It’s a hell of a thing to move heaven and earth — and meeting dates and meeting venues — to ensure you don’t have to do anything. It’s a hell of a thing for the San Francisco Democratic Party to go out of its way to make its brand and position statements even less relevant.
But that’s what happened last week.
Months ago, San Francisco Democratic Party chair Nancy Tung was already phoning up fellow party members and urging them to vote “no endorsement” in the pending recall of District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio.
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.
Politicians being caught between their donors and the city’s angriest voters turns out to also be a hell of a thing.
In June, Democratic Party members were informed they’d be voting to endorse or spurn the recall at the July 25 regular meeting. If they rejected it, that would give Engardio all of August and half of September to inundate Sunset District voters with flyers and ads blasting an “Endorsed by the Democratic Party” message.
But Tung yanked the item from the July 25 meeting agenda. She moved it to a special meeting slated for July 30. And she then subsequently canceled that special meeting.
The endorsement vote on the recall ended up being delayed for a full month, until last week — nearly two weeks after mail voting had commenced.
At that belated Aug. 27 meeting, the party deadlocked between Tung’s preferred “no endorsement” and “no on the recall.” As a result, the San Francisco Democratic Party will officially have no position on the Sept. 16 election.
If the ardent campaign to keep the Democratic Party from taking a position in the District 4 recall was done to preserve the party’s reputation with heavily Chinese and conservative-leaning Sunset District voters, it has come at the potential expense of the party’s reputation with nearly anyone else.
The national Democratic Party’s brand is in tatters, despite existential threats to American democracy, because of its inability to articulate a coherent ethos and steadfast unwillingness to take strong positions.
The particulars here in San Francisco are far different — but, broadly, the same situation applies.
The coalition of moderates running the local party is also in tatters. In the past year and change, YIMBY urbanist moderates have gritted their teeth in the name of unity and supported measures pushed by get-off-my-lawn, law-and-order moderates.
They have now been definitively shown that there will be no reciprocity.
Tung, in an interview with Mission Local, denied intentionally driving the San Francisco Democratic Party into a ditch.
She said she moved the endorsement vote from the regular July meeting to a special meeting because the venue for the regular meeting, the Central Chinese High School in Chinatown, was potentially too small to accommodate the throngs that might show up and opine on the recall.
Tung denied moving the vote to specifically avoid the specter of holding an endorsement vote in Chinatown. The recall is an issue of fervent interest to many San Francisco Chinese voters — with a majority, and likely a firm majority, skewing pro-recall.
She also denied delaying the vote until late August — when it would be meaningless — because she hadn’t in July nailed down enough “no endorsement” votes to reach her desired outcome.
Rather, she said she canceled the July 30 special meeting because of bylaws indicating that special meeting votes would require a supermajority to pass, not a simple majority.
Tung did not deny calling her colleagues to push a “no endorsement” vote, however, because that happened. Mission Local spoke to numerous recipients of these calls.
When asked why she advocated this position, she said, “I want to say I think it’s important for the party to think about these sorts of elections, especially when they’re so localized. We need to be sensitive to the communities that have to make these decisions.”
This is confusing. The Democratic Party endorses in every election, be it federal, state, citywide or districtwide. It endorsed Prop. K, the Engardio-led ballot measure to close the Great Highway that rests at the core of the recall. It endorsed a slate of district supervisor candidates in November. It will do so again in 2026.
The ostensible power of these endorsements — and the supposed allure of the Democratic brand in a city where registered Dems outnumber Republicans by a factor of eight — was a major reason why tech executives and landlord interests invested heavily last year in their preferred candidates to oust the labor-backed politicos running the party.
So it’s confusing for the chair of the Democratic Party to now say that District 4 voters need to be given their space to decide the fate of their supervisor — a supervisor who, notably, was pushing Prop. K and other Democratic Party-endorsed positions.
No Democratic Party member I spoke with took seriously the claim that the vote was moved out of the Chinatown venue hosting the July 25 meeting because the hall was too tiny.
Nor was anyone particularly swayed by Tung’s argument about the rules carved onto the Stone Table of the county Democratic Party regarding endorsement votes at special meetings.
