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?
> 
> ----
> 
> Clinton has vetoed the new secrets bill.
> 
> ----
> 
> 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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