San Francisco Proposal For George W Bush Sewage Plant
The Presidential Memorial Commission is a group of San Francisco citizens, including ex-mayoral candidate Chicken John, who are submitting an ordinance initiative for the ballot in the November election in San Francisco to change the name of the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to “George W Bush Sewage Plant”. Chicken is currently leading a signature drive in order to get the 15,000 signatures of registered voters required for the petition to add this to the ballot.
Here’s what Chicken sent to his mailing list yesterday:
OK. So today you get to live in the City of Art and Innovation. And by being a good citizen of San Francisco, I implore you to take action.
We have a ballot initiative that you will be able to vote on come November 2008.
We have put forth the following question to all San Fraciscans:
“Should the city and county of San Francisco reanme the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant?
If we’re lucky, it’ll be Proposition H.
Go here:
http://presidentialmemorial.wordpress.com/
Presidential Memorial Commission Signature Drive is now in full swing. Like 15,000 signatures are needed to make this happen. That’s 15,000 signatures of San Francisco residents who both live somewhere and are registered to vote AND know the address of where they are registered to vote and can remember how to sign their names because the Election Commission checks each and every signature.
So.
I need all of you (who live somewhere and are registered to vote) to sign. But that’s not enough. I need all of you (that’s ALL of you) to activate. I need a bunch of you to commit to collecting 50 signatures. It’s easy. In the next month you get 50 people you know to sign a ballot initiative form that takes 20 seconds. You know 50 people. Easy. Your work, your roomates, that party you’re going to… in no time at all you’ll be a functioning citizen of the City of Art and Innovation.
Write me an email, I’ll mail you a canvassers button and email you the PDF forms. Easy. But ya hafta do it.
After running for mayor, I can assure you this is a much better way to spend your time activating to local politics. And since we are not collecting a dime, the ethics commission can’t toy with us.
Just write me an email and tell me you wanna help get some signatures together. We’ve got like 1,200 so far. But likely 50% of them will be rejected.
This from the accurate and astute Fox News Network:
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.”
May the shitstorm begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chicken
Chicken John
Showman
San Francisco, California
chickenjohn AT chickenjohn DOT com
More Coverage:
- New York Times
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Fox News
- Jackson West
- Curbed SF
- Huffington Post
- SFist
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on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
another blog has a better perspective on this:
http://tinyurl.com/6b7oww
on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
If you see me on the street, signing everyone else up, for goodness sake don’t be shy. Give me your address and sign your name. It’s that simple.
If you see me on the street, and think the whole idea’s ridiculous, and want to discuss it… please don’t. Wrong town. It’s that simple.
on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
the thing is, if they want to diss bush by naming a sewage treatment plant for him, why choose the nice, relatively new, clean, hidden oceanside plant? a better choice would be the eyesore, smelly, bad neighbor, in major need of repair or replacement plant located in bayview hunters point. this proposal dishonors the people who actually treat the city’s sewage! if it passes, it will be so very typical of san francisco…
on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
As for President Bush, being ridiculed by some socialists in San Francisco just makes him a more admirable person in my eyes and in the eyes of many lucky non-brainless Americans.
on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I read the article over at the other blog in the first comment…
> The presidency as an institution must be above our ridicule.
This is America, nothing should be above our ridicule!
> Keep San Francisco in the hands of adults.
Yawwwwwwn. Why? Everybody knows the world would be better if it were run by kids.
on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Great idea. Too bad its illegal. Renaming a building is an administrative act, not a legislative act. Therefore, it is beyond the power of initiative. Unfortunately, if this brilliant plan is challenged, it’s going down.
on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
While the idea is funny, carrying it out is unnecessary and unfair to everyone who works with the name. While his (lack of) achievements will never be forgotten, let’s keep the use of his name to a minimum. I am looking forward to not having to look at his image on refrigerators even if it does have a swastika on his forehead.
on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
well i’d say that’s funny ..cant it solve our economic crisis???Nothing will bring down prices today except a tipping point in perception. Getting off and doing something to housing market crisis. And now our U.S presidential candidates Obama and McCain are talking about it, the issues surrounding recent discussions on the housing market crisis has significant impact for all Americans. Presidential Candidates on housing Market