Tung countered that she sought the input of a “professional parliamentarian” on the matter, whose opinion compelled her to cancel the special meeting. But she declined to identify who this person was or disclose if they had been compensated.
The county Democratic Party, incidentally, has in-house parliamentarians, and it’s unclear why their opinions weren’t good enough. It also has veteran members who don’t recall this ever before being an issue over the course of many years and many special meetings.
If a two-thirds endorsement vote really is required at a special meeting, scheduling a special meeting for such a vote was extremely careless — at best.
In short, many of Tung’s colleagues, regardless of how they voted on Aug. 27, do not buy her explanation that the endorsement vote was repeatedly moved and repeatedly delayed purely through a series of unfortunate events.
If Prop. K exposed the fissures in the moderates’ urbanist-old school coalition, the strange and terrible recall endorsement saga may have snapped them.
Urbanists were already deeply irritated by the San Francisco Democratic Party opting to simply drop Prop. K off of 2024 mailers sent to the Westside — party recommendations blithely skipped from Prop. J to Prop. L, like excising the 13th floor from a high-rise.
Following the endorsement debacle and the probable defeat of Engardio come Sept. 16 (anything could happen — but if you bet on Engardio, you should ask for odds), expect internecine conflict and further dysfunction within San Francisco’s Democratic Party: “Moderate cannibalism,” in the words of one observer.
Following the Aug. 27 Democratic Party meeting, a number of the members who voted to not make a recall endorsement went out for drinks. A smiling group photo was, inexplicably, posted on social media. “We got through our vote!” was the gaudy caption.
It’s a hell of a thing to be caught between your billionaire donor base and the city’s most vehement and outspoken voters. A drink is understandable. But it doesn’t alleviate the problem.
After Sept. 16, this Democratic Party will have to move on to the next problem, and the one after that.
San Francisco, alas, is not wholly immune from our national condition: Whatever’s coming down the pike figures to be more consequential than the fate of a windswept highway and the elected official who, with our county Democratic Party’s blessing, moved to close it.
In the weeks and months to come, we may all need a drink.
Do regular people still actually follow the DCCC endorsements? I have recycled their voter guides without even reading them for years.
Political parties on both sides of the aisle have stopped representing the bulk of their voters, all in exchange for wealthy donors.
It’s kind of difficult to discern “both sides of the aisle” here in Ess Eff. But yes, political parties are self-licking ice cream cones that serve themselves.
This article kind of glosses over the PROCESS of Engardio placing the (google and dark billionaire money funded) deregulation/land grab proposition on the ballot at the very last minute after lying to his constituents about his intentions.
I mean cmon. When Connie Chan is calling you out on lying, it’s time to go.
tin foil hats out in force.
He was caught lying repeatedly and continues to lie. Calling people names to avoid that doesn’t work in the Sunset, so where are you from?
Jym Dyer adds nothing but a thumbs down to what he admits is factual. I guess being a YIMBY means supporting liars now if they “align” with his gentrification priorities. What did you add to the discussion? Nothing. You just want to stifle conversations you don’t agree with, but admit are factual. Shame on you man.
@Q – Yes, yes, we’ve all read the talking points already. Repeating them word for word is so useful.
RECALL VOTES OUT IN FORCE.
THE LIAR IS DONE.
YOU LOST, TOOLS.
Are all Engardio stans ^ this much of worthless trolls? It’s very possible at this point.
I have to wonder why this site even bothers to moderate comments if the moderation doesn’t actually care about the stated “short and civil” rules and allows anonymous cowards to type random personal attacks and tiresome off-topic talking-points all day long.
Censorship is not moderation “Jimothy”
As long as the democratic party is run by dinosaurs there is absolutely no future.They are weak at the local ,state and national level.they need new, younger, more progressive people.Don’t get me wrong the old republican party (R.I.P) which just became a cult whose members are following an old orange thing, a wanna be dictator who never went to the army, are not faring better neither..No future..
Well they sure don’t need lying scumbags like Joel Engardio… GONE!
FIRED!
Speaking of Nancy Tung.
https://48hills.org/2025/08/how-sf-democratic-party-has-become-the-right-wing-of-the-state-party/
Engardio made a mistake he should own it.
