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In 1983, Mayor Dianne Feinstein overwhelmingly beat a recall initiated by zany gun nuts. This came at a time when the gun murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were hardly a distant memory. The terrain favored the incumbent, who wisely made the recall not a valediction on her performance but instead ridiculed the notion of a recall and the fringe recallers.

This was never an option open to Supervisor Joel Engardio, whose means of political ascent was participating in recall movements. The recall against him had instantaneous credibility a

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