{"id":16604,"date":"2025-10-23T02:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16604\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:14:18","slug":"could-a-road-in-st-lucie-county-be-named-after-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16604\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a road in St. Lucie County be named after Charlie Kirk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">WFLX learned St. Lucie County commissioners have floated the idea of renaming a road to honor the life of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/supporters-gather-in-port-st-lucie-to-honor-charlie-kirk-call-his-death-great-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charlie Kirk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">It\u2019s been just over two weeks since the conservative political activist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/us-news\/crime\/charlie-kirks-assassination-stokes-fears-of-rising-political-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">assassinated on a college campus in Utah.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WFLX reporter Tyler Hatfield spent Friday listening to residents and getting a pulse on whether people support a name change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think it\u2019s great, why not?\u201d said Terry Rowlands of Port St Lucie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt may rub people the wrong way,\u201d said Joeseph Amaral of Port St Lucie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI don\u2019t think here, necessarily, is a good place to have his memorial,\u201d said Jennifer, who lives in the Tradition area of Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Commissioner James Clasby brought this idea forward last week during a regular county commission meeting, asking for consensus from the board to direct staff to identify a major roadway in the county to potentially rename after Kirk, \u201cin memorial of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think that\u2019s a beautiful idea,\u201d said Commissioner Erin Lowry during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But Commissioner Jamie Fowler had questions about the proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTo play devil\u2019s advocate, I would say, shouldn\u2019t we have named after President Trump before him,\u201d Fowler said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Commissioner Larry Leet said during the meeting, he has, \u201cNo thoughts at this time, actually a lot of thoughts, but I just don\u2019t want to express them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The county commissioners will discuss the potential name change and roads in an informal meeting in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WFLX learned St. Lucie County commissioners have floated the idea of renaming a road to honor the life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-16604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}