Meh. It implies that W. cares about the environment, I hope it fails.

I hate this, I don't want to have to see that name anymore than necessary. I think its also pathetic and embarrassing because he's not some bumbling goofy footnote and doesn't deserve the tongue-in-cheek treatment. The City looks like a joke for letting it get this far.

You guys are silly and either think too hard or not hard enough

Vote Yes on R. it has little fiscal impact. Plus we can invite the man to the ceremony to open up the plant. If he fails to show up, boo on him. If he shows I would go to see his forced smirk while he cuts the ribbon. Plus look at the 2004 election in demographics on how many votes Bush actually got in SF. The amount and percentage will astound you. I mean 50000 people in SF would be proud to name something for the man.

KERRY/EDWARDS (DEM) . . .296,772 82.88
BUSH/CHENEY (REP). . . 54,355 15.18

http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/election/2004results.htm

@TAYM: I agree, but "The Square State Fundie Morons Who Abuse the Democratic Process by Even Being Alive, Let Alone Voting Sewage Plant" would be an awfully long name.

Proponent's Argument In Favor of Proposition R

Just as France presented the Statue of Liberty as its gift to the
nation, the citizens of San Francisco may now bestow their own
special gift to the country by renaming our award winning waste
water treatment plant in honor of outgoing President George W
Bush. We think this is a fitting memorial for a truly outstanding
Commander-in-Chief. On matters ranging from diplomacy to fiscal
and environmental stewardship, no other President has had
such a dramatic impact on the country and the Constitution in
such a short time. Most presidents wait years or decades to receive their memorial airport or highway. We think President Bush deserves immediate recognition for his eight years of public service.
Critics of this measure point out that the initiative unfairly
maligns the talented and hard working staff at the award-winning plant or that it memorializes an administration best forgotten. To this we simply say that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. President Bush has left us with a gigantic mess, and that this facility symbolizes the city’s deft ability to clean up its share of the financial and diplomatic mess left in this administration’s wake. It will also become th world’s first presidential sewagebplant, a potential tourist attraction, and therefore an opportunity for the dedicated plant workers to educate visitors about this essential and heretofore unknown public works. This measure will have a minimal fiscal impact and may increase tourist traffic to the plant, Zoo, and nearby attractions in southwest San Francisco,
creating yet another quirky must-see destination along with our
cable cars, Haight St, and Beach Blanket Babylon.
Fellow San Franciscans, we urge you to vote Oui! On November
4th.
Brian McConnell
Chairman, Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco

Rebuttal to Proponent’s Argument in Favor of Proposition R
While discussing the Russian incursion into South Ossetia on
ABC’s “This Week”, conservative George Will referred to Russia
as a “primitive” country. This reference is puzzling in light of
Russia having produced geniuses like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,
Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. To describe an entire nation in such
terms seems an extreme statement. (Would the show’s host,
George Stefanopoulos, have remained silent had Will similarly
impugned the Greek nation?) Yet this remark should be understood in light of Will’s unspoken desire to ride up Brokeback Mountain with W.
Maybe Vladimir Putin attacked Georgia because he hates freedom.
Or perhaps Putin invaded because he had to assist his
homies who were under attack, just as the Israelis retaliate whenever their people are shot at or shelled. What is not in question is that Putin had exposed Bush as an impotent buffoon: even were John “we are all Georgians” McCain, Will’s and ABC’s preferred candidate, to win this year’s election, Russia will not be expelled from the G-8. No other country in NATO is going to send its troops to South Ossetia. Like other neoconservatives, Will and his employers at ABC are enraged that Putin has punk’d their beloved Bush. Rather than acknowledge that reality, they prefer to disparage the Russians as a bunch of primitives.
San Franciscans, take note: don’t vote for this measure just
because you’re upset that Midland’s half-wit won the last election.
That’s the kind of statement that Will and the neocons would
make. Such name-calling is really…primitive.
Colin V. Gallagher

Opponent's Argument Against Proposition R

As of this writing, 4139 servicemen and women have been
killed since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The number of Iraqis
who have been killed as a result of the invasion and occupation of their country cannot be measured. The proponents of this measure may consider the Bush Administration to be a joke. However, the consequences of the decision to invade are not a laughing matter for families of those who have died during the past five years.
This measure, whatever its intentions, disrespects them.
I agree that the invasion of Iraq is the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of the US. I also agree that Bush has been the most ignorant man to ever occupy the office of President. To call him the worst President since Warren Harding is to insult the
memory of Harding, who at least did not enter this country into
any unnecessary wars.
Moreover, the federal debt at the end of this Administration
totals over $9 trillion, not including the recent guarantees extended to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose liabilities may constitute an additional $5 trillion to be paid by the U.S. taxpayer. Aside from Iraq, Bush’s legacy will be the addition of a prescription drug benefit of at least $1.2 trillion without any mechanism for funding the new Medicare entitlement. Bush’s minions had specifically ordered the civil service from disclosing the true cost of the benefit from Congress before it had been voted upon. Maybe it would be more appropriate to name the local bankruptcy court or a consumer credit counseling center after Bush?
Besides, if we name the local sewage plant after Bush, then
what’s left to name after Jesse Helms?
Colin V. Gallagher

Rebuttal to Opponent’s Argument Against Proposition R
Fellow citizens, Mr. Gallagher’s opposing argument does as
good a job as any we’ve heard at highlighting why George W.
Bush deserves this unique civic tribute. Since we can’t say it better ourselves we’ll share this haiku, submitted by one of the many supporters of this effort from San Francisco, around the country and abroad:
Need Bush memor’l?
Sewage plant available
How appropriate
Brian McConnell, Chairman
Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco

What in the hell happened to my voter information booklets this time? I only got my state ones, not city. Even worse, I'm not the only registered voter living here and nobody seemingly got any. I mean, I'm trying to keep all of the various proposals straight and do some proper research on them and this isn't helping things.

Here's the PDF of the info book, all 10MB of it:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/elections/Nov2008_VIP_EN_2.pdf

And here are the League of Pissed Off Voters' endorsements:
http://theballot.org/2008/sf