Some have asked to look at "the facts" in the lawsuit, aimed at depriving the workers on the strip in Las Vegas the opportunity to caucus in or near their worksites. This suit, coming months after the decision to establish the caucuses along the presently structured lines was made and MADE PUBLIC, comes days after the state Culinary Workers' Union endorsed Barack Obama.
Sure it's
'politics as usual'. Of the worst kind, no less. The Hillary Clinton campaign TO ITS TOP LEVELS has made a POINT of not opposing this lawsuit, pursued by many with whom some Clinton figures have ties.
Now WaPo comes out with this report, revealing the ULTIMATE in hypocrisy. Will it matter? To the Courts? ... to the Obama-so-not-haters on DU?
Link to WaPo with MONEY QUOTE (SEE ESPECIALLY THE BOLDED PASSAGE):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/12/AR2008011202834.html?hpid=topnews
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State Democratic officials, who had been expecting the suit, said they had worked with each presidential campaign since last spring to craft the process, including the casino precincts, to drum up the largest turnout possible.
"The time for comment or complaint has passed," the state party said in a statement after the suit was filed by the teachers' union and several individuals. The union, which has not endorsed a candidate, has some leaders who individually support Clinton. It is using a law firm with at least one prominent lawyer who backs Clinton. (Another teachers' union, the American Federation of Teachers, has endorsed Clinton and is airing radio ads in Nevada on her behalf.)
Culinary union officials dismiss the complaints as sour grapes from Clinton allies. "It's strange it's coming after our endorsement," D. Taylor, the secretary-treasurer, said of the suit.
Minutes from the meeting last March when the state Democratic committee approved the caucus process show that several of the parties to the suit were there and approved of the process.
Clinton raised questions about the caucus process when she campaigned here Thursday. Repeating an argument she made after she lost the Iowa caucuses, she said caucuses provide only a "limited period of time" for participation, as opposed to day-long primaries. "People who work during that time, they're disenfranchised," she told reporters.
State party officials counter that the sites in the casinos are specifically designed to meet the objections raised by Clinton and to allow more people to participate in the notoriously cumbersome caucus process.
The casino caucuses are open to any shift worker, including cab drivers and employees at nonunion casinos, who is on duty midday Saturday within a 2 1/2 mile radius of the nine sites. They must present identification showing that they work on or near Las Vegas Boulevard, the Strip's official name.
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