Pink licenses prove unpopular

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Gov. John Kasich isn’t tickled by Ohio’s pinkish driver’s license and wants to dump the salmon color that was introduced in 2009 to improve security but has drawn grumbling in some circles.

“Guys will come in and they’ll complain, ‘Why does it have to be pink?’” AAA Ohio Auto Club spokeswoman Kimberly Schwind said Wednesday.

Kasich said as an aside during a Tuesday speech in Dayton that he would eliminate what he called the “pink driver’s license.”

“I just got mine the other day, and it’s going,” he said, drawing laughter.

The Republican governor told reporters he was speaking “sort of tongue in cheek,” but he indicated there have been complaints about the color, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

“Everybody says, ‘Can you change it from pink?’ And then I looked at it, and I went, ‘Whoa,’” Kasich said. “So I think we’re thinking about whether we can have a better color.”

Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said Wednesday that swapping the pink for a more appeasing hue wasn’t at the top of the first-term governor’s to-do list.