Edwards pursues support of labor in LV Valley swing

[Omaha Steve]

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Jan. 17, 2008
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Hopeful stresses theme of aiding middle class

By HENRY BREAN
REVIEW-JOURNAL



Nevada's largest labor organization might have endorsed the other guy, but John Edwards is the real union candidate.

That was the message Wednesday, as Edwards used a three-stop campaign swing through the Las Vegas Valley to tout his labor credentials in the final days before Nevada's presidential caucuses.

The former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate was greeted warmly at local union halls for the United Steelworkers of America and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.

Both organizations have endorsed Edwards nationally. In Nevada, the carpenters have about 12,000 members, and the steelworkers have about 2,500.

Earlier this month, Sen. Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of the state's largest union, the 60,000-member Culinary Local 226.

At all three of his events in Southern Nevada on Wednesday, Edwards, fresh from a rally in Reno, emphasized his underdog status and repeated his commitment to "lift people out of poverty and strengthen and grow the middle class."

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