{"id":345874,"date":"2025-10-31T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/345874\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:45:29","slug":"phoenix-rejects-proposal-from-civil-rights-activist-maupin-to-rename-bridge-after-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/345874\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix rejects proposal from civil rights activist Maupin to rename bridge after Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals have been made in cities throughout the Valley to publicly honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot September at an event in Utah. <\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s Turning Point USA organization is based in Phoenix \u2014 and longtime civil rights activist Jarrett Maupin petitioned the city to rename the Seventh Street bridge near Chase Field after Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Maupin was scheduled to address the council on Wednesday but was not present when called upon my Mayor Kate Gallego.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Item 40 is a citizen petition submitted by Jarrett Maupin. Uh, we have two speakers on this item. We\u2019ll begin with Mr. Maupin. \u2026 uh, Mr. Maupin?&#8221; Gallego said. <\/p>\n<p>The council rejected the proposal, which staff said did not meet the city\u2019s requirements for ceremonial signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposals have been made in cities throughout the Valley to publicly honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":345875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-345874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115469557786415129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}