Posted on 07/31/2005 2:24:27 PM PDT by pabianice
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today voted 3-8 against a resolution urging the San Francisco Congressional Delegation to support the permanent berthing of the USS Iowa as a museum at the Port of San Francisco.
The congressional delegation secured $3 million in 2000 to move the USS Iowa, which was present at the signing of the treaty between Japan and the U.S. in 1945, from Rhode Island to the Bay Area, the proposed resolution says.
A study commissioned by the Port of San Francisco concluded that the ship would attract more than 500,000 people during its first year at the waterfront, according to the proposed resolution.
But Tom Ammiano said today he didn't want the ship berthed in San Francisco because of the military's treatment of gays and lesbians and its "don't ask, don't tell'' policy.
"It's dehumanizing,'' Ammiano said. "You are not allowed to be a gay or lesbian in the military except when there is a war and then when the war ends, you are kicked out.''
Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Chris Daly also spoke out against the resolution, citing their opposition to the US occupation in Iraq.
"I am sad to say I am not proud of the history of the United States of America since the 1940s,'' Daly said.
Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Fiona Ma and Michela Alioto-Pier voted in favor of the resolution.
As the token Giants fan around here, that will be the only thing I'll ever do in that town. I'm not going to follow another baseball team simply because the people that run the place are socialist knuckleheads.
Tom Ammiano is an idiot. Personally, I would like to someday visit the USS Iowa and would prefer not to have to go to San Fiasco to see it.
But it's still OK to work for it, right Mr. city superintendent?
How about we trade the SF Board of Supervisors, UC Berkeley and the Castro to Canada for British Columbia, 400 cases of Labatt Blue and a province to be named later?
We ned to banish San Francisco from the U. S.
You do not want most of British Columbia! In many ways the Vancouver area is WORSE the San Fran.
I disagree--What San Francisco needs is a repeat of 1906. A good earthquake to level the place.
We used to love visiting there till the "homeless" and queers took it over.
There is a group of public-spirited citizens in the Sacramento-Stockton area who are proposing to build docking and display facilities for the USS Iowa on the appropriately named Rough and Ready Island in the San Joaquin River to the west of downtown Stockton. I strongly suspect that politicians in that part of the state do not bear the same antimilitary animus that infects the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Be direct-- if you mean Alberta, say Alberta (they can keep BC, or at least keep Vancouver.)
Excellent point. How 'bout Alberta and Saskatchewan then??
I knew they were closet Nazis.
Sounds like a good plan to me. I hope they can get it done. I really don't think San Francisco is the appropriate place for such and important piece of American history. It would be like moving the Liberty Bell, the Declaration of Independence or the U.S.S. Constitution to San Francisco. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EVER WANT TO DO THAT?
Sail her up the Mississippi and dock her on the Iowa side of the river. That would be suitable.
Hey now, easy there. I think it would look far better docked next to BB 55 down there in Wilmington.
We can vote with our wallets. I have never set foot in SF, and quite probably never will.
ping
Finally, a leftist who admits to being un-patriotic.
Typical Leftist Sin FreakSicko
Yeah, but the SF Rear Admirals shot their seamen a long time ago.
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