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 Engardio, asked for the same calendar. The version he received in March, 2025, looked like this:
The meeting with Lucas Lux and Todd David had vanished.
Lux, a lawyer and senior executive with Google, was one of the leaders in the campaign to pass an imitative to close the Great Highway to cars. Todd David is a campaign consultant who worked for Abundant SF, which was one of the sponsors of the initiative.
Engardio told me the missing information was “an error.”
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But here’s what’s weird: A supervisor’s calendar isn’t recreated every time someone asks for it. The document exists in a file. So someone would have had to go into the file and delete that one item—and I can’t figure out why they would do that.
Neither can Rich Corriea, a leader in the Recall Engardio campaign. “It confounds me why a smart, rational, adult would do this,” Correia told me.
The meeting took place a few weeks before Engardio led the effort to place Prop. K on the ballot, which closed the Great Highway and created a new public park. The measure passed citywide, but was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in D4. That move is one of the main motivators of the recall.
The participants at the meeting make this whole thing interesting: Lux lives in D4, and there’s no reason he can’t meet with his district supe and push for changes, including a new park and a close highway.
David, on the other hand, is a campaign consultant, but not a registered lobbyist. So he can’t legally try to convince Engardio to pass legislation if he’s getting paid to do it.
David is political director of Abundant SF, one of a network of groups promoting a Big Tech, developer, and Yimby agenda, which includes the new park. He is a former campaign staffer for state Sen. Scott Wiener.
The Big Tech network poured a lot of money into London Breed’s re-election attempt; her biggest donor was Chris Larsen, founder of Ripple Labs. Larsen is also the biggest donor to the No on the Engardio Recall campaign.
Breed was, and remains, very unpopular in D4, in part because of her advocacy for closing the Great Highway.
So maybe someone in Engardio’s office thought it wouldn’t be a great idea to have the voters connect him with David and Lux. Maybe it’s all just an oversight—but again, someone had to actively go into the file and delete that meeting.
Is this tinfoil hat stuff—or is this how city politics actually works?
