With Unite Here’s executive committee set to vote via conference call on its presidential endorsement this evening, the John Edwards campaign is sending signals the endorsement, which carries the Culinary brand name here, won’t be going its way.
Edwards’ Nevada campaign sent out an e-mail a few minutes ago with the following subject line, culled from […]

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One of Nevada’s largest unions – the Service Employees International Union – has scheduled a conference call with its executive board to discuss a potential presidential endorsement tonight at 8:30 p.m., according to several board members.
The union represents 17,500 healthcare and public sector workers in Nevada and decided last week to wait for the […]

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Despite reports that Culinary Workers Local 226 will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow morning (see Tim Russert’s unattributed pronouncement on the Today Show this morning), the 60,000-strong union of casino and hotel workers is still undecided.
In fact, no vote has taken place yet. That’s planned for 11 pm EST tonight when the executive committee […]

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The Washington Post reports Clinton’s advisers believe their first lifeline is Nevada, where pre-Iowa and pre-New Hampshire polls showed her with a big lead. But if Obama wins in New Hampshire, he will have the inside track on an endorsement from the Culinary Workers Union, which could play a significant role in a caucus process […]

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Politico.com is reporting this important bit of Nevada news:
“(A) loss in New Hampshire, coupled with Obama’s presumed strength in South Carolina, could leave Clinton without a safe harbor to catch her breath before Feb. 5. Her aides also are pessimistic about winning the support of the powerful Culinary Workers union in Nevada — a crucial […]

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The 60,000-strong union of casino and hotel workers was expected to make a presidential endorsement after the Iowa caucus, but Saturday,  the union said it will wait until after next week’s New Hampshire primary.
 A spokeswoman for the Culinary union said an announcement will come Wednesday morning. 
The delay is the result of an apparent internal disagreement between the Culinary […]

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Iowa roundup.
To start off, it’s impossible to overstate how significant last night is to American politics. And also Nevada politics (though you’ll have to wait for the Sun print edition for that analysis.) Voters in Iowa roundly rejected their respective party establishments, as noted in this New York Times analysis.
People want something different.
What […]

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The Democratic National Committee has canceled the last of its six sanctioned presidential debates, with organizers citing the ongoing strike of Hollywood television and film writers.
The debate was set to take place on Dec. 10 at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, a regular picket site for striking workers. As the New York Times notes, […]

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The Clinton campaign again adroitly sidestepped a union’s endorsement process.
The campaign announced today the endorsement of 350 teachers. (The Nevada State Education Association has about 28,000 members.) A source close to the teachers union says the union likely won’t endorse.
The Clinton campaign probably sensed this fact, and comes out with its own quasi-endorsement announcement […]

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It’s the day after Thanksgiving and things are getting intense out there. For retailers and shoppers, it’s frenzied Black Friday, launching the holiday shopping season. And the campaigns, the Los Angeles Times notes, are rushing toward a few climactic days in January that can decide the presidential race.
With the Iowa caucuses set for Jan. 3, […]

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