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City
Councilor Barbara Gonzalez was appointed last month by a
majority of the Lawrence City Council to fill the vacated
seat of Nilka Alvarez Rodriguez, who moved out of the
district but is running for City Council At-Large. School
Committeeman Gonzalez had originally put in his name for
the position when Alvarez resigned but did not to appear
before the council during the interview process. Superintendent Laboy spoke to a packed audience at 525 Essex Street saying “George Gonzalez cares about children and families. And though I would rather keep him on the school committee to help me continue fighting for children and families, I know that Jorge Gonzalez will continue fighting for those same families on the Lawrence City Council. He truly cares!”
Santiago
addressed the crowd briefly urging them to vote for Ramos
over Barbara Gonzalez saying afterward that he was going
to work tirelessly “to defeat (State Representative)
Willie Lantigua’s candidate Barbara Gonzales and
work as hard as if I Community activist Isabel Melendez told the crowd that she was not allowed to endorse candidates officially but spoke at length about the positive qualities of Gonzalez. She also made a pitch to everyone in the room not registered to vote to “get involved and make sure you vote!” At-Large Council Candidate, Angel Rivera wet on at length abut how the Lawrence City Council made “a big mistake” when they voted for Barbara Gonzalez saying she did not represent the people of District “C” and that it was up to the voters to correct the council’s mistake. *Send your questions
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Lawrence School Committee member
Jorge Gonzalez now enjoys the unique distinction of being
the only candidate for any office in Lawrence to have
been publicly endorsed by the Superintendent of Schools.
Last Thursday Gonzalez, (who is in his second two year
term on the Lawrence School Committee) received the
endorsement of Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy in his bid
to unseat Barbara Gonzalez in the November election for
District “C” City Council. 
Also endorsing Gonzalez Thursday
evening was former State Representative Jose L. Santiago,
At-Large candidate Angel Rivera and Spanish radio
celebrity Cristobal Ramos, father of school committeeman
Carlos Ramos . 
was running myself.”