Caucus delegates hope for changes from presidential election

COLUMBIA — About 500 people gathered at Kemper Arena for the Boone County presidential caucus Saturday.

The process selected 53 delegates, who are not bound to a certain candidate, to the congressional district convention in Sedalia on April 21.

We asked delegate hopefuls before the caucus to respond to this question: How do you hope the outcome of this presidential election will change the country?

Here are some of their responses.

• "More individual freedom and liberty." - Scott Hellebusch

• "Someone in office that will start carving down the debt." - Dan Harder

• "Bring some integrity back to politics." - Ethan Robinett

• "Reverses the trend toward big government." - Sean Reberry

• "Bring fiscal sanity." - Steve Spellman

• "Dramatic shift in foreign policy as it relates to acts of war." - Roger Webb

• "See us elect people who represent us and not just themselves." - John Casady

• "Go in a direction of fiscal responsibility." - George Prica
• "I am a liberal and this is my act of defiance against government." - Mary Achor

• "The salvation of America." - Eric Albert

• "The end result is people begin to look to God to protect them and guide them." - Ken Derendinger
• "I hope we won't still be fighting in the Middle East." - Sam Clark
• "I hope it will turn everything around. That's not very original, but it is deeply felt." -Bill Samuels