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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Burton’s daughter, Kimiko, remembered her father’s relentless focus on helping those who needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For him, it was helping the downtrodden and the underdog. He really felt an obligation to help people who didn’t have a voice, who don’t have lobbyists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an expectation that Gov. Gavin Newsom would speak. He arrived but did not enter the courtyard where the program was underway. Instead, he was spotted just outside, talking quietly with Kimiko Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, I asked her what he said. “I love you,” she said, choking back tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fathers were friends when we were children, and so when I had anticipated that my dad would be here, I texted Gavin and I said, ‘My dad wants you here not because you’re the governor but because you’re Billy’s son,’” she said, referring to Newsom’s late father, former Judge Bill Newsom. “We were just telling stories about when we were young and when our dads were younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The memoir of the late John Burton displayed at the California Museum in Sacramento on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burton name has long carried weight in California politics. I arrived in California in 1981, and it wasn’t long before Burton caught my attention. In 1982, Burton, then one of the city’s congressional representatives, announced he would not seek re-election, choosing instead to come home and deal with his addiction to cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, his older brother, Phil, a high-octane powerbroker in Washington, died suddenly of a heart attack. His widow, Sala Burton, replaced him in Congress. On her deathbed in 1987, Sala urged a young Nancy Pelosi to run for her seat in Congress to keep the Burton legacy alive. The rest, as they say, is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Burton machine” wielded outsize influence on who represented San Francisco in both Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. 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After a long pause, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That when I left Sacramento, poor people and blind, disabled and women on what they used to call welfare, had more money than they had when I came in,” Burton said, adding, “I just tried to do the best I could for people. If you’re in a position of power or influence, you take care of those who ain’t got it, who don’t have the power. They don’t have anybody but you or somebody fighting for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another event celebrating Burton’s memoir is scheduled for Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Dolso-Morey said one of his motivations to unionize was to advocate for more safety staff at Mission Cliffs. Though hundreds of people may use the gym at peak hours, he said, only one person will be in charge of checking that people are climbing safely, among other tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ Accidents do happen, and usually it’s because of a lack of safety staff being able to make sure everyone is doing the correct protocols before they climb on the wall,” Dolso-Morey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolso-Morey said he also hopes unionizing will help workers negotiate for better wages. He said his most recent raise pushed up his wage by 4%, equal to 80 cents an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055478\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250910-MISSION-CLIFFS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250910-MISSION-CLIFFS-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250910-MISSION-CLIFFS-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250910-MISSION-CLIFFS-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission Cliffs in San Francisco on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Living in San Francisco is diabolically expensive,” Dolso-Morey said. “If we didn’t love doing this job and being part of this community, we wouldn’t be here. 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He planned to meet with employees at his two restaurants in the Fruitvale and Richmond, as well as fellow merchants, to ensure they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050993/a-day-in-the-life-of-san-joses-rapid-response-network-built-to-resist-ice-fear\">know their rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all this information, I got more ideas about the things that I can do. First of all, for me is to prepare my business,” said Olivares, 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naturalized U.S. citizen, who first arrived in the Fruitvale as an undocumented teen, said his life experience motivates him to protect his community from any immigration-related abuses. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s another recall election in the Bay Area. This time, it’s in San Francisco’s Sunset District on the city’s west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in District 4 have until Tuesday, Sept. 16 to vote in a special recall election for Supervisor Joel Engardio, who faces backlash from constituents after supporting Prop. K, which closed a portion of the Great Highway for a new park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9662689086\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054762/san-francisco-sf-recall-supervisor-joel-engardio-special-election\">Your Guide to the Special Recall Election of San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:35] So Sydney, tell me a little bit about where you went out to on Saturday. Where’d you go and who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] I followed Supervisor Joel Engardio around in one of his door-knocking shifts. He has been doing this pretty much every day for several hours a day for the last few weeks and months even, trying to convince voters to vote no on the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:03] Oh, hello. Hi, I’m Joel. I’m the city supervisor at City Hall and I’m just checking to see if you have questions or concerns. Oh, hi\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:14] It’s strategic. You know, if they know someone is already planning to vote one way or another in the recall, you know, skip that house, kind of maximize your time out there to focus on households where people might be undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] No, any opinion on the recall election? No, well, I’ll leave a little flyer here just to explain it. It’s in about 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:37] And following the recall at all, you know that there are some angry voters out there too, or at least one in particular, I know, who recognized Joel as soon as we got to his house. And he was very frustrated about traffic and pretty much slammed the door in our face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Does it get easier kind of dealing with those after a little while or?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 3 \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] You’ll get yelled at, but then you’ll have multiple people say they support you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:14] I would say the majority, actually, of people that we talked to were curious, and, you know, there were certainly some people that said, oh, I actually just don’t really know much about this recall or what it’s about, and you know Joel had an opportunity to explain from his perspective what was going on. There were certainly people that came away from that conversation being like, well, you know I guess I’ll vote no on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:03:38] It’s a no in this house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh it is! A no yeah well thank you yeah appreciate that!