13 days, to be exact.
This petition will close on 1 August 2023 — 10 years, to the day, from when I launched it on 1 August 2013.
For 99-plus percent of the life of the petition, it has been focused on the goal of adding "Emperor Norton Bridge" as an honorary name for the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
But, in this final stretch, we've broadened our appeal. Here's the introductory note that we added to the petition recently:
For 9-plus years after its launch in August 2013, this petition called on the California legislature simply to add "Emperor Norton Bridge" as an honorary name for the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge system.
In October 2022, The Emperor Norton Trust — the nonprofit project that sponsors this petition — "laid down" the "bridge campaign" and shifted focus to a major public landmark that San Francisco can name on its own, without needing the approval of the state legislature.
The Trust's current proposal is to name the San Francisco Ferry Building clock tower the Emperor Norton Tower. To read this proposal and related commentaries, go to EmperorNortonTower.org and click the "Learn More" button.
This petition will close on its 10th anniversary: 1 August 2023.
Until that time — to build on the current total of nearly 6,700 signatures...
We have refocused — but also broadened — the title of the petition to "Name the Ferry Building Clock Tower (Or Other Major SF Landmark) After Emperor Norton."
We urge all to sign and share the petition who would like to see any one of the following authorized and enacted...
- "Emperor Norton Bridge" as the honorary name for the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge;
- "Emperor Norton Tower" as the honorary name for the San Francisco Ferry Building clock tower; or — at least —
- Some major San Francisco public landmark named after Emperor Norton.
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Do you know people who have yet to sign the petition — but who can answer Yes to at least one of those last three bullet points?
If so: Please share the petition with them and urge them to sign now!
The larger the number of signatures we finish with, the better for current and future naming efforts.
Thank you!
JOHN LUMEA
The Emperor Norton Trust