Kitchen-table, bread-and-butter issues will be first and foremost with Latino voters, as with all Americans.

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"We are still in two cups but the bread and butter is the SPL. We just about used all our first-team players today, " he said.

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The first arises from the fact that getting a candidate elected is not all that different from doing the bread-and-butter business of union life.

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