Strength of Organized Labor in Nevada Backfires on Caucus?
State Democratic party officials, union officials, the media–all the build-up about the strength and importance of organized labor in Nevada has gone to heads of local some Democratic insiders and union leaders. Instead of celebrating their featured role in the upcoming caucus, the unions are fighting amongst themselves out of what appears to be jealousy over influence. How else do you explain the late timing of the teachers union law suit? The Clinton campaign should have disavowed the lawsuit immediately to remove any implication that it was involved–unless for some reason they couldn’t–I guess we’ll find out. Not only is all of this making the Nevada Caucus like about as ridiculous as many in Iowa and New Hampshire speculated it would when Nevada’s caucus was announced last year, its making the Clinton campaign look exceedingly heavy handed and petty whether they are actually behind the law suit or not. So how will all of this impact Saturday’s caucus? Who the hell knows, Clinton’s seeming involvement with the suit could piss off enough non-union voters so that Obama not only gets the culinary union votes, he will get even more of the non-union votes than originally predicted. The lawsuit could end up making the Nevada Caucus even more competitive–certainly more controversial.
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Why a state with 24-hour mining, 24-hour hospitality and gaming industries chose to enter into a caucus fracas is beyond me. Right away you alienate people.
But, hell, at least those employed by government including teachers generally have Saturday at lunch time off!
What a mess.
If those idiots who filed this didn’t want to drag their Queen Clinton down the tubes with them, they should have filed the suit months ago after they voted for the plan and changed their minds.
Now, they file it within 48 hours after Obama gets the prized culinary union vote …well, you know what that looks like. Can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
The problem with filing it before an endorsement came through would be that it would virtually guarantee you wouldn’t be the chosen one. I suspect both camps had this in their back pockets and were just waiting for the endorsement to first go down.
Still, for a caucus sold as one of voter diversity, having a sweetheart setup like the one for the Culinary Union hardly screams “diverse.” How many workers in these casino caucuses do you think will risk the withering glare of their union bosses to stand in the Clinton or Edwards corner?
good point.
Very dumb for the educators. The Hall has a long memory. Good luck getting support for their Nevada Legislative issues in the future.
I’ll be submitting a platform amendment at the Washoe caucus to strike #19 from the Education section of the platform.
Strike this:
“#19. Support legislation to increase Nevada’s teachers’ salaries to meet or surpass the national average.”
Payback is a bitch! So Rovian! You threaten the whole caucus, make us look silly, and cost us money.
Ill-concieved and short sighted!