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Red Sox, Patriots license plate bill still in the bullpen

7:02 AM Mon, May 11, 2009 |
Karen Bordeleau    Email

By Cynthia Needham
Journal State House Bureau

Attention sports nuts: remember the plan to create Red Sox and Patriots license plates? Fear not, it hasn't dissolved, just given a temporary time out.

Legislative spokesmen tell Political Scene that the bills -- which for a time were moving toward certain victory in the Assembly -- were sent back to committee to work out some legal issues.
Apparently, the proposal needs proper trademark and licensing agreements from Major League Baseball and the National Football League.

The Red Sox and Patriots plates would benefit The Jimmy Fund and The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation respectively. They would sell for a $40 surcharge to Rhode Island drivers, much like those in neighboring Massachusetts.

Stay tuned. Lawmakers foresee a final play on the Rhode Island plates before the session ends this summer.

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Comments

armand said:

cyndthia are they going to be like a vanity plate?



armand said:

this is not about the plates, this is about our bay. i been shell fishing for a while now,an been diggin up black shell shell fish, an it smells like oil an cesspool, near the shore i remeber years ago the shells where blue clean shells, the bay is getting worst an now they saying lobsters are depleting hmmm i wonder why the bays a toilet an THEY SAY THE BAY IS GETTING CLEANER!!!!!!!!!!! WAT BAY WATCH THEM BLACKSHELLS, CONSERN BAY PERSON I THINK THEY SHOULD THE DEM SHOULD DRIVE THE SHORE LINE FOR PIPES COMEING FROM PEOPLES HOUSE THAT ARE DUMPING INTO THE BAY, THEY HAVE A BOAT RITE I WONT TAKE THAT LONG. THANKS



Celtic Fan said:

Why can't we have Celtic plates too? I would buy one.




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