Elizabeth Crum gets some internal e-mails from the casino Harrah's with a glimpse at how an outfit like that pulls out the stops:

The Reid campaign staffer, whose name was removed in the e-mail [Marybel Batjer, Harrah’s vice president of public policy and communications] sent to Harrah’s executives, said “ANYTHING” would be done to help with the company’s get-out-the-vote effort. The staffer cited the fact that 1,100 MGM employees had already voted and indicated dissatisfaction with the turnout from Harrah’s.

The staffer told Jones, senior vice president of communications and government relations, that the Reid campaign had “connected with Culinary” and that the problem was with mid-level supervisors. “They simply are not cooperating with and listening to upper management,” wrote the staffer.

The Reid staffer then indicated that the culinary union had money available for more busses to take Harrah’s employees to the polls. The Reid staffer suggests that Harrah’s execs “put a headlock on your supervisors to get them to follow through.”

The staffer also offered Sen. Reid’s personal involvement, writing, “PLEASE… PLEASE tell me how I can help. Would it help to have the senator call Gary and help give you the backing you need?”

In her e-mail to management, Harrah’s Batjer requested of her colleagues to “PLEASE do whatever we need” to communicate to company supervisors that there is “NOTHING more important than to get employees out to vote.”

She even issued an express endorsement. “Waking up to the defeat of Harry Reid Nov. 3 will be devastating for our industry’s future,” Batjer wrote