SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 5.24.2025
What will the Recall election of Supervisor Joel Engardio, visionary leader of Sunset Dunes Park along the Pacific Coast shoreline, accomplish?
Nothing.
Except to allow a cadre of spoiled rotten entitled motorists to waste millions of taxpayer dollars when San Francisco is facing a nearly 1BN budget deficit.
Should the Recall succeed it won’t bring cars back to what was formerly known as the Great Highway.
The motorists who feel it their birthright to drive anywhere anytime will spew forth rhetorical gas fumes in the form of political posturing applauding themselves. The motorists are well aware a regularly scheduled election will be held in just over 17 months.
They don’t care. These entitled luddites have frolicked in the Sunset Dunes Park sand. They will now have their wasteful and expensive temper tantrum.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 5.24.2025
“This was the definition of grassroots effort,” Albert Chow said. “We went through a ton of effort to prescreen every signature before turning it over” to the elections department.
San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, who came to prominence by ousting officials through recall campaigns, now appears all but certain to face his own after recall organizers said Saturday that city election officials verified that more than 99% of signatures they sampled Friday were valid.
“I feel like David beat Goliath,” said Chow, one of the organizers of the recall. “No one told us we had a chance in hell to pull this off.”
Campaign organizers needed 9,911 valid signatures from registered voters in District 4 by May 22 to qualify for a recall election.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/supervisor-joel-engardio-recall-20344172.php
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