The Clinton CAN!
Posted on 12/01/2016 12:57:57 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
An Arkansas state senator wants to take Bill and Hillary Clinton’s names off the state’s largest airport.
State Sen. Jason Rapert (R) said November’s election results show Arkansans don’t believe the Clintons should have Little Rock’s airport named in their honor.
“The Clintons left Arkansas and do not reside here,” Rapert told The Hill. “Many in our state do not want the first thing people see and last thing they remember about Arkansas being two of the most scandal-ridden politicians in American history.”
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was routed in Arkansas in the presidential election, losing to President-elect Donald Trump
61% to 34%. Clinton won only eight of the state’s 75 counties — including Pulaski County, where the airport is based. No Democrat has seriously competed for Arkansas’s electoral votes since former President Bill Clinton won reelection in 1996.
The Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission renamed the field in honor of the former governor and first lady in 2012. Before that decision, the field had been named in honor of Capt. George Geyer Adams, a member of the Arkansas Army National Guard who was killed in an accident at the airport in 1937.
Adams, a member of the Little Rock City Council at the time of his death, helped secure funding from the Works Progress Administration to buy what had been federal property on which the airport now sits.
Rupert wants the airport to revert to its old name in honor of Adams.
“The nation resoundingly rejected the Clinton legacy, and many think it is not smart to have the gateway airport to our state projecting a message the rest of the country and our own voters rejected,” Rupert said. “The Clinton Presidential Library is in our state and that is enough for Bill Clinton...”
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Maybe they could name one of their prisons after the clintons Instead
The Mena airport should carry their name. The Bill and Hillary Clinton and GHW Bush Cocaine importing center/ airport.
It’s hillbilly national airport.
It’s disgusting that an airport should carry the name of a serial sex predator and rapist.
BTW, JFK in NYC should have its old name restored to Idlewild.
Now that would be winning.
The Hillary Clinton State Prison for their flagship state penitentiary!
“The Clinton Presidential Library is in our state and that is enough for Bill Clinton...”
No it’s not!!! Name a local sewage treatment plant after these POS.
I get naming it after Bill, but what did Hill ever do?
Also Cynthia McKinney Parkway - yuck!
Maybe they can change the name of the MENA International Smuggling airstrip to Clinton International Aeropuerto..
They should consider renaming it the Patrick Cleburne International Airport. He is buried in Arkansas.
If it has to be named for a recent Democrat governor, Dale Bumpers would be better. As far as I know he was never involved in any scandals.
It should be done to every politician of the last 100 years; their names stripped from every elementary school, highway, airport federal building et al.
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