Missouri License Plates: Lawmakers Move To Ban University of Kansas Logo

[pstokely]

Source: Huffington Post

A bipartisan team of Missouri lawmakers proposed amendments to three separate bills to prohibit the University of Kansas' Jayhawk logo from being displayed on Missouri plates, a request made by KU's alumni association. The effort is the latest in a war between the two states which began over slavery issues in 1850 and continues today over college athletics, jobs and almost anything else.

"Like generations of Missourians before us, we face an incursion from the west," Missouri Rep. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia) said on the House floor Tuesday. "It will be repulsed. This is the effort to affix the dreaded, disgusting Jayhawks symbol to our Missouri license plates."

Webber has joined Missouri Rep. Caleb Jones (R-California) to push the legislation. Webber told HuffPost that the actual amendment does not single out KU or Kansans, but rather mandates legislative approval before issuing any university-related license plates. Currently, specialty plates can either be approved by the Legislature or by petition to the state revenue department. KU alums filed a petition on the subject prompting the move by Jones and Webber, whose district encompasses the University of Missouri campus.

In order to make the measure a state law, Webber said he and Jones have affixed the measure to various bills on the House floor to ensure it passes the House and Senate, and gets to Gov. Jay Nixon's desk. Three of those have passed through the House.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/missouri-license-plates-university-of-kansas-logo_n_1522554.html

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[hlthe2b]

1. Illustrative of the level of (im)maturity in state houses...

Honestly....

[tabatha]

2. we just need something to fight about ...

Webber told HuffPost that he believes the feuding will continue, even if the sports rivalry ends. "We've been fighting since 1850, we just need something to fight about," he said.

There aren't better things to do?

[pipoman]

3. What an unbelievable show of immaturity

and intolerance. What does this show kids? That intolerance, even hatred of neighbors is A-OK? Carry grudges for hundreds of years? Not to mention the monumental waste of time and resources..

"Like generations of Missourians before us, we face an incursion from the west," Missouri Rep. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia) said on the House floor Tuesday. "It will be repulsed. This is the effort to affix the dreaded, disgusting Jayhawks symbol to our Missouri license plates."

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"It is exceptionally insulting this year," Webber said Tuesday. "This year is the year that those folks to the west after 120 years of competition have decided not to meet our teams on the field of competition. I don't like KU on any circumstances. This year that they can't find the heart and courage to play us, is the year they want to add something to our license plates. Not if this Legislature has anything to do about it."

What is this meathead? 8 years old? What an embarrassment for the party..Does he detest Kansas because of their status as a 'free state' during the civil war? Those disgusting anti=slavery fighters known as Jayhawkers should be ashamed, the only right position was pro slavery..I wonder if he has a Dixie flag on his pickup truck.. All the more disgusting.. Holy cow..

[Kolesar]

4. Abolitionists from Ashtabula, Ohio pulled Missourian settlers out of their beds and murdered them...

They took them outside of their homes and killed them with broadswords, of all things.

The settlers were pro-slavery pioneers who moved to Kansas to tip the electoral balance to make Kansas a slave state. There had been some street violence and property damage a few days earlier. John Brown's abolitionists responded with terror.

Bleeding Kansas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottawatomie_Massacre

That's direct action!

[SemperEadem]

5. leave it to the missouri legislature

to lead the way in stupidity and the fine art of wasting taxpayer money and resources.

[groundloop]

6. I'll go against the grain and agree with the legislation

"... the actual amendment does not single out KU or Kansans, but rather mandates legislative approval before issuing any university-related license plates. Currently, specialty plates can either be approved by the Legislature or by petition to the state revenue department."

I think the headline is a bit sensationalistic. What it comes down to is why should one state have to issue license plates with another state university logo on it? For instance, would you expect Michigan to calmly issue license plates with an Ohio State logo? Or Ohio to issue license plate with a University of Michigan logo?

[mikeytherat]

8. Here's a list of collegiate plates available in Virginia:

http://www.dmv.state.va.us/exec/vehicle/splates/category.asp?category=C

Duke, University of Maryland, West Virginia University, Notre Dame, Ohio State, etc. A group pays the fee, and the plates are available.

mikey_the_rat

[pstokely]

9. VA is full of transplants, MI and MO aren't

nt

[pipoman]

11. MO is full of KU grads..

[pstokely]

12. if they want a kU license plate that bad they should just move to KS

VA is neutral territory

[pipoman]

14. So should MO be,

and most of us thought it was...the civil war has been over for 150 years..I really don't think slavery will be re-enacted anytime soon, much to the chagrin of these bozos..

Oh, and MO like other states has a hard enough time getting physicians without disregarding the alum of one of the largest Med schools in this part of the US..

Nobody really cares if they allow it or not...it is the racist roots of these jackhole's reason for this legislation which is filthy..

[KurtNYC]

7. I have the perfect motto for Missouri (or not)...

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Missouri loves company!

[provis99]

10. the assholes are still fighting the Civil War.

Its about what I'd expect from a state where Jesse james and William Quantrill are considered heroes.

[pipoman]

13. Quantrill is considered a hero in many parts of MO

just like Lee is in Virginia..Quantrill makes Lee look like a human being..

[Blue_Tires]

15. KU fans speak:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2481&t=8993891&p=1

[pstokely]

16. it's kU

nt