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] I mean they’re stuck with what they’ve got right yeah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] One of the neighbors that we spoke to was Jeff Roberts. He was working in his garage and Joel stopped by and introduced himself, asked if he had any concerns. Jeff said he was ultimately voting no against the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:04:02] He was elected on valid merits, and if he does one thing that people don’t like, it’s not necessarily enough to make a recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:12] You know, he likes having more park space and actually has friends who have created art installations that are now at the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Roberts \u003c/strong>[00:04:20] And I love that and I ride bikes a lot around here so I like the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:32] It seems like it was an interesting experience being out there with Joel Engardio. He represents district four, of course. I wonder if you can tell me a little bit more about this corner of San Francisco. How might you describe it, especially in comparison to other parts of the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] I mean, I think for folks who are not familiar with San Francisco, the sunset is probably not what they initially think of. It’s a really beautiful, quiet residential neighborhood, a lot of single-family homes, a lot a multi-generational households, it has a really large Chinese American population, a lot surfers, people who commute by car. It’s just not what you picture when you think of like downtown or Soma with these like big skyscrapers. It is a community that has this reputation of maybe being a little bit quiet, but also very organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Ho \u003c/strong>[00:05:31] D4 is the Chinese barometer, right? That is independent, tends to be very populist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] David Ho is a political consultant who works in San Francisco. He is an expert on Asian-American communities and voters here in the Bay Area. He also actually grew up in the sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>David Ho \u003c/strong>[00:05:54] Most people have multiple cars, right? They have intergeneration households. So that really clashes with some of the prevalence on the East side politics around urbanist agenda, you know, like open space, you know transit equity, you know more housing, up zoning, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:11] He has described the sunset as a place where people kind of just want to do their thing and live their life. And the closure of the road that created Sunset Dunes represented a big change that some residents felt they were not a part of the conversation that led to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Exactly why we’re talking now, Sydney, there is this recall of the District Four Supervisor, Joel Engardio, who, as we were just talking about, is kind of out there fighting for his job right now. And I do wanna ask, like, I guess if you could tell me more about Joel Engardeo and why he is now sort of the latest person to face a recall in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:50] Joel Engardio actually ran for supervisor multiple times, was unsuccessful. And in 2022, Engardia was very supportive of the successful recalls of district attorney Chesa Boudin and three members of the Board of Education and actually sort of revived his political prominence by working with some of these pro-recall groups and supporting them. And then Engardio won his seat on the board of supervisors that same year. A couple years later, he came out in support of Proposition K. This was a ballot measure which permanently closed this portion of the Great Highway off to cars and made what we now call Sunset Dunes into a permanent park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] Before Prop K, the upper portion of the Great Highway was only closed to cars on weekends. And Gardio and other supporters of Prop K pointed to the park’s popularity on those days and also the erosion already threatening parts of the highway. And then, last November, San Francisco voters approved Prop K with nearly 55% of the vote. But people who lived near the Great highway Mostly voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:25] Why a recall? Why is Joel Engardio in particular sort of a target here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] Supporters of the recall feel, quote unquote, betrayed by Joel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] He promised transparency and listening to his constituents and students, including myself and my family, but what we got instead was silence and action taken behind closed doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] I spoke with people like Julia Quon, who is a resident in the Sunset and a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club, which is one of the biggest funders supporting the recall. And she said that for people like her and her family, the park has, you know, hurt commute times, and they also felt that they were not included or given enough opportunity to be a part of the conversation of even getting Prop K on the ballot to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Julia Quon \u003c/strong>[00:09:18] So he shut down the Upper Great Highway. I have to go from where I live in the sunset to Kaiser on Geary. Usually this takes 25 to 30 minutes. Now it takes 45 minutes to 65 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:09:36] There are also some supporters of the recall who distrust some of the people who are supporting Joel, and in particular, a couple of billionaires who are putting a lot of money into this race in order to keep him in office. And then you have some supporters who are also hesitant about some of the plans to up zone parts of the West Side and introduce more housing, particularly along transit and merchant corridors. And so I think the the supporters of the recall kind of fall into those buckets\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] Sunset Dunes has been open since April now, so it’s been a couple of months. I mean, what has the impact been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:35] You know, there were a lot of concerns about traffic and about how this might affect local businesses. SFMTA did do a study both before the road closure and this year after. The initial study expected some delays and the study that came out this year pretty much aligned with that. It showed pretty minimal impacts. I should point out though, there are residents who say that that’s not their lived experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. Where we.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:08] At a public meeting just a couple of weeks ago, one resident who lives on La Playa was saying that she is dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour all the time, and that this was a direct result of this park and road closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:22] And I really would hope you would listen to the actual residents of this district. We want Joel Engardio to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:32] The other concern that was you know pretty elevated before the park was closed was just what impact it would have on businesses and I’ve spoken actually with a couple business owners who have said that their business is up and that they’re getting more people walking through the avenues you know stopping for a coffee or lunch. I think it’s hard to say after just a few months, you know, what the overall impact of this park is. But that has been what we’ve been hearing from voters and people who live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] Sydney, how has Engardio responded to the recall effort?