A person who wanted to use an abbreviated representation of the Washington football team’s name on a license plate had the idea rejected by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
ABC 10 News in San Diego obtained information about vanity plates rejected in 2012, revealing that RDSN57 — Washington [R-skins] 1957 — was not allowed as the word was deemed “unacceptable.”
The football’s team name is already banned by D.C. DMV. It also will no longer be used by the Washington Business Journal.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, however, will continue not to take a stand. “It is not up to a governor to tell a private business what to do with their business,” McAuliffe said, according to the AP. “I am about growing our economy. I’m about diversifying our economy. … The voters elected me to get jobs, and this team here is helping me get jobs.”