Major Nevada union accuses Sanders aides of posing as union members

[riversedge]

Source: cnn


Major Nevada union accuses Sanders aides of posing as union members


By Dan Merica, CNN

Updated 3:47 PM ET, Thu January 28, 2016 | Video Source: CNN

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Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Nevada's powerful Culinary Union on Thursday accused Bernie Sanders' campaign staffers of posing as union workers in an attempt to gain access to their members, a charge the Sanders campaign denies.

Union representatives said Thursday that multiple members of their union have reported Sanders' campaign staffers of "attempting and gaining access to employee dining rooms at Las Vegas Strip properties."

"We are disappointed and offended," said Geoconda Arguello-Kline, the union's secretary-treasurer. "It's completely inappropriate for any campaign to attempt to mislead Culinary Union members, especially at their place of work.".....................



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/bernie-sanders-union-nevada-culinary-union/index.html

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Your title is wrong, should be "Major Nevada union accuses Sanders aides of posing as union members"

[riversedge]

2. I forgot to insert it. Sorry--but all better now. thanks.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Wow all of a sudden unions are important to some people

Sean Sabatini, a 57-year-old shop steward at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and member of the Culinary union, told CNN that he has not seen Sanders' staffers misrepresent themselves inside Caesars.

[synergie]

15. So one lady didn't see it at one place, so the people who saw it elsewhere

are lying?

They kind of admitted that they were indeed doing things that could be very well considered masquerading, but they state that was not the intention.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-union-workers_us_56aa7ed6e4b05e4e3703b874

So it's happening, and the union is rightly pissed about it.

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R!

[still_one]

5. But, but, that wouldn't be honest

[getagrip_already]

6. ya know..

My mind just made the strangest associations when I read "Las Vegas Strip properties".

But hey, when in Vegas......

[beltanefauve]

7. It's beginning

to look like Nevada is in play.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. It's hard to believe that these are the same folks who hold everyone else to such a high bar.

[riversedge]

10. +1

[Starry Messenger]

14. +1

[Dawson Leery]

9. Hypocracy at it's worst.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/28/1476384/-BREAKING-Sanders-Workers-Caught-Masquerading-as-Culinary-Union-Members-to-Campaign-Inside-Hotels

[NurseJackie]

16. Looks like it was PLANNED and ORGANIZED. This wasn't some "spur-of-the-moment" impuslive prank!

Things must be looking pretty bad for Bernie if his campaign staff believed that THIS little scheme was the best option available to them.

Was a crime committed? These folks were impersonating and deceiving in order to easily gain access to areas of the hotels where non-employees aren't permitted.

Legally, it's probably not so cut-and-dried, and it's doubtful that any prosecutor would want to touch it. But ETHICALLY, well, that's another question isn't it?

They probably didn't do their candidate any favors. I wonder if they'll be fired.

[George II]

11. Looks like Senator "Squeaky Clean" isn't so squeaky clean. Way to alienate the union vote.

[NurseJackie]

12. Not very ethical.

[Plucketeer]

13. Oh yeah!

And you can be certain as the sunrise that the idea to do such a thing has come STRAIGHT from Bernie's mouth.


EDIT TO ADD: I confess, Dame Hillary's certainly not clandestine about how SHE goes after support! A real Gal-of-the-people!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/28/1472001/-Hillary-raised-big-funds-last-night-from-Franklin-Sq-Capitol-which-has-huge-investment-in-Fracking

[retrowire]

17. lmao some of you are obviously desperate

He's accused, he denies it.

But half of you are already judging him for his wrongdoing. When there's no proof he did anything wrong.

So sad.

[lunamagica]

18. Dishonest. eom

[Half-Century Man]

19. Proof?

Actual Sanders staff members?
Then, Who?
Who caught them?
If they were guilty of trespassing, did the casino charge them? Casinos are normally very spooky about strange people sneaking around the service areas of their operations with all that money being moved about.. Have the trespassers been arrested?

Who reported what? I certainly see the names of Union executives, who were the members involved? How were they involved?

Where and When exactly? I see the reported Sanders supporters/advocates were trying to gain access to an "employee dining room (s)". Since when is presenting reasons to vote for a candidate "misleading" workers? Only if it might steer them away for the candidate the Union Executives wish to endorse and see elected.

What exactly happened?

[jeff47]

20. No, we're supposed to all be piling on the rage just because of the accusation.

Proof is for other candidates.

[Half-Century Man]

21. I'll wait

Until I see some sort of proof, some thing more than a vague report of an incident.
I'll pencil this in as political hyperbole.

[sulphurdunn]

22. Since when did wearing a union button

constitute misrepresentation? Something doesn't smell right.