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Will San Fransisco vote in favor of naming sewage plant after George Bush?

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Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 72% likely to happen (down 1% in last 1 day)

In November, alongside casting their ballot for the next president, the people of San Francisco will also vote on a measure to rename one of the city's largest sewage works the George W Bush Sewage Plant, to provide a "fitting monument" to the outgoing commander-in-chief's achievements.

It may sound like a student prank, but the proposal is almost certain to be passed. Democrats usually secure between 70 and 80 per cent of the vote in San Francisco – and in 2006 passed a proposition to impeach Mr Bush and his Vice-President Dick Cheney by a majority of almost two to one.


Local Republicans call it an "abuse of process" and promised to "use all means" to defeat it, Howard Epstein, the party's spokesman, told the San Francisco Chronicle: "There's no use to this other than to make these nutcases feel good." The proposal even jollified yesterday's White House press briefing, where a spokesman three times refused to comment.

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Created Fri 27th Jun 10:44pm PDT by mork[Power User]
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Predictions (146)

146 predictions

11 hours ago
pdcash predicted Yes (H$50 at 73%)
19 hours ago
curios predicted Yes (H$50 at 73%)
20 hours ago
notablenotices[Power User] predicted No (H$5 at 27%)
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capecodviking predicted Yes (H$5 at 73%)
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Comments (15)

  1 mork[Power User]
Some more background:

Local Republicans call it an "abuse of process" and promised to "use all means" to defeat it, Howard Epstein, the party's spokesman, told the San Francisco Chronicle: "There's no use to this other than to make these nutcases feel good." The proposal even jollified yesterday's White House press briefing, where a spokesman three times refused to comment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/san-francisco-to-vote-on-naming-sewer-after-george-bush-855433.html
posted 15 weeks ago
Yet another example of rational and reasoned discourse.....




Not.
posted 15 weeks ago
  3 bayoubear[Admin]
The questions only requires that the vote is in favor of naming the plant after "W", not that actually gets named that, correct?
posted 15 weeks ago
  4 mork[Power User]
That is correct,
posted 15 weeks ago
  5 coolkraft
what a splendid idea!
posted 15 weeks ago
  6 gingerboi
what an awesome piss take! A NYer in NYC once said to me that it'd be great if they simply cut NYC and SF from America and let them float off into the liberal wilderness. Perhaps true...
posted 15 weeks ago
gingerboi, i was thinking more of everything west of the fault line. and if someone has a giant apple corer could we get Chicago as well?

As for the question... just shows how mature your average democrat is eh?
posted 14 weeks ago
  8 mork[Power User]
Freedom to have a sense of humor is one of the joys of democracy.
Besides, only an elitist would have a problem with having a sewage plant bear their name.
posted 14 weeks ago
  9 hubdubber
Regardless, this is still pretty amusing, should it get that far.
posted 14 weeks ago
  10 markov
Cruel, hilarious, and pathetically incisive!
posted 14 weeks ago
It's official: Bush sewage plant on the ballot

"A ballot measure was certified today to name a major piece of San Francisco infrastructure after the president. That means voters will decide in November whether to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant."

<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/its-official-bu.html>
posted 12 weeks ago
  12 intlibber
I'd vote for it if Las Vegas renames the biggest whore house the "Bill Clinton Snatch Ranch"
posted 12 weeks ago
  13 markc
There are no whore houses in Las Vegas.
posted 7 weeks ago
lmao@ markc killing intlibber's dreams
posted 2 weeks ago
  15 curios
Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq. Local Republicans say the plan stinks and they will oppose it.

good idea
posted 19 hours ago

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