —everybody wants jobs. There is a lot of things out there that need to be done. I’m sure jobs would be the number one issue for everybody.”
(Phillip Carr, 44, of Northside Syracuse, unemployed, Democrat)
“They can lower taxes and get the economy the way it’s supposed to be. Taxes keep going up and up. I don’t know how people are going to live.”
(Joseph Bernardino, 67, of Baldwinsville, unaffiliated with a party)
“The economy — turning it around and getting it back on track, trying to find more jobs for people. Making people be more responsible for what they are going to do. Have them not just take care of people as much, have people try to take care of themselves more. ”
(Michelle Davis, 23, of Buffalo, graduate student at LeMoyne College, Republican)
“Government is way too big and I think government needs to step out of people’s personal lives. They are taxing too much. They are spending too much. Transparency. They promise something and they do something completely different. Both parties — doesn’t matter who it is. There is no accountability.”
(Ben Paz, 26, of Syracuse, State Farm insurance adjuster, unaffiliated with a party)
“Medicaid reform, the economy, education. I don’t think it’s any longer a government of the people. I think it’s a government of the wealthy and the privileged.”
(Brandon Wolfenden, 36, of Brewerton, physician assistant, unaffiliated with a party)
(Bianca Graulau is a junior broadcast journalism and political science major.)
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