Harrah’s Bosses Put Squeeze on Employees to Vote in Pro-Reid Effort

[Jeremy]

Harrah’s Bosses Put Squeeze on Employees to Vote in Pro-Reid Effort - By Elizabeth Crum - Battle ?10 - National Review Online

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.

The staffer told Jones, senior vice president of communications and government relations, that the Reid campaign had “connected with Culinary” and that the problem was with mid-level supervisors. “They simply are not cooperating with and listening to upper management,” wrote the staffer.

The Reid staffer then indicated that the culinary union had money available for more busses to take Harrah’s employees to the polls. The Reid staffer suggests that Harrah’s execs “put a headlock on your supervisors to get them to follow through.”

The staffer also offered Senator Reid’s personal involvement, writing, “PLEASE… PLEASE tell me how I can help. Would it help to have the Senator call Gary and help give you the backing you need?”

In her email to management, Harrah’s Batjer requested of her colleagues to “PLEASE do whatever we need” to communicate to company supervisors that there is “NOTHING more important than to get employees out to vote.”

She even issued an express endorsement. “Waking up to the defeat of Harry Reid Nov. 3 will be devastating for our industry’s future,” Batjer wrote.

 

[VaYank5150]

Let' see, Angle is against alcohol. Harrah's sells acohol to gamblers. Can't imagine why this email, if true would be surprising to ANYONE?

 

[uscitizen]

Angle is against alcohol? How about gambling? Prostitution?

Nevada might regret their choice of angle should she win.

 

[blu]

reid has been corrupt in casinos since the day he was born. for those that don't know he was the judge presiding over di nero's case in the movie Heat during the real-life trial

 

[VaYank5150]

reid has been corrupt in casinos since the day he was born. for those that don't know he was the judge presiding over di nero's case in the movie Heat during the real-life trial

.............and the "cheating" deflections for losing a sure win seat, due to the Tea Party candidate, begins..........

 

[blu]

reid has been corrupt in casinos since the day he was born. for those that don't know he was the judge presiding over di nero's case in the movie Heat during the real-life trial

.............and the "cheating" deflections for losing a sure win seat, due to the Tea Party candidate, begins..........

how did my post have anything to do with that?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Your OP is a lie, of course

Casino executives aren't part of a union.

 

[Jeremy]

Your OP is a lie, of course

Casino executives aren't part of a union.

Duly noted.

Casino Execs, Unions, mafia, armadillos ... I get them all mixed up.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I don't see what's wrong with this. The casinos are protecting their interests - they don't want Angle to win.

There's no laws being broken, this is rather normal.

Anything for the "outrage", I guess...

 

[chanel]

Wasn't there "faux outrage" on this board about a handful of McDonalds workers being urged to vote "R"? Just sayin...

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Wasn't there "faux outrage" on this board about a handful of McDonalds workers being urged to vote "R"? Just sayin...

If a Democrat jumped off a bridge, would you do it to?

Seriously, that response didn't work in elementary school, it doesn't work now either.



Did you see me get "outraged" about it?

 

[Zoom-boing]

As long as they're not threatening to fire them if they don't vote a certain way, no biggie.

 

[Jeremy]

I work for a rather large financial institution. Would you be concerned if an email chain went around to management saying they need to push all of us to vote R?

 

[hjmick]

I don't see what's wrong with this. The casinos are protecting their interests - they don't want Angle to win.

There's no laws being broken, this is rather normal.

Anything for the "outrage", I guess...

Just like McDonald's in Ohio was looking out for it's best interest when they provided voting advice inserts with every paycheck?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I work for a rather large financial institution. Would you be concerned if an email chain went around to management saying they need to push all of us to vote R?

No.
Not unless people were threatened with being fired if they didn't vote R.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I don't see what's wrong with this. The casinos are protecting their interests - they don't want Angle to win.

There's no laws being broken, this is rather normal.

Anything for the "outrage", I guess...

Just like McDonald's in Ohio was looking out for it's best interest when they provided voting advice inserts with every paycheck?

Yes, just like that.

Except I don't see how voting R is in McDonald's best interest. But they're free to suggest whatever they like to their employees.

 

[Jeremy]

I work for a rather large financial institution. Would you be concerned if an email chain went around to management saying they need to push all of us to vote R?

No.
Not unless people were threatened with being fired if they didn't vote R.

If someone leaked the email chain to the media would you concider it news worthy?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I work for a rather large financial institution. Would you be concerned if an email chain went around to management saying they need to push all of us to vote R?

No.
Not unless people were threatened with being fired if they didn't vote R.

If someone leaked the email chain to the media would you concider it news worthy?

No. But the news media might disagree with me....

 

[hjmick]

I don't see what's wrong with this. The casinos are protecting their interests - they don't want Angle to win.

There's no laws being broken, this is rather normal.

Anything for the "outrage", I guess...

Just like McDonald's in Ohio was looking out for it's best interest when they provided voting advice inserts with every paycheck?

Yes, just like that.

Except I don't see how voting R is in McDonald's best interest. But they're free to suggest whatever they like to their employees.

Just checking.

Generally I agree that these things are pretty much non-issues, unless bosses threaten termination. But then we're back to, how would they know? Not to mention the fact that anyone who would allow themselves to be influenced to vote contrary to their conscience by tactics such as these should probably skip the process...

 

[Jeremy]

The Reid staffer then indicated that the culinary union had money available for more busses to take Harrah’s employees to the polls. The Reid staffer suggests that Harrah’s execs “put a headlock on your supervisors to get them to follow through.”

I'm going to concider that a threat of violence. Yup, that's what I'm going to do.
I'm running with that.