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:09] Joel supports the park for a number of reasons, and he still stands by it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:12:14] As the park becomes more popular and as we see that the traffic Carmageddon everyone feared never materialized, those two talking points aren’t as salient in recalling me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] He also disagrees with this idea that it was done without the community’s input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:12:32] My recall is over putting something on the ballot. I don’t have the power to close a road or create a park. I can only join three other supervisors to put something on a ballot, which is what I did. So I supported democracy. I supported giving people a choice. I supported letting people vote on an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:50] You know, I think he has said that there’s been many conversations that he’s met with residents one on one. He has basically responded by trying to interact with as many voters as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joel Engardio \u003c/strong>[00:13:02] They’re trying to recall me, people are mad about the Great Highway, but I’m up for election next year so you could wait a year and kind of look at me against all the other candidates and judge me on all the issues next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:16] This conversation and this recall really seems to be centered around this park, but even if Engardio is successfully recalled, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the park is going to close, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:30] Correct. Recalling Joel Engardio will simply recall Joel Engardo. The mayor will be able to appoint someone to fill that seat, and then the district will have an election next year for the supervisor. But to reopen the Great Highway to Cars, that would take a whole other ballot measure, because that was something that voters passed. This was on the ballot. This was an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:59] We have been talking about, Sydney, how this isn’t the first recall San Francisco has seen in recent years. In fact, we had the three school board members. We had former district attorney Chase Boudin back in 2022 who were recalled in San Francisco. What do you think makes this particular recall maybe a little different than the others?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:22] Definitely compared to some of the earlier recalls we saw in like 2022, this one here in the Sunset District does not cut across ideological lines quite as clearly. And also that this took off largely because of one issue, you know, the park. I did not cover the recall of the district attorney, but from following it as a resident, it was, I think, a little bit more clear what different sides represented. And I think the recall attempt of Gavin Newsom is an even better example. He was able to say, hey, my opponents here are Republicans, people who don’t represent the values of California and Democrats and progress, democracy, all these things. Here in San Francisco, like, it’s very blue. Joel Engardio has gotten support from members of the Board of Supervisors and Nancy Pelosi and, you know, Senator Scott Weiner, but there’s also plenty of Democrats who have not rallied in support of Joel Engardio. One thing that’s really striking is just how the pro-recall group… Has raised only a fraction of the amount of money as the campaign to keep Joel and Gardio in office. That is unique. And I think what that shows is that you don’t necessarily need a mega-billionaire funding your campaign in order for a recall to get on a ballot and in order for a recalled to present a real threat to a candidate. I think that that is potentially alarming for other candidates. You know, you could potentially take a risky policy position and face a recall because of it. That is a different type of politics, maybe, than we’ve been used to for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:27] What does this recall do you think mean for those of us who are not in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:16:35] I met people who were at the park with their kids, who lived in the neighborhood, you know, were enjoying the day. But I met a lot of people who traveled from other parts of the city to the park, and several people who came over from the East Bay. 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And in 2022, Engardia was very supportive of the successful recalls of district attorney Chesa Boudin and three members of the Board of Education and actually sort of revived his political prominence by working with some of these pro-recall groups and supporting them. And then Engardio won his seat on the board of supervisors that same year. A couple years later, he came out in support of Proposition K. This was a ballot measure which permanently closed this portion of the Great Highway off to cars and made what we now call Sunset Dunes into a permanent park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:50] Before Prop K, the upper portion of the Great Highway was only closed to cars on weekends. And Gardio and other supporters of Prop K pointed to the park’s popularity on those days and also the erosion already threatening parts of the highway. And then, last November, San Francisco voters approved Prop K with nearly 55% of the vote. 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And so I think the the supporters of the recall kind of fall into those buckets\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:16] Sunset Dunes has been open since April now, so it’s been a couple of months. I mean, what has the impact been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:35] You know, there were a lot of concerns about traffic and about how this might affect local businesses. SFMTA did do a study both before the road closure and this year after. The initial study expected some delays and the study that came out this year pretty much aligned with that. It showed pretty minimal impacts. I should point out though, there are residents who say that that’s not their lived experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunset resident \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. 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I don’t have the power to close a road or create a park. I can only join three other supervisors to put something on a ballot, which is what I did. So I supported democracy. I supported giving people a choice. I supported letting people vote on an issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:50] You know, I think he has said that there’s been many conversations that he’s met with residents one on one. 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But to reopen the Great Highway to Cars, that would take a whole other ballot measure, because that was something that voters passed. This was on the ballot. This was an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:59] We have been talking about, Sydney, how this isn’t the first recall San Francisco has seen in recent years. In fact, we had the three school board members. We had former district attorney Chase Boudin back in 2022 who were recalled in San Francisco. What do you think makes this particular recall maybe a little different than the others?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:22] Definitely compared to some of the earlier recalls we saw in like 2022, this one here in the Sunset District does not cut across ideological lines quite as clearly. And also that this took off largely because of one issue, you know, the park. I did not cover the recall of the district attorney, but from following it as a resident, it was, I think, a little bit more clear what different sides represented. And I think the recall attempt of Gavin Newsom is an even better example. He was able to say, hey, my opponents here are Republicans, people who don’t represent the values of California and Democrats and progress, democracy, all these things. Here in San Francisco, like, it’s very blue. Joel Engardio has gotten support from members of the Board of Supervisors and Nancy Pelosi and, you know, Senator Scott Weiner, but there’s also plenty of Democrats who have not rallied in support of Joel Engardio. One thing that’s really striking is just how the pro-recall group… Has raised only a fraction of the amount of money as the campaign to keep Joel and Gardio in office. That is unique. And I think what that shows is that you don’t necessarily need a mega-billionaire funding your campaign in order for a recall to get on a ballot and in order for a recalled to present a real threat to a candidate. I think that that is potentially alarming for other candidates. You know, you could potentially take a risky policy position and face a recall because of it. That is a different type of politics, maybe, than we’ve been used to for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:27] What does this recall do you think mean for those of us who are not in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Get off the sidewalk,” Diane Amato regularly shouts at the many people she said ride \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051245/deadly-electric-motor-vehicle-collisions-in-san-francisco-prompt-calls-for-regulation\">scooters and e-bikes\u003c/a> on sidewalks in her San Francisco neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t always take it well. Amato said she has been “flipped off, called names, and threatened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amato, who lives in the city’s northeastern District 6, was one of more than a dozen residents who showed up at the Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting on Monday to support the San Francisco Street Safety Act, the city’s latest effort to reduce severe and fatal traffic deaths in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we just going to continue to get injured and killed because pedestrians come last? Or will you pass the Street Safety Act and put the welfare of pedestrians first?” she asked the committee members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance, which passed unanimously out of the committee on Monday and heads to the full Board of Supervisors next Tuesday, comes after the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010882/tragic-sf-pedestrian-death-raises-question-vision-zero-failure\">Vision Zero initiative\u003c/a> expired last year, falling far short of its goal to achieve zero traffic deaths by 2024. That year was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041243/san-franciscos-streets-still-deadly-advocates-want-lurie-to-do-more\">the city’s deadliest\u003c/a> under the program, with 43 people killed in crashes. So far this year, San Francisco has seen 20 traffic-related deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, city leaders are looking to the Street Safety Act as a way to tackle the issue of traffic safety anew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way the act improves on Vision Zero is that it creates specific goals for different city agencies and mandates they work together, said Marta Lindsey, spokesperson for pedestrian advocacy group Walk SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is absolutely crucial,” Lindsey said, “because a lot of projects on our streets require different agencies’ approval or working together, and as soon as that starts to slow down, so does the progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation sets expectations for seven city departments, including the police, public health and public works departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020559 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-26-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, SFPD would be required to develop and release a plan to increase traffic enforcement efforts on behaviors that are most likely to result in severe injury and death, such as speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department would be required to release written guidelines identifying street designs and traffic calming tools it finds acceptable, and the city’s transportation agency would be required to develop a plan for redesigning streets identified on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.visionzerosf.org/maps-data/\">high-injury network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law sets timelines for departments to deliver many of these requirements by the end of this year or next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at Monday’s meeting agreed that city leaders need a renewed focus on street safety, given the rapidly changing transportation environment on city streets due to the rise of self-driving cars, e-mobility devices, ride-hailing services and delivery drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I began bike commuting, I had to worry about cars,” said Lisa Platt, a resident of District 2, who said she had lost feeling in half of her face after a bike crash. “I still very much do, but now daily I dodge scooters and electric skateboards and bicycles riding on sidewalks because the bicycle infrastructure is incomplete or filled with delivery motorcycles whizzing by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of state legislation, San Francisco has made some significant safety improvements to city streets in the last year. It was the first city in the state to implement a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050882/sfs-speed-cameras-a-good-first-step-but-bittersweet-for-families-of-speeding-victims\">speed safety camera pilot\u003c/a>, which automatically doles out tickets to drivers traveling more than 11 miles over the speed limit at 33 camera locations. The city has also moved to carry out the state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019725/daylighting-laws-will-be-enforced-in-the-bay-area-in-2025-heres-how-to-avoid-a-ticket\">daylighting \u003c/a>law, which prioritizes pedestrian visibility by preventing cars from parking in spaces before crosswalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsey expects the Street Safety Act to receive unanimous approval from the city’s full Board of Supervisors at next week’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the law passes, the work won’t be over, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Street Safety Act is the blueprint for success in the upcoming years,” Lindsey said, “and then it’s going to be a matter of holding these agency leaders to task on this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Franciscans have been on a recall frenzy over the last five years, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">ousting a progressive district attorney\u003c/a> and removing three members from the Board of Education to weighing in on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unsuccessful recall attempt in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, it’s residents in the city’s westside district who are up in arms over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035795/sunset-dunes-san-franciscos-controversial-new-park-officially-opens\">beachside park\u003c/a> and the local supervisor, Joel Engardio, who supported closing a portion of the Great Highway to cars to create it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election day is Tuesday, Sept. 16. Here’s what else to know about how to vote in San Francisco’s latest recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I vote in this San Francisco special election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Only registered voters in District 4 can participate in the special election. Ballots have already been mailed to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">50,000 District 4 voters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I vote in the recall?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to vote in person on election day, you can fill out or drop off completed ballots at one of 20 different polling places in the city that are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/return-your-ballot\">Click here to find your local polling place and accessibility information\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio, center, and other community leaders participate in the ribbon cutting during the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to drop off your ballot during early voting, you have a few options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mail in your ballot, which must be postmarked by Sept. 16 and received no more than a week after election day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drop off at one of three official ballot drop boxes:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ortega Branch Library (3223 Ortega St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Parkside Branch Library (1200 Taraval St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ballots may also be returned directly to the Department of Elections office inside City Hall.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget to sign your ballot!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is on the ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition A, the measure to recall Engardio, is the only item on this special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters are asked a single question: “Shall Joel Engardio be recalled (removed) from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A “yes” vote means you want to remove Engardio.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A “no” vote means you want him to remain in office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What’s the backstory to this recall effort?