Jesus Gonzalez For City Council?

That’s the word on the street, according to Roberto Perez:

My sources tell me, that Jesus Gonzalez is preparing to run for city council in the 37th CD. The seat is currently held by council member Erik Dilan. Gonzalez, who currently resides in the 34th CD which is council member Diana Reyna’s district, plans to move to the 37th CD in the near future.

It is expected, that Gonzalez will register as a candidate this coming week. I’m hearing, that the folks at Make the Road NY where Gonzalez is employed, would have preferred that he run against Assemblyman Rafael Espinal again, because he ran a strong campaign against Espinal, and Deidra Towns despite not having the Democratic party line.

Gonzalez, according to people involved in the meeting, was dead set on running for city council, and preferred not to run for state assembly again regardless of what the leadership at MRNY thought was his best path to elected office. This could once again, pit MRNY against the Dilan family who many predict will run Female District Leader Janitza Luna Dilan, who in addition to being District Leader is the wife of the current council member, and the daughter in law of State Senator Martin Dilan.

For what it’s worth, I heard the exact same thing recently from a labor source, who echoed the likelihood of a Gonzalez-Janitza Dilan match-up in 2013. Recall that Janitza Dilan could have had the Democratic nomination for ex-Assemblyman Darryl Towns’ seat, but with a young family, passed on the chance to spend half her year in Albany. The nomination — and race — was eventually won by Espinal.