Matthew Edward Gonzalez was born on June 4,1965 and is an American politician, lawyer, and activist.
25 Facts About Matt Gonzalez
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Matt Gonzalez served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2001 and 2005 and was president of the Board.
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Matt Gonzalez began working as a trial lawyer at the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco in 1991.
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Matt Gonzalez served one term on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2001 to 2005.
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Matt Gonzalez was elected president of the board in 2003.
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Matt Gonzalez entered politics when he ran for San Francisco District Attorney in 1999.
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Matt Gonzalez campaigned to halt political corruption and marijuana prosecutions.
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At the urging of Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Matt Gonzalez moved from his home in the Mission District to run for supervisor in newly made District 5.
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Matt Gonzalez's supporters saw his election as a turning point in local politics.
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Matt Gonzalez's critics considered him a stubborn and willful ideologue, though supporters noted his commitment to stand firm on principles over politicking.
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Matt Gonzalez said that supervisors should not issue commendations for winning partisan political positions and that he had written a personal note to Pelosi congratulating her, as she had done him for being elected board president.
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Two sources reported that Matt Gonzalez defied Brown by walking out of the mayor's State of the City address in 2002.
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However, Matt Gonzalez later told SF Weekly that he was never in attendance.
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In January 2003, Matt Gonzalez was elected president of the Board of Supervisors after seven rounds of voting, most of which had Matt Gonzalez vying for a majority vote with supervisors Aaron Peskin and Sophie Maxwell.
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Matt Gonzalez hosted monthly art exhibits in his City Hall office.
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Matt Gonzalez received 19.6 percent of the total vote to Newsom's 41.9 percent.
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Matt Gonzalez faced a difficult run-off election; only 3 percent of voters in San Francisco were registered to the Green Party, the party to which he belonged.
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Matt Gonzalez left office when his term ended in January 2005.
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Matt Gonzalez was succeeded by Ross Mirkarimi, a Green Party member and community activist who had worked on Gonzalez's campaign.
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Matt Gonzalez then opened law offices with fellow Stanford University alum Whitney Leigh.
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In May 2005 Matt Gonzalez sought unsuccessfully to overturn the contract of San Francisco school Superintendent Arlene Ackerman.
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On March 4,2008, Matt Gonzalez announced that he had left the Green Party and had changed his voter registration to independent.
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Matt Gonzalez participated in the third party vice-presidential debates, along with Constitution Party vice-presidential candidate Darrell Castle and Libertarian Wayne Allyn Root, held in Las Vegas, on November 2,2008.
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In 2012, Matt Gonzalez took a month-long unpaid leave of absence to act as co-counsel for a corporation in its $16 million lawsuit against San Francisco.
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Matt Gonzalez defended Jose Inez Garcia Zarate in the Kate Steinle homicide trial.