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the city closed parts of the Great Highway and other streets to provide open space for social distancing and recreation. Residents from across the city began using the open road for biking, rollerblading, strolling and other activities, and many pushed to make it permanent. Environmentalists joined the effort and noted that the road faces coastal erosion, and parts are already closed to cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio, meanwhile, gained political support by backing multiple recalls in San Francisco in 2022, against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">several school board members\u003c/a>. That year, Engardio won his seat, beating incumbent Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Highway is closed to vehicles between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way on Friday at noon for the current weekend closure in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995077/yes-on-k-declares-victory-on-san-franciscos-proposition-k\">voters citywide passed Proposition K\u003c/a>, which officially closed the upper portion of the Great Highway to cars. The strip of highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035185/sfs-new-park-closed-great-highway-about-get-name\">an oceanfront park called Sunset Dunes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio faced criticism for supporting the measure, even though the majority of District 4 voters, who live closest to the Great Highway, opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset residents, angry about losing the thoroughfare, continued fighting the road closure in conversations with neighbors and \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop-k-opponents-to-sue-city-five-supervisors-over-great-highway-closure/\">in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2025, the Department of Elections certified that recall organizers had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are recall backers saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Residents who want Engardio recalled say they feel “betrayed” by their supervisor for failing to listen to the majority of District 4 residents who opposed removing cars from the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say traffic has worsened, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/reports/outer-sunset-traffic-report-spring-2025\">a recent study\u003c/a> on the road closure shows little impact.[aside postID=news_12053978 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-15_qed-1020x680.jpg']“He’s taken away our highway,” said Jen, a Sunset resident who spoke during public comment at a recent Democratic Party meeting. “I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. We have bumper-to-bumper traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others point to the money flowing into Engardio’s campaign from wealthy donors, including tech billionaires and developers. The campaign to defeat the recall has collected over $822,000 from donors, including cryptocurrency billionaire Chris Larsen, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis, co-founder of communications software company Twilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joel has nearly taken half a million dollars from wealthy tech donors like Chris Larsen, Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis – people who don’t live here and don’t share our struggles,”” said Julia Quon, a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club. “This means that he answers to them, not us who live in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, which is not chartered with the local Democratic Party, donated $27,000 to the effort to recall Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are Engardio’s supporters saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Engardio in the Sunset said they enjoy the park and what it offers both the neighborhood and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I 100% support Sunset Dunes being open. Being part of nature is necessary for human well-being. It’s necessary for mental health. It’s also a really great way to build community, to meet your neighbors, being able to take your kids out, to have safe places to ride your bikes, to safe places for recreation without fear of car accidents,” said Karen Trinidad, a florist and Sunset resident. “With my business specifically, I mainly sell through pop-ups in collaboration with brick and mortar businesses in the sunset. And I have been seeing a lot more folks walking by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals attend the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other residents like Engardio’s stances on homelessness and public safety, saying he’s brought the neighborhood more policing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since he’s been in office, he’s been improving the whole city on homelessness and crime. And he’s actually promoting the Sunset Night Market … and he’s been good on education,” another Engardio supporter said at the Democratic Party meeting. She was referring to the district’s night market and a ballot measure Engardio supported that voters passed to promote eighth-grade Algebra in San Francisco public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio has endorsements from five fellow supervisors, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out there door-knocking every day making the case that what I did was I joined four other supervisors to put something on the ballot for democracy, to give people a choice of what to do with their coast,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911119/san-francisco-voters-decide-once-again-whether-to-recall-an-elected-official\">Engardio said on KQED Forum\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio stands by his decision to support the park, but said he still believes in residents’ right to recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sunset Dunes has the potential to become a transformational space that in a few years from now, not even that long from now, we won’t be able to imagine San Francisco without an oceanside park,” he said. “Traffic is going to get where it needs to go, it already is, and we’re going to see immense benefit from this park for the environment and for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If the recall is successful, what happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie would appoint a temporary replacement to represent District 4 until the next election in June 2026. Lurie, who opposed Proposition K, has not endorsed either side in the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, recalling Engardio would not immediately reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars. That would require a new ballot measure to undo Proposition K. Supervisor Connie Chan has said she might explore such a measure if the recall succeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear who Lurie might appoint if Engardio is removed, but political observers say it would likely be someone open to revisiting the highway closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor is under a lot of pressure to appoint a moderate Chinese, or conservative Chinese American, who’s at least going to say, ‘I agree with Connie Chan. Let’s bring back the ballot measure and let the voters decide,’” political consultant David Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens if the recall does not succeed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the recall fails, Engardio will serve out his term through January 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will the results of this recall be available?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preliminary results will be posted on election night, Sept. 16, at 8:45 p.m. on \u003ca href=\"http://sfelections.gov/results\">sfelections.gov/results\u003c/a>. Vote-counting will continue until the election is certified, no later than Oct. