This story appeared on Page A4 of The Standard-Times on June 7, 2005.

NEW BEDFORD -- The vice-chairman of the city's human relations commission, Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, has resigned from his appointed post in order to "join the campaign efforts to elect Matt Morrissey as our next Mayor."
In a short resignation letter that Dr. Gonzalez, a local psychiatrist, submitted to Mayor Frederick M. Kalisz Jr. last week, he said that "my resignation is needed to avoid any apparent conflict of interest. Thanks very much for the opportunity to serve the honorable goal of improving human relations in the city."
Last week, Dr. Gonzalez wrote a letter to the editor, giving the city a "D" in human relations. "The city lacks a cohesive and and coherent vision for the future," he wrote. "Denying the city's problems also does not help in finding solutions to those problems."

This story appeared on Page A4 of The Standard-Times on June 7, 2005.