AMERICUS, Georgia -- An airport about 20 miles from Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains has been named after the 39th president despite some people opposing the change.Souther Field Airport in Americus was renamed Jimmy Carter Regional Airport on Sunday.
Daily non-stop service to Pyongyang, Tehran, and Gaza.
The Americus City Council and Sumter County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously for the change last month, and the Americus and Sumter County Airport Authority approved it.
A 100% vote, just like North Korea.
Opponents say they have no issue with Carter himself, and would be pleased to see anything else in town named after the former president. They just want to preserve local history including where Charles Lindbergh flew solo for the first time.
They want to expand on the historic connection to Jew-haters?
Carter thanked the letter writers, saying it helped with publicity.
and fund-raising in the Middle East.....
He also remarked that if you "drew a circle around Souther Field" many in his family are buried there and he eventually plans to join them.
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my old Annapolis buddy Jim Bob, and not screaming in terror like his passengers."
The airport was named after Henry Souther, who helped develop the airfield as a military training base during World War I.
| How appropriate that the rinky-dink single-termer president gave his name to a rinky-dink regional airport, no doubt serving beginners learning touch-and-goes. Quite unlike his successor, who is remembered by the national airport in Washington, DC. |