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Davisburg trucker turned away in NYC after hauling power transformers
the oakland press ^ | november 3, 2012 | dave phillips

Posted on 11/03/2012 1:53:07 PM PDT by lowbridge

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it seems to be pretty clear that residents of New York City and the surrounding areas could use all the help they can get.

However, a Davisburg man said some people in the area are more interested in “protecting their turf” than in distributing those supplies to the masses.

Mike James, an independent trucker, said he and three other truckers were told to haul a load of transformers to the city to replace equipment anticipated to be lost in the storm.

James, two men from Holly and a Flint man arrived in the city Tuesday night and slept in their trucks before attempting to deliver the 144 transformers to emergency workers.

When they arrived Wednesday, they were turned away by Con Edison employees because they were not union workers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloominidiots; fema; hurricanesandy; idiots; katrina; sandy; union; unions
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ummm, why do you sympathize with them? After all, it was the good citizens of NY who voted in closed shop labor laws. Reap the whirlwind, something like that.....


61 posted on 11/03/2012 2:45:27 PM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: Morris70

Pennsylvania also lost power.
Something tells me there never was any transformers.


62 posted on 11/03/2012 2:45:53 PM PDT by Morris70
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To: lowbridge

“Anything they need, we will be there. And we’re going to cut through red tape. We’re not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules.”

—Barack Obama


63 posted on 11/03/2012 2:47:34 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: txhurl

The local lefty rag had an article about the power line workers from Alabama who were turned away by the ConEd/IBEW people in NY. The NYT-bylined article lied about what happened and said that the people from Alabama “weren’t turned away, they simply misunderstood what the NYConEd/IBEW employees were telling them.”


64 posted on 11/03/2012 2:47:59 PM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: lowbridge

If folks sit in a dark, cold house long enough, MAYBE, just maybe they will put the blame where it really belongs.


65 posted on 11/03/2012 2:49:17 PM PDT by teletech (Say NO to RINOS!)
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To: jazzlite

Unions are organized crime. But the Mafia has more scruples, in comparison.


66 posted on 11/03/2012 2:50:05 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ("0bummer's a towering figure" - even a Garden Gnome casts a long shadow at sunset.)
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To: RightWingConspirator

They want the relief workers to pay union dues for the privelege of helping


67 posted on 11/03/2012 2:50:08 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morris70

Morris70—Lurker???
Member Since Sep 16, 2012


68 posted on 11/03/2012 2:50:57 PM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: combat_boots

All the people in NY and NJ without power can get together for tomorrows NFL game from E Rutherford NJ...Giants game starts at 4:25PM....Just look at all of those bright lights lighting the field for 3 hours!


69 posted on 11/03/2012 2:54:02 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: null and void

I know. But I did.lol


70 posted on 11/03/2012 2:54:49 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Somewhere today I read where Bloomberg refused the assistance of the national guard, indicating they would better be used elsewhere as the NYPD could handle the situation. (I am unable to locate the link just now...)


71 posted on 11/03/2012 2:56:33 PM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: lowbridge
"...they were turned away by Con Edison employees because they were not union workers."

Well, didn't mayor Michael Bloomberg set the tone by turning away the National Guard?

72 posted on 11/03/2012 2:57:02 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: lowbridge
Some of these stories are nearly unbelievable.
People need to get pitchforks, torches and start chasing their thug masters away.
73 posted on 11/03/2012 2:57:50 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: jazzlite

Are these of the same union who refused to plow the streets in the blizzard a couple of years ago?

People filmed the union-member-driven snow plows going up and down the street with their plows raised, not touching the snow.

IIRC, people died when ambulances couldn’t get through the snow covered streets.

Nothing ever happened to those POS and these POS won’t be touched either.

I wonder how many people in need support their local govt votewise and support the way that unions do business.


74 posted on 11/03/2012 3:01:02 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: lyby

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/44/all_martysnubbed_2012_11_02_bk.html

http://www.longislandfirearms.com/forum/topic/49860-bloomberg-says-no-to-national-guard-because-they-carry-guns/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2012/11/03/thursday-report-bloomberg-wouldnt-let-guard-brooklyn-over-their-possessi


75 posted on 11/03/2012 3:03:10 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
What you said IS the truth, and not from anger. It's obvious to anyone with a thinking, functioning, cogent brain. That leaves a lot of Americans - who only care about their "0bamaphones", "Dancing With The Stars", "American Idol", 60" Plasma TVs, $800 Nike® Air Jordans, EBT Cards and weekly welfare checks - out of it.
76 posted on 11/03/2012 3:04:09 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ("0bummer's a towering figure" - even a Garden Gnome casts a long shadow at sunset.)
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To: lowbridge

Let the bastards starve, freeze or die from thirst, you got what you deserve.


77 posted on 11/03/2012 3:05:21 PM PDT by saturn
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To: lowbridge

The folks most affected by union petulance aren’t aware of this turf nonsense since they don’t have power, they aren’t reading the web or watching tv (if it’s being reported at all).

An expose complete with a running list of these incidents should be prepared and released in a coordinated manner online once power is restored.


78 posted on 11/03/2012 3:05:44 PM PDT by wtd
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To: lowbridge

It’s funny how “unionized or union dues employees” forget that they are not “union employees”, they are in fact company employees. It is not the union that pays their salary, it is the company that pays their salary and it is the union that, because they think they are entitled to it, takes some of their salary in dues as well as penalties if they don’t obey their union overseer and hold signs for the unions choice of candidate.


79 posted on 11/03/2012 3:06:13 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: griswold3

I guess you might consider it comforting to know that New Yorkers are as bone head stupid as folks in New Orleans.


80 posted on 11/03/2012 3:10:08 PM PDT by norton
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