I wrote Wednesday about Claudia Diefenderfer and her temptation to have a drink after a long, laborious process renewing her driver license.

Well, her experience doesn't hold a candle to Jeff Anderson's.

He went to the same renewal office in Draper, the one next to the liquor store, in January. He had all his necessary paperwork, including the required health checkups because he has a commercial license.

He finished up, went home and waited for his license to come in the mail. It finally arrived in late February.

But then he noticed a problem: It expires March 20, 2010, meaning his new license is good for less than a month.

He called to point out the mistake, but was told he would have to return to the office with all his paperwork and go through the process again.

So last Friday, he waited in line to get his number, took a seat and waited some more. When he finally got to the window to talk to a clerk, he found out he was listed as a "non-resident."

Anderson has lived in Utah his entire 57 years.

Legislators in training: It appears the student leaders of the BYU Students Services Association (BYU/SA) are budding future state legislators:

They don't think they should disclose how they spend the money they get.

The school's student newspaper, the BYU Daily Universe , published a piece recently assailing the student organization for refusing to share details of its massive expenditures. The Universe uncovered documents that show the association spent in excess of $260,000 in a single semester.

The association's secret nature is supported by the school's administration, which argues that because BYU is a private school, it is not under the same disclosure requirements as a taxpayer-funded entity.

Of course, we are talking about student fees here. But hey, isn't that the same argument made by legislators, which these student leaders may hope to someday become. The Legislature is a private club, right? So it shouldn't be anybody's business who wines them and dines them.

No friend of Gary's: Dave Bastian has posted a few times on Gov. Gary Herbert's Facebook page, asking him to veto SB11, Sen. Margaret Dayton's bill against federal gun regulations. When Herbert signed the bill, even after expressing doubts about its constitutionality, Bastian posted that Herbert had just lost his support. He promptly was unfriended and banned from the page.

The same thing happened a while back to Christine Hall, who was Herbert's friend on Facebook until she questioned his acceptance of more than $50,000 in campaign contributions. That was the end of her existence on the page.

Meanwhile: Peter Kraus had a similar Facebook experience with Zions Bank.

When Zions posted its new commercial to promote its credit cards, checking accounts and loan services, Kraus replied with a post that the company should also emphasize its savings and money market accounts, as well, and show that it's important to save since the U.S. has one of the lowest savings rate in the industrialized world.

He says his comment was removed from the page.

Paul Rolly is a political columnist. Reach him at prolly@sltrib.com