Back when he was Mayor Cornett’s Chief of Staff, David Holt got the idea to name an alley in Bricktown after The Flaming Lips. It was a fitting tribute. Bricktown and The Flaming Lips are both kind of cool, both over commercialized and both receive too much media coverage by the local media, resulting in under-coverage of other neighborhoods and musicians.
Well, I guess since Oklahoma has some of the worst roads and bridges in the United States, David Holt got the idea to name a bridge that crosses the Red River after President George W. Bush. From a newspaper out of Connecticut: