John W. (Bill) Coley: Special plates

I want to be clear that I am in no way favoring leaving the Confederate flag on state-issued products, especially license plates.

However, I think we are creating a problem of showing favoritism if we do not create a policy that would ban all forms of support to any organization, school, state departments, etc., from our state-issued license plates.

The only information needed on a license plate is the number, the state, the month of issue and the expiration date.

In order to satisfy the desire to advertise our support for the other organizations, we should allow these organizations to create and sell their own plates to display on the front of our vehicles. By doing this we would know where the money we pay for these special plates is going.

The special plate should be monitored, manufactured and approved by the DMV under state-sanctioned guidelines, as we are currently doing.

Our state tags are too confusing now as it stands. Keep it simple and clean.

This story was originally published June 29, 2015 at 5:59 PM with the headline "John W. (Bill) Coley: Special plates."