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Today's Issue
By Ann Garretson
"What race or issue on the primary election ballot is most important
to you, and why?"
(asked at the Bellevue Regional Library on 09-07-95; published in the JA on 09-17-95)
Wendy Sundt, At-home mom, Bellevue
"I don't really have any that concern me at the moment. I vote every time -- my voter's pamphlet is on my dresser. You get more active when you see more advertising on TV. And you start to read more about a week before an election."
Levi Gao, Office manager, Bellevue
"I question the real motive of politicans every two years, or every four years... I've been in the U.S. a little over ten years... and I've been following this and it's the same thing over and over again. If I could vote, I wouldn't vote for the new stadium. Principally, it's a private enterprise and the general public shouldn't pay for the whole cost."
Don Clabaugh, Environmental analyst, Redmond
"I don't have one. I read my voter's pamphlet, so I'm not completely disinterested. I just didn't find anything I have an opinion on."
John Ryan, Retirement plan administrator, Bellevue
"I haven't done much examination of the current issues to study things in depth... But I know that one of the bigger issues that got my attention recently was the mass transit thing. Usually, whenever I get the voter's pamphlet, I go through it -- and whatever's available -- to find out what's going on... But the stadium issue's gotten my attention as a business owner. From a political point of view, to be consistent economically, if anything in the private sector can't pay for itself, I don't believe in bleeding the taxpayers to keep it going. It's a commercial entity and should be viable on its own merits."
George Daniels, Sales, Renton
"There are no concerns of mine in the primary I don't believe. Primaries have little relevant value... I look at them as a straw poll because a lot of people will vote one way in the primary and another way in the general. If they're unhappy with their party, they'll vote one way and then the other... I always vote in the main election."
Nancy Robertson, Librarian, Bellevue
"It's the proposition dealing with the Commons in Seattle -- it will affect so many businesses and so many lives. I wish I could vote on it. I don't think Bellevue and Seattle are all that far apart culturally."
Copyright © 1995 by the Bellevue, WA-based Journal American newspaper.
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