It was no mistake! It was a deliberate lie and rug pulling coupled with trying to delete the official record of his official city-business meetings! He’s a scam and has never admitted any of it was at all shady, rather calls everyone who notices his lies “tinfoil hat” pejoratives.
We can’t work with that! A liar who won’t admit it is toxic.
why the tin foil hat label fits
See, again, you’re proving my point that the only people supporting a liar are of similar moral character.
It fits you perhaps, defending a liar from his constituency as if your trollish “comments” actually did that lol. I feel bad for people who get roped into a liar’s BS ideology. Get well soon.
Why do you like the phrase “strange and terrible.” Did you make a bet with someone that you could for the phrase into every article you write?
Mitch —
Here you go:
https://gprivate.com/6i7i4
If you don’t like that phrase, feel free to read over it.
Best,
JE
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The number of people who call themselves Democrats, going to the mat to turn a park into a highway, is… extremely depressing.
It is high time the city got an actual multi-party system (not just two!). Joe, it’d be interesting for you to sit down with some polisci folks at Berkeley or Stanford and write about why that isn’t happening and what sorts of electoral reforms might be helpful to push in that direction. Because the current single-party state leads to some… awfully strange bedfellows, and to the point of this article, leads to a shell of a “party” that can’t actually lead anyone anywhere.
I depended on SF Democratic endorsements for years, but some of their choices of late, I definitely did not feel good about. I’m a RESIDENT here for 53 years. Now, I don’t trust them or to Vote for first time in my life.
Joe,
Conservatives should be called conservatives.
There is nothing “moderate” about them.
Their agenda is corporate profits for their backers and self promotion and wealth for themselves. Not the public good. The public is something they have to tolerate.
Which is why you will never see them holding genuine participatory community meetings.
For-profit corporations do this and non-profit private corporations are also expert at “public engagement” strategies.
Our democracy is corrupted so long as private corporations have more power that citizens, voters.
“Moderate” is a BS word. It does not describe the agenda that Billionaires are funding via corporate PACs far surpassing the local resident voters.
Ask yourself, why ARE Billionaires so interested in supporting YIMBY tools?
Qui bono.
The DCCC vote isn’t too difficult to understand. The DCCC would rather not take a stand against a significant portion of its constituency to support a losing candidate who has antagonized that constituency. They do stand for something, they just don’t “Stand with Joel,” as he appears to stand for taking politically foolish and morally bankrupt positions. It wouldn’t have been too difficult for him to keep the Great Highway compromise in place, and it isn’t as though he took a principled stand in converting a part-time road/park into an asphalt boardwalk.
Never mind that the Chinese American Democratic Club (CADC) doesn’t have standing to call itself a registered “democratic club,” yet remains freely able to use this tile — kudos to Chair Tung.
Never mind Chair Tung personally requested removal of the Proposition K endorsement from the 2024 SFDCCC slate mailer to Chinese language ballot voters.
Never mind the fact westside Chinese American voters are the fasted growing demographic among San Francisco’s registered Republicans.
Never mind that Chair Tung called out Josephine Zhou to ask if she’d register as a Democrat at a private Chinese voter event, hosted by Gary Tan.
So why is our local democratic party fawning over a segment of westside Chinese voters who aren’t registered Democrats and have a “democratic club” that includes voters from out-of-county? Where is the citywide appeal?
Seems like a better approach would be to identify and run a more effective candidate in District 4, rather than pushing for a divisive recall.
Engardio’s supervision is the divisiveness, not the recall. The recall is locally more popular than he is. The reason? He lied to us. People can’t stand his BS excuses for dishonest dealing. We can’t trust him in the future.
There’s nothing more divisive than lying and hiring PR shills to pretend you didn’t in perpetuity.
Article lacks any mention of the fact that Prop K actually won. Lol. Just noting that it angered “thousands of Chinese San Franciscans,” as if Chinese SFers are somehow worth more than any others.
Maybe if the Sunset wasn’t so dead-set on blocking new housing, more people would’ve lived there and would have voted against Prop K.
