Group seeks Bush sewage 'tribute'

BBC News ^ | July 8, 2008 | Staff

[Schnucki]

A citizens group in San Francisco wants to pay an ironic tribute to President George W Bush when he leaves office - by naming a sewage plant after him.

The group, calling itself the Presidential Memorial Committee of San Francisco, wants the issue voted on at this November's election.

"It's important to remember our leaders in the right historical context," said petition organiser Brian McConnell.

The Republican Party thinks the plan stinks, and it will fight the measure.

Mr McConnell's group has submitted more than 12,000 signatures on a petition to the San Francisco Department of Elections.

If at least 7,168 of those signatures are found to be valid, the question of whether to rename Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant after the outgoing president will be added to the ballot papers in November.

"In President Bush's case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years," said Mr McConnell.

"The sewage treatment facility's job is to clean up a mess, so we think it's a fitting tribute."

'Ashamed'

But one Californian Republican, Patrick Dorinson, said the plan was "a horrible idea".

"This is why San Francisco is considered wacky," the former California Republican Party spokesman told the Associated Press.

"It makes me ashamed to be a San Franciscan if this is all they've got time to do."

And a city official stressed that Oceanside offered "extraordinary environmental benefits".

"That's not our understanding of what the authors of this initiative believe the current president has delivered," said Tony Winnicker of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Mr Bush will leave office in January 2009.

[word_warrior_bob]

Just more evidence of the infantile, scatalogical minds of the left, moonbattery at it’s finest.

[YCTHouston]

At least they’re finally starting to get a little creative.

[hsalaw]

Typical San Francisco infantile moonbats.

[Darkwolf377]

Just the sort of thing that will keep some wavering minds from the Democrats in November. Not many, but a few.

[Lokibob]

Do not forget the Bill Clinton Sperm Bank.

.....Bob

[kb2614]

So much for Bush’s re-election chances.

;-)

[Lonely Bull]

And how much would this self-indulgence cost if it made it to the ballot? Imagine the poor additional trees cut down to accommodate it!!!!!!!!11!

Not, of course, that the backers care.

And a city official stressed that Oceanside offered "extraordinary environmental benefits".

By that standard, a congressional bathroom should be named for Nancy Pelosi.

[Chode]

Mass BDS!!!

[Archon of the East]

Congratulations to all the leftist educators that teach our children how to remain a child forever. The left and to be included in that group Democrats, consistently behave like absolute spoiled little children who think that calling someone names is an intelligent thing to do. Whoopie, Rosie, Moyers, Mahar, city councils in Vermont, California and on and on. These are some of the weakest minds we have and unfortunately we have given them authority.

[MarkL]

It says far more about the people behind it that it does about the President... They’re saying that President Bush is a “doodie-head.”

I’m pretty sure that most adults will get this.

Mark

[layman]

naming a sewage plant after him

While they're at it they should name the "Folsom Street Fair" after Nancy Polusi.

[TXnMA]

The smallness of some liberal “minds” exceeds the resolution of the finest electron microscope...

[Defiant]

I would think that a person, even a President, has control of the use of their name, and if Bush doesn’t want to have this named after him, he could stop it. This doesn’t usually come up, because it is usually a tribute that is accepted by the honoree, or because the honoree is dead.

[dead]

Does the San Francisco left have a single hobby that doesn’t involve human poo?

[roses of sharon]

From a city of perverts.