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| The '''George W. Bush Sewage Plant''' is a proposed renaming of a ], ], ] in faux honor of the forty-third president of the United States, ]. By summer 2008, it had received a sustained burst of coverage from local and prominent national and international print and broadcast outlets. | |||
| The initiative, spurred by a group of liberal activists, the Presidential Memorial Commission, has collected enough signatures to be placed as a ] in the city. If passed, The Oceanside Wastewater Treatment of San Francisco will be renamed The George W. Bush Sewage Plant. | |||
| Organizer Brian McConnell stated the reasons for the ballot proposal and renaming. | |||
| :''Fifty years from now in a ] class, students will learn about the ], that other presidents are on ]—and George W Bush got a sewage plant. It will prompt people to ask why, and they can discuss the ], and everything that led to it. People want to forget bad moments of history, and this is our way of making sure that doesn't happen.'' | |||
| The right-wing ] attempted to talk down the renaming initiative by quoting a fully lopsided string of operatives from George W. Bush's ], including several of its associated right-wing ]. | |||
| The ] itself commented by attempting to ] the initiative and its proponents by questioning their ], and by saying it would not "dignify" the intended renaming with further response. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| *http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25rename.html?_r=1&oref=login | |||
| *http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2346950,00.html | |||
| *http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/presidential_memorial_commission_of_san_francisco/ | |||
| *http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/06/san-fran-ballot.html | |||
| *http://cbs5.com/watercooler/sewage.plant.bush.2.753368.html | |||
| *http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354706,00.html | |||
| *MSNBC, ], 25 June 2008. | |||
| *CNN, ], 28 June 2008. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| *http://presidentialmemorial.wordpress.com/ - Home Page of the San Francisco Presidential Memorial Commission | |||
| *http://twitter.com/pmcsf - Twitter page of group driving the renaming | |||
| *http://sfwater.org/detail.cfm/MSC_ID/14/MTO_ID/67/MC_ID/5/C_ID/3231 - Info page about the The Oceanside Wastewater Treatment of San Francisco | |||
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