Nevada Spanish-Language Ad Irks Clinton Campaign
A union supporting Barack Obama is running a Spanish-language radio ad that slams Hillary Clinton over the Nevada lawsuit to bar the so-called “casino caucuses.”
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the at-large caucuses to be held in nine hotels along the Las Vegas strip is permissible since internal party decisions are not under the court’s jurisdiction. Both the Nevada Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee last year signed off on the plan to give hotel employees the opportunity to go vote Saturday while they are at work.
A translation of the negative ad by labor group Unite Here says:
“Hillary Clinton does not respect our people. Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people to vote this Saturday — that is an embarrassment.
“Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from voting in their workplace on Saturday. This is unforgivable. Hillary Clinton is shameless. Hillary Clinton should not allow her friends to attack our people’s right to vote this Saturday. This is unforgivable; there’s no respect
“Sen. Obama is defending our right to vote. Sen. Obama wants our votes. He respects our votes, our community, and our people.”
The Clinton campaign is none too happy about the ad, particularly as the Clintons have repeatedly stated they had nothing to do with the lawsuit filed by the Nevada teachers union, whose leadership is tied to the Clinton camp.
Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer accused the Obama campaign of hypocrisy for attacking labor-backed ads in Iowa “but in Nevada, he’s looking the other way as they falsely attack his opponents.”
“Senator Obama apparently has no problem with groups running ads as long as they attack others. While that’s audacious, its certainly not hopeful,” Singer said.
On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Hispanic labor leader and Clinton supporter Dolores Huerta called the ad “pathetic, and it’s sad and unfortunate that they have to stoop so low.”
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded that it’s not the campaign’s ad, and “if the Clinton campaign has questions, they should contact the union that sponsored the ad.”
He goes on to say that “it takes some chutzpah” for the Clinton campaign to complain since it has been “repeatedly launching absolutely false attacks against Senator Obama. … The fact is their camp clearly would like to have workers’ voices silenced and they need to live with that unfortunate position.”
Welcome to Florida and Michigan…I hope your vote won’t count either…..
Hillary all the way
It never ceases to amaze me that people cannot see past Obama. He put radio ads out that Clinton was trying to prevent voters in Nevada from getting to vote. Is he not doing the same thing in Michigan and Florida?
Mr. Dave asked, “Didn’t we steal the majority of the USA from Mexico?”
No, actually (check your history books), we BOUGHT the majority of our land from FRANCE. It’s often referred to as the Louisiana Purchase.
As for the land known as Texas, the USA more than once offered to buy Texas from Mexico, and was more than once turned down. Then, Texas seceded from Mexico (remember the Alamo?). After the Texans elected Sam Houston as president of the Republic of Texas, it took about TEN YEARS before Texas became a US state. Annexing Texas (as the Texans wanted) made Mexico very unhappy, and war followed. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gives the USA more than 500,000 square miles of territory, including California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, parts of Colorado and Wyoming, and agree that Texas is a US state. The USA also PAID Mexico $15 Million.
Stealing? I don’t think so! (A little intelligence is a dangerous thing!)
Clinton supporters need to stop acting like her act doesn’t stink. I for one am sick of seeing her lieing face trying to turn her mud slinging campaign into a vote.
They make all these racial comments then want to cry when they get called on them. I see clinton for what she truly is, and believe me it is not a pretty sight and i dont see anything admirable about her. I Have no doubt that Hilary is an equal opportunity mud slinger,, she would fight a dirty campaign no matter who was running against her,, Is this what we want in our whitehouse?
on another note
we as americans are taxed to death. and we as americans need to reap the benefits of all this money that we are being bleed out of. what is the goverment doing with all this money. Billions of dollars go overseas. the sales tax goes up, the tax on gasoline is obscene. property taxes are paid by property owners. but are chemical plants paying the equal rate ?. oh no, they get tax breaks so that their big fat filthy rich corporate executive can get a hugh billion dollar bonus.
one more thing…..
whats the point of these comments blogs.? The only thing they do is give hate mongoers a platform.