For many residents of this liberal bastion, President Bush's name is mud. Now activists here want to make that moniker stick.

A group calling itself the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco this week submitted a proposal to rename a local sewage treatment plant after the outgoing chief executive in recognition for the political and environmental "mess" they claim will be his legacy.

Supporters this week submitted 12,000 signatures with San Francisco election officials, hoping to place on the ballot an initiative that would re-christen the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

"We think this is a fitting tribute to this president," said Brian McConnell, a member of the group, whose insignia shows the presidential seal with an American eagle holding two toilet plungers. "It's fair to say that we're going to be cleaning up a substa