#recall-election

#recall-election

Engardio's pro-business, pro-law enforcement, pro-building agenda has a constituency here in San Francisco. It certainly includes the billionaire tech and landlord donors who underwrote the ascendant leadership of the Democratic Party, and are underwriting Engardio's anti-recall campaign. But Engardio's championing of Prop. K, the measure to transform The Great Highway into a park, enraged a broad swath of the Westside - including thousands of Chinese San Franciscans.

No matter what happens in San Francisco's special recall election on Sept. 16, Supervisor Joel Engardio will perhaps always be remembered as the man who closed the Upper Great Highway and turned it into Sunset Dunes. This is certainly driving rancor and discussion more than his relatively abridged legislative record, strategists said. Since taking office in January 2023, Engardio has sponsored 29 pieces of legislation, mostly focusing on district issues. Only nine of those are ordinances that bring actual policy change.

The petition to recall Joel Engardio was certified after achieving 10,523 valid signatures—612 above the required threshold, enabling a special election in September.

The Recall Diana Becton group aims to gather over 72,000 signatures for a recall election against Contra Costa County's district attorney, citing dissatisfaction with her performance.