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In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

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Eliot Spitzer
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 10
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