The Clintons have so far refused to call off their surrogates that have pushed forward this suit to take away caucus sites from workers because their union endorsed Obama. In fact, Bill Clinton is actively supporting the effort to strip these workers of their voice:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
The Clinton campaign is being run by a union-busting mercenary, Mark Penn:
On June 6, in response to Berman's story, Teamster president James Hoffa and UNITE HERE president Bruce Raynor sent a letter to Clinton about Penn, expressing their "distress" over his firm's role in "the effort to undermine workers right to organize at Cintas, a campaign our unions are involved in, [which] is particularly disheartening." Their letter went on to say that they "do not want to see you or the Democratic Party embarrassed. We look forward to hearing back from you on this matter." Other labor leaders, such as AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Service Employees International Union president Andrew Stern, have privately told the Clinton campaign of their misgivings about Penn.
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When Bill was president, Penn and other anti-labor lobbyists were given more policy input than Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Upon securing labor's blessing, Clinton accused President George H.W. Bush of "sucker-punching" American workers and pledged a "common commitment" to the "forgotten middle class." Those words soon rang hollow, as Clinton's presidency confirmed labor's worst suspicions. Clinton scrapped an economic stimulus package in favor of balancing the budget, appointed Wall Street bankers like Robert Rubin and Roger Altman to top positions in the Cabinet and ferociously twisted arms to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and subsequent trade pacts. Bill and Hillary Clinton rejected single-payer healthcare reform in favor of a complicated "managed care" plan meant to appease the private sector and only tepidly supported a strikers' bill of rights, which failed to pass Congress. He named a good progressive, Robert Reich, as Labor Secretary but gave decision-making power affecting labor and the economy to Rubin and Altman and, later, political strategists Dick Morris and Mark Penn. By 1996 Reich had resigned, accusing Clinton of selling out.
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Mark Penn is Hillary's brain, her Karl Rove. She can't distance herself from Bill on this one. There will be a backlash among low-income voters when they learn that the Clintons let their surrogates try to take workers' voices away by taking away their caucus sites. Hopefully that backlash will lead to more voters becoming more informed on these issues.
The strategy of the Clinton campaign is to spin Obama's actual and potential wins in Iowa, SC, and Nevada as brought on by something other than his strength as a candidate. In Iowa it was the attack on eligible student voters, particularly craven since Hillary's UI Students for Hillary co-chair was herself from Illinois. Now we have the crap we've seen this past week.
Let's all be very clear that this isn't teachers vs culinary workers. It's a small handful of Clinton surrogates not rank and file teachers that are responsible for this. Teachers have actually raised their voices against this tactic of trying to shut down caucus sites to shut up workers:
"This lawsuit is all about politics," the teachers' letter reads. "It's widely known that many of our union's top officials support Senator Clinton and now that the Culinary Workers Union has endorsed Senator Obama, they're using our union to stop Nevadans from caucusing for Senator Obama."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
The culinary workers decided to endorse Obama based on his track record of supporting workers.
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When that endorsement came down, they became invisible to Clinton.