Culinary Workers' Union backs Obama

Posted: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:57 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC’s Andy Merten and Domenico Montanaro
Nevada’s Culinary Workers Union officially endorsed Obama today in Las Vegas. And while the format of the press conference largely reflected your typical presidential endorsement -- praise for the other candidates with a laundry list of rationales for the ultimate choice -- there was one tidbit that stood out in this one: comparisons to, well, food.

“I have a lot of respect for those folks in Iowa and New Hampshire, but we’re not just Wonder Bread, here,” said D. Taylor, secretary treasurer of Culinary Workers Union Local 266, of Nevada and the union's racial diversity. "We’ve got pumpernickel; we got whole wheat; and we got rye.”

And Taylor couldn’t resist leaving it at just that. He went on to compare the decision to pick Obama to a trip to Baskin Robins: “Maybe you have a certain flavor you want. But you generally look around, don’t you? And you test a few.”

The union, which boasts a membership of more than 60,000, is seen as a key endorsement in Nevada, a state where there are less than 500,000 registered Democrats in the whole state and certainly not all come out for caucuses.

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present vote, present vote, present vote

no one has to explain this. the truth about the votes are easily researchable as well as explainable justifiably so. go take a look if you want to know the truth. the spin that has been put on that was stopped because the resons would have made hrs look bad when the strategy for doing so would become known. hrc has years of abstention votes in the senate for justfiable reasons. obama could have put a spin on that but chose the high road to not kneecap. we are trying to get beyond the ugly politic. why is it that some feel the need to continue the divisive ugly nature of politics that has kept our country so divided for so long? i don't get it. why must we be so ugly and apart instead of at least trying to heal this country?

ace-an independent (Sent Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:44 PM)

unions were around long before the immigrant problem began. btw, all immigrants aren't bad. just because someone is different doesn't make them bad or unwanted. unless a person is prejudice or racists.

ace-an independent (Sent Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:46 PM)

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