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall needs a simple majority (50% plus one “yes” vote) to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Franciscans have been on a recall frenzy over the last five years, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">ousting a progressive district attorney\u003c/a> and removing three members from the Board of Education to weighing in on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unsuccessful recall attempt in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, it’s residents in the city’s westside district who are up in arms over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035795/sunset-dunes-san-franciscos-controversial-new-park-officially-opens\">beachside park\u003c/a> and the local supervisor, Joel Engardio, who supported closing a portion of the Great Highway to cars to create it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election day is Tuesday, Sept. 16. Here’s what else to know about how to vote in San Francisco’s latest recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I vote in this San Francisco special election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Only registered voters in District 4 can participate in the special election. Ballots have already been mailed to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">50,000 District 4 voters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I vote in the recall?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to vote in person on election day, you can fill out or drop off completed ballots at one of 20 different polling places in the city that are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/return-your-ballot\">Click here to find your local polling place and accessibility information\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio, center, and other community leaders participate in the ribbon cutting during the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to drop off your ballot during early voting, you have a few options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mail in your ballot, which must be postmarked by Sept. 16 and received no more than a week after election day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drop off at one of three official ballot drop boxes:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ortega Branch Library (3223 Ortega St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Parkside Branch Library (1200 Taraval St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ballots may also be returned directly to the Department of Elections office inside City Hall.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget to sign your ballot!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is on the ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition A, the measure to recall Engardio, is the only item on this special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters are asked a single question: “Shall Joel Engardio be recalled (removed) from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A “yes” vote means you want to remove Engardio.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A “no” vote means you want him to remain in office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What’s the backstory to this recall effort?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the city closed parts of the Great Highway and other streets to provide open space for social distancing and recreation. Residents from across the city began using the open road for biking, rollerblading, strolling and other activities, and many pushed to make it permanent. Environmentalists joined the effort and noted that the road faces coastal erosion, and parts are already closed to cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio, meanwhile, gained political support by backing multiple recalls in San Francisco in 2022, against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">several school board members\u003c/a>. That year, Engardio won his seat, beating incumbent Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Highway is closed to vehicles between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way on Friday at noon for the current weekend closure in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995077/yes-on-k-declares-victory-on-san-franciscos-proposition-k\">voters citywide passed Proposition K\u003c/a>, which officially closed the upper portion of the Great Highway to cars. The strip of highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035185/sfs-new-park-closed-great-highway-about-get-name\">an oceanfront park called Sunset Dunes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio faced criticism for supporting the measure, even though the majority of District 4 voters, who live closest to the Great Highway, opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset residents, angry about losing the thoroughfare, continued fighting the road closure in conversations with neighbors and \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop-k-opponents-to-sue-city-five-supervisors-over-great-highway-closure/\">in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2025, the Department of Elections certified that recall organizers had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are recall backers saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Residents who want Engardio recalled say they feel “betrayed” by their supervisor for failing to listen to the majority of District 4 residents who opposed removing cars from the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say traffic has worsened, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/reports/outer-sunset-traffic-report-spring-2025\">a recent study\u003c/a> on the road closure shows little impact.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He’s taken away our highway,” said Jen, a Sunset resident who spoke during public comment at a recent Democratic Party meeting. “I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. We have bumper-to-bumper traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others point to the money flowing into Engardio’s campaign from wealthy donors, including tech billionaires and developers. The campaign to defeat the recall has collected over $822,000 from donors, including cryptocurrency billionaire Chris Larsen, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis, co-founder of communications software company Twilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joel has nearly taken half a million dollars from wealthy tech donors like Chris Larsen, Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis – people who don’t live here and don’t share our struggles,”” said Julia Quon, a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club. “This means that he answers to them, not us who live in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, which is not chartered with the local Democratic Party, donated $27,000 to the effort to recall Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are Engardio’s supporters saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Engardio in the Sunset said they enjoy the park and what it offers both the neighborhood and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I 100% support Sunset Dunes being open. Being part of nature is necessary for human well-being. It’s necessary for mental health. It’s also a really great way to build community, to meet your neighbors, being able to take your kids out, to have safe places to ride your bikes, to safe places for recreation without fear of car accidents,” said Karen Trinidad, a florist and Sunset resident. “With my business specifically, I mainly sell through pop-ups in collaboration with brick and mortar businesses in the sunset. And I have been seeing a lot more folks walking by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals attend the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other residents like Engardio’s stances on homelessness and public safety, saying he’s brought the neighborhood more policing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since he’s been in office, he’s been improving the whole city on homelessness and crime. And he’s actually promoting the Sunset Night Market … and he’s been good on education,” another Engardio supporter said at the Democratic Party meeting. She was referring to the district’s night market and a ballot measure Engardio supported that voters passed to promote eighth-grade Algebra in San Francisco public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio has endorsements from five fellow supervisors, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out there door-knocking every day making the case that what I did was I joined four other supervisors to put something on the ballot for democracy, to give people a choice of what to do with their coast,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911119/san-francisco-voters-decide-once-again-whether-to-recall-an-elected-official\">Engardio said on KQED Forum\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio stands by his decision to support the park, but said he still believes in residents’ right to recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sunset Dunes has the potential to become a transformational space that in a few years from now, not even that long from now, we won’t be able to imagine San Francisco without an oceanside park,” he said. “Traffic is going to get where it needs to go, it already is, and we’re going to see immense benefit from this park for the environment and for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If the recall is successful, what happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie would appoint a temporary replacement to represent District 4 until the next election in June 2026. Lurie, who opposed Proposition K, has not endorsed either side in the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, recalling Engardio would not immediately reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars. That would require a new ballot measure to undo Proposition K. 