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**NOVEMBER 02, 2022**
Can the Hotel Workers' Union Save the Democrats?
BY HAROLD MEYERSON
In Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, the union has been talking to
voters about progressive fixes to inflation for months, when Democrats
didn't know what to say.
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), center, meets with members of the
Culinary Workers Union, Local 226 of UNITE HERE, October 8, 2022, in Las
Vegas.
"It doesn't work when our members knock on doors and start talking
about the candidates," says Gwen Mills, the secretary-treasurer of
UNITE HERE, the union of hotel employees.
This isn't that hard to understand. The people who answer those
doors-particularly in Las Vegas, which has seen more television and
social media political advertising this year than perhaps any other
city-have had it with the relentless, inescapable talk about the
candidates. If precinct walkers introduce themselves by saying they've
come to talk about some estimable office seeker, they're all but
certain to be greeted by a look of horror and a closing, if not slammed,
door.
UNITE HERE members get this; they've walked the walk. In 2020, when
COVID compelled most campaigns to forgo canvassing and rely on the
phones for voter outreach, UNITE HERE already had special protective
gear and protocols devised for its members who'd had to keep working
in hotels. Donning that gear and observing those protocols, they
proceeded to walk more precincts than any other organization
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on the Democratic side of the ledger that year. Talking to well over a
million voters in Vegas, Reno, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, they
played a key role in Joe Biden's victory and in the Democrats winning
control of the Senate.
This year, they have even more members knocking on doors than they did
two years ago. And by listening to people on their doorsteps, they
concluded well before most Democratic campaigns that they had to talk
about people's primary concern: the soaring cost of living
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alternative funders establish a non-Elonized forum. BY HAROLD MEYERSON
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