Arizona legislator pushing to rename Valley freeway the ‘Charlie Kirk Memorial Loop’
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is working on legislation to rename the Loop 202 freeway after slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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PHOENIX — A push is now underway to name one of the Valley’s main freeways after slain conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen announced Tuesday that he will introduce legislation to name the Loop 202 as the “Charlie Kirk Memorial Loop 202” when the new legislative session begins in January.
“We all have a role to play in this,” Petersen told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show on Wednesday. “This is something small that I’m doing, but there is no replacing Charlie Kirk.”
Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while speaking to a crowd at an event at a Utah college.
“It amazes me how many lives he touched, how many people he knew,” Petersen said. “You would be really hard-pressed to find anybody who doesn’t know who Charlie Kirk is. So, the difference he made on Arizona and even the whole nation is really undeniable, especially among the youth.”
What part of the Loop 202 would be renamed after Charlie Kirk?
The entire length of the more than 77-mile-long Loop 202 would be renamed after Kirk if the measure passes, according to Petersen.
However, it would not change the names that stretches of the freeway already have, such as the Red Mountain Freeway, Santan Freeway or South Mountain Freeway.
Before the South Mountain Freeway stretch of Loop 202 opened in 2019, the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names approved the honorary distinction of Congressman Ed Pastor Freeway for the roadway.
That move played into Petersen’s decision to create the legislation to name the entire freeway after Kirk.
“I mean, we have a portion of the freeway named the Ed Pastor Freeway, and I don’t agree with Mr. Pastor politically, but I respect what he did for his constituents and some of the positive things he did for Arizona,” Petersen said.
The Republican state senate president added that he has the support of several GOP colleagues for this move and that he expects the measure to pass the Legislature next year.
However, he said it could take more than one legislative session for the freeway name change to be signed into law.
“There’s a lot of things in the Legislature that even if they don’t pass the first year, they do pass eventually,” Petersen said. “And I feel like this is something that needs to be done.”
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Yes, however, that was after governmental overreach and threats from the FCC. The funny thing is, Kimmel made his benign comment on Monday, it wasn't until today, when our authoritative government went on a pod cast and got the low mentality MAGA all stirred up that anyone became upset. You guys are good little sheep and do as you're told by your government.
"Mr. Carr, in a Wednesday interview on a right-wing podcast, said that Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were part of a “concerted effort to lie to the American people” about Mr. Robinson’s beliefs, and that the F.C.C. was “going to have remedies that we can look at.”Frankly, when you see stuff like this — I mean, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Mr. Carr told the podcast’s host, Benny Johnson. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the F.C.C. ahead.”"
So out of "respect" she should go to the funeral of a guy that made a living disparaging her? Are you commenting from the day room of mental institution?
Not going so well with the "get over yourself," huh?
If you believe that is how Charlie Kirk lived his live you're not only stup!d, but blind and deaf as well