The city of Westminster, California, has renamed one of its streets as ‘Charlie Kirk Way’ in honor of the late free speech activist and founder of Turning Point USA.
The move is supported by the mayor and was approved by the city council in a four-to-one vote, but some liberal residents are not happy about it, which should come as a surprise to no one.
FOX News reports:
‘Are you effing kidding me?’: California residents react to street being renamed after Charlie KirkLiberal residents of Orange County, California, expressed anger after a street was renamed after slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.Street signs bearing Kirk’s name appeared in Westminster on the road leading to City Hall this week. Portions of All American Way were redesignated as Charlie Kirk Way after the City Council approved the idea last fall.Kirk, a free speech advocate and founder of Turning Point USA, was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University during a TPUSA campus tour in September 2025.The name change left some Southern California locals fuming, according to Los Angeles news outlet ABC7.”I think that’s so hateful,” Los Angeles resident Ashley Lawrence said in the report.”I thought it was a joke,” said Ann Galvan from Garden Grove.”Are you effing kidding me? Sorry, that was my gut reaction,” Westminster resident Terry Rains also said.
I don’t know why this is such a problem. I seem to remember liberals happily renaming things for George Floyd a few years ago.
More from ABC 7 in Los Angeles:
The signs are now getting mixed reactions from those who want to honor Kirk, and those divided by his conservative activism.Westminster Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen proudly stood under the city’s newest street sign on Tuesday — Charlie Kirk Way. He says the renaming was his idea.”By doing this, we promote the freedom, the freedom of speech, freedom for everyone to engage in open communication here in the city of Westminster,” Nguyen said.Nguyen says the idea to redesignate the street leading to the city’s Civic Center from All American Way to Charlie Kirk Way was his idea, and it passed in a 4-1 council vote last fall…”I myself am very inspired by what Charlie Kirk has been doing for the country, what he’s been doing to the younger people, for the next generation,” Nguyen said.
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