Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has been accused of sending operatives posing as culinary union representatives to gain access to workers in Las Vegas hotels, according to Ralston Reports.
The Sanders campaign did not return Ralston’s request for comment, but union officials said they had received reports from four hotels: The Rio, Paris, The Mirage and Planet Hollywood
“It’s inappropriate for any campaign to attempt to mislead Culinary Union members, especially at their place of work,” Yvanna Cancela, the culinary union Local 226’s political director, told Ralston Reports. “As of yet, the union has not made an endorsement, but is focused on a major citizenship and voter registration campaign while preparing for contract negotiations.”
According to the report, the Sanders campaign staffers were wearing yellow Local 226 pins so they could enter employee dining halls and talk to workers.
Geez, isn’t this kind of what those Texas anti-abortion film makers did–using false credentials.
In the interest of balance, can we please add this to the article here.
“And the casino politicking is a reminder – and an ironic one – of how the Clintons made their way inside various Strip resorts to try to get to workers in 2008 after the Culinary endorsed Barack Obama. Clinton won that caucus, 51 percent to 45 petcent, but lost the delegate fight to Obama.”
While some may welcome this type of thing as making matters easier for Hillary, the Democratic Party in 2016 is not well-served by this.
The big difference is pretending to be a Union Rep is a far cry for forging driver’s licenses. the DL is an official government document, a union card is not.
It’s not a great move on the part of the Sander’s campaign, IMHO>
If this creep is nominated I’ll become a Democrat for Bloomberg.