CM Ed Gonzalez
Council Member Ed Gonzalez is serving his second term in District H. He’s actually already four full years into his service, as he was the winner of the 2009 special election to succeed former CM and now Sheriff Adrian Garcia. Like Garcia, Gonzalez is a former HPD officer who made a successful entry into politics after retiring from that career. Gonzalez currently serves as the Chair of the Public Safety committee on Council, and serves as Mayor Pro Tem after having been Vice Mayor Pro Tem in his first term. Even though I got moved into numerous other districts in 2011, he remains my district Council member after the Council redistricting effort that created two new seats. District H contains some of the more attractive-to-developers neighborhoods in the city, as well as the new North Line light rail extension. Those were some of the many things we covered in our conversation.
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