Ending a tortured process that unveiled infighting within its ranks, the Service Employees International Union Nevada tonight endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. Former Sen. John Edwards also was in the running, and Sen. Hillary Clinton was broadly dismissed.
More details in my story in the Sun Wednesday morning.

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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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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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