San Francisco Voters Decide, Once Again, Whether to Recall an Elected Official

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Voters in the Sunset district of San Francisco are casting ballots on whether to recall their supervisor Joel Engardio. Engardio, a vocal champion of the city’s previous recalls of three school board members and former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, has angered residents in his district over his support of Proposition K, which closed the oceanfront’s Great Highway. The 2-mile stretch of land opened as Sunset Dunes Park, but whether that park is wanted, is still under debate with some saying it impacts local businesses and daily commutes. We talk about San Francisco’s recall fever and the balancing act required by officials representing the needs of their districts, and the desires of the city. Guests: Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist, Mission Local Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science, San Francisco State University Sydney Johnson, reporter, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	Voters in the Sunset District of San Francisco are casting ballots right now on whether to recall their supervisor, Joel Engardio.
0:56.2	Engardio, a vocal champion of the city's previous recalls of three school board members and
1:01.1	former district attorney Chesa Budin has angered residents in his district by supporting Proposition
1:06.9	K, which closed the ocean front great highway to create sunset dunes park.
1:12.7	We'll talk about San Francisco's recall fever and how city officials balance representing their
1:18.0	districts and the city as a whole.
1:20.3	It's all coming up next right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:38.2	Who, boy, I spent some time yesterday reading stories and comments and social media posts
1:43.8	about the closing of the
1:45.8	Great Highway and the opening of sunset dunes park and honestly it's one of the nastiest
1:50.9	angriest realms of local politics that i've ever seen everyone seems to be wildly almost
1:56.0	unbelievably angry about every single thing that's happened along the way, and every side is like that.
2:02.3	So for those of us who are not in District 4, not in the Sunset District, maybe not even in San Francisco,
2:08.1	we're going to lay down a solid foundation for what happened out there, and what's the sort of
2:13.0	whole infrastructure of anger that seems to exist? Then we'll wait into the mess. So we're joined this
2:18.7	morning by Sidney Johnson, KQD reporter. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me.
2:23.3	We're joined by Joe Escanazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local. Welcome back, Joe.
2:29.1	Thank you. Thank you very much. And we've got Jason McDaniel, professor of political science
2:33.2	at SF State. Welcome.
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