{"id":7383,"date":"2025-10-16T22:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7383\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:38:17","slug":"charlie-kirk-road-commissioners-are-floating-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7383\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk road? Commissioners are floating the idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 WPTV learned St. Lucie County commissioners have floated the idea of renaming a road to honor the life of Charlie Kirk.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been just over two weeks since the conservative political activist was assassinated on a college campus in Utah.<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk road? St. Lucie County floats idea<\/p>\n

WPTV reporter Tyler Hatfield spent Friday listening to residents and getting a pulse on whether people support a name change.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s great, why not?” said Terry Rowlands of Port St Lucie.<\/p>\n

“It may rub people the wrong way,” said Joeseph Amaral of Port St Lucie.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think here, necessarily, is a good place to have his memorial,” said Jennifer, who lives in the Tradition area of Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n

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, “in memorial of him.”<\/p>\n

“I think that’s a beautiful idea,” said Commissioner Erin Lowry during the meeting.<\/p>\n

But Commissioner Jamie Fowler had questions about the proposal.<\/p>\n

“To play devil’s advocate, I would say, shouldn’t we have named after President Trump before him,” Fowler said.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Larry Leet said during the meeting, he has, “No thoughts at this time, actually a lot of thoughts, but I just don\u2019t want to express them.”<\/p>\n

The county commissioners will discuss the potential name change and roads in an informal meeting in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 WPTV learned St. Lucie County commissioners have floated the idea of renaming a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[407,7836,171,173,172,1402],"class_list":{"0":"post-7383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-charlie-kirk-road","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","13":"tag-st-lucie-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","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=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}