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11-02-2010, 04:30 PM
And the Filthy dirty business of politics continue...
http://nation.foxnews.com/harry-reid/2010/11/02/hot-air-did-harrahs-casino-pressure-employees-vote-reid
Harrah's pressure employees to vote for Harry Reidhttp://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/harrah-s-pressure-employees-to-vote-for-harry-reid
Elizabeth Crum at NRO's Battle '10 has internal e-mails from Harrah's, a major casino chain in Nevada, showing that management has been pressuring its employees to vote for Harry Reid in the Senate race. The e-mails show that supervisors had to account for their staff turnout in early voting, demanding updates and explanations for non-performance. A staffer on the Reid campaign offered to coordinate with the culinary union to provide buses to push employees to the polls:
Executives at the casino giant Harrah's pushed company employees to vote early in an all-out effort to help the Harry Reid campaign, according to internal emails obtained by Battle ‘10.
The stepped-up effort began Wednesday when a Reid staffer sent an email pleading for help to Harrah's top lobbyist, Jan Jones. Soon after, Marybel Batjer, Harrah's vice president of public policy and communications, distributed that plea via email to executives throughout the company.
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Elizabeth Crum reported today at National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/251906/collusion-harrahs-bosses-put-squeeze-employees-vote-reid-elizabeth-crum) that Harrah's casino executives pushed company employees to vote early in an all-out effort to help Harry Reid win the midterm election in Nevada.
Internal emails obtained by NRO exposed the effort, which began last Wednesday. A Reid staffer first contacted Jan Jones, a lobbyist for Harrah’s. The email was later distributed to executives throughout the company.
The tone of the email trail is clear - the Reid campaign said "anything" would be done to help in the effort.
Marybel Batjer, Harrah’s vice president of public policy and communications, encouraged other executives to make certain employees voted for Harry Reid and issued an explicit endorsement. “Waking up to the defeat of Harry Reid Nov. 3 will be devastating for our industry’s future,” Batjer wrote, according to the article at NRO.
Crum writes that:
On Friday, Western Regional President Tom Jenkin sent out a follow-up email showing a total vote count for Harrah’s properties along with the percentages of employees who had voted at each property. Attached to the email was a spreadsheet showing employee names and at which property they worked. Supervisors were asked to fill in codes explaining why their employees had not yet voted.
The Harrah's employee who provided the information requested anonymity, and expressed fears of reprisal. According to Crum:
“We were asked to talk to people individually to find out why they had not yet voted and to fill in these spreadsheets explaining why,” the employee said. “I did not feel comfortable doing that.”
“It put me in a very awkward position,” the employee added, saying the level of coordination between Harrah’s upper management, the culinary union, and the Reid campaign was “disgusting.”
Election officials encouraged anyone who believed election laws had been violated should file a complaint.
The entire email chain is available here as a PDF (http://watchdogmedia.org/national/Harrahs/Harrahs_Early_Vote_Email_trail_110210.pdf) file.
Brian Faughnan writes at Liberty Central (http://www.libertycentral.org/harrahs-pushes-employees-to-vote-for-reid-2010-11) that:
Jones (http://investor.harrahs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84772&p=irol-govBio&ID=144675) is the former Mayor of Las Vegas, and “has held senior positions with the Nevada state arm of the Democratic National Committee.” Her willingness to pressure her employer to pull out all the stops to help Reid would not be a surprise.
Harry Reid is locked in a tight race to stay in the Senate, and this incident is just one more reason voters in Nevada should send Sharron Angle to the Senate.
http://nation.foxnews.com/harry-reid/2010/11/02/hot-air-did-harrahs-casino-pressure-employees-vote-reid
Harrah's pressure employees to vote for Harry Reidhttp://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/harrah-s-pressure-employees-to-vote-for-harry-reid
Elizabeth Crum at NRO's Battle '10 has internal e-mails from Harrah's, a major casino chain in Nevada, showing that management has been pressuring its employees to vote for Harry Reid in the Senate race. The e-mails show that supervisors had to account for their staff turnout in early voting, demanding updates and explanations for non-performance. A staffer on the Reid campaign offered to coordinate with the culinary union to provide buses to push employees to the polls:
Executives at the casino giant Harrah's pushed company employees to vote early in an all-out effort to help the Harry Reid campaign, according to internal emails obtained by Battle ‘10.
The stepped-up effort began Wednesday when a Reid staffer sent an email pleading for help to Harrah's top lobbyist, Jan Jones. Soon after, Marybel Batjer, Harrah's vice president of public policy and communications, distributed that plea via email to executives throughout the company.
This includes dozens of Harran's Entertainment Casinos/Hotels:
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EMAIL Info:
Elizabeth Crum reported today at National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/251906/collusion-harrahs-bosses-put-squeeze-employees-vote-reid-elizabeth-crum) that Harrah's casino executives pushed company employees to vote early in an all-out effort to help Harry Reid win the midterm election in Nevada.
Internal emails obtained by NRO exposed the effort, which began last Wednesday. A Reid staffer first contacted Jan Jones, a lobbyist for Harrah’s. The email was later distributed to executives throughout the company.
The tone of the email trail is clear - the Reid campaign said "anything" would be done to help in the effort.
Marybel Batjer, Harrah’s vice president of public policy and communications, encouraged other executives to make certain employees voted for Harry Reid and issued an explicit endorsement. “Waking up to the defeat of Harry Reid Nov. 3 will be devastating for our industry’s future,” Batjer wrote, according to the article at NRO.
Crum writes that:
On Friday, Western Regional President Tom Jenkin sent out a follow-up email showing a total vote count for Harrah’s properties along with the percentages of employees who had voted at each property. Attached to the email was a spreadsheet showing employee names and at which property they worked. Supervisors were asked to fill in codes explaining why their employees had not yet voted.
The Harrah's employee who provided the information requested anonymity, and expressed fears of reprisal. According to Crum:
“We were asked to talk to people individually to find out why they had not yet voted and to fill in these spreadsheets explaining why,” the employee said. “I did not feel comfortable doing that.”
“It put me in a very awkward position,” the employee added, saying the level of coordination between Harrah’s upper management, the culinary union, and the Reid campaign was “disgusting.”
Election officials encouraged anyone who believed election laws had been violated should file a complaint.
The entire email chain is available here as a PDF (http://watchdogmedia.org/national/Harrahs/Harrahs_Early_Vote_Email_trail_110210.pdf) file.
Brian Faughnan writes at Liberty Central (http://www.libertycentral.org/harrahs-pushes-employees-to-vote-for-reid-2010-11) that:
Jones (http://investor.harrahs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84772&p=irol-govBio&ID=144675) is the former Mayor of Las Vegas, and “has held senior positions with the Nevada state arm of the Democratic National Committee.” Her willingness to pressure her employer to pull out all the stops to help Reid would not be a surprise.
Harry Reid is locked in a tight race to stay in the Senate, and this incident is just one more reason voters in Nevada should send Sharron Angle to the Senate.