There are over 4,300 vanity D.C. tags out there, celebrating everything from the owner’s looks to where they’re from. We got a look at what some D.C. drivers are putting on their license plates, and now you can too.

Remember we stumbled upon a Mercedes-Benz convertible peculiarly branded with vanity license plates reading “OCCUPY”? It threw us off a bit. The car’s owner tells us he’s a firm backer of the Occupy movement.

A Mercedes-Benz with a license plate voicing support for Occupy D.C.? We’d like to know more about the owner.

Virginia, the undisputed queen of all vanity plates, might soon produce a new plate template that would, according to NBC, “express solidarity with the spirit of the Tea Party movement.” (You know, because nothing quite expresses your disgust with high taxes than slapping “Don’t Tread on Me” on the rear of your Ford Focus.)

Here’s one little item from Tuesday’s legislative session of the D.C. Council that we missed: Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and Kwame Brown (D-At Large) introduced a measure that would create new vanity license plates for the District that could be themed to any of the city’s professional sports teams, as D.C. Wire already reported. If passed, that would mean that for an extra $25, plus $20 more each time you renew, your vehicle could…