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What’s democracy gotta do with it? Don’t ask SF Sup. Connie Chan

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.4.2024

The arrogance of Connie Chan is breath taking in piously claiming “She will invite proponents of of Prop. K to discuss if there is room for compromise.“

All San Franciscans who care about the environment and people’s democracy need to keep a vigilant eye on Supervisor Connie Chan.

This is the local ambitious politician who drove to victory as an environmentalist four years ago. Then proceeded to stiff the “progressives” who foisted her into office by 125 votes. Becoming the most car-centric and anti-environmental elected official in San Francisco.

Connie Chan’s hypocrisy is mind boggling.

It’s obvious that just reelected Supervisor Connie Chan has forgotten who won the citywide vote creating Great Highway Park by with a 55 percent majority.

Connie’s comment that she “will hold proponents accountable” flies in the face of reality.

Connie should be telling the opponents of Prop. K to stand down and shut up.

The people Connie should hold “accountable” are the screaming cadres of entitled motorists, a main prop in her successful reelection effort. Connie needs to tell these whiners to accept the will of the 55 percent majority. Connie has catered and bowed to the motorists since the day she took office as a Supervisor in January 2021.

Great Highway Park is coming. Soon. The message to Prop K opponents is simple. Deal with It.

Say, what??!! Sup. Chan “will hold proponents of Prop. K accountable the changes they proposed.”

The citizens of San Francisco cannot ever forget that it was Supervisor Connie Chan who has opposed Great Highway Park ever since it was closed to cars in spring 2020.

The citizens of San Francisco cannot ever forget that it was Supervisor Connie Chan who almost single handedly destroy JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park. It’s a documented record that Connie Chan met with the lobbyist for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco numerous times in their nearly million dollar effort to destroy JFK Promenade.

Ethical conflict. Connie Chan anti-Car Free JFK Sup must put the brakes on

Pathetic SF motorists sink to the depths of Recall selfishness

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.3.2024

PATHETIC LOSERS ALL OF YOU.

My message to the group of San Francisco west side spoiled rotten entitled motorists who are starting a Recall petition against Supervisor Joel Engardio.

Sore losers. All of them. Unhappy and refusing to accept the fact that the voters Citywide approved Proposition K on November 5th, 2024 with a 55 percent majority.

The creation of a Great Highway Park along the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco.

“Your involvement means the world to us, and we’re so grateful to have you on board. Together, we can make a real difference for District 4 and all of San Francisco.” The so called “world” is that of the spoiled entitled motorists. A group of sore losers who refuse to accept the 55 percent YES Citywide vote on Prop K..If you are unhappy with Joel Engardio vote him out in 2026. This misguided waste of taxpayer money when the City is staring down an 800M deficit is selfishness personified.

Quoted Language in blue border from the Recall website  recallengardio.com and my response in the email seeking support for the Supervisor Joel Engardio Recall

Excerpted from the San Francisco Standard 12.3.2024

A group of Sunset residents is launching a campaign to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio over his support of Proposition K, the ballot measure to close part of the Great Highway that was successful in the November election but roundly rejected by his district constituents.

A recall petition letter, filed Tuesday morning with the Department of Elections, accuses Engardio of violating his “campaign promises of transparency” and betraying voters in his district. 

Prop. K passed with 55% of the vote. But on the west side, including Engardio’s District 4, which encompasses the stretch of the coastal roadway affected by the measure, 64% voted against it.

About 80 residents signed the initial recall petition. The website recallengardio.com went live Monday night.

Supervisors Joel Engardio and Myrna Melgar at Prop K – Great Highway Park rally – 7.27.2024

Photos – Lee Heidhues

Politics by the Pacific. Chan win was driven by Car Centric Connie

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 11.20.2024

Chan acknowledged that her vocal opposition to Proposition K, a controversial ballot measure to close the Great Highway, may have helped her win by demonstrating to the district that she’s not an ideologue and will fight for the community. – SF Standard 11.18.2024

There’s no need for Connie “The Car” Chan to be shy. She drove her car to victory on election day.

During the past four years Connie has been the best friend of the entitled motorists in San Francisco.

Her car centric advocacy nearly destroyed JFK Promenade in 2022. Her strident opposition to Proposition K may have played well with her D1 constituents. Fortunately, 54.73 percent of the electorate citywide were having none of Connie’s car love and voted through Great Highway Park by 36,595 votes.

Advocates for the just enacted Great Highway Park need to be vigilant.  It’s safe to assume that Connie “The Car” Chan will do everything she can to ignore the will of San Francisco voters. Supervisor Chan will throw up every administrative roadblock at her disposal to impede the banishment of cars and slowdown implementation of Great Highway Park.

Connie the environmentalist in 2020

Artwork by Liz Heidhues

Great Highway Park wins. I am relishing this moment of victory

SAN FRANCISCO – GREAT HIGHWAY PARK
Lee Heidhues 11.8.2024

I am beyond joyous that Proposition K which will see the creation of The Great Highway Park by the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco has been approved by a healthy majority of ALL the voters.

