Pa. Lawmaker Wants Bridge Named For Vet Named For Joe Biden
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - The City Council in former Vice President Joe Biden's Pennsylvania hometown is trying to stop a state lawmaker from naming a bridge after Biden.
Scranton Councilman Pat Rogan says he loves Biden "as much as almost every other Scrantonian," but he says the bridge being constructed is already named for a veteran.
The Col. Frank Duffy Memorial Bridge honors the city's highest-ranking soldier killed in World War I.
Democratic state Rep. Kevin Haggerty tells the Scranton Times-Tribune he plans to submit a bill to call the bridge the "Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Bridge."
Rogan says the council plans to send Haggerty a letter asking him to find another way to honor Biden.
Democratic state Sen. John Blake sponsored the 2015 bill to name the bridge after Duffy.
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