 Even after her mayoralty ended, Chevron continued to oppose her vigorously, "spending some $3 million – an unheard of amount for a small, local election – to campaign against McLaughlin and her slate" in the 2014 city council elections.She was nonetheless elected to the City Council in 2014 and served in this role until July 18, 2017, when she resigned to seek a higher political office.McLaughlin is not without critics such as the "East Bay Times", which referred to her and the RPA in a 2016 editorial as "the biggest deniers of the city's fiscal crisis."