By Damien Rashidi : richmondsunsetnews – excerpt

Who doesn’t know about this recall? And who is paying to fight it?

Betray me once, shame on you. Betray me twice, shame on me.

Joel Engardio, San Francisco’s District 4 Supervisor since 2023, has had a relatively short tenure in City Hall and yet has already committed a serious violation: Ignoring the will of his constituents.

This past election cycle, we saw Proposition K on the ballot, which would have shut down the Upper Great Highway (UGH) indefinitely and turned it into a park. On the surface, a new community park sounds good, but the people of the Sunset District had serious problems with it. Without the UGH, many commuters would have to shift their routes to cut through the small narrow neighborhoods on the west side. Rerouting heavy traffic through these neighborhoods will lead to increased accidents and congestion, and endanger the citizens of the surrounding region. The partial closure of the UGH already has. This measure had no plan and no budget. It was all around a bad idea.

However, Engardio’s violation was not in supporting a proposition widely deemed as a bad idea, it was in supporting a proposition a supermajority of his constituency vehemently disapproved of. If you look at the returns from election night on Prop. K, you can easily see that the west side was united in their rejection of this measure. Some precincts reported as high as 83% of their voters rejecting it! Yet the proposition passed because the people on the opposite end of the City (with higher populations) approved it. Poll after poll through the election cycle gave a clear image of the Sunset community’s rejection of the proposal. But Engardio chose to stand with former Mayor London Breed, Sen. Scott Wiener and Abundant SF over the people who elected him…

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If you need another reason to replace Engardio, he gives them to you every week. His latest is turning ADUs, (originally zoned for affordable units) into market rate condos, using the split lot legislation and other state bills to lure more single families into cashing out to wealthy carpetbaggers, as they exit the city for what they hope are greener pastures, with less draconian anti-family laws. If Lurie wants them to stay, he needs to appoint a new supervisor they trust to represent them. Hopefully he will ask them this time, since they also supported him in large numbers.