Candidates for Board of Supervisors, District 4

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JOEL ENGARDIO

My occupation is Nonprofit Director / Journalist.

My qualifications are:

I still believe in San Francisco, but we’re off track. We desperately need safer streets, better schools, more middle-income housing, and vibrant small businesses.

What does City Hall deliver? Infighting and sideshows.

We deserve forward-thinking and outcome-focused leadership. Here’s how I’m already doing the work:

· Education: I helped lead the recall of an incompetent school board because our kids were suffering. Local media said my work was “key to the school board recall’s smashing success.”

· Public Safety: I lead Stop Crime SF, a group working to stop anti-Asian discrimination and attacks on Asian seniors. My in-laws are Chinese and they’re afraid to visit San Francisco. I support criminal justice reform. For it to succeed, people must feel safe and victims cannot be ignored.

· Advocacy: As a journalist for over 20 years, I know how to hold the government accountable and give residents a voice.

San Francisco’s budget doubled the past decade. If $14 billion isn’t enough to have twice-as-clean sidewalks and twice-as-fast Muni, we need to change how the money is being spent.

We deserve a City Hall that is transparent, free from corruption, fiscally responsible, and embraces innovation.

Join me to create our best San Francisco.

www.engardio.com

Joel Engardio

GORDON MAR

My occupation is Member, Board of Supervisors.

My qualifications are:

I’ve been honored to represent the Sunset on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Together, we’ve made progress to expand affordable housing, keep streets safe, improve public schools, and address the causes of homelessness, but there’s more to do.

That’s why I ask your vote for District 4 Supervisors.

Strengthening public safety has been my top priority. That’s why I created the Five-Point Sunset District Community Safety Plan and the Crime Prevention through Community Policing Act. If re-elected, I’ll keep increasing the numbers of SFPD foot and bike patrols, community safety ambassadors, and senior escorts.

I championed the first affordable housing projects in Sunset history for teachers and working families, and cut red tape so homeowners can expand their homes and create new housing. I helped house homeless veterans and expand mental health services, and I’ll keep working to get our neighbors off the street and into permanent housing.

Finally, I’ll always promote quality public education for all, building on my work to guarantee Free City College for 10 years, fund STEAM programs at every Sunset school, and expand before-and after-school care and college readiness programs citywide.

Please join San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798, California Nurses Association, Assemblymember Phil Ting and thousands of neighbors in re-electing me as your Supervisor.

www.GordonMar.com

Gordon Mar