Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have added a specialty license plate for drivers that honors the late Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, who was assassinated last fall. Arizona has 109 specialty license plates, including political ones, and no proposed plates have ever been vetoed by a governor.
Sen. Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek) sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 1439 proposing the license plate, which features a photo of Kirk, the Turning Point symbol and the American flag.
Hoffman denounced the veto in a press release from the Arizona Senate Republicans. “Katie Hobbs’ grotesque partisanship knows no bounds,” he said. “Even in the wake of a global civil rights leader — an Arizona resident and her own constituent — being assassinated in broad daylight for his defense of the First Amendment, Hobbs couldn’t find the human decency to put her far-left extremism aside simply to allow those who wish to honor him to do so. Katie Hobbs will forever be known as a stain on the pages of Arizona’s story.”
Tyler Bowyer of Turning Point Action posted on X, “Katie Hobbs wants you to forget about Charlie Kirk. Good reason to show up and vote this year.”