San Francisco George Bush Sewage Plant Initiative (2008)
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The George Bush Sewage Plant Initiative was on the November 4, 2008 citywide San Francisco ballot as Proposition R. Proposition R was defeated with 30.13% of the vote.
Proposition R attracted national attention, including articles in the New York Times and Washington Post.
More than 11,000 petition signatures were submitted to qualify the measure for the fall ballot.[1],[2]
If Proposition R had passed, it would have re-named the city's Oceanside Treatment Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. The group supporting the initiative is called the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco.
John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition who ran unsuccessfully for San Francisco mayor in 2007 using 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."
Status
Defeated. [3]
External links
- Movement to Rename Sewage Plant After Bush Gains Steam in San Francisco
- Sewage plant 'honor' doesn't deserve answer
- California's Proposition R would rename sewage plant after George W. Bush
References
- ↑ Mission accomplished: Bush sewer plant measure qualifies for SF ballot in November, July 18, 2008
- ↑ New York Times, "California: Name change on ballot", July 19, 2008
- ↑ S.F. rejects prostitution, energy measures, San Francisco Chronicle, November 5, 2008
