(AP) – A Republican state lawmaker wants to remove the names
of Arkansas’ most famous Democrats from Little Rock’s airport.
Sen. Jason Rapert says pilots have complained to him about flying into Bill
and Hillary Clinton National Airport. He says Little Rock’s airport commission
dishonored a National Guard captain when it renamed the airport in 2012.
Rapert says it is embarrassing to have the Clintons’ name on the airport and
has written a bill that would prevent naming certain publicly funded facilities
after living people. He says, however, that a wildlife center named after former
Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee would keep its name under the bill.
When the airport was renamed, Democrats controlled the Legislature and the
governor’s office. Republicans now control Arkansas’ state government.
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