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Ultimately, staff decided not to interfere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I made the comment ‘We’ll give you a ride, buddy,’” Miller said. “But it was fine on its own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After making it about a quarter of a mile away, the coyote turned around and swam back into Angel Island’s Ayala Cove, before climbing the seawall and returning to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee has been living and working on Angel Island for 25 years. She said scientists aren’t sure what motivates coyotes to swim in the bay.[aside postID=news_12046806 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/CoyotePresidioTrust1.jpg']“It is an uncommon sight,” she said. “For the most part, the coyotes are just taking short swims and either returning back to Angel Island — or if they’re starting on the Tiburon side, turning back to Tiburon. It’s very rare for one to go all the way across.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists believe that the first coyote to reach the island in 2017 swam the mile across the strait. Before then, Dexter-Lee said there’s no record of coyotes having ever lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so far nothing in the archeological record,” she said. “[But] we intentionally don’t dig to try and preserve the history of the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first coyote lived on the island alone for a year and would exchange calls with coyotes across the strait in Tiburon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s possible that the second coyote came over intentionally because there was one coyote here,” Dexter-Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-ANGEL-ISLAND-COYOTE-02-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-ANGEL-ISLAND-COYOTE-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-ANGEL-ISLAND-COYOTE-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-ANGEL-ISLAND-COYOTE-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-ANGEL-ISLAND-COYOTE-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote swims near Angel Island on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Casey Dexter-Lee/California State Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a year after the second coyote’s arrival, Dexter-Lee said the first litter was sighted. She remembers seeing two coyote pups who had grown enough to leave the den. Today, the island is home to 14 coyote residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the coyotes arrived, scientists have noticed a shift in deer and raccoon behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anecdotally, the island used to have a reputation for having a large raccoon problem, getting into the trash cans and interacting with campers,” Miller said. “But it seems like since we’ve had coyotes on the island, those sightings of raccoons have definitely gone down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates the current deer population on the island is around 50. But in the 1980s, the island hosted up to 300 deer — the state’s highest documented density of deer, according to \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/2024/11/19/coyotes-on-angel-island-hks/\">Bay Nature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller said that, at that time, the scientists had become concerned that the deer were too skinny and were impacting the island’s vegetation. Solutions like supplemental feeding, relocating the deer, contraceptives and even introducing coyotes onto the island were proposed. In the end, state parks decided to periodically cull the deer, which helped stabilize the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years later, the coyotes showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller and other scientists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and UC Davis are now working on a five-year study about the impact of coyotes on the island’s ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dexter-Lee said coyotes tend to follow the same trails as people. 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Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Jesse Arreguín, D-Oakland, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054992/newsom-will-not-provide-stopgap-loan-to-prevent-cuts-to-bay-area-transit-lawmakers-say\">Saturday \u003c/a>that the California Department of Finance informed them that it would not finalize the loan before Friday’s legislative deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This failure by the Department of Finance is unacceptable,” the senators wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by Monday, Newsom’s office sought to dispel the notion that the loan would not be delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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Since then, Wiener said he and others have been working with the Department of Finance to negotiate terms to implement the loan, and have submitted three different proposals to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just kept saying no. But now they’ve said that this [latest] proposal is something that they can work with, which is great,” Wiener said. “ We’re working to take a strong step before we adjourn on Friday. We’ll keep working on it over the fall. This is really important, and we need to get it done.”[aside postID=news_12054754 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-bartoutage00435_TV_qed.jpg']Bay Area transit agencies like BART, Muni, AC Transit and Caltrain are staring down immense budget deficits beginning in fiscal year 2026–27, as one-time state and federal funding related to the pandemic is exhausted, and ridership numbers fail to rebound to pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loan is intended as a stopgap measure to prevent service cuts between now and 2027, when funding from the potential regional tax measure would kick in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039394/last-ditch-effort-fund-bay-area-transit-tries-pick-up-support\">SB 63\u003c/a>, would impose a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and a 1% sales tax in San Francisco County to fund local transit agencies. If passed by lawmakers, the bill would need to be approved by voters on the November 2026 ballot and would provide funding for 14 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates caution that without both the loan and the regional tax measure, Bay Area public transit service would wither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is facing a budget deficit of approximately $375 million in the 2027 fiscal year, the most severe of all the local transit agencies. Officials say that if SB 63 fails to pass, the agency could be forced to end weekend service, cut two lines entirely or end service at 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/TransitFundingKQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists and lawmakers are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to make good on a promised $750 million loan to prevent drastic service cuts to local transit next year. