Republican plan would send taxpayer dollars to Turning Point USA to memorialize Charlie Kirk

Republican plan would send taxpayer dollars to Turning Point USA to memorialize Charlie Kirk

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in 2019. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)A state senator who has been paid millions of dollars by Turning Point USA wants to memorialize the right-wing advocacy group’s slain founder with a statue, a highway and a license plate — the last of which would funnel taxpayer dollars directly to the organization. Sen. Jake Hoffman, a Queen Creek Republican and founder of the far-right Arizona Freedom C…