To protect Hoosiers against the peril of gay license plates, the General Assembly took decisive action. It created a study committee. The Interim Study Committee on Special Group Recognition License Plates. The committee was charged (pdf) with studying “policies and procedures concerning the issuance of special group recognition license plates.”
Answering the bell in this, our time of need, the committee issued a report. (pdf) (Technically, it could be a draft, I guess. It’s dated November 1, 2012, so I don’t exactly know what’s going on.) The committee’s recommendation?
The Committee made no findings of fact or recommendations.
But, on the upside, various non-profits testified that it was o.k. for the State to use license plates to raise money for non-profits. Nice work everyone.
(And, yes, I spent way too much time sourcing this post.)
Our tax dollars at work….sort of scary isn’t it?
How can you tell if a license plate is gay?
It drinks flavored seltzer water, it’s neatly groomed, and is fixing up an old house downtown, with its roommate, Jim.
“How can you tell if a license plate is gay?”
If Indiana “family values” organizations think it’s God’s will that it gets kicked out of a specialty plate program.
As to the study commission report, “the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.”
But at least they managed to meet and hold a meeting, even if the level of discourse left a little to be desired. Back in the 1980s when i worked in the state senate, i recall an interim study committee that never managed to get enough members to attend a meeting. Their final report was even more embarrasing than this one.
We supported a local school district through an education plate displaying Garfield the cat, admired by people from all around. Lots of positive discussions came out of that. The Garfield plate was replaced with an endorsement for the Indiana Dept. of Education, which we covered with an auto dealer’s license frame. We advocate education, not ideology.
Aha. I hadn’t asked my dad (a retired educator) why he switched from the education plate to the standard blue version. That explains it.
Yeah, that ‘upside’? That’s the downside. The bumper sticker goes on the bumper, not the license plate.
At least you can remove the bumper sticker from the bumper. With the license plate, you buy another license plate. We chose the “black tape” solution.