Think Progress: Details of how Sanders campaign tried to infiltrate the NV Culinary Union.
How Bernie Sanders’ Campaign ‘Disappointed And Offended’ Nevada’s Most Powerful UnionReports surfaced Thursday alleging that campaign employees of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had posed as hotel workers on the Las Vegas Strip in order to preach to members of the Culinary Union — one of the biggest and most politically influential unions in the key early caucus state.
The Culinary Union confirmed the reports, telling ThinkProgress in a statement that the campaign’s actions left them “disappointed and offended.”
“It’s completely inappropriate for any campaign to attempt to mislead Culinary Union members, especially at their place of work,” said the union’s Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Arguello-Kline. “We strongly condemn anyone falsifying their affiliation with the Culinary Union in order to gain access to properties and we will cooperate with casinos and hotels so that this matter is fully resolved.”
Sanders campaign workers visited four unionized hotels, The Rio, Paris, The Mirage and Planet Hollywood, and by wearing the union’s iconic yellow button, accessed employee dining rooms to speak with and give Sanders literature to workers.
The Sanders campaign did not respond to inquires from ThinkProgress about the incident.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/01/28/3743961/sanders-nevada-union
This is not just volunteers or over-zealous supporters. This is campaign employees. It is an official action. Has the Sanders campaign done this in other states or with other unions? Who gave the order to dress up like union members? Do the ends justify the means?
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Just wait until the robber baron "job creators" hear about this!
and you failed to mention that, so cut it out! 
But we like to talk about these things. 
I've heard...
The shit you can find about Hillary on Google....KAPOW!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/28/1476517/-Flashback-2008-HRC-Group-Tries-to-Disenfranchise-NV-Culinary-Union-by-Removing-Caucus-Sites
Those buttons are in no way anything like a membership card, not a lanyard, not ID, they're buttons saying we support the union, which I'm certaiin the Sanders supporters do, Bernie is all about labor.
I read the article and the background article (https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/sanders-workers-are-masquerading-culinary-members-campaign-inside-hotels), saw nothing more than this.
I can understand the union not wanting their lunch area turned into a venue for campaign canvassing. But wearing those yellow lapel union buttons is not impersonating a union employee, not even close.
Also apparently the Clintons did the same or worse in 2008, shocked I am.
Or maybe you prefer the more web-friendly five star (or egg) scale?
What is the plot? What caper did they have planned? 
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Source: CNN
By Dan Merica
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Nevada's powerful Culinary Union and the Bernie Sanders campaign say they've resolved their issues after a kerfuffle earlier Thursday had the group at odds with the Vermont senator's presidential operation in a key early voting state.
The union had accused Bernie Sanders' campaign staffers of posing as union workers in an attempt to gain access to their members, a charge the Sanders campaign denied.
The union and Sanders campaigners later said the issue, which was first reported by Ralston Reports' Jon Ralston, had been settled.
Snip: Culinary has long been at the center of the Nevada caucuses. The union endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, a race where Clinton campaign staffers were accused of trying to infiltrate various casinos and resorts in Las Vegas.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/bernie-sanders-union-nevada-culinary-union/index.html
