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Driving with Uncle Onyango

Massachusetts should stiffen requirements for ‘hardship’ drivers’ licenses

    April 19, 2012

President Obama’s uncle, Onyango Obama, got a hardship license the same way approximately 8,000 other people get them in each year in Massachusetts. It is available, under law, to first time drunk-driving offenders if they are enrolled in alcohol education classes and can demonstrate a need to drive to work. To qualify, the driver must provide name, date of birth, address; be a Massachusetts resident and produce a verifiable Social Security number.

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