Naming airport after Clintons doesn’t fly with GOP lawmaker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — With his party now holding all of the levers of power in Arkansas politics, a Republican state lawmaker is pushing to remove the names of the state’s most famous Democrats — Bill and Hillary Clinton — from Little Rock’s airport.
Sen. Jason Rapert says pilots have complained to him about flying into Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport and that Arkansas shouldn’t honour a former president who was impeached over his affair with a White House intern.
“The bill is to prevent any further embarrassment by the airport’s name,” Rapert said Friday. Other women have accused the ex-president and ex-governor of sexual harassment, and they shouldn’t have to be reminded when they travel through Arkansas’ busiest hub, he said.
“How would you feel if you had to walk through that airport?” Rapert asked.