Prop K shouldn’t have been a citywide vote, shouldn’t have been put in at the very last possible second (literally at night), shouldn’t have skipped safety reviews and ignored the concerns of constituents, shouldn’t have been able to undermine CA law using a loophole that doesn’t even really apply, and all of this using Billionaire dark money PACs to shovel influence from techno-yuppies on the Private Equity dole into our local politics. Engardio did all this after saying explicitly he wasn’t going to. The fact that it only won by 5% in a citywide vote where the 2 affected districts are vastly outnumbered by unaffected “whatever YIMBY’s” shows that it wasn’t nearly the burning priority that Engardio’s PR shills pretended. As traffic during events and on weekends builds and once quiet outer Sunset streets are flooded with cars compensating for the morass, anger at the dishonest process and Engardio’s lies only continues to build as he continues to gaslight and pretend nothing he did was wrong. We in D4 know better because we paid attention – the rest of the city not so much.
Why shouldn’t it have been a citywide vote? It’s a city park.
It was put in months before the election, not even close to the “last second.”
It passed by closer to 9%.
Sunset is still quiet.
Maybe you would have done better in the vote if you made reasonable arguments based on facts rather than made things up. Stay mad!
It’s not a city park, it’s a west side 2 district thoroughfare.
Claiming roads are parks is bullshit and you are a victim of it.
So SFDP is nothing but out of touch billionaires too chicken to take a stand on anything. Who knew. Guess they’re are no different than the national party. Which is is why we’ve got a Trump, thankfully. The time for the dem clown show is up. Good riddance!
This writing in the 3rd person is weird.
it’s comical that these people got elected to run the sf dem party and they can’t even follow through on their convictions.
They realized Engardio is toxic and loathed by his District 4 constituents, and that’s really the only reason they didn’t defend him – because they can’t.
He is being held to account before his constituency, they get the only votes. DNC can say whatever they want about it but it would only make them look either beholden to lying pets of Billionaire dark money, or worse, public hypocrites on the issue of the (still very democratic, will of the people represented) recall process.
If they had weighed in against it and lost obviously they’d look even more feckless than they already do. Convictions, lol, Engardio has none. It’s all about $. He sold out his district and now they get the last say – YES ON A.
It’s comical that you think 1) they are all elected, and 2) they aren’tt following through when 1) they actually seem finally to be paying attention to the public 2) they are aware how they derive power, who gives it to them, and what it means to support democracy.
Let’s see: billionaires and rich landlords are “moderate” and Chinese voters are “conservative”. Just what makes Michael Moritz, Chris Larsen. Peter Thiel and Garry Tan moderate? Is it getting rid of the Police Commission, or arming the cops with drones? Is it development free for all? Is Trump “moderate”? When Trump sends in the troops, will the “moderates” defend SF or hide behind the tanks? But oh those Chinese voters who oppose Engardio, they must be “conservative”. Are you sure they’re not “progressive homeless mentally ill drug-addicts” (to slightly paraphrase moderates Davis Sacks and Elon Musk)? Words matter, or they used to
‘Mark’ ??
“Mark” ??
You’ll have to be more specific.
“There are lots of Matts.”
Jackie Fielder said that.
Really, you must be too young to have ridden to Vegas with Hunter Thompson and his faithful attorney page after page.
I love Thompson and Bukowski more but I honor e.e. cummings in my signature by making it all lower case as the poet did his poems …
“anybody lived in a pretty how town with up so floating many bells down”
“only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down”
Don’t you have any Soul, boy ?
lol
go Niners !!
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SFDCCC has always been a nest of forked tongued snakes animated by fear and greed. There are no values to be found in the institution as is evidenced by the rudderless decay of San Francisco government into a corrupt extraction operation under its hegemony.
Whatever is left of the “progressive” operation depended on snagging the DCCC so as to not have to appeal to the voters directly.
As America approaches dystopian critical mass with daily news of innocent humans being abducted by lawless masked goons, while state and federal courts and judges struggle to rule thoughtfully over chaos, isn’t it nice to know that SFDCCC Chair Nancy Tung is concerned about parliamentarian decorum?
Thanks for reporting .
This town has lost its way years ago.
Government is now not in touch or effective .
Big salaries warming their chairs .
The handouts and welfare entitlement is ruining this city .
Taxpayers and those working hard are getting nothing for their contribution.
Nothing is working in this town
What a dump
It is now only for welcoming and paying for all out of town addicts and vagrants .
The wheel cannot be reinvented .
