With nothing against the good people of Stockton, but why didn't the Intrepid Museum in NYC grab the Iowa?
I'm not much on where the ships should go, but it looks like the senator wants it in California.
Actually, the political solution might have better gone towards taking all those vessals upriver around Concord, where some other mothball fleets are located, throwing some seed money at a Curation Facility/ Museum with tours throughout the mothballs vessels and returning the profits to help maintain the mothballed vessal faciltiies.
PS it may be a good thing for Stocktopn a city that could use it. San Fran is so blaise, liberal and full of tourists, easy for them to say no.