Post by Logan on Feb 20, 2016 5:09:53 GMT -6
Hillary Clinton makes last-minute push to win backing from Latinos in Nevada caucuses
When Hillary Clinton arrived at Caesars Palace near midnight one night this week after a day of campaigning in Chicago, she made a brief detour before heading to her hotel room.
“Hi, everybody. How are you?” Clinton asked as she entered a basement room where a handful of housekeepers working a late-night shift folded linens and towels. “I appreciate all the work you do. Whenever I come in, I appreciate it.”
Those housekeepers — members of Culinary Local 226, the state's largest union, which is predominantly Latino — are part of a crucial component in Clinton's effort to win Saturday's Nevada caucuses. Clinton has taken selfies and shaken hands with cooks, maids and cocktail waitresses inside the break rooms of nearly half a dozen hotels along the Strip this week in a last-minute push to boost turnout among Latino voters and to blunt the efforts by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to make inroads among minority Democrats.
The Latino vote will be decisive in the caucuses, said Andres Ramirez, a local Democratic strategist who is supporting Clinton, and that means turnout among members of the union.
Read more: www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-hillary-clinton-nevada-20160219-story.html
When Hillary Clinton arrived at Caesars Palace near midnight one night this week after a day of campaigning in Chicago, she made a brief detour before heading to her hotel room.
“Hi, everybody. How are you?” Clinton asked as she entered a basement room where a handful of housekeepers working a late-night shift folded linens and towels. “I appreciate all the work you do. Whenever I come in, I appreciate it.”
Those housekeepers — members of Culinary Local 226, the state's largest union, which is predominantly Latino — are part of a crucial component in Clinton's effort to win Saturday's Nevada caucuses. Clinton has taken selfies and shaken hands with cooks, maids and cocktail waitresses inside the break rooms of nearly half a dozen hotels along the Strip this week in a last-minute push to boost turnout among Latino voters and to blunt the efforts by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to make inroads among minority Democrats.
The Latino vote will be decisive in the caucuses, said Andres Ramirez, a local Democratic strategist who is supporting Clinton, and that means turnout among members of the union.
Read more: www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-hillary-clinton-nevada-20160219-story.html