[CitizensTruth] San Francisco may name sewage treatment plant after Bush

[Daniel Stafford]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/25/america/bush.php

*By Jesse McKinley 
<http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=By%20Jesse%20McKinley&sort=publicationdate&submit=Search>* 

Published: June 25, 2008




*SAN FRANCISCO 
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/25/america/bush.php#>:* Reagan has 
his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and 
a state, too. But President George W. Bush may soon be the sole 
president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to 
from the bathroom.

 From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the 
regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San 
Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a 
prize-winning water-treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. 
Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan - hatched, naturally, in a bar - would place a vote on the 
November ballot to provide "an appropriate honor for a truly 
unique president."

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the 
initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American 
tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

"Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs," said Brian 
McConnell, an organizer who regularly suits up as Uncle Sam to solicit 
signatures. "So it is important for satirists to help define their 
history rather than letting them define their own history."


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Not surprisingly, those Republicans in a city that voted 83 percent 
Democratic in 2004 are not thrilled with the idea. Howard Epstein, 
chairman of the ever-outnumbered San Francisco Republican Party, called 
the initiative "an abuse of process."

"You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea," Epstein said, 
"and want to put on the ballot as a big joke without regard to the 
city's governance or cost."

The renaming would take effect on Jan. 20, when a new president is sworn 
in. And regardless of the measure's outcome, supporters plan to 
commemorate the inaugural with a "synchronized flush" of hundreds of 
thousands of toilets that would send a flood of water toward the plant, 
now named the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.

"It's a way of doing something physical that's mentally freeing," said 
Stacey Reineccius, 45, a supporter of the plan. "It's a weird thing, but 
it's true."





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