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Las Vegas SunSat, Jan 12, 2008 (2 a.m.)
The teachers union has drawn knives on the Culinary Workers, deepening the potential political rifts over Nevada’s Jan. 19 Democratic caucus.
A lawsuit filed late Friday in federal court seeks to stop the Democratic Party from holding caucus meetings at nine Strip hotels, which would diminish the influence of casino workers and hamper Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign. The complaint, with the state teachers union and some party activists as plaintiffs, came as Obama accepted the endorsement of the Culinary Union. The timing seemed designed to cloud the good buzz from his campaign, which could only help Sen. Hillary Clinton’s efforts in the state.
The lawsuit claims that those voting in at-large precincts being held on the Strip would have too much weight compared with those voting at their polling places, violating the equal protection law of the U.S. Constitution. It also claims the at-large precincts violate state statute in the way they were drawn.
State Democratic Party officials disputed the lawsuit’s contentions.
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/12/voting-stripa-no-no-suit-says/
I saw this is a case of quick reverse switch or bait and switch. If Hillary had obtained the Culinary Union endorsement in Nevada, this lawsuit would not have been filed because Obama's people are not Nevada State Party insiders. Hillary's people are! They set the rules up for these bogus precincts months ago when they thought she was going to get the culinary union endorsement. It has backfired on her!
I first heard about this new thing that was going to be used to when I attended a Hillary campaign sponsored visit of Joe Wilson (Plame case) in Reno, Nevada.
There stood our Nevada State Party Chair Jill Derby bragging about how they were going to be able to set up special "at large" precincts for casino workers to attend. And next to Ms. Derby was Frankie Sue del Pappa, one of the co-campaign leaders of Hillary's campaign shaking her head in approval about how this was going to be so good since we had already disenfranchised most Nevadans who do shift work in the mines and the casinos.
Remember, in Nevada Senator Harry Reid controls our Democratic Party. Don't believe me, ask anyone. Even Republicans know this.
And his son, Rory Reid, Clark County Commissioner of the county where these "at-large" precincts have been set up has known all along how the bogus delegate formula was going to benefit whomever got the Culinary Union endorsement.
These evil pieces of DLC elites had a plan and it backfired!
BTW, the lawsuit link is here and you can read how these at-large precincts would produce delegates at a rate of ten times the speed that delegates could be formulated in regular county precincts.
Barack Obama's people were not involved in these calculations. They were not even on the ground in Nevada at the time.
Hillary and her people are crying "victim" and "disenfranchised voters" now that their plan has backfired.
http://vegaspundit.typepad.com/vegas_pundit/2008/01/lawsuit-against.html?cid=96840358#comment-96840358I hope Jill Derby and her insider hacks are subpoenaed on this. I'd also like to hear why it is our State Party is broke.