Necessarily Republicans Texan entrepreneurs? Not at all! Usually voting for the elephant party, Gene and Christie Bingham, managers of The Beacon Cafe, located within a Fort Worth airfield, are about to abstain. For them, not only Mitt Romney is a bad candidate, who “goes back and forth”, “doesn’t say what he wants to do” and “attacks the little people”. But also Obama “saved the economy”, “recognized he couldn’t do everything he had promised during his previous campaign” and “maintained the necessary troops abroad”.



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And regarding healthcare reform, “it’s true that it will cost us as employers, admits Christie. But it’s a good thing, because at the moment we’re uninsured and our kids go to the doctor less often than others”.

“We should trust Romney as a businessman. But Obama connects better with people. And personally, we’re better off today than four years ago”, adds Gene, who doesn’t feel he’s represented by the running candidates.

THE COMPLEX QUESTION OF ABORTION​

The problem with Democrats is abortion. Not opposing it is shocking for the Binghams, because “you don’t have the right to kill someone to take control of your body”, thinks Christie, who was raising her first kid on her own when she met Gene. (…)

“I might think differently if it was about my daughter”, admits Christie, who ran off her parents’ house when she was thirteen and survived working on fairs and markets. After getting a high school diploma equivalent, she’s currently preparing a creative writing master’s degree by attending night classes on top of her restaurant job six days a week, from dawn to mid-afternoon.

The Binghams are very far away from the reactionary business manager cliché. “Gene and I, we had very racist parents. That’s the way we were raised and we’ve repeated these ideas until we realized they were hurting, says Christie. We try to raise our girls differently because we think they’ll have enough problems in life without teaching them stereotypes they’ll have a hard time forgetting”.

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After moving from town to town for a long time (“because Gene wanted to do things his way and never kept a job very long”, specifies Christie), the couple now wants to buy the place they operate and hope their daughters will have an interest in replacing them one day.

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