“He was always confident and prepared,” Hallinan says. His dad, a retired federal prosecutor and judge, is Mexican American and his mom is white.Ĭhildhood friend Mike Hallinan describes Gonzalez as “socially nimble”-along with playing soccer, he took all the honors classes and competed in a mock trial. Soccer was an early passion for Gonzalez, who grew up in a middle-class home in Anchorage, Alaska. He’s not going to shy away from what he believes in.” ![]() “Navigating that gives me a lot of confidence. “A soccer club might seem like a small thing, but it’s really an emotionally loaded organization because people are dealing with their kids,” says supporter Matt Compton, investor and former board vice president of United PDX. ![]() It serves about 3,000 kids a year and has 400 adult volunteers-and it was a logical springboard to his involvement in groups that advocated to reopen public schools. Gonzalez helped build United PDX, the city’s largest youth soccer club. There, you’ll see hundreds of kids in blue-and-white soccer kits-and their parents. ![]() To understand the base that propelled Gonzalez into politics, just visit Delta Park in North Portland on a Saturday morning. ![]() So he’s running on a platform of restoring it. Now he argues her policies have, in fact, imperiled core livability. Gonzalez says Portlanders in 2018 were willing to experiment with Hardesty: “We thought we could accept things that were a little out there if they don’t fundamentally imperil core livability.”
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