Unions shouldn't decide who votes
The Nevada Teachers Union, led by at least one supporter of Hillary Clinton, filed a lawsuit in hopes to ban caucuses in several hotels on the Las Vegas strip.
This came in the wake of the Nevada Culinary Workers Union endorsement of Barack Obama. The people whose votes would have been effectively vetoed by this last-minute change would have been the largely Latino and African American members of the culinary union.
On Meet the Press, Mrs. Clinton claimed she had no knowledge of this and had not read the lawsuit, but then thoroughly explained the reasoning behind it.
A third party with plausible deniability pulling all the dirty tricks? We've seen this story line before, only not by a Democrat. These tactics reek of Karl Rove.
Let me be clear. I don't blame the unions or teachers individually. Their original roles are still important. But I do blame the people in charge of these unions that think they can veto the votes of thousands of Americans because they hold a certain position of power.
That's true anti-democracy.
Chet Farley
Palatine