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lonestar2004
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Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada
#7887616 - 01/16/08 09:12 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Nation -- On Meet the Press on Sunday, Hillary Clinton said her campaign had nothing to do with a lawsuit--written about by Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel--that threatens to prevent thousands of workers from voting in the Nevada caucus on Saturday.
ADVERTISEMENT Back in March, the Nevada Democratic Party agreed to set up caucus locations on the Vegas strip for low-income shift workers, many of them members of the state's influential Culinary Union, who commute long distances to work and wouldn't be able to get home in time to caucus. It was an uncontroversial idea until the Culinary Union endorsed Barack Obama and the Nevada State Education Association, whose top officials support Clinton, sued to shut down the caucus sites. The Clinton camp played dumb until yesterday, when President Clinton came out in favor of the lawsuit.
Clinton's comments drew a heated response from D. Taylor, the head of Nevada's Culinary Union, on MSNBC's Hardball. "He is in support of disenfranchising thousands upon thousands of workers, not even just our members," Taylor said of Clinton. "The teachers union is just being used here. We understand that. This is the Clinton campaign. They tried to disenfranchise students in Iowa. Now they're trying to disenfranchise people here in Nevada, who are union members and people of color and women."
Rank-and-file members of Nevada's teachers union also come out against the lawsuit filed by their leadership. "We never thought our union and Senator Clinton would put politics ahead of what's right for our students, but that's exactly what they're doing," the letter stated. "As teachers, and proud Democrats, we hope they will drop this undemocratic lawsuit and help all Nevadans caucus, no matter which candidate they support."
The lawsuit's opponents make a persuasive point. Creating obstacles to voting is what the GOP does to Democrats, not what Democrats should be doing to other Democrats.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080115/cm_thenation/45270622
The Dems just have all kinds of schemes....
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Re: Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada [Re: lonestar2004]
#7887788 - 01/16/08 10:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I.FUCKING.HATE.THE.CLINTONS.
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lonestar2004
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Re: Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada [Re: afoaf]
#7893112 - 01/17/08 01:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hillary's lawsuit has just been denied.
(District Court Judge James Mahan rejected the lawsuit)
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Re: Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada [Re: lonestar2004]
#7893146 - 01/17/08 01:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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fuck him up his stupid ass.
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Re: Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada [Re: lonestar2004]
#7901129 - 01/19/08 11:02 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I heard Bill giving some insane excuse about how the lawsuit was ok because no one within their campaign had even noticed the caucus decision until after the union's decision. Man, these people were born to lie.
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Re: Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada [Re: lonestar2004]
#7901165 - 01/19/08 11:13 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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and obama doesnt help much by comparing himself to ronald reagan either...
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Re: Clinton Allies Suppress the Vote in Nevada [Re: Gijith]
#7902241 - 01/19/08 03:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Gijith said: I heard Bill giving some insane excuse about how the lawsuit was ok because no one within their campaign had even noticed the caucus decision until after the union's decision. Man, these people were born to lie.
More from Slick Willie on voter suppression: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Bill_Clinton_claims_he_witnessed_voter_suppression.html
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Bill Clinton, speaking at a Vegas YMCA last night, made more charges against Obama and claimed to have, with Chelsea, personally witnessed voter suppression by the Culinary Workers:.......
Weiss also said Clinton's claim is "technically impossible." Clinton supporters can ask union organizers -- who are actively promoting Obama's candidacy -- to add their names to the lists of workers who will take time off to caucus today. But signs posted around the casinos advertise another avenue to get the time off: Workers can go around the union and ask their managers directly.
He's starting to sound as batshit crazy as Carter.
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