Green Party Gets Behind Maine REAL ID Veto

Greens Commit to Real ID Veto Drive  5-21-08

c/o Kennebec Journal

The Maine Green Independent Party, fresh off its convention in Yarmouth last weekend, said it will play an active role in collecting signatures for two petition drives.  One is a people's veto effort to repeal the law that brings Maine into compliance with the Real ID federal regulations, and the other is the ongoing effort to repeal the school district consolidation law.

These petitions and other will be at the polls June 10. ::FULL STORY HERE::

North Carolina and Wisconsin Join 5-11 Agenda

Q: WHAT IS A 5-11 AGENDA ?

A: Any legislation with express intent to stop or repeal Real ID implementation regulations.

NC Lawmakers Target ID Law  5-19-08

c/0 news-record.com

RALEIGH- North Carolina would become the latest state to rebel against the federal REAL ID driver's license standards if an atypical mix of lawmakers gets its way.

Both fiscal conservatives worried about the laws impact on state spending and more liberal members, who expresss concerns about the potential for invasion of privacy, signed on to a bill this past week that demands, "No State agency chall comply with the requirements of the REAL ID ACT."   That 2005 federal law created uniform standards for state drivers licenses in an effort to make identification harder to fake or obtain for those here illegally. ::FULL STORY HERE::

REAL ID SOURS WISCONSIN's GOP CREAM  5-18-08

c/o John Nichols of The Capital Times

"In Wisconsin, last week, Huebesch and other Republicans joined Democrats in backing a budget repair bill that strips Real ID of funding necessary for its implementation." 

::FULL STORY HERE::

TEXAS BITES BACK; SUES DHS for Real ID WAIVERS

Texas Officials Sue US/DHS Over Border Fence 

05-16-08  c/o  Associated Press

WASHINGTON -Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border.  :: FULL STORY HERE::

BEAT THE CHIP will be keeping close tabs on this border story.   Secretary Chertoff's "discretionary authority" to expedite construction of the Mexican border wall fence is rooted in Section 102 of the Real ID Act.    Please stay up to date on the Border Wall by subscribing to  http:// www.notexasborderwall.blogspot.com .

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