Ugly silence toward Prop. F backer

One of the more remarkable things about the contentious battle for the future of the Hunter’s Point/Bayview area, as  outlined in Propositions F and G, is how silent Prop. F’s proponents have been about the incendiary comments and public statements of its primary backers.

Recently, one of the main forces behind Prop. F — discredited Bayview activist Francisco Da Costa — was publicly rebuked by city leaders for the racist, sexist and anti-Semitic rantings he posts on his Web site and other blogs. At the time, Supervisor Chris Daly, who is well aware of Da Costa’s outrageous statements, said he has asked Da Costa to step aside from the campaign.

That hasn’t happened, according to Da Costa himself, who in a recent diatribe again made references to Jews as “Zionists’’ and had no problem calling U.S. Dianne Feinstein — among others — a crook.

Da Costa, who has called Supervisor Sophie Maxwell a “shameless fat cow’’ and refers to several African American ministers in the Bayview who support the housing development outlined in Proposition G as the “three black fools,’’ claims he is still an integral part of the Prop. F campaign designed to kill the long-planned Bayview housing proposal.

So why haven’t Daly and the ever politically-correct San Francisco Bay Guardian — the highest-profile backers of Proposition F — denounced the ugly, racist comments from the measure’s loudest blowhard?

It’s a good question, one on which you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for an answer.