NV-SD11: On the Record: Senate District 11 candidates Dallas Harris (D) and Lori Rogich (R)

Democrats’ path to a supermajority in the Senate could run through a swingy southwestern Las Vegas Senate district, where a wealthy education advocate with deep family ties to Republican politicians is challenging an incumbent seeking her second full term.

The path to victory for Sen. Dallas Harris (D-Las Vegas) is complicated by the fact that the Culinary Union — a longtime force for getting Democrats elected — withdrew its endorsement of her and other sitting legislators because of their support for a bill ending a statutory mandate that hotel rooms be cleaned each day, and instead endorsed her Republican opponent, Lori Rogich.

The swing district is located in a fast-growing area of the southwestern Las Vegas Valley, bounded by the 215 Beltway, Interstate 15 and Durango Drive. Registered Democratic voters (30 percent) outnumber registered Republican voters (25 percent), but nonpartisans make up a plurality of the district with nearly 38 percent of voters.

Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, said the union endorsed Rogich “because she is a better candidate.” He also cited Harris’ votes in 2023 against the union's efforts to introduce a state lottery, the room cleaning mandate and a union-backed public financing plan to support the establishment of a stadium for the Oakland Athletics in Las Vegas



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