Las Vegas Sun

NVMojo's ridiculous comment about "out of state" Clinton voters is just another of the many baseless and negative attacks that have divided the Democratic Party here. Most of it is fueled, I'm sorry to say, by the Obama side in its drive to smear the Clinton side.

Some of the worst campaign tactics on Saturday come from the Obama forces, who deliberately packed the county convention floor with hundreds of "alternates" who had no business being there under party rules.

You paint Obama's camp as frugal and as the only one using other peoples' homes to house volunteers.

That is simply not true. I knew many people with the Clinton organization in Vegas and there were also many college volunteers whom retired people and others let them stay in spare rooms during the campaign here starting last year.

You all just did not do your homework for this story. Poor reporting, guys, but that's happened before in the Sun's political coverage of late.

"He pointed out that in national polls he’s beating every potential Republican nominee right now."

The same CNN poll released last weekend shows that Hillary Clinton beats every GOP candidate as well.

Bravo -- some courageous union leaders, members and backers are going public and taking on the ham-handed, self-interested Culinary Union and its bullying, mob-like tactics with its special caucus sites on the Strip that will have more than their share of convention delegates.

The Culinary is the most arrogant union local in America and goes far beyond what it claims its membership needs.

The Culinary seeks the help and support of other unions in solidarity when it needs them, yet will not give anything back and only focuses on itself. No wonder the teacher's union is fed up.

Coolican -- your comment at the end of your simplistic post said it all -- you are for Obama, aren't you?

Sorry, Sun meisters, I still don't buy your math. Six percent? Come on.

If only about 400, or 10 percent of the voters at each of the 9 Strip precincts show up, that could represent 80 delegates for each one, or (80 times 9) 720 delegates out of the about 7,200 alloted for Clark County. That's a hefty 10 percent right there.

But if the Culinary turns out just 20 percent of the voters in those Strip precincts, they could win about 1,450 delegates, or about 20 percent.

That is far and away a significant number, a magnified one that other areas of Nevada don't get.

If that proves the winning difference for Obama, you will have a big, big dispute...

Katy:

Read the R-J story today -- the woman who invented the rallying cry, "Si Se Puede," for California's union farmworkers in the 1970s, has just endorsed Clinton.

Oh, and this must be hard for you all at the Sun, which has always slavishly supported the Culinary union, since the Hank Greenspun days.

OK, you must be proud of your math calculations.

There are two (well, three) questions here that you do not answer:

1. Did the Culinary union get the Nevada State Democratic Party to increase the delegate clout of its 9 precincts on the Strip, or not, and does it?

2. Will the votes (of all people who show up Jan. 19) being counted at all of the caucus sites be totaled up together, and sent to Carson City, and the winner of the Nevada caucuses announced, based on the gross number of people voting, like was done at the Iowa caucuses?

The answers to both questions is yes. So, you cute math here is, well, just cute. Thank you.

Also, Taylor's implication -- his use of the race card -- that this would turn back "people of color," and women, rings hollow and is merely a calculated distraction. It begs the question.

He and the Culinary must answer WHY the Culinary-dominated 9 precincts on the Strip were able to be awarded 10 times the number of delegates available, compared to the hundreds of other Nevada precincts during the caucuses.

Of course that is unfair to ALL of the candidates. SOMEONE had to file a lawsuit over this.