Post-Election Blahs

Last month’s election, far from helping direct marketers, could actually hurt them by speeding up passage of privacy legislation, sources said.

For example, the GOP Senate takeover means the ascension of Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-AL) to chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

Shelby is author of the Shelby Amendment, the measure that all but wiped out access to driver’s license data several years ago. It takes a