Let's run through the field. Albert Chow led the Engardio recall effort and wants the highway back open. David Lee wants it reopened on Day 1. Alan Wong lists it as a top priority. And Natalie Gee apparently thinks demolishing a park for car traffic qualifies as "common sense."

As one local put it, Gee is "the most grating, because she pretends to be some wholesome progressive and still opposes the park — even DSA types like Preston and Fielder support it." When you've lost the democratic socialists on an environmental question, maybe it's time to recalibrate your compass.

Greco's pamphlet statement is refreshingly direct: "My first priority is to permanently protect Sunset Dunes." No hedging. No focus-grouped equivocation. Just a clear position.

The problem? Almost nobody seems to know who he is. The flyers hitting Sunset mailboxes are from Gee and Wong. Greco appears to be running on vibes and conviction rather than a war chest — which is either admirably principled or strategically suicidal, depending on your perspective.

Here's what frustrates us: the Great Highway debate has been litigated endlessly. Voters already approved Proposition K to make the western stretch car-free. The dunes are forming. Wildlife is returning. And yet a parade of supervisor candidates is running on reversing a democratic outcome because... traffic?

This is the kind of race where fiscal conservatives and environmental advocates should actually find common ground. Maintaining a crumbling coastal highway that the ocean is actively reclaiming isn't fiscally responsible — it's an expensive tantrum against geography. Letting sand dunes do their thing costs taxpayers essentially nothing.

Another resident joked that "the only common sense outcome is to raze the entire Sunset district and achieve the true dream — make it the Greatest Highway." At least that has a certain committed logic to it.

District 4 deserves candidates who respect both voter decisions and basic cost-benefit analysis. Right now, only one seems to clear that bar — and hardly anyone's heard of him. That says a lot about the state of this race.