Mary: Corrupt

For Mary’s particular interview, I decided to have it in the park at a bench. We each had our respective drinks- me with an iced tea, her with her cup of coffee and her Marlboro red 100’s. A beautiful summer’s day, she and I both sat straddling the pinkish- orangeish table, facing each other.


I’m a centrist.
In some ways,
I lean very much to the right,
In some ways I lean to the left,

I’m a person that likes to look at
Each individual issue,
I don’t identify with either political party
‘Cause I think politics in this country
Has gotten extraordinarily corrupt.

It’s funny,
I had an argument with my husband about that

“No, no, I lived in Latin America where it’s very corrupt”
He came here and he saw, yea, It can be very corrupt.

People are going to support who is going to pay them the most.
I’ve gotten disgusted with the whole matter.
I tend to look at everything, each individual issue and
I look at my own conscience and
I try to go that way.

Sometimes it’s very difficult
If people don’t understand the motivations behind them
They’ll get the wrong impression

On prop 8, I voted yes.
I’d like to have the chance to explain myself.

I am, deep down, a very private person.
Bedroom issues should be kept out of public policy.

Period.