Spitzer to meet in D.C. on driver’s licenses
Gov. Eliot Spitzer plans to meet 8 a.m. Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol with members of the state’s congressional delegation to discuss his controversial plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, is hoping that the governor will announce he’s dropping the idea and will allow the federal government to handle the issue instead.
“You don’t want to put the states in a patchwork of different approaches,’’ said Hall.
Hall and two other freshman Democrats – Reps. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Hudson, and Mike Arcuri, D-Utica – oppose the governor’s plan.
It’s also been a headache for New York’s junior senator on the presidential campaign trail. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has indicated the plan makes sense given the federal government’s failure to act on immigration reform, but she’s stopped short of fully endorsing it – an equivocation criticized by her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.
A new Siena College poll released today found New Yorkers oppose the plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants 70 percent to 25 percent.
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