{"id":6,"date":"2006-05-09T18:46:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T01:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-10-10T17:56:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T00:56:54","slug":"alaska-says-no-to-real-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/2006\/05\/09\/alaska-says-no-to-real-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Says &#8216;No&#8217; To REAL ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska struck the first legal blow in the fight against a national ID card by refusing to pass legislation to bring the state in line with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealid.com\/what.html\">REAL ID<\/a> requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.ak.us\/basis\/get_complete_bill.asp?session=24&#038;bill=SB189\">SB-189<\/a>, breezed through the state&#8217;s rubber stamp Senate before being killed by a duo of freedom-loving legislators in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Who are these heroes of the Bill of Rights? Front and center is <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.legis.state.ak.us\/house\/24\/SAN.php\">Rep. Paul Seaton<\/a> of Homer, a commercial fisherman and Chairman of the House State Affairs Committee.  Through his leadership and by voting against fellow Republicans, Rep. Seaton killed SB-189 and beat back a last minute attempt to resurrect the bill by his party.  The party paid him back by killing most, if not all of his own bills.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting him in fighting-off REAL ID was <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.legis.state.ak.us\/house\/24\/GRU.php\">Rep. Max Gruenberg<\/a> of Anchorage, the former House majority leader when it was under Democratic control.  Rep. Gruenberg worked across party lines to make sure that this piece of un-American legislation died on the vine.<\/p>\n<p>The Identity Project is proud to have been involved in testifying before the State Affairs Committee and providing the information needed to make sure that the oppression of a national ID card never hits the shores of the Last Frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska has said &#8216;no&#8217; to a national ID card: which other state will love freedom enough to follow in their footsteps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska struck the first legal blow in the fight against a national ID card by refusing to pass legislation to bring the state in line with REAL ID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}