New politicians who think their so smart and yet the same broken system .
Don’t start the Revolution without me,
Chris Hedges calls the Green Party an Intellectual Masturbation Group …
“Any Party that does not have a Working Class in its structure is doomed.”
Used to be til 8 years ago that the Democrats had the Working Class behind them solidly but now the mechanization of algorithms has brainwashed them into voting against their own interests.
The Republicans are a Cult trailing behind their AntiChrist through a World of leaky powder kegs with sparks uh flying.
Tho I like Bernie Sanders best, I’ll go with AOC for now topping my Fantasy Ticket with Katie Porter as U. S. Senator from California and who’s running in D-10 ?
We do live in interesting times.
go Niner !!
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“Whatever’s coming down the pike….” Indeed.
Despite some of them barely having been children and others away to ostensibly recharge on vacation, all of our privileged political players make me sick!
They fiddle and fret to divert us from seeing how they themselves contributed to to the terrible state of affairs we live under today.
Like every other “solution” the city’s leaders have foisted on the public, the closure of the Great Highway was just an attention-grabbing gimmick to keep us from noticing more pressing issues demanding real solutions.
For example, why were rich corporations allowed to flood our city with self-driving vehicles behind our backs, while our existing public transportation and infrastructure is being whittled away and called “unprofitable”?
Despite the number of billionaires in our city (50? 80?)– our politicians routinely lie and tell us we don’t have enough money to fix or solve anything properly. Does anyone else feel insulted whenever they dangle promises of coming to our rescue? What a house of cards!
Meanwhile San Franciscans are kidnapped and attacked on our streets by fascist goons. Political speech is suppressed and becoming criminalized. Newsom and Trump try to outdo each other by manipulating voting districts, and by “restoring public order”. Even as global disease, war, and environmental disaster gallop unrestrained all around us, whatever quality of life we once enjoyed is fraying fast.
For now, Mayor Lurie has been able to straddle the fence between the oligarchs and the people– by doing… virtually nothing.
With whom does his loyalty lie? Should we care?
Lurie wisely stays out of the fray but you’re right, we have no idea where he actually stands. He puts a smiling face and a nice suit on whatever he’s decided, but as far as being a trusted and predictable leader he’s balked noticeably a few times already.
Read that article about the wikipedia editor who does nothing else but scrub Lurie’s wiki page from anything controversial? That kind of thing I’m allergic to.
Robert,
I love your writing.
Probably because I usually agree with you and Marcos and you’re better writers than me in your own ways.
lol
Daniel Lurie has indeed shown his hand on the most important issue in Town which will always be Public Safety.
He’s siding with the hard asses and turning up the level of muscle being used against the homeless and addicted.
Example number one was when his new ‘Temporary’ Polic Chief removed a new Reform Minded Captain from Mission Precinct Station (she took Monthly Community meetings out of the Cop Shop and held them in Public Places for starters) and …
Gave us a Lieutenant from the Mayor’s ‘Dignitary Protection Unit’ on the ‘bad cop’ Brady List.
His first action was to break up block parties of Immigrant Latinos charging them with squads of Riot armed cops as he screamed:
“I am declaring this an illegal gathering and we will use force !!”
Yeah, he did that to people celebrating their new home in the land of Freedom of Expression.
So, yeah, Mayor Lurie is heavily on the side of Revenge Vs Reform and I still like the guy and I’m told 75% of the electorate agree but he killed Police Reform in the Mission.
This method doesn’t work, Mr. Mayor.
Reform is possible and I know because I was a very successful Reform School Teacher.
Revenge only creates mor criminals.
That’s the Science, Daniel.
Loving your energy and openness to old plogging bloggers like me.
lol
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Should he do nothing like the last mayor? All her buddies are being criminally investigated right now. Maybe women don’t feel safe walking through these “block parties” where men are drinking and using/selling drugs, cursing and loudly screaming, and publicly urinating in front of children. I thank the Mayor for at least making an effort to those of us who can plainly see we aren’t safe walking through the city. Anyone can see the progress being made, just by reading the articles here alone, and seeing the photos. The camera doesn’t lie. But let me guess? White male boomer, right? Y’all have all the answers, don’t you? Lmao
You had to go to full “boomer” attacks, really? Kids…
What San Franciscans are being kidnapped? That would be a crime. That’s a bald-faced lie. Criminals are being removed. Legally. That’s why no one in the rest of the country takes California seriously. The LIES. NEVER. STOP.
