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Politics Report: Georgette Gomez Is Pushing for the Council Presidency

So yes.” The City Council will elect the Council president at its Dec. 10 meeting. But she also said she identifies with two incoming Council members who just won: Monica Montgomery, who knocked off incumbent Council President Myrtle Cole, and Vivian Moreno, who is replacing termed-out Councilman David Alvarez. That left her campaign as one driven by the community. “I think there’s something there to not ignore that community’s voice.” And she said it’s no coincidence that she, Moreno and Montgomery represent the city’s lower-income districts. “How we pick Council president is how we make special deals for supporting one item or another. He’s probably not running: He also told us that he doesn’t think he’s really running for the county’s Board of Supervisors in 2020, despite having a campaign committee open for that race with $92,686 in the bank. “I don’t know if I’m running for supervisor,” he said. National City Mayor Ron Morrison, an independent, was termed out of the mayor’s office and is now on the City Council; the city’s new mayor is Alejandro Sotelo-Solis, a Democrat. San Diego’s Council president is automatically on SANDAG’s board, so whoever wins the race that’s playing out behind the scenes in City Hall will also have a major role at SANDAG. County Supervisor Ron Roberts, another former SANDAG chair, has left SANDAG’s board after being termed out.