Editor:

This “shallow and simple minded” voter would like to point out to a recent letter writer that Joel Engardio must have been similarly “shallow and simple minded” when he loudly, publicly and actively promoted the recall of the district attorney and board of education members when he disagreed with their positions. Suddenly a recall of HIM is “wasteful”?  How convenient.

This “shallow and simple minded” voter would like to remind you that the method by which Engardio snuck the ballot in was on the deadline at 5 p.m. on a Friday and did not breathe a word of this to his constituency.  Was there a public discussion of this BEFORE it was filed? No. This ballot forever closed off any possible future discussion of compromise, reversal, or support for permanent closure of the Upper Great Highway. 

About 60% of his own constituents voted “no” on K.  About 70% of the Richmond district opposed K.  Engardio was the face and father of an extremely unpopular proposition that the entire west side of San Francisco opposed by huge margins.  The western side of SF who was and will be most affected by the permanent closure unlike voters in the Haight, Mission, Noe Valley, Marina District, etc., who supported K but weren’t affected.

This “shallow and simple minded” voter also notes the support of Weiner for Engardio since they both are advocating for massive development of out-of-scale building on the western side of San Francisco.

This “shallow and simple minded” voter also notes the large amounts of money being donated to Engardio by the same people who supported Prop. K to oppose the recall – tens of thousands of dollars by individuals who don’t actually live in the western part of SF but are certainly interested in developing there. I personally don’t mind if Chris Larsen ($50,000) and Jeremy Stoppelman ($25,000) waste their money.

Christina Shih