Essex Co. opposes Spitzer on driver licenses

By ERIKA LORENTZSEN, Enterprise Staff Writer

Posted on: Tuesday, November 6, 2007

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution in opposition to Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s decision to allow illegal immigrants to acquire state driver’s licenses. Spitzer’s license plan has been opposed by the majority of county clerks in the state.

“I’m opposed to this, because it’s a method of having a record, but a combination of illegal or undocumented that is questionable,â€