Culinary Local 226, Mi Familia Vota and Latino Elected Officials Oppose the Laxalt-Trump Agenda for 2022

Following Donald Trump’s endorsement of Adam Laxalt last week, Latino leaders from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, Mi Familia Vota – Nevada, and Latino elected officials announced they would work together to defeat Laxalt, highlighting his embrace of Trump, and his job-killing, anti-worker, anti-immigrant agenda.

At a press conference in Las Vegas, local Latino leaders made clear that supporting Adam Laxalt is a vote for Donald Trump and reminded voters that in the first week of his campaign for U.S. Senate, Adam Laxalt repeatedly attacked the historic jobs and infrastructure bill that would support thousands of jobs in Nevada.

Read key excerpts from KLAS 8’s reporting of yesterday’s press conference below or see Univision’s Spanish-language coverage, HERE: 

• Leaders of the Culinary Workers Union, Mi Familia Vota and elected leaders called out Republican U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt on Tuesday, saying voting for him is a vote for former President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Trump endorsed Laxalt, who is running against Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

• “We know he doesn’t care about Nevada. He doesn’t care about anything,” Geoconda Argüello-Kline, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, said. “The only thing he cares about is to please Donald Trump.”

• Members of the Culinary Union and elected leaders in the Latino community hit Laxalt on his stance against the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

• “Out the gate, Laxalt would attack something that is going to bring billions of dollars to this state, that’s going to go to the very kids we’ve been working with,” Democratic Assem. Edgar Flores, of District 28, said.

• Laxalt told 8 News Now he does not support the $1 trillion infrastructure plan, because he said it would add to the nation’s debt. While specifics have not been released, the plan is expected to bring billions of dollars and new jobs to Nevada.

• Laxalt, who worked as Trump’s Nevada campaign chair, said if he had been in the Senate when Republicans passed the president’s tax cuts, he would have voted “yes.” However, he stressed he did not know the specifics of the law.

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