Spitzer's License
Here's Senator Marty Golden with some family members of people killed on September 11th at a press conference urging Governor Spitzer not to ease requirements for getting a driver license. The issue flared up briefly during the gubernatorial campaign, with Spitzer's spokesperson telling the AP that restricting access to licenses "does nothing to improve security." Critics said that the changes would help illegal immigrants and terrorists.
With Spitzer settling into office, immigrant advocates are now wondering not if but when he'll get around to making those changes.
When one speaker was asked during the press conference today what Spitzer said that he found objectionable, he was handed a piece of paper and read a quote Spitzer made to reporters from Asian media outlets back in June:
"Change the policy. It's that simple. DMV's policies could change and they should change. I don't believe and never believed that limiting access to a drivers license which as you rightly point out is necessary to; you need a license to move to go to a job to earn an income and saying to people that we will limit the opportunity seems to me to be the worst way, a backwards way to accomplish anything."
The guy who handed him the paper, incidentally, was Bill O'Reilly (pictured above in the fedora), a consultant hired to work on this issue by the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License. O'Reilly works for the firm that consulted for John Faso in the governor's race, and seems to be making good use here of the fruits of Faso's oppo tracking.
UPDATE: Spitzer's office just issued the following statement to the Times-Union:"This is a complex issue which we are reviewing carefully. Before moving forward with any proposal we would do an exhaustive review all security related maters."-- Azi Paybarah
Marty Golden isn't in either of your pictures. Well, I guess if you were referring to his hand.
If your a State legislator and you have a lot of immigrants in your district, its a good "yes" vote; otherwise, why would you suport this bill?
Faso, Oreilly, a guinea and mc against immigrants?
Mohammed Atta had dozen of driver licenses when he was planning the 9/11 attacks.
A driver license is a universal ID that gets you anywhere -- including the White House -- and lets you rent cars and trucks, and lets you buy electronics, fuel, and all the makings of an explosive device.
In the wrong hands, a driver license is a license to commit terrorism.
Well said, 3:41PM
You can also vote and buy guns with one.
The only problem 3:41 is Atta and others thinking of harming others aren't using drivers licenses to achieve their evil goals. Sounds like more bigotry and evil misinformation by the same old right wing hood and sheet wearers.
9/11 Commission:
9/11 Commission:
Yes, the 9/11 terrorists were all here on legal status, you nit wits.
Hey 6:27, if Mohammad Atta and his friends aren't using driver licenses to achieve their evil goals ...
Why aren't the Twin Towers still there? I looked; they're gone.
Atta and his crew needed a universal ID to rent cars, lease apartments, and to enroll in flight school.
They didn't use a Library Card.
Ask Bush what happened to the twin towers. Maybe if focused on Osama instead of invading Iraq the towers would still be standing, 6:58
Why does John Quaglione look so angry?
If you are not in the U.S. legally why should you be able to get a driver's license? A driver's license is a universally recognized form of i.d. in this country. The 9/11 terrorists DID use drivers licenses to move around the country and to board the planes. This has NOTHING to do with anti-immigration. If you're not supposed to be in this country then get the hell out!
When are they taking away Marty Golden's license for doing something even more dangerous than being a foriegner?
You mental midgets, all of the 9/11 terrorists were in this country legally, now go back to your hoods, sheets and burning crosses in NJ and Satan Island.
My recollection is that the 9/11 terrorists came here on student visas, which later expired, and they remained in country after that date.
Makes them illegal.
And why would they have gotten 5 or 10 licenses apiece? Huh, that's not strange...
Some of them were on terrorist watch lists, yet they were still able to get dozens of licenses. But there's no problem here, huh?
Hey Lady Liberty, you are one left wing loon.
lady liberty, you are a left wing loon
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All the hijackers were Granted Student Visas, Along with Social Security Numbers, allowing them to get a driver's license anywere they wished, and more...
While Terrorists were granted student visas, There are Millions of students willing and capable of being doctors, lawyers, scientists, what have you...who are denied a student visa, financial aid, even the ones who manage to graduate without any help from the government, working, and going to school full time...cannot, and are not given a fair opportunity...Please analyze the facts before speaking, THANK YOU!!! That's all i Ask, Don't Become Brainwashed!!!!
I beg of you, PLEASE REFRAIN from making IGNORANT, IDIOTIC comments, if you All want to be Racists, go ahead and be a Racist, but at least be an EDUCATED one, PLEASE do some research before speaking, or simply go back to school, DON'T BE AN IGNORANT, UNEDUCATED RACIST!!! Please!
All the hijackers were Granted Student Visas, Along with Social Security Numbers, allowing them to get a driver's license anywere they wished, and more...
While Terrorists were granted student visas, There are Millions of students willing and capable of being doctors, lawyers, scientists, what have you...who are denied a student visa, financial aid, even the ones who manage to graduate without any help from the government, working, and going to school full time...cannot, and are not given a fair opportunity...Please analyze the facts before speaking, THANK YOU!!! That's all i Ask, Don't Become Brainwashed!!!!