{"id":407250,"date":"2026-07-22T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407250\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:00:08","slug":"another-candidate-joins-crowded-mountain-view-city-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407250\/","title":{"rendered":"Another candidate joins crowded Mountain View City Council race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mountain View City Council race<\/a> this November is shaping up to be a crowded one, with seven contenders entering the fray so far.<\/p>\n

The top three vote-getters in the Nov. 3 election will replace outgoing Councilmembers Alison Hicks, Ellen Kamei and Lucas Ramirez. All three will leave office<\/a> in January after serving two consecutive terms. Due to the city\u2019s term limits, they are not eligible to seek reelection until 2028.<\/p>\n

Mountain View resident James Kuszmaul<\/a>, a software engineer, is the latest candidate to announce his intention to run for city council.<\/p>\n

The race includes familiar faces and newcomers. Earlier this year, Mountain View residents IdaRose Sylvester<\/a>, an entrepreneur and local activist, and longtime community organizer Erik Poicon<\/a>\u00a0threw their hats in the ring, after running unsuccessfully for council two years ago.<\/p>\n

Other contenders include Mountain View residents Robert Cox<\/a>, a retired Intel project lead, Silja Paymer<\/a>, a Los Altos High School teacher, engineer Paul Donahue<\/a>\u00a0and Alexander Amoroso<\/a>, a U.S. Army officer.<\/p>\n

Candidates have until Aug. 7 to enter the race before the official nomination period closes. Write-in candidates have until Oct. 20, according to the city<\/a>. Whoever is elected in November will join Mayor Emily Ann Ramos and Councilmembers Chris Clark, John McAlister and Pat Showalter on the dais.<\/p>\n

\"ASoftware engineer James Kuszmaul is the latest candidate to announce plans to run for the Mountain View City Council. Photo courtesy of Mountain View Voice.<\/p>\n

Kuszmaul, who currently serves on the city\u2019s Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee<\/a>, identified his top three priorities as street safety, housing affordability and working at a local level to protect people\u2019s rights from encroachment by the federal government.<\/p>\n

Kuszmaul wants to see the city make changes to reach its Vision Zero<\/a>\u00a0goal, which aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities by 2030. That includes making infrastructure changes<\/a> to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, he said. A member of Mountain View YIMBY, a local housing advocacy group, Kuszmaul also said he wants to see more homes built in town so people don\u2019t have to spend a large portion of their income on rent.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Kuszmaul supports policies that aim to keep federal immigration enforcement authorities<\/a> out of Mountain View and opposes having Flock surveillance cameras<\/a> reinstalled in the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone should be able to live and work and be safe in Mountain View,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in the Mountain View Voice<\/a>. Emily Margaretten joined the Mountain View Voice in 2023 as a reporter covering City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mountain View City Council race this November is shaping up to be a crowded one, with seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[712,35072,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-407250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-centerpiece","tag-election-2026","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}