Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165, which represents 60,000 workers in Las Vegas and Reno, thinks the election is going to turn on “working class voter issues at the end of the day, and President Biden is the absolute best president of our lifetime for workers.”
The Culinary, a political powerhouse that has gotten key Democratic leaders elected through get-out-the-vote efforts, has previously endorsed Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and Gov. Kenny Guinn, but a “new breed” of Republicans are not union-friendly, while Nevada Democrats have supported workers, Pappageorge said.
He supports Trump and Republicans’ efforts to ban federal taxes on tips — which Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen signed onto — but he thinks Republicans are trying a “new shtick” to appeal to Nevada workers.
“Politicians should be speaking to working class issues, and if they do, that’s gonna, we think, make the difference in the election,” Pappageorge said.