Elaine Moore works as an administrative assistant for Wells Fargo in downtown Minneapolis.

While she said she was satisfied with Minneapolis public school for her children, she felt that one of her sons who has special needs was not receiving adequate attention so she enrolled him in a private charter school.

She has lived in South Minneapolis for 15 years and said she is concerned with violence among the younger children in her neighborhood. She would like to see something positive being done for them.

She said she thinks one solution may be to offer some sort of summer employment for young people. She said when she was growing up in Iowa, such programs existed providing summertime employment for young people and keeping them off the streets.

Moore said she would like to see more religious freedom in America, especially for Christians.

“Stop taking God out of this country, because I believe God will withdraw His hands, and I don’t know what’s going to happen, I’m afraid.”

She said she resents receiving emails at work about gay pride because she doesn’t believe in it. “I want to be able to say, it’s in the bible, it’s condemnation, it’s not right. But I don’t feel like I’m free enough to say that on the job.”