Driver’s License Debate Heats Up
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- September
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Republicans are stepping up their assault on Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to let New Yorkers obtain driver licenses without regard to immigration status.
The Assembly Republicans vowed this morning to sue Spitzer if his plan takes effect, while Senate Republicans say they will submit legislation that would prohibit illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has also expressed concern about the plan. Yet Spitzer fired back during a visit to Rochester on Thursday that Bloomberg is “wrong at every level—dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong.”
Spitzer’s plan calls for allowing illegal immigrants to use foreign passports as proof of identity, instead of other documents that show legal immigration.
Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, R-Schenectady, accused Spitzer of putting “politics above public safety,” saying Spitzer is trying to court votes from immigrants.
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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. 
