The below was sent to the Gainesville Times today for publication. As if…

Note, Georgia state Senator Butch Miller is @Butch_Miller on Twitter.

Dear editor,

RE; Proposal would ban driver’s licenses for some young immigrants

The Times recent report on state Senator Josh McKoon’s legislative effort to insure no illegal alien is rewarded with a Georgia drivers license and to compile a public registry of criminal aliens had an interesting quote about Senator Butch Miller’s position on the drivers license issue: “But Miller isn’t ready to grant exceptions to undocumented immigrants in Georgia or Hall County”.

It should not go un-noted that in the 2014 General Assembly, a bill (SB 404) with the same intent was defeated in the state senate. But not after a floor debate in which Miller made it clear that he favored giving drivers licenses to illegals. His comments from his seat during the debate made it clear that if “10,000” illegals had access to a drivers license (video HERE), that would result in as many auto insurance policy sales and an addition to the auto insurance industry economy. Don’t look now, but Butch Miller is a …car dealer. He voted against the 2014 bill.

McKoon’s 2015 bill, SB 6, is still alive – despite an amendment to add its goals to another drivers license bill being defeated by an unrecorded vote in the Republican super-majority state senate. Miller was not among the four senators who backed McKoon for a recorded vote on whether or not to approve the amendment. All of this is available on the video recording from Day 39 of the 40 day session.

McKoon has promised to introduce a resolution to allow the entire senate to vote on eliminating the rule that allowed the entire unrecorded vote process.

The vote on that decision can be held by another unrecorded vote if five senators don’t support McKoon’s sure-to-come motion for a recorded vote on whether or not to stop allowing unrecorded votes.

Confused readers may want to ask Senator Butch Miller for a further explanation.

D.A. King
Marietta

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society and is assisting Senator McKoon with his immigration legislation.