By joining the race for the seventh-floor office, González will leave behind her current citywide seat on the council, which is also up for up for election this year.
A civil rights attorney and daughter of immigrant farm workers, González was the city’s first Latina member of the council in 2015. Her two terms have been defined by advocacy for labor and tenant rights, police reform and, recently, government accountability. She was also one of the prime voices on the city’s rocky “head tax” proposal, which was passed and then quickly repealed in 2018.
González is known as a tough interrogator of staff and political appointees in council meetings. She
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