Vidas, 38, worked as a legislative aide to former Councilman Bill Green. She was part of the legal team that successfully sued Mayor Michael Nutter’s administrator over the decision to close 11 libraries during the recession — and she then went to work for Nutter’s finance director. She spent several years as a lobbyist with her father, Ed Hazzouri, and served on Mayor Jim Kenney’s policy and transition team. Most recently she’s been a lobbyist for the firm PFM.