Bill looks terrible, doesn't he? ....AAC
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:41:22 -0500, "Patriot Games" <Patriot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/17/bill-clinton-rails-on-san-francisco-re****ter-over-question-about-nevada-caucuses-lawsuit/
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>Bill Clinton Rails on San Francisco Re****ter Over Question About Nevada
>Caucuses Lawsuit
>Thursday, January 17, 2008
>
>Bill Clinton dressed down a San Francisco re****ter Wednesday who asked
him
>about a lawsuit filed by a teachers union aiming to stop polling at Las
>Vegas hotels during this Saturday's Nevada caucuses. Using a familiar
motion
>of making a fist and facing his thumb upward to tick off points of his
>argument, Clinton heatedly claimed that San Francisco's ABC7 political
>re****ter Mark Matthews was sup****tive of a rule change approved last year
>that Clinton said would favor votes by Nevada's Strip workers over other
>Democrats' living elsewhere in the state.'You have asked the question in
an
>accusatory way, so I will ask you back, do you really believe that all
the
>Democrats understood that they had agreed to give people who worked in
the
>casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own
>precinct?" the former president said.
>
>Click here to see the KGO-ABC7 interview with Bill Clinton:
>http://www.abclocal.go.com/kgo/channel?section=news/politics&id=5755186
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>Clinton also took issue with the re****ters' suggestion that the teachers
>union, made up of many of Hillary Clinton's backers, only filed the suit
>after the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union endorsed Barack Obama.
>
>"We had nothing to do with that lawsuit. I read about it in the
newspaper,"
>said Clinton, who was in Oakland, Calif., to speak on his wife's behalf
>about the home mortgage crisis.
>
>"Get on your television station and say, "I don't care about the home
>mortgage crisis. All I care is making sure that some voters have it
easier
>than others, and that when they do vote - when it's already easier for
>them - that their votes should count five times as much.' If you want to
>take that position, get on the television and take it. Don't be
accusatory
>with me. I had nothing to do with this lawsuit."
>
>Matthews noted the state party approved the set up, and repeated the
>question about the culinary workers' endorsement impacting the decision
to
>file suit.
>
>"I'm amazed nobody like you . you should be offended by this," Clinton
>responded.
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>Nevada's caucuses come as Obama, Clinton and John Edwards are running
neck
>and neck in state polling. The vote, which will for the first time this
year
>involve a large cross-section of minority voters, is seen as a good
>indicator of where the tight Democratic presidential race could be going.
>
>According to the plan approved last March by the Nebraska Democratic
Party
>and ratified by the Democratic National Committee in August, the at-large
>caucus sites would be at any one of nine of the Strip's hotels. The goal
of
>the plan was said to give housekeepers, waitresses, bellhops, restaurant
>workers and thousands of others a chance to participate in the midday
>caucuses rather than take time off to return home to neighborhood
precincts
>or skip the vote altogether.
>
>But the lawsuit claims that the sites would give casino workers too much
say
>in choosing the 10,000 delegates to the state's presidential nominating
>convention because of a formula that assigns one delegate to every 50
>registered voters in Clark County, but uses a different ratio for those
>attending the at-large cacuses.
>
>Click here to learn the mathematical formula:
>http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/early-line/2008/jan/13/actual-impact--large-precincts/
>
>Meanwhile, unsubstantiated re****ts have been flying about fears that
>culinary union workers were being intimidated to vote for Obama. One such
>allegation was made Tuesday night during a FOX News focus group with
Frank
>Luntz following the Democratic debate in Nevada.While the individual
didn't
>elaborate, Edwards said Wednesday that he too had heard the accusations,
and
>wanted the workers to know they wouldn't be threatened by his presidency.
>
>"I heard some re****ts tonight about the possibility of their being some
>intimidation of union members to caucus for a particular candidate . and
I
>say to every union member, whether you're a member of a union that has
>endorsed me or not, nobody will fight stronger for your rights, your
right
>to organize, you're right to decent health care, good workplace
conditions,
>good pay, no one will fight stronger than I will and no one has fought
>stronger than I have for the rights of union members," Edwards said.
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