A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco has launched a ballot initiative that would rename a city sewage treatment plant the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant."
A petition is being circulated that would put the measure up for a vote in November. If it passes, it will rename the city's Oceanside Treatment Plant for the 43rd president of the United States.
Republican Party spokesman Leo Lacayo said it's just another move from the "hate Bush crowd."
Republican Party spokesman Leo Lacayo said it's just another move from the "hate Bush crowd."
"First of all, it's insulting," Lacayo said. "Second of all, it demonstrates to what lows some people will reach in order to oppose this president and the policies that have kept this country safe during his mandate."
Virginia-born activist and ordained minister John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year under his nickname "Chicken John," said the initiative would turn "every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief."
Rinaldi — flush with pride about the idea — said renaming the plant is "the highest honor available to us."
Organizers have collected around 1,100 of the more than 10,000 signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot in November. And while local Republicans call the effort a waste of time and money, they also say it has a good chance of winning if it gets on the ballot.
"Naturally, we're going to fight it," said Howard Epstein, the chairman of the city's Republican Party.
They call the move just another "crazy" idea from the "weirdo" transients who call San Francisco home.
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I agree that would be great and then flush him down the toilet too.
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