[Vision2020] George W. Bush Sewage Plant Plan is on Ballot

[Tom Hansen]

>From Friday's (July 18, 2008) San Francisco Chronicle at:

http://tinyurl.com/6zfn8c

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Brian McConnell (left) came up with the Bush Sewage Plant idea after 
talking with friends.

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George W. Bush Sewage Plant plan is on ballot

SAN FRANCISCO -- 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 Thursday.

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 on 
Thursday 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. 

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

The measure, if passed, would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control 
Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. McConnell said the intent is to 
remember the Bush administration and what the group sees as the 
president's mistakes, including the war in Iraq.

Some people aren't laughing, including the San Francisco Republican Party, 
which sees the measure as an embarrassment, even to this famously liberal 
city. Chairman Howard Epstein has vowed to fight the measure with all 
means available to him. 

A White House spokeswoman, when asked about the measure several weeks ago, 
refused to comment. 

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Seeya round town, MOscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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