I think RBL is referring to heavily armed people in masks with no identification jumping out of unmarked cars and dragging law-abiding people off: Or as you euphemistically phrased it “removed”. Actually, yes, it is a crime and it is not a lie: Read up on the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution.
Hey Sweetums,
Did you know that overstaying a visa or entering without authorization is a civil violation, not a crime?
So was Elon Musk staying on a student visa, not going to class but instead working. Same law. Or when Melania immigrated on a “genius visa” – lol, genius idea that, but she’s no genius.
As a lifelong Dem with a view about managing the middle of the aisle effectively, I am sad to say that this article is a perfect example of why we lose elections. Biased, self-righteous, and offbalance viewpoints about democracy that ignore public voices are not a recipe for success.
If you want to win, first you get the center, and then (and only then) do you push to the left while keeping the center. When you mistakenly emphasize the extreme based upon your self-satisfied view of only your own priorities, you either get nowhere fast, or you have to resport to breaking the law and steamrolling people like tRump. It’s just like navigating a road that you have closed on yourself.
Perhaps, unlike the author of this article, the DCCC is finally on to something and reading the room ….
“that ignore public voices” – THIS. The Sunset has a right to pick their representative and the right to recall them when they lie. Just because the citywide vote supported K by 5%, which is NUTS because only 2 districts are negatively impacted while the others are essentially voting on undoing what already existed in a safe and locally agreed-to compromise, that doesn’t defend Engardio from righteous charges of deleting the PUBLIC RECORD of his meeting with Google lawyers (and others?) leading up to his midnight Proposition drop. He is shady, he is caught lying, and his constituents are not happy about that – or stripping out rent control protections for new housing. He’s a YIMBY tool, out for the Billionaire PE class, and anathema to the district he was elected to represent and instead threw under the bulldozer.
Well put.
Nancy Tung makes Lady Macbeth look like a softie. Iago would slide into a pile of spittle in her presence. When imperiously presiding over SFDCCC public meetings her omnipresent sneer is something to behold (not in a good way). She could have been SF’s DA…..nightmares are made of this. Here is what happens when you vote for a billionaire funded corporate slate like “dems for change.” Her feigned concern for the public is entirely performative.. Tung is power hungry and missed her calling as a prison warden or an attorney in the current DOJ.
I think it is important to note exactly why the west side gets described as “moderate.” It is because the residents favor strong public safety such as full police staffing and tougher rules for catching/prosecuting/sentencing criminals and their activity. This does not come from being a shadow conservative, GOP district – not at all – just one that is loaded with multi-generational families with plenty of young children. Safety is critical – and fully logical. Outside of this, D4 voters may be open to supporting many progressive goals and policy initiatives. Most social services, for example, are fully supported. Labor issues – full support, too. As for Urbanists? They need to rethink their west side program entirely. People will defend their quasi urban/suburban neighborhood character tooth and nail. And there is no subway network. This means people generally do need to be able to get around by car. Hence, the energy over the Great Highway – which was seen as a key transportation artery in D4.
as well as continue to create a draw for the rest of the city to come into their “neighborhood” and ruin the suburban feel of their waterfront views which used to be restricted to west of GG park and to the north. With future plans for a subway extension out to the west side to try to relieve the congestion of 19th avenue, there will be more housing development and a changing demographics which will be another thing some in the area will be fighting against. Should be interesting times indeed for any supervisor who gets elected to keep enough people happy to stay in office for long.
Joel Engardio lied, he tried to hide the OFFICIAL RECORD of his meetings which is the public domain and public property he has no right to censor for politics, he took and takes money from Billionaire dark money Pacs that are shameless and blatantly corrupting our local representation, and he did it all against the will of his ONLY constituents in District 4. He’s a Supervisor and he screwed the public.
No, the DCC deciding “no endorsement” was the correct and only option, really.
