Celebrating those bills who tried, and failed: Vanity plate repeal
(insert arm pumping here).
It was a minor victory in the big scheme of things, but a victory nonetheless. The South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles had brought a measure to outlaw vanity license plates, bemoaning that they felt they had to become the PC police, and screen what people were asking for.
And as reported by KELOland, legislators slapped them down:
State Motor Vehicles Director Debra Hillmer told legislators Tuesday that it has become very difficult to decipher all the terms that motorists want to put on their plates.
and…However, legislators refused to pass the repeal bill, saying personalized plates are wildly popular with many motorists.
Read it all here. Your vanity license plates are safe, despite Deb Hillmer’s best efforts, so “vanitize away.”
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Like someone said, I don’t know how to define pornography, but I sure know it when I see it.
Why does Deb feel she has to set the moral high ground for South Dakota?
If you listen to Hillmer’s testimony, you will hear her talk about a court case from the 8th circuit. In that case, the court said the state (MO, I think) could not ban the license plate “Aryan1.”
What do you think she should do when someone tries to get such a plate in SoDak? Refuse to issue it, and then be taken to court and have to pay the other side’s legal fees, like happened in that case?
For my part, I would rather see no vanity plates rather than have the state tacitly endorsing such an offensive slogan by having it on a license plate.
Although its now moot for this year, the question Helmer needs to answer is why she feels the need to be the pc police and even try to decipher what people put on their plates.