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Voters to decide: Bush memorial sewage plant?
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/17/8 | Marisa Lagos

Posted on 07/17/2008 4:51:42 PM PDT by SmithL

San Francisco voters will be asked to decide whether to name a city sewage plant in honor of President Bush, after a satiric measure qualified for the November ballot today.

Backers of the measure, who for several months circulated a petition to place the measure on the ballot, turned in more than 12,000 signatures on July 7, said organizer Brian McConnell. The Department of Elections today informed those supporters, the self-proclaimed Presidential Memorial Commission, that they had enough valid signatures - a minimum of 7,168 registered San Francisco voters - to qualify for the November ballot, he said.

McConnell, who came up with the idea over beers with friends, often donned an Uncle Sam outfit to drum up support for the petition. Other signature gatherers - all volunteers - often carried around an American flag and blasted patriotic music from a boom box to attract attention. He said today that the campaign to pass the measure will be an equally grassroots effort.

The measure, if passed by a majority of voters, would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bds; sanfranciscovalues; sillydems
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- T. Wayne Pickering (Brian McConnell, left) stands at Stern Grove dressed as uncle Sam and blaring patriotic music from his boom box, trying to get more signatures for a ballot petition to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Treatment Plant on Monday, June, 23, 2008, in San Francisco, Calif.
1 posted on 07/17/2008 4:51:42 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Make sure they put right next to the Bill “BJ” Clinton wind tunnel...


2 posted on 07/17/2008 4:55:03 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.)
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To: areukiddingme1

Or the Barney Frank AIDS Clinic....


3 posted on 07/17/2008 5:02:22 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: SmithL

What a childish bunch of misfits the left is.


4 posted on 07/17/2008 5:05:31 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: SmithL

Perhaps Nevada could name a brothel after Pres. Clinton?


5 posted on 07/17/2008 5:05:43 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: SmithL

I propose they name the SFPD range after Dan White.


6 posted on 07/17/2008 5:07:30 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: SmithL
...considering he brought the cream of the democratic garbage heap to the top for exposure during elections....
7 posted on 07/17/2008 5:08:20 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: A_Former_Democrat
What a childish bunch of misfits the left is.

"Huh huh. Bush is poop."

Exactly.

8 posted on 07/17/2008 5:11:09 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: SmithL
The USA is a single body of states. San Francisco is our self-proclaimed anus. If they want to dedicate a sewage treatment plant to our current leader, then so be it. We should expect short-sightedness, if not blindness, from the population in that region.
9 posted on 07/17/2008 5:12:07 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Proud participant in "Operation Chaos")
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To: Fester Chugabrew

bttt


10 posted on 07/17/2008 5:14:19 PM PDT by Stepan12 ( "We are all girlymen now." Conservative reaction to Ann Coulter's anti PC joke)
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To: SmithL

I think it’s up to us to find another location in the country to name/rename an effluent holding tank or basin to The “Best of San Francisco” - they certainly deserve it.


11 posted on 07/17/2008 5:16:56 PM PDT by Garnet92
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To: SmithL
Since the most popular place for homosexual men to take or find a date is the public toilet, wouldn't it be more appropriate name it the San Francisco Bathhouse & Spa.
12 posted on 07/17/2008 5:22:09 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SmithL

W should show up at the opening, take the micrphone, let out a huge fart, grin ear to ear, then ride off into the sunset, shooting the bird.


13 posted on 07/17/2008 5:24:32 PM PDT by ryan71 (Typical bitter white gun toter)
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To: areukiddingme1

Its time for the Federal Government to cut all funding in San Francisco.Well Past time.

Let the Communist take care of themselves.


14 posted on 07/17/2008 5:34:11 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: SmithL

The stuff that is processed there is also known as “Nancy Pelosi’s Brains”


15 posted on 07/17/2008 5:37:23 PM PDT by alpo
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To: A_Former_Democrat
I stopped visiting San Francisco in the 80’s when it became apparent what an Aids infested hole it was, inhabited by a bunch of lefty maggots. Republicans get out of that hell hole one of these days the earth will open up and swallow that piece of earth along with the garbage living there.
16 posted on 07/17/2008 5:45:44 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: SmithL

Might be an honor in disguise...a sewage treatment plant makes useless water useful again. At least the presidents name is associated with a useful function. Now the libs there are just the utter and untreatable sewage upon the land so we bestow that dishonor to them! I’ll say a little prayer and flush twice next time I visit the crapper throne in SF to salute the libs!


17 posted on 07/17/2008 6:26:37 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: SmithL

How about the John Kennedy Memorial Methadone Clinic?

The Obama House for Cocaine Addiction Recovery.

The Ted Kennedy School of Aquatics?

The John F. Kennedy Jr School of Flying.


18 posted on 07/17/2008 7:54:14 PM PDT by Liberty 275 (Do. Not. Want. Barack. Obama.)
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To: SmithL

A good conservative speechwriter could have fun writing Bush’s response to this “honor.”


19 posted on 07/17/2008 8:08:51 PM PDT by TChad
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To: SmithL

Seems like the State of Calinfornia should be named for George Bush.


20 posted on 07/17/2008 8:47:02 PM PDT by arfingcat
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