Governor Mark Sanford WILL hold a press conference on the national ID,
TOMORROW MONDAY MARCH 31, 2008
Please call Governor Mark Sanford NOW and tell him to STAND TALL FOR
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY!
SC: Governor Mark Sanford
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12267
Columbia, SC 29211
Fax: 803-734-5167
Phone: 803-734-2100.
E-mail: http://www.scgovernor.com/contact/email/default.htm
http://www.jbs.org/node/4553
Just think! We are going to have to give up our right to be audited by the
IRS!
Tell the federal government to just CLOSE all of those obsolete buildings,
and go back to Washington. If they are not going to let us in, what do they
need them for?
Sell them to private businesses.
The feds need us. We do not need them. What would they do if we did not pay
taxes?
Governor Sanford said this in his State of the State address back in January,
We're defending privacy rights by becoming the fifth state in the country to
say no to the heavy-handed Real ID legislation from the federal government, and
I thank each one of you who voiced your opinion in that important debate tied
to the larger principle of limiting federal power.
http://governor.sc.gov/news/releases/jan_16_08.htm
We don't know what the Governor will say in his press conference on Monday, but
we're hoping he'll stand firm!
We ARE gathering at the State House at 9:30am in front of the Sumter St.
entrance. Bring friends, make signs or bring flags. EVERYONE is needed to
show our support of the No Real ID Bill the Governor signed last year.
If the Governor announces he will not file for an extension, then, we're
supporting the Governor. The press conference is inside the building. I don't
think we can enter with our signs. I don't know whether we can enter at all.
HOWEVER, WE CAN be a presence outside for the media to see. Anyone with a large
vehicle, if you want to designate a meeting place where you can pick up folks
who can't drive, please let me know so we can coordinate.
We have to pull this together, FAST! Join us!!
Chertoff warns states to comply with ID rules What part of the Tenth
Amendment does Chertoff not understand?
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
the people.
Actung! Ve must see your papers!
By DEVLIN BARRETT, The Associated Press
Published: Friday, March 21, 2008 | Updated: 1:29 pm
Filip Horv at/AP
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff arrives for a news conference
Thursday in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia. Chertoff warns states to comply with
Real ID rules. The holdouts include South Carolina, Maine and Montana.
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff rebuked lawmakers
today for seeking to stall new rules on driver's licenses that could cause big
headaches for air travelers starting in May.
Federal authorities are currently at a standoff with a handful of states over
a law called Real ID, which would require new security measures for
state-issued driver's licenses.
South Carolina, Maine, and Montana are the only states that have not sought
extensions to comply, or already started toward compliance with Real ID, which
was passed after the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
A fourth state, New Hampshire, has asked to be exempted, but homeland security
officials do not view that letter as a legally acceptable request, so the
Granite State has not received an extension.
Chertoff has warned that if holdout states do not send a letter by the end of
March seeking an extension, come May, residents of such states will no longer
be able to use their driver's licenses as valid ID to board airplanes or enter
federal buildings.
Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to
secondary screening.
Five senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Jon Tester and Max
Baucus of Montana, and John Sununu of New Hampshire appealed to Chertoff last
week to exempt all 50 states from the looming deadline.
Chertoff responded today that it was not he, but Congress who picked the date
when the law went into effect in 2005.
"You may disagree with the foregoing law, but I cannot ignore it," Chertoff
said in the letter.
The law, he said, is necessary for national security according to
recommendations from the commission that studied the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"Secure identification is a cornerstone of protecting our communities," he said.
The nation's top homeland security official also offered a blunt warning to
those critics who claim the government is bluffing when it says it will impose
harsher security reviews in states that do not seek an extension from the Real
ID law.
"Showing up at the airport with only a driver's license from such a state will
be no better than showing up without identification," he wrote. "No doubt this
will impel many to choose the inconvenience of traveling with a passport."
Chertoff has offered a plan to gradually implement Real ID requirements over a
period of ten years, so that eventually all driver's licenses would have
several layers of security features to prevent forgery. They would also be
issued only after a number of identity checks, including immigration status and
verification of birth certificates.
Critics of the plan say it is too expensive, an invasion of privacy, and won't
actually make the country safer.
The most outspoken, Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer, has said the
federal government can "go to hell." He argues that Real ID won't work and the
Bush administration won't be around long enough to prove it.
The holdouts include South Carolina, Maine and Montana.
Tell every governor to get on board with defending the Constitution
TELL Governors: "DON'T BLINK!"
SC: Governor Mark Sanford
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12267
Columbia, SC 29211
Fax: 803-734-5167
Phone: 803-734-2100.
E-mail: http://www.scgovernor.com/contact/email/default.htm
http://www.jbs.org/node/4553
Montana: Gov. Brian Schweitzer
http://governor.mt.gov/
Governor Brian D. Schweitzer
Office of the Governor
Montana State Capitol Bldg.
P.O. Box 200801
Helena MT 59620-0801
(406) 444-3111, FAX (406) 444-5529
http://www.jbs.org/node/7004
Maine: Governor John Elias Baldacci
http://maine.gov/governor/baldacci/index.shtml
Mailing Address
Office of the Governor
#1 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0001
Phone
207-287-3531
207-287-6548 (TTY)
Fax
207-287-1034
http://www.jbs.org/node/2493
Contact your legislators:
http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/
http://www.jbs.org/node/7152#SlideFrame_1
http://www.jbs.org/node/3542
http://www.jbs.org/node/6985
Sanford to address Real ID extension on Monday Governor could request
extension to meet federal license guidelinesBy Robert W. Dalton
Published: Sunday, March 30, 2008 | Updated: 8:47 am ARTICLE OPTIONS
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Governor Mark Sanford
Gov. Mark Sanford will end a month long drama on Monday when he announces
whether he will ask the Department of Homeland Security for an extension of the
Real ID deadline.
Sanford will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. Monday to reveal his decision.
The deadline for asking for the extension also is Monday.
If an extension is not granted, beginning May 11, South Carolina residents
would no longer be able to present their driver's licenses to board a
commercial airplane or enter a federal building. State residents would be
required to present a passport or go through additional screening to board a
plane.
An extension would give the state until Jan. 1, 2010, before the new rules
kicked in. The state House and Senate both approved resolutions earlier this
month urging Sanford to request an extension.
Congress approved the 2005 Real ID Act in response to the 2001 terrorist
attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. It establishes national requirements
for state-issued driver's licenses.
Amy Kudwa, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security, said the department would
move forward with the additional security measures if South Carolina did not
receive an extension.
"Licenses from any state that opts not to comply will no longer be valid come
May 11," she said. "That is the law, and we fully intend to enforce that law."
South Carolina and Maine are the two states that have yet to request an
extension.
The South Carolina Legislature - citing concerns over cost and privacy issues
- last year approved a bill refusing to comply with the Real ID Act, a move
that complicated Sanford's decision.
"State law says we can't comply with Real ID, and Homeland Security says
asking for an extension is complying," said Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer.
"That's the question we keep coming back to."
But Kudwa said other states with similar laws have been granted extensions.
New Hampshire, for instance, received one on Thursday after officials sent a
letter to Homeland Security outlining what they had done to make their licenses
more secure.
State Attorney General Henry McMaster has said South Carolina should take the
same approach.
Sawyer said if South Carolina isn't granted an extension and Homeland
Security does single out state residents, the courts could be asked to referee.
"If South Carolinians are being treated differently than every other
American, it might be grounds for some sort of legal action," he said.
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