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART has experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054754/bart-outage-shuts-down-entire-system-for-2nd-time-in-months\">two \u003c/a>major systemwide outages this year, which snarled morning commutes and contributed to worse-than-usual traffic on Bay Area roads. Supporters of public transit warn this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039472/bart-shuts-down-entire-train-service-due-to-computer-networking-problem\">could be a regular occurrence\u003c/a> if both the loan and the regional sales tax measure fail to materialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The Bay Area does not run without buses and trains. We saw this last week when, for just a couple hours, [BART] was down,” Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, said. “It brought the Bay nearly to gridlock. People couldn’t get to work, they couldn’t get to school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the loan is needed by next spring, but he stressed that time is of the essence in getting it secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether the loan gets finalized now or in a couple months, it doesn’t matter, but it needs to get finalized soon,” Wiener said. “ The transit agencies need to have confidence that the money is coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is “more optimistic now than I was a few days ago,” but “it’s still not guaranteed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom called Burton “a legendary powerhouse that breathed life into our party and fought for a better California for everyone — uniting Democrats across race, belief, and background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over decades in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., Burton built a reputation for blunt, profanity-laced candor as he fought for labor unions and the working class. He was far from perfect, but he was known for championing ordinary people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staunch Democrat, he also crossed the aisle to work with Republican governors and legislators — many of whom he counted as friends in an era of a very different Republican Party.[aside postID=news_12054886 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/JohnBurtonGetty3.jpg']“He was firm in his commitment to working families, to poor people, and he was really a progressive warrior,” Rep. 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As John Burton climbed the ladder in California, Phil Burton became a powerhouse in Washington, D.C., mastering the art of reapportionment — using oddly drawn or gerrymandered districts to help elect Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1992px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1992\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed.jpg 1992w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1992px) 100vw, 1992px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. John Burton pictured in his office, February 1980. \u003ccite>(Janet Fries/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, amid the Watergate scandal, Burton was elected to represent San Francisco and part of Marin County in Congress. He served until 1982, when he stepped down to address his cocaine addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, Burton won a state Senate seat, rising to become president pro tem until term limits forced him out in 2004. After leaving the Legislature, he chaired the California Democratic Party from 2009 until 2017. When Democrats opened a new Sacramento office in 2014, they named it the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has lost a giant,” state Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ilike_mike/status/1964757021221392433\">X\u003c/a>. “John Burton — who led the State Senate with passion and empowered a generation of Californians — never stopped fighting for the most vulnerable and he used his real political power to help those who needed it most.”[aside postID=news_12054630 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg']Sen. Alex Padilla praised Burton for expanding health care access, strengthening worker protections and increasing funding for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John was bluntly honest and never shied away from a fight if it meant protecting the vulnerable and giving a voice to the voiceless — a mission he carried on even after his political career by providing a pathway to a better life for thousands of foster youth and securing billions of dollars to invest in their success,” Padilla said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) praised Burton for promoting Democratic values that shaped generations of politics and activism in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He leveraged California’s size and influence to do the most good across decades, from divestment in South Africa to supporting farmworkers to enshrining abortion rights in our Constitution,” Rivas said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders also weighed in on Burton’s passing. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie praised him for dedicating his life to public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His legacy is woven into the fabric of our city and state—in the rights of workers, in protections for foster youth and the most vulnerable, and in the countless public servants he mentored,” he posted on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DanielLurie/status/1964772774024781835\">X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee called Burton her “dear friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than five decades, John fought for those without a voice — from foster children to farmworkers, from union members to the elderly,” Lee said on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLee_CA/status/1964792717608976560\">X\u003c/a>. “His mentorship shaped generations of Democratic leaders, and his legacy is alive in every progressive victory in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He was firm in his commitment to working families, to poor people, and he was really a progressive warrior,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who Burton mentored, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released earlier on Sunday, she lauded him as a progressive warrior and “ferocious champion for working families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All who knew John knew that behind his profanity-laden language was a profound progressive vision for how to make real the promise of America,” Pelosi said in a statement. “And for more than three decades in the Congress, I was blessed to have John as a source of wise counsel, sound judgement and brash humor — and he always served as a constant reinvigoration of my inspiration to carry on the fight For The People.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Burton grew up in San Francisco with his brothers Phillip and Bob Burton. As John Burton climbed the ladder in California, Phil Burton became a powerhouse in Washington, D.C., mastering the art of reapportionment — using oddly drawn or gerrymandered districts to help elect Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1992px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1992\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed.jpg 1992w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1992px) 100vw, 1992px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. John Burton pictured in his office, February 1980. \u003ccite>(Janet Fries/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, amid the Watergate scandal, Burton was elected to represent San Francisco and part of Marin County in Congress. He served until 1982, when he stepped down to address his cocaine addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, Burton won a state Senate seat, rising to become president pro tem until term limits forced him out in 2004. After leaving the Legislature, he chaired the California Democratic Party from 2009 until 2017. When Democrats opened a new Sacramento office in 2014, they named it the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has lost a giant,” state Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire wrote on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ilike_mike/status/1964757021221392433\">X\u003c/a>. “John Burton — who led the State Senate with passion and empowered a generation of Californians — never stopped fighting for the most vulnerable and he used his real political power to help those who needed it most.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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