I am voting YES on Measure A to recall Supervior Joel Engardio. However, I am not doing this for many of the good reasons already stated. My vote is because of the forces Mr. Engardio has aligned with who are attacking our neighborhood.
There have been a host of criticisms of Mr. Engardio and good reasons to recall him: betrayal, lying to his constituents and duplicitous behavior. As valid as these reasons are, there is another reason to consider – the moneyed idealogues aligned with the Supervisor who used him to implement their “progressive,” no car, YIMBY building agenda in the western neighborhoods. We need to come to the realization that these groups do not care what the residents of our neighborhoods want for our future.
These hard-core idealogues operate under a “we win, you lose” mentality. Forget about a weekend compromise on the Upper Great Highway – shut it down completely. They disguise themselves with benign group titles, such as “Walk SF,” “SF Bicycle Coalition,” “Abundant SF” and “SFMTA.” Their tactics are anything but benign…