Bruno backs Spitzer on drivers’ licenses for illegals
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|  Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno threw a curve today at those who expected him to join with other Republicans and the state Conservative Party by blasting Gov. Eliot Spitzer for last week’s decision to allow illegal aliens to get drivers’ licenses.
  “We have hundreds of thousands of aliens here,’‘ Bruno told reporters today. “I’m not sure it serves the public good to deprive them of their ability to go to school, go to work, to do the kinds of things you have to do to lead a normal life.’’  When the decision was announced last week, Seb. Dale Volker of Erie County, like Bruno  a Republican, denounced it as a potential security threat. The state Conservative Party made a similar criticism.  Bruno said the state and federal governments should concentrate on doing all they can to try to stop others from coming into the state illegally.  “Our challenge is to make sure the immigrants we let in are legal,’’ he said.  |
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
