How Clinton’s Obama Veterans In Nevada Postponed A Political Revolution
LAS VEGAS — After Iowa but before Bernie Sanders’ big win in New Hampshire, Jorge Neri picked up the phone.
The Nevada organizing director for the Clinton campaign was incensed. Staffers for Sanders’ campaign were going around saying that their campaign had cracked the code on Hispanic voters, after Sanders won the majority of precincts where Iowa’s small Hispanic population lives.
So, on a conference call with the Clinton campaign’s organizers in his state, Neri literally read the words of Erika Andiola, a top Sanders staffer and well-known activist. He told them sarcastically that the Sanders plan was to win the state by parachuting into Nevada just two weeks before and “talking to people.”
And then he told them: I want you to go out one extra hour knocking on doors tonight.
Two weeks later, Hillary Clinton won Nevada in a close but decisive win — the product of a 10-month organizing effort led by two Obama campaign veterans and 22 full-time staffers, one that entailed 1,100 one-on-one meetings with constituencies ranging from Latinos and Native Americans to rural Nevadans and veterans, all by last summer, and before Sanders had even hired a single staffer in the state.
Before Hillary Clinton took the stage to give her victory speech on Saturday, she was introduced not by one of the high-profile Latino surrogates the campaign sent to Nevada in the final days, but by Emmy Ruiz, the state director.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/how-clintons-obama-veterans-in-nevada-postponed-a-political
Great article. Emmy Ruiz's speech made me cry, too.
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Bernie...eh...not so much.
See the "revolution" was supposed to solve all this for Bernie but the millennial revolution is a bust.
Too bad, so sad. 
Thank you for posting this.
Thank you!
counteract all the lies.
I love it when I hear about Obama campaign workers helping Hlllary!
from your link.. BS strikes again.. they didn't like the endorsement of Astrid Silva for Hillary so they called it "a press hit"..
"Neri said there is no “silver bullet for Latino outreach” and noted that what he found was the least understood part of the well-publicized incident where Andiola with the Sanders campaign dismissed the endorsement of the DREAMer Silva as a “press hit.”
Excellent back story piece.. Gracias!
