Tinfoil hat conspiracy—or a sign of how local politics actually works?

Supervisor Joel Engardio and his consultants are calling some of his critics crazy conspiracy theorists. They have sent reporters memes of tinfoil hats. It’s how they are dismissing a really bizarre situation:

Supervisor Joel Engardio, or someone on his staff, deleted any mention of a 2024 meeting about the Great Highway from his public calendar, a complaint with the city’s Sunshine Task Force charges.

The move defies logic: In Oct. 2024, Engardio released a version of his 2024 appointments calendar, as if required by the city’s Sunshine Ordinance, to someone who filed a sunshine request. That person has not been identified.

The calendar included several meetings that Engardio held on May 28, 2024:

Then, unaware of the earlier request, Rich Corriea, who is leading the effort to recall