The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas will be stripped of its current name if a bill proposed by State Senator Jason Rapert becomes a law.
The suggested legislation would forbid any state airports or public buildings from being named after a living person, but if passed the bill will mainly affect the prominent Clinton airport.
Rapert said that he received complains from pilots who didn’t think that the airport should honor a former president who was impeached for having sexual affairs with an intern and lied under oath to a federal grand jury.
Rapert also suggested that other women who accused Clinton of sexual harassment should not be reminded of their trauma by flying through the state’s largest commercial airport.
“Bill is a serial adulterer that has hurt so many women and has settled lawsuits over his liaisons, was caught lying under oath about his seduction of a college girl in the Oval Office, was impeached and even disbarred as an attorney,” he told Reuters.
Republican Senator also pointed out that it is “disgraceful” that an airport that was initially named Adams Field, after Captain George Geyer Adams who died in the line of duty, had its name displaced by the Clintons.
“The bill is to prevent any further embarrassment by the airport’s name,” he told Associated Press.
Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas and was its governor when he was elected president in 1992. His Presidential Library is now in Little Rock, though he and Hillary have otherwise long left Arkansas behind, relocating to New York after leaving Washington.
Clinton National Airport is the state’s busiest hub with over 2 million passengers a year. If the bill is passed the airport will be stripped of its Clinton name by end of the year.
