"I call it love. I am their father. The people are my children. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly."
Posted on 01/19/2008 10:26:50 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Bill Clinton, speaking at a Vegas YMCA last night, made more charges against Obama and claimed to have, with Chelsea, personally witnessed voter suppression by the Culinary Workers:
There is this whole business of the new politics. Well I got a taste of the new politics today. We need a new politics where we all love each other. You’ve heard all that. There’s a radio ad up in the northern part of Nevada telling Republicans that they ought to just register as Democrats for a day so they can beat Hillary and go out and be Republicans next week and vote in the primary. Doesn’t sound like the new politics to me.
Today when my daughter and I were wandering through the hotel, and all these culinary workers were mobbing us telling us they didn’t care what the union told them to do, they were gonna caucus for Hillary.
There was a representative of the organization following along behind us going up to everybody who said that, saying 'if you’re not gonna vote for our guy were gonna give you a schedule tomorrow so you can’t be there.' So, is this the new politics? I haven’t seen anything like that in America in 35 years. So I will say it again – they think they're better than you.
(The transcript was provided by one source with a recording of the event, and confirmed by another.)
To go over the facts here, the only publicly reported radio ad anything like what Clinton refers to is one that encourages Republicans and independents to caucus, but doesn't mention Hillary.
And the Vegas papers haven't found any evidence of the kind of straightforward voter suppression Clinton reports. The Obama campaign has suggested the Clinton campaign file formal complaints if it has evidence.
"This is ludicrous," Culinary Workers political director Pilar Weiss told Politico. She said the union is "aware that some workers aren't going to vote our way" and doesn't engage in intimidation.
"The fact that they lost a lawsuit aimed at suppressing workers' votes, and that now they're trying to hold on to these baseless claims is ridiculous," she said.
Weiss also said Clinton's claim is "technically impossible." Clinton supporters can ask union organizers -- who are actively promoting Obama's candidacy -- to add their names to the lists of workers who will take time off to caucus today. But signs posted around the casinos advertise another avenue to get the time off: Workers can go around the union and ask their managers directly.
"We have found it shocking that President Clinton has gotten so engaged in promoting these accusations," she said.
DOUBLE VOMIT! There ain't a barf bag big enough!
The Frankenstein monster has turned against its former masters. lol
The union thugs want to bow down before a new master.
Alabama’s Shorty Price had nothing on this guy.
"I call it love. I am their father. The people are my children. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly."
he may be the only guy around who can rough up that other Irishman, O’Bama
What the heck happened 35 years ago? I seems like every time the Clintons open their mouths they say something about 35 years.
The crooked one just never gives up.
Is it a crime to suppress the Democratic dead vote? If we chain the gates on cemeteries on election day, is that a violation of the Voting Act?
Gotta be Watergate.
That’s why Chelsea was conveniently with HIM. LOL
And like her mother, she would never lie. LOL
The voter suppression must have been next to the burning churches he saw in his childhood.
Seared into his memory... oh wait that was another democratic Presidential candidate.
Great line to use with the upcoming MLK day holiday. ;-)
That's not news...to us anyway. She ran the White House and told Bill what to do during her first two terms. That's the main reason none of her correspondence with Bubba is being released. They don't want you to see just how involved she was in the everyday running of, and policy making in the White House.
The democRats’ problem with voter suppression is so intense they insist on allowing the dead to vote ... for democRats, of course.
Yeah, like he witnessed all those black churches being burned in Arkansas when he was a kid.
Bill Clinton’s a liar. He will say and do anything for gain.
Nixon was re elected.
Lying Clinton hack, Taylor Marsh, exposed by Las Vegas Sun
by Bob Johnson
Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 11:58:12 PM PST
Wednesday was just another day for so-called liberal radio personality, Taylor Marsh.
As she has done many times this primary season, Marsh drummed up another lie with which to bash a Democratic candidate who dares to challenge Hillary Clinton.
Adding to the already long list of lies she has promulgated on her radio program and on her blog, Marsh, on Wednesday, took this story from the Las Vegas Sun...
Incident at Paris Las Vegas (UPDATED)
... about a claim by two union Clinton supporters that a co-worker had been intimidated into supporting Obama — even though the co-worker denied she had been intimidated — and turned it into something much larger and far more sinister...
Culinary Union Intimidating Members to Vote for Obama.
The only problem: once again, Marsh was lying.
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