2009 Candidates Take Positions (or not) on Spitzer License Proposal
So, where do the 2009 mayoral candidates stand on Eliot Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain a New York State driver’s license?
When asked for a position, a spokesman for Christine Quinn emailed me to say, “She supports it.”
A spokesman for Bill Thompson said he was "supportive" of the issue.
I'm not sure from his answer what Adolfo Carrion thinks:
“Pretending that a whole segment of the population does not exist lacks integrity of thought and response. However, this is not without risk, given the seriousness of a state sanctioned identification and how it can be used. Unfortunately, the burden of finding appropriate and reasonable solutions to this complex challenge has been transferred to the states once again, just as was recently done by Congressional failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform. On national issues of this nature, it is the federal government's solemn responsibility to act in the interest of all the states of the union. Anything less is an abrogation of that awesome responsibility.”
I’m still waiting to hear back from Anthony Weiner.
A spokesman for John Catsimatidis said he opposes the plan, explaining, “He agrees 100 percent with Mayor Bloomberg.” The mayor raised some questions about the plan but said it’s the governor’s call.
UDPATE: Marty Markowitz's office just sent me this statement: "Brooklyn and New York City's cultural and economic vibrancy is due in large part to our immigrant communities—therefore, as long as we ensure security loopholes are not inadvertently opened to our nation's real enemies, I believe the Governor's plan has great merit as a way to ensure more safety on the roads and get a much more reliable assessment of the hard work we know those in our immigrant community are already doing every day."
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 46.3
- 41.7
- Obama +4.6
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 55.7
- 32.7
- +23.0
- McCain
- 52.4
- 34.7
- +17.7
A follow-up to the Borough President's absured obfuscation: Mr. Carrion, your statement seems to indicate that you believe that the federal government should be issuing driver's licenses, or some other form of a national identity card. If not -- and, as a reminder, the issuance of driver's licenses has always been within the purview of the states, not the federal government -- do you believe that states should allow undocumented aliens to have driver's licenses, or not? A simple yes or no answer will suffice. Thanks so much -- and, to quote Dan Rather -- courage!
Why do you guys cover Catsimatidis: HE ISN'T RUNNING. HE NEVER DOES. You guys need to stop until he files a committee. IS HE PAYING YOU GUYS FOR THIS?
October 2, 2007
Statement of Haile Rivera on Governor Spitzer’s Changes to Obtaining a Driver License in NYS
Please go to: http://www.hailerivera.com/4
Governor Eliot Spitzer is right, and he is a hero!
Those bandit and scoundrel republicans are dividing our society with scare tactics. They are trying to make our country hatemongers' country. We welcome immigrants and their contribution to our society. The Americans who claim not to have jobs and complaining are the lazy scum of our society; we are hard working proud Americans who are not afraid to help the poor and make our society a welcoming society. Governor Eliot Spitzer is a real American whom our forefathers should be proud of. I pray to God he prevails, in which case he already did. For those of you, hateful dirt(s), go join the KKK, live in a trailer somewhere in the South in remote swaps, marry your closest, and do yourself a favor; don’t pollute our welcoming state and our country with your hate speeches. After all is it not a republican who was preying on young boy interns, and the other who took his family value straight to the rest room looking for perverts at least that was told. We are God fearing good and clean Americans, not thieves and perverts. Spitzer is right, let the poor dream as well.
Thank you, may God bless Spitzer and our country; may God give your hateful heart the scent of worship and care. And when I say worship is not worshipping the hateful rep., the overweight and ugly Congressman James Sensenbrenner, whose cholesterol level still out scores his ego and hatred. Why don't he focus on his health and eating habits rather than scaring Americans with his inflated fear tactics, back room politics and poisons bills; he might as well go and work for groups like the K.K.K. We are a welcoming nation; we feed the poor; we pray to God; we love and respect our family, neighbors and God’s creatures. Why don’t we listen to star citizens such as the priests who devoted their lives for the good of men and God; who are telling us to be kind, why do we follow a no good liar republican politician? It simply beats logic away.
Go Spitzer and alike, enough of these lies.
No more voting for republicans for me!