If they called for a recall they’d be hypocrites and endangering their own positions given the level of scrutiny and feelings of inadequate representation lately. If they called for no recall they’d be endorsing a shameless baldfaced liar and carpetbagger whose district absolutely loathes his gaslighting BS.
The only choice was “no endorsement” and let the Sunset district decide for itself, because they are the only ones voting on Prop A – to remove liar Joel Engardio.
Anything else would be self-defeating interference. Nancy Tung is many things but politically stupid is not one. Pelosi does not represent the Sunset historically.
Whether or not Engardio’s BS lies and finger-pointing get him recalled, he will be removed for sure if he survives the year to the next district election. He’s a liar. He personally sold out low-mid income renters and blue collar workers in a few short years – This is a Breed backing lieutenant of liars running purely on Billionaire dark money donations from corporate PACs. SCREW THAT NOISE.
We deserve better. DCC weighing in or not, we do not care.
Restore accountability in local representation – YES on A, the money has been spent and the only way to waste it is to leave a baldfaced liar in office.
rawr
Again, you have nothing to counter the fact that Engardio is a liar.
I may be the only Democrat in California who thinks this, but I think redistricting California is a mistake. That’s going to be all Democrats talk about for the next 2 months, when we should be using this valuable time to decide what the Democratic Party stands for.
The GOP is happy about the divide between progressive and moderate Democrats. Democrats were able to bring everyone together briefly in Nov. 2020 to defeat Trump, barely. Since then the Democrats have lost voters, especially among Latinos and Latinas. California would be the perfect place to work out a platform to bring everyone together again. But we’re not even addressing it.
Q: What is a Democrat?
A: A Republican with pronouns.
I’m with you, redistricting only sets off an arms race of sorts with red states. They have less pushback internally against such shenanigans and will outdo our efforts, no question. It’s getting into the mud to wrestle with pigs – what separates us from them now? Not enough.
“Sets off” FYI, Texas is already finished with theirs, which will be net +5 GOP seats.
I understand Texas went first. CA retaliating in same kind substantiates the tactic instead of calling it out. Gerrymandering is wrong no matter who is doing it, on that I agree with Arnold.
Nothing ever did separate them but white privilege for the rich Dems.
Al Gore: we should act on climate change
GWB: we should run energy policy literally out of oil company offices
Biden: we should invest a trillion dollars in clean energy
Trump: we should make it illegal to close coal plants
Dulce: these parties are the same
It’s looking that way increasingly as they fail to really speak out with force against the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian civilian population. Call it out. Same with Engardio’s lies – never let them forget.
Your article should be moved to the editorial section, and updated to reflect the opinion that the DCCC did exactly what they should have done with a public servant who is currently facing uninvestigated and unresolved allegations of falsifying public records. If you are going to claim to be a reporter responsib;le for facts rather than hyperbole, you might want to be thorough with the information that you include, as well as the interview subjects that you quote. I live in D4, as do thousands of other folks you could have interviewed, many of whom attended the meeting. I see none of them quoted. I guess including their opinion in an opinion peice about whether or not their opinion should even be included in policy decisions is too much trouble for you while you are busy trying to sell “facts.” PS – the democratic party is just fine, and is consistent – we are not a party of corruption or special-interests buying votes or public policy proclimations that are forced upon people. There is another party for that – go join it if you wish.
Sir or madam —
Thank you for writing a lengthy, semi-coherent comment despite not knowing what a “column” is.
Best,
JE
Thank you for writing a non-coherent excuse for failing to understand both the Democratic party as well as the responsibility of the press.
Sir or madam —
Lecture harder.
JE
“Your article should be moved to the editorial section”
It’s a column as mentioned. You’re probably used to some other sites where they denote “opinion” right below the reporter’s name on each piece to hit you over the head with it, but it means the same thing. On this page, the first thing it says is “column” – you can’t miss it unless you don’t know what a column refers to and yet are trying to be a pedant. (As an aside, Engardio was found to have violated the Sunshine Ordinance so your first sentence is very on point. The rest could have been a little more… researched.)
Trent, local “moderate” Dems were mostly in support of Prop K. D4 residents should never forget that. I would say these “moderates” showed no courage of their convictions when they chose no-endorse/no show on Prop A. Joel was one of their own – and was absolutely betrayed. This is not a good moment for the SF DCCC.