Voters’ Voices: 2013

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POS1DeGonzaque“I’ve been a convict…There’s a program right around the corner, actually. They help convicts. They want to change. Sometimes they just have no knowledge. Some of these guys never made it past the third grade and they don’t know what to do.”
(Joseph DeGonzaque of Syracuse, 37, fence installer, Democrat)

POS2Funderburg

“We shouldn’t send more soldiers over into Syria. What are we going to fight for right now? What is there to fight for? We’ve got to fight for what’sgoing on right now in our inner city.”
(Aronne Funderburg of Syracuse, 26, fashion designer, Democrat)

“My baby just started kindergarten, and I had to bring tissue POS3Hightowerinto the school, and I had to bring white board markers. I had to buy this stuff. Now I’m funding what the teacher’s supposed to use in the classrooms when that’s what they’re supposed to fund.”
(Rachael Hightower of Syracuse, 23, cashier and cook at Burger King, Democrat)

POS4Chanthasensak

“A lot of deer, they carry lime disease, and you need to control the population, I believe.I would prefer a humane way…perhaps give out a little more licenses so they can be hunted down.”
(Kahm Chanthasensak of Fayetteville, 56, system analyst, Democrat)

(Elizabeth Beeson is a graduate student in broadcast and digital journalism.)

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