Posted on 11/02/2010 9:58:55 AM PDT by jimbo123
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.
The Reid campaign staffer, whose name was removed in the email Batjer sent to Harrah’s executives, said “ANYTHING” would be done to help with the company’s get out the vote effort. The staffer cited the fact that 1,100 MGM employees had already voted and indicated dissatisfaction with the turnout from Harrah’s.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Let’s have a boycott.
I hope they all hate their bosses and vote for Angle
Union rank and file already despise their union dues being used for politics. The will likely vote their own mind when they are in the booth.
I agree with you.
Especially since so many of them are unemployed.
This is why printouts from electronic voting machines should be illegal. Otherwise an employer, union, etc. could demand that employees present their receipts after-the-fact, completely destroying the concept of the secret ballot.
Thanks for the info. Wife and I go to LV, but will NEVER go to a Harrah establishment again.
Jackson looks out over the massed lines of men in gray uniforms and concludes his address with: "Tell the president we have done so."
Yeah, they need an employer’s receipt that has just that you voted, not what you voted for.
It’s only a scandal when McDonald’s does it.
I’ve always hated Harrah’s.
I’ve been boycotting them for years.
I just called the Corporate offices in Vegas to tell then I would not be staying at any of their properties when I next go to Vegas. I mentioned the article at NRO and the emails from Reids staffers to Marybel Batjer, Harrah’s vice president of public policy and communications. The women who answered said she heard nothing about it and wasn’t pressured by anyone to vote for Reid. I asked her to see if she’s on the list they are keeping of who voted and who didn’t.
She told me people post all kinds of things on the internet that are not true. I said this was a journalist at NRO and they wouldn’t post such a charge without proof. I suggested she ask the executives at her office. Naturally she didn’t like that suggestion.
If you really want to make your objections known, call these people and give them hell.
702-407-6000
What these dimwits don’t realize is that by having the right to vote, a citizen in America also has the right NOT to vote. If they DO choose to exercise their right to vote, they also have the right to NOT BE INTIMIDATED. Harrah’s should be boycotted.
It is absolutely illegal for any emoloyer to intimidate anyone to vote in any manner whatsoever.
Harrah’s is treading on very thin ice with this kind of behavior.
Darrell Issa needs to have all these details. He is preparing subpeonas for after Nov 3rd.
I don’t have the ability to get this thread to Issa.
Can anyone do so? Thx.
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.”
Serious evidence of intimidation.
Totally not legal.
Harrah's Entertainment Inc. senior vice president for communications Jan Jones said, "Having the third-most-powerful man in America from Nevada is certainly key to our influence."
...while Democrats around the country are running into opposition from business groups, the gambling business is solidly behind Mr. Reid.
Looks like they made a bad bet.
Maybe next time they’ll tell the employees to take a cell phone into the booth and snap a photo of the screen showing who they voted for.
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