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Ark. lawmaker wants Clintons' names removed from Little Rock airport
The Hill ^ | 12/1/2016 | Reid Wilson

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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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Maybe they could name one of their prisons after the clintons Instead


21 posted on 12/01/2016 1:10:05 PM PST by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

The Mena airport should carry their name. The Bill and Hillary Clinton and GHW Bush Cocaine importing center/ airport.


22 posted on 12/01/2016 1:12:28 PM PST by DesertRhino (November 8, America's Brexit!!!)
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To: WayneS

It’s hillbilly national airport.


23 posted on 12/01/2016 1:14:44 PM PST by macgregor_45
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

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.


24 posted on 12/01/2016 1:16:44 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: vetvetdoug

Now that would be winning.


25 posted on 12/01/2016 1:19:17 PM PST by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain



The Clinton CAN!

26 posted on 12/01/2016 1:19:38 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: Bullish

The Hillary Clinton State Prison for their flagship state penitentiary!


27 posted on 12/01/2016 1:19:58 PM PST by SouthernerFromTheNorth
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

“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.


28 posted on 12/01/2016 1:50:21 PM PST by Gator113 (~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I get naming it after Bill, but what did Hill ever do?


29 posted on 12/01/2016 2:04:54 PM PST by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Can we do something about Jimmy Carter Blvd. here in Georgia, while we are at it?

Also Cynthia McKinney Parkway - yuck!

30 posted on 12/01/2016 2:53:09 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Maybe they can change the name of the MENA International Smuggling airstrip to Clinton International Aeropuerto..


31 posted on 12/01/2016 3:16:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Another example why it is not generally a good idea to name things for people who are still alive.

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.

32 posted on 12/01/2016 3:16:41 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Damnatio Memoriae.

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.

33 posted on 12/01/2016 3:18:48 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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