A second-floor meeting hall in the aging downtown Las Vegas headquarters of Culinary Workers Local 226 has long attracted local, state and national candidates seeking support from the influential labor group’s membership.

Oftentimes, Station Casinos is a talking point.

In November 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris, then a California senator who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, told an employee from Palace Station she wouldn’t support a bill that would give Station Casinos parent company, Red Rock Resorts, a tax break. Harris noted she wrote a letter to CEO Frank Fertitta III, expressing that sentiment.