Good For The Teachers

A group of Nevada teachers are calling on their leadership to stop trying to disenfranchise union hotel workers and stop their lawsuit challenging the at-large precincts at Vegas casinos.

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.

Hillary Clinton could put a stop to this with one phone call.

(And in the interest of balance, let me praise Senator Clinton for saying that no woman is illegal, which is absolutely correct. Calling people illegal is giving in to right-wing language and makes it easier to demonize.)

UPDATE: Voter suppression in South Carolina, too, though it's coming directly from the state and not a particular campaign.