Incoming Rep. Dan Greenberg (R-LR) is already grabbing for headlines, here with a proposed bill to outlaw the naming of public facilities for living people.

The Edifice Complex Prevention Act. Yuk, yuk. Get it?

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Good taste and common sense are better ways to achieve the aim of avoiding premature glorification. There will always be those who delight — while still holding office — in having people they’ve appointed to public jobs name stuff for them. But let them endure the ridicule that comes with what is essentially self-glorification.

PS — A building that “concerns” a living person, such as a presidential library presumably, would be exempt. But probably not the street on which the library is associated. Or probably an adjacent school dedicated to graduate education.

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Mission accomplished. The bill won’t pass, but Dan has an early headline.

 

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