Sanders workers are masquerading as Culinary members to campaign inside hotels-HRC ROOM

[hrmjustin]

Jon Ralston

Operatives from Bernie Sanders' campaign have donned Culinary union pins and secured access to employee areas inside Strip hotels to try to garner votes for the Feb. 20 caucus, sources confirm.

Culinary officials have been made aware of the faux union workers at four hotels -- The Rio, Paris, The Mirage and Planet Hollywood. The Sanders campaigners are wearing the distinctive yellow Local 226 pins, implying they are union members, to gain access to employee dining rooms. Beyond the obvious deception, union officials surely also are concerned about the implication that the organization has endorsed Sanders despite its recent pledge to remain neutral until after the caucus.

https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/sanders-workers-are-masquerading-culinary-members-campaign-inside-hotels

[NurseJackie]

1. Fraud. Deception. Impersonation. (What are we to make of people who do such things?)

Wouldn't this be considered a breach of security? It certainly seems as though they're doing Bernie's campaign no favors. How desperate must one have to be to stoop so low?

[hrmjustin]

2. I think this came from Weaver.

He is such a creepy individual.

[FloridaBlues]

4. Can you imagine if Hillarys campaign did this!!

They can kiss this important Union endorsement
Pretty serious and don't think they liked it much pretty low rent for staffers to do this.
Bye Nevada for the Bern

[hrmjustin]

5. There would be ten ops in gdp calling hfor her to quit the race.

[jmowreader]

17. In addition to the ten posted every day anyway?

[hrmjustin]

18. Yep!

[workinclasszero]

3. Wow..dirty tricks

From campaign workers who smear Hillary constantly with right wing lies about her ethics.

[dlwickham]

6. Slime

[TheSarcastinator]

7. I heard that Hillary Clinton personally killed Vince Foster!

Without proof, both allegations are equally accurate.

[Treant]

8. And Chelsea?

Totally the Lindbergh Baby. Seriously, Google it.

[Cha]

19. We can confirm multiple reports of Bernie Sanders’ campaign staffers attempting and gaining access

to Employee Dining Rooms at Las Vegas Strip properties where over 57,000 members that we represent work.

We are disappointed and offended. It's completely inappropriate for any campaign to attempt to mislead Culinary Union members, especially at their place of work. The Culinary Union button that hundreds of thousands of union members have proudly worn to work every day represents 80 years of struggle and fighting for justice. We strongly condemn anyone falsifying their affiliation with the Culinary Union in order to gain access to properties and we will cooperate with casinos and hotels so that this matter is fully resolved.

The Culinary Union has not made an endorsement and is focused on a major citizenship and voter registration campaign while preparing for upcoming contract negotiations.

berni campaign is their own worst enemy.. wonder who the Culinary Campaign is going to Endorse? Hmmmmmm?

[Thinkingabout]

9. Humm, these tactics was behind Nixon retiring, Hillary's campaign does not

Have to learn about campaigning, they are already professional.

[72DejaVu]

10. That's only a slight change from the original headline

"Sanders workers are masquerading as Democrats to campaign inside party"

[William769]

11. Typical of those people.

[lunamagica]

12. More dishonesty from the pure-as-snow clan

[Starry Messenger]

13. I wish they'd change their decision to remain neutral now.

See CU? We could have told you.

[OKNancy]

14. How Bernie Sanders’ Campaign ‘Disappointed And Offended’ Nevada’s Most Powerful Union

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/28/3743961/sanders-nevada-union/

Reports surfaced Thursday alleging that campaign employees of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had posed as hotel workers on the Las Vegas Strip in order to preach to members of the Culinary Union — one of the biggest and most politically influential unions in the key early caucus state.
The Culinary Union confirmed the reports, telling ThinkProgress in a statement that the campaign’s actions left them “disappointed and offended.”
“It’s completely inappropriate for any campaign to attempt to mislead Culinary Union members, especially at their place of work,” said the union’s Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Arguello-Kline. “We strongly condemn anyone falsifying their affiliation with the Culinary Union in order to gain access to properties and we will cooperate with casinos and hotels so that this matter is fully resolved.”
Sanders campaign workers visited four unionized hotels, The Rio, Paris, The Mirage and Planet Hollywood, and by wearing the union’s iconic yellow button, accessed employee dining rooms to speak with and give Sanders literature to workers.
The Sanders campaign did not respond to inquires from ThinkProgress about the incident.

rest is at the link.

[Cha]

20. Wow, thank you, Nancy.. this should be an OP!

"The Sanders campaign has not responded to a couple of requests for comment."

I got that from the OP's link.. So typical.. if they ignore it .. it will go away.

This is from your link>>>>>

The Sanders campaign did not respond to inquires from ThinkProgress about the incident.

bernis blew it.

[mcar]

15. Wonder how the Sanders campaign

and their supporters will respond to this disturbing deception.

[Cha]

21. Crickets so far, mcar.. so typical

"The Sanders campaign has not responded to a couple of requests for comment."

I got that from the OP's link.. So typical.. if they ignore it .. it will go away.

This is from your link>>>>>

The Sanders campaign did not respond to inquires from ThinkProgress about the incident.

bernis blew it.

[mcar]

23. And of course here it is all HRC's fault

[Cha]

24. #bernisohiswonworstenemy They're so desperate.. wonder why? Thought they were

"surging"?

The only thing Hillary is done is be so good that in their minds they can't play fair.

[Iliyah]

28. By blaming HRC, DWS, DNC and the 3rd Way, plus

fund raising off of it and then brag about how much money they rec'd. for it.

[FrenchieCat]

16. Unfortunately and sad to say.....I'm not surprised....

I think some of them may also be on FB.....White but posting as Black....based on my experiences there thus far. Started about 2 weeks ago!

[murielm99]

25. Two weeks ago...

You were not here when the BLM protesters disrupted Bernie when he was speaking at a SS event. This place was filled with all sorts of newbies who were supposedly black Bernie supporters. It has died down now.

[Cha]

22. "The attempt to mislead hotel workers by the Sanders campaign is a measure of just how intense the

competition between the Vermont senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has become, a microcosm of what is happening nationally five days before the Iowa balloting."

Shame on bern and his campaign.

will he apologize?

Mahalo Justin!

[liberal N proud]

26. Since I have suspected there are campaign operatives on DU

Nothing surprises me.

[NBachers]

27. But I thought this was another "conspiracy" being spread by Hillary's failing flailing acolytes.

Didn't I read that somewhere recently?