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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk
Florida state Rep. Kevin Steele (R) filed a bill Tuesday that threatens state funding to public universities and colleges if they do not rename specific roads after conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The bill points to specific roads at campuses Steele wants colleges to rename after Kirk, who was assassinated last month while speaking on a college campus in Utah.
If a campus does not comply, the bill says state funding will be withheld from the institution.
If passed, the bill would be set to go into law immediately instead of the typical July 1 date for most such Florida measures. Once the law goes into effect, a university would have 90 days to rename the road before funding would be cut.
The bill points to specific roads at campuses Steele wants colleges to rename after Kirk, who was assassinated last month while speaking on a college campus in Utah.
If a campus does not comply, the bill says state funding will be withheld from the institution.
If passed, the bill would be set to go into law immediately instead of the typical July 1 date for most such Florida measures. Once the law goes into effect, a university would have 90 days to rename the road before funding would be cut.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/florida-republican-unveils-bill-threatening-134048740.html
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Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Wednesday
OP
What an insult to the men and women who funded and built those colleges and universities and named
Botany
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Johonny
(24,867 posts)1. Asshole Blvd?
I guess if that's what they want . . .
vapor2
(3,238 posts)2. Seriously? Blackmail? extortion?
Botany
(75,549 posts)3. What an insult to the men and women who funded and built those colleges and universities and named
. those roads and streets.
Btw Charlie Kirk was no saint, he was no hero, and he was a very well compensated hate
monger that a rich billionaire that saw in him as a younger Rush Limbaugh. He was a racist,
sexist, and an anti American propagandist.
CanonRay
(15,673 posts)4. It will give the kids lots ogf places to pee
and signs to deface.
wcmagumba
(4,860 posts)5. Print the road signs in old English or Latin...

Deuxcents
(24,370 posts)6. My local tv station is polling students here at our local universities and colleges..pretty split with opinions
I am not a student but as a Florida taxpayer, I think jamming this down our throats is ridiculous
GenThePerservering
(3,132 posts)7. Charlie Kirk is what they call "old product"
this guy is too late.