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Originally Posted by dissenting opinions from Las Vegas teachers
January 14, 2008
Ms. Lynn Warne, President
Nevada State Education Association
3511 East Harmon Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89121
Dear President Warne:
As teachers in Nevada, and members of the Nevada State Education Association, we are deeply dismayed that our union is trying to stop our students’ parents from caucusing on Saturday. We urge them in the strongest terms to drop this lawsuit immediately.
Many of our students are Hispanic Americans and come from low-income families. Their parents are construction workers, McDonald’s employees, and other shift workers on the strip, who work around the clock, and won’t have time to travel to their caucus locations on Saturday. That’s why the state Democratic committee set up nine at-large precinct locations on the strip – to provide nearby caucus locations for Nevadans who otherwise wouldn’t be able to caucus.
These at-large locations were approved back in March of 2007, and no one raised any concerns about them for nearly a year. But now, our union is filing a lawsuit making the baseless charge that these at-large caucus locations are discriminatory, when the fact is they were set up to make sure as many Nevadans could caucus as possible.
This lawsuit is all about politics. 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.
We never thought our union and Senator Clinton would put politics ahead of what’s right for our students, but that’s exactly what they’re doing. As teachers, and proud Democrats, we hope they will drop this undemocratic lawsuit and help all Nevadans caucus, no matter which candidate they support.
Sincerely,
Tamara Anderson, Elementary School Counselor
Monica Baldwin, 3rd grade teacher
Jodi Brant, Government teacher for 12th graders
Mari Calderon, Kindergarten teacher
Jessica Cohn, 3rd grade teacher
Ketica Guter, 3rd grade teacher
Sarah Irby, Kindergarten teacher
Padmini Jambulapati, 7th and 8th grade teacher
Tracy Kamhi, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade teacher
Jennifer Kehs, 4th grade teacher
Clara Munk, Primary Reading teacher
Matthew O’Keefe, 4th grade teacher
Frances Rabbitt, Special Education teacher
Chantae Readye, 5th grade teacher
Jessica Tolliver, 1st grade teacher
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Last edited by New City V; 01-15-2008 at 11:02 AM..
It's always instructive to see dueling Democrat politico-monsters try to eat each other. It reminds us all that beneath all their pious posturing, the Dems are just greedy power-mongers at heart....
Isn't it suspect that no one cared about this for more than half a year until TWO DAYS after Obama was endorsed by the Culinary Workers Union...Hillary, deny it all you want, but you know what you're doing ("I don't care if I win ethically or not as long as I win"...that could be her campaign slogan)
The Teachers Union supports Hillary noticeably, and that's why they oppose the 9 caucus hotel strip sites. The suit was a baloney sandwich, the teachers saying it put them at a voting power disadvanting in comparision to the culinary workers. If I'm not mistaken, most teachers don't work on saturdays and they sure don't work at night. Last time I was enrolled in college, there weren't to many Saturday night courses for the students.
The Teachers Union supports Hillary noticeably, and that's why they oppose the 9 caucus hotel strip sites. The suit was a baloney sandwich, the teachers saying it put them at a voting power disadvanting in comparision to the culinary workers. If I'm not mistaken, most teachers don't work on saturdays and they sure don't work at night. Last time I was enrolled in college, there weren't to many Saturday night courses for the students.
Nobody sees ANY problem with having open caucusing at your place of work, with your employer and union bosses openly supporting one candidate. You think that's not going to have ANY bearing on 1) whether someone decides to vote at all, or 2) who they will vote for?
Imagine you're an Edwards supporter, but your union and employer support Obama..... you're not going to feel ANY pressure to vote a certain way? It's why "caucusing" is a joke. Secret ballots are the only way to go!
For people who love to talk about "voter suppression," and intimidation, the lack of attention or understanding of the issue is amazing.
If you don't want to caucus, don't, but it is unfair if you want to participate and you're "discriminated" against.
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Sorry, bud, wrong party. 
