The OBAMA Plate Page - William F. Slater, III

The Original OBAMA License Plate
From Barack Obama's Home State of Illinois

William F. Slater, III, PMP on December 8, 2006
The Day the OBAMA plates arrived.

Yes I Did! This is my actual Illinois License Plate on my car!

(click on the picture for a larger image)


My 1997 Ford Taurus Automobile with the unique IL OBAMA Plate (click on the picture for a larger image)	President Obama's Official U.S. Presidential Limo with the unique "44" Plate (click on the picture for a larger image)

Update: July 10, 2011

Who is Barack Obama?
The IL OBAMA License Plate In the Media:
Web: Article at the Chicago Sun-Times, December 8, 2008
Web: Picture published in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 8, 2008
Radio: Chicago WIND AM 560 Radio, December 9, 2008
TV: MSNBC Atlanta, December 9, 2008
Print media - Chicago Tribune article, March 28, 2007
Other Web References: at this link

Update: February 17, 2010

My wife, Joanna Roguska, is a post-graduate student in Graphic Design. One
assignment required her to make a set of web pages on an unusual topic. So
with no help or influence from me, she chose the IL OBAMA Plate to write about.
This is the link:
http://iam.colum.edu/students/Joanna.Roguska/html/nobel_car.html (Enjoy!)
Note: Giving the Obama-Mobile a nickname of the Nobel Car was her idea.

Now Testing OBAMA

(First time this has been phrase used? not really... click this link)

Update: July 21, 2009

I finally got this picture transferred from my Samsung cellular phone.

When we went to the mandatory State of IL tri-annual auto emissions testing for
my car on July 21, they made us sit in a waiting area. Sure enough, our
IL OBAMA Plate came up on the screen. The technicians loved it and so did we.

Our 1997 black Ford Taurus passed the test, the test by the way.

Anyway, this picture is a real oddity. Enjoy!

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Update: September 21, 2009

Today I received a notice from Colorado's ExpressToll (www.expresstoll.com) in the mail, notifying me of a fine for violating an I-25 Express Toll Lane. In the notice they identified my name, plate, and address. The only trouble is that I live in Chicago and I have never taken my car east of Madison, WI. I contacted the ExpressToll Service Center office and directed them to my web page. They apologized and said that the only explanation they could give was that it was a "Typo." They said they would take care of this and then I wrote the control resolution number by hand at the top. Anyway, I decided to post a link to a PDF copy of the Demand Letter on this web page. This is the link to that ExpressToll Demand Letter document.

The ExpressToll Service Center Office is shown below.

Click on the picture to see the Demand Letter that ExpressToll sent me.

Update: September 18, 2010

Today I received a Ticket Violations Notice and a demand for $55.00 from the City of Stamford, Connecticut for a parking violation. This is the link to the notice. Unfortunately for them, I have never driven my car east of Toronto, ON, so this car has never even been in the State of Connecticut. Frank Fedeli, at the Citizens Service Center (203) 977-4140.

Stamford Parking Violations
888 Washington Blvd. FL 1
Stamford, CT 06901-2902

203-977-4979

I believe strongly that someone in Stamford issued this ticket to harass me because of my automobile license plate. It is an Illinois plate with the word "OBAMA" on the plate. I am going report this harassment to the Mayor's office, the Governor's office, and to the White House and let them deal with it. I don't like being harassed by government officials and I don't like being issued tickets from authorities naming incidents that never happened in places my car has never been.

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