00:00Arizona's Democratic governor has vetoed a bill that would have created a specialty license plate honoring the late Turning Point
00:06USA founder Charlie Kirk.
00:08Republicans are blasting the move as an act of partisanship.
00:11Now, the proposed plate featured a photo of the late Kirk as well as the Turning Point logo on an
00:15American flag background.
00:17The bottom of the plate featured the words for Charlie.
00:20The legislation would have called for a portion of the annual fee required to own such a plate to go
00:24to the conservative grassroots special plate fund.
00:26Now, the law didn't get into specifics, but it's believed the funds would then have been given to Turning Point
00:32USA itself.
00:33Now, there are 109 nonprofit license plates offered by Arizona's Department of Transportation, and new ones have to be approved
00:40by the state legislature and then sent to the governor to be signed into law.
00:43Now, in the governor's explanation of her veto, she claimed the plate would, quote, insert politics into a function of
00:48government that should remain nonpartisan.
00:51She also noted that Kirk's assassination was a, quote, horrifying act of violence that put us all in harm's way.
00:56But Republicans argued that there are plenty of other specialty plates that are partisan, including a pro-life plate to
01:03promote anti-abortion advocacy,
01:05the In God We Trust plate, which benefits a Christian legal advocacy group,
01:09and a plate that features rocker Alice Cooper, who has made political comments about social issues, including gender identity.
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