JD Vance Boulevard? Petition calling for Middletown street name change for VP [Video]

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — An online petition is circulating to rename a Middletown street for Vice President JD Vance, who is a native son.

Candice Keller, former state representative and executive director of the Community Pregnancy Center, posted the solicitation from the “JD Vance Boulevard Committee” asking people to “sign up if you wish to be added to the list desiring to see JD Vance Boulevard commemorated in the City of Middletown.”

In the post, Keller says she chose Central Avenue for the street to be named in Vance’s honor “since it is one of the few streets in Middletown that runs the entire length of the city, from the West Middletown bridge to the Warren County line; and it encompasses homes, businesses, restaurants, schools and churches.”

“All socio-economic backgrounds are represented along Central Avenue, homes from $40,000 to $700,000. It is a main thoroughfare only a few blocks from where …