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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/joel-engardio-recalled-now-anyone-can-be-   
   recalled-by-everyone/   
      
   n 1983, Mayor Dianne Feinstein overwhelmingly beat a recall initiated by   
   zany gun nuts.   
      
   This came at a time when the gun murders of Mayor George Moscone and   
   Supervisor Harvey Milk were hardly a distant memory. The terrain favored   
   the incumbent, whose campaign wisely made the recall not a valediction on   
   her performance but instead ridiculed the notion of a recall and the   
   fringe recallers.   
      
   This was never an option for Supervisor Joel Engardio, whose means of   
   political ascent was participating in recall movements. The recall against   
   him had instantaneous credibility, and was wholly tied to whatever you   
   thought about his stand on closing the Great Highway.   
      
   In November, 64 percent of Engardio’s constituents rejected Engardio’s   
   stance on that issue. In tonight’s early returns, 65 percent of Engardio’s   
   constituents rejected Engardio.   
      
   Proposition A to recall Supervisor Engardio   
   Yes 62.9%   
   No 37.1%   
   Needs 50% + 1 to pass. Current turnout: 42.2%   
      
   That hardly seems coincidental or subtle. Sometimes things really, really   
   aren’t coincidental or subtle.   
      
   Mark it zero, Dude: It’s a new political moment in San Francisco. Ask a   
   San Francisco politico when recalls will fade from prominence, and the   
   answer is simple: When someone beats one.   
      
   That wasn’t today. If Team Engardio had beaten this one, they’d have been   
   talking about it for the rest of time like Joe Namath is still talking   
   about Super Bowl III.   
      
   Instead, a whole new political dynamic opened up today. The modern San   
   Francisco recall movement, a conduit for billionaire dollars to dislodge   
   progressive politicians, has lost one of its own. Unlike other recalls in   
   recent San Francisco history, this one did not enjoy the patronage of   
   billionaire backers.   
      
   Quite the opposite: The near majority of the money donated to keep   
   Engardio in office emanated from three wealthy backers. And the recall   
   succeeded — overwhelmingly succeeded — in spite of them.   
      
   It turns out you don’t need wealthy benefactors to run a successful   
   (overwhelmingly successful) recall. As such, this weapon has slipped out   
   of the hands of the elites and down to the masses.   
      
   This feels a bit like non-Western nations getting The Bomb. It will be   
   interesting to see who gets blown up next.   
      
      
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   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama   
   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
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