Proposal to End Arizona's 9/11 Memorial Controversy Stirs Up More

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A Fountain Hills Republican has touted a bill with wide bipartisan support as the way to resolve the controversy over the state's Sept. 11 memorial, but critics said he is needlessly proposing legislative interference when the established process already has solved the problem.

"The purpose of this bill is to end the controversy that surrounds this memorial, which has prevented it from becoming a place where all Arizonans can come to remember 9/11 and to mourn its victims," Rep. John Kavanagh, R-8, said.

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Proposal to End Arizona's 9/11 Memorial Controversy Stirs Up More

But Rep. Steve Farley, a Tucson Democrat, said it is "absurd" that Kavanagh wants to sidestep a public process that in December finalized alterations to the steel-and-concrete monument in Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza.

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