# I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 12, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943 "2012-06-12T19:15:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/6252 "2014-09-28T18:22:17Z")

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> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> If I linked to a webpage of a group that claimed to want to force all women in the USA to be artificially inseminated with Barack Obama’s sperm, you should obviously immediately be suspect. If I linked to a page for a group claiming some slightly kooky and legally unsupported gun control belief, you might well believe it fairly uncritically because (in your view, I assume) there are plenty of groups that have various beliefs about gun control legalities. If this fake one is 5% kookier than any actual group, then it’s pretty darn plausible.

So under this tracking system, please rate my linking to and posting a quote from WAFF TV (not a Fox affiliate) concerning non-union electrical crews being turned away. I said:

> [@Look for the union label](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-for-the-union-label/639644/1):
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> Another example of the ill-effects that come from powerful unions.
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> > [@](#):
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> > The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews from Huntsville Utilities learned they’ll be doing work in Long Island, New York instead of in New Jersey.
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> > Crews from Huntsville, as well as Decatur Utilities and Joe Wheeler out of Trinity headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can’t do any work there since they’re not union employees.
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> > The crews that are in Roanoke, Virginia say they are just watching and waiting even though they originally received a call asking for help from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
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> > The crews were told to stand down. In fact, Moore said the crew from Trinity is already headed back home.
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> When a union’s territory is so jealously guarded that non-union help is refused even under these circumstances, the union influence is not benign. It’s toxic.

Was that “pretty damn plausible,” or “immediately suspect?”

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