Las Vegas Sun: Obama Wins Endorsement of SEIU Nevada

[flpoljunkie]

January 08, 2008

Obama wins endorsement of SEIU Nevada

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of the Nevada chapter of the Service Employees International Union, union officials said.

The influential union claims to represent 17,500 health care and county workers in Nevada. Its executive board approved the decision in a conference call Tuesday night, shortly after the Illinois senator finished a close second behind Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

SEIU President Vicky Hedderman said she believes Obama is a candidate "who could take the campaign all the way through November."

Nevada's Jan. 19 caucus is the next major Democratic nomination contest. Under union rules, the endorsement allows SEIU locals in other states to lend resources and volunteers to its Nevada counterpart on behalf Obama.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2008/jan/08/010810135.html

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2008/jan/08/010810135.html

[goldcanyonaz]

1. Nice.

[RoadRage]

2. Alright..

The sun does shine the next day - my husband was right afterall. ;)

GObama!

[Adelante]

3. Good news

Thanks :)

[Cha]

9. Just when we

needed it!

[babylonsister]

4. Rec'd with shock. Good for Obama! nt

[Cha]

6. Have you read this?

It personally helped me got to bed last night and wake up today:)

Nashuaadvocate called it..
snippet~
]Conclusion: Any sort of fair analysis of today would lead one to conclude Obama is every bit as strong now as he ever was, and (as his "concession" speech once again emphasizes) is ten thousand times more inspiring and uplifting and articulate than Hillary will ever be. If you saw Barack's speech tonight, which apparently was not scripted, you'll conclude he's an even better speaker--perhaps an ever better politician--than Bill Clinton. I expect Obama will still get the endorsement of the Culinary Workers' Union in Nevada, and thus win that union's 15,000 votes and the Nevada caucuses. I expect he'll win in South Carolina as well, provided African-American voters there don't wrongly take from New Hampshire the lesson that white people won't vote for black people, as a) that's manifestly not so, and b) it's a tragedy, and a terrible irony, that (by all accounts) it is precisely this fear which has suppressed the black vote for Obama in the South thus far.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4005987

I read last night on DU that Obama wouldn't get this.

[babylonsister]

10. I'm shocked because from what I'd read, they were going to

back the 'winner' of NH. I'm NOT shocked they picked the best candidate! ;) Thanks for this encouragement!

[Adelante]

12. Apparently it was between Obama and Edwards

Clinton wasn't considered. (Or so I read on Politico.)

[Cha]

14. Oh, I didn't know this

about "Picking the winner" part. I just thought it was kinda up in the air and since Obama lost NH last night people thought he wouldn't get it now.

Evidently those people are wise beyond their years:)

[Adelante]

16. Because it was so close

If Obama had come in back with Edwards, they might have endorsed Clinton or nobody until there was a nominee.

[Cha]

21. It was close..2%(?)

And all those other votes that went to "change candidates" that just might have gone to Obama.

[Adelante]

24. It's looking like it will end at 2.5%, which is very respectable

Yeah, well, you know how that goes. I'm not convinced anyway that Clinton wouldn't have pulled many of those "change candidate" votes, judging from the racism on DU coming from that area. But while that's not clear to me, I do think Obama would have come out ahead.

[Cha]

25. I just got off the phone with

my son over on Kauai and he mentioned the "2%" , too. He's so encouraging for me cause he just does the usual m$$$m conduits for news and he sees right through hillary and I can actually talk to him about all of this.

And he's right over there in Obamaland! B-)

Their caucus is Feb 19th..



http://hawaiiforobama.org/

[Colobo]

5. Gobama!

[Cha]

7. Feeling better?

Obama can win!

[truebrit71]

11. Much better!!! Thanks!!!

That IS good news...VERY good news indeed!!!

[Cha]

8. Thanks FPJ!

This was predicted last night by the nashuaadvocate in his analysis of why Obama lost NH.

Of course Rec'd!~

[mrgorth]

13. Thank God!

>:(

[Cha]

15. mrgorth

I haven't seen you in a long while~ We can still do this!

[Bullet1987]

17. GOBAMA!!!

[mrgorth]

19. ABH

She can't win.

[Cha]

22. For lots of

reasons I feel the same..hope you stay around during the primaries with your much valued support:) :patriot: :patriot:

GObama and Dean!~

[Occam Bandage]

18. Very nice.

[GalleryGod]

20. Terrific News!

STILL...Peckin' and a-pokin'...pourin' water on the smokin'

[Drunken Irishman]

23. Well this makes one depressed Irishman feel a bit better.

But I'm still really, really down right now. :(