7th District Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez was endorsed Wednesday by fellow district leaders, including her former opponent Danny Savage.

Savage, the ward leader in the 23rd Ward, was unseated from City Council by then-rookie Sánchez in 2007. In 2011, he called for a rematch, and Sánchez won again by a 20 percent vote margin.

“Sánchez did run against me and beat me in 2007,” Savage said at a presser outside City Hall. “But we both have a love for public service. We might not have always agreed in the past on how to get things done, but we both have the same goal to help the people and the communities of the 7th Councilmanic District.”

Sánchez is now running for the third time without support of the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee. Her opponent, Manny Morales, lost numerous endorsements after a scandal involving offensive content posted on his Facebook account.

Savage added that he was supporting Sánchez because she is “clearly the better candidate. In January, the two former rivals sat down to settle their differences and decide on what’s best for the community.

“The leaders who are endorsing me today represent a broad cross-section of my district,” Sánchez said Wednesday, “Though we haven’t always agreed in the past, we all want what’s best for the 7th District and Philadelphia as a whole, and are committing to work together to achieve that goal.”

Other 7th District leaders to endorse Sánchez included City Controller and 54th Ward Leader Alan Butkovitz, State Rep. Jason Dawkins, and 42nd Ward Leader Elaine Tomlin.

Dawkins also mentioned the prior disagreements among 7th District leaders, and that the endorsement represents a new chapter in their political relations.

“Over the last election we’ve been able to mend those fences,” he said. “We really started the conversation about unifying our communities and pushing forward that agenda that we all know we need.”