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New name for the RNC clean zone?
Posted Apr 18, 2012 by Kevin Wiatrowski
Updated Apr 18, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Tampa is looking for a new name to describe the “clean zone” Mayor Bob Buckhorn has proposed for the week of the Republican National Convention.
When Buckhorn offered his 18-page plan for control what protesters can carry and wear downtown during the RNC, he pointed out that the name was borrowed from the 2009 boundary drawn around Raymond James Stadium during the 2009 Super Bowl.
That clean zone kept out scalpers and knock-off NFL merchandise and made nary a ripple in the public consciousness.
Not so for the RNC clean zone.
At least one speaker at City Council earlier this month reminded public officials “clean zone” was the name East Germans used for the no man’s land on their side of the Berlin Wall where border guards shot escaping citizens.
Not exactly the image the city was going for.
So along with a host of tweaks to the RNC ordinance, Buckhorn’s staff is looking at a name change: more Southern hospitality, less East German border patrol.
At the very least, a name bland enough to not draw more heckles from Rachel Maddow.
“Maybe the convention zone,” City Attorney Jim Shimberg offered half-heartedly this week.
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