No KU license plates in Missouri? Rock, chalk!
Yael T. AbouhalkahSo who really won in the great KU license plate debate in Missouri?
Let’s take a look.
- University of Kansas officials asked a Missouri lawmaker to introduce a bill that would allow Jayhawks to be printed on license plates - for a special fee- in Missouri.
Score for KU.
- Missouri officials went over the top in reaction, taking up valuable legislating time to denounce the effort. They tied it to the fact that KU basketball coach Bill Self had harrumphed that he wouldn’t play MU anymore after the Tigers left the Big 12.
Rep. Stephen Webber was the main spokesman for the anti-KU effort, at one point noting: “We’re huge rivals with them. You’re not supposed to have Jayhawks on Mizzou license plates, and I wouldn’t expect to have Tigers on Kansas license plates. The rivalry makes it fun, and part of that rivalry is tweaking each other from time to time.”
This is close, but score for Missouri.
- Finally, the Missouri legislature passed a bill that would essentially prohibit the Jayhawk from defacing a Missouri license plate unless special considerations were met. On Thursday, Gov. Jay Nixon signed the bill that contained the license plate language.
Score for KU.
Wait, what?
Well, let’s face it. Kansas fans (like this one) can only smile with enjoyment at seeing how unhinged some Missouri lawmakers became over such a small deal.
Ryan M DeMar
10 months, 3 weeks agoYou got perhaps one fact correct in this post. But that doesn’t matter because you will readily admit you don’t bother checking facts, right?
George Hildebrand
10 months, 3 weeks agoYou have to be the worst writer on staff. There is no way that anyone else is even close to your level of incompetence. Stunning. Just stunning.
Kent Mueller
10 months, 3 weeks agoYael knows that I am not a big defender of his, but Ryan and George, what statements are wrong? I don’t necessarily see it as Yael, does, but I don’t see where it reaches the level you put it on.
So, what’s wrong with his comments?
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 3 weeks agoAnother example of govt. waste. Why in the world does our legislature waste money on trivial(I was going to say dumbass Kent) things as this?
The state could certainly use the money. People, for a fee, should be able to put anything on THEIR plate.
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
10 months, 3 weeks agoAnything? A KKK logo?
Jeff Cook
10 months, 3 weeks agoNo kU in this state. You want a puke U plate then move to that cesspool of human waste.
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 3 weeks agoWhat part of freedom of speech do you not understand steve? ANYTHING as long as the pay the extra fee….
Kent Mueller
10 months, 3 weeks agoGeorge, I think trivial is much more descriptive than dumbass. It better delivers your point without turning peolpe off, so they are more likely to listen to you and take you seriously.
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 3 weeks agoI knew you would Kent… just having a little chuckle on this cool early summer day….
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 2 weeks agooops, you caught us…..
Jay Copeland
10 months, 2 weeks agoSeriously who cares. it’s revenue and this juvenile attitude sucks.
Phil Cardarella
10 months, 2 weeks agoA bit of history might be in order.
Cute bird logo aside, Jayhawkers were anti-slavery terrorists who murdered pro-slavery Missourians and Kansans prior to and during the Civil War. The fact that they were right on the issue of human slavery did not make them other than terrorists.
It is as if MU had chosen to call its teams Quantrell Raiders instead of Tigers. Yes, 150 years is a long time to hold a grudge — and the legislators in question may be thinking sport, not mass murder — but if some team decides to call itself the Al Qaidas? Not on our license plates, folks.
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 2 weeks agoSpoken by a defender of the first amendment barrister phil…. Protector of our Constitution, as long as it is PC….