If you don’t build it, they won’t come: Construction workers won’t work on Ground Zero mosque
A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing not to work on the mosque planned near Ground Zero.
Remember the Reagan Democrats? That’s what they called groups of traditional Democrat voters who voted for Ronald Reagan. Union workers, for example, voted for Reagan and against Democrats en masse.
That may be what we’re seeing the beginnings of as a result of the Ground Zero mosque controversy.
The New York Daily News has the details:
Hard hats are going to make it hard to build the Ground Zero mosque
A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing not to work on the mosque planned near Ground Zero.
“It’s a very touchy thing because they want to do this on sacred ground,” said Dave Kaiser, 38, a blaster who is working to rebuild the World Trade Center site.
“I wouldn’t work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11,” Kaiser said.
The grass-roots movement is gaining momentum on the Internet. One construction worker created the “Hard Hat Pledge” on his blog and asked others to vow not to work on the project if it stays on Park Place.
“Thousands of people are signing up from all over the country,” said creator Andy Sullivan, a construction worker from Brooklyn. “People who sell glass, steel, lumber, insurance. They are all refusing to do work if they build there.”
“Hopefully, this will be a tool to get them to move it,” he said. “I got a problem with this ostentatious building looming over Ground Zero.”
Can’t wait to hear Democrats say that those damn construction workers are nothing but racists. Or maybe Nazis. Or maybe both.
