Proponents of the effort to oust gay District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio have a message for him with weeks to go in the campaign – resign now. The resignation demand comes after one prominent supporter of the recall, Richard Corriea, filed an official sunshine complaint alleging a May 2024 meeting on the Outer Sunset supervisor’s calendar was unlawfully redacted.

A special election to recall the embattled supervisor will be held September 16.

“Those of us who harken back to the Watergate era remember,” Corriea, a retired San Francisco Police Department commander, said, comparing Engardio to Richard Nixon, the only U.S. president to resign. “Why did Nixon have a one-hour gap on his tapes? Here, Joel has a 60-minute gap. … He should resign today.”

Engardio himself did not reply to the Bay

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