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Las Vegas Review-Journal • Nevada’s Largest Newspaper • Vol. 111, Issue 327 • $3
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and husband former President Bill Clinton celebrate with supporters during a victory party Saturday at Caesars Palace. Hillary Clinton
won Nevada’s Democratic caucus by about 6 percentage points over Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. JEFF SCHEID/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL FOLLOW @JLSCHEID
Nevada points to Clinton
Democrats defy caucus chaos
to side with Clinton, feel the Bern
Early ground game pays off
with boost for former first lady
“Some may have doubted
us, but we never doubted
evada gave Hill- each other.”
By Ben Botkin
Las Vegas Review-Journal Staff
Las Vegas Review-Journal
N
ary Clinton the
lift she needed to
surge ahead in the
Democratic presidential race
Saturday.
“Some may have doubted
us, but we never doubted each
other,” Clinton told supporters gathered at Caesars Palace
on the day she won the state’s
caucus by about 6 percentage
points.
Earlier she reached out to
her supporters in a tweet: “To
everyone who turned out in
every corner of Nevada with
— Hillary Clinton
More inside
determination and heart: This
is your win. Thank you. -H”
Clinton easily beat Bernie
Sanders 53 percent to 47
percent statewide, with 92
percent of precincts reporting. Her much-needed win
in the third early voting state
for Democrats came after she
narrowly won the Iowa caucus
SEE CLINTON, A17
Jeb Bush suspends
presidential bid. A4
Super PAC spending
avoids attacks on
Trump. A4
Candidate plays fill-inthe-blanks with voters.
A15
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In the heart of the Strip at
Caesars Palace, hundreds of
culinary workers and other
Strip employees convened at
six sites set up to allow them
to break away from their jobs
and participate in the Democratic presidential caucus
Saturday.
Nearly 300 people lined
up at Caesars well before the
noon caucus. Chants of “I’m
with her” from Clinton supporters rang through the hall
leading up to the ballroom,
with “Feel the Bern” shouted
in response.
Uniformed housekeepers,
cooks and front desk clerks
alike joined together, breaking from their work routine of
serving tourists on the Strip
to caucus for Bernie Sanders
or Hillary Clinton.
Foreshadowing her victory
statewide, Clinton’s support
was decisive — 190 supporters to 81 for Sanders in a
Latino-heavy diverse caucus.
The oldest caucus-goer
was likely Sherman Uchill,
82, who works part-time at
an Apple store.
Uchill first voted in 1956
for presidential candidate
Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat
SEE SUPPORT, A18
BATTLE OF BUNKERVILLE
Papers show BLM made tactical errors
More inside
Sandra Anderson, 47,
one of the final four
militants arrested in the
armed occupation of a
federal wildlife refuge in
Oregon, was granted a
pretrial release from jail
on Friday on condition
that she avoid contact
with her co-defendants.
SEE PAGE A6
Lawyer says agents
underestimated
group’s strength
By Jeff German
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Bureau of Land Management lost the Battle of
Bunkerville to Cliven Bundy
and his armed militia even
before it began.
NATION
Court documents charging
the defiant rancher, two of his
sons and others in the April
12, 2014, armed showdown
near the family’s ranch show
that the BLM erred by putting
its rangers in a “dangerously
exposed” tactical position.
The federal forces made
what military tacticians
consider classic mistakes in
the annals of armed conflict:
They gave up the high ground
NEVADA
to the opposition while
underestimating the strength
of Bundy’s 200-strong force.
The BLM’s mistakes are
now playing into the government’s theory in the
extortion and assault case
against Bundy and his sons,
Ammon and Ryan, according
to Kathleen Bliss, a former
longtime federal prosecutor.
BUSINESS
SEE ERRORS, A16
A militia member is shown pointing his rifle at federal
agents in this photo posted to Facebook during the April
2014 standoff between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy
and the Bureau of Land Management. REUTERS FILE
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South Carolina goes
to Trump; Rubio No. 2
No blowing down
this woman’s house
Moulin Rouge site
shows signs of life
Local woman first
to finance mosque
Donald Trump rolled to victory
in the South Carolina primary on
Saturday, and the Republican field
was trimmed to five candidates
when Jeb Bush announced he was
suspending his campaign. A2
Kim Bozarth, a divorced mother
of four grown children, decided
in 2012 to reinvent herself, so the
55-year-old moved from Reno
to Big Smoky Valley and built a
home from bales of straw. B1
A property transaction could
be coming soon for the Moulin
Rouge, the fire-ravaged historic
site on East Bonanza Road that
hosted the country’s first racially
integrated hotel-casino in 1955. D1
Sharaf Haseebullah achieved “a
lifetime dream ... a final accomplishment” when she opened
Masjid Ibrahim, a mosque on
North Jones Boulevard that she
also financed. F1
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