The San Antonio City Council approved a resolution to sign the Paris climate accord one day after Nirenberg's election, and in November 2017, the City Council approved the creation of a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. President Donald Trump announced plans to remove the United States from the agreement. Nirenberg as a candidate for mayor, 2015.Īs mayor-elect, Nirenberg called upon the city council to endorse the Paris climate accord even though U.S. Nirenberg, conversely, backs the lawsuit. Signed by Governor Greg Abbott, the law targets the sanctuary city movement. Taylor also opposed the city's filing of a lawsuit against the new state law which defines a misdemeanor offense for municipal officials who refuse to cooperate with federal authorities seeking to halt illegal immigration. Taylor, then also a member of the city council, voted against the ordinance.
In 2013, Nirenberg endorsed a city ordinance which bans discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Tenure Īlthough Nirenberg identifies as an independent and ran for office as a nonpartisan politician, he has been described as ideologically progressive. Nirenberg won his third term as mayor with 61.89% of the vote, while Brockhouse received 31.26%. Due to the close runoff in 2019 between Nirenberg and Brockhouse, they were considered by political watchers to be the two front-runner candidates in the election. Nirenberg declared his candidacy for re-election for a third term in office on January 22, 2021. Main article: 2021 San Antonio mayoral election Nonetheless, Nirenberg was victorious winning nearly 55% of the votes cast in the runoff election. Nirenberg had ran a grassroots campaign that consisted primarily of volunteers, including college students and recent graduates. In his 2013 run for District 8 of the San Antonio City Council, Nirenberg was considered the underfunded candidate unlikely to be successful that was challenging a well-funded establishment candidate, Rolando Briones. Electoral history 2013 San Antonio City Council, District 8 race After college, he was a program director for the Annenberg Public Policy Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and served as the General Manager of KRTU-FM, the radio station at Trinity University. He later attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he earned his Master of Arts in communications. Nirenberg attended Trinity University in San Antonio and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in communication. Nirenberg, who is Methodist, was raised in Austin, Texas. His maternal grandmother was Anglo-Indian, born to a Scottish father and an Indian mother, while his maternal grandfather was a Tagalog-speaking Filipino musician with possible roots in Mindanao.
His Roman Catholic mother is half-Filipino and was born in Penang, Malaysia (then part of the colonial British protectorate of Malaya). His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States before World War II, passing through Ellis Island. Nirenberg's mother and father met while the couple was serving with the Peace Corps in Malaysia. Nirenberg is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent (from Poland and Russia) on his father's side and of mixed Filipino, Malay, Indian, and British heritage from his mother's side. 2.1 2013 San Antonio City Council, District 8 race.