SECURITY IN LOBBYING (Daschle's wife to work for Intelli-Check. A tie-in to a National ID?)

Political Money Line ^ | 11/24/01 | staff

[LarryLied]

Majority Leader Daschle’s wife, Linda, registers to lobby for Intelli-Check Inc of Woodbury, NY, a company that produces identification systems. Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell will provide assistance in familiarizing agencies with company’s ID systems. The form states Linda Daschle voluntarily does not lobby the U.S. Senate.

From Intelli-Check's webpage:

Intelli-Check, Inc., has developed ID-Check with the cooperation of the United States and Canadian motor vehicle administrators. ID-Check is a programmable Identification & Verification System (IVS) that reads information encoded in magnetic stripes and barcodes (1D & 2D) of state and provincial driver licenses and authorized identification cards and military IDs.

www.intellicheck.com/home.htm

From www.taglichbrothers.com:

Intelli-Check, Inc., based in Woodbury, New York is at the forefront of a new industry that will provide reliable document and age verification systems to detect fraudulent driver licenses and other widely accepted forms of government-issued identification documents. The Company was formed in 1994 and went public in the fall of 1999.

On November 13, 2001, Intelli-Check (Amex: IDN, $15.10) announced the results of its third quarter ended September 30, 2001. Third quarter revenues increased to $280,266 versus $109,676 in last year's third quarter. The net loss was $913,119 or ($0.12) per share versus a net loss of $716,144 or ($0.11) per share in last year's third quarter. We estimate that at the end of the quarter, the Company had more than 1,000 ID-Check devices installed.

[mafree]

Who needs Daschle (either one) bump.

[hsszionist]

Want action grease a palm. Beware liberals bearing gifts, the Greeks used the Trojan horse, the demoncrats will use the Trojan shrimp.

[Eva]

My guess is that the airlines want this ID card and will require passengers to register their drivers licenses with Intelli-check, when purchasing a ticket. The major problem with this program is that citizenship is not a prerequisite for obtaining a drivers' license in some states. Most of the terrorists already have a license.

[LarryLied]

My guess is that the airlines want this ID card and will require passengers to register their drivers licenses with Intelli-check

Bingo. Linda Daschle worked at the FAA and, I believe, lobbied for one of the major airlines. Any airline which preferred another system to Intelli-check would be asking for trouble. Wonder if she has stock options in IDN.

[Eva]

She is still a lobbyist for the airline industry. Daschle has no business having anything to do with airlines or airline security. His wife claims to not lobby the Senate, but then she doesn't need to, does she?

[Eala]

Looks like Daschle's got another angle on this -- gun shows: Here.

[LarryLied]

Thanks for remembering this thread. On my way to check out your link.

[PhiKapMom]

Am so sick and tired of daschle you cannot believe. Now I read this about his wife. I do not trust the daschle's at all and wouldn't be surprised this all has to do with a national ID!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[LarryLied]

No one has picked up on this story. If the wife of a Reublican senator had these conflicts of interest, the New York Times would put it on the front page. So far, only Money Line has reported it at all. And they report new lobbying registrations as a matter of course.

Hey Newsmax, you out there?

[YaYa123]

The Lovely Lobbyist Linda cashes in.

No way....NO WAY is Daschle going to run for president! (Democrats been there, done that with Hillary)

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[LarryLied]

I suspect whoever they put up is going to be another Mondale. Hope they have a bitter primary too.

[YaYa123]

I heard somewhere the DNC is considering compressing up all their presidential primaries into a one month period. Doing it to save money, and hold down chance a nasty primary fight could develop.

Democrats really are in a world of hurt. All their serious candidates (except way long shot Gray Davis), are senators, and control of the senate will remain close in 2004. That's got to be a McAuliffe consideration, and may be why democrats would let Gore run again. If President Bush looks like a sure fire winner, Democrats will be in the same place we were in 1996, where poor old, good sport Dole was barely running, and didn't stand a chance against Clinton, so the serious money went to republican congressional races.

Their problem is going to be MA Senator Bob Kerry. Screw the party, he wants it bad, I feel it in my bones. Kerry wins easy over trial lawyer, rooky senator Edwards, but Kerry might think he has to add Edwards to the ticket to gain back some southern states.

Whaddaya think?