San Antonio City Councilwoman Adriana Rocha Garcia (D4) on Tuesday became the third city council member and first woman to enter the 2025 San Antonio mayor’s race.
San Antonio City Councilwoman Adriana Rocha Garcia on Tuesday became the third city council member and first woman to enter the 2025 San Antonio mayor’s race.The South Side councilwoman broke the news in an exclusive interview with KSAT 12 News, saying she plans to file the paperwork to make it official next week.
The third-term councilwoman is also an associate marketing professor at Our Lady of the Lake University. She is the chairwoman of the council’s Planning and Community Development Committee and is also on the Community Health, Economic and Workforce Development, and Governance committees.Rocha Garcia grew up on the city’s Southwest Side “like the average San Antonian,” she said, with parents who spoke only Spanish.I’m dealing with realities that our residents are dealing with,” she said.
Rocha Garcia’s vision for the city “would be to be a transformational, not just transactional. We have, yes, a lot of work ahead of ourselves, but we also are at this pivotal point in our city’s history where we have to go all in to be recognized as a city of the future.” At the same time, Rocha Garcia expects less money will be flowing down from the federal government, particularly the pandemic relief funding through the American Rescue Plan Act.She considers crime, though, to be the biggest challenge facing the city.
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