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How S.F. may, uh, honor ‘W’: Measure would rename city’s sewage plant

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 2, 2008 at 7:49 am

From the San Jose Mercury News:

Lincoln has a tunnel. Washington a monument. Even Hoover has a dam.

What about George W. Bush?

In San Francisco, “W” may soon stand for “wastewater.” On Tuesday, voters will consider commemorating the 43rd president’s legacy in a less than exalted way: renaming the city’s Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

In a city where only 9 percent of voters are registered Republicans, organizers of the tongue-in-cheek idea had little trouble gathering 12,000 signatures to put Proposition R on the ballot.

“People were lining up to sign it,” said Brian McConnell, a phone systems designer who hatched the idea last year in a Mission District bar with friends. “One way to look at a sewage plant is in terms of its contents — what we got stuck with — the Iraq war, a $10 trillion debt and a huge mess that needs to be cleaned up.”

The measure needs only a simple majority to pass.

In a brand of civics you won’t see as part of festivities in say, Lubbock, Texas, the Yes on R news conference at City Hall on Election Night will be hosted by a drag queen named “Peaches Christ.”

If Proposition R passes, it will cost the city approximately $50,000 to redo the signage and stationary. I’ll let you know how the proposition fares on election day. Read more from the San Jose Mercury News by clicking here.

November 2, 2008 · Filed Under Weird & Wacky Water News

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