A renegade voter movement to rename a San Francisco sewage plant after President Bush is flush with support in the liberal West Coast city.
A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission has reportedly picked up more than enough signatures to put the ballot initiative to the San Francisco public in the November election.
If the measure passes, it would rename the citys Oceanside Treatment Plant to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Thats not exactly a presidential library, but sponsors of the ballot measure say its a fitting tribute to a president who made a big mess.
Local Republicans and sewage officials say the measure is an effort to straddle the line between satire and absurdity.
Howard Epstein, chairman of the local GOP, told the San Francisco Chronicle the proposal is loony bin direct democracy. He said hell use all means to defeat it.
But the Chronicle reported this week that the group, which apparently hatched the idea one night over beers, has collected 8,500 signatures thats more than 1,300 more than the 7,168 needed to get a measure on the November ballot. If officials verify that those signatures are from registered city voters, proposition rename-the-sewage-plant is a go.