Liz and Lee at the kickoff for Proposition K – Great Highway Park – July 27, 2024

I will never stand down, will continue to fight and am relishing this moment of victory for a pedestrian, cyclist friendly San Francisco.

Victory of Proposition K is another affirmation that San Francisco voters can overcome the juvenile mentality of the spoiled rotten entitled motorists. Motorists who have fought viciously to protect their false sense of entitlement.

Two years ago these same dead enders with their false sense of car centric privilege waged a despicable campaign to stop JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park. Their effort to bring cars back to JFK Promenade, aided by over 800K in funding from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, was crushed. The voters said “We want this car free oasis” by a 63 percent YES margin.

Two years later these vitriolic motorists waged a war of threats and personal insult against Supervisor Joel Engardio who put Proposition K on the ballot. These motorists have no shame. Even now they pledge to continue their onslaught against all who oppose their selfishness.

Mayor London Breed, voted out of office this week, may have sacrificed her political career by advocating for JFK Promenade and The Great Highway Park. When the history of her tenure is written this environmental advocacy will be long remembered.

Liz and Mayor London Breed parley at the 4th Anniversary celebration of JFK Promenade. Were it not for Mayor Breed JFK Promenade would not be a reality today.

Personally, I have been ridiculed and vilified on social media for vigorously promoting the car free movement in San Francisco. The most egregious example being my banishment by Michael Durand, publisher of the Richmond Review for pushing back against the entitled motorists.

To celebrate this joyous moment I am including La Mer by Claude Debussy. Music Liz and I listened to 55 years ago when we lived on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Close by what is now The Great Highway Park.

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Surf’s up for Chesa Boudin. He’s All in for Great Highway Park

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 10.16.2024

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, ousted from office in a disgraceful Recall in June 2022, is very alive and well. And doing just fine, thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin

In June 2023, Boudin joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law as the founding executive director of the Criminal Law & Justice Center.

Today I learned that Chesa, a long time surfer in the waters off San Francisco’s Pacific Coast shoreline, has come out in favor of Proposition K. The November 5th ballot measure will create a permanent two mile car free space between Lincoln and Sloat.

POLITICS MAKES FOR STRANGE GREAT HIGHWAY PARK ALLIES

It’s no small irony that some of the very same individuals and political organizations who drove Chesa from office are major supporters of the Great Highway Park.

The law and order fueled opponents of DA Boudin joined with billionaire reactionaries and spent nearly 9M to oust this progressive prosecutor. It was a political lynching masterminded by Mayor London Breed and her cronies who wanted to rid themselves of someone not considered to be a City Hall insider.

These cretins drove an ethical and forward looking prosecutor from office. It was a pyrrhic victory. San Francisco is a sadder place without Chesa’s leadership.

San Francisco Standard-Power Play 10.16.2024
Surf’s up for Chesa Boudin

What’s the problem with San Francisco so called Progressives?

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 10.9.2024

What’s the problem with San Francisco’s so called Progressives when it comes to getting the entitled motorists out of their climate killing vehicles?

It astounds me there is a line up of faux environmental Progressives who are trying to put the brakes on Proposition K. The ballot measure when passed on November 5th will move ahead with the creation of a two mile car free area adjacent to the Pacific Coast shoreline.

The Progressive opposition is inexplicable particularly when one considers that the lead argument in the voter handbook against Proposition K was penned by one of San Francisco’s most notorious reactionary loudmouths. MAGA Republican and Fox News commentator Richie Greenberg.

The bluffs adjacent to The Great Walkway Park in San Francisco

I fully expected the long entitled whining motorists to scream and yell that some limits are being placed on their misguided life long right of entitlement. I saw this play out during the pitched battle which resulted in the overwhelming voter approval of now car free JFK Promenade in November 2022.

Liz Heidhues on JFK Promenade during 4th anniversary celebration – 4.28.2024

San Francisco voters will soon decide whether to make the two mile stretch of land between Lincoln Blvd and Sloat Blvd, now known as The Great Highway Park, permanently car free. The motorists have gone into overdrive pulling every oily polluted argument out of the gas tank in opposition.

In a nutshell, these spoiled drivers will be inconvenienced.

Campaign mailer from No on Prop K campaign with its incendiary lede WANTED FOR THE ROBBERY OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY

The most alarming opposition is coming from so called Progressives. Quick to tout their environmental bonafides. Until a tough decision is upon them. When will these so called Progressives have some backbone and stand tall for the environment? Or will they shamelessly cave to the motorists and their fossil fuel industry climate killing vehicles?

The list of Progressive individuals and institutions is depressing.

The usual political alliances in San Francisco have gone topsy turvy when it comes to the efforts to make the City a more pedestrian, cyclist friendly place. Some of more moderate, tech friendly, pro law enforcement organizations stand firmly on the side of Proposition K.

This Progressive ambivalence is unfathomable and unacceptable.

TOP PHOTO: ARTWORK FROM NO ON PROP K CAMPAIGN LIT _ HIGHWAY ROBBERY