CDR: Re: Bush took ss# off his Texas license!!!
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Sat Nov 4 13:58:20 PST 2000
There's no SS# on a Texas DL, never has been. There is a DL# that is 8
digits in length (and related to time and place of initial license
application, not SS#). Also, if you let your license expire and don't
renew within a certain period of time (used to be 2 years) you get a new
DL# automaticaly.
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 George at Orwellian.Org wrote:
> Some misc first: Drudge says he's not waiting for
> the polls to close, he's posting exit-poll results
> as soon as they come in.
>
> I once worked for NES [News Election Service] the
> combined effort of CBS/NBC/ABC etc to receive
> exit-poll info from around the nation. Job title
> was "Error Editor". Anyone have any current info
> on them?
>
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>
> Clinton has vetoed the new secrets bill.
>
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>
> The Texas license uses your SS#.
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/466882.asp [snipped]
>
> CHANGED DRIVER'S LICENSE AT ISSUE
>
> Sources told MSNBC.com's Jeannette Walls that Bush associates had been
> worried for several years about his arrest record and had hoped that
> because it was in Maine, and not Texas, it wouldn't surface.
>
> The sources said Bush took one step to keep it under wraps in March
> 1995, when his driver's license number was changed. Walls first reported
> this in August 1999 in The Scoop, an MSNBC.com column. At the time,
> the sources told Walls that Bush got his license number changed because
> he was worried about an arrest record surfacing.
>
> "He has an arrest record that has to do with drinking," a source said
> then. "He's worried it will come out, but his handlers keep assuring
> him it won't."
>
> The allegation was not disclosed by MSNBC.com at the time because the
> arrest could not be confirmed.
>
> Also in August 1999, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told
> MSNBC.com that changing one's driver's license number was "highly
> unusual" and that it is done only when the holder of the license can
> prove that someone is using the license number for illegal activities.
>
> Repeated calls to Bush's camp back at the time were unanswered, until
> a spokeswoman for Bush said the motor vehicle agency would have an
> additional comment. An agency spokesman then called MSNBC and said
> Bush's license number was changed for "security measures." He declined
> to comment further.
>
> A spokesman for Bush left a phone message Friday saying license numbers
> are changed "as a matter of course and courtesy for statewide elected
> officials. It's offered to all statewide elected officials in Texas."
>
> A spokesman for the governor's office in Texas reiterated this and
> said other governors were also given the option of changing their
> license numbers.
>
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