A Republican lawmaker has introduced a measure that would build a memorial for the late Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles across the street from the Capitol.
It’s not the first time such a bill has been brought to the Arizona Legislature. Similar proposals have been introduced by lawmakers in recent years, but all have died in committee.
Republican Sen. Jake Hoffman has used his role as Senate Judiciary chair to block previous bipartisan efforts without explaining his position.
Now Republican Rep. Selina Bliss of Prescott is hopeful of her bill honoring Bolles, who was killed in a car bombing in Phoenix in 1976 while investigating organized crime.
That’s because GOP Senate President Warren Petersen is pushing his own plan to name a stretch of freeway after Charlie Kirk.
“When I saw the Charlie Kirk proposal, I thought, 'Well, this is perfect,' because the precedent will be set that Sen. Warren Petersen is going to run a bill to put an individual out there that's part of our history," said Bliss.
The Bolles measure would put the memorial in Wesley Bolin Plaza.
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