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Presidential hopefuls woo powerful union (AP)
Filed: March 23rd 2007: Democrat

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks to members of the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, at a contract rally in Las Vegas on Friday, March 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)AP - Three Democratic presidential hopefuls tried to show off their union bona fides Friday at a rally of cocktail waitresses, housekeepers and line cooks who make up the state’s largest labor union.

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