‘Tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists’: Embattled SF supervisor fires back at recall organizers

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A former commander with the San Francisco Police Department is calling for an investigation into San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio. The claim is that the supervisor altered public records to conceal a politically motivated meeting.

Supervisor Engardio represents the district that the Great Upper Highway runs through. The claim is that he met with political leaders who wanted the highway shut down and then tried to hide the meeting from the public. On Thursday, residents in the sunset held signs showing their support for the recall of Engardio.

They listened as former commander with the San Francisco Police Department Richard Corriea shared screen shots of the supervisor’s schedule.

“Today we’re here to highlight another form of betrayal. This time in the form of corruption,” Corriea said.

Corriea says he made a public records request to see the Supervisor’s schedule from May 28^, 2024, and that a meeting from the schedule had been omitted from past records requests. The claim is that the meeting was with two men in favor of Measure K, which voters passed in November to shut down the Upper Great Highway, Tod David and Lucas Lux.

“Lucas Lux is the main advocate and promoter of closing the Great Highway,” said Corriea. “In his capacity as friends of the Great Highway Park and principle of the Outer Sunset neighborhood just to mention a few organizations who are hard to figure out who’s behind them.”

Supporters of the recall of Supervisor Engardio are upset with his support of the shutting down of the highway, which has since been turned into a park.

Former San Francisco Supervisor Quentin Kopp says Engardio should be investigated by the city’s ethics commission for tampering with his public records schedule.

“A ballot measure supported by people who don’t live in the Sunset, or the Richmond districts,” said former Supervisor Kopp.

Residents and business owners like Albert Chow also spoke out against the supervisor Thursday. The recall will be decided by voters during a special election on Sept. 16.

But Chow wants Engardio to step down from office before then.

“If he has any shred of decency, he should save the taxpayers and the people of San Francisco the torture of being voted on and he should do as Nixon did and resign,” said Chow, owner of Great Wall Hardware.

“These people are tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists,” a spokesman for Supervisor Engardio told KRON4. “Next, they are going to ask Joel to release the alien footage from Roswell and proof that we actually landed on the moon.”