GOP blasts Spitzer policy

ALBANY - Republican Assembly leader James Tedisco said Osama bin Laden is likely popping champagne over Gov. Eliot Spitzer's new plan to allow illegal immigrants to get New York driver's licenses.

Tedisco, joined by other Republican Assemblymen, said Republicans would sue if Spitzer and the Department of Motor Vehicles don't rescind the proposal by Oct. 31. He said Spitzer violated a state law in his policy.

Spitzer spokeswoman Christine Anderson said the legal threat was baseless.