For Star subscribers: HB 2586 would prohibit the state's Transportation Department from posting signs reminding motorists to vote or get vaccinated.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — The way Rep. Neal Carter sees it, those electronic signs along freeways and major Arizona roads should be spreading safety messages to motorists, not telling them how to run their lives.So now state lawmakers are taking steps to ensure that doesn't happen again.
"They do put on things sometimes that are not related to transportation," he said."That would be inappropriate""What we're worried about is the government effectively using as a kind of advertisement for other things," he told colleagues. And Carter said such decisions should not be made by bureaucrats in the Arizona Department of Transportation who decide what is"worthy" of being posted.
ADOT maintains to this day it did nothing wrong, saying that the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which is the standard for all devices and signs on roads open to public travel, specifically allowed the vaccine message because the president had declared a national emergency. And that, the agency said, permitted state and local transportation agencies to display optional"homeland security messages" such as this one.
And there would no longer be signs, usually displayed on the day a police officer or firefighter who had died in the line of duty was buried, with a message like"rest in peace" with the officer's name."And I love firemen," Carter continued."But this is the beginning of a sign, now, that's going to start to say everything from 'someone died' to 'thanks to so-and-so' to `voting.'"Rep.
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