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CM Ed Gonzalez
City Councilman Ed Gonzalez, an 18-year Houston Police Department veteran, announced Tuesday that he will run for Harris County Sheriff next year.
Gonzalez is finishing his third and final term as councilman of District H, the majority Hispanic district that includes the Near Northside and the Woodland Heights, in addition to some neighborhoods north of the 610 Loop. Gonzalez currently serves as mayor pro tem and chairs the council’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.
“My passion has always been public safety, it’s been kind of my wheelhouse,” Gonzalez said. “It’s something that I just feel, as a someone who cares about public safety, I want to continue to serve in this capacity. I want to give voters a choice.”
CM Gonzalez has represented me in City Council for his three terms, and I think highly of him. Mayor Parker credits him for a lot of the work on the sobering center, which has been both a money saver and an improvement in justice. As I noted before, the name that has always come up whenever I ask someone about who might run for Sheriff has been Constable Alan Rosen. I have no idea if Constable Rosen is or has ever been interested in running for Sheriff, but I was corrected about the assertion I had made that he’d have to resign if he ran for Sheriff. That requirement does not apply to non-countywide office holders like himself, so he could continue to serve as Constable while running for Sheriff. He would, however, have to make a choice since his term as Constable is up at the end of 2016. Either he files for re-election or he tries for Sheriff; it’s not a free shot. Th deadline is next Monday, so we’ll know soon enough. Regardless, I’m delighted to have a candidate of CM Gonzalez’s quality in the race, and I look forward to his campaign.
It should be noted that ed gonzalez comes from the Adrian Garcia group,Adrian -district h,Ed district h.this style of government is not building any developing. My knee jerk reaction is,eds campaign doesn’t go anywhere ,fast.
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