Pat,
Be thankful it’s just 1 street.
King County is the county that includes Seattle and some of the surrounding cities and towns. For a long time it was just King County and the logo was a crown, but then everything had to be changed to ML King. We have a street (through central Seattle) that was changed to ML King Way - - I’m fine with that. But, to change an entire county’s reference to which “King” as well as the logo (more recent one has ML King’s face on it). This is no small county - 13th most populous in the US and most populous in WA State. I’m saying this not as necessarily a fan of the original VP King, but they decided to change the reference after many years of history - the Washington territory was created in 1853 and became a state in 1889.
From Wikipedia:
The county was named after William Rufus King who was Vice-President when the Washington Territory was created. In 1986 a motion was introduced by Ron Sims (a black Democrat from Seattle), and Bruce Laing (a white Republican from suburban Renton) to change the namesake to Martin Luther King, Jr.[3] No public votes or hearings were taken on the change.[4]
On February 24, 1986, the King County Council passed Council Motion 6461 five votes to four setting forth the historical basis for the renaming of King County in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.[5] Because only the state can charter counties, this change was not made official until April 19, 2005, when Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed Senate Bill 5332 into law.
Council member Larry Gossett shepherded the County Council to a public vote on February 27, 2006 to change the county’s logo from a royal crown to an image of King.[6] On March 12, 2007, the new logo was unveiled.[7]
Martin Luther King Jr. visited King County for two days in November 1961
That is an AMAZING story.
Lookit, if some folk had been sitting in the cheap seats when this sort of thing gets snuck thru....thanks for sharing that.
Man....got to start fighting back. Last Monday Sussex GOP said “all politics is local”...indeed. Easier to digest. Just everybody...on one day....go to the local county, the state....maybe a week time span....just go and sit.
Sit and let them know you are THERE! Don’t speak, don’t be rude, follow the rules. All across the nation.
Anyway....see....how they sneak stuff...I’m learning....somebody’s gotta do it.