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A 15-Year-Old Mistake

Posted Jan 29, 2008 by Neil Johnson

Updated Jan 29, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Teri Workman says she made a mistake 15 years ago that helped steer her vote today for Mitt Romney.

“My major issue in this campaign is pro-life,” the 57-year-old paralegal said.

“I let my 19-year-old daughter have an abortion, and it almost destroyed her,” Workman said outside the Pasco County polling place where she stopped on her way to work at a Hillsborough County lawyer’s office.

That was 15 years ago. “I never want someone else to go through that,” she said.

Workman pays about $1,800 in property taxes on the Wesley Chapel home she’s owned for six years but did not think the savings from Amendment 1 were worth the chance of losing vital services. Besides, it seemed a bit half-baked to her.

“I didn’t like the idea. I think it was a knee-jerk reaction to a problem and not thought through at all,” she said.

Her boss encouraged her to take time on the way in to vote, though she said their votes may cancel each other out.

“We just don’t talk politics in the office,” Workman said.