Posted on 11/05/2010 9:29:47 AM PDT by pissant
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., may have beaten back challenger Sharron Angle and retained his post as the majority leader, but his campaign and one of his biggest supporters may have violated federal law to do so.
As National Review reported earlier this week, the Reid campaign sent a desperate e-mail to the senior vice president for government relations at Harrah's Casinos asking the company to pressure its employees to get out and vote for Reid. The campaign even offered to have Reid call Harrah's executives to help give "the backing" needed to get the company working on this.
The Reid staffer involved told Harrah's it needed to "put a headlock" on its supervisors "to get them to follow through."
This plea was distributed to senior executives throughout the company by a Harrah's vice president, Marybel Batjer. Batjer demanded that those executives "do whatever we need to do to get the supervisors to know that there is NOTHING more important than to get employees out to vote. Waking up to a defeat of Harry Reid Nov 3rd will be devastating for our industry's future."
Harrah's did just that, getting headcounts and insisting that supervisors explain why their employees had not yet voted. They also coordinated with employee unions to get buses and shuttles to take the employees to the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Obligatory Claude Reynes photo due any moment (I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked)
Googled for Harrah’s employees for Nevada.
Nationwide it’s 10,000
Las Vegas = 3,000
A scandal involving unions, a Leftist politician and a casino?!?!
Shocking! What IS the world coming to?....
;-)
You can be sure that it was not only Harrah’s that was strong-armd.
True. All Las Vegas employment is service/union related.
The gambling syndicate/employers and unions are each involved with Harry Reid in one scam or the other.
He has both cheeks covered;)
Democrats OWN the Senate and the JUST US Dept! NOTHING will happen to Reid!!
BOYCOTT HARRAH”S!!! NEVER give them another dime!
The DOJ won’t prosecute, Reid knows this.
BINGO
Hell - boycott Nevada.
Choose Arizona for vacations - they allow most forms of gambling and support the Constitution.
AMEN!!! I meant BOYCOTT ALL Harrah’s all over!!
There is no end to this because nobody does anything about it.
Dems cheat because they can. And why not? You get handed the win.
I liked enemas better. ROTFL!
Sorry, but as long as there was no control over how the workers voted, all this is is a GOTV campaign. Admittedly run by interested parties, but so what? Most GOTV campaigns are.
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